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the most gifted members of the club when it comes to humor and he gave 

 excellent proof of this fact by the manner in which he regaled the mem- 

 bers of this organization during his brief talk. He pledged his best 

 efforts in behalf of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and. in thanking 

 the members for the honor which had been conferred upon him, made it 

 quite clear that he was fully appreciative of the fact that it would be 

 necessary for all of them to co-operate with hira if the best efforts were 

 accomplished. 



The first official act of Mr. May was the appointmeilt of the following 

 standing cinnniittees for the year: 



Advisory IjOaud — S. M. Xickey, chairman, and all former presidents of 

 the club. 



Entertainment — Robert T. Cooper, chairman ; F. T. Doolev, L. D. 

 Murrelle, S. C. Major, John W. Welsh. 



Statistics — J. Stanley Williford, chairman ; Rexford W. Crown. G. E. 

 Beckendorf, E. L. McLallen, Jr., R. J. Hackney. 



I>AW AND Insurance — S. B. Anderson, chairman : Walker Weltford, 

 William Pritchard. Ralph Jurden, Rudolph Sondheimer. 



River and Rail — James E. Stark, chairman : M. B. Cooper, F. E. Gary. 

 George C. Ehemann. J. R. McFadden. 



Membership— Joe Thompson, chairman ; C. R. Tustin, H. B. Weiss. 

 W. E. Hyde. F. W. Dugan. 



Resolution — A. G. Fritchey. chairman ; J. D. Allen, Jr., C. B. Allen, 

 J. O. Goshorn and Frank C. Storton. 



iNFORZ^fATiON — J. F. McSwcyn, chairman ; J. W. Wyatt, W. C. Bonner, 

 Edgar A. Lohr. O. U. Coppock. 



Publicity — C. G. Kadel, chairman ; B. C, Tullv. J, E. Massen, George W. 

 Fooshe and E. R. McKnight. 



The special committee of which Chas. G. Kadel is chairman was author- 

 ized to proceed with the ai-rangeraents necessary to maintain an employ- 

 ment bureau in the rooms of the Lumbermen's Club in the Business 

 Men's Club Chamber of Commerce. This means that a card index system 

 will be kept by which members will be made aware of all applications for 

 positions in either offices or mills, a plan which should greatly facilitate 

 the securing of. such help as is desired. 



The committee was also authorized to install a system by which a 

 record may be kept of "Lumber Wanted'' and "Lumber for Sale." This 

 will be done for the information of the members and is expected to very 

 greatly facilitate the exchange of lumber. Those who want to buy will 

 know what is for sale and those who want to sell will have means of 

 communi<ating this fact to those who are interested. 



These rooms have been something of a white elephant on the hands 

 of the members of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis since they were 

 finished and furnished several years ago, but they now promise to be not 

 only a very great practical help but also a rallying point for the lumber- 

 men of this city and section. Miss Florence Corrington, assistant secre- 

 tary of the club, will be in active charge. 



The dinner which is to be arranged by the secretary of the Lumber- 

 men's Club and the secretaries of the other three organizations already 

 named promises to be one of the most elaborate affairs in the hist<iry of 

 Memphis, which is noted for its accomplishments along this line. Readers 

 of Hardwood Record are familiar with the fact that these three asso- 

 ciations will hold their meetings in Memphis January 18. 10 and 2fi. a 

 fact which presages an unusually large and representative attendance. 



One application for membership was filed, that of .T. Thomas J<m"s. 



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With the Trade 



Walter D. Young 



Waltor D. Young o£ W". D. young & Ci>., ilieii at Bay City, Mich., at 7 

 o'clock oh Saturday morning, December 23. The immediate cause of his 

 death was bronchial pneumonia. 



Mr. Young has been a prominent figure in northern lumber circles for 

 years. lie built what is considered one of the biggest northern operations 

 through his own efforts. Ills interests have become extensive, in some 

 cases getting away from the direct lumber field. In fact, he became of 

 late years interested in the packing and sugar business. 



Mr. Y'oung was born at Albany, N. Y., in 1835 of Scotch parentage. His 

 family moved to Bay City in 1870. Mr. Y'oung spent practically all of his 

 lifetime in Bay City, starting early to make bis own way. His first work 

 was as a Western Union messenger and from there he graduated to the 

 banking business, clerking in a Bay City bank for a number of years. His 

 entry into the lumber business dates back to 1890, when he organized the 

 Jlicbigan Log Towing Company, which made a business of towing logs 

 from the Canadian woods to Michigan. The next year he organized the 

 Young Transportation Company and in 1893 \Y. D. Young & Co., was estab- 

 lished w'ith a hardwood sawmill and a large maple flooring factory. His 

 interests have expanded ever since. He later became president of the 

 Young Cattle and Packing Company, of the Island Lumber Company and 

 of the German-American Sugar Company. He was well up in banking 

 circles locally. He also served on the directorate of various outside insti- 

 tutions, among them some of Chicago's large banks. 



Mr. Young was a prominent Mason. He is survived by a widow and 

 four children, Mrs. William Bishop of Dundee, Ore, ; W. D. Young, Jr., 

 of Bay City ; Mrt;. Roy Kichanlson of Alpena, and Francis L. Young of 

 Bay City. 



"Billy" Dings Joins Dermott Company 



W. W. Dings, who is usually spoken of as "Billy" and who for many years 

 has been with the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo,, 

 became sales manager for the Dermott Land & Lumber Company on Janu- 

 ary 1. Mr. Dings will be located at Chicago, where the Dermott company 

 has offices in the Railway Exchange building. 



Lumberman in Important Government Appointment 

 The announcement of the appointment by President Wilson of J. B. 

 White of Kansas City, Mo., to the membership on the government ship- 

 ping board has created a great deal of interest and satisfaction in lumber 

 circles. Mr. While's associates will be William Denman of San Fran- 

 cisco, Bernard X. Baker of Baltimore. John A. Donald of New York and 

 Theodore Brent of New Orleans. All of the appointees represent indus- 

 tries of peculiar moment to the country and their grasp of the problems 

 in their respective businesses" gives to them exact fitness for the very im- 

 portant work that the board will be confronted with. 



Mr. White has been a leader in many of the big things in the lumber 

 industry. lie personally has been instrumental in many accomplishments 



THE LATE WALTER D. YOONG, 



BAY CITY, 



MICH. 



J. B. WHITE. KANSAS CITY, 



APPOINTEE TO FEDERAL SHIPPINV 



BOARD 



W, W. DINGS, SALES MANAGER 

 DERMOTT LAND & LUMBER CO,, 

 CHICAGO AND DERMOTT, ARK. 



