| Show BUSINESS INCREASING RAPIDLY Good Showing Made Ry the Asricnl tnral Implement House The several agricultural Implement houses In this city report a greatly increased In-creased business as compared with that of last year This is especially the case with the Cooperative Wagon and Machine Ma-chine company whose report for the month of August shows that the business busi-ness for that month was 40 per cent the period last greater than for tle same last year This showing Is extremely gratifying grati-fying to officers and stockholders of the company alike and as the month of September will without doubt also be avery a-very busy period they have goe3 The grounds for self congratulation board of directors of the company has just declared the usual quarterly dividend divi-dend of 13 per cent on the capital stock of a quarter of a million dollars payable on the 30th of the present month |