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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10. 1917 



If Your Foreman 

 conies in and asks for 

 immediate shipment 



of the following items, we are the ones 

 to help you out, as we have the stock dry 

 and can ship quickly. 



No. 3 Birch 

 No. 3 Birch 

 No. 3 Black Ash 

 No. 3 Soft Elm. 

 No. 3 Hard Maple 

 25,000 ft. 1 No. 3 Red Oak 



We can re-saw and dress any 

 or all of this stock. Write 

 us quick for good service. 



Payson Smith Lumber Co. 



MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA 



company further declares that receivership proceedings which were insti- 

 tuted recently in the state courts were not on grounds of insolvency, but 

 as means for the dissolution of the corporation. Bankruptcy is denied. 



George II. and Harry D. Riemeier. who for some time did business as 

 the Riemeier Lumber Company, adjudged bankrupt, recently filed a peti- 

 tion requesting an order from the court for a meeting of creditors to 

 consider a proposal in compromise. The Riemeiers offer a composition of 

 tiS^^ per cent on all unsecured claims, payable ten per cent cash and the 

 balance in equal installments, payable in sl.\, twelve and eighteen months 

 after the appro\'al of the composition without interest. 



Final decree upon the mandate of the U. S. Court of Appeals in the 

 matter of the intervening petition of the Buckeye Wheel Company against 

 H. H. Haines of Hamilton, O., as receiver for the New Decatur Buggy 

 Company, was filed last week. Haines is ordered to return .$2,000 received 

 by him on account of services as receiver and to pay from funds in his 

 possession, including the $2,000, the costs and expenses of the receivershli>. 

 The balance, or as much as is necessary, is to be paid to the First National 

 Bank of Middletown, C, in full satisfaction of its claim. Numerous lum- 

 bermen in this district are creditors of the bankrupt wheel company and 

 matters have become considerably entangled o^'er the receivership compli- 

 cations, this end of the case presenting many unusual features. 



=-< CLEVELAND >= 



Preparations for a meeting to discuss legislative matters pertaining 

 to the hardwood and lumber interests of Ohio will be held this month 

 under the auspices of the Cleveland Board of Ltimber Dealers. At this 

 gathering representatives of all i)uilding material interests will be present. 

 Plans for a constructive meeting have been arranged by Arch C. Klumph, 

 president of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company ; C. H. Prescott of the Saginaw 

 Bay Lumber Company ; David W. Teachout of the A. Teachout Company ; 

 W. T. Rossiter of the Cleveland Builders' Supply Company, and others. 

 At this gathering will be present Warren J. Duffy, author of the lien law 

 bill as it stands now upon the Ohio statutes. 



George E. Breeee, president of the West Virginia Timber Company, 

 was a visitor in Cleveland during the holiday period, and while here was 

 the guest of A. G. Webb, vice-president and Cleveland manager of the 

 company. 



Local hardwood interests are lending their support to the movement by 

 national bodies to relieve the car shortage, having come to realize that 

 lociil effort is without effect. 



Outlet for certain hardwoods is increasing each holiday season as 

 demonstrated this year by the unusually large number of orders placed 

 with the Saginaw Bay Lumber Company and other concerns. These ma- 



terials are being sold to men handy with cabinet makers' tools, who wish 

 to make Christmas presents. According to T. E. Gafney of the Saginaw 

 Bay firm, his company, this year, sold more mahogany, red cedar and 

 other hardwoods to men making lamps, novelty cases and furniture than 

 ever before. 



W. F. Bixby who has been the representative of the Huntsville Lumber 

 Company and the H. H. Hitt Lumber Company, Decatur, Ala., in central 

 and western New York and northern Pennsylvania, has become identified 

 with the F. T. Peitch Company, and will represent that firm in the same 

 territory. 



E. J. Flautt, of Toledo, well known in hardwood interests In nortii- 

 western Ohio, has been engaged by the F. T. Peitch Company to represent 

 that firm in his territory. 



