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Daily Republican Times
Ottawa, Illinois Tuesday, November 17, 1936.
FARM BUREAU
BUYS RADIUM DIAL BUILDING
DEC1 1938
Company Plant will be moved to New York
about January 1.
Announcement was made today that the La Salle County
Farm Bureau has closed a deal for purchase of the Radium Dial
factory building at the corner of Columbus and Washington street.
A contract for the purchase of the building was signed yesterday
by members of the finance committee of the Farm Bureau, and sent to
the main office of the Radium Dial Company in New York, for approval.
Following the announcement that the building has been
sold, R.L. Reed, manager of the Ottawa plant, said that the company's
Ottawe plent will be moved to New York about January l. The company
may still maintain a small studio, office and working force here,
Reed said, but the main plant will go to the east.
30 Employed at plant
There are at the present time 30 young women employed
at the Ottawa plant of the company, painting luminous dials for
watches and clocks. The greater part of these employees are to be
transferred to New York.
The company for some time has had contracts for half e
dozen eastern watch and clock companies, and has not been supplying
materials to any western firms. Plans have been gradually going
forward for a long time to move the Ottewa plant to the east.
The consideration of the deal was not revealed today
either by Farm Bureau executives or by Reed. The Farm Bureau plans
to use the main floor of the building for offices, and to use the
large auditorium on the second floor for meetings.
FORMER O.H.S. BUILDING
Members of the executive committee of the Farm Bureau
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