The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-26
HOW HAMMOND GROWS.
INDIANA
INDUSTRIAL
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PERU-Charles Black, a contractor |
| is finishing a concrete dam for Thomp- |
sons mill at Mexico, across Eel river, |
and when finished the power developed |
Will be more than six hundred horse |
power
/ NEWCASTLE-The supervising ar
chitect of the United States treasury is
expected in this city in the next ten
days to inspect the eight sites that have
been offered the governments for the
federal building. authorized by the re-
cent congress.
TIPTON-The Cakes Manufacturing
company. which recestly removed its
plant from Bloomington to this city,
has received orders for double the
number of incubators manufactured
this year and will add a new building,
increasing its capacity and giving en-
ployment to about two hundred men.
SULLIvAN-Emil Ardwell and John
st. Amons, Frenchmen of Shirley Hill.
pleaded guilty in the court of Justice
Kirkham 10 the charge of opening a
key of powder with a pick, the charge
having been filed by Frank l. Pearce.
deputy state mine inspector. and each
! drew a fine amounting to S12, with the
costs of the suit.
TERRE HAUTE-Traek layers en-
Haute formed a union Saturday even
ing, a representative of the Indiana
! Federation of Labor being present. He
, has been organizing the track layers
! between Terre Haute and Evansville
President John Hughes, of the Indiana
federation also has been in the city to
organize the laundry and garment
6 workers.
\ DECATUR-The running of an inter-
q urban railroad line through Linn Grove
h has aroused that village to the posi-
q bilities of business enterprises and a
: grain elevator and -four exchange have
5 been put in operation. A bank has also
= been established. Peter Hoffman is
president and assistant cashier of the
: bank Homer Neaderhouser. cashier and
Sam Opliger. vice president. The au-
thorized capitalization is $25.000 with
$4,000 paid in
DELPHI-A company of farmers of
the eastern part of Carroll county have
y organized farmers elevator company
& to be known as the Farmers Grain and
% Supply company, the elevator to be To-
Gated at Camden. Stock is being is.
. sued at $25 a share each stockholdel
70 being limited to twenty shares. Of
u flcers have been elected as follows
e J ]. Reed, president; John u Shanks
y vice president; NJ. u. Dillor, secretary
II Il. o. Sharp treasurer.
Is PRINCETON The Oakland City.
ol Bridgeport pipe line of the Ohio OF
e company, pumping to the Standard re
~ hneries and now having direct con
10 nection with Pittsburg, Pa, has bee
ie completed the final connection bein,
p made when the two crews met on tn
Yeager farm two miles north of TIL
pt city The line is about forty-seve
ne miles long and crosses Wabash river a
e ST. Francisville, ILL.,, and White rive
III ten miles northwest of here. TIL
Princeton field connects with the mai
line three miles northwest of here
The mains are of six-inch pipe laid tw
- feet deep.
=. sANDERSON-F. j. Haight, of Indian
apolis, has become general manage
en- OF the Liberal Life Insurance compan
be of this city. He is a former secretar
es of the Indiana National Life Insuranc
lie. company, of Indianapolis. Insuranc
Sc adjusters Will this week complete thei
of work on the loss suffered by tn
Anderson Knife and Bar company, {
this city. whose plant WAS destroye
n by fire about three weeks ago. 1t
- understood the insurance of $500
~ on the factory was paid almost in full
and there remains only an adjustmer
on the insurance on stock. which it
said will be about $4,000. The compan
100 has not yet decided whether it will rt
build in this city.
JEFFERSONVILLE twenty
five boys employed at the America
us Car and Foundry company have bee
told they will not be employed aft
the 1st of September. the reason bein
1 that they are under sixteen and tt
management has been notified
state inspectors that the law
child employment will be enforced