Apr 20, 2021
Gene Watson Gallery photo
The employees of the Eady Shoe Manufacturing Company in Gladstone are pictured in this photograph taken in June, 1921. The workers have been identified as Sam Bergstrom, machinist; Reddy (unknown); Joe Myhoffer, laster; Mary Dumas; âDimplesâ âBuddyâ (unknown), cutter; Edna Snell; Mildred Boyle; Agda Lunden; Bob (unknown); Flora Reubens; Agnes Anderson; Mr. âJimâ Quance, superintendent; J.L. âLudâ Ludwig, manager; Joe Provanka, cutter; and Charles Volta, cutting room foreman.
GLADSTONE An early Gladstone company that started up in 1921 had a promising, but short existence in the town.
According to “Gladstone Centennial History 1887-1987,” J.L. Ludwig, who was a representative of the Eady Shoe Company of Otsego, Mich., came to Gladstone in January 1921 and reported that the company had more business than it could handle and Ludwig wanted to start a branch factory. He said he would require an inve