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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, l<Jlt> 



Commodities Are Declining 



But 



Will LUMBER Go Lower? 



Our TRADE BULLETIN 



discusses lumber and analyses 



the situation carefully. 



Send for copy H. R. 5 



Brookmire Economic Service 



56 Pine Street, NEW YORK 



BUSS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE. ARKANSAS 



_ MANUFACTiniERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK. ASH and GUM LUMBER 



Can furnish anything in Oak, air dried 

 or kiln dried, rough or dreued 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



PENN SUMTER 

 SALES CO. 



SUMTER, S. C. 



Hardwood — Cypress — Pine 

 5 BAND MILLS 



Motlern Planing Mill and Box Factory 

 CYPRESS FINISH A SPECIALTY 



GUM ^ CYPRESS 



BOX SHOCKS 



IIIIIIM(1fl||"M"""*"""""""' 



Try our Thin Cypress Ceiling 



and you will want more of it 



The Excel Manul'Mcturing CompaDy, Milwaukee, Wis., is the Buccessor 

 to the South Side MlUwork Company. 



Jaimes J. Saludes, formerly a lumber exporter at ZS7 West Fourteenth 

 street. New York, announces that he has constituted his business under 

 the firm name of Saludes Lumber Company, Inc., with Jaimes J. Saludes 

 as president, and is located at 141 Broadway. 



It Is announced that the Kalkaska Handle Compjiny of Kalkaska, Mich., 

 will enlarge its plant to double its present capacity and the amount of 

 labor employed. 



Contract has been let to the Caswell Construction Company of Mcnasha, 

 Wis., for the erection of a three-story building for the Door County Seat 

 Company, that city, and work will begin immediately. 



Receiver has been applied for for the American Playground Derlce Com- 

 pany, Anderson, Ind., and also for the Pusey & Jones Company at Wil- 

 mington, Del. 



CHICAGO 



Ijeorge N. Harder, president of the Rib Lake Lumber Company, Rib Lake, 

 Wis., and of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, was in Chicago for a day or two last week before going to Mil- 

 waukee to attend the semi-annual meeting of the Northern association. 



W. II. Bissell, president of the Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company, White 

 Lake, Wis., and W. W. Gamble, manager of that company, accompanied 

 by their wives, passed through Chicago last week on their way home from 

 a visit to French Lick, Ind. 



H. C. Humphrey, vice-president of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company, 

 .\ppleton. Wis., recently returned through Chicago from a visit to Hot 

 Springs, Ark. Mr. Humphrey was accompanied by his wife. 



M. B. Clublne, vice-president and general manager of the Park Falls 

 Lumber Company, Park Palls, and George E. Latimer of the Foster-Latimer 

 Lumber Company and the Langlade Lumber Company, respectively at 

 Mellcn and Antigo, Wis., and W. B. Earle of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber 

 Company, Hormansville, Mich., came to Chicago following the meeting of 

 the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, which 

 was held at Milwaukee last week. 



B. D. Beals, president of the Hardwood Products Company, Neenah, 

 Wis., spent several days of last week in Chicago on business for that 

 company. 



J. E. Dewey, sales manager of the Bigelow-Cooper Company, Bay City, 

 Mich., was in Chicago for one day of last week. 



Louis J. Eckstein of Joseph Eckstein & Sons, Jasper, Ind., was In the 

 city for a day this week on hi.s way to Detroit. 



Joseph H. Wilder, manufacturer of hickory and oak bent work of 

 various kinds, who operates at Aurora, Ind., was in the city this week on 

 his way home from a business trip. 



Lieut. Paul Berry, formerly traveling representative for Nickey Brothers, 

 Inc., Memphis, passed through Chicago this week on his way to Camp 

 Grant, Rockford, 111., from where he expected to be discharged within the 

 next two or three days. Lieut. Berry will then go to MemphLs and will 

 become associated with the E. Sondheimer Company on June 1, doing office 

 and road work. Lieut. Berry has been in the thick of the fight in France, 

 having passed through unscratched in most of the major conflicts In which 

 the American forces were Involved. He enlisted as a private originally, 

 and then passed through one of the officers' camps, graduating on this side 

 before going abroad with his commission. He has seen about a year's 

 active service in France, and now is very anxious to get back in the 

 harness and reestablish his contact with the lumber business. 



The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company announces that since the first 

 of May It has occupied its new offices and yard located at FuUerton and 

 Elston avenues. The new yard gives greatly increase<l facilities for 

 handling a more complete line of kiln-dried and air-dried hardwoods. The 

 company's new phone numbers are Humboldt 546 and 547. 



The Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association announces its return to 

 Chicago. The association's quarters were moved to Cincinnati some time 

 ago, but from now on will be located at 1014 Ashland block, Chicago. 



Henry C. Summa, who was with Battery E. Seventy-second coast artil- 

 lery, received his discharge a few weeks ago after seven months' overseas 

 service, having left for training camp in Fort Williams, Portland, Maine, 

 on April 3, 1918. On May 1 Mr. Summa resumed his partnership with 

 B. N. Johnson in the Advance Fuel Company, 1325 Old Colony building, 

 Chicago. 



The E. A. Mercadal Lumber Company, city, has filed an involuntary 

 petition in bankruptcy. 



The Metropolitan Picture Frame Company, Chicago, has Increased its 

 capital stock to $20,000. 



BUFFALO 



Horace F. Taylor and his committee are actively engaged in the Victory 

 Loan campaign and expect to raise the quota of $1,050,000 without much 

 difficulty. Among the large subscriptions which have been announced thus 

 far are the following, each for $50,000 : Taylor & Crate, W. W. Rellley, 

 A. J. DeLaplante. Jackson & Tindle, Norwich Lumber Company, Ganson 

 Depew ; for $25,000, the A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company ; for $15,000, 

 Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling ; for $10,000, Graves, Manbert & George and 

 the Buffalo Lumber Dealers' Association. 



