The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-10-01

Best Advertisement of State-Facts
of Progress and Prosperity Show De.
velopment.
st. Joseph-Plans projected to di
vert Contrary Creek into Missouri riv.
er thru large ditch saving thousands oil
acres fertile farm land and eliminat.
ing damage to Lake Contrary, city's
pleasure resort.
Kansas City Ordinance passed
providing for occupation tax of $1,000
year each for all steam railroads en-.
tering city and for telephone compan,
les doing business here, for period Of
one year.
st. Louis-Reforms under consider.
alton designed to incease efficiency Of
municipal fire departments here.
Kansas ty-Internationa Broth
erhood of Boilermakers and Iron ShiE
Builders in convention plan construc.
ton of National Headquarters to cost
$4,000, here.
Jefferson City-Missouri' cottor
counties produced this year 38,534,00
lint cotton, averaging 274 pounds pei
acre, totaling 1929 bales of 500 lbs
each. Cash value of 1919 cotton lint
and seed crop of state totaled $11,O51,.
900.
Index figures compiled by the big
mercantile agencies show steady de-
cline in average prices of 81 percent
since May LIST.
Ozark--Old Baptist church remod
eled to manufacture handles.
st. Louis-Moving van drivers
strike for $40 a week, helpers S38.
Blmo--Corn crop in vicinity prom.
lses big yield.
Bonnie Terre-Company organizes
here to develop tungsten ore.
Union-Farmers and Merchants Mi
Union Farmers and Merchants
ling Co. capitalized at $4,000.
F.. Bragg City-New $4,000 school
bunlding completed.
Tarkio-Old armory to be converted
into club rooms for American Legin.
A number of states and cities are
amending their constitutions and char
ters to permit only freeholders to vote
OH DOnulHP eIectlOnS.
Kansas City-Plans apprvel for
widening Fifteenth street to 99-foot
traffic way from Campbell street west
to Broadway.
Everton-Farmers' Exchange opens
here with paid-up capital of $4,000.
Marshfeld-$20, 900 grain exchange
building erected by farmers.
Everton-$20,OO0 expended in new
machinery at Vance mills.
Grandview - Local livestockman
shipped 200 Poland China brood hogs
by express, consigned to points in sew
eral different states past week.
Farmers are very much interested
in the establishment of steamship
lines from Pacific coast ports to the or
lent and to Mexican and South Ameri-
can ports, making better markets for
all their crops. Among these is the
Toye kisen Kaisha, Japanese lire.
Sikeston to receive electric light and
power through new transmission line
from Cape Girardeau plant.
Poplar Bluff-Local canning factory
paying SIS ton for tomatoes deliv-
sreu
Charleston-22 cars of water melons
shipped from here in one day recent
", selling Tor $500 to $525 a carload.
Monroe City-International Shoe
Co. to establish branch factory hove
employing from 100 to 125 workers
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