The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-05-21

lie of which We are all part.
May list. Joseph pushing pub
lie cooperative housing.
Adrian has new ice plant.
Contractors and unions boosting
costs Of building at Kansas City.
Liberty.-400 tent houses gone up
in one locality here.
Kansas City orders work on eleven
paving projects.
The Ozarks are a gold-producing re-
gion and farm near Ava yields an
ore that assays so cents in gold and
IS cents in silver to the ton. At Sc
l;gman it is asserted that the .ore
yields $40 a ton in gold, besides sill
yer and large quantity of tin.
Kansas City and st. Louis push
BODYBUILDING campaigns.
Humansville to have new ice plant.
The enactment of multitudinous
laws is the curse of legislatures. Too
many laws paralyze business, indus
tries and citizenship.
Montgomery City.--Callaway coun-
ty farmer Incorporates $500 acre farm
stocked with $3.50 pure bred cows, for
81, 800, 900. $4,000 farm residence re-
Gently completed. Stock pavilion for
scmi-annual sales to be erected.
Jefferson City.-Good crop straw
berries predicted.
Slater.--Worb begun on $4,000
building at State Colony for Feeble
Minded.
Morehouse.-Work resumed on new
bank building.
All st. Louis papers advance prices,
due to cost of paper. Suppose they
had to first get permission of pub
lie utility commission?
st. Louis.-Y ardmen's strike in
creased shipping by river.
Sedalia.-Construction of hard sur
faced road from here to Saline county
line to cost $4,000 a mile, approved.
Federal aid, 81 100 mile.
Creating more offices, increasing
taxes, multiplying laws, is forcing our
country towards political failure.
Festus.--New shirt factory installs
machinery and will begin operating.
st. Pcters.--193 acre farm sold near
here for S4S,000.
N. Kansas City.-Midland Milling
Co. building 4story warehouse and
II grain storage tanks, 100000 BUSH
el capacity. Cost, 100000.
Kansas City.-Offices of Bell and
Home Telephone Co. merged in new
building.
St. Observation-Disclosures Manufac-
turing Co. preparing to sink new
deep well.
Kansas City.--Site purchased for
100000 3-story wholesale ware
house and office building for Column
bia Graphophone Co.
The mounting tax bill in North Da-
kota to pay for socialistic experiments
of the league is bad advertisement
for its program.
Kansas City.--Two oil refining
companies merge into Ranger Rein
ing and Pipeline Co., capitalized at
SIS, 100000. Will operate number of
filling stations now under construc-
ton.
Neosho.-- $4,000 stock company
plans to establish cooperative cream
cry and ice cream factory here.
Carl Junction.-Plans projected to
build % blocks of sidewalks.
Carthage Plans for rebuilding
broken bridge on Reeds-Sarcoxie road
approved.
Tina.--Work begun on store build
ing. Grading road one mile west.
Carthagc,-Plans projected to pave
four streets; two east and west and
two north and south.
Joplin.--$50, 900 cleaning and dye
! ing establishment being built. .
Kansas City.-First four months of
1920 establishes record in building per-
mits, total $6,306,350; corresponding
period Of 1919 totaled $1,7S0,865.
St. Louis.-Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone files application for increase in
rates to amount of $950,000 a year,
to meet increased cost of operation.
The Rolston-Nolan bill for a federal
tax of per cent on all land holdings
over $4,000, irrespective Of improve
mcnts, would strike large percentage
of farmers and industries. It is sin
gle tax pure and simple, under new
disguise.
Jefferson City to have Sc blocks
newly paved streets this summer.
l7-acres in suburbs sold recently
for 81 900 an acre.
Columbia.-$75,000 bond issue car
ried for county hospital.