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company with a party of friends left last week 

 for an auto tour to Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Ban- 

 ning is very fond of taking long auto trips 

 and takes advantage of the opportunity at all 

 times. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber 

 Company has returned from a short trip to the 

 lakes, where he said fishing was very good 

 and where he was successful enough to land 

 several large ones. 



J. E. Tuthill of the E. L. Edwards Dumber 

 Company returned from a trip up state. E. L. 

 Edwards of the concern left last week for a 

 trio to Michigan. 



B. A. Kipp of the B. A. Kipp Lumber Com- 

 pany states that the demand for quartered oak 

 during the past week has been very good and 

 also that the upper grades of poplar are mov- 

 ing more freely with prices on both grades 

 holding up fairly well. The output of ma- 

 hogany this year, he says, is about 75 per 

 cent of that of last year. Collections also are 

 better. 



The O. Armleder Company, manufacturers 

 of carriages and wagons, reemployed full 

 forces the middle of the month, which was 

 brought on by the continued increase in their 

 business. Orders have been coming in during 

 the past two months of such nature to force 

 the reopening of the big plant. Mr. Armleder 

 also presided at the meeting of the Carriage 

 Makers' Club at Heidelberg, Ky., where ar- 

 rangements were made for a delegation of 

 about fifty to attend the national convention 

 in Chicago. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The K. H. Eldridge Lumber Company is mak- 

 ing a .$1,.500 frame and brick addition to its 

 plant on South New Jersey street. 



Richard Bartlett, Indiana representative of 

 the Natfllbany Lumber Company, Hammond, La., 

 recently made an extensive trip through the 

 southern part of the state. 



The Warsaw plant of the G. B. Lesh Manufac- 

 turing Company has been sold to E. C. Johnson 

 of that city for $5,400 by Receiver C. E. Stout, 

 county clerk. 



A branch factory is being established at Bir- 

 mingham, England, by the Sidway Mercantile 

 Company of Elkhart, manufacturers of go-carts. 

 A recent English law refuses to protect the 

 patentee of an article not manufactured in that 

 country. 



The Knudson-Mercer Lumber Company of 

 Huntington suffered a $25,000 loss by fire on 

 September 9, the lumber stock, office building 

 and shed being destroyed. 



A petition asking for a revision of lumber 

 freight rates has been filed with the Indiana 

 Railroad Commission here by William H. Bower, 

 a Kurtz lumber dealer. He charges excessive 

 freight rates are driving him out of business. 



A. L. Mcssimore of Etna Green has completed 

 a table containing 250,4.-)0 pieces of wood, all 

 of the known hardwoods in the world. The 

 top of the table is Sy^ feet long by 3 feet wide, 

 supported by a center IS inches in diameter. 



The Fulsmore Manufacturing Company has 

 taken over the plant of a former table manu- 

 facturing company at Morgantown. which has 

 been idle for about eight months. The new com- 

 pany is manufacturing tables, employing about 

 fifty people. 



A. V. Bradrlck of the W. H. Gerhart-Bradrick 

 Lumber Company, Spokane, Wash., is spending 

 a few weeks in Indianapolis and vicinity visit- 

 ing old friends. He left Indiana seven years ago 

 to engage In the lumber business in Washington. 



A. B. Eldridge of the E. II. Eldridge Lumber 

 Company has just returned after a months 

 trip through the East. The company's book- 

 keeper, Henry C. Murphy, is now spending a 

 few weeks in southern Michigan. 



Arthur Wylle, manager of the Elwood Lumber 

 Company, was married to Miss Laura Brown at 



the home of the bride in Elwood on September 

 17. Mr. and Mrs. Wylle left immediately for 

 a wedding trip, after which they will be at home 

 in Elwood. 



The Indianapolis National Supply Company, 

 dealers in hardwoods, cooperage stock, ties, etc., 

 with headquarters in the Board of Trade build- 

 ing, have increased their capital stock from 

 $10,000 to $100,000 in order to extend the 

 business. 



Clarence Morton has been made superintendent 

 of the Oakland City yard of the Greer-Wilkinson 

 Lumber Company, headquarters of which is in 

 this city. Mr. Morton has been in the service 

 of the company some time and won the promo- 

 tion by hard work. 



S. P. Jennings was in the city a few days at- 

 tending a reunion of members of a party of 

 twenty-six that made a trip through the East 

 last summer. Mr. Jennings is in the lumber 

 business at Newcastle. 



.4fter a pleasant trip through Europe, lasting 

 more than three months, Frederick M. Bachmann 

 has returned home. Mr. Bachmann is president 

 of the F. M. Bachmann Company, lumber deal- 

 ers and veneer manufacturers. 



C. C. Foster of the Foster Lumber Company 

 was one of the organizers of a political club 

 which has just been organized here with 1,000 

 members. It is believed the club will wield con- 

 siderable influence during the coming campaign. 



