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Show u A Most Healthy Corpse Canning Factory Project Not Dead, Hut Committee Busy at Work, With Excellent Prospect of Success. ln,ouriaat issue, under tho caption, "Died a 'BoVnln','" 'wo stated that tho canning factory project had been abandoned; that tho meeting called in tho City Hall for a week last Monday Mon-day waB a failure. Our Informant, who, by the way, was a leading member mem-ber of tho committee, told us that thoso who attended the meeting left when the Are bell rang and falling to come back tho project was abandoned. Our Informant was Innocent of giving giv-ing misinformation, but It transpires Unit a meeting waa hold later In tho evening and a commltteo to solicit subscriptions was appointed. Another meeting ' was held Tuesday evening, and there was a most healthy sentiment senti-ment manifested. A commltteo was appointed to solicit so-licit stock subscriptions and every citizen In tho community will bo nsked to subscribe for from one to twenty shares. Tho par value of tho shares will bo $25. Lending citizens will bo asked to tako $600 each and others J100. When this class of citizens has been exhausted, thon a houso to house cauvns will bo mndo and it Is thought that ovcry ono should tako at least mm Bhnro. ns there Is not a singlo ono share, ns mere m nui. u D.b. cltlzon but what will bo bonented nt lenst $25 by renson of tho establishment establish-ment of a rnctory here. Ten per cent of tho amount subscribed will have to bo pnld for at tho .tlmo tho company Is organized, and tho balance gradually, grad-ually, as It is needed. Some or It will not bo cnllcd ror till next spring. It is tho Intention or tho promoters to erect the buildings this tall and to order the necessary machinery for delivery de-livery next spring, and to have tho plant rendy for canning tomatoes nnd fr0,,ecrmlt8tee on soliciting stock and perfecting the organization i consists con-sists of lllshop Joseph H. Storrs. W. I Chlpman, Hans Chrlstensen, Alma Greenwood nnd George F. Shelley. Our lust week's report, Hko Mark Twain snld of tho story of his own teat "was very much exaggerated." |