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rag-time music on tlie piano, followed by some amazing performances by 

 Charles Thompson, a cleyer juggler. John Devlin then evolsed roars of 

 laughter with his Irish songs and anecdotes, and Edna Brown, a sweet 

 songstress, followed with her up-to-date songs. Billy Morse, a blaclc-face 

 comedian, contributed his roaring best, and Harry Alpigini, unsurpassed 

 in his line, astounded his audience with some incredible sleight-of-hand 

 tricks. Waley and Putnam, song and dance artists, wound up this most 

 «njoyabIe last day of the old year's entertainment of the exchange. 



Dogwood and Persimmon Shuttle Blocks 



A considerable part of the American output of shuttle blocks goes 

 to England. A recent consular report gives prices at Manchester, England. 

 Persimmon in the log, 5-inch diameter and upward, is generally quoted at 

 about $14.60 per ton (2240 pounds), and dogwood about from $17 to 

 .$19.50 per ton. The majority of the shuttle-makers in the district buy 

 the blocks cut from the wood in the United States, and these are 

 seasoned for about six months and sent over in 200 to 300 gross lots. 

 Sizes are as follows: HVi by 1% by 1% inches and 12% by 1% by 

 1% inches, an average price for which would be $3.90 per gross for 

 persimmon and $6.30 per gross for dogwood. 



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■< MISCELLANEOUS >■ 



The Alabama Lumber Company has been incorporated at Alpena, Mich., 

 with a capital of $100,000. 



The Saginaw Manufacturing Company, Saginaw, Mich., has increased 

 its capital stock to $200,000. 



The Bridgeport Woodenware Manufacturing Company of. Bridgeport, 

 Ala., has gone out of business. 



A new ' Philadelphia corporation is the Dresden Box Company, with 

 an authorized capital of $45,000. 



The Bode Wagon Works, Cleveland, O., are planning an extensive addi- 

 tion to their plant at that place. 



The Waldstein Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., has Increased its 

 •capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. 



The American Woods Corporation of Owls Head, N. Y., has increased 

 its capital stock from $15,000 to $25,000; 



The S. A. Smith Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at 

 Brattleboro, Vt., with a capital of $150,000. 



The Willson Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of meat blocks, has 

 increased its capital from $10,000 to $30,000. 



H. 1?. Lindaberry & Sous, manufacturers of baskets, have removed 

 from Frenchtown, N. J., to East Burlington, N. J. 



The Thompson Hardwood Lumber Company of Cincinnati, O., has 

 increased its capital stock from $30,000 to $50,000. 



The Ward Furniture Manufacturing Company of Fort Smith, Ark., has 

 increased its capital stock from $75,000 to .$100,000. 



The Bond Lumber Company is the name of a new corporation at Cov- 

 ington, Ey., which will operate with a capital of $300,000. 



A new Chicago corporation is the Homer Brothers Furniture Mauufac- 

 turing Company, which will operate with a capital of $10,000. 



The Giles Brothers Hardwood Lumber Company recently began opera- 

 tions at Forest Hill, La. The company will operate a sawmill. 



The Carribean Manufacturing Company is the style of a new company 

 incorporated at Xew Orleans, La., to manufacture picture frames. 



The Courtade Piano Case Company of Hoboken, N. J., recently lost its 

 piano factory at that place by fire which resulted in a loss of $150,000. 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, Fa., has been suc- 

 ceeded by the B. W. Cross Lumber Company, which is incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $5,000. 



The Reap-Crawford Furniture Company is the style of a new incor- 

 poration at Pine Bluff, Ark. The incorporators are J. P. Crawford, John 

 W. Reap and others. The capital stock is $25,000. 



The Philip A. Ryan Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., has been 

 granted a permit to do business in Texas, with main ofBce at Houston, 

 Tex. The company will operate with a capital stock of $75,000. 



Instead of at Houston, as was stated in the Dec. 10 issue of Hardwood 

 Recokd, the Farmer's Handy Wagon Company of Saginaw, Mich., manu- 

 facturer of the "Saginaw Silo," has purchased a site and is building a 

 plant at Port Worth, 'Tex. The corporate name of the company in that 

 state is The McClure Company of Texas. 



The directors of the Michelson & Hanson Lumber Company of Bay 

 City, Mich., which operated for over twenty years at Lewiston and 

 completed its timber cut about two years ago, have filed a petition for 

 a dissolution of the corporation. The Michelsons and Hansons are still 

 extensively engaged in lumbering at Grayling, Johannesburg and at 

 Michelson, Mich. 



W. L. Martin of the Embury-Martin Lumber Company, Cheboygan, Mich., 

 visited the local trade on Jan. 9. 



E. M. Holland and C. E. Cartier of the Cartler-IIoUand Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ludington, Mich., spent Thursday of this week in the city. 



W. A. Spencer, office manager for the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, 

 Ludington, Mich., has been in the city for the past few days. 



