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HARDWOOD RECORD 



S. li. Andoison, president of tbe Anderson- 

 lully Company, and interested in a number of 

 woodworking establishments in this city, has re- 

 iiirned after an absence of some time. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany. wb(j nvontly returned from an extended 

 ni'Stern .nnd nml bw'-stern trip, will leave in a 

 few day-i for ibi' Kast. He will probably go as 

 lur north as riiiladclphia. 



W. H. Kus.se of Russe & Burgess has just re- 

 lumed after an extended absence from the city. 

 Ho reached here in time to relieve -Mr. Burgess 

 before the latter left on his eastern trip. 



O. M. Krebs, manager of the McLean Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company in New South Memphis, 

 lias retiM-ned from his trip to the TaciHc coast, 

 lie spent practically all of the month of August 



C. B. IJudley of Ihe Dudley Lumber Company 

 lias returned from northwestern points. 



\V. H. Greble, sales manager 



of the Gllchrist- 



l-ordney Company, with headquarters in this 

 • Ity, is back after an absence of several weeks. 

 Mr. Greble combined business and pleasure on , 

 his trip and returns much improved in health. 



K. J. Darnell, Inc., will begin the operation of 

 Ihe bl-,' double band mill and veneer plant at 

 this point Monday, September 7. The entire 

 plant was closcil down some time ago on account 

 ,il the unsati.-^lai lory conditions prevailing in 

 liaidwoofl lumber circles. 



The .1. W. Thompson Lumber Company has 

 l.cKun logging for its mill at Berclair, Miss. It 

 does not propose, however, to put the plant iu 

 operation before the beginning of the new year. 

 The company manufactures considerable ipianti- 

 lies of cypress at that point. 



Frank It. Gadd and U. W. Wells of Chicago, 

 l.oih of whom are identified with the Interna- 

 lional Harvester Company, are among the more 

 prominent visitors to Memphis during the past 

 ivw t\ny». -Mr. Gadd is sales manager for the 

 Wisconsin l.iiiuliir Company, with headquarters 

 ill Chica^'". and Mr. Wells is connected with the 

 pmcliaslim .l.pannient of the big company. 



Nothing ddinllc lias been done by the special 

 lommittee of the Lumbermcn;s Club having tlie 

 adjustment of rate matters in hand, but the 

 lominlttec expects to hold a meeting In the near 

 future at which something will be done. The 

 rates furnished Memphis by the railroads since 

 I be reconslgnmcnt privileges were withdrawn 

 have been very unsatisfactory and the adjust- 

 ment they have made has not been favorably 

 received by tlie general lumber trade and par- 

 ilcularly by wholesale and yarding Interests. 



NASHVILLE 



a brief visit to see some of his old friends and 

 ac(iualntances, and on every side he was given 

 the glad hand. He is now living in Helena, 

 Ark., where he is engaged in the lumber business 

 and is prospering. He spends a portion of his 

 summers in Tennessee still, however, as he has 

 a summer cottage at White Bluff, on the N. & C. 

 west of .Nashville. Mr. Baskette was foriherly 

 city councilman of the seventeenth ward of 

 .Nashville, and iliairman of the finance commit- 

 lee of the city fathers. His friends strongly in- 

 llmate that the next mayoi- of Helena will be 

 none other than John H. Baskette. 



The Nashville lumliermen's baseball team has 

 now become a regularly constituted aggregii- 

 ilon, ready to play a game of ball any old time 

 and place. Although the squad Is playing good 

 baseball, they are not drawing any too many 

 victories right at this time, following up their 

 defeat at the hands of the lumbermen of Mem- 

 phis, they played the strong team of the Knights 

 of Columbus at Athletic park on last Saturday 

 and came out second best in that game with a 

 score of 3 to 1 against them. 



Hamilton Lpve Is getting rid of his rheuma- 

 tism, which has lieset him for several years. 



he 



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the efficacy of so homely a remedy as butter- 

 milk. He makes his own buttermilk, too, by 

 tlropping some kind of a tablet into a quart of 

 fresh sweet milk, letting it stand for twenty- 

 four liours, and then the buttermilk is made. 

