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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Auglist 10. 1919 



ing Compauy of New Albany, Iml. It is alleged by the plaintiff ttiat a 

 contract made hy it witli tiie defendant was not fulfllled and as a result 

 tlie New Albany company lost money in the deal. The Indianapolis com- 

 pany is alleged to have agreed to supply veneering, pay freight charges 

 on it, and co-operate in supplying the government with $41,469.14 of 

 veneered lumber for use in the construction of air craft. The complainant 

 alleges that the veneering was partly faulty and that of 404,577 feet of 

 plywood called for by the contract, 60,080 feet was rejected by govern- 

 ment inspectors. 



William W. Dodge, has returned to Mishawaka, and has assumed the 

 general managership of the National Veneer Products Company, taking 

 the place rendered vacant by the death of William C. Stone a tew weeks 

 ago. Mr. Dodge, until last fall, was directing manager of the company, 

 and has since been residing in Boston. 



The Brinkley Lumber Company, Washington, has filed a final certificate 

 of dissolution. 



George J. Cronenberger, Chicago, has secured an acre of ground for a 

 factory site at Syracuse, Ind., and intends to erect a furniture manufactur- 

 ing plant there. 



The Pan-American Lumber and Investment Company, Indianapolis, In- 

 corporated with a capital of $100,000. Directors of the company are 

 Glen C. Osborne, I. J. Plory and John E. Spiegel. 



The Houghton Lumber Company, Indianapolis, has increased its capital 

 stock from $25,000 to $75,000. 



The Cambridge City Lumber Company has filed preliminary certificate 

 of dissolution. 



C. H. Barnahy's hardwood mills at Greeneastle, received what Mr. 

 Barnaby believes is one of the two largest oak trees in Indiana. The 

 second one is at Turkey Run, the state park. The one obtained by Barnaby 

 grew on the farm of P. B. Hutchison and contained more than 5,000 feet 

 of lumber. It was more than six feet in diameter at the butt. 



EVANSVILLE 



The plant of the Crown Chair Company, operated for several years by 

 Fred Stolz, was recently sold to a company of local capitalists, who will 

 operate the plant under the same name. The new company will file articles 

 of incorporation within a short time with a capital stock of $150,000 and 

 will be offered as follows : President. Edward D. Werayss, now president 

 of the Wemyss Furniture Company ; vice-president, Albert F. Karges, presi- 

 dent of the Karges Furniture Company ; secretary, M. C. Kerr. Other 

 members of the new company will be Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, 

 hardwood lumber manufacturers ; W. A. Carson and C. H. Battin. The 

 plant will be remodeled and enlarged at once. 



The William F. Hartig Plow Company has increased its capital stock 

 from $40,000 to $75,000, and according to Albert W. Hartig, the president, 

 the additional capital will be used in expanding the business of the com- 

 pany during the ensuing year. 



The Oster Brothers Furniture Company, Terre Haute, has filed articles 

 of incorporation. The company has a capital stock of $200,000, and the 

 directors tor the first year will be Edgar L. Gold, Donald Baker and Minton 

 Strauss. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip and reports trade conditions greatly improved. 



Announcement has been made that the Modern Refrigerator Company 

 of Peru has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $100,000. The 

 board of directors held a meeting recently and voted to declare a dividend 

 of 65 per cent. The company has been in business but two years and has 

 been unusually prosperous. It has been planned to erect two large build- 

 ings at the plant this year and the business will be greatly expanded. 



The Putnam Veneer & Lumber Company, Roachdale, has filed a prelimi- 

 nary certificate of dissolution. The Bunker Hill Lumber Company, Bunker 

 Hill, has also filed a decree of dissolution with the secretary of state. 



Bids were opened a few days ago at the office of a local architect tor 

 the building of a large addition at the plant of the Evansvillc Furniture 

 Company. All bids were rejected for the reason that they were higher 

 than the estimate called for and it is expected that nevj bids will be 

 ordered. 



John A. Byers, engaged in the lumber business at Tulsa, Okla., was here 

 a few days ago on his way home from Petersburg, Ind., where he was born 

 and reared, and where he visited his aged mother. Mr. Byers says there 

 is a great deal of prosperity in the state of Oklahoma and that things are 

 booming right along. 



Denial has been made that the Graham Valve Company, which moved 

 recently from Boonville to Mt. Vernon, Ind., will be moved to Chicago. 



Walter Haney, local lumber broker, who a few weeks ago purchased a 

 large tract of timbered land near Bumsey, Ky., on Green river, a few miles 

 southeast of here, has installed a sawmill on the tract and will ship the 

 lumber to Evansville as fast as it is sawed up. There is a lot of fine oak 

 and gum on the tract. 



Within a short time plans will be made by several Bh-ansville manu- 

 facturers to organize a housing corporation, which will build homes tor 

 working men of the city. The matter now is in the hands of a committee, 

 which will meet in a short time to work out the details. 



