The Indianapolis times., 1928-04-13
6 INDUSTRIES
enter indiana
IN one Week
Columbus, Kokomo, Rich
mond and Fl. Wayne
Benefited.
875 MINERS WILL WORK
Wage Agreements Affect
Clinton and JaSOnviIIe
Residents.
By CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor, The Times

State Editor, The Times
Indiana gained an average of one
new industry for each business dav
OF the week ended today, a survey
OF business and industrial condi-
tions reveals.
Three new industries have To-
Gated in Columbus, They are R. j.
Dlckey & Sons, manufacturing
window cleaning devices; L. A.
Simons, old hickory furniture and
novelties, and Ed Clark, cement
brick and sewer tile.
The Service Glass and Mirror
company is a new concern at Ko-
komo. 1t will manufacture plata
glass products.
Operations are to begin within
ninety days by the Automotive Cor
poration of America at Richmond.
Where 1t has bought holding of the
George w. Davis Motor Car Com
pany and will produce an eight
cylinder automobile.
SS,OOO,OOO Concern in Deal
Within thirty days the Ft. wavne
Rolllng Mill, purchased at receivers
sale by the Joslyn Manufacturinp
ana Supply Co., Chicago, will be
ready for resumption of operations
Inc new owners have assets Of
$3,OoO,OOO as of Jan. 1 this wear,
Plant expansion programs noted
during the week included that of
the Showers Brothers Furniture
company, Bloomington. which will
erect q 100000 experimental lab-
oratory -''
A severe blow was dealt Brazil dur-
ing the week by removal of the
General Cigar Company plant to
Bay City, Mich, but the Chamber
OF Commerce is engaged in efforts
TO obtain another cigar factory.
The General plant EMPLOYED 250
persons when on full production.
Mines to Be Worked
Wage agreements have been
signed which will mean employment
OF 875 coal miners. The agreements
affect the Deering Mine. No. 8. en-
ploylng several men whose homes
are in Clinton and two large. mines
OF the Bon Ayre Coal Company
near Jasonville. Operations will be
resumed soon at the River VALLEY
Coal Mining Company pit near
Edwardsport, following repair of
damage caused by fire OF the men
employed at the mine, about sixty
live in Bicknell.
Building operations noted during
the week include the following:
BLOOMINGTON-Award of con-.
tract to the North Construction
Company, Terre Haute, for erection
here of 100000 building for the In
diana Bel Telephone Company The
Bloomington Limestone COMPANY
plans erection of a $4,000 Office
RISING SUN--A sixty-four room
hotel and sanitarium will be built bv
the Hoosier State Mineral Hotel
Company two miles south of here.
ANDERSON-The J. G. Penney
Company, chain store operator, has
real estate here as a site
FOR new store building, which 1t
proposes to make one of the finest
IN its chain. Building will start
within three weeks.
100000 Hospital Nearer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. step to-
ward building a 100000 Henry
County hospital here will be taken
April 20 when the county council
meets to authorize a 100000 bond
issue, matching 100000 raised bv
public subscription, carrying out an
agreement of last June.
CRISMAN - Plans are nearly
for erection of a new
$4,000 high school building here.
EVANSVILLE The Evansville
Ice and Cold Storage Company will
ouild cold storage plant at a cost
If $4,000 to $4,000.
MT. VERNON-C Contracts have
been awarded for erection Of a
S155000 high school building.
MICHIGAN CITY-The S. s.
Hresge Co. store building is to be
at q cost of $4,000
Other conditions in the State are
noted as follows:
COLUMBUS - Despite prospects
II tdlenesS in several Indiana cam
ling factories during the coming
the Morgan Packing Com
)any will operate its plants here
and at Hope, officials announce.
Contracts with growers call for
higher prices than paid last year.
\ large number of untitled orders
ire on the books of the Lewellen
Manufacturing Company which has
ust completed additions and rear
of plant machinery and
nlarged Office space.
S1,O49 in Wages Daily
GREENwOOD-The pay roll of
he Noblitt-Sparks Industries plant
las reached $1,049 daily. April pro-
luction will set a new record, oflc-
ais declare.
MARION-The Case Radio COM
,any this week booked an order
or 1900 radio sets. Arthur E. Case,
eneral manager, predicts 1923 will
'e the best year in the comrany'a
history.
ALEXANDRIA - Production has
tarted in new Plant No. 2 Of the
'anner Rock Products Company.
MUNCIE-Production Of aItomo-
ile batteries will begin early in
uly in the old Durant automobile