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demand for hardwoods with the factory demand the best feature. He 

 says that concerns making boxes, furniture and vehicles are buying liber- 

 ally. Retailers are also buying better and the general tone of the trade 

 is improved. Prices are firm all along the line. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company, reports an increasing 

 demand for West Virginia hardwoods with prices ruling firm. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Building operations here show a decided improvement, which is steadily 

 gaining strength and promises to 13nd a very vigorous impetus soon from 

 widespread increases in rents during the last week. The report of the 

 city building commissioner for the first quarter of 1919 shows an increase 

 of 567 permits, at increased valuations totalling $464,757, for the first 

 three months of the year as compared with 191S. The "own a home" 

 movement with a vigorous publicity campaign to back it already has won a 

 real advantage by arrangements made in financial circles to ease condi- 

 tions of loaning money so that now anyone with any kind of an excuse 

 at all, as it has been expressed, can finance the building of a home. This 

 shortage of desirable homes and apartments, with rents going up not only 

 every time a tenant changes but in a great many cases now by direct notice 

 to old tenants, is expected to have a quick and decided Influence on build- 

 ing plans. Banks and building loan interests have conceded a recognition 

 of the increased values of property following the war, which they had pre- 

 viously been reluctant to do. 



A veneer mill of 40 by 300 feet is to be built at Lawrenceburg by the 

 Batesville Lumber & Veneer Company. 



The Sweetser Lumber Company has been incorporated at Greentown, 

 Ind., with $20,000 capital stock. 



"William N. Showers, president of the Showers Brothers Company, is 

 seriously sick at his home of heart disease and nervous trouble. Mr. 

 Showers is seventy-two years old. 



The capital Furniture & Manufacturing Company of Noblesville, having 

 bought the city block adjoining its plant from the H. M. Caylor lumber 

 yard, is preparing to spend $00,000 on improvements to its plant, the 

 major feature of which will be the erection of three additions. 



The Standard Woodworking Company has been incorporated at Lafay- 

 ette, with $10,000 capital, for the manufacture of building materials. 



The David Glueck Realty Company of Gary has incorporated with 

 $500,000 capital for erecting dwellings and other structures. The directors 

 of the company are David. Glueck, Isaac K. Bernstein and David Werner. 



The National Building Materials Company has been incorporated at 

 Evansville. with $10,000 capital. 



Automobile and wagon materials are to be manufactured by the Ohio 

 River Hub Company, incorporated at Corydon, with $10,000 capital. 



Immediate production of a new lath substitute has been arranged for 

 by the O'Brien Woven Lath Company, Indiana Harbor, which has leased 

 a factory building known as the Dickey plant at Indiana Harbor. The 

 product is a woven wood substitute for lath, and will be produced in 32 

 by 36-inch sheets, with arrangements for producing 24 by 48-inch sizes on 

 demand. E. J. O'Brien, inventor of the product and of special machinery 

 for producing it, has associated with him in the company K. D. Norris, an 

 architect of East Chicago, Ind., and George W. Roop and Joseph K. Dop- 

 pler, building contractors at Indiana Harbor. 



The Indiana Lumber Company has sold its interests at Walton and 

 Galveston to J. Victor Pumell, owner of the Home Lumber Company at 

 Kokomo, and other lumber yards in that part of the state. • 



EVANSVILLE 



There was no regular business meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's 

 Club during April, but in its place a banquet was given at a local hotel for 

 the members and their families, which proved a most delightful affair. 

 Following the banquet a theater party was enjoyed. The next regular 

 meeting of the club will be held on the second Tuesday in May. 



The Inter-State Lumber Company. St. Louis, recently purchased a hun- 

 dred-acre tract of tlmberland in Gallatiu county, Illinois. The tract con- 

 tains much valuable timber, which will soon be cut and sawed up by the 

 new owners. 



The Pekin Hardwood Lumber Company, whose plant at Pekin, Ind., was 

 destroyed by fire several weeks ago, will not be rebuilt at Pekin, but 

 Instead the company will erect a new plant at New .\lbany, where a five- 

 acre tract of land was acquired a short time ago. The purpose of the 

 company in moving to New Albany is to get better railroad connections. 

 When the new plant is in operation the company will give employment 

 to about one hundred men. Charles I. Hoyt is the president and John 

 W. Helstand secretary of the company. 



D. B. MacLaren, D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company, who returned 

 recently from a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., reported a marked 

 improvement in trade conditions in that section. He says the logging 

 situation is much improved and that lumber is moving freely. He la 

 looking for a good year for the hardwood lumber manufacturers of the 

 Middle West. 



William Lawrence Snapp, sixty-nine years old, for many years engaged 

 in the carriage and buggy manufacturing business at Princeton, Ind., died 

 a few days ago at his home In that city. He was well and favorably 



