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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



tboir belU'fs lis they wfiv sevenil luoiillis 

 ago. Miiii.v iHul set AuKUst 1 iih tin- iliiii- 

 when till- (U'ollne In pil«fs should Ih'kI". 

 but none of them mow think Hint there will 

 l)e liny iimterliil iUhIIiio ilurliic the rest 

 of the yeiir. Dniers iiie l>lontlful fr">iii 

 marly nil noureen. iiltlmuKli tlien- It* the 

 norniiil mikI seiisoinible ile.n-use In bUMllU'sK 

 bcciiUMe of the lulvent of sninnier. Tlil« 

 doon'iise, however, hiis not i>lnee«l thinirs 

 ou a basis wlierc the deinaiul enn be easily 

 taken care of. so that all eause for worry 

 Is elinilnatetl. 



The belief of the SI. I.ouls people in Hie 

 future of plain oak has lesiiltiHl In rather 

 heavy punhas«'S ilnrlnn Hie past several 

 weeks, and .so far as gnt'ii stock Is eon- 

 oerniHl. St. Louis is now fairly well llxeil. 

 It Is arpieil that plain oak has shown less 

 advaiuv than any other hardwood commo- 

 dity ; that the price of nuartere*! oak will 

 hare the effect of increasing the produc- 

 tion of quartered to the neglect of plain 

 oak and that this cannot be other than 

 beneficial to the latter. This belief is 

 backed up by actual purchases, and, as 

 stated, stocks are improving- It is almost 

 impossible to make satisfactory purchases 

 of quartei-cd oak and the result is thai 

 local stocks of it are very low and show 

 no tendency to improve. Thick plain oak 

 is also wanted in unlimited quantities and 

 is difficult to procure at first hands. Prices 

 on all oak commodities are high and show- 

 no downward tendency. 



All of the other woods handled in this 

 market show great strength and are fully 

 as strong as at last report. The pro- 

 duction of gum is increasing, but the 

 prices which have prevailed during the 

 past thirty days are still the market and 

 probably will be for some time to come. 

 Cottonwood and cypress receipts promise 

 to be heavier a little later in the season, 

 but this will not in the least affect the 

 markets. 



EAST ST. LOUIS WALNUT COMPANY 

 IS ALL RIGHT. 



THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CIN- 

 CINNATI LUMBERMEN'S CLUB. 



.Vs luiii: as :i man i^n>->. alunit qiiii'lly 

 Miwing wihhI. as the Nayliig k<k'S, he Is imt 

 iipl to be iiiolestiHl. but the inlnule he ac- 

 quires or Is forced Into an ollli'e he Is 

 ImiuihI to become a victim of prinlers' Ink. 

 Mr. Chester V. Korn, Hie subjei-t of this 

 sketch, had no Hioiighl of liecoiiilng a 

 li'iget. when he was electeil presideiil of 

 the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club al their 

 ai'iiual nieetilig In May, and was wholly 

 unprepared for the onslaught of the luiii- 

 lier press, lint Hiey all wauled to show 

 him up. and the Uecord is bad as the worst 

 111' them in this respect. 



If anyone familiar with the trade were 

 askiHl to name some of the leading tlriiis 

 doing business in southern hardwoods, he 

 ^^ould have Hie l-'arrin-Korn Lumber Com 

 piiiiy up somewhere near the top of tli<> list, 

 and Hiev have attained that jiositlon in 



We have been asked a half dozen times 

 or more within the last two weeks if the 

 flood raging down St. Louis way had dam- 

 aged the East St. Louis Walnut Company 

 to any extent. Here is the answer: 

 Hardwood Record, Chicago: 



The liigh water did not reach us: we 

 were three feet above the highest register 

 and are running as usual. When we lo- 

 cated our plant we sought ground that was 

 said to be above the high-water mark of 

 '44, and are to be congratulated that wc 

 did. LANE. 



DISSOLUTION NOTICE. 

 Notice is hereby given that the copart- 

 nership heretofore existing betsvcen the 

 undersigned, and doing business as M. E. 

 Stockwell & Co., is this day dissolved by 

 mutual consent. 



