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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1917 



banquet to about sixty of its customers. Lumbermen from several Indiana 

 and Michigan cities attended. 



A sawmill owned by Franls Biliter at Mt. Etna, Ind., was destroyed by 

 Are last week, and also a large quantity of hardwood timber stored Inside 

 and near the mill. The cause of the fire has not been explained, and the 

 loss has not been estimated. 



The Reynolds Lumber Company of Reynolds, Ind., has been Incorporated 

 with a capitalization of $15,000. The directors are B. H. Thompson, E. R. 

 Dye, and R. S. Banes. 



John Shoffner and Walter Strickler of Danville, Ind., have purchased the 

 Home Lumber Company of James Comen. The new owners have taken 

 possession of the property. 



The Farmers' Lumber and Supply Company of Yeoman, Ind., has been 

 incorporated with a capitalization of $10,000, the directors being Alva B. 

 Johnson, George E. Sites, and Walter G. Millian. 



=^ EVANSVILLE >-= 



The next regular meeting o£ the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will be 

 held in the private dining room of the Young Men's Christian Association 

 on Tuesday, April 10. A report will be made on the progress of the plans 

 for the regular summer outing, and other matters of importance will be dis- 

 cussed. 



The Schnute-Holtman Company has filed a notice with the secretary of 

 state of the increase of its capital stock from $40,1100 to .^'pO.OOO. 



F. J. Hofacker, manager of the Evansville Supply Company, announced 

 recently that plans are being drawn for a new addition to the company's 

 plant. The contract will be let in a short time. The growing business of 

 the company necessitates more room. 



The W. M. Simpson Lumber Company, New Harmony, Ind., has Installed 

 electric lights in its plant and made other improvements. 



The Imperial Desk Company has offered to its employes a number of 

 vacant lots owned by the company. The men can put the lots in cultiva- 

 tion this summer and what is raised on them will be theirs. No rent is to 

 be charged for the lots. Several other local manufacture who own lots 

 have made a similar offer to their men. 



Adam and George Whitten of Dale, Ind., are making arrangements to 

 move their sawmill from Dale to Buffaloville, where they recently purchased 

 a tract of land which will be sawed up this spring and summer. 



The Evansville Veneer Company recently adopted the "more daylight" 

 plan in its factory and the employes now go to work at 6 o'clock in the 

 morning and quit at 4 :30 in the afternoon. The men are said to be well 

 pleased with the new plan. 



Scythe handles, that were valued at $2,000, shipped by the Seymour 

 Manufacturing Company at Seymour, Ind., to a firm in Liverpool, England, 

 were lost in the sinking of the Laconia, according to word received by the, 

 firm. This is the second similar shipment of handles belonging to this 

 company destroyed by the work of submarines. 



William H. Smith, aged eighty-seven years, a retired chair manufacturer 

 of this city and well known among the lumbermen of Indiana, Illinois and 

 Kentucky, died on Tuesday, March 6, after a short illness. He is survived 

 by one son and one daughter. 



During the high water along Green river and tributaries in western Ken- 

 tucky last week, many of tlie sawmills in tliat section were forced to close 

 down. Thousands of valuable ties and logs were endangered by the flood, 

 and the shipment of staves from the Green river section to Evansville was 

 also greatly interfered with. 



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J. C. Rea, manager of the Indiana Cooperage Company, who recently pur- 

 chased a large cooperage plant at Vincennes, Ind., reports that trade Is 

 very good now. Many of the cooperage manufacturers in this section fear 

 that the state-wide prohibition law in Indiana will hurt their business when, 

 it goes into effect. 



=-< MEMPHIS >- 



It was announced at the meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, held at 

 the Hotel Gayoso, Saturday, March 17, that the invitations to President 

 John M. Woods, Secretary F. F. Fish and the entire executive committer 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, asking them to come to- 

 Memphis for a discussion of the application of the inspection rules of 

 that body, was sent out early this week and a conference will be arranged 

 just as soon as a date can be agreed upon. Aside from the fore- 

 going announcement and the election of W. S. Mayes, who is in the 

 hardwood business under his own name at Covington, Tenn., as an associate 

 member, no business was transacted. In fact this came nearer being a 

 purely social meeting of the members of the club than any held in recent 

 years. The usual luncheon was served. There were sixty-eight members 

 and visitors present. 



