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W. S. Bond, President, Weaver Piano Co.
Passes Away in His 88th Year
William S. Bond. President of the
Weaver Piano Co., York. Pa., passed
away on December 29th in the York
Hospital, after being confined there for
several days on account of coronary
thrombosis. He was in his 88th year.
Mr. Bond was a musician as well as
a piano manufacturer and had begun
studying music as a boy so that at the
age of 16 he was playing the organ in
his church. He continued this activity
until 1900. He also taught music and
organized a class of pupils in the farm-
ing areas for some years and had a
weekly circuit of 30 miles travel with a
horse and buggy giving piano and or-
gan lessons. He began selling pianos in
1885 and in 1892 became treasurer of
the Weaver Piano Co. Later he also be-
came secretary and upon the death of
the late M. B. Gibson, who was at that
time president, he became president in
1919, an office he has filled continuously
since that time.
Besides being interested in the piano
business and being a church organist
and choir leader for 21 years, he was
also a Sunday school superintendent and
a member of the York City School
Board. For the last two years he served,
he was President of the Board. He also
served as President of the Manufactur-
ers Association of York, Pa., President
of the Chamber of Commerce of York,
Pa., President of the Community Chest,
and as Director and trustee of the
Y.M.C.A.. the York Hospital and the
Y.W.C.A.
The octogenarian leaves four chil-
dren: Walter L. Bond, vice president,
Weaver Piano Co.; Urban S. Bond,
Mrs. Herbert M. Rehmeyer, and Mrs.
W. A. Pennington, a brother, Luther
Bond, two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Rosen-
field, and Mrs. Emma Lenhart, both of
this city; three grand-children and four
great-grand-children. He was an uncle
of Chauncey D. Bond.
Mr. Bond was a director and a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the
York Home Builders' Exchange, which
between 1920 and 1921 built 50 dwell-
ings as a community project when real
estate industry did not function because
of the high cost of construction. He
had been affiliated with the York Wel-
fare Federation for many years and
served as its treasurer and a member
of the executive committee some years
ago.
He was affiliated with the former As-
sociated Charities, later the Family
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Service Bureau, and was a director ot
the Salvation Army at one time.
During World War I he served as
WILLIAM S. BOND
president of the West Side branch oi
the American Red Cross.
Mr. Bond was the oldest member of
the local Y. M. C. A. His affiliation ex-
tended over a period of more than 62
years.
He was a member of Union Lutheran
Church and Sunday School, a former
superintendent of the latter for more
than 25 years and served as treasurer for
18 years.
He belonged to the York Rotary Club
and served as its delegate to the intet-
national convention at Edinburgh, Scot-
land, in 1921. He also was a member of
the Lafayette Club.
GEORGE H. SMITH
George Hulett Smith, 76, piano dealer
for more than 55 years and in Minot,
X. D., since 1924, died December 1st
in a Minot hospital.
Born at Faribault, Minn.. Feb. 18,
1874, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Smith. He married Frances May
Truax at Williston, Oct. 13, 1913. She
survives him as does a brother, Harry
Smith, in Minneapolis.
Active in the Masonic lodge, Mr.
Smith was a member of the Scottish
Rite, the Blue Lodge and Kem Temple
Shrine. He belonged to the United Com-
mercial Travelers, and had been a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church for more
than 30 years.
Funeral services were conducted in
the First Presbyterian church of Minol
by Rev. Jack L. Zerwas, the pastor.
Burial was at Hastings, Minn.
In Minot he operated his piano, sales
business from the Smith residence on
9th St. N. W., for many years. He also
did piano tunning, and had tuned pianos
for concerts in Minot of a number of
notable artists.
Pall bearers at the funeral were: C.
R. Verry, R E. Watterman, 0 . D. Gif-
ford, E. R. Walsh, George Magnusson.
Honorary Bearers: E. A. Nordstrom,
Harry Welliver, Dr. Willard Wall, Dr.
A. D. McCannell, Ivan Goheen, Dr. Leo
Devine, Dr. Orlando Boucher, L. A.
Corey, T. J. Mclhargey, Otto Gross, Cy
Haugen. 0. B. Herigstad.
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