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November 17, 1923
PRESTO
Canada, to conduct 5, 10 and 15 cent stores in that
city.
Vernon A. Runstrom has rejoined the piano sales
force of the Parkinson Piano House, Providence, R. I.
A. Shroyer, proprietor of the Shroyer Music Co.,
Significance of the Fact that the Call Comes from All
Mcthany, ,Mo., is conducting a big sale in Pattons-
burg, Mo., closing out the stock of the Royston
Over the Country.
Music Store, which he purchased a few weeks ago.
H. F. Cassell has opened a store in Storm Lake,
The orders for five carloads of pianos coming in
Iowa.
all in one day to the Estey offices in New York last
The Nelson Music Store, formerly located on Pros-
week indicate that the demand for these instruments
pect street, Bristol, Conn., has moved to a new store
is unusually strong.
on the Condon Tracy block, 120 Main street.
The most significant fact of these carload orders is
The Becker Music Co. recently opened a store at
that they come from every section of the country, one
carload going to the Far West, one to New England, $27 Euclid avenue, Belvedere, Cal.
two to the Middle West, and one to the South.
The B. L. Rich Co., of Fitchburg, Mass., has taken
All Estey travelers now on the road report business over a new store. Harry Wentworth is in charge.
conditions as very favorable, and look forward to a
The Hockett-Cowan Music Co. of Visalia, Cal., is
tremendous retail demand between now and the now located in its new home at the corner of West
holidays.
Main and Locust streets.
Frederick C. Witter has taken over the business of
H. L. Hughes on Michigan street, Storm Lake, Iowa.
Lyle K. Moore is owner of Moore's Music Store,
which recently opened in the building at 477 Bedford
road, Pleasantville, N. Y.
The Multner Piano Co. moved this week from the
Items of General Interest from Correspondents and
Olympia block, East Fifty-fifth street and Broadway,
Exchanges in Various Sections.
to Broadway and Cable avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Messkill Music Co. recently opened a new store
The Taylor Music Co. has taken a ten-year lease
on the Willott building on Reed street, Moberly, at 222 Massachusetts avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.
Mo., and will open a branch store there.
John Irey and Otto Hodgkinson are partners ni a
general merchandise and musical instrument store,
Music is included in the stock of L. N. Prevost,
Belleville, Kan.
Montreal, Canada, which has just been incorporated
in Montreal under provincial charter, with $20,000
capital stock.
, RAPS AT POPULAR TASTE.
Sedgwick & Casey, Hartford, Conn., has announced
"Woe to the nation that places 'Yes, We Have No
that the Sedgwick Concert Series for this year will
Bananas' above the psalms of David," said the Rev.
include recitals of Geraldine Farrar, Sergie Rach-
Duncan Cameron, pastor of the Congregational
maninoff and Fritz Kreisler.
Church of Detroit, Minn., in the annual sermon de-
livered before the Northern Pacific Association of
John G. Schuler, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., has taken on
a line of furniture as an additional department in the Congregational Churches in convention in Fergus
Falls, Minn., last week. He attacked movies as "cheap,
business.
Sheet music and small, musical accessories are trashy and often immoral entertainment," and said
that the movie censors were sadly in need of a course
among the principal lines of merchandise carried by
in decency.
the Hillmor Co., Ltd., incorporated in Montreal,
CARLOAD ORDERS INDICATE
DEMAND FOR ESTEY PIANOS
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