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SEPTKIIBEB 10, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



Wenatchee, Wash. — Mr. and Mrs. 

 I.( )!! J. Milot, of the Milot-Mills Co., 

 jM- the parents of a bouncing boy, born 

 S. (itember 3. 



Calgary, Alberta. — W. D. Emery was 

 iiiuried in Spokane, Wash., August 27. 

 Beatrice MacLaughlin, of this city, was 

 tlie bride. 



Council Bluffs, la. — Industrial floats 

 were entered by J. F. Wilcox & Sons 

 and Herman Bros. Co. in the floral 

 parade, August 31, in connection with 

 the carnival. 



Absecon, N. J. — The spring drought 

 is given as the cause of this season's 

 unfavorableness for the flower growing 

 industry in this part of the state by 

 Kdward L. Libby. 



Leroy, 111. — Although the greenhouse 

 and property of L. L. Fry were adver- 

 tised for public sale, these were not put 

 up for sale, but will be retained by 

 Mr. Fry for the present. 



Yellow Springs, O. — Howard Custer 

 Brown was married August 26 to Miss 

 Mary Alice Metzner, of Mechanicsburg. 

 The wedding took place at the home 

 of the bride, in Mechanicsburg. 



Shenandoali, la. — The work of erect- 

 ing the new flower store of O. B. Ste- 

 vens is now in actual progress, and 

 everything is expected to be ready for 

 use by the time fall business becomes 

 heavy. 



Houston, Tex. — R. A. Lohaus has 

 lieen appointed receiver for Charles 

 f'hlers, whose petition in bankruptcy 

 was reported in last week's issue of 

 The Review. Mr. Lohaus states that 

 the business will be continued as be- 

 fore. 



Media, Pa. — A certificate of incorpor- 

 ation has been filed by Robert Scott & 

 f^on, floriculturists, with a capital stock 

 ot $1.5,000. There are three stockhold- 

 '■r^ Alexander B. Scott, Edward H. 

 Schwartz and Sarah B. Scott, who hold 

 r^'spectively ninety-nine, fifty and one 

 shares of stock, each of $100. 



^Houston, Tex.— A. E. Dosbaugh and 



• Ketzer are opening a business, to 



v ,?«?^° as the Gulf Florist, in the 



^\*'stheimer building, at Prairie and 



,'rolme streets. They believe that 



, I "ower business is growing so rap- 



' 'y m this city that there is plenty 



room for another flourishing store. 



tum°^®^*' ,^*^-— Spontaneous combus- 

 •n was the cause of the breaking out 



Ko<.«i„ ® ^\ *•>« coal sheds of J. M. 

 ^ssier on the night of August 31. All 

 \Z "fj^^^e buildings were burned to 

 ^1 000 °"^' .<=*"si°g a loss of about 

 tiio ho, J insurance was carried, as 

 ^'■-me?y"?gb'^^« g^eat and the rate ex- 



Salina, Kan. — Edward Tatro has com- 

 pljeted his new range of greenhouses 

 and planted them to carnations. The 

 stock is looking well for this time of 

 the year in Kansas. 



San Antonio, Tex. — An amendment 

 has been filed by the San Antonio 

 Floral & Nursery Co. to its incorpora- 

 tion papers, increasing the capital stock 

 from $10,000 to $15,000. 



Yankton, S. D. — Additional green- 

 liouses are being erected at the range 

 of the Gurney Seed & Nursery Co., to 

 take care of the company's rapidly in- 

 creasing greenhouse business. 



Stoughton, Wis. — Hartley Criddle is 

 about to erect a residence adjoining 

 his greenhouse on North Monroe street 

 and move the old dwelling to a lot to 

 tlie west, where it will be occupied by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Perley Criddle. 



iraVERY now and then a well- 

 «Si pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bnof^ag a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone &om 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those 'selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CD. 

 530-60 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



Council Bluffs, la. — Mr. and Mrs. C. 

 E. Hinman moved July 31 into their 

 new home at Twenty-seventh street 

 and Seventh avenue. Mr. Hinman will 

 begin shortly to build several green- 

 houses as the beginning of another 

 large range. 



Baraboo, Wis.— William Toole & Son 

 have commenced the erection of an- 

 other greenhouse at the range on Pansy 

 Heights. It will be 25x50 feet. E. H. 

 Toole, who took over his brother's in- 

 terest in the partnership with his father 

 when his brother, W. A. Toole, engaged 

 in an independent business, has sold his 

 interest back to his brother and will 

 resume his studies at the University of 

 Wisconsin, where he expects to special- 

 ize in seeds in his botanical work. 



Woodsfield, (y. — James M. Bishop re- 

 cently purchased a 200-foot greenhouse 

 at Warwood, W. Va., which will be 

 moved here and erected as an addition 

 to his range on Washington street. 



Delavan, Wis.— Joseph Wright has 

 sold his greenhouse, which he owned for 

 nearly thirty years, to W. J. Moxley^ 

 who recently purchased the Phoenix 

 Nursery Co. here. It is reported that 

 Mr. Moxley intends to tear down the 

 house and erect a new one near his 

 nursery. 



Danville, 111. — Smiths, the Florists, 

 will move to the store on the corner of 

 Vermilion and North streets, in the 

 Dale building, when the extensive alter- 

 ations now being made have been com- 

 pleted. A new front is being put on 

 the store and other improvements are 

 being made. 



Iowa City, la.— A. G. Prince is build- 

 ing two houses, one for carnations and 

 one for chrysanthemums and sweet peas, 

 as well as a lean-to for violets. This 

 will make possible a doubling of the 

 output of carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums over former years. Business is 

 pretty good for this time of year, but 

 outdoor crops are badly in need ot 

 rain. 



Portsmouth, Va — The large tract of 

 land on Deep Creek boulevard known 

 as the Pickering farm has been pur- 

 chased by Miss Ethel Only from Frank 

 H. Miller. Miss Only has given a con- 

 tract for the erection of a $5,000 green- 

 house, to be put up immediately, and 

 expects to establish a prosperous retail 

 business as soon as things get under 

 way. 



Kankakee, 111. — In this country it is 

 the French aviators who are doing dam- 

 age to Germans' property. Andre Hon- 

 pert, the famous French aviator, after 

 a sensational flight here the day before, 

 attempted an ascension September 1 

 and was driven by a strong wind di- 

 rectly toward Charles Schafer's green- 

 houses. He finally struck squarely 

 against the large brick smokestack and 

 narrowly escaped crashing into the 

 greenhouses, gliding to the ground with- 

 in ten feet of the oflBce. 



Union Grove, Wis.— With the incor- 

 poration of the Union Grove & York- 

 ville Greenhouse Co. the activities of 

 the Meredith Flower & Vegetable Co., 

 of Libertyville, 111., ia tbis section came 

 to an end. The new concern is com- 

 posed of the local people who were in- 

 terested by llie Libertyville concern in 

 the establishment of a branch in this 

 town. The capital stock is fixed at $30,- 

 000, divided into 300 shares of $100 

 each, and the incorporators are Will- 

 iam E. Tucker, John H. Smith and Johu 

 T. Gittings. 



