The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-26
GOOD FOR OSKALOOSA.
Growth Of Business Means New In
stitution For City.

with branch at Abba, today announces
change that means an extension of
business and the entrance of the 0s-
kaloosa house into the jobbing trade.
Frederick H. Eckart, of this city, for
merly of Marengo, has purchased a
half interest in the Abba branch house
of the company, and will have the
management of the house and business
in that city. He will assume charge
of the Abba business Immediately and
will remove to that city in the near
future.
Mr.. Eckart came to the city about
two years ago from Marengo, where
he had been in business during a term
of sixteen years as travelling repre-
sentative of the Ehrmann Manufac-
turing Company of Terre Haute, Indi-
ana. He has made a splendid success
of his business and he will add
strength to the company he has en-
tered, He is thorough and compe-
tent and will do much toward the
promotion of the business of the COM
pany in the Abba field. The Abba
store is large and prosperous. The
business has grown to proportions that
demanded additional attention. Man
agement from Oskaloosa was becom-
ing inconvenient and impossible, and
Mr.. Eckart was given an interest in
the business to secure the expansion
desired. Abba gains most desir-
able family, and the ID. & w. Tea
Company is permitted a growth in
the right direction. With the man.
agement of the, Abba branch trans.
ferred, the Oskaloosa house is permit.
ted to give more attention to the job
bling trade that has been handled from
the local Office during some time past.
1t has been increasing rapidly with
in the past year, and the present quar-
ters have been inadequate for the
handling of the trade.
The growth of this enterprising firm
in the city reads like story book.
Nine or ten years ago o. e. Dickson
and v. p. Wittenmyer came to Oska-
loosa and opened up a little tea and
coffee house, soliciting orders through
the premium plan by house to house
canvass in city and country. BY per-
sistence, careful management, thor
ough integrity with customers, and
ceaseless labor, they have established
a business that has reached beyond
the confines of the state. They open
ed their little store in modest quar-
tiers with only three hundred feet of
the finest stores of the kind in the
state and occupy no less than 1900
feet of floor space, with their store
room and warehouse space. Even
this space is now proving insufficient.
They are crowded and are on the look
out for additional room. Another
building is a possibility of the near
future, and is being considered.
A new wholesale and jobbing BUSH
ness building for Greater Oskaloosa
is prospect of the near future. When
the house was established Messrs.
Dickson and Wittenmyer were their
own managers, clerks, book-keepers,
agents, janitors, ETC. No eight-hours-a
day job, theirs. They toiled early and
late. Today they employ fifteen peo-
pie in the departments of their bust
ness, have seventy-two local agents in
Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri,
the Dakotas and Oklahoma, and are di-
rect importers. Nor is this the end,
for they are continually reaching out
and with their jobbing trade they will
cover far greater territory. The
business is growing rapidly in all de-
partments and it was to accommodate
the general expansion that the half
interest in the Abba business was
disposed of to Mr.. Eckart.
To know of success of this nature
is always pleasure, and many friends
will congratulate the firm upon their
advancement. Messrs. Dickson and
Wittenmyer have been good citizens.
They have made themselves popular
and prominent both locally and else
where, and their future success and
welfare are foreshadowed in the &C.
complishment of their business record.