Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-05-18

STATEMENT OF THE WALTER A.
WooD MOVING AND REApING Ma
CHINE COMPANY has become gen.
orally known that the Walter A.
Wood Harvester Company, of st.
Paul, MINI has gone into the hands
of receivers. This action was rem
dered necessary because of the hasty
and ungenerous action Of one small
creditor Ga bank) in Chicago. This
creditor, as we are informed by the
directors of the st. Paul company,
disregarding an agreement not to
press its claim until negotiations
then pending to finance tue company
were concluded, entered judgment
against the company, without notice
and levied upon its Chicago ware
house. This act precipitated gen.
eral alarm, and before the matter
could be explained, various other at
tachments were issued, thereby rem
dering a receivership necessary, in
order to protect the company's prop
erty.
1t has come to the attention of the
undersigned that efforts are being
made by some of our competitors to
make 1t appear that the receivership
above mentioned applies to the Wal
ter A. Wood Moving and Reaping
Machine Company, OF Hoosick Falls,
n. Y. In spreading this false re-
port, advantage has been taken of
the fact that the name of our COM
pany is similar to that of the st.
Paul company. We desire to i'm
press upon tie trade and the general
public the fact that the Walter A.
Wood Harvester Company, OF st.
Paul, is distinct corporation from
the Walter A. Wood Moving and
Reaping Machine Company, of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, and that the
receivership Of the ST.. Paul corpor-
alton has nothing whatever to do
with our company, or its business.
The Walter A. Wood Moving and
Reaping Machine Company is in no
way directly affected by the embar-
rassment of the Harvester, of ST..
Paul. And we believe every right
minded person will agree with US
that any attempt TO injure the trade
or credit of great and successful
business by such despicable method
as falsely representing it to be in
volved in the misfortune of an en-
tirely distinct and independent COM
pany, merits the severest condemna-
ton. The business of the Walter A.
Wood Moving and Reaping Machine
Company is progressing as usual and
the company issues this statement in
order that the situation may be I'M
derstood, and to dispose once for all
of such false reports as may have
been instituted by our competitors
to ipjure the reputation of this COM
panv. In this connection, it may
properly be said that the prospect
for the season of 1895 is very fatter-
ing. We have the largest orders
from our foreign trade that we have
ever had in the history of the bust
ness, and there never was q time
when we were turning out finer and
more complete line of machinee than
to-day. The business of the Walter
A. Wood Moving and Reaping Ma
chine Company is an old and estab-
lished one. During more than forty
years past it has preserved its early
acquired reputation in the trade all
over the world. That reputation al
ways has been and still is second to
none and our friends and customers
may have the most absolute assur-
ance that nothing has occurred which
in any way will tend to diminish it.
WALTER A. WooD MOVING &
RE rr~o MACHINE COMPANY.