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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Sterling Furniture Company lias incorpo- 

 rated at $50,000 at Greensboro, N. C. 



The Merrill Chair & Manufacturing Company 

 has incorporated at Boston, Mass., for $200,000. 



The Hardwood Flooring Compan.v was incorpo- 

 rated at Roanoke, Va., with $50,000 capital 

 stock. 



The Dryola Veneering Company has incorpo- 

 rated at Charlotte, N. C, with a capital of 

 $125,000. 



The Bienvenue Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has recently begun operations at Baton 

 Rouge, La. 



A new concern for Maiden, Mass., is the Mai- 

 den Woodenware Company, recently incorporated 

 at $10,000. 



It is announced that a receiver has been ap- 

 pointed for the Suffolk Lumber Company at Jack- 

 sonville, N. C. 



The W. E. Smith Lumber Company of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., has decreased its capital from $100,- 

 000 to $10,000. 



The Winston Handle Company of Winston- 

 Salem, N. C, has recently sold out to the Kelly 

 Handle Company. 



The B & B Lumber Company has recently 

 incorporated at Scottsville, Ky., with a capital 

 stock of $6,000. 



The Ackels & Perkins Lumber Company has 

 recently incorporated at Charleston, W. Va., 

 with a capital of $50,000. 



A $100,000 addition will be built to the fac- 

 tory of the Shaw-Walker Company, manufacturer 

 of filing cabinets, at Muskegon, Mich. 



Sam Evans, Hillsboro, O., is starting the build- 

 ing of a complete up-to-date veneer manufactur- 

 ing plant at Washington Court House, 0. 



J. Donald Roberts has been added to the sales 

 stafE of the Hadentine Lumber Company, Inc., 

 of Camden, N. J., and will cover eastern Penn- 

 sylvania. 



William Rider & Son, Ltd., London, E. C, 

 announce they have recently moved from 101 

 Aldersgate street to Cathedral House, 8-11 Pater- 

 noster Row, E. C. 



The Anderson Lumber Company has recently 

 entered the lumber manufacturing trade at Way- 

 cross, Ga. It is incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. 



The Truckers' Manufacturing Company of Wil- 

 liston, Fla., has recently incorporated with a 

 capital of $10,000, and will manufacture fruit 

 and vegetable crates. 



The Great Western Veneer Barrel Company has 

 recently incorporated at Chicago with a capital 

 of $20,000, for the general manufacturing and 

 merchandising business. 



The Rhinelander Woodenware Company of 

 Rhinelander, Wis., has been incorporated at $10,- 

 000 to manufacture broom handles. The manu- 

 facture of other woodenware articles will prob- 

 ably be added soon. 



It is announced that the Robinson Brothers 

 Lumber Company of Robinwood, Miss., has sold 

 its mill located at Monticello to J. J. Baskette 

 of Henderson, Ky. The mill is a single circular 

 mill cutting hardwoods. 



It is announced that Turner, Day & Wool- 

 worth Company, the chief handle producer of 

 the country, has arranged for the installation of 

 a new handle mill at Beaumont, Tex., which 

 will be conducted under the name of the Gates 

 Handle Company. 



The Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company of Piqua, 

 O., recently purchased the plant of the W. H. 

 Dewitt Company at Oakland City, Ind., for a 

 consideration of $100,000. 



The Southern Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Richmond, Va., has recently been incorporated 

 at $50,000 to manufacture lumber, with J. K. 

 Gruner, president ; E. P. Murphy, vice-president ; 

 P. T. Murphy, secretary and treasurer. 



The Batavia Land & Lumber Company has re- 

 cently been incorporated at Ladysmith, Wis., 

 with a capital of $15,000 by Emma C. Haag. 

 William Emley and Walter C. Wangerin. 



The veneer plant of the Jackson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Jackson, Tenn., which was recently dam- 

 aged by fire, will be rebuilt. The plant was 

 valued at $30,000 and insured for $25,000. 



Announcement is made that H. M. Campbell, 

 B. C. Cook and J. F. Wetz have organized the 

 Greenfield Wood Turning Company at Green- 

 field, Ind., to manufacture handles and wood 

 novelties. The company has an authorized capi- 

 talization of $10,000. 



The Jefferson Wood Working Company, Louis- 

 ville, Ky., is erecting a one-story building of 

 concrete for the manufacture of table rims. 

 This will be operated in connection with its table 

 slide business, which has the largest output of 

 slides in the country. 



The Dickson Planing Mill Company, Dickson, 

 Tenn., has placed an order with the Grand Rap- 

 ids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., for 

 remodeling two of its eightyrfoot kilns. The 

 order was secured by F. H. Kelly, manager of 

 the company's Memphis oflice. 



The plan of Frank Anderson, Mawawan, N. J., 

 was totally destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 

 about $4,000. Mr. Anderson is erecting a new 

 and larger plant, with new machinery, for the 

 manufacture of beech, birch, maple, oak and 

 chestnut trim, also wagon stock and gum rollers. 



