The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-21

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must work for sound industrial con-
ditions. 1921 may be one Of the great
est years ever experienced by indus
try. There is every reason why it
should be the greatest if our people
win only make it SO by right thinking
and right action.
1874 road projects approved, esti-
mated cost $20,322, 421. s
Ozark mussel beds new source of
supply for novelty makers.
Carthage to have new theatre, seat
ing 1000.
Another ore storage warehouse
completed at Monarch.
Six high class electric cars to OPP
crate between picher and Miami.
st. Louis stock yards report sale of
young cattle which brought $36.25 a
hundred pounds.
Farmers urged to build more silos.
Stotesbury gets largest gas well yet
brought in in this state.
st. Louis reports 300 applicants for
every as jobs.
st. Louis stove plant burns, with
$150,OO0 loss.
Moberly painters. cut own wages 81
per day.
Backed with sound judgment and
economy in public affairs, this nation
faces the most prosperous period Of
its existence.
States production of butter SUBJ
stitutes shows enormous growth.
st, Joseph's street railway lost
$4,000 in November.
Kennel light and power rates adj
vanced 20 per cent.
Joplin.-Northeas Oklahoma rail-
road starts operation of electric line
to oil fields.
Carthage tax receipts average $12,-
900 a day.
Carthage makes drunkenness more
expensive, raising fines from $40 to
500.
| Gainesville coal mine assumes large
proportions.
Scott county farmer approves prac-
tical value of airplane in daily rounds.
Wyandotte farmers save $4,000
through scientific methods.
Good roads program opens new line
of work for properly trained foremen.
Columbia School of Engineering es-
tablishes course for training in high
way construction.
Have faith in your country, your
business, your fellow man. Nobody
ever played the United States short
and won.
West Plains.-Ho,yell county farm
ers place order for carload dairy cows.
Greer Springs.-Cleveland capital
lists plan to build hydro-electric plant
here.
During 1919 Missouri bakeries pro-
duced 662 tons bread and cakes, val
ued at $38 100000.
Never before have the responsible
ties on our lawmakers been heavier or
their direct responsibilities to the pub
lie greater.
States average yield of corn for
1920 was 80 bushels, Irish potatoes
so and sweet potatoes ITO per acre.
Mexico.--Gale johnson purchases
"Intelligencer" and will publish daily
and weekly paper.
Mountain Grove overall factory
shuts down.
Taxation must be reduced. No new
burdens can be loaded onto industry |
and meddling legislation and regula-
ton must not be sanctioned.
Higginsville.-- Four-year-old race
horse sells for $4,000.
Men layed off by Midco Iron Works
offered employment by company to
cut and haul cord wood.
Carter-Road building to be re-
sumed when $4,000 becomes avail
able the first of the year.
St. Observation-Disclosures of coop
erative farmers bank as means of as
surfing credit to agriculturists planned.
An examination made by the fire
marshal into the causes of fires in
three boroughs of New York City in
a single year shows that putting out
fires, unless fire prevention is enlarg-
ed, is futile.
jefferson City.--Completion of new
$171, 900 steel bridge over Usage river
here makes connecting link in South
ern Cross-State Highway.
Kansas City-Doric theatre ex-
ponds $4,000 for improvements.
Kansas City.-Stephens Rubber Co.
increases capacity of plant and opens
tire distributing stores in Sedalia and
Boonville,
st. Louis.-Farmers plan co-opera-
tive bank here, capitalized at $l,OOO,-
900.
Kansas City.--Ground broken for
new st. Luke's hospital on Mill Creek
drive.
The principle of the Farm Loan
Act would not be impaired by an
amendment which would tax these
bonds the same. as any other private
corporation bonds.
Eminence.--Western Tie and Tim
Der Co. of st. Louis to build dam and
hydraulic power plant on Current riv-
err near here to furnish power to adj
jacent towns.
Boonville.-Prospecting for oil on
10000 acres in Boone county, develop
nnent of coal vein underlying property
planned.
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