The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-12
WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

March l., Independence.-City cleo
trio light plant installing new equip
ment.
Kansas City-Raytown road to be
paved from Twenty-seventh street to
city limits, cost S115,000. Federal
aid, SAT, 500.
Jefferson City, Missouri Public
Service Commission approves $9,556,-
500 merger of Kansas City's two gas
firms.
Harrisburg, Rocheport, Holiday
and Knox City installing larger cleo
trio plants.
jefferson City's Retail Merchants
Association subscribe $4,000 toward
building hard-surface road between
Fulton and Missouri River, TO cost
$4,000.
Aurora to get new 100000 federal
building.
Kansas City.-Unfnishe Athletic
Club building to be converted into 21-
story hotel
Poplar Bluff.-40-room $4,000 hotel
annex to be built.
Honesboro. - Plans projected to
build 100000 hotel here.
Leading manufacturing industries
show wage increases during the past
year of from 25 to 1875 per cent. Vol
ume of employment increased from
five to fifty per cent in these same in
dustries.
ozark.-Work progressing on new
100000 court house for Christian
county.
Kansas City.-Knights of Columbus
plan to build $S50,000 club building.
Fulton.-$120,000 highway to Mis-
souri, river to be built at once.
fancy county recently paid off $21,-
900 Of her bonded Indebtedness.
Bloomfield.-Duck creek township
votes $4,000 road bond.
Pomona.-Drilling for oil northwest
and northeast of here.
Kansas City.-Candy manufaetur-
ing company buys 3-story brick build
ing for factory.
Columbia has population of 10000.
Herbert Hoover as practical work
ing engineer is compelled to admit
that government operation Of rail-
roads is utterly bad, with no redeem
ing feature whatever. 1t is costly,
arbitrary and universally
in the little things whose
treatment makes comfort or discom-
fort to those who buy transportation.
Paris.-29 mules sold for $11, ,078-
average, 1882 per head.
Columbia Missouri School of
Journalism to have new $4,000 build
ing, modern equipment, and $4,000
press.
St. Joseph.-$22O,OOO bonds to be
voted to straighten Platte river chan
lel.
st. Joseph. under way to ex-
END Mitchell avenue road two miles.
Kirksville.-Putnam Dye Co. opens
branch factory here.
Higginsville.-Live stock associa-
ion shipped 43 cars stock since No
,ember 1, valued at $1,000.
Observation-Disclosures of storage
opens plant here.
Joplin. Taxicab Co. erecting
S147,000 4-story building.
Joplin.-Pyramid Mining Co. capi-
allied at $4,000, incorporates.
Cassville.-Barry county 1920 as
iessments total $16,102,017. 100000
tb0ve 1918.
Carthage.-Chamer Of Commerce
endorses 100000 bond for enlarge
nent Of water plant and $150,000 for
ichool improvements.
Hollister.--Indication of oil en-
at depth of 700 feet.
Cabool.-Plans for new electric
abroad from here to Ironton perfect
d.
Leavenworth. The X. G. w. Ry. be-
ween here and Kansas City and local
treet railway system sold at auction
or Id million.
Kansas City.-Western Roofing Co.
'ays $4,000 for 100 by 125 feet
property.
Farmer living near Highesville re-
elves $1,000 for span Of 5-year old
nare mules.
Kansas City.--Construction work
oon TO begin on $1,000,000 10-story
otel.
Kansas City.-Starks Paint Manu-
acturing Co., this city, establishing
ranch factory on Pacific Coast.
Kansas CITY spent S3.671 600 IN