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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



15 



Mrs. C W. McKellar Driving the First Prize Gir in the Chicago Automobile Parade May. 9 



residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Bonnemort, 

 at Salt Lake City. He was born in 

 Switzerland. 



Wm. E.Hall. 



Wm. E. Hall, of Clyde, O., died at his 

 home on Piety Hill, May 3. He was 

 nearly 53 years of age. His severe ill- 

 ness of four weeks' duration was due to 

 a relapse after having a siege of the 

 grip. 



Mr. Hall was a son of Ezra and Nancy 

 Hall and was born May 18, 1857, in 

 Clyde, where he spent all of his life. He 

 was married to Eva Stark June 17, 1885. 

 To this union were born six children — 

 four sons, Eugene, Breese, Uoyd and 

 Frank, and two daughters. Amy and 

 Lulu, who, with the wife and mother, 

 are left to mourn the loss of a loving 

 husband and father. He also leaves an 

 aged father, Ezra Hall, who thirty years 

 ago started as a florist and gardener in 

 Clyde. He retired in 1898 and the busi- 

 ness has since been carried on by his son, 

 the subject of this sketch, in a most 

 prosperous manner, and in later years 

 he has been assisted by his sons, Eugene 

 and Breese. Through his prosperous 

 business aa a florist ho gained a wide 

 reputation and was also well known and 

 highly respected by the community at 

 large. 



Funeral services were held from the 

 home Friday afternoon, May 6, with in- 



terment in McPherson cemetery. The 

 florists in attendance were Messrs. 

 Krueger and Bayer, of Toledo, 0., and 

 I. Husbands, of Bellevue, 0. Deceased 

 was a member of the following orders: 

 S. A. F., American Carnation Society, 

 Toledo Florists' Club and the Indepen- 

 dent Order of Foresters. 



Henry C Eickhoff. 



Henry C. Eickhofl', a nurseryman of 

 Julietta, near Indianapolis, Ind., died 

 of heart trouble April 29, at his home 

 on the Michigan road. 



Mr. Eickhoff was born June 9, 1853, 

 on the farm where since his twentieth 

 year he carried on the nursery business. 

 Originally he conducted the business in 

 partnership with his brother, Edward A. 

 Eickhoff, under the firm name of Eick- 

 hoff Bros., nurserymen. In later years, 

 however, he conducted the business in 

 his own name. His home and surround- 

 ings were always a beautiful example 

 of landscape gardening. In 1907 he be- 

 came ill with heart disease and compli- 

 cations, from which he never fully re- 

 covered. 



He leaves a widow, formerly Miss 

 Elizabeth Kuehn, and eight children, five 

 girls and three boys. 



Jonathan Keim. 



Jonathan Keim, a retired florist of 

 Pottstown, Pa., died May 2, at the age 



of 93 years. His family was one noted 

 for longevity, a number of his brothers 

 and sisters living to be nonagenarians. 



MRS. McKELLAR. 



Long known among convention-goers 

 as the champion of the lady bowlers, 

 Mrs. C. W. McKellar has added another 

 accomplishment, that of driving a six- 

 cylinder car. Mrs. McKellar is as enthu- 

 siastic an automobilist as she is a bowler, 

 and as successful, for in the first auto- 

 mobile floral parade at Chicago, held this 

 week, she won first prize for her six-cylin- 

 der Winton, vermilion red, decorated with 

 Asparagus plumosus and poinsettias. The 

 accompanying illustration is from a pho- 

 tograph made just after the parade. Mr. 

 McKellar 's special pleasure is to occupy 

 the mechanician's seat, as in the picture. 



Meridex, Conn. — John Bonell, besides 

 being a member of the florists' trade, 

 with an establishment at 131 Converse 

 avenue, has also, for the last fifteen 

 years, held a responsible position as fore- 

 man in the pen department of the Miller 

 Bros. Cutlery Co. Now, however, he has 

 severed his connection with the cutlery 

 firm and he will thus be able to give 

 more attention to his interests as a flo- 

 rist, though he may also engage in other 

 ' business. 



