The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-11-05
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW


The working man and woman are
interested in conditions which encour-
age industrial development and en-
ployment of labor, rather than in the
plans of the agitators which would
cripple industry and create employ
ment.
Kansas City.-Six blocks paving on
Troost avenue approved.
Sikeston.--Association organizes to
grow sunflowers to meet contracts of
1,250,000 pounds seeds at IL cents
per pound, to be used in the manufac-
ture of poultry food.
Kansas City.-Old ice and storage
building RACED to make way for new
garage for X. C. Light and Power Co.
Branson.-"Leader" erecting addi-
ton to office building.
Ava.---Fifty 1000-case car loads to-
matoes shipped from here this season.
Poplar Bluff.-Ozark tomato crop
this year greatest ever raised in SOU
thern Missouri.
Chillicothe.-Over 1000 farmers in
Livingston county organize farm bu-
reau and establish community cold
storage plant.
Columbia awarded for
construction of two buildings at M. U.
to cost about $4,000.
Theo. Roosevelt once predicted that
Alaska would, within century, sup
port as large population as the en-
tire Scandinavian Peninsula, that AL
apLa x.yifh itc anorpn,,c racnnrrac IF
mineral and great fisheries would pro-
duce as hardy and vigorous race as
any part of America.
Kansas City.-$45,O00 paid for site
for new 100000 University Club
building.
Independence Day Saints
start drive to raise 100000 fund to
build auditorium here.
Kansas City.-Miller Rubber Co. of
Akron, o., opens distributing plant
here.
Carthage.-Lucky Eleven mine to
be reopened.
Joplin.-Zinc mines of tri-state to
be closed for two weeks; will de-
crease output more than 5000 tons
a week.
Kansas City.-Redpath Fox Co.
opens factory to manufacture phono-
graphs; daily output So finished ma
chimes.
Alfalfa acreage soon to reach quar-
ter million.
Ray county starts campaign to sove
quail.
Kansas City.-Board of Education
buys old Shannon Douglass mansion
\ fer $27 900 to be converted into school
for deficient children.
State finances reported in fine con-
dition.
Piedmont gets hosiery manufactur-
ing plant.
A new industry at Joplin is the
Utility Tire Machinery Co.
Food prices decline 6 per cent in St.
Louis.
Six counties show decrease in pop
ulation.
Mountain Grove.-Crescent Elec-
trio Co. makes 10000 lamp sockets
per week; 20 persons employed.
J Corn crop shows gain of 100000
bushels over last year.
When the loaf goes back to nickel,
when the bottle of milk gets down to
5 cents, when wages drop to $3-a
car ride will cost nickel.
Kansas City.-Quality Ice and Cold
Storage Co. erecting new $4,000
plant, daily capacity $50 tons.
Mountain Grove.-Work begun on
storage dam and power plant to North
Fork river to furnish water to city
and power to adjacent towns. Com
pany capitalized at 100000.
Kansas City.-Automatic telephones
installed in downtown district.
Sugar Creek.-Local citizens file
| application for incorporation as fourth
class city.
Kansas City.-"Castle Ridge" old
city mansion, to be converted into col
lege building for negroes.
Marysville water system now in OPP
Grafton.
Ten years of opposition on work.
| mans compensation legislation ter
inmates; will pull together for favor
able vote.
Kansas City.-Giant concrete mix
err and payer installed in effort to
complete Raytown road, first federal
aid road in jackson county, before
colo weather.
Carthage.-Preliminary work starts
on concrete road project of Jefferson
Highway.
Half of states production of butter
fat comes from the Ozarks.
Joplin firm gets $61,500 contract
for new surgical building at Nevada.
Kansas City.-New Gateway post
office station at Nineteenth and Wal
nut to be ready for occupancy by
Nov. |.
Buchanan county farmers to start
cooperative marketing with st. Jo-
seph as headquarters.
New Madrid completes new cotton
gin.
| Kansas City plans to spend between
$15,000,0O0 and $18,000,000 on new
water system.
| AFFAIR COUNTY FARMERS