November 3, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
Jenkins, Whitney, Porter, Fay & Egan, Baldwin,
Jackson & Church, Billstrom, Curtis, Jones, Coneaut,
South Bend, Lodge & Davis, Kempsmith, Robinson,
Warner & Swasey, Ames, over 100 Motors all A. C
60 Cycle 220 Volt up to 50 H.P., standard makes.
The property will be offered for sale in various
divisions, to wit, land and buildings as Parcel A,
machinery and equipment Parcel B, inventory Parcel
C, lumber Parcel D, and office furniture and fixtures
Parcel E, as well as in its entirety.
Hummel to Receive Bids.
Bids will be received at the office of the under-
signed until 9:30 a. m. Thursday, November 8, 1928,
and will be reported for approval at 11 a. m. of the
same day to the Honorable Harry A. Parkin, Referee
in Bankruptcy, in his Court Room, 620 Home Insur-
ance Building, 137 South LaSalle street, Chicago, Illi-
nois. Bids must be accompanied by a certified check
for not less than twenty-five per cent of the amount
offered.
The Real Estate Described.
Commencing at a point 315.55 feet south of the
northwest corner of the southwest quarter of said
Section 4, thence east along the south line of Wiley
avenue in the City of Bluffton, to the west rail of the
siding of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad
Company, a distance of 539^4 feet, thence southwest-
erly on a curve along said west rail of siding to the
west line of said quarter section, thence north on the
west line of said quarter section a distance of 866.66
feet to the place of beginning, containing 6.45 acres
of land.
Also part of the southwest quarter of Section 4.
Township 26 North, Range 12 East, bounded as fol-
lows, to wit:
Commencing at the northwest corner of the south-
west quarter of said Section 4, thence east on the half
section line 382 feet to the center of Baldwin street
in the City of Bluffton, thence south on the center
line of said Baldwin street, if extended, 269.84 feet
to the north line of Wiley avenue, in the city of
Bluffton, thence west on the north line of said Wiley
avenue 377.81 feet to the west line of Section 4,
thence north on said section line 225.63 feet to the
place of beginning, containing 2.29 acres more or less,
together with all rights, privileges and appurtenances,
etc.
Lots numbered 12, 13, 14 and 15 as known and
designated on the recorded Plat of Adams and Deam's
Addition to the town (now city) of Bluffton.
Also the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter
of Section 5, Township 26 North, Range 12 East, and
Lot number 43 as known as designated on the Re-
corded Plat of Studebaker, Todd and Sale's Colum-
bian Addition to the Town (now City) of Bluffton,
except therefrom the following tract of land, to wit:
Commencing at the southeast corner of the northeast
quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 5. Town-
ship 26 North, Range 12 East, thence west 150 feet,
thence north to a point on the center line of an alley
between Washington and Market streets, in the City
of Bluffton, if extended, thence east 150 feet to the
east line of said Section 5, thence south to the place
of beginning, containing 55-100 of an acre more or
less; also except therefrom, all that part of Section 4,
Township and Range aforesaid, lying between the
above described tract of real estate and Bond street in
said City of Bluffton, being a part of lot number 43,
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
H. C. BAY CO. PLANT
Bids for Whole or Part of Property Will Be
Received by the Trustee, Fred E. Hummel,
Until 9:30 a. m. November 8, at His
Chicago Office.
An inventory of everything on hand at the H. C.
Bay Company's plant at Bluffton, Ind., has been
taken and a general sale has been set for November 8.
From Fred E. Hummel, the trustee, 1321 Bankers'
Building, 105 West Adams street, Chicago, the fol-
lowing information was obtained:
Real Estate and Buildings.
The property includes about 10 acres of land located
on South Bond street and West Wiley avenue, im-
proved with 11 brick buildings 2 and 3 stories high,
having a combined floor space of 350,000 square feet,
constituting all building necessary to a complete piano
manufacturing plant, such as machine shop, glue
building, cabinet case building, stock room, plate
rooms, storage house, engine and boiler houses, etc.
The buildings are also equipped with two 500 h.p.
Kingsford Webster Water Tube Boilers with Huber
hand stokers, two 4-valve Non-releasing Corliss
engines with General Electric motors, two heating
boilers, and a new 150-ft. smoke stack.
