September, 1930
PRESTO-TIMES
ing to Los Angeles where his mother is now resid-
ing, but will return to Eagle Rock as a representative
of the Fitzgerald Co.
At the Knoxville, Iowa, County Fair the Belknap
Music House made a very interesting and diversified
exhibit, consisting mainly of Wurlitzer grand and up-
right pianos and Victor radios. The Kurtz Music
Shop exhibited th.c Spartan radio.
Brucken Radio Corporation, Evansville, Indiana,
capital stock. 50 shares, no par value; have and main-
tain offices within and without the state, to buy and
sell radio appliances and accessories. Antone J.
f
Brucken, Ernest L. Wilkerson, A. W. Brucken.
International Music. Inc., Cincinnati, 200 shares, no
orchestra that played at an entertainment in Sedalia. par value; John H. Druffel, Kay Hughes and Marie
Mader. John H. Druffel. 1514 First National Bank
Mo., last month. The instrument is the invention of
Building, Cincinnati.
Harold Buckley of Kansas City.
Radio Doctors, Inc., changed name to American
The Hunt-Gaskill & Co., 101 East Commerce street,
Radio & Television Stores of Illinois, Inc. Corres-
Bridgeton, Conn., is offering "some bargains in fine
pondent: Barancik & Dolin, 11 S. La Salle street,
used pianos and players."
Chicago.
The exports of mouth organs from Germany range
American Radio & Television Stores of Illinois,
from about 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 pieces annually.
Inc., changed name to Radio Doctors, Inc. Corres-
Manufacturers of violins, violas and 'cellos use hair pondent: Barancik & Dolin, 11 S. La Salle street,
from the tails of white horses for making bow strings, Chicago.
as they declare the hair of the white horse tail is the
The McLogan & Pierce Music Store, located in the
best material for this purpose.
Masonic Temple, Marquette, Mich., is known as the
The Kirk Furniture Co., 119 East Main street, Kent, music center in that part of the country. This house
Ohio, is conducting ?. sale of Wurlitzer pianos in that
features the leading manufacturers' brands of pianos
town.
in all styles, shapes and finishes which are recom-
Eugene D. Saunders, violin maker, whose shop is mended by the leading musicians of the country. They
at Cherry and Summit streets, Toledo, Ohio, says the are veterans in the music business and whatever ad-
secret of making a good violin is all in the varnish. vice or suggestion they may offer in your case you
The J. W. Jenkins Music Co. has opened a piano may fully depend upon.
store at 308 North Main street, Eureka, Kansas. J.
Marion Shoemaker of New Philadelphia, Ohio, has
E. Reger, from Wichita, and Charles Z. Asps, local taken the management of the Great Northern Piano
manager, are conducting the opening sales. Pianos
Co. at Mineral City, Ohio. Mr. Shoemaker is plan-
handled are the Steinway, Vose & Sons, Weber, ning to open branch stores at Carrollton and Millers-
Steck, Kurtzmann, Story & Clark, Kloman & Nord, burg, Ohio.
Elburn and the Duo-Art.
The Thompson Music Co., formerly located in the
The Palmer Music House, Medford, Ore., is hold-
Knapp building. Redwood Falls, Minn., has moved
ing a special sale of pianos.
to larger quarters on Mill street at Redwood Falls.
A successful piano sale is going on in the branch
The Levy Music Co., Inc., has been incorporated
store of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., 385 N. at Cleveland, Ohio; capital, $25,000. Incorporators
Walnut street, Grand Island, Nebr.
being Max Levy, A. J. and Joseph Levin.
