Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
TOWN PROMISES TO BECOME
GREATEST CLAY PRODUCTS
CENTER IN STATE.
THIRD MAMMOTH PLANT
NOW BEING ERECTED
i, Brick and Tile Industry Growing by
Leaps and Bounds-corporation
With $4,000 Capital Now Construct
ing Plant Which will Be Last Word
in Clay Industry.
Special to Times Republican.

Sheffield. March 29.-First in the
state Of Iowa and possibly in this
whole nation, population considered. is
what the people of Sheffield will be
claiming for their town as brick and
tile manufacturing point when a NAM
moth plant now in the initial stages Of
construction is completed. Two big
enterprises of this kind have been in
operation for some time and now a
$4,000 corporation has begun work
work on what probably will be the last
word in the brick and tile industry
for some time to come. This new con-
Germ will employ what is called the "dry
PAN and continuous process">o man
ufacture, the latter being something
after the fashion of modern-day boat
making, that is, the raw material
starts at one end Of line and arrives
at the other a finished product thru
the operation of new kinds of mach
inery operated by skilled workmen. BY
this process a mass Of raw clay be-
comes a finished quantity of brick or
tile within ten hours of time while I'M
der ordinary processes at least two
week is required. 1t isn't quite" in
Sheffield this spring as in the average
Iowa town of its class. Building has
commenced all ober the place and
there isn't an empty house in town.
Sheffield is prosperous and believes
she is destined to a very bright future
regardless Of obstacles incident to
wartime.
Farmers in different sections of the
state report the intention on the part
of themselves and neighbors to plant
more or less extensive acreages of
spring wheat this season. One living
near Kanawha in Hancock county de-
clared that every man in his communi-
ty would sow some of this grain and
he estimated the acreage proposed field
at ten acres. A conspicuous example
of the wheat growing tendency is the
case of retired farmer Block of Rock
we'll who has half an acre of ground
which he proposes to put in wheat. An
old cradle exists in the town which
Mr.. Block is sure he will be able to
borrow and thus harvest hts crop.
Sheffield has q curio collector in the
person Of J. p. Randall who has
room filled with relics of a past gen.
Grafton and that class of the rare and
unusual that goes to make up
museum" Oxyoke, spinning wheel,
primitive carpenter tools, and the pro-
ducts made by their use, candle SNUFF
fers etc, remind Of the days of our
great grand parents, Indian relics,
newspapers published when Uncle
Sam was an infant, Chinese chop
sticks, footwear from Mexican slippers
to reindeer boots, a counterfeiting out
fit taken in a raid on Sheffield's early
day dad man" and a great many
other articles make up the result OF
a lifetime of persistent collection.
It is the peculiar prerogrative of the
"old timer" to tell weather stories and
Butler Throssel of Sheffield made his
contribution last Tuesday as he dis
continued gardening operations to or
der the Times-Republican for his
daughter in Canada "for birthday
present" 'she is 81 years old today"
he explained, and I remember that in
the neighborhood travel incident to
the birthday occasion drove about in
a sleigh on snow so deep that it was
not necessary to pay any heed to
fences or other like Instructions to
cross country travel"
The barber, as business man is
having his troubles these days too.
One Of these pointed to two Of his five
chairs explaining that they had not
been used in several monts.> One
might think that because Of the num-
erous barber wanted" ads the bust
ness must be in a fiourishing condition
but while the army camps have called
away the BARRIERS best customers so
too have they taken his helpers and
the farmers task of finding a salts
factory hired man is recreation when
compared to that of the barber ship
proprietor in search Of assistance.