Fred C. Paye, of the Paye & Baker Mfg. Co., won first prize for the best exhibit of dahlias by an amateur at the exhibition held by the Dahlia Society of Massachusetts in Boston last Saturday.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th September 1923
Willard B. Sunderland, of Los Angeles, Cal., a former resident here, is renewing acquaintances in the town, and brings word and greetings from a number of former North Attleboro residents who have removed to the coast. Mr. Sunderland, who represented the local silverware concern of F. M. Whiting & Co. in the a west for a number of years, now handles the lines of a group of eastern jewelry and silver houses, and his brother, Daniel Sunderland, is associated with him. St. Elmo Coombs, a former local young man, who was associated with the Paye & Baker Mfg. Co. is employed by Mr. Sunderland as a salesman. Mr. Sunderland, who is on an extended business trip, predicts that the jewelry and silver houses of this country will do a fine holiday business this year, and that means a boom in the Fall. He states that the fruit producers and farmers throughout the west are looking forward to a bumper season. Speaking of some of the former residents from this section, Mr. Sunderland states that he frequently meets Frank O. Coombs, formerly a member of the Massachusetts legislature, who is now living in Los Angeles, where he is in good health and working at his old trade of engraving. Frank Darling, another former North Attleboro man, is also in Los Angeles, and is working at the jewelry trade. Mr. Darling was in poor health, Mr. Sunderland says, when he first went to California several years ago, but is now in good health.
Charles T. Paye was in New York last week in the interests of the tariff committee of the New England Manufacturing Jewelers’ and Silversmiths’ Association.
W. Parks Shedd, western salesman for the Paye & Baker Mfg. Co., arrived home Saturday. Mr. Shedd had the misfortune to be in the flood district when the disaster occurred. He escaped with his life, but was marooned for several days in the Algonquin Hotel in Dayton, O., and his sample cases were under water. For several days the firm was anxious about his safety, but a telegram finally came through announcing that he was safe.
In the note in the North Attleboro news column of the issue of July 1, speaking of the visit of Willard B. Sunderland, now of Los Angeles, but a former resident of North Attleboro, an error occurred in referring to Mr. Sunderland’s brother as being associated with him in representing manufacturers on the Pacific Coast. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sunderland visited North Attleboro on behalf of his company, Sunderland & Miller, Inc., of 607 Sun building, Los Angeles, Cal., a corporation of which he is president, and George W. Miller, vice-president and treasurer. St. Elmo L. Coombs, a former member of the local trade, is now associated with the firm of Sunderland & Miller, Inc., and is one of the stockholders.
R. H. Martin, formerly with the Chicago office of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., is now associated with Geo. A. Armstrong in the representation of Paye & Baker Mfg. Co., North Attleboro, in this territory. Mr. Martin leaves this week on a southwest trip.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th January 1911
Harold Nock will assume his new position with the Towle Mfg. Co., Newburyport, on Jan. 1. For the past five years he has been superintendent of the Paye & Baker Mfg. Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 22nd December 1915