The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15
At
SIX POINTS ON
ACTIVE BASIS
Three New Industries Noted
in Indiana-IdIe Plants
Re- Opened.
200 TO BE EMPLOYED
Cannery at Wabash Will Be
Used After Two-Year
Shutdown.
BY CHARLES c. STONE

State Editor, The Times
Activities at ConnerSVllle, koKo-
mo, Hagerstown, Wabash, Mt. YER
non and New Haven are noteworthy
in business and industrial survey
of Indiana for the week ended to-
day.
The Connersville Cabinet Com
pany has been established for the
manufacture of furniture specialties,
cedar chests to be the first articles
produced, with other lines to be
added as warranted.
Production will start Immediately
at the plant Of the Superior Glass
and Mirror Company, Kokomo, of
plate glass products, employing
twenty-five to fifty persons.
A $4,975, 900 company has been
formed through merger of the Per-
feet Circle Company, with plants at
Hagerstown and Newcastle, and the
General Piston Ring Company, Tip
ton. It is probable the Newcastle
plant will be expanded. The merged
company has a capacity of 100000
auto engine piston rings monthly.
Plants are now being operated on
a tWenty-four hour schedule.
200 to Work at Wabash
Idleness of more than two years
will end next week for the plant of
the Wabash Canning Company,
Wabash, when operations are re-
sumed with a force of about 200
employed. An addition 50x60 feet
is being built to the factory of the
Wabash Foundry Company. During
the latter part of last year the
company was compelled to refuse
orders through lack of room for
additional production facilities.
Sale of the Anderson-Fuhrer
Company property at Mt. Vernon,
idle fifteen months, to the Naomi
Poultry Company, Chicago, was &C
companied by announcement that
the business would be resumed soon,
The deal is regarded as one of the
major achievements of the Mt. Yer
non Chamber Of Commerce.
New Industry Builds
Employment will be given at New
Haven to about fifty men by the
International Fork and Hoe Com
pany, new concern headed by
Foss Smith, FIT. Wayne. Construc-
ton of building for the company
is in progress.
H. o. Boyd, president of the Mar
kle Furniture Manufacturing Com
pany at Markle, announces that If
business continues in the heavy vol
une handled in the last four
months, the company''s plant will be
enlarged.
After being shut down for repairs,
the Ebbw-Vale coal mine near Sui
Ivan, is again in operation with the
announcement that it will be worked
throughout the summer.
A summary of conditions through
out the State shows the following
recommendation of a
new stone mill by Charles Colgren.
NEWCASTLE-The Indiana Bell
Telephone Company has paid $685.
900 for site on which it will erect a
new building.
MUNCIF-A $500 addition is to
be built to the City Laundry plant.
The average weekly industrial pay
roll for the month of May was
$128,019. The Ontario Silver Com
pany has increased its capitalization
and changed it's name to the On
tario Manufacturing Company. In
creasing business has necessitated
erection of three new buildings for
the company since the first of this
year.
ANDERSON-A contract has been
awarded for remodeling the Spencer
Hotel at a cost of $4,000. The local
Firestone Tire Company representa-
tive will erect $4,000 service sta
ton.
GREENSBURG - The Reliance
Manufacturing Company, making
mems work clothing, announces out
put for the first five months of 1928
the greatest in its history for a like
period. Hibben, Hollweg & Co., In
dianapolis, has been appointed sole
distributor for Reliance products in
Indiana and adjacent territory.
EVANSVILLE - Employment to
capacity in the building trades is
noted here. Among industries, Ser
vel, Inc, is giving employment to
$500, the limit with present plant
space. The H. Fendrich Company
cigar manufacturer, has 1,700 work.
ing steadily.
South Bend Building Active
SOUTH BEND-Building permits
issued during May called for Struc-
lures valued at $546,03o. A contract
has been signed for erecting a ST.
100000 union station. The Stude-
baker Corporation announces auto
mobile sales for May exceeded by
34.5 per cent the sales for the same
month last year.
MICHIGAN CITY-The new $780,
100 freight terminal of the Nickel
Plate railroad was opened Thurs
day,
KENDALLV1LLE-A new theater
and business building will be erect
ed here at a cost of 100000 by the
Building Projects Company, Indian
apolis.
MONTPELIER-The plant of the
National Steel Casting Company
will be offered at receivers sale
June 81. The plant has been idle
SiY1ce hei11o r1IacHd in receiverShin