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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 20. 1911t 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter (awed 



WHITE and RED OAK and YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Uickory Imple 



ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough 



Your Inquiries Solicited 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underbill & Nixon 



PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA 



Manufacturers of CYPRESS and GUM 



Walnut 



Of Character and Color 



Manufactured at Kansas City, U. S. A. 



Large Stock of All Grades and Thickness 



Thirty-five years' experience 



IN WALNUT ONLY 



Prompt Shipment, and 

 Guaranteed Inspection 



FRANK PURCELL 



515 Dwight Building. KANSAS CITY. MO. 



War Tax on Freight Claims 



Section 5IMI i.f tin- war revcuue act uf lit]? has lu.'i'ii aiiifmled to ri-ad : 

 That from ami alter April 1, 1919, there shall be levied, assessed, col- 

 ii-cted, and paid in lieu of the taxes imptised by Seetion 500 of the Revenue 

 Art of 1917, a tax equivalent to three jier centum of the amount paid for 

 the transportation on and after sneh date i'.v rail >\y \vat<'r nr by any form 

 of mechanical motor power when in comp*'titi<>n with carriers by rail or 

 water of property by freight transporteil from one point in the United 

 States to iinother: and a like tax ou the amount paid for such transporta- 

 lioii within Xhv United States of property transported from a point with- 

 out the United Stati's to a point within "the United States. 



Government's Building Schedule 



r.eween the present and the end of the fiscal year Wi'M, the government's 

 liiiildinj.' schedule calls for the expenditure of $:i05.:-it>9,4»j4. More than 

 .$-_M;(;.0(Mt.(Mi() of this is intended for public roads, and other expenditure** 

 will include hospitals, river and Iiarbor works, and structures having to do 

 with I'ulilic health. 



Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., 

 Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, 



of llAiunvo(U) KKmun. puhlished semi-nioiithlv at Cbicatfo. 111., for April 



1. 1919. 



State of Illinois, / 



r.iunty of Cook. ( ^ ' 



I'.efore me, a Notary l*ublie. in and for the Stat«' and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared E. II. Defebaugh, who, having been duly sworn accord- 

 ing to law. deposes and says that he is the Editor of the Habdwoor 

 Kkcouh. and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief. 

 a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the 

 circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the 

 above caption, required l!y the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 

 143, Postal Laws and Kegulations, printed on the reverse of this form. 

 1 owit : 



1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing 

 editor, and business managers are ; 



Name of — I'ostoffice address — 



Publisher — The Hardwood Company. 5X7 So. Dearborn St., Chicagit, III. 

 Kditor — E. H. Defebaugh, 537 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 

 Managing Editor — E. W. Meeker, 537 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 

 Business Managers — None. 



2. That the owners are (Give names and addresses of individual own- 

 ers, or. if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of 

 stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of 

 stock) : 



E. H. Defebaugh, 537 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 111. 



3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders 

 cfwning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, 

 or other securities are (If there are none, so state) — None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, 

 stockholdei'S, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stock- 

 holders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the com- 

 jiany, but also, in cases where the stockhoJder or security holder appears; 

 upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary rela- 

 tion, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is 

 :icting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements 

 eiid»racing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and 

 eonditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not 

 appear upon the books of the company as trustee, hold stock and securi- 

 ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner ; and this affiant 

 has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation 

 has any interest, direct or indirect, in the said stock, bonds, or other securi- 

 ties than as so stated by him. 



5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication 

 sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers 



during the six months preceding the date shown above is ■ — '■ . (Thit^ 



information is required from daily publications only.) 



(Signed) ' E. H. Defebaugh, Editor. 



Sworn to and sul»scribed before me this thirty-first day of March, 1919. 



James S. Pennington, 

 [seal] Notary Public. 



(My commission expires October 24, 1920.) 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



James I'. Strong, treasurer of the (iuouthcr Lumher Company, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., aflvlsos that this company's entire yard at Philadelphia has 

 l)een reute<l, which will enable it to devote all its time and attention to 

 shipments of lumher direct from the mills. 



I. t'. Enochs, president of the Fernwood Lumher Comi)any and a meni- 

 I»er of Enochs Brothers, both of Fernwood, Miss., recently passed away. 



Curtis Brothers of East Orange, N. J., have sustained a loss by fire. 



Recent incorporations are : The Mellwood Lumber Company, Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va., capital .IJISO.OOO ; Southern Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 New York. N. Y.. $20.000 -capitalization ; the E. L. Bennett Estate Lumber 

 Company. Memphis, Tenn.. :(i5,000 ; the J. C. Myers Lumber Company, 

 WTiite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. : the Burns Casket Company, Ashboro. 

 N. C. ; the St. Louis Toy Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., ,$12,500 : 

 the American Farm & Lumber Company, Middlelnirg. N. C, $100,000 

 capital; the Bay State Finish Company, Boston, Mass., iS2,000 ; the Ameri- 

 can Toy & Utilities Company, St. Louis, Mo., $15,000 ; the Dawkins Lum- 

 lier Company, Ashland. Ky., $1,000,000; the Harley Hardwood Company. 

 I'aris, Ark., $50,000 capital ; the Universal Box Manufacturing Company. 

 Enid, Okfa. ; the Carothers Casket Company, St. Louis, Mo., $60,000; the 

 New Palestine Manufacturing Company, New Palestine, Ind., $12,000 ; the 

 Alabama Casket Company, Birmingham. Ala., $5,000 ; the Southern Land ' 

 & Lumber Company, Ozark, Ala., with mill at Rockford, capital $10,000. 



