The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-10-17
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Oct. 10, Poplar Bluff-New building
for National Refining Co. nearing
completion.
Poplar Bluff-Dunklin county ship,
ped 2196 cars of melons this season.
Missouri is saving money. State
bank deposits show increase of mil.
lion dollars in year.
Quapaw-SumnIt Mining Co. may
build new mill.
Jophn-Lennon & Co. may builc
mill at Wachussets mine.
st. Joseph--Street railway wage
controversy being arbitrated.
Linnent, Mo-, Bulletin: That the II
C. L. is vexing problem at the pres
ent time is true. And yet, it's better
to pay $3.50 for a suit of overalls
when one has the money with which
to buy them than to have them priced
to him at 85 cents when he hasn't the
wherewith in his pocket.
In the past few months Baxter
Springs voted $4,000 bonds for a
new high school, $1,735,000 for a new
municipal water works plant, $685.
for a sewerage system, $225,000 for
street paving and has built a mag
nifcent 100000 church.
Montrose-Clinton township votes
100000 bonds for rock roads.
Audrain-Oil has been discovered
near Crescent Hill, drilling to begin.
Dunnegan- Company has been
formed for building and oparetingz
formed for building and operating
-four mill.
Cabool--Several thousand dollars
will be spent in remodeling garage.
Liberty NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. grant
ed by county court to operate gaso-
lene ferry.
Herman-Gasconade county voted
good roads bond issue for 100000.
Rockport has new electric lighting
system including "a white way"
Warrenton-Jasper county votes
good roads bond issue for $S50,000.
Charlottesville - Pemiscot county
voted bonds for $150,000 to build new
court house.
Trenton-$1O,O00 Shirt and overall
factory to be built in near future.
X. C.-Postal receipts for months
of July, August and September
amounted to $1,241, 728.26. For the
same period a year ago the sum was
1,131 ,S82.13.
X. C.-September realty sales to-
tailed $6,500,000.
Sedalia will have best airplane
landing field in west when completed.
Arrow Rock gets ferry boat SER
vice.
Joplin--Work on Scottish Rite Ca
thedral progressing.
AS the smoke of the food price in
vestigGtion clears away we find many
conservative men advocating less,
rather than more regulation of basic
industries such as the packers, as the
surest way to increase production and
decrease living costs.
Carroll--122 acres in Sugartree
Bottoms sold for $4,000.
Greenfield electric light plant chang
es hands and extensive improvements
wiwll be made.
Cabool--Work begun on $4,000 no.
tel.
Carthage-Jasper county voted good
roads bond issue for $850,000.
Emminence-Henry county voted
good roads bond issue for $4,000.
King City-Men, teams and ma
chinery at work on,street paving.
Poplar Bluff-New oil and gas COM
pany opens up.
Puxico-Contract let for drainage
work.
Mexico-Audrain county has sixty
six farms of over 500 acres each.
Joplin-Rich strike of zinc and lead
has been made in a new shaft of the
Oklahoma Woodchuck, quarter of a
mile northwest of the mill.
Kansas City papers say: "Stock up
on potatoes; will go to So to 81 a
bushel.
Fairfax-sO-acre farm sold for
$4,000.
Kansas City-Motor Co. ships ST.
066,500 worth of automobiles to Lon
don, England, past week.
Kansas City-30 new homes under
construction on South Side.
Kansas City-$75,000 will be ex-
pended in remodeling Spalding Com
mercial College building.
Linn-Osage county road bond is
sue for $4,000 carried.
Springfield-Missouri Press Asso-
citation adopts plan to build club house
in Ozarks where newspaper men may
spend their vacations.
Excelsior Springs-Excellent vein
of coal discovered--will be sold ex-
clusively' for local consumption.
X. C.-$160,000 West Bottoms paw
ing contract completed and thrown
open to traffic.
Springfield high school cafeteria
feeding 1900 pupils daily.