The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-02
100000
CONTRACT TO
Indiana firm
UIen & Co. of Lebanon
Signs With
Greece.
EXPOSITION AT K0K0M0
FOrty-TWo Concerns Put
Products on Dis
play.
EXPOSITION AT KOKoMo
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Signing of a $30,000,000 irrigation
and drainage contract by the gov
eminent Of Greece with Ulen a. Co.,
Lebanon, which will be associated in
the project with John Monks q Son,
New York engineering firm, was the
outstanding even in Indiana BUSH
ness and industry for the week
ended today.
The project includes irrigation Of
the Struma valley north of SALON.
Xxi, and drainage of the marshes OF
Philippi and those of the area in
Guided in ancient Thessaly. The
contract is the climax Of negotia-
tons conducted for several months
between Greek government repre-
sentatives and those of the Indiana
company.
KokOmO Shows Products
Another event of the week was
the three-day exposition held at
Kokomo, consisting of a display Of
products manufactured in the city.
Forty-two companies took part.
The Overhead Door Corporation,
Hartford City, has completed an ex-
tensive expansion program for 1929,
and the first advertising of nation
al campaign will appear Jan. S, in a
publication divide circulation. The
company has added three lots to its
real estate holdings as a site for adj
ditional plant buildings.
HInatFa1nalr
for automobiles has been added to
products of the Delco-Remy Corpo-
ration'S plant at Anderson. officials
OF the Big Four railroad announce
plans are being made for erection Of
a $l,25O,0O0 passenger station at
Anderson.
A survey for the week shows the
following in various Indiana cities:
Greencastle-Work on a $4,000
apartment building here will start
Monday. The financing is being
done by James c. Cole, Indianapolis.
Lebanon-The Empire Securities
Corporation has been formed with
$500 shares of no par value COM
mon stock. The corporation will
deal in bonds and securities of
various kinds, patents and inyen-
lions and real estate.
Labor Clash Eased
Hartford City-Labor trouble
which for a time threatened to
cause a shutdown of the American
Plate Glass Company here, appar-
emily has subsidized and officials an
nounce that half of 300 men who
walked out after demands for pay 4
increases were refused, have re-)
turned to work. 2
Tecumseh-The Eagles mine OF
the Eagles Coal and Mining Com
pany here has resumed operations,
giving employment to $50 men.
Kendallville-RaiSers Of pepper
mint in this section of Indiana, one
Of the few areas in which the crop
is grown, harvested a profitable crop
this year, with prices from SO to
$3.75 a pound for oil. Announce
ment is made that on Jan. / the
Noble county bank and the Ken
dallville Trust and Savings Com
pany here will be merged under the
name Of the Noble County Bank and
Trust Company, with a capital Of
more than 100000.
South Bend-Net profits of the
Studebaker corporation for the third
quarter Of 1928 are nearly $1,O00,000
in excess Of those for the same
period in 1927, officials of the auto
manufacturing company announce.
Block S5 Kuhl, operating four large
department stores in Illinois, will
establish a store here about Dec. IS,
in quarters on which seventeen
year lease has been signed.