October 10. 1!)19 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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BANQUET AT THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OP THE NORTHERN LUMBER SALESMANSHIP CONGRESS, ANTIGO, WIS. 



When Good Fellows Get Together 



The above title of the paper delivered by 

 George C. Robson, president of the Northern 

 Lumbormen 's Salesmanship Congress at the 

 third annual meeting of that body at Antigo, 

 September 26, inaugurating the big meeting of 

 the 26th, 27th and 28th, is about as pat a head- 

 ing for a story of the convention as could be 

 chosen. The cream of good fellows in the 

 northern lumber industry have always been 

 present at the salesmanship congresses, and this 

 year there were one hundred or two hundred 

 new faces which blended very well with the 

 former personnel of the organization. 



Good fellowship predominated and through 

 getting the minds of the lumbermen present 

 into a properly receptive mood that feeling 

 made the roally excellent business topics, ad- 

 dresses and papers all the more effective. 



It is useless to attempt a description of what 

 the Antigo lumbermen as hosts did for the 400 

 visiting lumbermen who literally overwhelmed 

 the energetic Wisconsin lumber town of Antigo. 

 The thoughtfulness of the local lumbermen in 

 charge of providing for the visitors was shown 

 not so much in the big things as in the many 

 little things, each of which called for as much 



effort as staging one big show. At the same time the big things 

 were amply taken care of and altogether it is entirely safe to 

 say that no gathering of lumbermen ever assembled and stuck 

 together for so long a period with such an unadulterated sequence 

 of pleasure as was provided for at Antigo. 



This is not said in any sense with the idea of spilling vacant 

 compliments, but truthfully represents the sentiment of everyone 



PETERSEN THE WOODS BOSS IN 

 CHARGE OF THE WOODS KIvTTER- 



TAINMENT 



who attended the Nortbern Lumber Salesmanship 

 Ciingress this year. 



The result of each such gathering can not 

 but be a closer meeting of the minds of all 

 competitors, a more thorough understanding 

 each of the problems, the personalities and the 

 conditions of the other. The first two lumber 

 salesmanship congresses built a firm founda- 

 tion for a lasting association effort. This, the 

 third meeting, has built a superstructure on 

 that foundation which is now assuming the 

 form of a definite and very clearly defined 

 organization, which by virtue of its clean-cut 

 jiurposcs, of the personnel composing it, of the 

 positions of the men wlio will hold member- 

 ships (the heads of all sales departments), has 

 promise of being one of the most vital and 

 resultful organizations within the lumber 

 fraternity. 



The spirit with which the congress has 

 started out in its years of infancy is the 

 influence which has made it. Antigo has come 

 up to the mark wonderfully, and it is but just 

 to those local men responsible to name the 

 committees having the Antigo meeting in 

 charge. 

 The executive and finance committee was made up of Charles W. 

 Fish of Elcho, and George E. Foster and C. E. Henshaw of Antigo, 

 and the reception and entertainment committee was composed of 

 L. P. Tradewell, Chairman; Edward Faust, J. H. Worden, C. E. 

 Henshaw, W. S. Thorn, T. A. Brenner, H. P. Kellogg, C. J. TeSelle, 

 ,J. E. Collins, John English, George H. Wunderlich, P. D. Leavens, 

 A. K. Potter, M. K. Kecnan, G. K. Meneelj, Ernest Hirt, Leo Young, 



