Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-21
In Spite Of Hard Times
Local Factory is a Busy
Place
TWO ORDERS FOR 1000 JOBS EACH
MarshalItown Buggy Company Closes
Big Contracts for Next Years De-
livery in the Southwest and West
Has Kept Busy When Other Factor
les Have Been Closed Down.

'Marshalltown wage earners. stock
holders and merchants can congratu-
late one another and rejoice in the
fact that the Marshalltown Buggy
Company has been able to keep
wheels moving and payrolls going for
the last seven months when buggy
companies all over the east have been
closed down or have been running on
half time, owing to trade depression,
and 1t will, be matter Of public felici-
tation to learn that minimum order
of thousand jobs Is to be shipped
during the coming year, This firm will
job the Marshalltown buggies in the
states of Texas, New Mexico and
southern Oklahoma. The local factory
will have a large exhibit at the Dali
repository of the Heating Implement
Company. at Dallas.
In addition to this good news comes
a renewal of a contract with the Eagle
Manufacturing Company. of Kansas
City, Mo-. for a minimum quantity of
thousand jobs. to be shipped to them
during the coming year, which they
Will distribute in the states Of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, and northern Okla
homa and they will be in charge of
a handsome exhibit of vehicles to be
made by the local factory, at Kansas
City in January.
And fhic lie. oil Tnff1p
vice president of the company, is maxi
ing an extended trip in the far vest
ern states, where he made large job
bing contracts with the Utah Imple-
ment-Vehicle Company at Salt Lake
City; Roger Implement Company, at
Portland, Ore; the Plattner Imple-
ment Company, at Denver. Col, for
vehicles to be shipped during the COM
ing season. besides interesting mum
Der of retail dealers in single car or
ders
Mr.. Fred Warner secretary and buy
err of the Heating Implement and Ma
chine Company, of Dallas, Tex, visited
our local factory some time ago, then
went on east and spent three weeks
visiting other vehicle factories, look
ing for a line of vehicles suitable for
their trade, but found nothing that
suited him as we'll as the MARSHALL
town line, so came back and closed a
contract with our factory.
The statesmen selling to the retail
dealers of Iowa, Nebraska, North ana
South Dakotas, are writing some nice
orders, both for the present and fu-
ture shipments. The mail orders are
also keeping up we'll.
The Marshalltown Buggy Company
retails work only to residents Of Mar
shall county. This branch Of the bus
mess surpasses that of previous years.
The consumers of vehicles recognizing
the desirability' OF making their pur-
chases from home institution at the
present time, the largest demand is for
the new Merry Widow" auto seat sur
rey.
The Marshalltown Buggy Company
will go to the state fair at Des Moines
next week with carload of vehicles
for exhibition and another carload
will be exhibited at the Nebraska fair
at Lincoln the following week. The
company is busy upon several new and
attractive vehicles for exhibition at the
Marshall county fair in September.
The factory has turned out during
the past two weeks more vehicles than
in any similar period under the present
management, and while the total vol
ume for this season will be only slight
ly in excess Of last years output ow-
ing to the very panicky times which
have been experienced, the outlook for
the coming year is particularly flat
tering.