Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-25

! Herbert Z. Wadsworth. President
of the Wadsworth d Woodman Co,
| the Winthrop manufacturers of table
oil cloths. has returned from a recent
business trip to New York and west
ern and southern points and reports
that Maine has been fortunate in a
business way during the past year
and that Winthrop has been partic-
ularly favored, as the people have
| been well employed in this commun-
ity for the most part. 1t is quite
remarkable that the local industries
have been able TO secure orders 10
keep their plants in operation on
nearly a full time basis, while in
cher sections many mills have been
! idle for considerable iperiods.
The Winthrop Wooden Mills Of
! Winthrop and North Monmouth have
been quite busy. c. Nj. Bailey
Sons IL Co. rebuilt their extensive
Floor Oil Cloth plant last summer
and have been running to capacity
since its completion. The Wads-
worth & Woodman Co. have run
their Table Oil Cloth plant night and
day for over year and at the pres
cnt time are sold ahead for a con-
siderable period.
MI. WadsWorth thinks that these
results have been attained by the fact
Tat the owners of these plants are
IL actual control of buying, operation
and selling their own products and
have given their best efforts TO the
SUCCESS OF their businesses with the
welfare of their employees and COM
munity at heart as woll as their own.
He reports that while general
business is not irst class at the pres
cnt time, especially among the tex
tile mills, there is a much better feel
ing among the large operators than
there WAS short time ago and that
this sentiment is fast spreading to
the general trade and to the con-
sumner.
The WadsWorth &c Woodman Co
was started as a partnership be-
tween Mr.. II. S. WoOdman and H..
+. Wadsworth in 1905. 1t has gone
through varying fortunes at differ
ent times until at present they are
turning out over five miles Of finished
GOODS per Cay and Will many con-
Germs have been obliged to reduce
wages in different places they have
continued the same wage with
weekly bonus and at the end of 1921
they paid their mon en- additional 25c
per day for each day they had worked
during the year.
Mr. Woodmau, a graduate of Yale,
is grandson OF the late G. ~ Bailey.
He is active in all local benefits.
was chairman of the local Red
Cross and instrumental in securing
the services of a local Red Cross
nurse. He served in the Red Cross
in France for six months during the
most critical period of the war and
is very active in the interests of
Table Oil Cloth business or any 9TH
or in which he is interested
Alr. Wadsworth has had quite a
wide experience, was bbrn on a
rocky farm in East Liyermore and
worked there during his early years.
when farming was more a matter of
getting living than Of profits. He
worked his way through Colby Col
loge. teaching and keeping books TO
DO TINS. graduating there in 1892. He
was employed as book keeper by c.
NJ. Bailey's Sons & Co. for a time
and then sent out as a travelling
salesman to cover the western and
southern jobbing points. He served
IN this capacity for twelve years
when he went into the Table Oil Cloth
business with Mr.. Woodman. in
which business he is engaged at the
present time. lie is a member of the
8Oth Legislature and served last win
ter on the important committee of
Appropriations and Financial Affairs.
At present he is ambitious to repre-
sent kcnnebec County as one of her
three Senators in the next Legisla-
ture