Slaughterhouse

[W. Gray]

Looks like someone is trying to tear down the old slaughterhouse on East Monroe Street.

[frawin]

Waldo, I noticed that. It is bad shape. That is the old Wyler Packing Company facility. That was a going concern and employed several people when I was growing up there. My brother was the Salesman and called on Grocery stores and probably Restaurants  over a 3-4 county area, to sell them meat. They killed both Hogs and Cattle there. The owner Ed Wyler was one of a kind.

[W. Gray]

I think someone on the forum once said that was where Toots Drive In got its hamburger and other meats when it opened in the fifties.

[Janet Harrington]

Now, you are talking about something I have never heard of. Exactly where is this building?

[Mom70x7]

I haven't driven by, to be sure, but I think it's the place by Stange's Ice House, etc.

[frawin]

Janet, it is behind, just West of Ed Henry's old Cities Service Station, on the Highway. Just South and East of where Vince Nelson lives.

[Jo McDonald]

Yes, it is just back of Jim Stange's ice place.

[W. Gray]

Genealogynut posted the below newspaper item about 3.5 years ago. The "other complications" mentioned in the article was an apparent reference to a divorce as genealogynut mentioned that as another possibility prompting the sale.



Howard Courant-Citizen
Thursday, April 24, 1958

The Wyler Packing Plant, which has been operating in the east part of Howard for a number of years, was closed down last week and E. H. Wyler, owner, is advertising a public auction for May 16th, to dispose of the land, buildings, pens, all equipment and supplies on hand, as well as three trucks which have been used in the business.

Mr. Wyler reports that due to ill health and other complications he finds it necessary to take time for medical and surgical attention.  He plans to retain his farms and other interests here.

The company has enjoyed a good business during the past and their products were always high class and were distributed over a large territory.