Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-31

| valided. and the ketchum Il CASTOR
firm has dissolved partnership. Then
comes the Buchwald Tile Company tho
Marshall Canning Works. and tho Jack :
son Corrugated Culvert Company, all
gone. Union Cheese, Marshall Trowel.
and Fisher Governor companies are
here, but one Of the three partners IN
the Marshall Trowel Company and
! both of the partners in the Fisher
Governor Company OF that day are
dead. One member of the firm or
Krcutzer e. Wassem Is dead. Durham
has moved away, but his factory Is
! here. The Iowa Artificial Ice Com
! pany Is no more. The Size & Carpen
ter and the Finkle brick companies
are here
80 much for the leading industries
of ten years ago. Eighteen are here and
running but ten are busted, closed
down or gone and of the forty six
men whose pictures were then shown
at the head Of the city's industries
eleven are dead, sixteen have left the
city, and nineteen are here and yet
other men have taken their places, new
| industries have grown up until the
city's population has increased 1000 in
the ten years.
Yes, but where is the Western
Grocer Mills, the Central Foundry
Company, the LaPlant Tool Company,
the American Machine Products Com
pany, the Light Draft Harrow Com =
pany, the Cooper Manufacturing Com
pany. and all the factories that are
humming here today!' inquired an
other member Of the group that had
now enlarged"
ooh, YOU RUDE. wake up" cried a
chorus we're studying ancient history
now. You'll get to modern events next
. semester. Even Weisemans and
Levin's stores had not begun to incu-
| bate ten years ago."
Nor the Dutch hospital either" said
another.
But we had Jones and Hovy from
Independence in the stone age" added
another and everybody laughed.
"Next comes full page showing
pictures of twenty travelling men boost
tiers who had promoted the Hawkeye
Commercial Mems Association. Only
one is dead and five have moved away
THE city's mayor and council Of ten
Of that day have lost two by death and
two have moved away"
"Of the city's womens clubs three OF
the eli ght officers whose pictures were
| shown then have since moved away
The T.-R. presented a composite
page Of thirty five officers and en-
ploycs. Nineteen have since left its
employ and four are dead. Only twelve
remain and yet people say that once a
T.-R. man. always T.-R man.
The Judiciary and the Bar was tho
title Of one page showing sixteen por-
traits of lawyers grouped around Judge
Parker Four are now dead and two
have moved away"
Opposite comes the professional
Men of Marshalltown. Out Of seven
teen experts in health five physicians
are dead and four have moved away
Twelve pages Of this book were
taken up with pictures Of the promt-
nent retail merchants and their stores
These were the we'll established bust
ness men Of that day. The permanen
fixtures, but alas, the sands Of time
were constantly shifting then as now
Six Of these merchants are now dead
eight have moved away, twenty-six are
still doing business at the old stand
but ten firms have dissolved and thu
members have gone into some othe1
enterprise"
"Of the forty single portraits OF TIT
Active Business Men, which were an
other feature Of men in all lines othe
than the big stores, one Is dead. four
teen have moved away, and six hav'
changed their business connections
since that day,
QvN NJ no
the residences Of those who had made
good and had settled down in Mar
shalltown with firm intention to stay
slightly Homes of Marshalltown' pre-
sented pictures of sixty residences
Twelve of the owners, or one in evert
Ave, are now dead after ten years, ano
eight have left the city. OF the forty
owners who remain ten have since
moved their reSidence SO an even hall
of the owners Of the slightest homes
| in Marsha!ltown OF ten years ago are
all that are left who are living in those
same homes today"
| And now" continued the T.-R. man
in doleful tones. I'VE will end our days
at the soldiers home, which was H.
Illustrated on the back page. OF its ave
| officers then shown two are dead and
one has novel away
There you have the story OF life. Ter
years for a mortgage to come due
| seems almost no time at ALL but II
seems to have buried tifty-siX promi-
nent boosters in Mrashalltown out OF
SAG. while ninety-siX have moved away
and it is long enough for fifty five out
! of IA business and residence proper
ties to change hands, fail be torn down
or be wiped out by fire. Come on fell
| lows, am afraid to go home alone
in the dark