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PRESTO-TIMES
December 22, 1928
SUCCESSFUL TOURNAMENT
IN MUSIC SCHOOL
STRAUBE PIANOS FOR GARY SCHOOLS
Erdal Musical College, Chicago, Holds Com-
petition for Their Classes of Ambi-
tous Young Musicians.
It is of extreme interest to learn that one of the
music schools in Chicago has conducted a music tour-
nament in its community as an encouragement to
children. The institution is the Erdal Musical Col-
lege, located at 6969 Grand avenue. Three classes of
musicians have heen in competition, comprising voice,
violin and piano. Medals were given the winners
and the finals werep laved at the Rutherford-Sayre
Field House, on a Gulhransen grand piano.
In the piano group the winners were Fannie Yoelin,
Roslyn Syrlin and Madeline Nitta. In the violin
group the winners were Helen Stumpfel, Vitant Gals-
kis and Caryl Baylis. In the voice competition the
winners were Nettie Heck and Herman lllesh.
This competition naturally stirred up a good deal
of interest in the Montclair district and two days
after its close an artists' recital was given, also at
the Rutherford-Sayre Field House, by the Frdal in-
stitution. The Gulbransen piano was used to offer
these numbers. Miss Tillie Thorp and Miss Myrtle
Heck, pupils of Josephine Anderson, and Miss Fannie
Yoelin, pupil of Mrs. Conley, head of the Erdal
Musical College, were on the program. Also there
were pupils by Prof. John Dewar, dancing teacher
now connected with the Erdal College. The dancers
were Miss Ruth Freeman, Katherine Banks and
James Jamieson.
FROM EDWARD H. STORY
E H. Story, president of Story & Clark, and family
sends a seasonable reminder to friends that exhibits
his taste and originality: The card, which bore the
following hand-engrossed text was beautifully printed
in colors suggestive of the Yule season:
THE SCHOOLS OF GARY,
1X1)., E Q U I P P E D
WITH
STRAUBE PIANOS, AND M. E.
SNYDER, THE SUPERVISOR.
OF MUSIC, JUSTLY CREDIT-
ED WTTH MUSICAL PROG-
RESS IN THE INDIANA CITY.
The public schools of Gary, Tud., pictured in the
accompanying cut are all equipped with Straube
pianos made by the Straube Piano Co., Hammond,
Jnd. The small cut shows the alert face of M. E.
Snyder, supervisor of husic in the progressive school
system of the famous steel town. A full story of
the efforts to make Gary more musical is printed on
page 6 of this issue.
and musical instruments generally at 401 West Broad-
way, that town. V. N. and A. M. McCumber are
among the incorporators.
The Chandler Piano Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
has reduced its capital stock from $45,000 to $10,000.
The J. B. Bradford Piano Company, 411 Broadway,
Milwaukee, Wis., has leased the second and third
floors of the Wm. A. Kami Music Company Building
at 90 East Wisconsin avenue
HOLIDAY BUSINESS
GOOD IN DENVER, COLO.
NOTICE TO H. C. BAY CREDITORS.
presents tf)at
Ofrrace
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The Musical Supply Association of America has
issued the following: "You undoubtedly have re-
ceived a notice of a meeting of creditors in the mat-
ter of the Ff. C. Bay Company, bankrupt, to be held
on December 18, for the purpose of passing upon cer-
tain applications, including a fee from the attorneys
for one of the creditors of $8,000. You filed your
claim in this bankruptcy through us and asked us to
represent you, which is the reason why we are noti-
fying you that we are having a representative appear
at this meeting to oppose the amount of the above
mentioned fee, which we think is altogether too
h : gh."
AT OLIVER DITSON & CO.
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Presto-Times' correspondent found some very in-
telligent and highly experienced people at work in
the Oliver Ditson & Co. advertising department, Bos-
ton, on Saturday of last week. Miss Caroline Bow-
ers, who handles the preparation of much advertising
"copy," is courteous and off-hand, as much unlike the
mid-westerner's conception of Bostonian as is the
Bostonese conception of Chicago with a mental pic-
ture of every man buckling on a revolver before
starting for his work. W. A. Fisher, advertising man-
ager, and David C. King, publicity manager, are men
it is a pleasure to meet.
DANA POND RETURNS TO EUROPE.
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NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Muiic Field.
