September 9, 1916 



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 you go straight to headquarters— THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



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1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Obituary 



H. B. Denker. 

 Capt. H. B. Denker, father of Edwin 

 Denker, well-known St. Charles, Mo., 

 florist, and former mayor of St. Charles, 

 died last week at the age of 77 years. 

 Mr. Denker had been sick a long time. 

 Many friends in the trade sent sympa- 

 thy to the bereaved family. The honiu 

 was completely filled with flowers. 



Mrs. Frederick Heeremans. 



Mrs. Frederick Heeremans, 33 years 

 of age, died on the morning of Sept. 

 4 at her Elmcourt residence in Leno.x. 

 after an illness of four years. Mrs. 

 Heeremans was born in Moosejaw, 

 Can., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. 

 Weston. She was educated in the 

 public schools in Lee and was united 

 in marriage to Frederick Heeremans. 

 superintendent of the Elmcourt es- 

 tate in Lenox, 11 years ago. She is 

 survived by her husband and two chil- 

 dren, William H. and Edith, and her 

 parents, also four sisters. The fun- 

 eral was held from the Trinity church 

 in Lenox on Wednesday. Mr. Heere- 

 mans and the family liave the sym- 

 pathy of a very wide circle of friends, 

 who attested their friendship and re- 

 spect for the departed by attending 

 the funeral in large numbers. 



ST. LOUIS. 

 Raymond Welty, late in the employ 

 of C. A. Kuehn is now with the St. 

 Louis Wholesale Cut Flower Co. 



Adolph Steidel has left the employ 

 at Vandevoort's floral department and 

 joined the force of F. H. Weber. .John- 

 nie Burke has taken the position va- 

 cated by Mr. Steidel. 



Adolph Jaenicke has left the How- 

 ard estate as gardener and with his 

 family has gone to Colorado Springs, 

 Col., to enter the employ of the Pen- 

 rose estate as head gardener. 



New Dablia Albert Maiula. 



Ayers Floral Co., was married last 

 week to Miss Ella Weber. Miss Weber 

 is a niece of Fred C. Weber and for- 

 merly in his employ at the time Mr. 

 Strohmeyer was also employed there. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Post Falls, Idaho — W. S. VanDoren 

 has sold his greenhouses to F. R. Mc- 

 Cormick. 



Newport, R. I. — Mr. and Mrs. James 

 McLeish are preparing to celebrate 

 their fiftieth wedding anniversary on 

 November 12, 1916. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Seattle, Wash.— Puget Sound Bulb 

 Xurseries, capital stock $30,000. 



New York, N. Y. — American Seed 

 Tape Co., 134 West 13th street, capital 

 stock .$.')00.000. Incorporators: G. A. 

 Mead. A. J. Case and H. E. Monahan. 



Des Moines, la.— Pratt Greenhouse 

 Co., capital stock $25,000. Incorpor- 

 ators: L. W. and B. E. Pratt and A. E. 

 Minetor. 



Philadelphia — The 1 P. M. closing 

 on Saturdays has been extended by 

 the Pennock-Meehan Co. to Sept. 9th. 

 This applies also to the 5 P. M. daily 

 rule of July and August. 



Fred Strohmeyer, manager for the 



John Merkel, of Mentor. Ohio, and 

 Miss Kate Kunze. of Brooklyn. N. Y., 

 were married in Brooklyn on Septem- 

 ber 6. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Clyde, O.— Clyde Floral Co. liabil- 

 ities $1,981.2-5. 



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