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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
9
Anheuser Busch in St Louis plans a vast Bevo building covering two city blocks with 26 acres of floor space. The 30 foot basement will house 15 tracks for freight cars. The facility will employ 2,500 people and bottle two million bottles daily, about 140 car loads per eight hour day.
The Bevo plant in St Louis, a $5 million project, is described as the world’s largest and most equipped beverage factory. August A. Busch and Adolphus Busch spearhead this wartime effort to promote temperance and supply high quality non alcoholic beverages for the army and navy. The Busch-Sulzer Diesel Engine Co. backs war production as a patriotic duty, with Grant’s Farm serving as a model farm estate linked to General Grant.
Chancellor Powers appoints Goodloe Tankersley and Robert Farley, Oxford youths, to report for 60 days training at Camp Sheridan, Illinois by July 18. They are chosen to aid their fellows in military service and must return to school this fall.
A public notice states that several hundred page volumes titled Agricultural Yearbook of 1917 and Books on Diseases of Cattle and Horses are available at no charge. The sender invites requests from any interested person and signs as Your Friend.
Hon Hubert D Stephens campaigns for a brick or concrete highway to run from Grenada to Memphis and Birmingham via Oxford Tyre and Oxford. The motor route would carry mail parcels and farmers produce, not affect rural routes, and require no state or county funding. Stephens presents the route as a major county benefit.
The Grand Lecturer W H Carter will visit Lafayette Chapter Royal Arch Masons in Oxford starting Monday July 8 for three days and nights. Several classes will be exalted and all Companion Masons are urged to be present during the visit led by Companion Carver.
Senator Ben R Tillman of South Carolina died at his Washington home Wednesday morning after a week of illness ending a 24 year Senate tenure. Senator Swanson of Virginia is expected to succeed him as head of the naval committee.
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