JIILLARD E. STOCKWELL, 

 S. WALLACE M'KEE. 

 Dated June 1, 1903. 



cull i.nlem III the kinds of lumber Ihey 

 haiidli' 



.Mr. Uiirn Is peixoiially well kinivvn and 

 liked lii.tli In iiml out of the triulc He has 

 been nil active worker in trade organlKa- 

 tloiiH and given generously of his time and 

 iitleiitloii t<> the betterment of eoiidltlonn 

 Niirroniidliig the lumber bUHlneHH. He hiis 

 conlrlbiitcd iiiuch to till- success of the 

 CInelnmiii l.iinilH'rineii's Club, anil it was 

 a lltting liuiior, as well as a deserved one, in 

 iiiiikliig liiiii presiding otilcer of that organ- 

 izatloii. lie Is also what Is known as a 

 "giNMl mi-inlier" In ■ftiany different com- 

 ii.erclal. sc.cliil and secret organizations. 



All tins piirtends a busy llfi-. but there 

 are sumc iiicii who have a big capacity 

 and one nf tlieiii is I'hester V. Korn. 



CIIKSTKK F. KuUN. 



less than five years' time mainly throuj/i 

 the efforts of Mr. Korn himself. And that 

 is no small job in the face of the compe- 

 tition they first met in yellow pine and in 

 Cottonwood, gum and cypress, which they 

 added to their line later on. 



To the general reading lumber public the 

 above is about all that is necessary to say 

 about Mr. Korn. He has achieved com- 

 mercial success and in doing so has not 

 sacrificed the standing of the firm in any 

 respect. We wish, however, to pay our 

 respects to Mr, Korn personally, but bofoTv 

 leaving this part of the subject it would 

 bo well to ndd tbnt the firm are doing a 

 large manufacturing business at Cincinnati 

 where their principal offices are located, 

 and operate yards both at Cincinnati and 

 Cairo, 111. Their manufacturing plant is 

 one of the finest and best equipped of the 

 larger plants in the country. As Mr. Korn 

 says, they are "lumber specialists," which 

 means that they are prepared to fill diffi- 



MORE WEDDING BELLS. 



Wi' ai kiHi" liil^c 'I'c rcii'ipt of an In- 

 vitation to attend the wedding of Mr. 

 Llewellyn H. Lesh to Miss Florence Gaston 

 of ChlcagM nil ,7une IS, I believe. You see, 

 I haveiri got the Invitation before me, 

 li;iving taken it home to show to my wife, 

 so I coulil have an opportunity to brag 

 :il)out what a fine fellow Lou Is. and ex- 

 press my satisfaction that some lucky 

 woman has finally landed him in the matri- 

 monial net. 



I"'or you see that when you know the 

 lacts the Imposing-looking name. "Llewel- 

 lyn B. Lesh," resolves Itself into "Lou 

 Lesh," the name of one of the kindliest 

 .iiid best liked of the young hardwood 

 lumbermen of the country. 



The day when a man gets married Is a 

 great day in his life. He is born again, 

 as it were, and from thenceforth life holds 

 a new asiiect for him. Lou Is too good a 

 man to liave been wandering about among 

 the goats so long in an unregenerate state, 

 and his friends among the lumbermen will 

 unite ill thanking the young lady that 

 took pity on him and took charge of him. 



I should like to tell her what we all think 

 of Lou, but it is considered bad form to 

 say such things of a man except in his 

 obituary- So his wife will have to wait. 

 We all want Lou to have anything he 

 wants, for whatever It is he is worthy of 

 it, and we have all, at all times, stood 

 ready to lielp him get it. In this matter, 

 however, he did not consult us or ask our 

 assistance, so we can claim no credit. But 

 if the liearty good wishes of a host of 

 friends luive any power to bring a man 

 and his wife good luck and prosperity and 

 happiness, Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn B. 

 Lesh will have smooth and pleasant sail- 

 ing—as smooth and pleasant as ever any 

 couple had. 



And now all eyes are on Billy Smith and 

 George .lolinson. 



D. B. K. Van Raalte, Holland. Mich., a 

 prominent hardwood lumberman in that 

 section of the state, was electetl com- 

 mander of the Michigan Grand Ar;r.y of 

 the Republic at its annual encampment at 

 Muskegon last week. 



