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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1919 



Hickory, Oak and Ash Dimension Stock 



"BUTTCUT" BRaiSIO 



High-Grade White Hickofy a Specialty 

 tlTTf^ n A 1/' HIGH INLAND AND OCEAN O 



Wn Y r A I FREIGHTS ON WASTE MATERIAL i 

 Slock sawed free and clear of defects to specified sizes in the rough 



WASTE ELIMINATED AT SOURCE 



Operating Numerous MUls Throughout the Choicest 

 HARDWOOD BELTS in the United States 



BROWN BROS. CO. 



GAINESVILLE, FLA. MANUFACTURERS MEMPHIS, TENN. 



General Sales and Export Offices 

 11 BROADWAY NEW YORK 



Cable Address LIGNIS, NEW YORK 



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WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



PALMER & PARKER COMPANY 



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PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA, 



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Old Dominion Lumber Co., Inc., Roanoke, Va. 



conditions are good and that the stave business is much better now than 

 it was this time last year. He says his company's three stave mills in 

 Tennessee are being operated on steady time and now have about all the 

 business that they can properly handle. 



William S. Partington, secretary-treasurer of the Evansville Lumber- 

 men's Club, has been informed that the railroad companies will establish 

 Oat rates on logs and lumber but that lumber companies must continue 

 to give bonds to the railroad companies that they will give them the out- 

 going business. It is expected the old milling-in-transit rate will be 

 abolished. 



The Universal Manufacturing Company, formerly the Schnute-Iloltman 

 Lumber Company, has just closed a contract with a concern in the East 

 for $100,000 worth of swinging doors to be used on public and office 

 buildings. The manager of the Universal Manufacturing Company Is 

 Louis A, Holtman who says that he never saw business any better than 

 it is at the present time and he is looking for trade to continue good the 

 balance of the year. 



George O. Worland, secretary and manager of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, who returned a few days ago from a trip on the road, reported 

 trade the best he has seen it in a long time. The veneer plants in Evans- 

 ville, as well as those at Cairo, III., New .\lbany and Tell City, Ind., are 

 being operated on full time and in some instances the manufacturers re- 

 port that they have been handicapped some for the want of raw material. 



Frank A. Griese, eighty-five years old, one of the best known wood- 

 workers of this city, and father of Frank Griese, connected with the 

 Kvansville Bookcase and Table Company, died a few days ago, his death 

 being due to the inflrmities of age. He was born in Germany, but spent 

 most of his life in Evansville. 



The Quigg Handle Company, an old concern at Calhoun, Ky., has an- 

 nounced that it will dissolve the corporation on September 30, by the 

 unanimous consent of the stockholders. 



Announcement was made recently of the incorporation of the Lumber- 

 men's Realty Company at Vincennes, Ind., to assist the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of that city in its campaign to solve the problem of the scarcity of 

 houses. The company is composed of the following Vincennes lumber 

 dealers : Clarence Umfleet, Henry Davis, G. H. Osterhage, Wade Simpson, 

 Karl Bosworth, John L. Klemeyer, W. Clint Reed and Paul P. Doodridge. 



LOUISVILLE 



Building operations in Louisville for the fiscal year ending August 31, 

 ran 34 per cent greater than during the previous year according to figures 

 just released. Permits this year called for new work amounting to 

 $3,808,205 as against $2,847,562 last. There were 8,096 permits as against 

 G,344 in 1918. .\ugust permits were $427,530. 



Tom J, Christian, sales manager for the Wood-Mosaic Company, has 

 resigned to go with Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, at 

 South Bend, Ind. His successor has not yet been named. Mr. Christian 

 came to Louisville about three years ago from Maley & Wertz, Evans- 

 ville. 



W. A. MacLean, head of the Wood-Mosaic Company, is spending six 

 weeks In Canada, about 200 miles north of Ottawa, where he is fishing. 

 He will be back about October 10. 



W. E. Ross of Louisville, has sold the Ross Chair Company plant and 

 business to Leon A. and M. L. Greenbaum, who were formerly in the 

 liquor business. The sale price was approximately $60,000. The plant 

 has been in operation forty-eight years. 



The United Casket Company, recently incorporated, will erect a new 

 plant. 100x440 feet. Bids are now being received. G. E. Zimmerman, 

 Kentucky Title building, is president. 



The Mowbray & Robinson Company. Cincinnati, is reported to have 

 closed a deal for 5,000 acres of additional hardwood timber in Letcher 

 county, Ky., buying from the Wizard Land & Implement Company, Lake 

 Charles. La. 



The Louisville Cooperage Company has purchased some additional oak 

 timber in the Cornettsvillc, Ky., district, to take care of its operations in 

 that district. 



Culver Vaughn, connected with the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, 

 Louisville, recently lost his father, William Milton Vaughn, sixty-four 

 years of age, formerly general agent of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co., and 

 for the last few years in the Are insurance business. 



H. N. Kannapell, New Albany, president of the Period Cabinet Com- 

 pany, a new organization, has leased a factory building in that city to 

 manufacture musical instrument cabinets. The capital stock of the com- 

 pany is $50,000. 



It is reported that the Brodhead-Garrett Lumber Company, Clay City: 

 Ky., has purchased additional timberland, and plans early developments 



At Lexington, Ky., the Lexington Tobacco Hogshead Company will 

 erect a new hogshead plant to replace burned one. The new plant will 

 have a daily capacity of 5,000 hogsheads. 



BEAUMONT 



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J. M. McCammon Is erecting a hardwood mill at Cleveland, Tex., with 

 a capacity of 30.000 feet a day and will erect another of similar capacity 

 in either Beaumont or Houston. The timber haul to Beaumont and 

 Houston is about equal and the location of the mill will depend largely 

 upon where the most desirable site can be secured. Both mills will be 



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