June, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
etc.; $5,000 or 50 shares at $100 each. Wm. H. Thom-
men, H. W. Bolcns, Geo. Brickbauer, H. W. Bolens.
Ed. J. Cabana, radio and piano salesman, has
joined the staff of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano
Co at its Sioux City store.
The Abelowitz Phonograph Co., Inc., 1353 St.
Nicholas avenue, New York, has assigned to Nathaniel
Ottensoser, 350 West 88th street, that city.
Broadway Radio Shoppe, Inc., Louisville, Ky.;
$1,000; Louis Garon, Sidney Ran and Sidney D.
Handmaker.
The Midwest Music Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. Con-
duct a music mart; act as brokers in hiring orches-
tras, bands, singers, etc.; $2,000 or 20 shares at $100
each. Francis J., Chas. B. and Leona Nowak. Rud J.
Mudroch, attorney, 610 Empire Bldg., 106 West Water
street, Milwaukee.
Carre Musical College Inc.; Racine, Wis. Encour-
age and teach art and science of music. 100 shares
no par value. Jno. F. Carre, Margaret Carre and
Arthur J. Eaton. L. D. Potter, attorney, 422 Arcade
building, Racine, Wis.
Bush & Lane Piano Co.; Holland, Mich.; 133,000
shares no par value; pianos and radios.
Zenith Radio Distributing Corp., 120 S. La Salle
street, Chicago. Capital, $10,000. To manufacture
and deal in electric refrigerators and other electric
apparatus.
Tncorporators: Irving Herriott, Yera
Hammer and Allan A. Klove. Correspondent, Mont-
gomery, Hart, Pritchard & Herriott, 120 S. La Salle
street.
Wardle Radio Laboratories, Inc., 526 Duane street,
Glen Ellyn, 111. Capital, 50 shares non par value.
Deal in radios and furniture. Incorporators, G. K.
Wardle, H. J. Wettrou, Robert J. Scott.
FIRM NAME CHANGED.
The name of the Jesse French and Sons Piano Co.
of Alabama was changed to Jesse French Sons, Inc.,
in a charter amendment filed in the county probate
office at Montgomery, Ala., last month. An issue of
8,000 shares • of common capital stock, with a par
value of $25 was also authorized by the board of
directors.
ERIE CORP'S ELECTION.
The Erie Music Corp., Erie, Pa., has just elected
C. C. Felton, president and treasurer; F. L. Camp,
vice-president, and E. B. Felton, secretary. It has the
agency for the C. G. Conn, Ltd., line of band instru-
ments and the H. A. Selmer instruments. Its new
store is at 25 East 9th street and it has the distributing
agency for eight counties in Pennsylvania and two in
Ohio.
PROGRESS OF BUSH & LANE.
The Bush & Lane Piano Co., Holland, Mich., the
sale and reorganization of which was reported in the
last issue of Presto-Times, is continuing its business
actively under its new management. Arthur A.
Morris, who for many years was manager of the Bush
& Lane store in Detroit, is the new president of the
company and C. L. Beach is the secretary. Both men
are familiar with the Bush & Lane operations for
many years and therefore business with this old piano
house is going right along under their stimulation.
MONEY SPENT IN VACATIONS.
The vacation habit furnishes the basis for business
services that amount to three billion dollars a year in
the Limited States, according to Scrutator in the Chi-
cago Tribune. That figure was recently quoted as
reasonably authoritative by the assistant secretary of
commerce.
TWINS AND TONES.
The twins were very much alike, but their father,
a piano tuner, had an excellent method of identifying
them.
He explained he could tell the difference between
them even in the dark. The method was to pinch
them.
"But," cried his friend, "that would make them
cry."
"Precisely," replied the father; "that is the idea.
This one is evidently Billy; he cries in high C. While
this"—he pinches the other—"is James. He is always
a semitone lower."—Chicago Daily News.
Alexander McDonald has resigned as advertising
manager of Sohmer & Co., piano manufacturers at
31 West 57th street, New York. He expects to an-
nounce his plans for the future before long.
Fire caused a loss of $30,000 at the M. L. Price
Music Co.'s warehouse, 520 Tampa street, Baltimore,
Md., on May 1.
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at his home in Brattlehoro, Vt. Col. Estey was the
president of the Estey Organ Co., known for many
years in the manufacture of pipe organs.
J. C. Sovey, aged 67, old-time minstrel and maker
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Nahan Franko, orchestra leader, violinist and for-
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street, New York, composer, conductor and music
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city, after failing to rally from an operation.
Mme. Nineh Romaine. of Toledo, Ohio, interna-
tionally famous pianist, died on May 2 of smallpox
in Spinagar, Kasmir, India. She was on a world
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