February 25, 1917 



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general manager of that company he became one of the hest-bn nn-ii men 

 in the fancy wood line in the country. 



Mr. Dean started with C. L. Willey of Chicago on a veneer slicer anil 

 working his way through the various manufacturing departments, attained 

 the position of salesman at the end of four years. Several years ago he 

 associated himself with the Black Lumber & Veneer Company and has been 

 located there ever since as vice-president. Mr. Dean is one of the recog- 

 nized experts in veneers and fanc.v and domestic woods. 



H. C. Wallace, secretary and treasurer of the new company, had been 

 financial man for C. L. Willey for many years. 



Horace Black, brother of Fred W. Black, who founded the Black Lumber 

 & Veneer Company and vice-president of that company, continues as super- 

 jitendent of the plant and will assist also in the selling end. 



Maxwell P. Spicker, son of the president of the company, has been associ- 

 ated with his father in the veneer business for several years and will be 

 associated with the sales work. 



The Dean-Spicker Company starts with the best possible assurance of 

 becoming a thoroughly successful organization. 



P. E. Gilbert Becomes Vice-president of the Wisconsin Lumber 



Company 

 On resignation of F. I!. Gadd, vice-president and director of the Wiscon- 

 .sin Lumber Company. Chicago, and director of the Wisconsin Steel Com- 

 pany, P. E. Gilbert, who has heen sales manager for the Wisconsin Lumber 

 Company, takes Mr. Gadd's place. Mr. Gilbert will have charge of operat- 

 ing and sales work and comes to his new duties very well qualitied to handle 

 the situation. He 

 has been for years in 

 the lumber business 

 both in the manufac- 

 turing and selling 

 end, having put in a 

 substantial period in 

 Memphis and Arkan 

 sas territory. Mr. 

 Gilbert has be e n 

 with the Wisconsin 

 Lumber Company for 

 several years and 

 has been handling 

 that company's vast 

 hardwood output tt> 

 the consuming traile. 



Stearns Company 

 Entertains Visi- 

 tors 



Accompanying this 

 item is a photograph 

 showing a little din- 

 ner given by the 

 Stearns Salt & Lum- 

 ber Company, Lud- 

 ington. Mich., to n. embers of the senior class of the Pennsylvania Static 

 College of Forestry. The class under the guidance of George R. Green, 

 instructor, recently completed a tour of two or three weeks through northern 

 points of interest and spent two days at Ludington, where the Stearns 

 people gave them every opportunity to inspect their instructive and inter- 

 esting operations. The dinner was tendered on the evening of February 1 

 at the Stearns Hotel. 



A Million Dollar Hardwood Deal 



The Tellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove. O.. and the Honaker 

 Lumber Company, Putnam, Va.. are principals in a deal whereby the entire 

 plant and holdings of the Honaker company in southwestern Virginia have 

 been transferred to the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. It is said that 

 the deal involved over $1,000,000. The title will be transferred March 1, 

 and the Yellow Poplar company will operate under the name of the White 

 Oak Lumber Compan.v. The mill has been operating in Russell, Buchanan 

 and Dickinst)n counties, Va., for eight years. There is still an immense 

 stand of hardwood stumpage for manufacture. The title carries thirty-four 

 miles of standard gauge railroad. 



The Honaker Lumber Company was owned by well-known Pennsylvania 

 and North Carolina hardwood operators. 



It is understood that after March 1 all sales from the newly acquired 

 plant will be made through the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company^ Coal 

 Grove, O., offices, which will be headquarters for the White Oak company. 

 The new plant is modern and of unusually large proportions. Very little 

 lumber has been cut so far. 



Lee Harris 



Lee Harris, who for many years had been employed in a responsible 



capacity b.v the Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Company, one of the larger 



concerns of its kind in Cincinnati, O., died recently at the age of sixly-thrce 



years. Death occurred in his apartments in the Bank building, on Carthage 



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Pjkji— Mr. Harris had been a resident of St. Bernard, a northern suburb, 

 for about ten years. 



Three daughters, Mrs. Nellie Hueliner, Wheeling. W. Va., and Misses 

 Louise E. and Helen M. Harris survive him. 