The W. F. Frederick Piano Co., Uniontown, Pa.,
Arthur M. Johnson of Minneapolis is opening a
in a sale which it has just held, offered $50 allowance
music business in connection with the Hegstrom
for the customer's present ice-box or upright piano, Jewelry Store at Montevideo, Minn. Mr. Johnson was
regardless of its condition, on one of their Copeland
manager of music stores in the Twin Cities for the
electric refrigerators.
past six years and prior to that was instructor of band
Thos. Goggan & Bros., Broadway at Travis. San and orchestral instruments at the State College,
Antonio, Texas, say: "At Goggan's you get 'cer- Brookings, S. D., for four years.
tified' quality, musical merchandise built up to a
standard, not down to a price. And this means 'mon-
ey's worth and satisfaction.' ''
The final wind-up of the O. K. Houck Piano Co.'s
Al Taylor has opened a music shop at 105 North
"annual clearance of used and demonstrator pianos"
Harvey street, Oklahoma City, Okla., where he is
came last month.
selling Columbia records and phonographs and also
II. E. Mitchell, manager of Knight-Campbell's at
small musical instruments. Good business has fol-
Pueblo, Colo., heads one of the finest music stores in
lowed his opening.
that city, located in the Colorado Building.
The Munnell Music Co. is another new shop in
The Adams sheet music shop, 140 North Main
Oklahoma City, at 2614 South Robinson street. It is
street, Lima, Ohio, Harold B. Adams, proprietor, in a suburb, Capitol Hill, a prosperous district where
handles the best in sheet music, both American and
there is now but one music store. Munnell will handle
foreign publications.
new and used pianos, with a piano service department
The Lewis & Palmer Music House, DeKalb, 111., as a regular feature.
have had a successful "mid-summer bargain sale" of
The Norman Music Co. at Norman, Okla., is han-
"demonstration used pianos; chiefly instruments that dling many small instruments and selling them fast
have been used in our showrooms—all in perfect play- to students at the University of Oklahoma, situated
ing condition."
there.
The Waller Ratlin Co. is also selling phonographs
Lang Bros, 119 W. Washington street, South Bend,
Ind., are offering free music lessons with every sale, and other small instruments, including records, sheet
music and piano rolls and selling them well at Nor-
and find the offer a drawing card.
man.
Cooper Bros., New Kensington, Pa., known in that
The Botefuhr Music Co., Sapulpa, Okla., has been
section as "dispensers of happiness," have just closed
a special piano .-ale which resulted in many doing good business, selling many rolls and records in
its new store there.
sales. This sale was known as "Cancelled Export
Piano Sale." They say: "We sold a great numbe r
CHANGE AT KENTON, OHIO
of people who have been thinking of buying a piano
An important change in a well-known Keiiton.
for years—they came here—saw new pianos marked
Ohio, music house has recently taken place in the sale
down half-price—good high grade pianos and they
of the Albert Fink Music Company of that city to
purchased quickly."
W. A. North of Kenton and Dr. Boyd Rice of Belle-
McKee Music Company, Charleston, W. Va., are
fontaine, Ohio, a former resident of Kenton. The
making a special run, and with marked success, on
the new "Kohler & Campbell upright period model." Albert Fink Music Company store was established in
Kenton on May 7, 1910, and has been located in the
Mr. Baker is opening a Grinnell Bros, music store same block since that time. Albert Fink will continue
at Howell, Michigan, in the store formerly occupied
to devote his time to teaching instrumental music
by the Cutner jewelry store.
while the other partner, Ed Fink, is as yet undecided
Milleman Music Co., 568 Merchant street, Am-
on his future plans.
bridge. Pa., are offering 28 pianos for rent and the
rent to be applied as purchase. They say: "We ex-
COMPANIES UNITE AT MIAMI.
pect to have all these instruments delivered within a
Consolidation of the Chalmers Music Co. with the
short time, so please call as soon as possible. Our
Radio & Record Shop has taken place at Miami, Fla.,
piano department will be open evenings until 9 p. m." and Rovce Chalmers is head of the new organization.
Arnold Hatch, formerly of Hamburg, Iowa, has The company, to be known as the Chalmers Music
established a business at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
Co., Inc., has headquarters at 6 West Flagler street.
under the name Hatch Music Co.
H. A. Calkins, formerly head of the Radio & Record
Howard Lepe, who has been engaged in the radio
Shop, is the vice-president. Mr. Chalmers has been
business at Eagle Rock, Calif., has joined the Fitz- in business in Miami since 1920. He bought out the
gerald Music Company of Los Angeles. Howard
Miami Music Co. in 1923, and the Gourlie Music Co.
lived in Eagle Rock for about ten years, recently mov- in 1924.
