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VOLUME V.
FLORA, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2.  1916
NUMBER   6
FLORA FORGING
TO THE FRONT
WORK ON NEW FACTORY CONIIENCED
A Veritable Building  and  Indus¬ trial Boom  is  Promised  for Clay County's Metropolis
Tliat Flora Is rapidly forging to the front Is plain to be seen, and there is no mistake that she will be the live¬ liest burg in Southern illlndls for the next year to come, and everything looks good in the Clay county metrop¬ olis ill the way of a biiilding Ixxiui.
The Sexton Manufacturing Co. having been located here means a big tiling for our city. Work on the building has already coniineiiced with a large force of men and teams, ex¬ cavating and getting everything in .sliape for the construcUon and an early completion of the structure, wliich will lie of concrete, steel and glass. Himeiisions, lioxll2 feet and twii stories in lieight: basement. i6x to, wliich will he used lor the healing plant.
Several sites were suggested for the lactorv. However, none of them ap pealed to Mr. Fergu.soii. (owner of the Sexlon enterprises.) as (lid the EIrod property, whicli was purcliased for this Institution. Tlie site is located on the lots southeast of tl.e Carnegie lilirarv. and Is an ideal place for a factory of this kind.
,Iiist how soon the planl will be linlshed Is not known, as It all de¬ pends upon the weatjier; but the work will Ih" pusbeil as rapidly as possible. Ill the meantime tempor¬ ary ((iiarlers have been secured over Wood's store on the snuth side of West Nortli .\venue, machinery is .irrivliig dally, and work .it the Sexton .Maniifaciiirliig C'o. will sixiti lie on in full blast with at lea.'t a force of loO girls making iinderwear.
liesides tiie factory luiildiiig 11 inlglil he well for us to iiiciitioii a iiumlier of other hnprdveiiienls in Flora now in course of construcUon, or llial will be in the near future. The I!. & O. dejxil, now being erected, wiil lie a two and three story brick and wlien tinislied will be a haiKlsonic structure. Mr. F. S. Nicliols of this city, lias the contract.
The Commercial Teleplimie Co.'s new two-story liuildiiigon Main street is al.so under construction, and the weather permilUng, will sihui be tinished. They will al.so ered another building adjoining the one now being •erected some time next summer, which, when linished will be oc-