The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-08
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

st. Louis, Aug. 4--Councll voted for
$500, 900 to complete municipal wharf,
Poplar Bluff -Stoddard county vot-
ed bonds for rs miles of concrete high
way.
Kansas City to have new $245,000
ward school.
Excelsior Springs Amusement Co.
organizes with capital of $4,000.
Charlottesville and vicinity to have
hard-surfaced roads, to cost $4,000.
Everton-Dade County Journal re-
ports shipping two cars of cattle, two
cars of sheep and one car of hogs, and
receiving one car of corn and two cars
of brick tiles to be used in building
a new opera house.
New standardization county hay
crop selling for $40 per ton.
Marionville-Apple crop of the M.
L. Coleman 200 acre orchard sold for
100000.
While educated, college and techni-
cal help is abundant, there is increas-
ing scarcity of farm and common la
Dor over the country.
cred at the shalk diggin's. Oil ex-
pected.
Edna soap factory installs $4,000
new machinery and equipment.
The following Northeast counties
vote on bond issues to build good
roads: Marion, $1,500,000; Monroe,
81 100000; Shelby, $1,000,O00; Linn,
81 100000; Sullivan, $1,000,000; Put
man, $750,000; Schuyler, 100000;
| Adair. $3.50. 900.
Kansas City--Schoenhofen Brewery
Sold for $4,000 for site for a new
warehouse.
Springfeld-The largest block of
stone ever quarried in Southwest Mis-
souri, is to be formed into one-piece
dome for mausoleum in the city of
Washington and is fifteen feet long
and four feet thick. 1t contains 900
cubic feet and weighs 10000 pounds.
jefferson City-An order issued by
the Public. Service Commission au-
,thorizes merger of telephone COM
panies at Kansas City and other
towns.
Kendrick- Kenyon bill provides for
government operation of packing
plants, stockyards and refrigerator
cars through the Department of Ag-
riculture-"
Ozark strawberries yielded as high
as 1000 an acre.
Kansas City is trying to get out of
the class known as jitney towns.
st. Louis-$1, 100000 to go on coun-
| ty highways next three years.
Losing of the conservative farmer
vote the only hope of the North Da-
kota Non-Partisan league is to line
up the labor vote.
Kansas City spending 100000 to
protect West bottoms against floods.
Columbia-Second Christian church
is raising funds to erect new building.
Kansas City-Site selected at 18th
and MCGEE streets for new $250,000
theatre.
Mexico-Adrain county to float ST.
900, 900 good-roads bond issue.
Sedalia-Road convention to be big
event of State Fair week.
The saving in gasoline alone would
make hard surfaced highways a pay
ing investment. 1t would mean a
saving of $36 annually for each mo-
tor car owner who used the paved
roads.
Plattsburg-City Council lets con-
tract for water works system to cost
SIS, 900.
Clark-$2O,OOO bonds sold to ex-
tend Mexico Power Co.'s plant from
Centralia to Sturgeon.
St. Louis-Engineer of the Public
Utilities Department recommends the
laying of "a miles of streetcar track
at cost of $1,920,000.
Everton-Work begun on paving.
Work on State roads to begin soon.
Carthage-Work to begin on brick
and stone store to cost $4,000.
West Plains-The third carload of
butter sent from here this month con-
tanned 27,700 pounds of the dairy pro-
duct and brought $1,000. $4,000
worth of butter from town in one
month is not such bad showing.
Kansas City-16 airplanes have
been sold during the past 3 months.
Carthage is to have large button
factory. The buttons are to be made
from the mussel shells gathered from
the White river.
Farmers Bank of Norborne buys
home school bonds.
st. Louis-Construct of new $780,
600 Cross Episcopal church to begin.
Brookfield-More than 5000 bush
els blue grass seed harvested near
here.