TRADE_PICKUPS
New Firms, Changes, Incorporations, Personal News, Removals,
Piano Sales, Excerpts from Dealers' Advertisements,
and Other Bits of News
H. E. Gant, formerly factory representative of the
Baldwin Piano Co. at Denver, has bought a half-
interest in the Gilbert Music Co. of Alamosa, Colo.
The Schmidt Musio Co.'s store at 111-113 West
Third street, Davenport, Iowa, is being remodeled by
dividing the space into two separate stores, one of
which will be occupied by the Samuels Co., jewelers.
The music store will have virtually as much display
space as before the new arrangement.
Mrs. James Lashmett has opened a music studio
at Rushville, 111., for the study of piano and voice.
Stukenberg & Borchers, 19 to 25 West Main street,
Freeport, 111., are holding a closing out sale on pianos,
"No money down and three years to pay."
Theo. J. Miller & Sons, Dixon, 111., announce that
they have been appointed distributors of the com-
plete line of the pianos made by the Baldwin
Piano Co.
Lang Bros., 119 West Washington street, South
Bend, Ind., are doing a good business in apartment
grand pianos.
The McKee Music Co., 712 State street, Charleston,
W. Va., are just winding up a midsummer sale of
pianos.
Lewis & Palmer Music House, DeKalb, 111., has
just closed a sale of used pianos.
Coupons worth $25 were issued in advance of a
piano sale at the Baldwin Piano Store, 1602 Broad-
way, Mattoon, 111. The sale was a success.
The Kennedy-Detroit company, 743 Beaubien
street, Detroit, musical instruments, $25,000.
The Automatic Musical Instrument Co. has omit-
ted the regular quarterly dividend of 60 cents a share
on the no-par preferred stock due at this time.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President Theodore
Roosevelt, is chairman of the board of directors of
the Deep Bay Lumber Co., which is shipping 1,000,000
feet of Panama mahogany monthly from the Panama
coast to Baltimore.
The Schroeder Piano Co., of Pittsburgh, has just
opened a store on South Broad street. Grove City,
Pa. William Longacre, an experienced piano man, is
in charge of the new store.
The Morgan Music House, Keyport, N. J., has just
moved into its new store at 76 Broad street, that
town.
T. H. Nelson has opened a music store at Trenion-
ton, Utah.
The Lambeck Music Store, Beaver Dam, Wis., has
moved from 106 Park avenue to a new location on
South Center street, that city.
The Procter & Collier Co. and the Douglass M.
Allen Co., Cincinnati, advertising agencies, have beei'
merged. The Douglas M. Allen Co.'s clients include
such nationally known companies as the Baldwin
Piano Co. and the Crosley Radio Corp.
Milton F. Napier, an attorney and colonel on the
Missouri Governor's staff, last month was appointed
receiver for the St. Louis Music Supply Corp., 625
Locust street, St. Louis, by Circuit Judge Sprague.
Kmile Mayer and Arthur F. Sittner, officers of the
company, had asked that a receiver be appointed,
claiming that the concern was handicapped by insuffi-
cient capital and that the chief assets were sheet
music.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Ga., has been
awarded a final judgment for $37,691.66 against the
M. L. Price Music Co. in an order signed by Circuit
Judge Robles. The suit was based on alleged fail-
ure to pay promissory notes.
The Grand Piano Co.. located at 309 Jefferson
street, south, Roanoke, Va., advertises widely some
of the best makes of pianos. G. R. Hash is president
of the company and he has been selling pianos for 21
years.
Devendorfs Music Shop, 125 East Kearsley street,
Flint, Mich., offers to loan 21 pianos and player-
pianos, also a few grands, in homes in Flint and
nearby towns. The announcement says, "free; you
pay the cartage, and you may use them until we need
them, which will be an indefinite period."
The Outlet Co., Providence, R. I., is holding its
semi-annual clearance sale of reconditioned pianos.
A so-called Chinese fiddle, the principal parts of
which are a hat-rack, a guitar E string and a tone-
arm from a phonograph, was the fourth piece of an
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