President Frederic Wilbert of the Southern 

 Cypress Manufacturers' Association announces 

 the semi-annual meeting of that body, to take 

 place at the Hotel Grunewald, New Orleans, at 

 10 :30 on the morning of November 20. It is 

 announced that a number of important matters 

 will be up for discussion. 



Charles F. Felin & Co., Philadelphia, announce 

 that they have moved their purchasing, account- 

 ing and credit departments to their new offices 

 at York Road and Boston street, and that their 

 present sales department will be continued at 

 322-324 Land Title building. 



It is announced that the Southern Hardwood 

 & Tie Company has filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion at Paducah, Ky., with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. The company is organized for the 

 purpose of buying, selling and manufacturing 

 hardwood lumber and ties. The incorporators 

 are A. B. Smith, W. K. Smith and J. E. Bugg. 



The Prendergast Company of Marion, O., re- 

 cently acquired a site from the Big Four Rail- 

 road at Cincinnati, O., for a storage and assort- 

 ing station with a capacity of 18,000,000 of 

 lumber. The company gets six acres and it is 

 estimated will require 2,000 freight cars annu- 

 ally. The terms of the lease have not yet been 

 made known. 



The Norwood Manufacturing Company of 

 Utica, N. Y., has recently opened a branch office 

 at Fremont, Ala., where it has acquired the out- 

 put of a mill with a capacity of 60,000 feet 

 daily. The branch is in charge of R. E. Boyd 

 and will manufacture timbers and dimension, 

 choice high-grade finish and some boards and 

 flooring. The company is prepared to handle 

 rush orders. 



Jeffries Brothers of Chicago have recently pur- 

 chased the entire plant and timber of the Man- 

 chester Lumber Company, operating about six 

 miles from Jasper, Ala. They have not bought 

 the railroad nor farm lands, but simply the 

 mill output and timber in connection therewith. 

 The Manchester company has recently increased 

 the output of the mill by installing a new band 

 mill with a capacity of about 75,000 feet daily. 



The Michigan Forestry Association will hold 

 its annual meeting at Saginaw on Nov. 21 and 

 22. President Charles W. Garfield of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., is arranging the programme, 

 which will involve addresses by Professor Roth 

 of the forest department of the University of 

 Michigan ; Professor Baker of the state agricul- 

 tural college ; Comfort Tyler of Coldwater, field 

 agent of the Michigan Agricultural College; and 

 others. 



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Hardwood l^ews l^otes 



CHIC AGO 



J. M. Attley of J. M. Atlley & Co., spent last 

 week at northern sawmills in which his concern 

 is interested. 



C. M. Clark, sales nfanager of the Swan-Day 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, spent Friday and 

 Saturday visiting his trade in Chicago. 



E. Harvey Wilce, president of the F. Wilce 

 Company, the big hardwood flooring house of 

 Chicago, arrived In Chicago the middle of last 

 week from the northern Michigan operations 

 which he has been conducting during the last 

 year. He will be in Chicago for some weeks. 



Sam W. Richey of Richey, Halsted & Quick, 

 Cincinnati, was a Chicago visitor last week. 



John Attley of J. M. Attley & Co., returned 

 a few days ago from a visit to southern mill 

 points. 



J. S. Stearns of J. S. Stearns Salt & Lumber 

 Company and other important interests. Lud- 

 ington, Mich., made one of his regular Chicago 

 visits last week. 



A. H. Ruth, director and Chicago manager 

 for the G. W. Jones Lumber Company, Apple- 

 ton, Wis., visited the home office a few days ago. 



F. J. Kuny of the Williamson-Kuny Mill & 

 Lumber Company, Mound City, 111., was a recent 

 Chicago visitor. 



E. C. Tully and W. B. Morgan of the Andir- 

 scn-TulIy Company, Memphis, were at the recent 

 poultry convention held at the Hotel La Salle 

 in this city. They were not so much interested 



in the "hen convention" as they were in the 

 crates which they produce in Immense quantities 

 for shipping poultry. 



J. M. Cheeley, in charge of sales in this dis- 

 trict for the Kentucky Lumber Company of 

 Cincinnati spent the greater part of last week 

 in Chicago. 



Z. Clark Thwing of the Grand Rapids Veneer 

 Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., spent several days 

 in Chicago last week in the interests of the 

 dry-kiln branch of his business. 



Theodore Schneider, in charge of the Big Bay 

 sawmill plant of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender 

 Company, spent several days in Chicago last 

 week. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 -Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 Cincinnati, was one of the Chicago visitors last 

 week. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the Carrier Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, Miss., 

 came up to Chicago last week to assist Lewis 

 Doster to buy a new suit of clothes, and inci- 

 dentally to secure some sartorial adornments for 

 himself. 



Henry Ballon, manager of Cobbs & Mitchell, 

 Inc., of Cadillac, Mich., came over to Chicago 

 from the Detroit convention week before last, 

 where he was joined by his wife and daughter, 

 and the trio spent several days on a shopping 

 tour. 



W. B. Heincman of the Heineman Lumber 

 Company, Wausau, Wis., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



