The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-04
WEEKLY IN
DUSTRIAL REVIEW

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on national highways.
Labor organizations in cities are
working to send their unemployed tt
help harvest the crops and avert the
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cned in some parts. During the 1915
harvest hundreds of "wobblies" in
vaded the fields, burned wheat shocks
wrecked machinery and hampered hGr
vest to such an extent that citizens anc
federal authorities were forced tt
drive many members Of the organiza
ton out of the state. More than ISL
"wobblies" were arrested and thirty
one now face trial in the federal court
as result of the sabotage crusade.
Hale Hustler-L Leader tells of ter
hogs selling for S758.19.
Stone county votes July IL on court
house and road bonds.
Palmyra-Marion county to vote or
81 10000 road bonds.
Monet to have cattle sale barn. II
will be 100 by 140 feet in size.
Mansfield-Lead and zinc mining in.
dustry looking up.
Fulton-Contract let for 100000 col
lege building.
Lead and base bullion imported by
the United States in March totallel
7,937,167 lbs, worth $317, JOG, being
entirely from Mexico.
Lees Summit Journal: "Will the
luxury tax on sodas and ice cream and
chocolates oblige the young man tc
give up luxury of best girl?"
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good roads program.
Liberalization county to get four
big trucks to haul road material.
rookfed-Brown shoe factory Of
fers positions for young men and wo-
men.
Osceola Democrat considers $780,
100000 road appropriation by Con-
gress boon to industry
Bogard-Co-opcrative Co. lets con-
tracts for brick store 30 by 80 feet.
Monet Times reports $21 ,245 sale
OF Herefords at average price of 1896.
Glasgow Missourian: "Bolshevism
is the most vicious doctrine ever ad-
vanced by any attempt to combat it
by force would be worse than useless.
The only successful method of meeting
and defeating such propaganda is by
informing the people as to just what
Bolshevism aims and purposes really
are"
acknowledgements sewer system
started, to be completed July LIST.
Monet Times boosting hard surface
highway from Joplin to Springfield.
Eleven competing Pettis county
bankers unite to boost road bond is
sue.
Elmo raising funds for high
school.
Maryville will build a $4,000 school
house for colored children.
Wyandotte county bank valuations
increased one half million dollars.
A IA acre farm purchased to be used
as a goose farm.
Strawberry crop will amount to a.
bout $250,000 this year.
A three year old swine weighing 800
lbs. sold for $40 a hundred. s
State to receive 1856 trucks for road
building.
The western grain dealers in ses-
sion at Hutchinson, Kan. accuse the
federal government of Excessive pa
ternalism in dealing with grain pro-
duction. They say the United States
is confronted with serious menace
of radicalism."
breckenridge Bulletin: "Wages
hove to go up because prices are high
err and then prices have to go up be-
cause labor involved costs more, and
then wages-what are we getting any
how? An endless chain?
Montrose Tidings y "a contem-
porary says that elections are too fire.
quent and too expensive and that tahey
should be reduced in number and de-
creased in cost. There's job that
is harder than winning the war"
Corder Journal: Nothing is more
than the retailers story to
tie customer as ne tries to explain what
is making prices advance"
The time is ripe for everyone to get
busy and boost every enterprise which
will give employment to labor.
Rockport Journal: "The u. S. In
iustrial Board got huffy because it
could not carry out its parcel-fixing
and resigned. The country