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    "ocrText": "Daily Republican Times\nOttawa, Illinois. Tuesday, November 17, 1936.\nFARM BUREAU\nBUYS RADIUM DIAL BUILDING\nDEC1 1936\nCompany Plant will be moved to New York\nabout January 1.\nAnnouncement was made today that the La Salle County\nFarm Bureau has closed a deal for purchase of the Radium Dial\nfactory building at the corner of Columbus and Washington Street.\nA contract for the purchase of the building was signed yesterday\nby members of the finance committee of the Farm Bureau, and sent to\nthe main office of the Radium Dial Company in New York, for approval.\nFollowing the announcement that the building has been\nsold, R.L. Reed, manager of the Ottawa plant, said that the company's\nOttawa plant will be moved to New York about January 1. The company\nmay still maintain a small studio, office and working force here,\nReed said, but the main plant will go to the east.\n30 Employed at plant\nThere are at the present time 30 young women employed\nat the Ottawa plant of the company, painting luminous dials for\nwatches and clocks. The greater part of these employees are to be\ntransferred to New York.\nThe company for some time has had contracts for half a\ndozen eastern watch and clock companies, and has not been supplying\nmaterials to any western firms. Plans have been gradually going\nforward for & long time to move the Ottawa plant to the east.\nThe consideration of the deal was not revealed today\neither by Farm Bureau executives or by Reed. The Farm Bureau plans\nto use the main floor of the building for offices, and to use the\nlarge auditorium on the second floor for meetings.\nFORMER O.H.S. BUILDING\nMembers of the executive committee of the Farm Bureau\n- 2 a\nlast Wednesday, authorized the finance committee, which is com-\nposed of Rex Peddicord of Marseilles, L.C. Rinker of Grand\nRidge and John Kidd of Mendota, to close the deal.\nThe building was for many years the Ottawa township\nhigh school. It was erected in 1879, and was used until the\npresent high school building was constructed in 1915.\nThe building has been used by the Radium Dial Co.\nas a factory for about 14 years."
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