Presto

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December 11, 1920.
FIELD NOW OPEN FOR SALESMAN S. CLAUS
MARTIN WEICK, UNDER A CLOUD,
DISAPPEARS FROM CHICAGO
R. Graul Piano Co., Cincinnati, are C. L .McGovern
and J. N. Yoakley.
Omar E. Westerfield is a new representative in
Greenville, O., for the A. B. Chase piano.
E. E. Gabriel, formerly head of sales for the Small Instrument Case-Maker Suspected by Fed-
Interesting Items Tell of the Activities of Busy Folk Wiley B. Allen Co., Portland, Ore., is now in Lon-
eral Agents of Anti-Government Activity.
don, Eng.
Who Find Ultimate Consumers.
The former factory of Martin Wekk, 1623 South
J. M. Howard, who recently assumed the position
Ashland avenue, Chicago, is no longer devoted to
CABLE
TOLEDO
STORE
BURNS.
•of manager of the Oregon Eilers Music house, Port-
A dispatch was received at The Cable Company's producing cases for small musical instruments as
land, Ore., has resigned his position.
it was a year ago. The place is now an athletic
headquarters
in Chicago on Thursday morning of
Ray R. Rugg is the new manager of the player-
club where young men hold forth in stunts of
this
week
saying
that
the
Cable
Piano
Company's
piano department of Sherman, Clay & Co., San
store in Toledo, Ohio, was on fire and that it looked strength and grace. And Martin Weick, it is re-
Francisco.
like a bad fire. The dispatch was brief, and as the ported, left the city some time ago, without leaving
Byron Mauzy, San Francisco, was a delegate to fire was raging at the time no estimate of the any address, as he fears the action of Uncle Sam;
the National Citizens Conference on Education held amount of the loss could be given. It will probably for, it is asserted, Federal officers found a great
in Sacramento, Cal., on December 6.
quantity of Bolshevist and German propaganda
be large, as the Cable Piano Company's store in
J. Francis Quinn is the new general manager of
Toledo was well stocked with pianos, playerpianos against the U. S. government in printed matter in
Mr. Weick's cellar.
the four Wallace Brown stores in Detroit.
and other musical instruments.
Jay Grinnell, sales manager for Grinnell Bros.,
' : What became of his sons, who were working for
Detroit, has been elected member of the publicity
him in the factory?" asked Presto's representative
SEATTLE DEALER DIES.
committtee of the Retail Merchants' Bureau.
of the young man at the club.
Harold Hoyer is now sole owner of the Hoyer-
William Martins, aged seventy-two years, presi-
"Those boys were not his sons," replied the young
Pixley Music Co., Centralia, la.
dent of \\\z William Martins Music House, Seattle, man. "Weick only pretended they were his sons
E. H. Hart, formerly with Barker Bros., Los An- Wash., died last week on board the steamship Rot- so that he would get a good standing in the com-
geles, Cal., is now manager for the roll and record terdam on his return from a trip abroad. Mr. Mar- munity. Anybody who has a bill to collect from
department of Wolfe Music Co., Cleveland, O.
tins was born in Germany and first settled in Denver
Mr. Weick will have a time getting his money, I
Two new men with the sales force of the William as a teacher of music.
should judge."
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