Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-08-12
Monarch Company on North Side
Takes Statesmen OF Road BE.
cause Orders Will Keep Men
Busy Rest of Year.
MAKING A NEW HOG WATERER
Has Automatic Feed.-COmpany's New
Plant Is Clean, Modern and
Efficient.

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government and it already Las on hant
orders enough to keep it's present fore
going until January 1, 1919. E. S
Johnson, president and manager, ha
taken his travelling statesmen off thu
road because he had on hand $4,000
worth of untitled orders and his un
solicited mail orders so tar this veal
have reached $4,000. lie estimate!
that the total unsolicited mail order:
for the year will reach 100000. The
companys business is now largel!
done through jobbing houses ant
dealers.
The Monarch company has just in
creased it's capitalization from $50,
900 to $4,000 in order to take care
of it's wonderfully increasing bushes:
and to fully equip its new factory ant
make use of every available foot of its
1000 feet of floor space.
The Monarch factory is one of the
cleanest, most modern and most effi'
cient plants to be found hereabouts
It's business has grown by leaps and
bounds under the management of Mr.
Johnson and visit to the place, which
is vertiable hive of industry, is vel
worth the time of any citizen who is
interested in knowing something OF
the industries of this city.
One of the features of the Monarch
plant is the model Monarch hog farm
This is laid out with cement floor
hog house, self feeder and fountain
where the hogs may get into the water
at any time Of the day. This farm
is duplicate of the one the Monarch
company has on the state fair grounds
at Des Moines.
Hog Waterer Company Pride.
The pride of the Monarch company
just now is new patented hog water
era waterer vastly different and far
more efficient than any other waterer
on the market 1t is made Of galvaniz-
ed iron and is heated SO it will not
freeze in winter 1t is one of Mr..
Johnsons inventions. The biggest
feature about it is that the trough
never runs over, yet is automatically
fed from the tank as the hog drinks
and is always kept at the same level
regardless of how much or how little
water is taken from the trough.
Another feature is that it is easily
operated and is built low so that in re-
filling the tank, pail Of water does
not have to be lifted over waist high.
Mr. Johnson has also just patented a
new hog oiler that solves the matter
of the oil feed, which is generally in
efficient in other oilers.
The self feeder made by the Mon
arch is made in 4, 6 and capacity
sizes and a new one is soon to be put
on the market.
Use Cost System.
The Monarch company just now EN-
ployes a force of SO men, but has a
capacity for hundred The new plant
faces on Stockdale street The general
Office, which the visitor enters first, is
large, we'll lighted and magnificently
furnished. Just off from it are the
private Offices of President Johnson
and e. j. Rood, secretary and treas
urer. All three offices Are furnished
in massive oak furniture. Mr.. John
son, who formerly installed cost sys-
TENS for the Burroughs Adding Ma
chine company. has as simple, yet COM
cost system in his office
as possible to evolve. He knows every
morning just how much stock Of all
kinds is on hand, how much has been
shipped and how much was manufac-
tured the day before. He also keeps
a sales record by weeks so that he has
the details of the firms activities and
it's output at his finger tips all the
time. Back of the offices are the vari-
ous manufacturing rooms-the tin
shop, assembling rooms, stock rooms,
rooms, etc. On the west side
Of the factory, between two wings OF
he building, is a spacious cement
oading floor where incoming material
s unJoaded and outgoing products are
oaded.
A heating plant is now being install
ID at cost of $1,000.
Newest Patents.
The newest, and possibly the best.
PATENTS owned by this company are |
and a Therm-a-keg, both |
Il which names are copyrighted