 Hamilton .says, buttermilk that will keep iudeh- 

 nitely. He opines that buttermilk contains mil- 

 lions of lactic germs that are harmless to the 

 body, but that cat up every other kind of germs 

 with which they come in contact, and he is 

 •sicking them" on the ••rheumatic" germs with 

 instructions to eat 'em all up. 



A new furniture company which has Just 

 begun business in .Nashville is that of the Brad- 

 ford-.McKee Kurniture Company, with a capital 

 stock of $24,000. The following are the incorpo 

 lators : Carson Bradford, J. U. Bradford, A. J. 

 .McKee, A. J. Morrlssey, Arthur Uogcrs and 

 .lordan Stokes Jr. 



A special from Athens, Ala., states that Boss 

 Swcetland. a young man Uving near that place, 

 was killed by coming in contact with a ripsaw 

 at his father's sawmill near that place. The 

 boy's body was cut almost In two. 



Another fatality in the logging business is re- 

 ported from Trezevant, Tenn.. where Monroe 

 Crocker was run over and killed by a logging 

 wagon. 



Night riders have extended their operations 

 in .Montgomery county outside of the tobacco 

 world, for reports from Marlon, near the Mont- 

 gomery-Hlckson county lines, state that the 

 boiler of Ihe sawmill of Tom Kdwards had been 

 blown up. The mill had been operated by Har- 

 ris Harper for .Mr. Kdwards, and .Mr. Harper 

 had recinlly receive<l orders in the shape of 

 anonymous ( oaimuntcatb)ns from •night riders' 

 warning lilm not lo employ any more '•hill 

 billies " as laborers. He complied with the order 

 and states that he does not believe night riders 

 blew np the mill. 



James Whltacre, a Mississippi lumberman in 

 the employ of Ihe Troxler-Hush Lumber Com- 

 pany of White Sand, Miss., died this week at a 

 local Inllrmary. He came to Nashville about 

 .Vngust I'O and registered at the llnrtman hotel. 

 When fiamd he was In an unconscious slate. At 

 Ihe hospital he was unable to tell anyone about 

 himself. Ills firm was apprised of his death, 

 however, and a sister living In Spokane, Wash., 

 who was finally located, was also notlHed. 



Laborers running a sawmill near Clifton, 

 Tenn.. at Holder's mill on Beech creek, had a 

 most exciting experience last week. Heavy rains 

 up the creek caused a sudden rise and before 

 the mcif could get away the water had caught 

 I hem. They took refuge on top of the boiler 

 and thus escaped, having to swim. .Many Hne 

 lugs were washed away. 



Hriilwood coining out of Stone's river twenty 

 miles abovi- Nashville on last Sunday gave the 

 engineers who are building a half-mllllon-dollar 

 bridge over Cumberland river at Nashville a 

 scare they will not soon forj^et. Cumberland 

 river is or has been quite low for several weeks 

 and, taking advantage of the low stage of the 

 river, the engineers put up the big middle span 

 on false work, waiting to swing it into position 

 when Ihe east river concrete pier has dried out 

 sufliriently. While the false or trestle work was 

 holding all this weight a great volume of timber 

 came out of Stone's river with a freshet and 

 poured <lown against the false work, seriously 

 threatening It. .\ large force of men in boats 

 and armed with picks and axes were put on the 

 river at once and they kept the timber from 

 collecting and tearing the bridge away. It Is 

 believed the danger Is about over. 



Secretary of Slate John W. .Morion has 

 granted a charier to the Tennsylvanla Lumber- 

 men's -Mutual, or rather has given that company 

 a right to operate In Tennessee. The company 

 has no capitalization, the business being done 

 on a mutual ba.sls. The main office Is In IMilla- 

 delphia. 



