Gruver Grows as Local Firms Expand and Build
Gruver sees major growth with Chapman Milling completing an 80 000 bushel steel elevator and planning capacity expansion. A new warehouse for seeds and cotton products rises while Texaco product handling space is built. Panhandle Light and Power crews extend town light and power. Local grain dealer R L McLellan opens an office and builds an adjacent elevator. J H Gruver and J H Gruver Jr plan brick homes. June building permits in Lubbock exceed 20 000 with a yearly total over 2.3 million across 352 permits. Spearman reports unprecedented construction activity and numerous new homes. Sunset Stores, Inc. buys Joel Pruitt Company stock and Grissom Robertson Stores stock, signaling regional retail consolidation.
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Chapman Milling Company
Gruver
Grover
Texaco
Panhandle Light and Power Company
R. L. McLellan
Rock Island Tracks
J. H. Gruver
J. H. Gruver, Jr
Book of Home Plans Offered At Low Cost
The News-Globe and the Panhandle Lumber company offer a book of home plans to promote better homes. The volume sells for 60 cents for pickup or 60 cents delivered by mail.
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Book of
News-Globe and the Panhandle Lumber Company
Portales Developments Signal Growth and Construction
Portales and Sayre area building activity continues with corner stone preparations for Portales Junior High School. I M Mau pin and P E Gordon set contracts for new homes while Travelers Inn adds an extension. Water works trap and pump house near completion expanding city supply. Portales Canning Company expands capacity with 300 acres signed for tomatoes. last season canned 31 car loads and shipped 15 car loads of produce. Sayre sees ongoing plans with residences and business builds rising, new Sayre Whippet agency garage finished, Mrs Gussie Russell residence nearly complete, Mrs A D Jones office to house Title company, Herbert hotel 51 rooms opening in about 80 days, Princess theater redecorated, cooperative creamery site chosen, Henry Hallam brickwork, improved Hammer mill project on Oscar Ewton property, W P Seawall lumber yard upgrades costing 4000 dollars, and First Methodist Church to begin a 35000 dollar project.
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Portales
I. M. Maupin
P. E. Gordon
Travelers Inn
Portales Water Works
Portales Canning Company
Sayre
Oklahoma
Sayre Whippet Agency
Gussie Russell
A. D. Jones
Sayre Abstract Guaranty and Title Company
Herbert
Princess Theater
Cooperative Creamery
John Hallam
Oscar Ewton
W. P. Seawall Lumber Yard
Construction surge across the plains mirrors growing demand
Sayre expansion follows conservative growth plans as population rises. John A. and Mrs South move into a new Portales home. Hargrave Laundry builds a $24,900 project in Childress with Thaten and Maxwell as contractors aiming by September 1. Projected spend nears $75,000 with new machinery wiring plumbing and furnace. Plainview labs into a $600,000 program including an eight story Hilton hotel. Osage Aircraft in Pawhuska Oklahoma runs airplane production and a flying school. St Joseph's Hospital at Albuquerque advances toward a $350,000 complex. Seaberg hotel in Raton adds 20 rooms and improvements. Swastika hotel construction proceeds alongside a Firet National Bank office building. Follett egg hatchery expands in a new 12,000 capacity tile facility. Artesia Alfalfa Growers office storage and farm machinery plant rises. Jordan Marble shipments begin from Alpine area with new equipment and a 100000 gallon water reservoir.
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Hargrave Laundry Company
Childress
Thaten and Maxwell
Alfalfa Growers Association of
New Hope in Arms Cut Held as MacDonald Visit Teased
Washington reports a possible visit by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to discuss Anglo American ties with President Hoover. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Borah voices hope that close cooperation could advance disarmament. The rumor sparked cautious optimism among observers and policymakers.
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NEW Hope IN Arms
Associated Preas
Washngton
Hoover
MacDonald
Washington
White House
Borah
Senate
Labor Party
Pennsylvania costly grade crossing program totals
Harrisburg reports the campaign to eliminate grade crossings in Pennsylvania has cost the state 28 million dollars over the last two years. W D B Alney, chairman of the Public Service Commission, announced the expenditure and the commission's order for improvements.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
W. D. B. Alney
Public Service Commission
Three Prisoners Escape From County Jail
County officers searched the Gainesville area after three inmates escaped from the county jail. The men reportedly found a way out during the night, triggering a manhunt as officials pursued them across the region.
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Gainesville
Tex
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