The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-06-29


over the property from the Balm estate.
Mr.. Dixon and Mr.. Griswold for the
past sixteen years have been the Pa
cific coast representatives of the COM
pany and they have handled the great
business there with eminent success.
They know the game, and they know
the traditions of the Balm Wagon Com
pany Both of them are on the sunny
side of forty, and both of them are
business men with a realization of the
demands of modern industrial business.
Both of them are coming here to live
and to give their active work to the
management of the business of the
company. The wonderful success which
| they have attained on the coast gives
| the assurance that the business of the
| Balm Wagon Company will have thor
Isoughly progressive management, and
that the sterling qualities which have
made the name Of the Balm wagon a
tradition all over the country will be
maintained without any variance.
These men know the implement and
vehicle business, and they can be ex-
pected to put lot of pep into the Ke.
nosha plant"
YuIe to Retain Interest.
81 am not going to lose my interest
in the Balm Wagon Company" added
President George A. Yule. "These
young men have done me the honor to
ask me to serve as their president, and
while my work will be largely Of an
advisory nature, my interest in the
progress Of the business will be in no
way affected by change in the stock
| holdings. have watched the develop
ment of these men, and believe that
they are the men who are capable and
| able to take up the work of this big
company, which has meant so much to
me and the members of my family over
so long a period of years. Their COM
ing to Kenosha will mean real addi-
tion to the industrial life of the city"
Mr.. Yule has spent considerable time
in California in recent years, but he
has no plans for the closing out of the
home on Durkee avenue, and he will
remain a resident of Kenosha.
No Changes in Official Staff.
/ "We are very happy that Mr.. Yule
has accepted the suggestion that he re-
main with US as president of the COM
pany," said Mr.. Griswold, who came on
from Los Angeles to close up the de-
tails of the big deal. "Few men are
more revered in the wagon business
than Mr.. Yule, and we appreciate how
/ valuable he will be to US as an advisor.
One of the big assets that we count on
is the wealth Of his experience as the
| guiding hand of the company. We
know what the name "Bain" has meant
to the farmers Of the country, and we
are not only going to retain that name,
but we are going to retain all the ira
ditions which go along with it. Mr..
Dixon will join me here in short time
and then we may have some farther an
nouncements to make"
i Mr.. Griswold announced that there
would be no changes either in the office
staff of the company or in the leader
ship of the shop work. The men who
have spent lives in the Balm Wagon
Company plant making wagons will
ness, and the force of Office workers,
many of whom have been with the COM
1 pany for two decades, will all remain
with the new managers.
Founded in 1910.
The Balm Wagon Company is one of
the Oldest industries in Wisconsin, and
(. it has been in continuous operation
4 since 1840 It was first established in
that year by Mitchell and Quarles, two
Of the best known of the pioneers of
Southport and Kenosha. They handled
the business as a partnership until
1852, when the business was purchased
by the late Edward Balm, and it con-
tinued under his name until 1882, when
4 the Balm Wagon Company was organ
A lied, with Mr.. Balm as it's president and
the late George Yule as vice president
George A. Yule became superintendent
of the plant the same year. When Mr.
Balm died in 1898, George Yule sue
ceeded to the presidency of the COM
pany, and following the death OF
George Yule, George A. Yule, the pres
emit president, became the executive
head of the company. The policies
which were inaugurated by the foun-
ders of the company have always been
carried out by succeeding official staffs
The Yules purchased all of the Balm
interests in 1911, and the only stock
which was not held by the Yule family
was held by few of the old-time en-
ployees of the company. 1t is under.
stood that these men will continue to
hold this stock under the new manage.