December 25, 1916 



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Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



The Home of the "Peerless " Standard Brand Products 



Western OflBce: 

 516 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



Mills at Gladstone and Escanaba, MicliiEan 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties, 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



"Peerless" Rock Maple, Beech & Birch Flooring 



have a standard of their own. are guaranteed TRY IT THF 

 and are said by dealers to hold trade. We ^^ 



ship It In Straight or mixed cars — Car or Cargo. i^E^ 1 

 Uemhers 0] Maple Flooring Uanutacturert' Association. (Wbea writing mention the Hardwood Record.) 



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The Mail Bag 



B 1078 — Will Purchase Gum Mouldings 

 Chicago, 111., December 14. — ^Editor llABDn-ooD Recobd : We are in the 

 market tor several cars of red and sap gum mouldings. Can you put 

 us In touch with manufacturers who can supply them? 



B-1079— Has Box Elder to Offer 

 Columbus, O., Dec. 19. — Editor Hardwood Recced : We have a good 

 quantity of box elder to dispose of, and would appreciate your putting 

 us In touch with possible buyers of this stock. . 



B 1080 — Seeking Basswood 

 Janesville, Wis., December 15. — Editor Hardwood Record : We wish 

 .YOU would give us the names of about ten lumber companies who own 

 hardwood stumpage In northern Wisconsin and are therefore presumably 

 in a position to sell clear basswood lumber. Our needs are very urgent 

 and we are anxious to get in touch with these big Wisconsin hardwood 

 lumber companies owning their own stump.ngc. . 



B-1081 — In the Market for Poplar 



Saginaw, Mich., Dec. 19. — Editor Hardwood Record : We are in the 

 market for 4/4 No. 1 common quarter-sawed soft yellow poplar and 8/4 

 No. 2 and No. 3 poplar. ■ 



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Clubs and Associations 



Promise of Great Enthusiasm at Gum Meeting 

 John M. Pritchard, secretary of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 

 .\ssociation, is authority for the statement that the attendance at the 

 forthcoming annual of that body promises to be the largest and most 

 enthusiastic in the history of that organization. He bases this forecast on 

 the tremendous growth in the membership of this organization during 

 the past year, and on the wonderful accomplishments on the part of 



All lliree of Us Will Be Benefited 



the association in behalf of its members and of gum lumber. As sub- 

 stantial evidence of what the association has done, he points out that 

 sales of gum lumber during November not only showed a very handsome 

 increase over October but that they greatly exceeded those for any month 

 since organized effort as against individual enterprise was undertaken 

 by manufacturers of gum lumber. 



Mr. Pritchard knows all the members are feeling "mighty fine" and 

 he believes that they will come to Memphis in record numbers and with 

 such enthusiasm as that which Is produced only by uncommon success. 



It Is announced that there will be no fixed program but that, Instead, 

 the one day will be given over largely to the reports of officers and 

 standing and special committees, with such discussion and such action 

 as may be deemed proper. 



One of the features of the day will be the report of the committee on 

 Technical Research which will include a detailed statement from Henry 

 D. Tiemann of the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., dealing 

 with the successful tests made by him in kiln-drying alr-drled and green 

 gum lumber furnished him by members of the association. Prof. Tiemann 

 has rendered invaluable aid to the association in solving the problems 

 connected with the successful curing of gum lumber and his latest report 

 is awaited with unusual interest by all members of that body. 



The Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association will on January 1 an- 

 nounce the successor to J. T. Kendall, assistant secretary, who will, on 

 that date, assume his duties as secretary of the American Oak Manu- 

 facturers' Association. Mr. Pritchard says that the place has already 

 been filled but that the name of the fortunate gentleman will be held 

 back, for business reasons, until the date indicated. 



Carriage Makers' Club Xmas Dance 

 Final arrangements for the annual Christmas dinner-dance of the 

 Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club, at the Hotel Gibson, were completed 

 last week. As usual, notables in public life, besides men high in club 

 affairs, will do the talking. Former Congressman Stanley S. Bowdle, 

 Charles A. Fisher, president of the club, and Theodore Luth, president 

 of the Carriage Builders' National Association, will deliver addresses. 



Chicago Hoo-Hoo Meeting 

 On the evening of December 11 the Chicago Hoo-Hoos entertained 

 themselves and guests at a dinner given at the rooms of the Chicago 

 Lumbermen's Association, Lumber Exchange Building, Chicago. About 

 fifty members and several out-of-town visitors were present. Among the 

 latter were Emerson C. Tennant, St. Louis, Charles J. Kammerer, New 

 York, and W. A. Hadley, Chatham, Ontario. Five new members passed 

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