Read Article 100 Years Ago: 1921 As yet, only one shoe factory in Auburn is entirely shut down. This is the Field Brothers & Gross. The other big shops are all running part time daily, most of them shutting down for the last two days in the week. Many are laid off entirely, of course and the salesmen are off the road. One Auburn man in close touch with the shoe manufacturing business “mentioned this week that Auburn was lucky to be running at about 50 percent of normal, where other factories thru the State were hardly pulling out more than 40 percent of their usual production, About six factories thru the state are shut down entirely. It is to be expected that there will be some improvement in business for Easter but no real resumption of business until later, when the orders for fall and winter goods begin to come in.