Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-11
Miss Almbruster and Mrs. Sieg
Will Build New Home For
Hawkeye Store
TO BE OCCUPIED JANUARY
Building VIII Be Two Stories, Forty
Foot Front of Pressed Brick With
Magnificent Plate Glass Show Win
dows-Inside Finished in Mission
Oak.

Wilton & Whitehead, proprietors OF
tracts with Miss Kate Armbruster and
Mrs I. Sieg for the Immediate erection
of splendid new store building on
the lot at 29-31 West Main street, now
occupied by a barber shop and meat
market. The new building will be the
home of the Hawkeye after January
l. next.
The new store will be a two-story.
4O-foot front, brick building, 100 feet
deep. The front will be pressed brick,
similar to that used in the fremont
building opposite. Great square plate
the corners of the front and form the
sides of a square central lobby IL feet
deep with tiled floor leading to the
entrance door. This splendid glass
front and lobby will offer opportunity
for displaying goods and the lobby
will furnish protection from weather
to prospective shoppers Large win
dows will occupy the space at the back
of the lobby on each side of the en-
trance TO the store.
Inside the st ire will be finished thru
out In the most elegant mission fin
ish. Fifty feet of mission show cases
have been provided for. Thirty eight
feet of mirror front and rows
OF glass cases for the display
and protection of fine goods
will line the walls. Mission
couches and chairs will be provided
for the comfort of the customers and
IA cozy and comfortable rest room for
shoppers is one of the items in this
perfection OF arrangement. When fin"
ished it will be one OF the finest store
rooms in the state OF Iowa and one of
the show places of the city. Ground
will be broken for the erection OF the
building next r.:onth. and Whitton &
Whitehead will occupy it on or before
Jan. /, 1907
The new building will prove fit
setting for the Hawkeye stock.
The iHawkeye has become a
household word in Marshall county,
and the trade territory tributary to
Marshalltown. Ii carries the most
complete stock of any similar estab-
ishment in Iowa, and by square deal
ing has built up a reputation and
trade second to none in this state.
The new stock will include every
thing in ladies', misses and chil1rensi
furnishings. from the needs of the in
FAINT to those of the grandmother. 1t
will in the new quarters carry the fin
est line of ladies' misses and chill
dren's shoes ever exhibited in this state
and it will distribute all goods with the
same courtesy and care for the inter-
ests of the customers and at the same
reliable prices that have made the
Hawkeye store the central trading
point of central Iowa.
In an article like this some mention
of the men whose industry and ability
have built UP this magnificent trade in
sttution is not amiss. Mr.. Whitton.
The senior member of the firm, has
spent his life in Marshalltown and is
known as merchant, capitalist and
good citizen, one of those unassuming
men whose industry and excellent
judgment has won him a large fortune
Mr. Whitehead, his son-in-law came
to Marshalltown in 1885. worked on
salary for merchants of the city for
four years. and entered business for
himself in 1889. His first position in
Marshalltown was with McIntire &
Coen, in the building where the Hawk
eye store is located. In 1898, with MIR.
Wilton. he opened the Hawkeye store.
The business has grown steadily and
constantly as result of hard work and
capacity When the new store opens
in all its glory he will be the practical
head of business institution which
has no compeer in the state. The firm
has never turned down public enter
prise and has always boosted for Mar
shalltown, and it's success is part of
the enterprise and solidity that distin-
guishes business in Marshalltown.