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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1911. 



aVBBEB GOODS AKD TRADING ST A UPS. 



The Green Trading Stamp has at last invaded the rubber 

 business. According to Spcrry & Hutchinson's "List of Tokens" 

 certain companies give with purchases of their goods "Hamilton 

 Bonds and Coupons." These in turn are exchanged for Green 

 Trading Stamps. The list as far as the rubber trade goes is: 



Canfield Dress Sliields, 1 stamp for 2 coupons. 



Omo Dress Shield, 1 stamp for 2 coupons. 



Great American Standard Chewing Gum, 1 stamp for 12 

 wrappers. 



Badgley's Rubber Heels, 1 stamp for 1 ten-cent lianiilton 

 Coupon. 



Now that the thin edge of the wedge has entered it will not 

 be long before buyers of elevator belting, deckel straps and 

 suction hose will be carrying stamp books. 



WALPOLE BUBBEK CO.— DIVIDEND. 



The Walpole Rubber Company, Walpole, Mass.. have re- 

 cently declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1)4 per cent. 

 on their preferred and 1 per cent, on llitir common stock. 



TTNITED STATES HUBBER COMPANY— DIVIDEND. 



The United States Rubber Co., New York, declared on July 

 6, regular quarterly dividends of 2 per cent, on the first pre- 

 ferred and I'i per cent, on the second preferred stocks. 



CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED RUBBER CO., LIMITED— DIVIDEND. 



The regular dividends of 1J4 pcr cent, on the preferred and 

 1 per cent, on the common stock of the above company were 

 paid July 3. 



NEW SOUTH BEND (IND.) RUBBER FACTORY. 



The South Bend Tire and Rubber Co., of South Bend, 

 Indianapolis, recently financed by Akron and Mansfield men, 

 claim that they will employ from 200 to 300 men at the start. 

 The directors of this company are: President, William 

 Blecker, Akron; vice president, \\'. A. Bently, Mansfield, sec- 

 retary, M. V. Bently, Mansfield. 



VACATION NOTES. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Co., is passing the greater part of the summer at his home in 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, with occasional motor trips to interesting 

 points around New England. 



James B. Ford, vice-president and treasurer of the United 

 States Rubber Co., will join the August cruise of the New York 

 Yacht Club in his yacht "Katrina." 



J. Howard Ford is passing the summer at his farm at Stony 

 Ford, in Orange county. New York. It is said to be one of the 

 handsomest places in the state. 



H. B. Hubbard, auditor of the United States Rubber Co., is 

 an enthusiastic motorist. He left New York on July 26 for a 

 two weeks' tour of New England in his car. 



John D. Carberry, assistant secretary of the United States 

 Rubber Co., who has been badly troubled with rheumatism for 

 the last two months, is on his farm at Orwell, Vt., and reports 

 that his health is greatly improved. 



H. E. Sawyer, general manager of the United States Rubber 

 Co., is passing the summer at Hotel Mt. Washington, at Bret- 

 ton Woods. He e.Npects to remain till Labor Day with occa- 

 sional flying trips to New York. 



Edward R. Rice, sales agent of the United States Rubber Co., 

 is at Kennebunk, Maine, until September. 



John P. Lyons, advertising manager of United States Rubber 

 Co., spent his vacation at Bloomfield, New Jersey. 



Wni. M. Morse, of the Boston-Panama Co., is here for a 

 month's vacation after two years spent on the Azuero lands in 

 Panama. 



F. H. Jones, president Tyer Rubber Co. (Andover, Massa- 

 chusetts), spent the larger part of July at Bar Harbor, Maine. 



THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL. 

 Few young men in the rubber trade have risen to important 

 positions more rapidly and surely than has President Byron L. 

 Dowse, of the Federal Rubber Mfg. Co. Beginning in 1895 



President l;^Ro^• L. Dowse. 



with the Gormully & Jeffry Mfg. Co., continuing with the com- 

 pany after its absorption by the Rubber Goods Co. in 1899, as 

 general representative, selling agent for the middle west, and 

 finally president of the G. & J. Co., he was from first to last a 

 business builder. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.S ISSUES. 



Tr.^ns.\ctions on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending July 22 : 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 



[The treasury of a subsidiary company holds $1,334,000.1 

 I,ast Dividend, April 30, 1900 — 1%. 



Week Julv 1 Sales 11,400 shares High 43',i Low 405'^ 



Week Julv 8 Sales 3,800 shares High 42'/.; Low 41 



Week Julv IS Sales 1,503 shares High 42y:> Low 41^ 



Week July 22 Sales 3,300 shares High 42<.i Low 41^ 



For the year — High, 47%, March 1; Low, 36, January 6. 

 Last year — High, S2'/i; Low, 27. 



First Preferred Stock, $39,824,400. 



Last Dividend, April 29, 1911—2%. 



Week Ju!v 1 Sales 500 shares High 114'/^ Low 113?^ 



Week Tuly 8 Sales 1.000 shares High 115;/. Low II414 



Week Julv 15 Sales 405 shares High IISM Low 113 



Week July 22 Sales 475 shares High 113K Low 113 



For the ye.ir — High. US'/, July 7; Low, 109y<, January 18. 

 Last year — High, 116;.^; Low, 99. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 



Last Dividend, April 29, 1911— lJ<;7o- 



Week Tulv 1 Sales . . . shares High . . Low 



Week Tulv 8 Sales 200 shares 1 Hah 77' j Low 



Week lulv 15 Sales 200 shares High 767^ Low 



Week July 22 Sales 300 shares High 76^2 Low 



For the year— High, 79, March 1; Low, 72'/i, January 31. 

 Last year — High, 84; Low, 59>^. 



Six Per Cent. Tru.st C^ld Bonds, $19,000,000. 



Outstanding of the 1908 issue of $20,000,000. 



Week Julv 1 Sales 40 bonds High 105 Low 



Week Julv 8 Sales .39 bonds High 105 Low 



Week Julv 15 Sales 54 bonds High 105 Low 



Week Jul'y 22 Sales 60 bonds High 104^8 Low 



For the year — High, ; Low, . 



Last year — High, ; Low, . 



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