Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-07
LOCAL COMMENT

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LOCAL COMMENT !;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| If Il MarshalltOwn man would know
what kind of town he lives in he should
undertake. to show friend around.
| Mayor Irgledue appreciates the force
of this now. He would. of course, drive
by the new postoffice, the Carnegie
! library the high school. court house.
Y. M. c. A., and public hospital. for
these are all buildings of very credit
able character. Then he would remark
| that the city had fourteen miles OF
paving and his friend from Oskaloosa,
Boone, Mason City or Waterloo would
be surprised. He would try to look un-
concerned when he spoke of our paid
fire department, but the other fellow
would be surprised again. Where do
you get your water?" his friend would
ask. "Oh. the city owns the water
works, and we get our water from
wells. 1t is absolutely pure" would
be the proud reply. we have a fine
sewer system and our sidewalks are
nearly all Of cement" would be added.
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! These things are known to everyone
and proudly shown to our visiting
friends, but how many citizens can
show off our factory interests in
| formedly3 Suppose your friend were
| looking for a buhsiness location, we
would talk about our three railroads
and our coal supply coming over all of
them, bur would it occur to you that
the Iowa Central pay roll comprises 537
men, all living in the city, and receiv-
ing 100000 per month in wages? Cross
ing the tracks and beholding the mag
nificent plant of the Marshall Oil Com
pany, how many of our leading bnsi-
ness people could explain that this
institution was owned by two Marshall
town boys, AMI employed fifty people
here, besides having branches at Oska-
ioosa. Mason City, Lincoln. Neb., and
Fargo, N. D.?
Lets take trip with the mayor thru
the factory district and show some
stranger our town. Swinging back from
the Marshall Oil Company and saying
nothing about the glucose plant, closed
down by the trust, we will pass the
drop forge works. employing twenty
people, only q new factory Then we
would come to the small factory Of
the Fisher Governor Company with ten
men employed making q waite: gov
ernor used in many Of the largest fac
tories OF America, England, Austria.
Russia and Germany, including the
German ravy. The Shorthill Company
next covers a whole block, employs
C,r irr1,t, IA, IN, chit cto
bridges and structural iron into ten
or a dozen states. The buggy factory
would soon loom up with ninety peo-
Pile employed. receiving $4,000 per
month in wages and product selling
as far as Kansas and Texas.
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Swinging back toward the tracks
again we will pass the artificial ice plant
employing twenty-five men and ship
ping several cars of ice to outside
towns every day, besides furnishing
this city with ice from pure distilled
water. The coffee roasting plant of the
Spencer-L Lets Coffee Company employs
fifteen people. The vinegar and pickle
factory will be passed, employing always
twenty and perhaps forty people max
ing goods for many states. The
Kreutzer & Wassem furniture factory
comes next with fifteen employed. Then
the immense plant of the Lennox Ma
chine Company, would loom up, with
buildings covering two acres of ground.
From 100 to 100 men are employed
making gasoline engines, pitless scales,
steam boilers and a cutting shear
which is now used in the Baldwin Lo-
connective Works, the Union Iron Works
where the. Oregon was built, and which
have been shipped to foreign countries
in large numbers
Next would come the Marshall Trow-
block covered with buildings, thirty
seven men employed making product
which is sold all over the United
States. The other half block Is COW
cred with the factory, foundry, ware
houses and office of the Lennox Fur
mace Company. 1t is here the mayor
himself would be surprised. AS many
as ITO men are employed. On some
days five cars can be seen loading and
unloading. at the same time. The
product now goes in car load lots to
San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Salt
Lake City, Fort Worth. Dallas, Kansas
City, Wichita, st. Paul, Milwaukee,
Jackson, Tenn, Winnipeg and Toronto,
Canada, Lincoln Neb., Utica, N. =,
and Irwin, Pennsylvania.
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Beyond the furnace factory is the
Durham Steam Trap Works, employ
ing fifteen men, and beyond that comes
the immense packing house, where 1875
men are employed. 10000 hogs and
1000 cattle are killed annually. Here
again is a Marshalltown product
which finds an outlet In foreign ports
for Britain & Co. ship many cars Of
meat to Liverpool.
Beyond the fair ground, the cornice
works employs eight or ten men, and
coming back to town said visitor might
ask, what is that building?p pointing
to beautiful four-story structure oc-,
cupied by the Letts-Fleteher Company
THAT is our wholesale grocery, one of
the largest in tho state It employs