Show MEANING BUSINESS I Booming the Factory Town of Woodman Clearing House and Postottice Real Estate Beings 2P For six months natural gas has been tearing up the earth at furious spurts and spattering mud over a quarter section of ground at LakeShore Lake-Shore While this made a fine volcanic display It did not reimburse the purses of ths developers with the hard cash they had sunk in perforating perforat-ing the old shell 1o coin little collateral of the gaseous demonstrations the American Natural Gas company platted the town of Woodman I is the intention of the promoters of this scheme to make Woodman to San Lake what Birmingham is to Londona great manufacturing manufactur-ing center J J Rogers who holds the key to corner lots reports that choice corners are in good demand de-mand at 125 and inside lots lots bring tltfl I Thnrn has been much talk of s free excursion a free lunch a big blow out and a knock down auction but so far the plans have not matured Business at the Fostofllca Postmaster Benton has made his report for April and i was yesterday forwarded to the department de-partment I shows the business transacted amounted to3S71 as compared with S746S9 for the same month in ISO a decrease of Sl07418 The figures for the first tour months of the present year arc L9S3J55 as compared I with fc713540 an increase of 8O08 15 Easiness improving In tho South W W Calder of tho Washington Manufacturing Man-ufacturing company returned yesterday from a trip through tho southern portion of the territory He says there is a deciedod improvement in business noticeable there because of the coming in of the wool clip which is said to b6 large and of very good quality Salina said Mr Calder is bound to bo one of the best towns in the south Its importance as a wool center is being daily duiy proven i The Bcibnrc Milliner Company The Rexburc Milling compary held its annual election in this city yesterday The old board of directors was elected |