The Coleman Steam Laundry was founded about thirty years ago by the late C. W. Clark.  It was the first steam laundry to come to Coleman county.  The business still operates under the same name and is in the same location as when established thirty years ago.  However in keeping with progress improvements have been made from time to time.  New and modern equipment has been installed as the demand justified and the plant has been enlarged.

Mr. Clark successfully ran the business for several years until Messer’s W. M. and C. R. Simmons assumed ownership.  In October of 1935 Felix Schmidt, an employee of the laundry for over five years took over the management and is serving in that capacity at the present time.

From the very beginning the managements have spared no efforts to obtain “safe and sanitary” laundering.  Today the Coleman Steam Laundry is laundering your clothes by standards and methods used in the American Institute of Laundering at Joilet, Illinois, which assures you that your clothes will be returned to you freerer of bacteria, whiter and with less loss of tensile strength than if you had done it at home.

 It is interesting to know some of the details of the process which your clothes go through in the act of being laundered.  First, they are marked to assure proper identification and their safe return to their proper owner.  They are then assorted into sixteen classifications as to color, material and the type of garment.  At this stage of the process they are placed into revolving washers where they are put through from nine to twelve waters, the water being rain soft and soap being 88 percent pure.  From here they are rinsed free of soap odors and any other foreign ingredients left in the material.  After being taken from the revolving washers, the water is all extracted from the garment by a revolving extractor.  The garments are then classified for starching.  At this stage they are taken to the steam heated presses for the finishing touches.  From here they go to the folding tables where they are carefully folded, then they are assorted as to the proper owner by means of the identification mark and the next step is to wrap them for delivery.

The management extends a cordial invitation to the public to visit the Coleman Steam Laundry and see for yourself how your clothes can be pasteurized.  Just as this laundry was founded of a truly pioneering spirit thus it has ever strived to maintain a high standard of service by acquiring the newest ideas and the most modern methods of their trade.