Within the last two weeks art calendars were received from : Mowbray 

 & Robinson, Cincinnati, O. ; S. M. Bradley, Morelicad. Ivy., entitled "The 

 Lady of the Lillies" ; The John Dulweber Company, Cincinnati, C, 

 "Sweet Sixteen," from a drawing by Harrison Fisher ; Charles K. Parry 

 & Co., "Tantallon Castle, Scotland" ; H. R. Foster, Chicago, "An 

 Anxious Moment ' ; Robert Black & Co.. Bay City, Mich., "The Head- 

 land" ; "Our Girl," from Duhlmeier Brothers, Cincinnati, O. ; The Pres- 

 cott Company, Menominee, Mich., "Violet" ; Southern Pine Company of 

 Georgia, Savannah. Ga., "A Sea Nymph," and one from the Skillman 

 Lumber Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; ""WTien Venice Ruled the Sea," 

 from Tickle, Bell & Co., Liverpool, England. 



Practical office calendars came in from Barker & Co., Boston, Mass. ; 

 The Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, and 

 C. L. Willey, Chicago. 



A very fine leather wallet, together with a travel accident policy, is 

 acknowledged from The G. W. Jones Lumber Conjpany, Appelton, Wis. ; 

 a red leather memorandum book from Louis Wuichet, Railway Ex- 

 change, Chicago, and a black leather booklet from the Three States 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. Another useful remembrance was 

 received from The T. Wilce Company, Chicago, in the form of a clock, 

 and a "Daily Reminder for 1913" from the Edward Hines Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago. A pin cushion made of red^-ood burl with redwood bark 

 in the center reached this office from the John D. Mershon Lumber Com- 

 pany, Saginaw, Mich. Mowbray & Robinson sent out two photographs of 

 their Quicksand, Ky., band mills and lum'oer yards, which make very 

 handsome office decorations, and the J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn., remembered its friends with a good sized picture of its 

 yards. 



Haedwood Recokd acknov.'lcdges receipt of handsomely engraved Christ- 

 mas and New Year cards, extending best wishes for its future prosperity 

 from : 



Tennessee Oak Flooring Company, Nashville, Tenn. ; E. C. Atkins & Co., 

 Inc., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Louisiana Red Cypress Company, New Orleans, 

 La. : B. Heinemann Lumber Company, Wausau, Wis. ; G. D. Crain, Jr., 

 Lonisville, Ky. ; Packages, Milwaukee. Wis. : F. A. Brewer & Co., Chi- 

 cago ; Oconto Company, Chicago : Saul Brothers, Chicago ; S. F. Minter, 

 Delaware, Ya. ; James Crowell, Newark, N. J. ; Patricio Fargas, Barcelona, 

 Spain. 



Leon Isaacsen, president o£ the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of 

 Coal Grove, O., was operated on for appendicitis on the evening of 

 Dec. 30. He has had the good fortune to recoup promptly from the 

 surgery and is now on the rapid road to recovery. He expects to be 

 again able to attend to business within a very few weeks. 



The St. Louis Lumberman celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 its inception at a reception in suite 1103 Lumbermen's building, St. Louis, 

 Mo., on Dec. 31, 1912. 



W. S. Sterrett, sales manager of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, O., favored Hardwood Record with a call on Jan. 4. Mr. 

 Sterrett reports an excellent condition of business in Cincinnati. 



W. A. Rockwell, manager and treasurer of the Harriman Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Harriman, Tenn., called at Hardwood Record offices on 

 Jan. 7. 



C. E. Davis, sales manager of the Richland Parish Lumber Company 

 and manager of the lumber department of the Mengel Box Company of 

 Louisville, Ky., has been in town several days on business in the interests 

 of those concerns. 



H. P. Keith of the Keith & Hiles Lumber Company of Crandon, Wis., 

 was in this city a couple of days in the early part of the week in con- 

 ference with members of the local trade. 



Godfrey Saunders of the Foreign Hardwood Company of London, Eng- 

 land, was one of the recent distinguished visitors to the city. 



W. A. Eunge. general manager of the Merrill Veneer Company, Mer- 

 rill, Wis., was in this city on Friday of last wfeek in connection with the 

 interests of that company. 



J. Moffett. formerly buyer for Heywood Bros, and Wakefield Company, 

 chair manufacturer of Chicago, has taken a position with Walter De- 

 witt of the Seaman-Kent Company, Ltd., Toronto. Mr. Moffett will assist 

 Mr. Dewitt in administering the local affairs of that concern. 



J. F. Mingea, Chicago manager of the Faust Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany of Paducah, Ky., has been at the latter place for the past week In 

 conference with his principals. 



A. C. Wells and J. W. Wells of the J. W. Wells Lumber Companj-, 

 Menominee, Mich., spent a few days in Chicago recently. 



"Pointers" is the inscription on a booklet recently issued by James D. 

 Lacey & Co., Chicago, Portland and Seattle. This book aims to give 

 valuable information to prospective Investors in timberlands. 



E. W. Bartley. president of the Racine Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Racine, Wis., was in Chicago on Wednesday of this week. 



F. D. Timlin of the Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company of Wausau, Wis., 



