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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1919 



articles of incorporation, moving headquarters from La Crosse to Fond du 

 Lac, and increasing its capital from $600,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Clintonville Novelty Company, Clintonville, formerly known as the 

 B. & W. Novelty Company, has recently been incorporated by G. W. 

 Buttles and Paul Wirtz. The company has rented a suitable factory and 

 will start immediate quantity production of an automatic clothes-line reel 

 and housing, patented by Mr. Buttles. 



The Lomira Furniture Manufacturing Company, Lomira, will erect a 

 modern factory, 2 stories, 85x150 feet, of brick and mill construction. 



George W. Jaegers, head of the Comet Automobile Company, Decatur, 

 111., was in Racine, Wis., recently, with the aim of organizing a million 

 dollar company in that city to engage in the manufacture of automobile 

 bodies. Mr. Jaeger, previous to his affiliations with the Comet Automobile 

 Company, operated the Racine Manufacturing Company, at Racine, maker 

 of automobile and carriage bodies. 



The Rhinelander Boat Company, Rhinelander, was organized recently 

 by John Gilligan and William Cleveland, owner of the Oneida Boat Com- 

 pany, of this city. The company plans to erect a modern factory, and 

 until then will use the present plant of the Oneida Boat Company. The 

 new firm will specialize in the manufacture of small row boats, canoes, 

 yachts, power boats, and will also engage in the manufacture of cabinets 

 and woodwork generally. 



The North Western Lumber Company is planning to close Its big mill 

 at Stanley after next season's run. The company has carried on extensive 

 logging and sawing operations continuously since 1892 and in order to 

 complete its operations in this vicinity the coming winter, six new camps 

 will be established, officials of the company say. 



The high cost of living may force the Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, 

 to establish a store for its employes, and sell for cost, according to W. A. 

 Holt, president of the company. Comparison of prices asked by local 

 retailers for daily necessities and cost prices of meats and other necessi- 

 ties as furnished the company for its camps, has led Mr. Holt to believe 

 that retailers are taking unfair advantage of the public and necessitates 

 such a move for the protection of his employes. Further investigations are 

 being made, the results of which will determine whether or not the pro- 

 posed store will be opened. 



William Nemacheck, who wa.s manager of the Miller Lumber Company 

 of Appleton prior to its transfer to the McDonald Lumber, Fuel & Supply 

 Company, Is now manager of the Webster Planing Mill Company at Apple- 

 ton. Joseph C. Beyer, who was also connected with the Miller Lumber 

 Company a number of years, is now manager of a lumber yard at Racine. 



The Badger Cabinet Company, Plymouth, has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $100,000, to engage in the manufacture of woodenware, 

 household furniture, musical cabinets and musical instruments. The in- 

 corporators are J. E. Curti-ss, G. W. Brickbauer and A. B. Elmer. 



The Escanaba Woodenware Company, Escanaba, Mich., has already 

 started logging operations at Its tracts in the vicinity of Amasa. Mjiny 

 other operators in the vicinity of Chlcogan Creek, Fortune Lake, Crystal 

 Fails, and Stambough, in the upper peninsula, contemplate early logging. 



F. M. Tuttle of Colby, has taken a contract from the Bissel Lumber 

 Company of Marshfield, to log a timber tract near Redfleld, Wis. 



The Doman Manufacturing Company, Oshkosh, recently organized by 

 H. C. Doman, and incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, has 

 purchased the property of the Oshkosh Washing Machine Company, bank- 

 rupt, for a consideration of $12,000. The new company will continue the 

 manufacture of the patented cabinet type washing machine, and extend 

 Its activities to the making of talking machines and other domestic cabinet 

 appliances. The incorporators of the new company are : Frank Novotny 

 of Chicago, president ; J. H. Cummings of Chicago, vice-president ; I'rank 

 Gould of Chicago, secretary-treasurer. 



The Langlade Lumber Company, Antigo, has purchased % of a section 

 of timberland in the township of East Dpham, Langlade county, from the 

 Interlake Pulp & Paper Company. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



To improve and enlarge the plant of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Com- 

 pany, stockholders have authorized an increase In the capital stock. 



The Transport Truck Company plans to move into its new plant at 

 Mount Pleasant about October 1. The new factory aCEords 52,000 feet of 

 floor space for immediate use, and the ultimate plans call for 104,000 feet. 



Fire, believed to have been caused by a spark from the smokestack, 

 destroyed the plant of the Copemish Handle Company, at Copemish, with 

 a loss of $30,000. The sawmill of the company was included in the loss. 

 The plant, which was operated by the Piqua Handle & Manufacturing 

 Company, had about five more weeks to run after which time it was to be 

 removed to Marquette. Eighteen years ago an explosion wrecked the 

 building, killing seven men and injuring a number of others. 



The Story & Clark Piano Company is building an addition to its plant 

 at Grand Haven. 



