OCTOBBB 30, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Houston, Tex. — Charles Ehlers has 

 moved from 910 Texas avenue to 1014 

 Capitol avenue. 



Clinton, la. — Frank Feldt has sold his 

 interest in the new greenhouse plant 

 to his partner, Arthur Still, who will 

 continue the business. 



Bed Bank, N. J.— The Eed Bank 

 Flower Shop opened for business Octo- 

 ber 18 in Jacob Kriedel's building on 

 Broad street, near Front street. 



Las Vegas, N. M. — Perry Onion & 

 Son have moved their uptown store 

 and expect to be able to do an in- 

 creased business in their new quarters. 



Fort Collins, Colo. — Espelin & War- 

 ren are building a greenhouse addition 

 to their downtown store, 16x50 feet, 

 which will be used as a display house 

 for plants. 



Alton, lU. — George Madsen, propri- 

 etor of the Alton Floral Co., was laid 

 up for a few days when he wrenched 

 his back in working on the boiler 

 in his heating plant. 



Arlington, Neb. — Ed. Woerner is 

 building a greenhouse, 20 x 50 feet, 

 on Sixth street, in which he will grow 

 flowers for the trade. He expects, also, 

 to make a specialty of early vegetables. 



Wichita Falls, Tex.— C, F. Blair, who 

 left here for Gonzales, Tex,, some time 

 ago, says the "raging floods and mos- 

 quitoes" drove him out of southern 

 Texas, and he is back again at his 

 old address. 



Bay City, Mich. — The next monthly 

 meeting of the Saginaw-Bay City Flor- 

 icultural Society will be held at Boeh- 

 ringer Bros., Bay City, Monday, Novem- 

 ber 3, at 7 p. m. The discussions will 

 be given by E. A. Grohmann and Fred 

 Goetz. 



Washington, Pa.-»^The Swarthout 

 flower store has moved from its quar- 

 ters in the waiting room of the Pitts- 

 burgh Kailways Co., at Main and Bean 

 streets, as the space was needed for 

 the accommodation of the company's 

 patrons. 



Dajrton, O. — The Miami Floral Co. is 

 planning for an autumn show early in 

 November to display the products of 

 its seven acres of glass. The general 

 manager of the concern is J. W. Rodg- 

 ers, ^nd Albert A. Kramer is the office 

 manager. 



Newell, W. Va.— The Mick Floral Co. 

 has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $10,000. The incorporators are: B. 

 A. Mick, Annie E. Mick, Letta B. Mick, 

 Mary A. Mick and Sadie V. Mick. B. 

 A. Mick was formerly in business at 

 Wellsville, O. 



Streator, 111. — Grover Gilbert, pro- 

 prietor of the Riverview Greenhouses, 

 has moved his plants into his three new 

 greenhouses, each 200 feet long, on the 

 Coalville road. One house will be de- 

 voted to flowers and the other two to 

 vegetables for the local market. 



Topeka, Kan. — J. M. Kessler is con- 

 ducting a suit against the city to pre- 

 vent the paving of South Kansas ave- 

 nue as it is platted insteajj of as it 

 has been used for fifteen years. In the 

 former case the road would cut off 

 about twenty-three feet of Mr. Kess- 

 ler 's greenhouses and necessitate the 

 removal of a fence and a hydrant. 



The alarm clock went off at 

 four o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled yon that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The florist fools himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the most inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 had to send money back. The Review 

 is, without doubt, the best advertising 

 medium in the trade."— J. C. Renni- 

 soN Co., Sioux City, la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Please tell us confidentially what you 



think of . Why doesn't he 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miller Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton, Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m., 

 not a. m.) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



Valley City, N. D.— S. E. Fish has 

 moved to Eugene, Ore. 



Crawf ordsville, Ind. — George W. 

 Steele, who sold his interest in the firm 

 of McDonald & Steele to his partner 

 last April, plans to build a place of his 

 own next spring. 



Eichmond, Va. — The administrative 

 board is contemplating the construction 

 of a greenhouse to grow the plants for 

 the city parks. There is a city nursery 

 at present which furnishes shrubs and 

 trees for this purpose. 



Elm Grove, W. Va. — John Dieckmann 

 & Co., of Park View, are building a 

 reservoir on the hill above the green- 

 houses. The stream there will be 

 dammed and the basin will hold sev- 

 eral hundred barrels of water, an abun- 

 dant supply for the dry gpellfi. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Humboldt, la. — ^J. H Rine, Jr., will 

 build another greenhouse this fall. 



Jefferson, la. — E. S. Foulks has com- 

 pleted his new greenhouse and has al- 

 ready a large supply of carnations and 

 roses. 



Salem, O. — J. J. Gunn & Son have 

 a good display of early chrysanthe- 

 mums at their greenhouses on Garfield 

 avenue. 



Neenah, Wis. — Louis Otto has been 

 adjudged insane and committed to the 

 Northern Hospital for the Insane, at 

 Oshkosh. 



Fremont, Neb. — Andreasen Bros., 

 proprietors of the Fremont Green- 

 houses, are building another greenhouse 

 at the plant in the south part of the 

 city. 



Raleigh, N. C— J. L. O'Quinn and 

 Henry Steinmetz both entered fine dis- 

 plays of potted plants, ferns and cut 

 flowers in the florists' exhibit at the 

 state fair. 



Wapakoneta,0. — Several new features 

 have been added lately to the Mc- 

 Murray greenhouses, including a hot 

 water heating system and an auto- 

 mobile garage. 



Brockton, Mass. — J. I. Gurney, of 

 Lakeville, displayed an exhibit of over 

 1,000 dahlia blossoms at the store of 

 the Jas. Edgar Co., in a three days' 

 show, renewing the flowers each day. 



Estherville, la. — Mrs. M. E. Jehu, pro- 

 prietor of the Estherville Greenhouses, 

 does a good business in goldfish and the 

 like. Her potted plant trade is grow- 

 ing steadily and her present glass area 

 is 10,000 feet. 



St. Albans, Vt. — The business of 

 George Cooke has been sold to Charles 

 Kennedy and Dennis Ledoux. Mr. 

 Cooke is now in San Diego, Cal., for the 

 benefit of his health. Mr. Kennedy has 

 been in the employ of Mr. Cooke for 

 several years. 



Churchville, Pa. — Fred Chesky, who 

 recently started here as a grower for 

 the wholesale market, has begun to cut 

 his crop of about 90,000 chrysanthe- 

 mum blooms. He will follow the mums 

 with sweet peas. He is well pleased 

 with his undertaking. 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — N. Harold Cot- 

 tam, of Wappingers Falls, is the man- 

 ager of the flower show here October 

 30 and 31. The feature for October 

 30 is a dinner table decoration of or- 

 chids and for October 31 dinner table 

 decorations of other flowers. 



Marion, O.— F. E. Blake & Son have 

 remodeled and enlarged their uptown 

 store. A two-story brick building has 

 been built at the rear of the store. 

 The office and s'alesroom have been 

 enlarged and refinished and the green- 

 house attached is fitted up to make 

 it as fine a showroom as possible. 



Arkansas City, Kan. — The increase in 

 trade has led Wm. E. Smith to make 

 extensive improvements and additions 

 to his greenhouse plant and to open an 

 uptown store. Three houses, comprising 

 over 10,000 feet of glass, an office build- 

 ing, a boiler room and heating plant, 

 a sprinkling system, a refrigerator built 

 to order and a delivery wagon are the 

 new items in the equipment. 