Secretary ot State Morton has also granted 

 a charter to the Algood Cooperage Company, of 

 I'lilnam counly. capitalized at $7,000. The In- 



corporators are: L. D. Hol'laday, J. B. ThoiiM- 

 J. A. Keith, H. D. Keith and O. K. Holladay. 



Morgan Perkins, a former lumberman ■ i 

 .Murtreeslioro but now of Memphis, cxperleiK ■ I 

 a rough deal on his way home on a visit la-i 

 week to home folks in .Murfreesboro. Someuu. 

 relieved him of a valuable diamond ring and a ,. 

 considerable sum of money l>etween Nashville 

 and Murfreesboro. 



The Stearns mills at Stearns, Ky., probably < 

 take the premium in having in their employ as ' 

 handler of a big saw the youngest of all sawyers, j 

 John McDonald, age eleven years. Young Mc- ' 

 Donald's father died and left him as the sole C 

 support of the family. The company gave the ? 

 lad his father's position and paid him his 

 father's salary. The youngster is said to have , 

 unfailing eye and unerring judgment. The j 

 Stearns mills are operated by electricity solely 

 and each machine or saw has a separate and in- 

 dependent motor. Will Freeman, a well-knowu 

 Nashville boy, now occupies an important posi- 

 tion with the company. The company operates 

 a double band sawmill wltii a daily capacity of 

 75,000 feet, also a planing mill with a capacity 

 ot 40,000 feet. The yards now have on hand 

 over 10,000,000 feet ready lor the market. 



From present Indications there will be lively 

 doings on Cumberland river this season In the 

 lumber world as well as other lines ot tralhc. 

 It is stated that the Kynuin line of boats will 

 have opposition in the lower and upper t:um- 

 berland. Capt. John S. Tyner, the veteran 

 steamboat man, will soon commission a boat for 

 the lower Cumberland to ply between Nashville 

 •ind I'aducah, making two trips a week, and 

 .Messrs. Wiley, I'arminler and associates will 

 <oon place a boat to ply ihe upper Cumberland. 

 .Most of the lumber coming Into Nashville comes 

 down the river, and this lompetltion will proltfi- 

 bly mean much to the lumber interests. 



BRISTOL 



Several iiii|iortant timber deals have been co^i- 

 siimmated In this section recently, including the 

 sale of a ,'>o,000-acre tract of timber In western 

 North Carolina. Announcement of the deals Is 

 temporarily withheld, pending the organization 

 of corporations to take over the property' and 

 develop It. 



"The demand for timber lands about here Is 

 very strong," said W. It. White of Trigg i: 

 White. '•Notwithstanding the recent flurry, It 

 is selling higher than heretofore and in no other 

 kind ot property is values lirmer. As an UIus- 

 I ration last week there was sold a 27,000-acre 

 tract of timber In Washington county and an 

 .'idjolnlng tract ot S.OOO acres at $I.'i per acre. 

 This was purchased by well-known lumbermen 

 and the price Is regarded as only a fair one. 

 However, a year ago this property was on the 

 market for $7.50 per acre. The same Is said 

 of a number of other large tracts." 



Haskett Wood, formerly of the Wood-Gallo- 

 way Lumber Company, .Johnson City, Tenn., has 

 entered the wholesale business. He was In 

 Bristol this week and left for Baltimore, Phila- 

 delphia, New York and Boston. 



K. K. Wood of Baltimore, head of the 11. K. 

 Wood Lumber Company, was ti- recent visitor 

 here. Mr. Wood's company, which is one ot the 

 largest concerns operating In the South, has a 

 band mill near Bristol. While here he was the 

 guest of E. L. Warren, formerly ot the coin- 

 liany. Mr. Wood is quoted as saying that con- 

 ditions are Improving very rapidly and the out- 

 look Is bright. 



Franklin L Plshlon, the absconding lumber 

 clerk who was arrested at Toronto, Canada, i 

 not he brought back to Virginia f>ir the aM. 

 theft of funds from the Tug Hiver Lumber > 

 pany ot this city, by whom bo was formerly 

 ployed as bookkeeper, and the T. T. Adams 1 

 ber Company of Richmond, where he was 

 employed. It Is said that the American Nan 

 bank ot Richmond, which claims to have 



