HARDWOOD RECORD 



is being rushed by the contractor in charge. 

 Several men have been engaged to do special 

 work at night on the building. 



John Graham of the Edinburg Cabinet Com- 

 pany, Edinburg, Ind., is in the city this week 

 visiting friends and relatives and incidentally 

 attending to some business in the interest ot 

 his firm. 



Charles Artman of Leib & Artman, the well- 

 known lumber and box manufacturers of Rock- 

 port, Ind., was in the city this week. 



Evansville manufacturers who attended a 

 conference with Southwestern railroad people 

 at St. Louis last week to discuss the pro- 

 posed higher minimum weights for all articles 

 of light and bulky character returned with 

 the impression that eventually they would get 

 a reduction of the weights. In an interview 

 with J.'c. Keller of the traffic bureau of the 

 Evansville Manufacturers' Association it was 

 stated that they felt confident of gaining the 

 concessions they ask for. The Southwestern 

 Tariff Committee representing the railroads 

 have asked the manufacturers to prepare a 

 new schedule of what they would consider 

 reasonable minimums for light and bulky arti- 

 cles, and this will be done, and on September 

 18 another meeting will be held at St. Louis, 

 when the whole matter will be gone over and 

 concluded. 



C. A. Linton of Grand Rapids. Mich., a fur- 

 niture manufacturer's representative, was in 

 the city last week to get facts about local 

 shipments to the Southwest, which he will 

 use in a conference of furniture men to be 

 held in Chicago shortly. 



George Meyers, a well-known lumberman, 

 formerly with the Henry Maley Lumber Com- 

 pany and later with the Fort Smith branch 

 of Thompson. Thayer & McCowen of this 

 city, has embarked in business for himself at 

 Fort Smith. Ark. The style of the new firm 

 is the George W. Myers Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Meyers' many friends here wish him suc- 

 cess in his new venture. 



F. M. Clutter, of the Hakdwood Recobd, 

 Chicago, was in the city this week visiting 

 his friends among the trade. 



Delph Demmitt. with Maley & Wertz, has 

 gone to Yazoo City, Miss., in the interest of 

 his firm and will be gone several weeks. 



Edward Maley of the Henry Maley Company, 

 Edinburg, Ind., was in Evansville last week 

 on business. 



J. W. Taylor of Columbus. Ohio, represent- 

 ing the Domestic Lumber Company, was here 

 visiting the trade recently. 



Miss Fay Frost, the popular and efficient 

 stenographer in the office of Maley & Wertz, 

 has just returned from a vacation trip to the 

 northern lake country. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



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liimljermen attended 

 I at Chicago. 

 ^■■r of the Robinson 

 uined after a visit to 



Lumber Cju. i _. . 

 the southern mills. 



Building" operations here during the month of 

 August amounted to $748,034 as compared with 

 $562,396 in August, 1907, the largest gain of 

 any month this year. 



A thirty-foot hand saw was ruined at the 

 plant ot the Alontgomery Lumber Company, 

 Crawfordsville, a few days ago by coming in 

 contact with a plowshare imbedded in a large 

 walnut log. 



Eldon L. Dynes has disposed of his interests 

 In the Dynes Lumber Company to a Mr. Moore 

 of Lima, O., and has bought an interest In the 

 Anson-IIIxon Sash and Door Company, being 

 Mected secretary and treasurer. 



I.ouls G. Buddenbaum of the Buddenbaum 



imber Company has returned home after a 

 > atlon of several weeks spent with his family 

 ai Lake Maxinkuckee. 



The house of Hoo-Hoo being built at the Sum- 

 mer Mission for sick children by local Hoo-Hoo is 

 nearing completion and will represent a value of 

 $4,000. Elaborate dedicatory ceremonies are 

 being arranged. 



A new office building Is being built by the 

 National Veneer and Lumber Company at 1633 

 West Washington street. It is a frame structure 

 and will cost about $1,000. 



A vacation of some weeks was spent at 

 Charlevoix, Mich., by W. H. Coburn, president 

 of the W. H. Coburn Lumber Company. 



The Central Casket Company has been or- 

 ganized here with $25,000 capital by Frank L. 

 Daugherty, C. D. Johns, J. W. Boyd, Stephen W. 

 Frazer and G. W. Lackey. A factory will b« 

 established immediately. 



During his recent visit here William Jennings 

 Bryan was presented with a pair of mahogany 

 oars manufactured by J. H. Montgomery from 

 lumber obtained in Central America. 



After a short illness Charles G. Louett, for 

 some years lumber inspector for the Indianapolis 

 Chair Company, died at his home, 846 North 

 Temple avenue, a few days ago. A widow and 

 nine children survive. 



The real estate of the G. B. Lesh Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Warsaw, Ind., and Memphis, 

 Tenn., will be sold September 12 by County 

 Clerk Edwin Stout, the receiver. 



Earl Tabor, a banker of Argos, has purchased 

 a timber tract of 400 acres near Plerceton from 

 Fred Elder of Warsaw, the purchase price being 

 $55,000. 



It is reported that C. H. Lambert, foi;merIy 

 with the Star Carriage Company, Uuntingburg, 

 is organizing a company to be known as the 

 Independent Pole and Shaft Company, and will 

 establish a factory at Louisville, Ky. 



Frederick M. Bachman, president of the F. M. 