The Tri-County Drainage Canal, reclaiming about 55,000 acres of land' 

 in Crittenden, Cross and St. Francis counties, in eastern Arkansas, haa 

 been completed at a cost of $400,000. Roads are now being buUt and 

 other Improvements made and the value of this land is rapidly Increasing. 

 A consideriible portion of the property is owned by lumber interests. In- 

 cluding C. T. Whitman, Earle, Ark., and Memphis, the Crittenden Lumber 

 & Railroad Company and J. H. Bonner tic Sons, Heth, Ark., and others. 

 The work required nearly three years for completion. 



The L. C. Nolan Lumber Company, capitalized at $5000, is one of the 

 latest firms to take out a charter under the laws of Tennessee. Its head- 

 quarters will be at Memphis and the principal stockholders are : L. C. 

 Nolan, E. C. Klaiber. W. M. Solomon, N. C. McGinnls and R. H. Stlckley. 

 L. C. Nolan is well known to the hardwood trade of this section. He 

 was one of the owners of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Company, Memphis. 

 before that firm was absorbed at the time of the consolidation of several 

 companies under the name of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. 



Penrod, Jurden & MeCowen, Inc., have received the amendment to their 

 charter whereby its capital stock is reduced from $350,000 to $250,000, 

 Application for this amendment was made some days ago, as announced in 

 the last issue of Hardwood Record. 



The Chisca Lumber Company has been organized with a capital stock 

 of $50,000, with W. I. Brashears of Josephine, Miss., as president, George 

 H. Temple, Cincinnati, as vice-president, and Charles T. McManus, as 

 secretary-treasurer. This firm has alreatly taken over two mills at 

 Josephine, Miss., and 1.000 acres of gum, oak and other stumpage near 

 that tovn, which belonged to Mr. Brashears. The mills are already In 

 operation and have a capacity something in excess of 35,000 feet per day. 

 Mr. McManus is in charge of the local offices of the company in the 

 Randolph building and will look after the buying of such lumber as the 

 company may handle aside from its own output. Mr. Temple will act as 

 sales manager, with headquarters at Cincinnati. 



=•< LOUISVILLE >= 



C. H. WlUett, connected with the W. R. Willett Lumber Company, will 

 be married on April 4 to Miss Margaret Meldrum Munn of Louisville, 

 according to recent announcements. The wedding will take place at the 

 Church of the Messiah. 



Some big improvements are under way at the Louisville plant of the 

 C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, where the main mill is being remodeled 

 into a two band affair. The dimension mill has been doubled in capacity, 

 and new storage sheds are being erected to carry half a million feet of 

 kiln-dried stock. Other improvements are under way, including a new 

 shipping room. 



After spending several weeks In the East, W. A. McLean, head of the 

 Wood-Mosaic Company, Louisville and New Albany, is back in the city. 

 Business with the company is extremely good at this time. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 'Is back 

 from Pittsburgh, where he attended the meeting of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. G. M. Brown is back from a trip to the 

 South, where the company's mills are operating to capacity. 



Apprehension was felt in river lumber circles last week when the Ohio 

 river went on a rampage, which for a time threatened to reach the flood 

 stage. However, the river began to recede l)efore any ilamage was done. 

 At the plant of the Roberts Veneer Company, New Albany, all logs and 

 loose lumber were securely tied up, and similar precautions were taken 

 at the Louisville Point Lumber Company's plant and elsewhere. How- 

 ever, no lumber got away, and the water never reached the mills. 



The Inman Veneer & Panel Company, recently organized In Louisville. 

 has incorporated with a capital of $200,000, and taken out a permit for 

 the erection of a building to cost $43,000. The incorporators are : Charles 

 W. Inman, Harry C. Inman, Theodore Kamuitz, E. E. Sutton and George 

 P. Johnson, holding 1,055 shares of the capital, which Is par at $100. 

 The stock is divided into $125,000 of common, and $75,000 preferred. 



The plant of the Louisville Cooperage Company Is again operating in 

 full swing after laying off 200 men when the railroads placed the special 

 embargoes on account of the threatening strike. 



The plant of the Ferguson Hardwood Lumber Company, Paducah, Ky,. 



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