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NEW INCORPORATIONS, FIRMS,
CHANGES, REORGANIZATIONS
The oldtinic Jacobs Music House of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, has been re-iricorporated under the name
Jacobs-VanSweringen Music House, Inc., with a
capital of one thousand shares no par value common
stock. The incorporators are George Jacobs, Sr.,
Howard H. VanSweringen, and George W. Jacobs, Jr.
Mr. Van Sweringen recently resigned as manager of
the Lyon & Healy piano department in Chicago.
Dahners Musical Instrument Co., Warren, Ohio,
which has been noted for many years as a school for
instruction in playing all lines of musical instruments,
has recently been incorporated to conduct an institu-
tion for preparing teachers of music for their work in
class instruction in public schools.
Devaignie Music Corporation, 443 S. Dearborn
street, Chicago. Capital, 200 shares no par value.
Deal in musical merchandise. Incorporators: Steve
K. Devaignie, Robert E. Harty and R. M. Clenden-
ning. Correspondent: Company.
Lewis Manne Butler, Inc., 54 W. Randolph street,
Chicago. Capital, $4,000. Deal in songs and sheet
music, etc. Incorporators: Eddie Lewis, Joe Manne,
Lew Butler and Leo Geiser. Correspondent: Berk-
son & Harrison, 10 S. La Salle street.
Devaignie Music Corp., 443 S. Dearborn street,
Chicago. Capital, 200 shares no par value. Deal in
merchandise. Incorporators: Steve K. Devaignie,
Robert E. Harty and R. M. Clendenning.
Joseph Peart of PDQ Radio Store, Zanesville, Ohio,
who came to Chicago some weeks ago to take a
course in the Majestic School of Salesmanship, was
much interested in his experiences with the Majestic
people in Chicago and, in fact, he was successful in
winning several awards for special merit in the School
of Salesmanship and was further honored by a free
trip home in a special Majestic aeroplane which trav-
eled from Chicago by way of Columbus, Ohio.
The Broadway-Sheridan Radio & Music Co, for-
merly located at 3832 Broadway, Chicago, announces
its removal to 4550 N. Clark street. J. W. Doyle, the
proprietor, is looking forward to a banner year in the
new location.
William G. Demuth, Ulrichsville, Ohio, has pur-
chased the music business of A. L. Barker and will
continue to handle a full line of musical instruments
and radios. This is a case of a radio man taking over
a music store.
A music store known as the Grand Piano Co. is
to be started at a location on Broad street, Johnson
City, Tenn.
Edward Bruer, of Champaign, 111., has accepted a
position with the Eschenbaum Music Store on Second
street. La Salle, 111. Besides being salesman Mr.
Bruer will give music lessons and in this way add to
the business of his new employers.
Young's Music Store, McAllen, Texas, recently held
open house in its newly remodelled building, enter-
taining hundreds of people who stopped to go through
the store. Roses were given as souvenirs, and Bill
Gartland rendered violin selections, accompanied by
Mrs. Paul Jones at the piano.
Schmoller & Mueller, of Omaha, Neb., are opening
a branch store at Scottsbluff, Neb.
Gate Ctiy, Va., has a new music store dealing in
Waltham pianos and styled Waltham Piano Co. The
location is the premises formerly occupied by the
Jessee Drug Store.
The Hafsoos Music House, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis.,
has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000
represented by 250 shares at a par value of $100 per
share. The incorporators are Eric S. Hafsoos, Roy
Hafsoos, Thomas Churchill, Mr. Churchill being an
attorney-at-law representing the incorporators.
Neal Dearing, a music dealer of Eldorado, Ark.,
was recently in Washington, D. C, where he appeared
before the Federal Radio Commission asking for
permission to build a radio station at Eldorado.
According to latest reports from Grand Haven,
Mich., the Story & Clark radios will be ready for
exhibition between now and the first of May. It is
expected to have a display ready for the spring radio
shows.
Among the principal creditors of the Burkham &
Stam Piano Co., of Wheeling, W. Va., which had lia-
bilities of about $302,000 and assets of about $200,000,
are the W. F. Frederick Piano Co. and the Frederick
Investment Co. with total claims of more than $200,-
000. Another large creditor in the music industries
is the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., with a claim
of $9,986.13.
The Music Shop at Lock Haven, Pa., owned by
Ellis B. Shaffer, has moved from Main street to the
Schwarz Building on Bellefonte avenue.
J. M. Browning and Charles House are opening a
music store in the Wooten Building at Pierce City,
Mo.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. has purchased the
Youngstown Music Co., 110 East Federal street,
Youngstown, Ohio. C. G. Lydrickson, for the past
The
M. SCHULZ
CO.
Piano enjoys a
Popularity That
is Unfailing.
