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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1919 



The charter of the Trantum & Danzer Lumber Company o£ Hagerstowu, 

 Mtl., has lieen amended and the name of the corporation changed to tlie 

 William Danzer Company, with a capital stock of $i>0,(JOO. 



Thos. Matthews & Son, Inc., the successor to the old firm of Thomas 

 Matthews & Son, which has been in the lumlier business here for the better 

 part of a century, will remove to a new location at Cedar and Clare 

 streets, Westport, where a lot of ground four and a half acres in extent 

 has been secured, and on which an office building and storage sheds, as 

 well as a planing mill will be erected. Harry Thayer is president of the 

 corporation and G. R. Proudfoot is secretary-treasurer and general manager. 



COLUMBUS 



Building operations in Columbus continue to improve. The report for 

 May shows that there were 365 permits issued during the month having a 

 monetary valuation of .f509,37S as compared with 231 permits and a 

 valuation of .$242,075 in May, 1918. For the first five months of the year 

 the department issued 1,324 permits having a valuation of ¥2,071,080 as 

 compared with 877 permits and a valuation of .$1,208,170 in the corre- 

 sponding period in 1918. 



The Stony Ridge Lumber & Supply Company, Stony Ridge, ha.s been 

 chartered with a capital of $15,000 by John F. Warns, Augustine L. 

 Klliot, John R. Emeh, George W. Henning and Fred E. Henning. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods both from retailers and from factories. Concerns 

 making implements and furniture are good purchasers and the same is 

 true of box factories. Prices are firm all along the line. 



M. Swinhart and C. P. Patchin of Middlefleld, O., have organized the 

 Kent Lumber Company, Kent, O., and have taken over the business 

 formerly conducted by the Kent Lumber & Sled Company. C. P. Patchin 

 recently sold his lumber bu.siness at Middlefleld to the Geauga Farmers' 

 Supply Company. 



The Clark County Lumber Company, Springfield, has started the erec- 

 tion of a planing mill which will cost in the neighborhood of $7,500. The 

 structure will be 80 by 100 feet. 



The capital of the D. J. Peterson Lumber Company, Toledo, has been 

 increased from .$25,000 to $100,000. 



The Hubbard Lumber & Supply Company, Hubbard, has been chartered 

 with a capital of $50,000 by Robert Caldwell, George Munro, A. B. Hill, 

 J. B. Snyder, J. H. McFeteridge. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Walter B. Stearns, assistant commissioner of buildings, was appointed 

 commissioner of buildings by the board of public safety, to succeed Blaine 

 H. Miller. 



The body of Emory F. Mills, aged thirty-seven, vice-president of the 

 Muncie Wheel Company, who died of inflammation of the brain, was taken 

 to Rensallear, lud., for burial. Mr. Mills was a graduate of Purdue 

 university. 



The marriage of Mrs. Ada Watts, mother-in-law of Carl G. Fisher, 

 prominent in the automobile world, to George Welsh, well-known lumber- 

 man of New York state, was quietly solemnized at the home of the bride 

 on June 4. The couple departed immediately for Albany, N. Y., where 

 they will live at their summer home. Brae Side. 



The Union Lumber Company of Indianapolis has filed final certificate 

 of dissolution. 



The Speedway Lundjer Company issued $15,000 preferred stock, making 

 the total capitalization $35,000. 



The Caswell-Runyon Company of Huntington increased its common 

 stock from $200,000 to $500,000, and its preferred stock from $10 000 to 

 $100,000. 



The Thompson Lumber Company of Logansport incorporated with a 

 capital of $30,000. Directors are Harry S. Thompson, Charles F Thomp- 

 son, Edward J. Thompson. 



The Brookside Lumber Company of Indianapolis has increased its capital 

 stock from $25,000 to $40,000. 



St. Clair Parry, president of the Parry Manufacturing Company, makers 

 of automobile and truck bodies, announced the sale of the plant to a group 

 of New York banking interests, who have also taken over the Martin 

 Truck and Body Corporation of York. Pa., and will merge and operate 

 the two plants under the name of the Martin-Parrv Corporation The 

 companies taken into the merger have been operating for a number of 

 years, being listed among the largest manufacturers of bodies for light 

 trucks and automobiles. The combined capacity of the two .-ompanies will 

 give the new organization the largest output of bodies for light trucks in 

 the country. The Parry Manufacturing Company was founded more than 

 thirty .years ago for the manufacture of horse drawn vehicles and devel- 

 oped into one of the largest industries of its kind in the country Of 

 recent years the plant had turned its attention to the building of vehicle 

 oodles. 



Announcement has been made that Millspaugh & Irish, manufacturers of 

 automobile closed bodies, have purchaseil the property formerly occupied 

 by the Mais Automobile Company. With the acquisition of the Mais 

 property, Millspaugh & Irish will have tiO.OOO square feet of floor space 

 distributed over five and one-half acres of ground. There are seven build- 

 ings on the site. The firm specializes in the manufacture of enclosed 

 bodies for all sizes and types of automobiles, and with the operation of 



both factories will be able to turn out at least 200 bodies a month. 

