The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-01
ShelbyviIIe Stove Factory on
Full Operating Basis
With Heavy Orders.
STONE MILL RE0PENED
Another on Night and Day
Schedule; Canning to
Make Jobs.
BY CHARLES G. STONE
state Editor. The Times

improvement IN employment N
several Indiana cities was the out
standing development Of the past
week in business. a survey OF the
Estate reveals.
For the first time in several
months the plant Of the Chambers
Manufacturing Company, Shelby
vile, is in full operation in making
stoves. Officials announce that or
ders totaling more than s250,O0O
have been booked, insuring steady
operation through this month and
September. A force of more than
200 is on the pay roll.
Better conditions are noted in the
stone industry. A night shift has
been put to work by the Blooming
ton Limestone Company and the
American mill of the Indiana Lime
stone Company has been reopened.
About 100 men are employed in the
two plants.
Several employees Of the Guide
Lamp Corporation, Anderson, who
had been idle, have been recalled.
800 Work at Arcadia
At Arcadia, the D. c. jenkins
Glass Company plant has resumed
operations after a few months of
idleness with 300 men employed. 1t
is said the company has enough
orders on hand to assure steady work
for six months and that enlarge
ment of the plant is being con-
sidered.
More men are at work in the
/, Calumet district. The East Chicago
Docket Terminal Company has
added $50 to its pay roll due to an
increase in business. At Ham
mond, the Bates Expanded Steel
Truss Corporation plant has enough
orders to keep operation on night
and day schedule for three or four
months. Early in August two new
plants. the Lever Bros soap fac
tory. Robertsdale, and the Calumet
Electric Casting Company, Ham
mond, will be put in operation.
MANY residents in the district re-
ceived employment through re-
sumption of operations at the Ford
Motor Company plant. Hegewisch,
Ill. which started with a force OF
2.4OO men with an announcement
that steady operations would con-
tinue for a considerable period.
Canning to Create Jobs
About Aug. Is the canning sea-
sor will he in full swing throughout
Indiana, affording several weeks
employment for thousands OF per-
sons. More than 800 persons will
be employed in Muncie alone. In
the same city, 200 employees OF the
Foster-Forbes Glass Company will
return to work Monday after being
idle thirty days.
The following summary covers
conditions in several Indiana cities;
Greensburg-TheK x of P. theater
Is installing sound equipment and
remodeling the entrance and lobby.
Elkhart-Plant and equipment Oh
the bankrupt Lincoln Paper Mills
will be disposed of at public sale
here Wednesday.
Muncie improvements oelng
made at Ball State Teachers col
lere here will cost $4,000. They in
clude a new coal storage unit which
will cost $4,000.
$4,000 Spent at Mine
Princeton-A new tipple is being
erected at the King Station mine OF
the Deep Vein Coal Company at
cost of SI50,000. 1t is expected the
work will be completed by Sept. l.
The mine will employ about 400
men.
CrawfordSvilIe-The Jerscke Wire
Speciality Company has filed articles
of incorporation with $50 shares OF
stock valued at 500 each and 900
shares of no par value.
South Bend-Bids will be received
Tuesday for construction of $780,
600 building for the Roach, Apple
ton Company, manufacturer of cleo
trical equipment. which is to be
moved here from Chicago. The
Willids Dairy Company announces
plans for erection OF a 100000
building.