April, 1930
four years president of the Youngstown Music Co.,
will be general manager of the Wurlitzer interests in
Youngstown.
Fifty violins were destroyed in a lire on March 30
when names attached the workshop of the Whitman
Violin Co., 124 Second street, Milwaukee, Wis.
The J. F. Lamb Piano Co. of Cairo, 111., has applied
to the federal radio commission for authority to erect
a new fifty-watt station for its radio service.
The stock and equipment of Speck's Music Shop,
Harbor Springs, Mich., are now housed with the
James Reid Furniture Co., Petoskey, Mich.
A writ of attachment on the bank account of Mine.
Ganna Walska, opera singer and wife of Harold F.
McCormick of Chicago, for $1,453, alleged to be due
the Musical Courier, was served on a New York bank
on March 14. The Courier seems to be lucky to have
a bill of that size to present.
The S. W. Miller Piano Company which has been
manufacturing pianos for some years past at Sheboy-
gan, Wis., has just filed a petition in bankruptcy show-
ing liabilities of $29,000 and assets $19,000.
E. W. Furbush, long known to the world as a piano
man, when last heard of was enjoying himself at
Hot Springs, Ark. C. A. Smith, former piano manu-
facturer, returned to Chicago at the end of last
month from Hot Springs.
The Kelly Music Co., which operates stores in Los
Angeles and Hollywood, Calif., has opened a music
store in Westwood Village near Los Angeles.
NEW STORE AT SAN ANTONIO.
Graceful in Style, Rich
in Tone, Reasonable in
Price, and Every Instru-
ment Made with a Final
Touch of Quality.
When you see This
Piano you will Want
the Agency for it. Every
Instrument Made in the
Reliable M. Schulz Co.
way.
Address the
M. Schul z
Company
711 Milwaukee
Avenue
Chicago, 111.
The Carter Music Co., a 53-year-old Texas institu-
tion, on March 10 opened the Carter Music Co. of
San Antonio at 222 West Commerce street, San
Antonio, Texas. W. Henry Carter is president and
general manager of the new company, which is com-
posed entirely of San Antonio people. The Carter
Music Company was established in 1877 by J. W.
Carter, who is still the head of the company at 79
years of age. His eldest son, J. R. Carter, is vice-
president and general manager. Besides the son,
W. Henry Carter, who heads the San Antonio store,
two grandsons, Henry Carter, Jr., and James Carter
III., are in the business. Where the volume of busi-
ness in the first years of the company's history was
around 20 pianos a year, approximately 1,000 pianos
and as many Victrolas are now sold each year, Mr.
Carter said.
STAGING A BIG SALE.
John Goulds, proprietor for the Home Outfitting
Company, Indianapolis, hid., commenting on the
increased sales of radios and other musical instru-
ments, says that he looks for greater activity in all
lines of business because of improvement in employ-
ment conditions. The Home Company, which has
supplied all of the radios given away at the Lincoln
Park theater in their weekly drawings, is staging a
gigantic sale.
SAN ANGELO SERVICE SHOP.
A repair shop for musical instruments has been
opened at San Angelo, Texas, by G. J. Kane, and it is
to be in charge of his brother, Thomas Kane, from
Indianapolis. The Kane establishment in San Angelo
is agent for the Selmer, Buffet, Conn, York and King
instruments. Mr. Kane is also organizing bands in
different parts of the city.
RARE OLD VIOLINS SOLD.
A very fine Stradivarius, its label bearing the name
of the great master luthier of Cremona, and the date,
1716, seen in a small group of rare old violins and
a violoncello, the property of the estate of the late
Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, was sold at the American
Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., 30 East
57th street, New York, in the same evening session,
April 10, as the paintings, also the property of the
estate of the late Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer. Besides the
Stradivarius, there were two other antique violins, the
work of Giovani Baptista Rogerius, the Brescian
(1650-1730), and their labels bear the dates of 1699
and 1701 respectively. Both Stradivarius and Rogerius
were pupils of the old master luthier, Nicolai Amati.
There was also a fine old violoncello in the group, by
Giacomo Pietro Rogeri, also of Brescia (1680 to after
1730). These four instruments are all authenticated
and described by Jay C. Freeman, of the Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co. Photographs and certificates went
with them to the successful bidders.
SEVEN YEARS OF ATWATER KENT.
Atwater Kent's radio plant at Germantown on the
outskirts of Philadelphia is referred to in the latest
advertising of the company as follows: "Atwater
Kent radio is nearly seven years old. For twenty
years before radio came we were making electrical
instruments by methods of precision. Every Atwater
Kent set is the product of long experience in making
tilings that work and keep on working. The public's
liking for such things has compelled us to double the
size of our factory; now its floor space covers thirty-
two acres. This is a greater area than would be
covered by twenty-eight football fields."
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