Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
LOST CONTRAST FOUND
Missing Glucose Syrup Plant
Document at Last Res.
directed.
Dug Out From the Dust.laden
Vault in the City Clerks
Office.
Found June 80, But Not Identi.
fled Until Thursday by the
Council.

The contract entered into by the
Glucose Sugar Refining Company anc
the city of Marshalltown, supposed to
have taken wings and flown or pur-
Joined With malice aforethought some
time last winter, has been found in the
vault at the city clerks office. The
valuable document has been lying in
the dust of ages all this time, fairly de-
caying for want of proper filing with
| the county recorder. When resurrect-
| ed from it's seeming grave by Clerk
Egermayer it was not recognized by
the councilmen as the original and long
sought contract and it was not until
eX- Mayor Pierce saw it that its iden-
LITIGATION was established.
This was one of the two. contracts
drawn up and signed at the time the
city commenced the construction OF the
sewage disposal plant, and by it's artl-
cles the glucose company agreed TO
erect, within one year after its COM
pletion. syrup mixing plant in Mar
shalltown that would employ at least
$50 men.
AT a meeting of the council held in
February the matter of these contracts
came M and some of the members We're
DESTROYS of having them read. When
Clerk Shaw was called upon to pro-
duce the papers, he was able 10 ma
only one, that pertaining to the con-
struetion of the sewage disposal plhnt.
He claimed that it was the only one
that had ever been in the office. AS 1T
now appears the contract supposed TO
have "strayed" or been stolen has
been lying in the vault of the clerks
office and was found June so last b!
Clerk Egermayer, while cleaning out
and arranging papers and records that
were scattered here and there.
At the time of its supposed disap-
pearance many were of the opinion
that it had been made away with. EN-
Mayor Pierce insisted that he had
turned it over to Mayor Jones, who in
turn said that he had handed it to Clerk
Shaw. Shaw vowed there had been but
one contract in the Office. Now that it
has been found Clerk Egermayer is
wondering why it was not recognized
should certainly have been familiar
with it's appearance. AT the time he
made the discovery he showed it to
members of the council, but to them all
contracts evidently looked alike.
The identification came about when
x-Mayor Pierce called at the Office
Thursday afternoon and requested to-
see a copy of the glucose contract
When the recently found document was
shown him he at once pronounced 1t to
be the long-lost Charlie Ross. 1t has
since been shown to eN-Councilmen
MCGUIRE and Harris and eX-Clerk
Trotter, who also declare it the genuine
article. Members of the council say
they had knowledge of a contract being
in the vault, but when it was first
shown them they did not recognize it
as the one so long missing. They pre-
sumed it to be only a copy. and the
thought that it could possibly be the
desired original never entered their
minds.
Now that the contract has been
found, the only wonder is that it was
not discovered and recognized long
ago. 1t is a valuable document and
it's recovery is a matter of great inn
portance to the city. According to its
the council has proper
backing to force the glucose company
to erect the syrup works as agreed, on
completion of the sewage disposal
plant. AS the sewage plant is already
in shape for partial operation it will
behoove the glucose company to begin
at once the work of building the new
mixing works. Plans for the building
We're made and approved more than
year ago, and little decisive action on
the part of the city, now that such n
thing is made possible, may have the
desired result.