^-< TOLEDO y 



I. W. and L. D. Gotshall of the Gotshall Manufacturing Company have 

 concluded to expand and with Ed Mitchell are the founders of a new 

 concern to be known as the Acorn Supply Company, which will deal in 

 lumber, builders' supplies and coal. L. D. Gotshall is president of the 

 new concern and Ed Mitchell is manager. The new concern will be 

 located in fine new buildings now in the course of erection on Dorr street, 

 near the Terminal railroad. 



The Booth Column Company is running a little slow just now while 

 the inventory is being taken and plans made for the coming season. The 

 annual meeting and election of officers will be held within a couple of 

 weeks. This firm finds its stocks rather low, as difficulty has been met 

 for some time in securing suitable stocks, and labor has also been scarce. 

 No. 1 and No. 2 poplar, cypress selects, chestnut and firsts and seconds 

 iiak and B and better yellow pine are the materials most used by this 

 factory. "We do not find so much trouble in finding the kinds of lumber 

 that we want, but the selections seem very small," stated the manager. 

 "Prospects for the coming year are excellent and many inquiries and a 

 few orders are already finding their way to our office since the first of 

 the year." 



A machine for the manufacture of canvas and rubber belts has been 

 invented by Arthur D. Wright of Milburn avenue. The machine will 

 manufacture belting from four to thirty inches wide. Four hundred fifty 

 feet of the narrow belting can be made in twenty minutes, and the same 

 amount of the widest belting can be made in one hour. A company for 

 tlie manufacture of this machine is being organized. 



Soloman Gotshall, aged eight-one years, died at his home in Fayette, C, 

 Tuesday, December 2t), as the result of a stroke of paralysis. L. D. and 

 I. W. (Jotshall of the Gotshall Manufacturing Company, Toledo, wore his 

 sons. Both are firominent In the hardwood industry in this section. 



The Hein Furniture Company has sent out a line new illustrated cata- 

 logue, the first of the year. This concern makes a feature of special 

 furniture. Including furniture for colleges, schools, universities, tech- 

 nical schools, industrial schools, banks, and ordinary ofBce furniture as 

 well as special Interiors for residences and public buildings. It Is, also, 

 this year putting out a complete line of drawing tables and sectional filing 

 cases. The Heln company this year concluded to combine the selling end 

 of the business with that of manufacturing, which is an entirely new 

 departure. The concern has had nineteen years' experience and is fast 

 becoming one of the large manufacturing firms in a city noted for its 

 manufacturing institutions. 



Toledo building permits totaled $52,750 on the first business day of the 

 year 1917. The prospects for 1917 building are excellent according to 

 experts and more building is predicted for the company year than that of 

 the year just closed, when 2,172 modern dwellings were built. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >= 



John A. Reitz & Son, hardwood lumber manufacturers, announced an 

 increase of ten per cent in the wages of their employes, effective the first 

 of the year. The increase in wages will amount to al)out $R.000 a year. 

 This firm has been in business In the same location for more than 

 seventy-one years. 



Daniel A. Wertz of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers, 

 and president of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, was 

 fifty-two years old on New Year's day and passed the cigars to his friends. 



The regular monthly meeting of the EvansvlUe Lumbermen's Club was 

 held at the New Vendome hotel on Tuesda.v night, January 9. George O. 

 Worland of the Evansville Ven(K'r Company, who was recently elected 

 president of the club, was installed and standing committees for the 

 ensuing year were named. 



A company of puidlc spirited citizens at Dubois. Ind.. a live town a few 

 miles north of here, .Tre getting read.v to organize a company for the 

 purpo.se of building a furniture factory. 



The Imperial Desk Company of this city is having plans drawn for a 

 new $25,000 addition that will be built at once. The addition will give 

 the company about seventy-five per cent more floor space. The company " 

 reports that Its business for 191C broke all records. 



John C. Keller, traffic commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce, and 

 traffic manager for the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, with a number of 

 local shippers, will go to Chicago on January 29 when the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission will hear shippers' olijcctlons to the revised rates 

 for class freight in Central Freight Association territory. 



D. B. MacLaren of the D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company of this city 



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