The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-31
AN IMPORTANT
BUSINESS CHANGE
Old Establishment Of the s. p. Pond
Company Passes Out and Swift
and Co, Go to Mas.
Head.
ONLY CHANGE IN NAME
Business viii be Enlarged ane Re-
tained in keokuk With Charles
Pond at the Helm as
Manager.

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on the first of February an impor-
tant change takes place in one of the
largest business interests of Keokuk.
Inc old establishment Of the S. p.
iona company passes out and the In
teres.s OF that old establishment will
De conducted in all its several
branches under the firm name Of
swift d Co., one of the most progress
;sive and successful business organi-
cations in it's line in this country or
the world. With this change will be
introduced new me. hods. The object
OF the company will be to encourage
an Increase in he production of the
lest material used by them and to
this end will inaugurate among the
farmers, poultry raisers and dairymen
9 Plan Of education and encourage
Ment and furnishing the people a. all
times a better and more dependable
market than they have ever had be-
fore
Means Much TO Keokuk.
1t means much to Keokuk, more
than Is seen and realized in the
simple announcement. of the change.
1t will establish in Keokuk firm and
greatly enlarged market for the pro-
duce OF the west and make an impor-
tant selling market for the produce
handled by the plant equal to that
Of any similar market in the country
In fact for poultry, butter and eggs.
Keokuk will step to the front as
world leader In these lines.
Established In 1857.
All this great business for Keokuk
has been growing and developing
since 1857 when S. P. Pond establish
ed the poultry and egg business in
Keokuk which soon developed into
one o.. the most important industries
OF the state, located on Main street
between Eighth and Ninth streets
Mr.. Pond proved himself to be a man,
of fine capabilities and won a great
success in his undertaking. He soon
had one of he largest establishments
of the kind in the United States. with.
branches at various towns and cities
throughout the state, shipping his
wares to New York City by the car
lot, and to other distant points. S.
P. Poad was fine business man, al
ways diligent in business and of the
strictest integrity. Besides this ex-
tensive business he was president of
the Keokuk National bank at It's or
ganization and continued in that posi-
ton although its career until his final
retirement from active business.
About 1900 the S. P. Pond company
was organized and he was president
Of this company.
Young Man at the Helm.
In 1878, Charles S. Pond, then
young man was called home from col
1ege, where he was a roommate of
William j. Bryan, and Installed in
business in the same line on Main
street, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, owing to the death of rela-
tive, which he conducted in the ablest
manner.
This business was soon consolidated
with that Of the father, S. P. Pond,
and Charlie Pond, as his friends know
him, became an active factor in the
larger business. His capabilities are
known to everybody who knows him.
One of his best business assets is his
extensive acquaintance. Every mer-
chant and farmer shipper of pro-
.duce in the line In which the firm
deals. knows Charlie Pond by name
and they like him because in the long
years Of their transactions with him
he has given them square deal.
C. s. Pond New Manager.
With the change of the firm name
from the S. P. Pond company to Swift
&c Co, Charles S. Pond becomes the
manager of the establishment, and
with G. v. Dryden of Clarinda, Iowa,
as assistant manager. G. A. Leibfarth,
one Of he finest artists In butter the
country knows, the first superinten-
dent OF the butter department of the
plant, after an absence OF several
years. returns to Keokuk to resume
his old position Mr.. Liebfar his
friends will be glad to see him "home
again This butter department like
the other departments Of this great
house, is one Of the largest in the
country and the prospects are that 1t
will soon outrank similar establish
ments even in the world Conditions
in Keokuls are growing better every
day and with 1t will expand her large
Industrial plants.
Keokuk under the S. P, Pond COM
pany always led in the butter and egg
marke.s and after its purchase OF
the O. b. Sweet poultry plant In about
1890 1t stepped right to the front in
that line.
Believes in keokuk.
Chasles S. Pond has had many flat
ltering offers to leave Keokuk. He Is