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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
ILSEN & Co., music trade dealers, Cin-
cinnati, O., reported to have made applica-
tion for receiver.
ARTICLES of incorporation of
J. B. CHAMBERLIN, now with the Jesse
French Piano and Organ Co., of Birming-
ham, Ala., is preparing to open new music
store at Montgomery, Ala.
THE Amstutz Music Co., of Bluff ton, O.,
is preparing to open a new music store in
the Foltz Building, Columbus Grove, O.,
and will place the management in the
hands of Chet Smith.
the Na-
tional Piano Co. have been filed for record
with the County Recorder at Des Moincs,
la. Principal place of business in that city.
To engage in the manufacture of pianos.
Capital stock, $50,000.
Incorporators,
John S. Taylor, Frank Taylor, Adam But-
tell and S. M. Darley. John R. Taylor is
to be manager of the business and presi-
dent of the company.
A NEW company has recently been or-
ganized in Montreal fo*r the purpose of
W. S. HOLMES & Co., of Lansing, Mich., manufacturing pianos. It is known as the
have changed firm name. C. H. Howe re- Featherston Piano Co., Ltd. Officers: A.
tired July i, the new style of the firm M. Featherston, president; J. W. Dugdale,
being W. S. Holmes & Son.
manager; C. Martel, secretary, and L. W.
THE Ann Arbor Organ Co.'s new stock Crannell, superintendent. Capital, $50,000.
is being subscribed for quite rapidly. The Their factory and warerooms are situated
new building and other improvements are at 443 St. James street, and contain five
floors.
now said to be an assured fact.
WALTER S. PIERCE, pianos,
San Mateo,
Cal., reported to have applied for relief in
bankruptcy.
BUILDING INSPECTOR GRUBB'S condemna-
H. LEHR & Co., organ manufacturers, of
Easton, Pa., are advertising liberally in
the German papers.
THE agency for the Doll and Baus pianos
has been secured by M. P. Conway, Hol-
yoke, Mass.
WM,
STEINWAY
is
rusticating
at Mt.
Clemens, Mich., where he is taking the
baths.
He will return to town about the
middle of August. t
NEWBY & EVANS have recently received
some very complimentary letters from
dealers anent their latest styles of pianos
which seem to have caught the popular
fancy. Style 13 is a particular favorite.
PERHAPS one of the finest music stores in
Iowa is that of Barnard, Walker & Crewell,
of Dubuque. It has recently been built,
and is handsomely furnished. They handle
the Steinway & Sons, Emerson and A. B.
Chase pianos.
J. H. PHELPS, well known as the patentee
of the Harmony Attachment for pianos,
and Wisconsin representative for the
Waterloo Organ Co. 's products, is visiting
the East.
tion of the front wall plans of Jchn Brown's
organ factory, Wilmington, Del., which
were to be 13 inches thick, has been sus-
A. M. WRIGHT, of the Manufacturers'
tained, on appeal, by the committee of City
Co., Chicago, is rusticating in Graf ton, Vt.
Council.
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J. C. FRAMPTON, of Guthrie Centre, la.,
who is connected with the Edna Piano and
Organ factory at Monroeville, O., and who
THE music store of J. G. Alton & Son, AMONG the many progressive agents of
has music stores in a number of Western
Newman Bros., is F. W. Slapnicka at Cedar
cities, will open a new music store at Col- Baraboo, Wis., was burglarized recently.
Rapids, Mich. He knows a "good thing"
THE case against Victor S. Flechter was
fax, la.
and believes in "pushing it along."
dismissed last Saturday by Justice Flam-
C. H. HOWE, formerly of the music firm
A MUSIC store has been opened at Nevada,
mer in Jefferson Market Police Court. He
of W. S. Holmes & Co., Lansing, Mich.,
was charged with having in his possession, la., by F. A. Benjamin, of Marshalltown.
will open new store in connection with his
unlawfully, a violin that was formerly the
J. H. RHEEM, music dealer of Ottumwa,
brother, E. B. Howe, at Pextoskey, Mich.
property of Prof. Jean Bott.
has changed the title of his firm to the
ROBINSON & WEBBER, music dealers, Kan-
kakee, 111 , reported to have conveyed real
estate for $607.
SCHUYLER, SHAW & Co., pianos, organs
and musical instruments, Oxford, Mich.,
celebrated the opening of their new store
recently.
W. F. FREY, music dealer, Sterling, 111.,
reported as having confessed judgment
for $80.
.
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JOHN BROWN, organ manufacturer, Wil-
mington, Del., awarded contract to Calvin
I. Swayne, at $2,700, for enlarging factory
building.
WILLIAM
BERRYMILL, musical merchan-
dise, Clarinda, la., is selling out.
new hrm who have opened a music store
in the Roberts Building, Ogden, la. They
will handle the Chicago Cottage Organ and
the Kingsbury piano.
E. H. SWERINGEN, music trade dealer,
will open new store in the Bibo Bank
Building, Paris, 111.
trade
CLARK, WISE & BRO., of
dealer,
PETER MCCORMICK, pianos, organs, musi-
cal instruments, Toledo, O., reported to
have conveyed real estate for $2,250.
J. M. A. F. RAYNOR, dealer, Bowling
Green, O., reported to have recorded chat-
tel mortgage for $300.
Oakland, Cal.,
are having a great demand for Chicago
Cottage organs. A car load of these instru-
ments was recently shipped to them.
Rheem Music Co.
THE agency for the McCammon pianos at
Oregon, 111., has been placed with C. J.
Reichenbach.
C. H. DITSON & Co., of this city, have
decided not to open a branch house in Lon-
don.
THE public schools in Milwaukee have
E. A. POTTER, of Lyon, Potter & Co., been furnished with Behning pianos
Chicago, will spend his vacation in the through the local representative, Joseph
Adirondacks, and will visit New York be- Flanner.
fore his return to Chicago.
IT is expected that the name of the
Nathan Ford Music Co. will be changed in
the near future.
NEWMAN BROS.,
MERRIAM & LEVALLEY, is the name of a
C. G. CARLTON, music
Waterville, Me., deceased.
THE Lawrence Organ Co. last week
moved into its new factory at Elm and Fif-
teenth streets, Easton, Pa. Mr. Henry A.
Rothrock is manager of the factory.
Chicago,
continue
to
receive testimony of the popularity of their
instruments in Europe.
Large shipments
have recently been made to England and
Germany. That the Newman Bros, organs
should become as popular abroad as they
are here, is not surprising when their spe-
cial merits are considered.
IZVvt* C n | a A Well Estab-
r U r O d l C Ushed MUSIC
HOUSE, in a manufacturing city
in the State of New York, doing
a good paying business, under a
small expense, for sale, as the
owner wishes to retire from busi-
ness. Address, Box 5, Music TRADE
REVIEW, 3 East 13th St., N. Y. City.
Henry F. Miller
The recent new scales and inventions
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