 Bachman Company, veneer manufacturers and 

 lumber dealers, will return from a three months' 

 tour of Europe some time next week. 



Manufacturers of South Bend, including all 

 lines, held an industrial exposition in that city 

 September 8-15, the lumber manufacturers and 

 dealers being well represented in the exhibits. 



The Indiana Manufacturing Company, Peru, 

 has received an order for 216 refrigerators, to 

 be shipped to Panama to be used in the canal 

 zone. The order is from the^Unitcd States gov- 

 ernment. 



W. W. Hobson has returned home after a few 

 days' business trip to Chicago. 



A special session of the Indiana legislature 

 will convene in this city September 18, and 

 shippers and manufacturers will probably make 

 an effort to have the shippers' law amenued to 

 include reciprocal demurrage. The Indiana Rail- 

 road Commission contends it has no power to 

 establish reciprocal demurrage under the exist- 

 ing law. 



B. D. Brooks, secretary of the Indianapolis 

 Lumbermen's Club, has organized a political 

 club with several hundred members in West 

 Indianapolis and has given it the use of one 

 of the buildings in his lumber yard for a club 



some very encouragmg statements have been 

 given out this week by a number ot the Colum- 

 bus lumber companies. The W. XL Ritler Lum- 

 ber Company says that a good volume of busi- 

 ness was transacted during the month of August 

 and that the trade was much better than it has 

 been in many months. 



The General Lumber Company reports that 

 September has started off in line style and that 

 a number of good orders have already been 

 taken. The company's men, on the road, are 

 doing a good business and say that the trade 

 manifests much greater interest than It has 

 for several months. 



Mr. S. S. Morgan ot the Kile & Morgan Com- 

 pany returned several da.vs ago from a month's 



vacation spent on the lakes, and before leaving 

 Wednesday evening for a business trip to Cleve- 

 land, said that there is considerable improve- 

 ment in the lumber business and that new orders 

 are coming in with greater regularity than 

 they have in many months. 



The Powell Lumber Company is now enjoying 

 a good trade and the outlook for new business 

 shows considerable improvement. This com- 

 pany reports prices for certain grades of lumber 

 as being on the upgrade and expects to see a 

 stiCEer market from this on. 



H. C. Kreith & Co. report business as moving 

 along very satisfactory and say that signs of 

 decided improvement are visible in many lines. 



Nearly all lumber companies in Columbus re 

 port business as decidedly on the mend and it 

 seems to be the general opinion that the turn 

 for decided improvement in the trade has taken 

 place. Business men are now back from their 

 annual vacations and have settled down to 

 business in earnest. 



CINCINNATI 



Matthew B. Farrin. one ot the best-known 

 lumber dealers ot the Queen City, died after 

 a short illness at his home on 3666 Reading 

 Road. Monday. September 7. Mr. Farrin was 

 president of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Com- 

 pany, Farrin & Kom Lumber Company, Cen- 

 tral Box & Shook Company, the latter concern 

 being Just organized by Mr. Farrin and his 

 son-in-law. Chester F. Korn. Mr. Farrin had 

 been ill but a few days and the news of his 

 death came as a great surprise to his many 

 friends. He had been identified in the lumber 

 business for the past twenty years and during 

 that time made a very wide acquaintance. 



W. J. Breed of the Crane & Breed Manu 

 facturing Company died at Los Angeles. Cal.. 

 last week after a brief illness. He w^ent to 

 California to bring home his wife and 

 daughter, who were spending their vacation, 

 when he took ill suddenly and death was the 

 result. He will be sadly missed by many 

 friends and loved ones. Mr. Breed was con- 

 nected with the house of the Crane & Breed 

 Mfg. Co. a number ot years. 



A transcript of record from the common 

 pleas court of this county was filed last week 

 in the circuit court in the case of the Stand 

 ard Millwork Company vs. the Chicago Lum- 

 ber and Coal Company. The latter contracted 

 to deliver fifty carloads of cypress lumber at 

 a stipulated price. About the time forty-five 

 carloads were delivered the market rose con- 

 siderably, and it is alleged that the defendant 

 has failed and refuses to deliver the balance. 

 Wherefore damages in the sum of $2,745.83 are 

 sought. A plea in abatement was filed at the 

 same time by the defendant, as there is 

 already pending in this court a case wherein 

 the parties reversed, and wherein the de- 

 fendant there and plaintiff in the new case 

 filed an answer and cross-petition in which 

 the above sum is claimed to be due for breach 

 ot contract. The original action was brought 

 in the federal court about a year ago to re- 

 cover $4,373.11, claimed due under the con- 



J. E. Tuthill ot the E. L. Edwards Lumber 

 Company left last week for a business trip. 



Joseph Wintzinger and Joseph Kenkel have 

 organized the Fairmount Box Company, which 

 began business this month. The new concern 

 manufactures all kinds of boxes and cases, 

 and is located at 2820 Western avenue. Both 

 men have been connected in the box business 

 for many years and have secured a concern 

 of their own after much hard labor. 



Frank McCracken, brother of Ralph Mc- 

 Cracken of the Kentucky Lumber Company, 

 arrived in the Queen City this week from 

 Williamsburg and Immediately left for Chi- 

 cago, where he will attend the contatenation 

 nt the Hoo-Hoo Order at that place this 



