The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-28
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

| Capital and labor are cooperating
! to keep industries and payrolls NOV
ing at maximum and take are
necessary from the largest employer
to the smallest to keep the wheels
| rolling.
Jasper County Fruit Growers As
ISOLATION leases several hundred acres
idle land and will plant in fruit and
vegetables.
| Richards. oil wells drilling
| within three miles Of city limits.
st. uis.-Internationa Shoe Co.
plans reorganization Of company and
doubling capital of $25, 100000.
! Kansas City.-Fourteen permits for
construction of homes granted first IL
days of January.
/ st. Louis. Missouri Pacific inaug-
urates special train service to take
care of rush to new oil strike in Ark
ansas.
| Chillicothe.- Local citizen produced
| TN tons honey last year, selling for
| $500 ton, and plans to add SO more
| colonies of bees.
| Missouri has gone from one ex-
IRENE to the other. The Major adj
| ministration left the state broke. The
Gardner administration is expected to
leave five millions dollars in the state
treasury.
| Carthage.--Work Of laying 80
| pound rails for Missouri Pacific to
| Webb City starts.
| Neosho to raise fund for play
ground.
| Carthage -Asceola Mining Co., one
Of the oldest organizations operating
/ in this district asks for dissolution.
| Joplin.-Rothchild building to be
| remodeled.
Joplin's fire loss cut so per cent in
| 1920.
| $2,111,696 deposited to credit of
| good roads fund from automobile Ii
cense,
| Preliminary work starts on Galena-
Riverton highway.
Kansas City.-Construction of g.
story annex to City Hall planned.
| Kansas City.-Builders' Assn. anti
cipate boom in 1921 following decline
in prices of material and cost of la
Dor.
Boonville.--"Republican" moves in
to new home.
| Kansas City.-Work begins on $780,
900 hospital on Robert Gilman road.
! Weston.--Growers of Northwest
Missouri district dispose of 1920 to-
bacco crop of 100000 pounds selling
from ID to go cents pound.
| Moberly.--Local Union Painters
voluntarily reduce price from 87h to
rs cents an hour.
1920 census shows 81 PEI cent de-
crease in number of Missouri farms
| in last ten years, land values, howev-
er, have almost doubled in many
counties.
Jefferson City.-Since organization
of Highway Board in 1917 building Of
1,015.34 miles hard surfaced roads at
cost of $S,457,O55.21 have been pro-
tvided for.
| Pleasant HILL Missouri Pacific
places order for 25 freight, 10 passen-
! ger cars and Is switch engines
Warrensburg.-Calf Club campaign
starts in johnson county.
Lees Summit dedicates Soldiers and
Sailors Memorial Hall.
| Marshall.-Saline county announces
union of Farm Bureau Federation and
Farm Clubs.
Excelsior Springs.-Imb proving road
between here and Liberty.
Deepwater.- Farmers Club of
Pleasant Valley shipped car load each
of cattle and hogs to Kansas City mar
ket during week.
Monett.--Pumpkin weighing 100
pounds on exhibition here, one of sew
en- on one vine weighing from go to 72
pounds.
DeWitt.-Prairie Pipe Line Co. ex-
tending line miles west.
/ De Witt-Coal mine opens on Grit
fifth farm near here.
Kirkville. - Clock manufacturing
company Incorporates for $350,000
with headquarters and factory here.
st. Louis.-4,000 stove workers OPP
pose increased working hours or wage
cut.
st. Louis school children collect and
sell 913 tons waste paper in 1920.
| $18,172.88 deposited in funds of
Teachers Benevolent Annuity Assn.
st. Louis.-Seven important auto
mobile factories here to begin produc-
tion in quantity in spring.
/ New London.-Four livestock ship
ping associations of Rails county do
$500, 1000 worth of business in 1920.
Observation-Disclosures Missouri
counties plan expenditure of $6,000,-
900 on highway improvements.
| st. Louis subtreasury, established
| in 1876, is closed.
Il Cancellation of proposed increased
rates on petroleum in tank cars to
Chicago ordered.
/ st. Louis Western Tie and Lumber
Co. asks permit to erect power project
on Current river.
| st. Joseph Northwestern State
/ farmers form Producers Cold Storage
Go. Incorporated at $4,000.
i Springfield reports 1000 idle men as
result of factories being closed.