 .\<r(irding to Mr. Millspaugh, the demand for the enclosed bodies is greater 

 now than ever before. 



EVANSVILLE 



The entertainment committee of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club an- 

 nounces all preparati(ms complete for the annual outing to be held Satur- 

 day. June 14. The steamer Joe Fowler has been engaged for the trip. 

 A fried chicken supper, dancing and music will be features of the trip 

 this year and a large attendance is looked for. 



An announcement was made recently by Charles Fitch, Jr., president 

 of the Evansville Central Labor Union to the effect that three men have 

 lieen appointed by the central body who will meet with three men ap- 

 pointed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Evansville Manufacturers" 

 -Association to draw up laws and regulations for a board of conciliation 

 that will settle all disputes between capital and labor in Evansville. The 

 hoard will be composed of twelve men named l>y the Central Labor Union 

 and twelve men selected from the employers' organizaticms of the city. 



Cliarles W. Johann. president of the Evansville Planing Mill Company, 

 has lieen elected president of the Farmers' Trust Company at Evansville 

 which was organized a short time ago with a capital stock of $100,000 

 and a surplus of $25,000. The new trust company opened for business 

 (m June 3. Mr. Johann is one of the best known planing millmen and 

 lumber dealers in the southern Indiana territory. 



The Perkins Gas Engine and Wind Mill Company of South Bend, Ind., 

 was s(dd a few days ago to Charles A. Carlisle of that place for $75,000. 

 The concern has been in the hands of a receiver. 



Edward Powers, for the past nine years connected with the Evansville 

 Sash and Door Company, died at his home in this city a few; days ago 

 after a long illness. He was forty-three yi'ars old and was well known 

 to the sash and door trade in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and west- 

 ern and northern Kentucky. He is survived by his widow and two 

 daughters. 



Plans are being completed to enlarge the Weniyss furniture factory 

 in this city from a one to a three-story building and to build an extension 

 (►n what is at present the machine room. The extension will increase the 

 size of the mill room, cabinet and flnishing departments. The Wemyss 

 company will sell $75,000 worth of cumulative stock that will hear inter- 

 est at the rate of seven per cent. 



(Je^u-ge O. Worland, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, says that trade conditions in the southern states are improv- 

 ing rapidly and that the veneer manufacturers are expecting to do a 

 larger volume of business this year than last. 



The Chamber of Commerce at Laporte has voted to incorporate a 

 house building corporation and to take immediate steps for the build- 

 ing of 100 new houses in that city. Fifty of these houses will be built 

 by the Chamber of Commerce while individual initiative will be depended 

 on f(tr the construction of the other flfty. There is a great sliortage of 

 dwelling houses here. 



The plant of the Evansville Band Mill Company has been closed down 

 for the past several days for repairs, but is expected to resume operations 

 within a short time. The company reports it has been running short on 

 logs for some time past but is expecting more logs in from the South by 

 the time the repairs on the mills have been completed. 



J. Stuart Hopkins, manager of the Never-Split Seat Company, has re- 

 turned from Indianapolis where he underwent an operation in a hospital 

 in that city. He has fully recovered and is now back at the factory. He is 

 looking for a splendid business year and a big increase in the export 

 trade. His company sells goods in Australia, New Zealand and many 

 other foreign countries. 



The Shelbyville Manufacturers' Association at Shelbyville. an organiza- 

 tion of all the furniture makers of that city, announced that a flat in- 

 crease in wages has been granted to all the employes. The increase will 

 supercede a bonus system which has been in use for several years at the 

 several furniture plants in that city. The furniture manufacturers of 

 Evansville some time ago announced a raise in wages to their employes 

 amounting to about ten per cent. 



J. C. Greer, manager of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, reports the 

 company's stave mills at Cumberland Furnace, Tenn. ; Louisa, Tenn., 

 and Lone Oak, Tenn., being operated on full time and the demand for 

 staves good. Mr. Greer says the Indications point to a good business 

 throughout the year. 



LOUISVILLE 



Accorrting to William H. Pay, niauajitT of the Louisville division of the 

 \V(KKl-Mosaic Company, Now Albany, quartorod oak is the one best bet, 

 and is selling as it never did before. The company is cutting largely on 

 fHiartered oak and walnut, meeting with a demand for oak that can hardly 

 bo supplied and an excellent demand for walnut. 



J. II. Townshend of the Southern Hardwood TraflBc Association recently 

 passed through Louisville en route to Washington, where he is looking 

 int() tho milling-in-transit and reclassification of lumber freight rate mat- 

 ters. The latter case is listed under Docket 8131. 



U. R. May, formerly manager at Louisville fur the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, left the city on Monday, June 2. for Owensboro, Ky., 

 where he takes up the duties of sales manager for J. V. Stimson & Co.. 



