The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06
EXPANSION ON
PROGRAMS OF
3 INDUSTRIES
Hartford City Paper Com
pany Contracts Tor
Plant Addition.
UTILITIES DEALS LEAD
Seymour to Get Central
Office of Merged Phone
Company.
UTILITIES DEALS LEAD
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor. The Times

state Editor, The Times
Expansion Of three industries in
as many Indiana cities is notable in
a business and industrial survey of
the State for the week ended today.
The Hartford City Paper Com
pany has awarded contract for
erection of a 75x100-foot two-story
warehouse for storage of raw ma
terial and finished products.
Doubling of the capacity OF mine
No. Q, a strip shaft on the Sullivan
Green County line, in the Linton
district, is planned by the operator,
the Central Indiana Coal Company.
The largest electrically operated
shovel ever made has been installed
by the company to carry out it's
doubled production program, a daily
output of 1000 tons.
The Hoosier Factories, Inc,
Michigan City, manufacturing over
alls and children's play garments,
is having a one-story 35x60 feet adj
dition built to its plant. The COM
pany employs lis persons.
Other important transactions Of
the week included the following az
fected utilities companies:
Approval by securities holders Of
a proposal to merge the Terre
Haute, Indianapolis g. Eastern
Traction Company and its subSidia-
ries with the Central Indiana Power
Company to form a $40,oo0,000 con-
Germ.
Offices at Seymour
Plans for erection Of a building
at Seymour for use as central Of
fees for the newly formed Indiana
Ohio Telephone Company, rated as
the fifth largest concern of it's kind
in the United States. The company
will be holder Of common stock of
the Southern Indiana Telephone
and Telegraph Company and Of the
Ohio Central Telephone Corpora
ton, with value Of 100000.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are as follows:
MUNCIE-Pern1itS for buildings
to cost $1,15o,730 we're issued here
during the first half of 1928. Of the
permits, 149 were for residences.
TERRE HAUTE-The Coal Mine
Equipment mpany has been
formed for manufacture and sale of
machines and supplies used In coal
mining. Capital is $4,000.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES will
be started Aug. by the Corners
vile Cabinet Company, new in
dustry.
ANDERSON-Th Pierce Cover
nor Company's old plant is to be
remodeled at a cost of $1,000. The
building will be used by an auto
sales agency, the Pierce Company
having moved recently to larger
quarters.
Truck Company Busy
NfARION-The Indiana Truck
Corporation announces a 20 per
cent production increase in June
over the May output. The plant is
being operated on full time and
third assembly line has been eStab-
lished to turn out trucks solely for
export business. Construction of
additions to the Marion National
Sanatorium, made possible by
100000 appropriation by Congress,
is expected to begin soon.
KOKOMO The Hill standard
Company, playground and SWIM
ming pool device manufacturer, is
operating on a f1fty-f1ve hour week
schedule and will continue on that
basis until fall, F. H. Green, super
intendent, announces. A new type
boiler for use in distillation Of
Indiana peppermint is being
patented by G. A. and Fred Goudy
of the Goudy Brothers Boiler
Work.
ALEXANDRIA-The city council
with passages of two ordinances
has lifted the burden of municipal
tax from every industry in the city.
One ordinance disanneXed from
city territory sites occupied by in
dustries near the boundary line
while the other measure exempted
also from taxation those plants
farther within the city.
MARTINSVILLE-A unusually
heavy yield of peas is keeping the
'ocal plant of the Van Camp Pack
ing Company working day and
night
Chamber Gains 707 Members
LA PORTE-The Chamber CT
Commerce here is claiming more
members in ratio to population of
the city than any other place in
the middle West With the COM
pletion of a membership campaign,
enrolment Of TOT persons is an
nounced. The chambers budget for
acquisition of new industries and
other activities has been increased
from $500 to $4,000 annually.
EAST COLUMBUS-The Purity
Milk Company, new retail concern,
has opened for business in a new
building and with modern ma
chinery installed.
CULVER-A resort hotel to be the
equal of any in Indiana, is planned
by E. r. and B. B. Culver, who
recently purchased the Palmer
House hotel building and site from
j. P. Walter The hotel is expected
to cost between $3.50, 900 and 100000.
EAST CHICAGO-A plant of the
United States Gypsum Sompany,
largest concern of its kind in the
world, may bel established here. The
company is NEGOTIATING for purchase
Of . thirty two-acre tract with
prospects that the deal will be closed
and erection Of buildings started be-
fore the SUMMER ends. w. M. Day,
himself blind, proposes to establish
broom making plant in which only
sightless persons will be employed.