The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
JULY BUILDING
ABOVE MONTH
OF.LAST YEAR
indianapolis and Nine Other
y Hoosier Cities Show
Gains.
S3,000,000 IN PROJECT
Chain Store Company Plans
Structure at Fl.
/. Wayne.
100000 IN PROJECT
BY CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Of twenty-five cities covered by
the survey, ten show gains. They
are Indianapolis, Anderson, East
Chicago, Ft. Wayne. Huntington,
Kokomo, Michigan City, Mishawaka,
Muncie and Shelbyville. Among
twenty-five of the leading cities of
the entire Nation, Indianapolis
ranks seventeenth.
The Bank of America National
Association, New York, after a Ma
tion-wide survey, announces that
Indiana has the smallest bonded
indebtedness among forty-four
debtor States, the per capita being
II cents.
Following is a summary of con-
ditions in various Indiana cities and
towns:
FIT. WAYNE - Schultz United,
Inc, a chain store company, plans
erection of a modern business build
ing at a cost of $3,000,000.
Jobs for 200 More
MARION-The Case Electric Cor
poration has bought the Marion
Electric Company to increase its ia
cilities, business now requiring op-
Grafton on a twenty-four- -hour-a-
day basis. The Case corporation
manufactures radio sets, automobile
accessories and electric phono-
graphs. An increase of 200 in the
working force is planned
ROCKPORT-The Rockport San
itary Pottery Company plant, closed
during receivership, is to be reopen
ed at once, giving employment to
sixty men and forty women, with a
monthly payroll of $25, 1000 to 10000.
The plant was recently sold by the
receiver for $4,000 to Richard j.
D'Eath, Ann Arbor, Mich, and
George S. Barhentine, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
NEWCASTLE - The GaleSburg-
Coulter Disc Company. with plants
here and at Galesburg, ILL.,, has
booked orders from the Packard
Motor Company and Hupp Motor
Car Corporation for clutch discs to
fill all requirements for next year.
July sales of the company exceeded
$500000, the largest single months
business in its history.
Plans Double Schedule
GREENSBURG-Operations on
twenty -four hour day schedule
will begin soon at the plant of the
Cyclone Fence Company and the
working force will be doubled.
BLOOMINGTON-The Vernilya
Medicine Company, with its labora-
tory working on day and night
schedule, has increased its capital
stock from $4,000 to $4,000, and
plans to extend its sales organiza-
ton, now covering Indiana, Illinois
and Ohio. over other States.
LEBANON-Operations at the
Hicks Bus Body Company are on an
overtime basis and a 36X0O-toot
building is being erected to house
the painting department.
SEYMOUR-Th Bromweu Brush
Manufacturing Company reports
booking of a number of large orders
with good prospects for busy fall
and winter season.
COLUMBUS Bartholomew Coun-
ty farmers will receive approx
nately $125,000 through sale OF to-
matoes and corn to the Morgan
Packing Company, canning OF the
two crops now being in progress.
EDINBURG-With completion OF
a building for the Edinburg Furnl-
ture Company there will not be a
vacant business structure here.
Glass Plant to Reopen
VINCENNES - More than 200
men will have jobs next week when
the Blackford Window Glass Com
pany plant resumes operations after
a shutdown since June 20, while
repairs were being made.
TERRE HAUTE-Between 70 and
100 men are to be added to the
working force of the Highland Iron
and Steel Company. when plant
addition is completed Nov. l.
CLINTON-The Submarine mine,
owned by the Ferguson Coal Com
pany, has resumed operations. 1t
employs several hundred men when
on full production.
WASHINGTON - Davies county
fruit growers will receive 100000 for
this years peach crop, shipment of
which started this week.
SOUTH BEND-A permit for con-
struction of the main part of this
city's new Union station has been
issued to the Walsh Construction
n Company, placing an 100000 value
on that portion of the work. Other
work and furnishings are expected
to make the total cost of the station
considerably in excess of $1,000,000.
It is to be completed by Jan. /.
SULLIVAN-A cheese factory will
be in operation here by Oct. l. The
factory will use milk from 1,500
cows.
RENSSEL LAER-Hope that 10000
acres of land in Jasper County and
large tracts in Newton, Pulaski and
Starke Counties may be brought to
a high state of cultivation is ex-
pressed by the Aetna Life Insurance
Company, owner If the lGDd, which
reverted to it when former owners
we're unable to pay mortgages. The
company has opened an Office here
which will be headquarters for a
force which will work with Purdue
University in an effort to make the
farming venture profitable.