Chajles A. Wolflin of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company and 

 chairman of the membership committee of the Evansville Lumbermen's 



Club is looking around for several new members of the club, and says he 

 has signed up some whose faces are expected to be seen at the next regular 

 business meeting of the club, which will be held at a local hotel on Tues- 

 day night, September 9. There will be several important business matters 

 coming before the club for discussion and Joseph W. Waltman, the presi- 

 dent, is looking for a good attendance. 



Henry J. Graf of the Inland Motor Company announced a few days ago 

 that the Inland Motor Company will complete its first unit of its truck 

 assembling plant at the corner of the Stringtown road and Nevada street 

 within two months. Other units will be added from time to time. The 

 first unit of the building will cost about $10,000. 



George H. Foote of the Evansville Band Mill Company returned a few 

 da.vs ago from a business trip to Vincennes, Ind., and reported trade con- 

 ditions in that city greatly on the mend. 



Plans are being drawn for the new planing mill to be erected by Theodore 

 E. Rechtin of this city to take the place of the plant recently destroyed 

 by fire. The new mill will be modern in every particular. 



MEMPHIS 



Ensign F. D. Fuson, who was recently appointed membership secretary 

 of the Southern Alluvial Land Association, has already arrived in Memphis 

 and taken up his duties. He only recently resigned his commission in the 

 United States Navy. He brings a wide experience to his new worli and 

 his friends are confident that he will make a brilliant record in this field 

 because of his signal ability in publicity work and in other activities which 

 will have bearing on his activities here. 



I. M. Darnell & Son Company, which has been operating its hardwood 

 mill at Memphis in only a limited way during the past few months, is pre- 

 paring to resume operations on full scale within the next few days. 



Ralph May, May Brothers, accompanied by his wife and his mother-in- 

 law, has gone to the Pacific coast for a vacation. The party will visit 

 the Yosemite valley and will also pay its respects to the Yellowstone 

 National Park. 



A plant employing about 4,000 persons and having a weekly payroll of 

 $60,000 to $70,000 may be added to the present facilities of the Kelsey 

 Wheel Company at Memphis, to be devoted to the manufacture of bodies 

 and wheels for the Ford Motor Car Company. It is generally understood 

 in financial and business circles here that such an addition will be made, 

 but A. E. Mahannah, manager for the Kelsey interests at Memphis, will 

 neither affirm nor deny the report. The company has acquired forty-five 

 acres of land in proximity to its present plant and it is estimated that the 

 cost of buildings and machinery will be somewhere between $750,000 and 

 $1,000,000. The Kelsey Wheel Company employs about 1,100 men and is 

 one of the largest industries in Memphis. If the new plant is built, it Is 

 understood that it will manufacture bodies and wheels for the Ford Motor 

 Car Company under contract and that it will not be, in any sense of the 

 word, a branch of the automobile company in question. The Kelsey Wheel 

 Company has been manufacturing wheels for that firm for several years, 

 as well as for other makes of automobiles. It operates the largest wheel 

 making plant in the South. Herbert Kelsey, president of the company, 

 was a recent visitor in Memphis in connection with the proposed extension 

 of the firm's operations. He would not make any statement and it is 

 understood that official confirmation will not be forthcoming until the 

 plans have been fully consummated. 



H. J. Davis, senior member of Henry J. Davis & Co., reports the 

 complete loss by fire of his mill at Clarksdale, Miss., the night of July 26. 

 The building and machinery were valued at $10,000, partly covered by 

 insurance. No announcement has been made by the management as to its 

 plans. 



ARKANSAS 



The Vehicle Hardwood Company, Little Rock, is the name of the new 

 hardwood concern which was incorporated on July 23 with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. According to the articles of incorporation $2,500 of the 

 stock has been subscribed and A. B. Fisher, G. A. McForlane and T. S. 

 Sargent are the principal owners. 



Lumber still holds first place among Arkansas manufacturing industries, 

 according to the recent report of John C. Small, statistician for the Bureau 

 of Immigration, to Jim G. Ferguson, state commissioner of mines, manufac- 

 ture and agriculture. 



The report shows that there are 50.000 concerns engaged in manufactur- 

 ing enterprises in Arkansas, with an annual production valued at $100,- 

 000,000. Taking first rank among these, the lumber industry is shown to 

 have 1,252 lumber and timber manufacturing plants, employing 20.000 

 persons. 



These figures are the results of a survey recently made by Mr. Small 

 which is now being prepared and is to be printed in book form for dis- 

 tribution at the Arkansas Centenial celebration to be held in Little Rock 

 on November 17 to 22, 1919. It promises to be the most comprehensive 

 publication of the kind ever issued, and to give a great many valuable 

 statistics concerning Arkansas' natural resources, manufacturing and 

 agricultural industries. In it will be contained a complete list of all the 

 minerals, as well as timber and other natural resources to be found, show- 

 ing with reasonable accuracy the locations of the same. Detailed discus- 

 sion will also be given of topographical and climatic conditions, and the 



