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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE MID-WEST. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



MID-WEST RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



THE May Meeting of the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Association was held on the 11th of last month at the 

 Chicago Athletic Club with sixty members present. The fol- 

 lowing new members were admitted : 



Regular Members. 

 The Sebring Tire & Rubber Co., Sebring, Ohio. 

 The Carey Tire & Rubber Co., Carey, Ohio. 

 The Monarch Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio. 

 The Porter Rubber Co., Salem, Ohio. 

 The Knox Tire & Rubber Co., Mount Vernon, Ohio. 

 Ardmore-Akron Tire & Rubber Co., Oklahoma City, 

 Oklahoma. 



Associate Members. 



Allen Machine Co., Erie, Pennsylvania. 



Wishnick-Tumpecr Cheinical Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



The Barrett Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



•■The Tire Rate Book," New York City. 



II. A. Astlett & Co., New York City. 



Bankers' Audit & Appraisal Co., Chicago, Ill.nois. 



Last month the Association sent out a good deal of literature 

 to its members for their guidance and information, notably: 

 a weekly review of the crude rubber market; lists of articles 

 and material wanted or for sale: reports on special subjects, 

 like the coal situation ; and notification of important news, as 

 the meeting of the Reserve Board directors to consider the 

 restriction of credits. 



MIDWEST NOTES. 



After being located 27 years at 160 West Jackson Boulevard, 

 Chicago, Illinois, A. W. Smith, western representative of the 

 Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Division of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has removed to Room 917, 115 South Dearborn 

 street. 



The Chicago branch of the Star Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 is in charge of E. A. Peterson. 



The J. W. P. Tire Co. has been organized at Scotfsburg, In- 

 diana, with W. L. Hubbard as president, to manufacture a pneu- 

 matic tire. The company expects to build a factory soon. 



The Zonta Tire & Rubber Co., 404 Iowa Building, Sioux 

 City, Iowa, has begun the construction of a $350,000 plant at 

 3100 Floyd avenue, Sioux City, Where it is expected to begin 

 manufacturing about October 1 of the present year. The officers 

 of the company are : T. P. Scott, president ; Fred Bartelt, vice- 

 president; H. W. Caldwell, secretary, and F. J. Simmons, 

 treasurer. 



The Pawnee Tire & Rubber Co., Waterloo, Iowa, which was 

 incorporated under the laws of the State on July 18, 1919, with 

 $1,000,000 eight per cent cumulative participating capital and 

 $500,000 common, has recently purchased a building at Cedar 

 Falls, containing 36,000 square feet of operating floor space, be- 

 sides a two and one-half-story office building and two two-story 

 storage buildings, and plans to begin manufacturing in the 

 autumn. The officers of the company are: E. D. Flynn, presi- 

 dent; Charles F. Sawyer, vice-president and general manager; 

 William J. Murphy, treasurer; and E. J. Murphy, secretary. 

 These, with E. D. Flynn, Jr., also compose the board of di- 

 rectors. 



The W. A. Shaefifer Pen Co., Fort Madison, Iowa, manufac- 

 turer of fountain pens, etc., has increased its capital stock from 

 $1,500,000 common and $75,000 preferred to $1,500,000 common 

 and $2,500,000 preferred, making a total of $4,000,000. 



The factories of the Wildman Rubber Co. will be located at 

 Bay City, Michigan, where it has acquired 63 acres of land with 

 a frontage of half a mile on the Saginaw river and its deep 

 water channel. The Michigan Central and Grand Trunk rail- 



roads run through the property and electric power is available 

 from the plants of the Commonwealth Power on the Au Sable 

 river and other sources. A modern factory will be erected here 

 and the first unit will be capable of turning out 2,500 tires and 

 5,000 tubes daily. W. W. Wildman, Detroit, who has had nearly 

 a quarter of a century of experience in the rubber business, is 

 president and general manager ; L. C. MacGregor is vice-presi- 

 dent; and C. R. Twynham is secretary-treasurer. All three 

 were formerly with the Portage Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. The 

 office of the Wildman company is at 817 Book Building, De- 

 troit, Michigan. 



The Ajax Rubber Co.. Inc., New York City, has appointed 

 L. M. Van Riper district manager with headquarters in Detroit, 

 Michigan. His territory includes a considerable portion of 

 northern Ohio. 



The Curtis Tire & Rubber Co.'s plant at Muskegon, Michigan, 

 was entirely destroyed by fire last month. 



A. G. Spalding & Bros., sporting goods dealers, have removed 

 from 415 North Seventh street, St. Louis, Missouri, to 823 Lo- 

 cust street, opposite the downtown postoffice, in the shopping 

 district. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Premier 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Kansas City, Missouri, the following di- 

 rectors were elected: J. G. Joce, Carter Wilder, C. R. Renolds, 

 A. J. Woodring, C. A. Wooley, Walter Maloney, and B. J. Riser. 

 The capital stock was also increased from $300,000 to $1,500,000 

 and a stock dividend of 100 per cent declared on all outstanding 

 stock. The company is now building 50,000 square feet of floor 

 space. 



The Surety Tire & Rubber Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is per- 

 fecting plans for the production of 1,000 Sternwear casings daily. 

 William L. Burgess is vice-president and general manager. 



The Rawlings Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, manu- 

 facturer of game balls, has leased the two-story building at the 

 northwest corner of Twentieth and Locust streets for two years, 

 and will occupy the premises temporarily until the completion 

 of the addition to its factory on a 50-foot lot west of the present 

 factory on Lucas avenue. W. P. Whitley is vice-president and 

 general manager. 



The Overland Tire & Rubber Co., Omaha, Nebraska, has pro- 

 moted F. C. Rudisell from the position of secretary and sales 

 manager to that of general manager. 



The Black & Decker Manufacturing Co., Towson Heights, 

 Baltimore, Maryland, has established a permanent office and 

 show room for the display of its portable electric fools and 

 special machinery at 1436 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, in 

 charge of R. G. Ames, whose territory will include the entire 

 Mid-West. He will be assisted by F. E. Marrion and J. N. 

 LaBelle. 



The Stanwood Rubber Co., 9 East 40th street. New York 

 City, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, has opened a Chicago office 

 at 1712 South Michigan avenue, in charge of J. H. Greer, who 

 is district manager of both the Stanwood company and of the 

 Hardman Tire & Rubber Corporation, Belleville, New Jersey. 



The Zeglen Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 118 North La Salle 

 street, Chicago, Illinois, a newly incorporated company, has 

 purchased the plant of the Century Rubber Works at Elston 

 and Rawson streets, Chicago, and expects to start producing 

 a one-ply interwoven tire under its own patents about July 1. 

 John B. Drish is acting president and vice-president and Frank 

 J. Kolodzinski is secretary and treasurer. 



The Burdick Tire & Rubber Co., Chicago, Illinois, has re- 

 moved from the Consumers' Company Building to 10 South La 

 Salle street. The present officers are : Henry G. Steinbrenner, 



