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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 25, 1917 



Some Log? Yes — and we 

 are bringing in this class of 

 Logs right along. A short 

 time ago we turned out 

 some clear Mahogany 

 boards 36 in. wide, and we 

 frequendy cut Mexican Ma- 

 hogany Veneer 20 in. wide 

 on the quarter. 



Are you from Missouri? 

 Come to our yard and we 

 will "show" you. 



Deal with the Producer. 



HUDDLESTON-MARSH 



Mahogany company 



New York Chicago 



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AU Three of Ut Will Be Benefited if 



Rodahaffer Joins Penrod 



John C. Rodahafier will, on April 1, take full and complete 

 charge of all the sales work for the Penrod Walnut & Veneer 

 Company, Kansas City, Mo., participating as a member of the 

 firm and with the official title at the beginning of his connection 

 as sales manager. 



Mr. Rodahaffer is one of the best known and most competent 

 w^alnut men in the country. He has been in the business for 

 seventeen years in all departments, has a thorough knowledge 

 of every feature of the business and enjoys a conspicuous prestige 

 in the buying trade in both domestic and foreign markets. He 

 joins an institution that has built its prestige entirely through the 

 manufacture and sale of w^alnut veneers and lumber, that is excel- 

 lently equipped in all features of the business, in its log resources, 

 its manufacturing equipment, its warehousing and sales facilities. 



Mr. Rodahaffer has been associated with George W. Hartzell of 

 Piqua, O., for seventeen years, having joined Mr. Hartzell at 

 Greenville, O., in September, 1900. His first active work after 

 having become acquainted with the generalities of the hard- 

 wood game had to 

 do with the buying of 

 logs and lumber 

 through the country 

 territory. At that 

 time Mr. Hartzell, who 

 has since built up a 

 big reputation as an 

 exclusive walnut 

 manufacturer, was 

 handling wagon stock 

 and similar material 

 of other hardwoods 

 than walnut. How- 

 ever, the grounding 

 of Mr. Rodahaffer's 

 experience w^as pri- 

 marily in the w^alnut 

 end, and he has ex- 

 panded with a rapid- 

 ity which was inev- 

 itable, considering his 

 aptitude for the busi- 

 ness. This w^ork con- 

 tinued w^ith gradual 

 expansion, his re- 

 sponsibilities broad- 

 ening out to the selling end for the first four or five years 

 after joining the Hartzell organization. In the fall of 1904, 

 however, he left for a stay of several years with the T. B. Stone 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, O., but in the spring of 

 1909 returned to his old connection where he has been ever 

 ■since, primarily though in the selling end. In 1911, in fact, he 

 was given entire and exclusive charge of all sales, this in the begin- 

 ning including log correspondence and traffic work in connection 

 with shipping in the raw^ material and shipping out the manu- 

 factured article. The development of the sales work precluded 

 the possibility of keeping this up very long, his energetic and 

 intelligent work having vastly expanded the Piqua business, and 

 a year ago he dropped all other work, giving exclusive and con- 

 stant attention to the proper marketing of the Hartzell products. 



Mr. Rodahaffer joins the organization with John N. Penrod at 

 a time when the Kansas City facilities will give him a full call on 

 his capabilities. The Penrod sawmill in the production of lumber 

 has for several months been working twenty-two hours every day, 

 while the veneer mill is turning out its full quota of various types 

 of high-grade walnut. Mr. Penrod has long made a study of the 

 acquisition of the best he could get in walnut raw material and 

 says that today he has on his Kansas City yards more highly 

 figured burl wood and highly figured logs than he ever had be- 

 You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD 



JOHN C. RODAIIAFFKR, WHO BECOMES 



SALES MANAGER PENROD WALNUT 



AND VENEER COMPANY 