About October 1 Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers will open a 

 school for hand carvers. Space has been leased in the Leitelt building. 

 Apprentices will be sent from the factories for training. 



Wm. Horner, whose flooring mill at Reed City recently was destroyed 

 by fire, has rented the building of the Jones & Green Flooring "Company at 

 Big Rapids. 



The Northern Wheel Company has let the contract for the building for 



the first unit of its plant at Alma. It is expected to be completed by 

 December 1. The company has elected the following officers : President, 

 A. D. Smith ; vice-president, J. W. Blakley ; secretary, Orvllle Allen ; 

 treasurer, E. L. Smith, all of Alma. 



The Macey Company is planning the erection of a three-story addition 

 to cost $15,000. 



The Luce Furniture Company is to build an addition to its plant on 

 Godfrey avenue, at a cost of $7,000. 



The C. C. Comstock estate has taken out a permit for the erection of a 

 dry kiln to cost $7,000. The property is owned by the Grand Rapids 

 Upholstering Company. 



The John Widdicomb Furniture Company is building a new power plant 

 with 250 horsepower capacity. The company has purchased several 

 descriptions of real estate and has built a new dry kiln of eight chambers 

 and lumber storage sheds of capacity sufficient to carry the company's 

 entire lumber supply. The old open air yards north of the factory have 

 been discontinued and the real estate has been sold to the Hayes-Ionia 

 Company. 



It is reported the Blanchard lumber camp, near Alba, will soon be ready 

 for a force of workmen and that a large crew will enter the woods soon. 



Charles E. Cartier and Edward W. Holland of the Cartier-HoUand Lum- 

 ber Company, have begun suit agaiu.st E. J. Doyle, collector of internal 

 revenue to recover $9,027.46, which amount, it is alleged, was collected 

 in war excess profit taxes over the amount actually due. 



A. Kerreman, Jr., formerly In the city water department, has been pro- 

 moted to superintendent of the Horner flooring plant at Newberry. He 

 is son of A. J. Karreman of the Century Furniture Company. 



A second unit is being erected to the plant of the Grand Rapids Show 

 Case Company and an eight-compartment dry kiln is being constructed. 

 The new unit to the plant is 102x200 feet, five stories high. The dry kiln 

 is 53x119 feet, one story in height. 



Most of the lumber thrown overboard when the Steamer Pahlow 

 grounded at Saugatuck recently has been recovered by crews employed by 

 the underwriters. The steamer was towing the barge Delta. 



E. V. Hawkins of the ConnersviUe Furniture Company, was in the city 

 recently to close contracts for the manufacture of Pathe phonograph 

 cabinets, amounting to $2,500,000. 



The Home Building Company, planned by manufacturers of Grand 

 Rapids, soon will be organized with a capitalization of $400,000. The 

 full amount has been subscribed. 



Kalkaska, Mich., may bond for $5,000 to offer a-s a bonus to the Kalkaska 

 Handle Company to rebuild its plant recently destroyed by fire. 



A large delegation of Grand Rapids manufacturers will attend the 

 annual meeting of the National Alliance of Case Goods Manufacturers at 

 Atlantic City October 9 and 10. George G. Whitworth of this city Is 

 president and A. C. Brown, secretary, of the association. 



The Charlotte Casket Company of Charlotte, expects soon to be able 

 to ship an average of a carload of caskets a week. The company now has 

 all the orders it can handle. None of the orders are large ones, however, 

 as on account of the fluctuations in the price of lumber it is not con- 

 sidered good policy to book orders which cannot be delivered within a few 

 months. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



With the final settlement of the building strike the lumber business 

 locallj^ is taking an upward slant, not particubirly on price, but on general 

 strength. In spite of the absolute absence of the building trade as a 

 market for hardwoods during the past teu weeks, lumber has been moving 

 steadily without interruption in Chicago markets, due to the demand from 

 other quarters. It goes without saying that with this question settled 

 and out of the way at least for the time being, planing mills and interior 

 finish houses are going to need large quantities of wood to fill mounting 

 demands for finish and other building materials needed urgently and imme- 

 diately in the effort to catch up with the delayed building program. 



With $125,000,000 of building tied up on account of the strike, which 

 will no doubt be released, and with great activity in application for build- 

 ing permits, due to the desire to get under way as much work as possible 

 before the cold weather, the demand for building materials of all kinds 

 is going to be tremendous during the next few months. Coupled with this 

 the other branches of the consuming trade remain strong, and altogether 

 the situation is most promising. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood yards generally report less business developing than a 

 few weeks ago. They attribute the falling o£E to the great uncertainty as 

 to the labor situation and the widespread talk of strikes. The excited de- 

 mand seems to be followed by a period of caution and a more nearly nor- 

 mal sale of stock. If a less agitated labor situation develops In the near 

 future it Is expected that business will go along in good shape, for buyers 



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