L. A. Wilkinson, proprietor of the Fresno Piano
Company, has opened a reta : l warerooms at 2133
Kern street, Fresno, Calif. Mr. Wilkinson also con-
ducts stores in Oakland and Spokane, Wash.
The Baldwin Piano Company has leased the build-
ing at 1111-13 Olive street, St. Louis. Mo., for a long
period. The building is of five stories.
The Famous Music Stores, Passaic, N. J., will open
a new music store at 627 Main avenue, where a com-
plete line of music instruments will be carried.
McCumber's Inc., Fulton. N. Y., has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $10,000 to deal in pianos
Dana Pond, the well-known international artist,
brother of C. H. Pond and Shepard Pond of the
Ivers & Pond Piano Company, terminated his annual
visit to Boston, December 29, sailing on the steam-
ship New York of the Hamburg-American Line for
Europe. He returned to his studio in Paris where
he has painted many portraits of leaders of American
and European society during the decade following
the war.
GREETINGS FROM WALTER
KIEHN.
Walter Kiehn, advertising manager for the Gul-
bransen Company, Chicago, shows his originiality
and inventiveness even in his soc'al obligations. A
Christmas greeting to Presto-Times from Mr. Kiehn,
to hand, shows an artistic pen-and-ink sketch of the
doorway of his residence, the distinguishing mark of
which is the door plate wh ; ch bears the legend, "920-
Kiehn." It illustrates the verse "On the Threshold."
Pianos and Other Instruments Favored by
Shoppers in Wide Area in State and
Denver Gives Reports.
Musical instrument merchants of the Denver dis-
trict have enjoyed a very good holiday business.
All kinds of musical instruments were purchased this
year for Christmas presents. Not only was the hol-
iday bus : ness good, but the outlook for the coming
months of the new year is bright. Musical instru-
ment men in predicting good business ahead base
their predictions on the fact that business in general
is good in Denver and other parts of Colorado at
this time with plenty of money in circulation.
Final payment of $9,305,900 on the 1928 sugar beet
crop was made during the past week to farmers of
the state by the Great Western Sugar Company. It
brought to nearly 24 million dollars the total amount
paid growers in Colorado, Nebraska, Montana and
Wyoming in a period of two months. Of this sum
approximately 14 and one-half millions was received
by Colorado farmers. This is but one of the many
reasons why business is good in Colorado and why
the outlook is good for 1929. Musical instrument
dealers in Denver are making ready to care for a big
1929 business.
Dan A. Packard Elected.
Dan A. Packard of the Knight-Campbell Music
Company, Denver, was elected president of the Col-
orado Radio Trades Association at its annual meet-
ing in the Colbnrn Hotel, Denver, one night during
the past week. Orval Peterson of the Columbia
Stores Company, is the retiring president of the or-
ganization. Through his work during the past year
the organization has made good progress. During
the regular business of the association at the meet-
ing the newly organized Pueblo Radio Dealers' Asso-
ciation, Pueblo, Colo., was admitted to membership.
Frank Darrow, president of the Darrow Music
Company, Denver, reports business good at this time
and says it is going to be just as good, if not better,
during the coming months of 1929. The Darrow
people featured a solid car of Schiller player pianos
during its holiday advertising with good results.
Moves in Loveland.
The E. E. Policy & Co. store recently moved to its,
new home at 414 Cleveland avenue, Eoveland, Colo ,
in the new First National Bank Building. Chas.
Hauge is manager of the Loveland store, which is a
branch of E. E. Polley & Co., Fort Collins, Colo.
The Knight-Campbell Music Company during the
holidays secured the use of the windows of a vacant
store next to their building and in them displayed all
manner of smaller musical instruments, which were
featured as ideal Christmas gifts.
Russell Wells of the C. E. Wells Music Company,
Denver, states that the Christmas business is very
good and that a large number of pianos have been
sold for Christmas.
NEW CONN REPRESENTATIVE.
The Music Shop has been opened in Oelwein, la.,
by John Jenney, a factory representative of C. G.
Conn , Inc., and will be managed by Mrs. John Jen-
ney. The store will feature C. G. Conn band instru-
ments and other musical goods and will be operated
as a branch of the Babbit-Jenney Music Co. of Cedar
E. C. Hunt is manager of the Baldwin Piano Co.,
Rapids, la.
Hartford City, Ind.
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