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Mckee & Potter-Cigars.
Phillips Fuel Co.-Coal miners.
Lindsay Mfg. Co.-Handle Mfgrs.
Ottumwa Cigar Box Factory-Cigars
boxes
Walter T. Hall Co-Candy.
McCarroll Mfg. Co.-Stoves and
tanks
julius Fecht-Cigars.
l.. T. Crisman Co.-Mill work and
heavy construction.
Findlay Cigar Co.-Cigars.
j. A. Belmont Wagon Works
Wagons.
South Side Roller Mills-Flour and
Feed.
Stentz & Bohe-Cigars.
Ottumwa Concrete Tile Cocoon
crete blocks and tile.
Ottumwa Stamp Works-Printing
and rubber stamps.
Smith & Schwartz Cigar Co-Cigars.
Ottumwa Concrete Block Cocoon
crete blocks.
| ]. w. Edgerly & Co.-Drugs.
NJ. P. r. l. Cigar Co.-Cigars.
Tower & Majors Co.-Candy manu-
| facturers.
Wooden Shoe Brush Works
Brushes.
| Iowa Produce Co.-Poultry and
eggs.
| Ottumwa Blank Book Co.-Books.
! Lagomarcino-Grupe Co.-Fruit i'm
portation.
I Commercial Printing & Blank Book
] Co.a-Catalogue and book manufactur-
ers
Halloway Manufacturing Co.-Prun-
ing shears and long arms.
| Alexander Kolb Baking Co.-Bread
and cakes.
Ottumwa Rug Co.-Rugs.
Acme Electric Supply Co.-Electri-
cal appliances.
| Ottumwa Mattress Co.-Mattresses.
H. w. Suechtilig -Upholstering.
Harry Messett-Monuments
| Harry Chyenkus-Dyer and cleaner.
Byrne Bros-Soda water.
ottumwa's Latest Factory.
Having an established trade in
thirty-five Of the forty-six states of the
country, employing twenty men and
having capacity of LAO brushes
daily, the Wooden Shoe Brush Works
wheels will begin to grind before this
week is over, another monument to
mercial association and the city.
The new factory building is forty
eight by 100 feet and is built on just
half Of the lot on Mechanic street own.
ed by the company, which arrange.
ments allows of ample growing room
After five years successful operation
in Pella John G. Wiser moved the
factory here solely on the merits of OF
tumwa as a manufacturing city-heed
ing the labor supply that is available
and the excellent shipping facilities
The plant makes the famous Wooden
} Shoe brushes, twenty different styles
that retail from &c to $500 each
,, The factory's staple product are the
brushes made from rice-root, although
some bristle brushes will be made
Rice-root, or zacaton, as 1t is called IL
Mexico where it is native, is the roo
of wild grass grown 10000 feet above
sea level within a radius of seventy
, five miles Of Mexico City. The higher
up the grass is grown, the better quail
, ity the root is for brushes.
! During each year Mr.. Wiser makes
purchasing trip to Mexico and buys
the raw product by the carload, as ex
perience has taught him this is the
, sarest and more economical way to in
| sure the best grade. Tampico, an
other Mexican product known there as
ixtyle fiber, will be used somewhat il
the manufacture of brushes here, bu
in far less quantities.
, Factory One Of Five.
The latest addition to Ottumwas lis
of factories is one of five brush manu-
featuring concerns in the United
States; and one OF two located west o
i Detroit. The brushes are made abso
lutely from the raw material here a
Ottumwa, even the backs formed b.
, machinery here installed. Mr.. Wiser
the president of the works, is himsel
! the inventor of several machines.
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