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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 25, 1916 



R. C. Stirason pledged his best efforts in behalf of the club while 

 C. G. Kadel did the honors for his former partner, Geo. F. Riel, who 

 was absent. The newly elected directors all expressed high appreciation 

 of the honor done them while at the same time the.y declared they hoped 

 to be able to satisfactorily shoulder the responsibilities which they 

 must assume. 



The defeated candidates for the first and second vice-presidencies and 

 for directorships had nothing but good will for their successful opponents 

 and gave the club to understand that they were ready to do anything 

 they could. 



C. B. Allen paid the club a glowing tribute when he pronounced it the 

 "best and most enthusiastic" in the United States. He said he had just 

 returned from attending a meeting of lumbermen in Chicago where it 

 required hard work tor three days to secure the consent of someone 

 to assume the duties of president and be declared that he could not help 

 contrasting this indifference with the keen spirit of rivalry among 

 members of the Lumbermen's Club for the offices and honors it had 

 to give. 



J. F. MoSweyn claimed full credit for "the making" of his son, George 

 :McSweyn, and was Quoted as having told a friend who admired George's 

 ;ability as a sawyer : "X might make another like him if given plenty of 

 ■of time. I made him." George's friends believe he will make Just as 

 rgood a director as he is sawyer and that will be "going some." 



President Nickey expressed the sentiments of the entire membership 

 "When he feelingly referred to Douglas F. Heuer as "one whom we all 

 love." 



The newly elected officers will be installed at the first meeting In 

 January. At that time the retiring officers will submit their reports, 

 together with such i-ecommendations as they may deem advisable. 



There was quite a subdued feeling among all who participated in this 

 meeting because of the announcement by President Nickey of the sudden 

 ■death during Saturday forenoon of D. D. Nellis, manager of the Memphis 

 offices of the Jno. M. Woods Lumber Company, and one of the most 

 .popular members of the club, and the tragic death of Glenn May, son of 

 iFrank May of May Brothers, which occurred the evening before. Suitable 

 resolutions were adopted testifying to the high esteem in which both of 

 these gentlemen were held and conveying sympathy and condolence to 

 the families of the deceased. These were ordered spread upon the min- 

 lutes and the secretary was instructed to see that copies reached the 

 stricken families. 



The club presented a purse of $200 to Miss Florence Corrington, 

 assistant secretary, as a token of appreciation by the members of the 

 splendid services rendered by her. 



J. T. Kendall, Oak Secretary 



J. T. Kendall, assistant secretary of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, has been selected by the executive committee of the Ameri- 

 can Oak Manufacturers' Association as secretary to fill the position made 

 vacant by the decision of Benjamin Akin, recently elected, not to come 

 to Memphis, a decision influenced by the unwillingness of Mrs. Aiken to 

 live South. 



Mr. Kendall is only thirty-two years of age but has crowded wonderful 

 activities into his brief career. He began the advertising business on the 

 staff of the old Uemvhis Morning News in li)02 and continued in that 

 line with that paper and with its successor, the Memphis Evening 

 Scimitar, until 1904. He then accepted the position of bookkeeper with 

 the Memphis Column Company and, during his three years' connection 

 with that firm, advanced to the position of assistant manager. When the 



Memphis Column Company removed to Texas In 1909, Mr, Kendall became 

 identified with the York Lumber & Manufacturing Company, working 

 himself up from bookkeeper to assistant manager. He remained with that 

 firm until 1913 when the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association was 

 formed and he was elected as assistant secretary, a position he has since 

 filled with entire satisfaction to Secretary Pritchard and to other officials 

 of that organization. 



The years spent in the lumber business gave Mr. Kendall a wide and 

 varied experience. He went through every phase of the work from 

 bringing out the logs in the woods to the selling of the lumber itself with 

 the exception of inspection and he is therefore regarded as a practical 

 lumberman. His experience In publicity work has been equally wide and 

 equally varied, first as advertising agent for the two Memphis papers 

 already mentioned and latterly as assistant secretary of the Gum Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association. He has helped Secretary Pritchard with 

 the preparation of the "Bulletin" issued monthly from the offices of the 

 association, with the compilation of the sales reports gotten out periodically 

 and with the preparation of the vast amount of literature bearing on the 

 gum lumber industry circulated from the offices of this organization dur- 

 ing the past three years. The American Oak Manufacturers' Association 

 proposes to do for oak largely what the Gum Lumber Manufacturers* Asso- 

 ciation has done for gum and members of the executive committee of the 

 former believe Mr. Kendall exceedingly well qualified for the duties that 

 will devolve on hun. 



\ yttMaiiaiiyj5iiaiB!TOM)iTOM 



With the Trade 



Ballou-Nelson 



Zeno H. Nelson, salesmanager of Jackson & Tindle, with headquarters 

 at Grand Rapids, Mich., will be married on December 28, to Miss Grace 

 Ballon, daughter of W. D. Ballon, for many years in the basket business at 

 Belding, Mich., and now located at Becket, Mass. Mr. Nelson was bom 

 at Cedar Springs, Mich., where he started to work for Tindle & Jackson 

 as it was then, and tor thirteen years has been connected with its various 

 operations. He was first a bookkeeper, then superintendent and now has 

 been on the road for some years. He is also vice-president of the Superior 

 Veneer and Cooperage Co., M'unising, Mich., and New Ontario Colonization 

 Co., Jacksonburg, Ontario, Canada, and he is one of the aggressive young 

 men in the trade. He has the best wishes of all. 



The wedding will take place at Becket, Mass., after which the couple will 

 spend their honeymoon at New York and Washington, and will be at home, 

 .S'tratford .\rms Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., after Fcliruary 1, 1917. 



Favorable Outcome Promised for Big Hardwood Failure 



It is stated that the prospects tor a satisfactory outcome of the diffl- 

 culties into which the H. H. Hitt Lumber Comiiany, Decatur, Ala., found 

 itself, as previously reported, is likely. The HItt company capitalized at 

 .1;2.")0,000, did an annual business of more than $1,000,000. 



Call loans (It Is stated that the Illtt company owed three banking houses 

 in Newark, N. J., over $600,000), are said to be directly responsible for 

 the firm's trouble, as It Is understood that It operated with considerable 

 borrowed capital. 



According to the local attorney representing the eastern creditors, the 

 suspension of the mill Is only temporary. W. W. Moss of Norfolk, Va., 

 was appointed receiver. 



.J. T. KENDALL, MEMPHIS, SECRETARY 

 OAK MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 



N. NELSON, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., 

 WHO ■WILL BE MARRIED ON 

 DECEMBER 2S 



RALPH MAY, NEW I'RESIDENT, 

 LUMBERMEN'S CLUB OF MEMPHIS 



