The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-10-31
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Oct. 27-Kansas City--Plans per-
fected for S5,000,000 twenty-five story
1000 room hotel.
Kansas City-Contract let for $780,
900 six-story commercial building.
Sleepy Hollow--Construction work
begun on roads in vicinity.
Fulton-Contract let for power
house and heating plant at Westmin- !
ster College.
Princeton business men have just |
completed cold storage plant.
Hannibal, 100 pound hog sold
for S11, 10O-the higest price ever paid
in state.
Nevada-Pecan ranch Of 1,493 acres |
near city sold for $126,905.
Haigart-Missouri Iron and Steel |
Co. erecting big blast furnace and
charcoal retorts.
Better wages and working condi-
lions were never obtained by a brick
and dynamite brigade, but by an hon
est leader, capable of tempering ac-.
ton of followers, and who didn't get
red and boiler at the sight of a roll
top desk.
/ Cassolie-A tannery is latest indus
try here.
| Kahoka-Local capitalists have pa
tent on 'puncture- proof" tire and will
open factory.
West Plains Creamery Company Or
ganizes with $4,000 capital.
st. Joseph Public Elevator Co. in
corporates with 100000 capital.
Poplar Bluff farmer gets $309.68
for single load of cotton.
Other counties may boast of their
ever increasing numbers of motor
cars, but Galloway is prouder be-
cause it still is supreme in the produc-
ton of mules. Competition was keen
at the mule show in Fulton but fin
ally Galloway mules triumphed over
the best from Boone and Audrian
counties. When Galloway begins to
boast more of it's cars than it does of
its mules the beginning of the end of
Mr.. Mule has come.
Kansas City-First days deposits
at Columbia National Bank totaled
$1,811,00
Kansas City-Golf club of 140 acres
added to city's recreation enterprises.
Monett-S20,0 900 Mcdonald County
road bond issue carries.
| Richmond-769 cars coal, 40 cars
wheat and II cars live stock shipped
in September.
Joplin Apple shipment from
Ozarks show one hundred per cent in
crease over last year.
West Plains-Howell County Cream
cry and Ice Co. opens for business.
Cabool Enterprise-Press adds ST.
lnOO NO oh ipary apd +yna IN n1ppt
A strike of the coal mine workers
of the United States would be unfor
tunate for the general public at any
time. 1t especially would be deplora-
BILE, however, around November /, the
time that has actually been set for a
strike by the organized coal mine
workers of the country.
Poplar Bluff-Contract let to build
Is 1-3 miles of turnpike, including
: bridge, to cost $461 ,615.73.
! Kansas City-Old Turner Hall to he
razed and replaced by store building.
st. Joseph-Plans perfected to build
: 100000 Methodist hospital.
Liberty Light Co. to build trans
mission lines to Richmond, Lexington
and Missouri City.
900 acres timber land,
known as Builder tract" sold for
, $4,000.
jefferson City-State's 1919 cotton
: yield, 10000 bales from 121 900 acres.
, Pleasant Hill-New brick edifce
erected by Baptist church completed.
: Poplar Bluff-South B street to be
graveled.
Fredericktown - Madison County
: $325,0O0 road bond issue carries.
$445, 900 will be spent building so miles
: of highway from st. Francois county
to Wayne county line.
/. Jefferson City--New light rate is
5 per cent higher. Heating rate ad-
vanced means 100 per cent increase
and returns company 7 per cent on
its investment.
7 Joplin-Corner stone laid for new
, ~. NJ. C. A. home.
: Poplar Bluff-500 acre rice farm
! yields 10000 bushels. Net profit
i 100000.
II Columbia School of Journalism
building at State University nearing
: completion.
ii Kansas City--Plans projected for
100000 tractor factory to be built
a here.
= Jefferson City-State's estimated
corn yield 159, 1911 900 bushels.
Independence-46 acre farm near
city sold for $13,650.
De Witt-Norborn Land Drainage
: District plan for reorganization and
extending boundaries of district and
for new system of drainage embrace