The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
100000 TO
Be COST OF
PERU HOTEL
Negotiations Completed for
Erection of Six story
Fireproof Building.
DATA ON EMPLOYMENT
Only as Less Now Working
at Huntington Than
Year Ago.
BY CHARLES C. STONE.

Closing a deal for erection of a
$500 900 hotel at Peru is the out
standing event of the week in In
diana industry and business, a sur
vey ended today reveals.
The hotel will be of brick and In
diana limestone construction with
terrace floors. 1t will be f1reproof.
There will be eighty-four guests
rooms and the top floor will con-
tain seven apartments. The build
ing will be six stories high. There
will be two storerooms, lobby and
shop rooms, and banquet hall on
the ground floor.
In the stone industry, develop
ments during the week included an
nouncement that a mill is being
erected for H. A. Woolery & Son,
with completion set for Aug. l. The
mill will employ twenty-five men.
The Carl Furst Company mill and
quarry is being opened on a full
time basis. Recent additions to
equipment include four channeling
machines and a large derrick.
Huntington PrOSpers
Huntington is among cities of the
state reporting a healthy industrial
situation. President j. j. Brenn of
the Chamber of Commerce an
nouncing results of a survey, says
that only forty-six less persons en-
ployed than at the same time a
year ago.
The following summary shows
conditions in several cities:
BIoomington-The city has pur-
chased for $4,000 a tract Of 242
acres to permit expansion of the
water system.
GreenwOOd-The laboratory of the
Stokeley Brothers Canning Com
pany is being moved here from Tip
ton and will be operated in con-
nection with a new canning fac
tory.
Columbus-The Power-pluS Oil
Company has purchased refinery
plant south of here from the Graver
Corporation of Chicago, which has
owned the property since 1925. The
old Indiana Oil Refining Company
built the plant at a cost Of $3.50, 900.
The price in the sale was not an
nounced.
New Radio Sets Shown
MariOn-Four new model radio
sets, products of the United States
Radio and Television Corporation
here, have been shipped to Atlantic
City, N. j., for display at the ma
tional radio show which will open
Monday.
Terre Haute-The Root Dry Goods
Company. operating one of this
city's largest department stores, has
signed a thirty-year lease on the
building it occupies.
East ChicagO-The Graver Tank
and Manufacturing Company an
nounces sale of water softening
equipment to two railroads. The
Lehigh Valley road bought one Of
the largest outfits of the kind ever
manufactured. 1t will soften $4,000
gallons of water an hour. The Chi
Cago, Milwaukee & So. Paul road
bought a 35,000-gallon outfit.
Laporte-The board Of works has
awarded contracts for paving and
resurfacing of seven streets at e
cost of $4,000.
Fewer Calls for Aid
Muncie-Evidence that economic
conditions are improving here is
seen in a report by the Social Serv-
ice Bureau, showing decrease OF
SO per cent in calls for aid.
Valparaiso-The Klin-McG1n Golf
Manufacturing Company is expert
encing the best season of its career,
according to Urban Kiln. manager.
Receipts during April and May lack
but a few thousand dollars of be-
ing up to the total for all OF 1929,
when 10000 clubs were sold.
Tell City-A contract has been
awarded for erection of st. Pauls
parochial cshool at a cost of $685.
600.
Wabash-Sugar beet crop pros
poets in Wabash county are the best
in several years, according to L. o.
dollhouse, field representative OF
the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Com
pany. who has completed a survey
of the 600 acres of beets planted in