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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1919 



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Attorney Wilson spoke at length in opposition to the proposed League of 

 Nations. Various phases of the lumber industry were discussed. J. J. 

 McNally of the J. J. Snider Lumber Company is president of the club. 



R. W. Ilorton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods both from factories and the retail trade. In fact 

 business is pretty evenly distributed between the two sources of buying. 

 Prices are firm at former levels. Dry stocks are not plentiful in any 

 section. 



EVANSVILLE 



The Keck-Gonnermann Company, one of the oldest concerns of Mt. Ver- 

 non, Ind., has started the erection of a large building adjoining the plant 

 where sawmill machinery made from the company's own plant will be 

 installed in a short time. The sawmill will bo In charge of William 

 Gonnermann, who will have a large force of men under him. Some time 

 ago this company purchased a largo tract of land In Posey county, a short 

 distance from Mt. Vernon and this timber will be cut and transported to 

 Mt. Vernon. It is understood that the company will use the lumber in 

 the erection of several bungalows on some lots that it owns in that city. 



Ben Wright, who for a number of years was engaged In the retail lum- 

 ber business at Mt. Carmel, 111., and who served several terms as mayor 

 of that city, has purchased a large lumber yard at Mt. Carmel, 111., and 

 has taken charge of the same. 



Armory Ragsdale, eighty-six years old, who for a number of years owned 

 and operated a wagon factory at Glondale, Ind., died at his home at that 

 place a few days ago, death being due to old age. His body was sent to 

 Washington. Ind., where burial took place under the auspices of the Odd- 

 fellows. He is survived by two daughters. 



Announcement was recently made that the Globe-Bosse-World Furni- 

 ture Company will erect an addition to its plant here that will cost be- 

 tween $150,000 and $200,000. The addition, which will contain 100,000 

 feet of floor space, probably will be built on the site now occupied by the 

 Crown Chair Company, which concern was sold a short time ago to a new 

 company of which Daniel Wortz, of Maley & Wertz, is a director. A new 

 factory will be erected by the Crown Chair Company on a site purchased 

 on Florida street, the factory costing about $75,000. 



The Hartman Manufacturing Company, Vinconnes, Ind., which was re- 

 cently purchased by the Blount Plow Works of this city announced the 

 election of the following officers: L. E. Blount, president; A. V. Burcli, 

 vice-president; William Wilmoore, secretary; William F'auquhor, treasurer. 

 The directors are L. E. Blount. A. V. Burch, Thurlow White. C. W. Moore 

 and William Wilmoore. The company will make several improvements 

 at the Vinconnes plant. 



H. A. Gabriel, fifty-eight years old, treasurer and manager of the Hunt- 

 Ingburg Furniture Company, Iluntingburg, and well known to the lumber 

 manufacturers of southern Indiana and northern Kentucky, died a few 

 days ago at his home. His death was due to kidney trouble. The body 

 was shipped to Clinton, la., for burial. Mr. Gabriel was a native of Iowa 

 and had l)eon a resident of Huntingburg several years. He Is survived by 

 two daughters. 



The Evansville Top and Panel Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, 

 recently filed articles of incorporation In the county recorder's office and 

 win build a new plant on Outer Florida street in this city. The plant will 

 specialize in high-grade wood turning and mill work. It will make finely 

 milled airplane parts, as well as tops, panels, rims, rolls, slides, automobile 

 wheels and other wooden fixtures. The company intends to do a general 

 business throughout the United States and Canada. Daniel- Wertz, of 

 Maley & Wertz, is one of the incorporators and directors. It Is expected 

 the factory will be erected at once. 



The next regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 will be held at a local hotel on Tuesday night, October 14. Several Im- 

 portant business matters will bo brought up. 



LOUISVILLE 



Uncertain fall weather has resulted In the hardwood club again meet- 

 ing at the Seelbach hotel, and weekly meetings will shortly be held In- 

 stead of semi-monthly meetings which marked the summer months. The 

 annual meeting of the club will bo held election night at the Seelbach. 



Several of the hardwood men of Louisville were in Cincinnati for the 

 first two games of the World's Series, and were found pulling for the Reds. 

 Louisville has been considerably interested in the series this year, which 

 was much closer to home, and in one of the natural hardwood markets. 



J. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association Is spending a two weeks' vacation at his old 

 home in Benton. 111., having motored through. 



I. B. Wilcox & Co., Louisville, operating a hardwood mill at Burdette, 

 Miss., recently filed notice of ownership with the Jefferson County Clerk, 

 showing the owners of the firm to bo George E. Wilcox, Sr., George E. 

 Wilcox, Jr.. and William B. Wilcox. The latter is in charge at the mill. 



The Crescent Mfg. Company, Louisville, has recently filed amended 

 articles changing its name to the Crescent Panel Company. This concern 

 is a subsidiary of the Indiana Veneer & Panel Company and Hoosler Panel 

 Company, New Albany, Ind. S. E. Stout Is president of the company. The 

 organization has just started work on a $10,000 addition to the Louis- 

 ville plant. 



At New Albany, Ind., the Period Cabinet Manufacturing Company, 

 capital $50,000, has been incorporated by H. N. Kannapell, president ; 