Mr. Harris was well known throughout the lumber trade in this section 

 of the country and enjoyed a wide circle of close friends, all of whom 

 mourn his loss keenly. 



George Burgess Taken 111 in East 



Gec.ge D. Burgess, member of the widely known hardwood firm of Russe 

 & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn,, and president of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, is quite ill at the home of his sister. Miss Earley, 

 at 711 Park avenue, Baltimore, Md. He was taken sick ten days or more 

 ago while at the Knickerbocker hotel in New York, and his condition 

 seemed so grave that several physicians and a specialist were called in. 

 Mrs. Burgess, who was in Memphis, was telegraphed for, and started the 

 following morning early for New York. The patient responded to treat- 

 ment and improved sufficiently to be brought to Baltimore, where he is 

 among relatives and close personal friends, and where his chances of gaining 

 ground are regarded as very much better. A physician and nurse came 

 with him from New York, and have remained ever since. Mr. Burgess is 

 now very much better and able to see visitors again, but his condition still 

 gives rise to some apprehension, and he has been ordered for the present 

 to keep quiet. There is every expectation, however, that he will be fully 

 restored. Mr. Burgess was not well when he attended the annual meeting 



of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation in Pittsburgh. 



New "Mattison 

 Methods" 



The winltT iium 

 b e r of "Mattison 

 Methods." a bviUetin 

 of efficiency issued 

 by the C. Mattison 

 Machine Works. Be- 

 loit. Wis., sets a new 

 mark for excellence. 

 "Mattison Methods'* 

 always gives real in- 

 formation for wood- 

 workers and the is- 

 sue that recently 

 came from the press 

 contains an even 

 more helpful line of 

 suggestive articles 

 and illustrations 

 than the average 

 number. It coulil 

 be read with profit 

 and pleasure by atfy 

 worker in wood. 



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Wife of Lumberman in Auto Accident 



Two women, one Mrs. Walter J. Eckuian, wife of Walter .7. Eckman, vice- 

 president of the M. B. I'^arrin Lumber Company, Cincinnati, and president 

 of the Lumber Exchange of Cincinnati, were forced to crawl through the 

 shattered rear w'indow of their electric coupe, which was turned completely 

 over when struck by a large touring car oil Gilbert avenue, Cincinati, last 

 week. The other woman was 'Mrs. H. S. Leyman, wife of the head of the 

 Leyman-Buick Auto Company. Neither woman was seriously injured, al- 

 though suffering painful cuts and bruises and badly shaken up. That they 

 were not seriously or fatally hurt is considered remarkable. Acid from 

 the batteries of the electric car slightly burned each woman. 



Transfer of Important Memphis Interests 



R. J. Wiggs, formerly secretary-treasurer of R. J. Darnell, Inc., and the 

 Darnell-Love Lumber Company, and Franklin T. Turner, formerly general 

 manager for both companies, have purchased the interest of the estate of 

 R. J. Darnell in the Darnell-Love Lumber Company and have taken over 

 the operation of the mills of the latter firm at Leland as well as stocks of 

 lumber, accounts and other holdings. Following this purchase, these gentle- 

 men have reorganized untier the name of the Darnell-Love Lumber Com- 

 pany, with R. J. Wiggs as president, F. T. Turner as vice-president. F. G. 

 Woods as secretary and H. D. Love as treasurer. ^Ir. Wiggs and Mr. Tur- 

 ner, who have previously made their headquarters at Memphis, have both 

 moved to Leland and will make that their home for the future. 



The most cordial relations still exist between the new owners of the 

 Darnell-Love Lumber Company and those of R. J. Darnell, Inc., as indi- 

 cated by the follo,ving statement which has been issued by Roland H. Dar- 

 nell and Elliott Lang, executors of the estate of R. J. Darnell : 



Having disposed of our entire holdings in the Darnell-Love Lumber Com- 

 pany to R. J. Wiggs. formerl.v secretary and treasurer of both R. .T. Durncil, 

 Inc., and the Darnell-Love Lumber Company, and to Franklin T. Turner, 



