The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-01


of 1920, is given in bulletin of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, promulgat-
ed today by Commissioner VIM. H.
Lewis. The treatise is a companion
to similar bulletin issued week ago
by the same department which gave
the nationalities of this army of IN.
vading aliens. The facts and figures
which are impaired serve the purpose
of indicating how useful and desifa-
BILE this annual addition to Missouri's
population, dating back to the COM
mencement of 1912. really is.
Common laborers predominated
among the 43, APT immigrants, who Sc
lected Missouri on entering the coun-
try, as their intended future home,
this army totaling 1876 or nearly
23.4 per cent of the entire influx. Then
came 1907 farm laborers, valuable
and warmly welcomed addition tosthe
states inhabitants, the Bureau Of la
Dor Statistics bulletin declares, Since
there is always, from all over Msson-
ri, constant demand for toilers Of
this kind" 10y = ''''r'' ''-s :. 70
I p" Farmer Arrivals We're Scarce
Farmer immigrants credited to
Missouri by the official source from,
which those declarations are taken,
numbered emily $40. highly essential
host, but so insignificant in. proper
tions that all wer quickly swallowed
by Missouri's vastness when they
reached here and it now is not def
nitely known in which counties they
settled. .,> .,. d
Immigrants of mo occupation"
credited to Missouri, embraced in the
nine years considered, practically a
hundred per cent women and children,
totaled 1886, or about 81 per cent
of the foreign inflow.
Those classed as following "profes-,
sional occupations" in Missouri's nine'
years of arriving immigrants, only ag-
gregated $50 with teachers leading
with 1922 aliens of both sexes; clergy
men second on the list with 102; civil
engineers ranking third with 80, and
other professions represented as fol
lows: actors SO, architects Is. editors |
7, electrical experts 80. lawyers IA, )
literary and scientific persons %, mI-
sicians 80, expert officials 30, physi- |
clans II, sculptors and artists 10, and
other miscellaneous professions /. H
5, TailOrs Led the Tradesmen
:. The classification skilled trades
men and women, mechanics" for the
lRine Year period, 1912 to 1920, immi-
sTphts ,srriving at United States sea |
ports, destined for Missouri; totaled
1888 men and women. Tailors led off |
with 1885,, all, undoubtedly, as the
trade implies, of the masculine sex,
for seamstresses are handled separate
ly with 262 entries of that trade and |
sex credited to Missouri's alien in
flow. Carpenters and joiners number
ed 442; miners. 255; masons. 1884;
shoemakers, 41s; bakers, re; BARRIERS |
and hairdressers, las; blacksmiths,
'307; clerks and accountants, 712;
butchers and meat packers, 1874; lock-
smiths, 127. and painters and glasiers,
no.. !
No Brewers arrived" After 1915
While the calling which centuries
ago made the supposed Flemish King,
Gambrinue, famous, and brought his
memory down to the present genera
tion, promises, through the advent of |
prohibition, to soon become lost art
in this country. unless beer with suf-
ficient "kick" iKiit to make 1t real beer,
is allowed fSi' Aledicifal1 bglpY POSES, 16
brewers Area cfedited as lhSSiAg ar
rived on this side of the Atlantic with
Miss ouri as their promised. land in the
last mine years, but none came in af-
ter the close of 1915. THAT year1
there was one such arrival of this call
ing as comparedsto six for 1914; ski
for 1918 and three for 1912. No such.
settlers are credited to Missouri for
1920, 1919, 1918, 1917 nor 1915, sad