The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-09
Contract Is Awarded for
$4,000 Service Plant
in Hammond.
FACTORY WILL EXPAND
New Industry Will Locate
in Charlottesville: Other
Business News.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Fans Tor construction WORK IN
several Indiana cities are revealed
by business and industrial survey
Of the state for the week ended to-
day.
Acquisition of the entire block
bounded by Harrison street, Doug
las avenue, Breckenridge street and
Webster street. TT. Wayne, for con-
struction of q s401 $50 federal build
ing, has been approved by the
United States treasury department.
Contracts have been let for con-
struction Of $4,000 salon and serv-
ice building, Holman and Doty
streets, Hammond, by E. N. Bun
nell, Hammond automobile agent.
The building will be complete in
November.
VIII Expand Factory
Officials of the Berne Furniture
Company announce that an addi-
ton to their factory buildings in
Berne will be erected in the near
future and that at least twenty-five
more men will be employed.
Two new buildings to cost a total
of $4,000 are planned for Kokomo.
Vestrymen of st. Andrews Episco-
pal church have announced a cam
paign to build new 100000 church,
and the Kokomo Trades and Labor
Council plans $4,000 labor temple.
Announcement was made yester-
day that arrangements have been
completed for the second new fac
tory In Charlottesville since the first
of the year.
The Lewis-Shephard Company of
Boston, has secured possession of
the building formerly occupied by
the Indiana Match Company. and
within a few days will start work on
remodeling the structure, With
view of having a branch factory
running here within two months.
Adds Many Jobs
The eastern firm manufactures
electric trucks for interdepartmentaI
use in factories as well as a large
variety of other factory equipment,
including cranes, hoistS and eleva-
tors.
The establishment of the new fac
tory will mean the employment of
about fifty men at first, with
gradual increase until the maximum
Of about $50 is reached.
Removal of additional families to
Charlottesville will bring the houS-
ing problem to an acute stage. There
already is a great demand for rental
properties in spite of the number
built in the last twelve months.
Contracts for sidewalks, curbs and
cutters totaling $9,45592 we're let by
the Lebanon city council, and con-
tracts amounting to $9,065.50 for
construction of bridges in Boone
county we're let by the Boone county
commissioners.
Lebanon-The construction COM
pany in charge of double tracking
the Big Four through this county
has appealed to the Lebanon Cham
Der of Commerce for help in obtain
ing laborers to work on the improve
ment. Between forty and fifty men
are needed at once.
Gary-Gary's bank clearings for
July reached the unexpected total
OF $28,695,181, the highest total re-
corded here since April, 1927.
acknowledgements Indiana Lime
stone Company, Bloomington, has
ben awarded a $910,780 stone con-
tract. The stone will be shipped to
Milwaukee, where it will be used in
construction of the new 100000
Milwaukee county courthouse.
Princeton-The Gibson county
commissioners at their meeting this
week, awarded six road contracts,
amounting to s37,130.
Fl. Wayne-The bankrupt Wayne
Machinery Company was sold this
week to c. L. Schust, Walter Meyer,
and Clifford Kern for $24,100. They
plan to carry on a used farm imple-
ment business. under the name OF
the Indiana Machinery Company.