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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25, 1919 



Hardvvood Lumber and Hardwood flooring 



S34/Wtla««A^wn ai^^)r\ji£^^a' 



It is announced that the E. L. Bruce Company, Little Rock, Ark., has 

 opened offices at Kansas City, Mo. 



Tlie Lustre Wood Products Company, Syracuse, N. Y., is a new concern 

 engaged in the manufacture ot toys, etc. 



The Miller Casket Company, manufacturer ot caskets, has started busi- 

 ness at Huntington, W. Va. 



American Trading Co, (^coast^) 

 Imported and Domestic Hardwoods 



AUSTRALIAN GUM TEAK COCOBOLO (Rosewood) 



CENTRAL AMER. MAHOGANY IRONBARK ^'^^n'i'?,S, ^^.Str 



GENIZERO MAHOGANY GAL. LAUREL LIGNUM VITAE 



And Numerous Other Varieties 



244 Calffornia St. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 



Shawano County Hard Maple 



h Our Specialty 



Complete Stock of Northern Hardwoods 



MAPLE 



FIVE CARS 

 5/4" No. 2 C & B Soft 



THREE CARS 

 7/4" No. 1 C & B Hard 



THREE CARS 

 9/4" No. I C & B Hard 



WAUSAU, 



WISCONSIN 



GILL-ANDREWS LUMBER CO. — 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE and RED OAK and YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory 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 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



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The Miami Novelty Works has lieeu incor]iorated at Miami, Fhi. 



The capital stock of the Lake Charles I'laniiig Mill Company. Lake 

 Charles, La., has heen Increased to $50,000. 



The Brown Lumber & Hardwood Company, liirmiugharn. .Via., has been 

 incorporatt'il. 



The Cotton riant Veneer Company at Cotton Plant, Ark., has sold out 

 to the Cotton Plant Veneer Company, Newport, Ark. 



Recent Incorporations are reported as follows: Schell-Sasst?e Manu- 

 facturing Company. Jacksonville, Pla. ; Mucon Crate & Basket Company, 

 Macon, Ga. ; Crown Chair Company, Evansville, Ind. ; Brewer Fernow 

 Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky. 



The Texas Mill & Cabinet Works, San Antonio, Tex., sustained a loss 

 by Are. 



The Mississippi Hardwood Company, Fort 'Worth, Tex., is now known 

 as the D. E. Chipps Lumber Company. • . •■; 



The li. C. Smith Estate, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been sold to the Forest Box 

 & Lumber Company of New York. 



CHICAGO 



two weeks* 



A. ('. Quixley of the Quixley Lumber Company is enjoying 

 motor trip through Wisconsin. 



K. \. Smith of the Hardwood Mills Lumber Company has returned from 

 Spring Lake. Mich., where he spent his vacation, enjoying fishing and 

 swimming. 



F. W. Black ot the Black Brothers Lumber Company, has gone to 

 Searcy, Ark., on a business trip. 



.T. II. Dion of Maisey & Dion and W. E. Trainer ot the Trainer Brothers 

 Lumber Company, motored to Si.ster Lake, Mich., last week end. 



Recent incorporations are reported as follows : Schell-Sassee Manu- 



F. B. MoMullen ot McMullen-Powel Lumber Company is on a business 

 trip through ilississippi and Tennessee. 



V. .T. Heidler ot Fink-Heidler Company has returned from a motor trip 

 through Wisconsin. 



E. L. Cook of the E. L. Cook Lumber Company is enjoying a trip to 

 the Thousand Islands and Quebec. 



Glenn 11. IloUoway ot the Utley-IIolloway Company has returned from a 

 business trip through the South. While there a considerable part of his 

 time was spent at the company's mill at Clayton, La. 



.T. 1'. McParlaud of the McParland Hardwood Lumber Company spent 

 last week end at Grey's Lake, northern Illinois. 



W. E. Ilalsey of the Halsey Lumber Company ot Milwaukee, Wis., was 

 a recent Chicago visitor. 



Joe Thompson of the Thompson-Katz Lumber Company, Memphis, ar- 

 rived in town a few days ago. While pretty much occupied with business 

 he found time to get in a little work on the links. 



Sam A. Thompson, manager ot the lumber department of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company of Memphis spent the better part of a week in Chicago 

 recently. 



C. II. Sherrill of the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Company, Merryville, 

 La., was in the city for a few days of last week. 



The American Wood Carving & Mirror Company has recently been in- 

 corporated in Chicago. 



BUFFALO 



G. Elias & Bro. have filed plans with the city for the erection of a new 

 addition to their mill building, to give mttch needed room. The structure 

 will be 50 liy 100 feet and two st<iries in height. 



C. .\. Yeager of the Yeager Lumber Company has been spending a two 

 weeks' vacation at the home of his parents in eastern Pennsylvania. 



Building is on an active scale in Buffalo and during the first two weeks 

 of August tW cost of permits ran over $1,000,000. The month will be 

 one of the largest, it not the largest, so far this year in both the number 

 and cost of permits. 



A big walnut tree at Gowanda, which has stood for over 150 years, has 

 been cut down. The woodman failed to spare the tree, since it stood in 

 the way of paving. The tree was owned by Paul Miller and was sold to 

 t^larcnce Miller for $.S00. It was a landmark and one of several trees of 

 which the village was proud. 



M. M. Wall has returned from an extensive trip to the Pacific Coast, 

 having heen away a month. He went as far as Victoria and Vancouver 

 and also visited the Y'ellowstone Park. 



H. L. Abbott, manager of the Atlantic Lumber Company has returned 

 from a vacation at lOaglesmere, Pa. 



W. L. Blakeslee left a few days ago for a tw-o weeks' vacation in Canada. 

 C. N. Perrin lately returned from several weeks in the Dominion. 



W. P. Miller, of Miller, Sturm & Miller, is spending two weeks on a vaca- 

 ticjn at Trenton, Ont. His partner, B. J. Sturm, enjoyed a vacation on a 

 farm not far from this city. 



BALTIMORE 



Uicbard P. Baer & Co.. hardwood manufacturers and wholesalers here, 

 report a very brisk demand for their stocks and now have three mills run- 

 ning. One of these mills, that at Mobile, is being operated with a day and 

 a night shift, the output being thus doubled, while the rate of production 

 at the others show.s up quite well. The total output is around 200,000 

 feet a day. but at that stocks are being promptly moved and there are no 

 accumuhitlons. Only in some of the lower grades are there assortments 

 nf any size in hand. As for the higher grades, they are in very urgent 

 request. 



The Export and Import Board of Trade, which was recently organized 

 by a number of financiers and other prominent men here to increase the 

 city's foreign trade business, has secured the services of William Mackellar 

 Brittain, formerly secretary of the Association of American Steamship Com- 

 panies, and who acted as advisor to some of the American representatives 

 at the peace conference in Paris in matters affecting transportation. Mr. 

 Brittain will apply himself to the work of attracting shipments to Balti- 

 more and of developing new source-s of commerce by bringing the advan- 

 tages of the port to the attention of those who maintain connection with 



