The Broom Corn Review from Wichita, Kansas • 6

THE BROOM CORN REVIEW ENLARGING FACTORY. Mr. W. F. Robinson, broom corn dealer at Liberal, Kansas, also operates a broom factory.

He has recently added a new building 24 64 having storage capacity on the second floor for a car load of brooms. New machinery is being installed and the output will be increased from 20 to 50 dozen per day. These improvements will give the factory 'an up-todate equipment and Mr. Robinson has a large supply of choice brush which will enable him to make a fancy grade of brooms. Mr.

Robinson also sells considerable broom corn to manufacturers throughout the country, and was fortunate in securing some good brush earlier in the season. FACTORY NOTES. Natchez, Miss--The Natchez Broom Factory, recently organized here will be removed to Baton Rouge, La. Deshler, Neb. -The broom factory here paid out $2,600.78 in wages during the month of February.

It now employs eighty-one persons. A broom factory is to be built and operated at Corning, Arkansas. The machinery for the plant already being on the grounds. A large number of the farmers in that section have agreed to engage in the culture of broom corn as a result of the establishment of the factory. Cincinnati, -Peter DeRoo, for many years identified with the broom industry in Cincinnati, died at the family residence, 268 McCormick place, Saturday afternoon, after an illness of several weeks.

Mr. ReRoo is survived by a widow and three sons, Jacob John and Charles M. DeRoo. He was born in Holland in 1837 and came to Cincinnati nineteen years later. He engaged in the broom manufacturing Illinois Broom Corn Seed STANDARD AND DWARF VARIETIES Our seed is properly matured and grown by one of the oldest broom corn seed growers in Illinois.

Write us for prices. Ross Bros. Seed House WICHITA, KANSAS PURE BROOMCORN SEED Improved Tennessee Austrain and green, Grown by J. S. Ashbrook who devoted thirty years to of Broom-corn Seed.

ment The J. S. Ashbrook -Mattoon business with his brother, Cornelius, and remained actively connected with the firm until 1902, when he retired. Dyersburg, company of lo. cal business men has been formed here for the purpose of installing a broom factory.

A location has been secured and machinery ordered and the new enterprise is expected to be running by March 1. The following are back of the enterprise: Scott, L. E. Carne and G. D.

Bush. Brady, the efforts of Secretary D. H. Hardison of the Commercial club and Farm Demonstrator J. W.

Griffin, a broomcorn club is being organized in this county. The purpose of the organization is to secure a sufficient acreage in broomcorn this year to justify a broom factory for the town. Seed will be provided for each farmer who will plant an acre or more in broom corn, and Mr. Griffin will give instruction in the proper methods of culture and harvesting of the crop. St.

Joseph, Mo. Through the Com- merce club and without guarantee or bonus, the St. Joseph Broom Works has been established by Charles P. Cargill and associates, with E. S.

Caviezel as manager. A part of the old street car barns at 1111-1113 South Eighth street is being remodeled and machinery is being installed for the plant, which will be in operation by the first of next month. At the start 100 dozen brooms will be manufactured weekly, it being the intention to increase the output with the demand. In investigating the broom business in St. Joseph, Mr.

Cargill learned that fully 60 per cent of the brooms used in this city are made elsewhere. The St. Joseph Broom Works has been established to get this trade. Bakersfield, attempt on the part of the powerful Standard Wcod and Willow Company of Los Angeles to crush its Bakersfield rival by offering brooms without charge to local merchants and paying the freight charges is alleged by W. Darling, man.

ager of the B. and B. Broom company of this city. Until the establishment of the Bakersfield broom factory about a year ago the Standard Wood and Willow Company of Los Angeles enjoyed a practical monopoly of the Bakersfield broom business. The local company has been putting out good products at fair prices and building up a trade that made inroads on its big competitor.

About a week ago the Standard Wood and Willow Company shipped in thirty-five dozen brooms to Bakersfield merchants and paid the freight in order to get the brooms accepted. This morning a carload was received. The Merchants' Association has pledged its efforts to support the 10- cal factory in the fight that has been begun on it. Mr. Morse made $2,000 speculating while he was a prisoner in Co.

in stocks the federal penitentiary. It's hard to Illinois keep a gambler out of a game, J. A. Nicholson FAIRVIEW, OKLA. Commission Dealer in BROOM CORN We buy and ship from all points in Oklahoma.

Years of experience. Write us. References: Citizens State Bank, Fairview, Oklahoma; First National Bank, Watonga, Oklahoma. American Broom Supply Co. 1308-10 N.

Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Broom Corn, Broom Handles, All Broom Supplies WRITE FOR PRICE LIST Telephone Warehouse, Oakland 4034 Warehouse 5300-5306 Armour Cor. 53rd Street H. MELVIN MAHIN, CHICAGO -Commission Dealer inBroom Corn and Broom Manufacturers' Supplies How to reach warehouse- -take State Street car south, get off at 53rd Street and walk one and one-half blocks west.

Hedlund Marshall Broom Corn Company Write us, we have Broom Corn Branch Office Elk City, Okla. Main Office FAIRVIEW, OKLA. A 2 cent stamp may save you $100.00 ON CAR BROOM CORN WRITE US We guarantee Grades and Weights THE TRUBY WAREHOUSE Englewood, Ks. -A GOOD SELECTION OFBROOM CORN Bought right. Can sell right.

EARL 115 W. S. CHICAGO, Water ILL. Street Broom Handles, Hard Maple We are manufacturers and sell direct to broom factories. Write for prices.

THE COLUMBIA MFG. New Phila, Ohio EverDwarf. has improve- S. W. PHILLIPS W.

R. JOHNSON THE PHILLIPS BROOMCORN Mattoon, Ill. Dealers in BROOM CORN of All Grades References: Mattoon State Savings Bank, First National Bank, Mattoon National Bank. WAREHOUSES Mattoon and Humboldt, Illinois; Woodward, Oklahoma..