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The A. L. Randall Co. recently in- 

 creased its capital $50,000, to $350,000, 

 for the purpose of extending its opera- 

 tions, in connection with some new 

 lines. 



John T. Muir spent several days of 

 last week on a trip in Michigan. Jan- 

 uary was an exceptionally good month 

 at his store on Grand boulevard, much of 

 the funeral work being of an unusually 

 elaborate character. He says he made 

 wreaths up to $250, a sum which should 

 command a pretty fair article even in 

 these times. 



The Lombard Floral Co., Lombard, 111., 

 has given the Moninger Co. an order for 

 another house 42x246, to go up at once. 



T. E. Waters says the use of brown 

 dyed toothpicks saves much stock. 

 There's an idea for you. 



C. J. Michelsen says the January sales 

 of the E. C. Amling Co. not only were 

 more than double those of the heatless 

 January of last year, but that they ex- 

 ceeded the record of January, 1917, by 

 almost thirty per cent. 



A. T. Pyfer was pleased to receive a 

 visit February 3 from two former em- 



ployees who had gone to war. One was 

 Harry Gardner, who was recently dis- 

 charged from a base hospital unit at 

 Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., and the 

 other was Louis Ancarola, who has re- 

 turned from overseas, being with the 

 108th Engineers. Mr. Ancarola was 

 wounded by shrapnel in September anH 

 carries gold chevrons on both sleeves. 

 Neither of them looks any the worse for 

 his experiences. 



Spending a fortnight on a trip east, 

 Frank M. Johnson is investigating 

 sources of supply in the various lines 

 handled by the A. L. Eandall Co. Dur- 

 ing the war many factories went into 

 government work, but these now are re- 

 suming peace production and many items 

 florists use promise soon to become more 

 plentiful than they have been for a year 

 and a half. 



August Juergens, Jr., of the Chicago 

 Flower Growers' Association, is con- 

 fined to his home with pneumonia. 



Visitors. 



On his way to Richmond, Ind., after 

 attending trade gatherings at Nashville, 



Cleveland and Detroit, Robert C. Kerr, 

 of Houston, Tex., was a visitor here Feb- 

 ruary 1. Mr. Kerr is chairman of the 

 S. A. F. committee on credits and col- 

 lections, of which C. L. Washburn and 

 Fred Lautenschlager are members, and 

 conferences on the work of the com- 

 mittee and the bureau were held during 

 the day. Widely as Mr. Kerr has trav- 

 eled, February 2 was his first visit to 

 Richmond. 



George Valker, of Minot, N. D., was 

 here this week on one of his frequent 

 visits to keep in touch with the world's 

 greatest flower market. 



J. J. Hess was in town February 3, 

 on his way home to Omaha from the 

 S. A. F. directors' meeting at Detroit. 

 He had Sundayed at Delafield, Wis., 

 where he has relatives. 



J. L. Johnson, of De Kalb, one of the 

 prosperous Illinois cities where business 

 always is good, was in town last week 

 on a buying trip. 



Harry Taylor, of the Breitmeyer staff, 

 Detroit, spent February 4 in the market. 



Two Canadian visitors in the market 

 were W. W. Gammage, of London, Ont., 



