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* / J ........Anniversary EditionIn 1915,. Lafe Hill, editor and publisher of the'Manly Chief, put out a special anniversary edition booklet and in it wrote “There are now about 150 men employed in the shops, while it is estimated that 450 men run in and out of this place continuously. Last year when work was at its highest, the payroll was $60,000 while during August of this year the pay roll was $30,000. It is estimated it will reach $40,000 for September.Supt. Wallace, informs us that there are 150 families wanting houses in Manly at the present time ...This being a 3-way divison, all train men must eventually live here except those who are at another point on regular runs.All passenger trains, 16 per day, change engine crews here. Six pasenger crews either lay over here or change daily. Every freight crew changes here. A crew consists of five men besides express men, baggage men and’mail clerks,, these are extra”. He then went on to predict that Manly would exceed a population of 5,000.His prediction never came true but Manly has remained a lively,interesting, railroad town and as our bill board slogan at'the edge of town has it, is “Big enough to serve you, small enough to know you.”Perhaps we should say Manly’s existence was divided into three parts; for sometime between 1913 and now its bright hopes to be a Big Town faded, for instead of increasing in size it remains a thriving town of 1500.Deisel engines on the railroads changed the picture too, and the roundhouse, which once serviced 40 engines is now practically an empty shell. However, a rich agricultural region still appreciates a trading center with good^ * i i i •stores, school, churches, park and playground.Early Manly Firms
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Manly Singal
Manly, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 21, 1952
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