The Indianapolis and Chicago Hoo-Hoo base- 

 ball teams played a return game at Atkins Park 

 in this city on Saturday, September 19, the score 

 being 23 to 4 in favor of the local team. It 

 was an eight-Inning game and might have lasted 

 longer if the score card had been larger. A 

 return game will be played in Chicago on Satur- 

 day, October 3, when Indianapolis expects to re- 

 peat the two it has made over the Chicago 

 "kittens." The line-up at the local game was 

 practically the same as the line-up at the Michi- 

 gan City game during the Hoo-Hoo concatena- 

 tion. The summary; 



Chicago— AB R H O A E 



D. B. Fox, p 3 1 4 



A. H. Lewis, c 3 8 1 3 



F. J. Swec, lb 3 1 1 8 3 



W. A. Davis. 2b 3 3 1 1 



P. S. Flftrht-r. ?,h 4 1110 2 



M. Mast. MS. If .-! O (1 



A. MacKriizi.. U - 1 1 



T. B. Tavl.T. .1 4 It 1 1 1 



G. A. Lars.m. ss :i O 4 2 



Indianapolis — 



John Avery, p 3 3 2 2 



W. S. Johflson, c 5 2 2 12 



John Pritehard, lb 5 2 1 7 



W. Geisel. 2b 5 3 3 3 



G. L. Maas, 3b 5 2 2 o 1 



Al. Heyser, rf 5 4 4 110 



Hugo Wuelfing, If 5 2 13 



H. Geisel, cf 3 3 1 1 



J. Gould, ss 2 110 1 



Chicago 1 2 



Indianapolis 1 4 8 1 1 6 2 • 



ludiaaapolls played 7W. innings. 



A new chapter was added to the Kieper 

 Brothers Furniture Company litigation the 

 past week when the Michigan Lite Insurance 

 Company brought suit in the common pleas 

 court at Toledo to recover on notes amounting 

 to $20,171.31. given by that concern. Numer- 

 ous indorsers are made parties to the proceed- 

 ing. The defunct firm is now in the bank- 

 ruptcy court here, having been forced into 

 that court by creditors several months ago. 



Clarence D. Whitney of Toledo has been 

 appointed general traffic manager of the Mis- 

 souri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, with 

 headquarters at Eureka Springs, Ark. He 

 was for years general traffic manager of the 

 Clover Leaf with headquarters at Toledo. 



A valuable hardwood timber tract conipris- 

 ing thirty-five acres on the Gerry Harris 

 farm near Bellefontaine. Ohio, was destroyed 

 by fire last week, incurring a loss of about 



$5,000. The flames originated from a lighted 

 fuse to a dynamite cartridge. Forty farmers 

 turned out with plows and finally succeeded 

 in checking the flames. 



The Toledo "saw dust volcano" has been in 

 constant eruption during the present drought, 

 and is causing the fire department no end of 

 work and worry. For years this old Mitchell 

 & Rowland saw dust mountain has been burn- 

 ing and hundreds of visits have been paid by 

 the fire department to the scene. 



The firm of Robinson & Duttweiler, whole- 

 sale and commission lumber dealers at To- 

 ledo, has been dissolved. F. W. Duttweiler, 

 having purchased the interest of his partner, 

 will continue the business under the firm name 

 of the F. W. Duttweiler Lumber Company. 



Hardwood floors and finish will be used in 

 the freak house now being erected by John 



outer walls will be constructed of the new 

 material for which Mr. Budd has applied for 

 patents. It is a concrete composed of straw, 

 broken glass, mud, feathers, paper, and any- 

 thing else that will fill space, all of which is 

 poured together in a mass. Even the porch 

 columns will be made of this material. 



Romine Howard, a pioneer of Williams 

 county, Ohio, died at his home in Stryker, 

 Ohio, recently, at the advanced age of sev- 

 enty-five years. He was a wagonmaker by 

 trade and for more than fifty years worked 

 continuously in the same shop. He leaves a 

 wife, one daughter and three sons. 



Official announcement has been made of the 

 appointment of Hudson Fitch to the position 

 of traffic manager of the Ohio Central lines. 

 The appointment is effective at once. The 

 vacancy in the position of general freight 

 agent caused by his promotion has not yet 

 been filled. 



Milton Kyle, engineer at the basket fac- 

 tory at Edgerton, Ohio, was scalded to death 

 recently. While engaged on top of one of 

 the boilers the steam pipes connecting the 

 two boilers came loose, and he was burned 

 so badly that death resulted within a few 

 hours. He was fifty years old and leaves a 

 wife and two children. 



Toledo window glass jobbers feel optimistic 

 as to the future. George L. Heater, general 

 manager of the Toledo Plate & Window Glass 

 Company, is quoted as saying that surplus 

 stocks have now about all been cleaned up 

 and prices are stiffening. Many of the plants 

 throughout the country have been closed be- 

 cause of over-production, but are beginning 

 operations. 



Charles H. Whittier, who built and operated 

 the first excelsior factory in the state of 

 Ohio, died recently at his home in Lima, Ohio, 

 at the age of eighty-four years. He was 

 born in Maine and came overland to Ohio, 

 settling at Delphos in 1S59. 



BVANSVILLB 



Richard Jenks of the Davis-Birely Table 

 Company, Shelbyville, Ind.. was in the city 

 this week calling on his friends. 



J. A. Brittain, lumber dealer of Jackson, 

 Tenn., was in the city on business recently. 



Nathan Thayer of Thompson, Thayer cS: Mc- 

 Cowen, who has been abroad since last spring, 

 has just returned. Mr. Thayer says he en- 

 joyed his trip very much, having visited 

 nearly every country on the continent and 

 Ireland, Scotland and England. Mr. Thayer 

 is in excellent health after having made the 

 trip. 



J. P. McParland of Chicago, 111., was in the 

 city recently looking after business. 



Frank Smith of the Mossman Lumber Com- 

 pany, this city, spent several days at rtie 

 mills of the company at Dubois, Ind.. last 

 week. 