The Trustee will also offer for sale approximately
40 acres of land adjoining the city of Bluffton im-
proved with two residences and other out-buildings.
Well-Equipped Plant.
This is one of the finest equipped piano plants in
the West, having an annual capacity of 31,000 pianos.
The stock consists of finished and pianos in
process, piano players, cabinet grands, reproducers,
baby grands, piano cases, radio cabinets, piano and
reproducing actions, keyboards, sounding boards,
scales, standard piano hardware and accessories,
screws, nuts, bolts, machine screws, tacks, core and
piano wire, spring wire, steel brass and copper tub-
ing, flat and rod stock, cold rolled and Bessemer
rods, glue, paints, oils, enamels, varnish, lacquers,
colors in oil, etc.
Large Stock of Lumber.
There is also an enormous stock of high-grade lum-
ber in maple, poplar, elm, chestnut, pine, spruce, gum,
sycamore, shiplap, panels and veneers; a completely
equipped wood and metal working plant which can
be adapted to any kindred line and is equipped with
the most modern machinery mostly all direct motor
driven, and consists of trim, double cut off, cross
cut, resaw, band, variety swing cut off, Dado saws,
stickers, shapers, joiners, facers, Sanders, planers,
mortisers, rubbers, tenoners, sprayers, multiple bor-
ing and drilling machines, tappers, belt sanders, auto-
matic and turning lathes, knurlers, glue mixers, glue
presses, veneer machinery, punch presses, lathes, mill-
ing machines, iron shapers, buffers, plating equipment,
air compressors, drill presses, slotters, coil winders,
all made by the standard manufacturers such as Mat-
teson. Black Bros., Solem, Woods, Greenleaf, Royal,
BEN REYNOLDS & CO.
HAS BUILDING PLANS
Progressive Washington, Pa., Music House,
Established Twenty-eight Years Ago,
to Build Addition.
Ben Reynolds & Co., Washington, Pa., is giving
the best evidence of success and its faith in the future
by letting a contract for the construction of a modern
two-story building especially designed for the proper
display of musical merchandise. The front of this
building as shown will be of limestone with bronze
trimmings, using three display windows, two on the
ground floor and one on the second floor. The inte-
rior will be one large room with space arranged in
a fitting manner for the display of pianos, Victrolas,
radios, small instruments, records and the like.
The company has been in the present location for
over twenty-eight years, and since the beginning has
from time to time made improvements in its store
rooms to care for the continually increasing business.
The line carried by the progressive Pennsylvania
music dealer includes the Mason & Hamlin, Knabe,
Chickering, J. & C. Fischer, Marshall & Wendell,
Armstrong and the Ampico, and other instruments
in the varied line of the American Piano Co. In addi-
tion the company carries phonographs, radios, and
phonograph-radio combinations, band instruments,
small goods and sheet music.
Ben Reynolds, the proprietor of Ben Reynolds &
Company, had worked for many years in and around
Washington for the C. A. House Company, now of
Wheeling, and Chas. M. Stieff, piano manufacturers
of Baltimore, Md., before embarking in his own busi-
ness. He entered the business for himself in July,
1900, in a room on West Chestnut street, and in a
few months moved to the present location at 116-118
North Main street.
W r ork on the new building is being rushed, and
the contractor expects to complete it by the middle
of November. The popular music house is doing
business just as usual while reconstruction is go-
ing on.
Hart's Music Store, Fremont, Ohio, is holding a
"Closing Out" sale and announces that it is "going
out of business."
Studebaker, Todd and Sale's Columbian Addition to
the said City of Bluffton.
The said petition will come on for hearing at Room
620, 137 North LaSalle street, Chicago, Illinois, on
November 8, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
An Auction as Alternative.
In the event that no satisfactory bid is received,
the assets described will be sold at public auction
without further notice. They may be inspected, and
a copy of the inventory may be had upon application
to the undersigned.
This notice will admit you to examine the assets
at the above address.
FRED E. HUMMEL,
Michael Gesas, and Donald L. Smith,
Trustee.
Attorneys for Trustee.
JACOB BROS. CO.
Manufacturers of "Pianos of Quality
Established 1878
We have a financing proposition worthy
of vour investigation.
JACOB BROS. CO.
3O6 East 133rd St.
NEW YORK
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