Show State Street to to the Front Business activity In the city elly is not I by any means restricted to Main street streeL The State street business bush hou houses es re report report report re- re port an exceptionally heavy trade during during dur dut ing the last few weeks Busin Business M during during during dur dur- ing conference week was e especially good hundreds ls of or people from the country countr visiting and inspecting tb th th-a wares of or the lie State street stores The Increase nse of oC this mouths months business over ovel that of or last April Is satisfactory to the merchants mid and and Indicates the steadY I growth glOwth which the city I is hi making mal Special Interest has centered In the 3 32 horsepower Case traction engine beIng being be- be Ing ng exhibited h by ls' the Consolidated Va Wagon on Machine company This is the 10 largest and best engine of or Its Hs kind I ever ver brou brought ht to tho the state an and It has s been een viewed b by hundreds of oC people man many nany of oC them being farmers who ai are arc areS e especially Int interested in the work for Cor S which tho the engine was designed DurIng Dur- Dur Ing ng the gathering of oC the dry ry farmers In n Barratt Hall hail many of or the del delegates went vent in groups to look hook at the power power- ful ul engine which was built buill to pull gang plows In breaking up up desert land Man Many exp expressions es lons lon's of oC praise e and commendation com corn for the machine were wet I icard from rota experts In the line of oC farm farm- S hug Ing ng machinery On Friday ny the Consolidated I Machine 1 company turned out one OflE I 4 horsepower 40 gasoline a passenger automobile and two Columbus dee elec The company reports that thaL Its branch houses and Ic resident n agents In outlying I districts arc are doing a business in iwo fro HOI HO portion to that of the local hou house e and that prospects for Cor or the company compan li litho In III Inho tho ho future are aro most Haltering |