The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Immense Business Started Here in a
Small Way Has Grown to be
One of Best Assets keo-
kuk Ever Had
DOING IMPORTANT WORK
Big Plant is Helping to Win the War
by Furnishing Big Food Sup
piy-In Close Touch with
Hoover.

ABOUT the notableS 1t produced, but
the celebrities sometimes scorn the
old town of their youth. When town
and notables are proud of each other,
everybody benefits and the recording
angel smiles at his work.
Nothing could be better than the
relations between keokuk's largest
industry, measured by men employed,
and the old home town in which the
immense business was conceived,
started in a small way, and urged to
the growth that has made 1t one of
the largest of its kind in America.
The ancestral Hubingers lived
here; the first Elastic starch was
made here on cook stove; today it
lis made here in an enormous plant
which also makes immense quantities
of glucose, syrups, corn oil and other
products of the thousands of cars of
maise that continually stream into
the works of the J. c. Hubinger Bros.
company.
Where Sincerity Counts Most
The company has always main.
tanned friendly relations with Keo.
kuk, and this is especially true since
that other Keokuk product, Joseph
H. Mcnamara, became its manager
some years ago.
Its owners and manager would find
It easy to be elected to Office here.
Everybody here is friend of them
all and of the corporation. Everybody
in Keokuk boosts for the company,
because the company has always
boosted for Keokuk. 1t is thoroughly
identified with the town in every
way, and Keokuk has always stood
fast for those who identified them.
selves with it.
And this identified ton has not been
chiefly jollying the town by plausible.
jolly, hattering dissertations Of love
for the city, but has been sincerity
and nowhere is sincerity at so high
"a premium as in KeOkuk.
keokuk's Big Advertisement.
This company employs about three
hundred men permanently-and that
last word is most important. 1t means
that every one of them has worked
three hundred days in the year and
can stay on the pay roll as long as
he does his work well and makes
good.
\ Moreover, it benefits all the coun.
try for miles around-and that bene.
fits Keokuk-by making here big
corn market which puts many thou
sands of dollars into the farmers
pockets annually. 1t makes Keokuk
real central corn market, and the
bids of the Hubinger company are a
real factor in the price of corn here.
abouts, often raising the market
which otherwise would sag.
It advertises Keokuk in the best
way in every city and hamlet in
America almost, by it's very wide
range of selling its products. Cars
with its labels go from Keokuk to the
Atlantic and the Pacific coast. Boxes
bearing its name and that of Keokuk
may be found in mountain mining
camps, central oil towns. cities of
Importance from New England to
Southern California, and community
stores miles from any railroad in the
deserts, the Ozarks and the Tennes.
see mountains.
How Hubingers Help Hit the Hun.
The Hubinger big plant, rising high
in the air over many acres of ground,
is one of the means by which Keokuk
is helping win the war.
The company is always IN close
contact with Herbert Hoover. Wheat
and sugar and fats are as much
American ammunition as are shells
and explosives and cannon.
The Hubinger company saves much
wheat -four with it's edible starch; its
syrups replace millions of pounds of
precious sugar; its corn oil releases
other fats which yield the glycerine
that is half of nitro-glycerine which is
the foundation of some high explo-
sives. If the Hubinger factory in
Keokuk stopped operating, there
would be an appreciate effect on
food supply all over the country and
new conservation orders from the food
Keokuk consumption is the merest
trifle to the Hubinger factory-it
makes enough goods in an hour and
a half to supply the city for a year.
But the management seems to appre-
ciate the Keokuk good will and Keo-
kuk justly appreciates the benefits
the factory confers on the city.