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SfmlU looking after bis varied iuterests. and 

 will visit their new office for export recently 

 installed, with A. W. Euler. their foreign expert, 

 iu charge. He will spend some time at the Mem- 

 phis office before his return. 



C. "Mack" Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber 

 Company, left Tuesday for a tour of Michigan 

 and the North, and will visit Detroit. Chicago, 

 Grand Itapids and other points on business. 



Lewis Doster left Oct. 16 for the New York 

 offices of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the United States, and will visit other 

 points in the Ea.st before he returns, which 

 probably will be at the week's end. There will 

 be a meeting of the Executive Board of the 

 association in this city Nov. 15, when it is ex- 

 pected there will be a full attendance, as ar- 

 rangements for the annual convention will 

 probably be discussed. 



Ralph McCracken, secretary of the Kentucky 

 Lumber Company, is on a business trip for bis 

 company to Chicago, St. Louis and other points. 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, says the company's mill at Burnside. Ky.. 

 IS in operation, though logs are becoming scarce 

 on the river, but a supply is being brought in by 

 rail. The mill at Williamsburg, Ky., has started 

 cutting on logs from its new timber tract in 

 Tennessee, which are hauled by the company's 

 road to the tracks of the Louisville & Nashville 

 railroad, and delivered to the mill at Williams- 

 burg, Ky. 



Dwight Hinckley of the Hinckley Lumber Com- 

 pany, is out on the road for orders, visiting Chi- 

 cago, Cleveland, Buffalo and other points, while 

 S. Earle Giffen is looking after the local plant 

 of the company. 



The bowlers of the Lumbermen's Club are 

 forming a league of lumbermen bowlers, and will 

 run a series of games for the championship. E. 

 ■T. Thoman, Harry U. Browne, R. S. Witbeck and 

 Joe Bolser are promoting the league. jVU are 

 bowlers. 



President Sam Richey of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, says that business is good. The outlook 

 promises a successful season for the Club, as the 

 "square deal" is working great good for Cincin- 

 nati. Every effort will be put forth to have all 

 the heads of the various memberships attend 

 the meetings, which will be made very interest- 

 ing. The weather has interfered with a second 

 outing of the club members, the outing last month 

 at Ryland having proved so enjoyable that the 

 members are pleading for "one more" before old 

 winter puts the ban on outdoor fun. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Greeman Brothers Furniture Manufactur- 

 ing Company. Lawrenceburg, Ind., has Increased 

 its capital stock from $75,000 to $150,000 and 

 will increase its plant. 



The Li<?king River Lumber Company, incor- 

 porated in Kentucky with $120,000 capital, has 

 been certified to do business in this state, its 

 capital represented in Indiana amounting to 

 $8,000. 



Joseph E. McCartney and Frank S. Whltcomb 

 have bought the stock of the late Charles Davis 

 in the Davis-Bireley Table Company ac Shelby- 

 ville and the company has been reorganized with 

 an authorized capitalization of $300,000. 



About 150 members of the Louisville (Ky.) 

 Commercial Club, including several lumbermen, 

 were in this city Oct. IS as the guests of 

 the Indianapolis Commercial Club, Board of 

 Trade and Indianapolis Trade Association. 



The Manufacturers' Bureau of Indiana, com- 

 prising In its membership 1,200 manufacturers 

 of this state, has under consideration the or- 

 ganization of an employers' mutual liability in- 

 surance company because the employers' liability 

 insurance companies have recently advanced 

 their rates forty per cent. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Van Talge are in London 

 on their way home, expecting to return to Indi- 



anapolis about Nov. 15. Since May they have 

 been at Axim on the Gold Coast of .\frica. Mr. 

 Talge is a mahogany buyer for the Talge Ma- 

 hr)gany Company. 



The Wasnuith-E'ndicott Company has been or- 

 ganized at Huntington to take over the business 

 of the Andrews Cabinet Company. The company 

 will manufacture kitchen furniture, and has been 

 incorporated with an authorized capitalization 

 of $20,000. Those interested in the company are 

 E. M.. D. A., A. D., F. L. and II. R. Wasmuth, 

 11. A. Dinius and C. E. Endicott. 



BVANSVILLE 



C. W. Talge of the Evansville Veneer Works, 

 recently made a trip to Jackson, Tenn., where 

 his firm has a largo plant. 



H. J. Schaefer of Young & Cutsinger, was in 

 this city last week on his way to Jackson, Tenn., 

 from a northern trip. 



Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger returned 

 last week from Jackson, Tenn., and says that 

 the outlook for business at that point is good. 

 His firm has a nice stock of quartered oak at 

 Jackson, having operated its plant steadily. 



M. E. Cummings of Reimeier Brothers & Cuni- 

 mings, who met with an accident while crossing 

 the Chicago & Eastern Illinois tracks near his 

 office, is improving. B. R. Bertrand is in charge 

 of the sales department during Jlr. Cummings' 

 absence. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Evansville was rep- 

 resented in the fall festival and German day 

 parade by one of the most original and at the 

 same time one of the prettiest floats in the parade, 

 which was about a mile and a half long and was 

 witnessed by about seventy thousand people. 

 The float representing the club was a large tour- 

 ing car covered by a frame which was decorated 

 with oak leaves and flowers and bore the legend 

 of Hoo-Hoo on either side and in front, a black 

 cat. In the car were six young ladies, all of 

 whom are connected with the lumber offices in 

 the city, and all dressed in the black robes of 

 Hoo-Hoo. 



E. Bird of the Wood Lumber Company, Mill- 

 ington, Tenn., was a recent visitor. 



MEMPHIS 



The strike on the Illinois Central and the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads is gradually 

 being overcome and traffic conditions are more 

 nearly normal than at any time since the trou- 

 bles began. Traffic officials estimate that they 

 are handling more than eighty per cent of all 

 the business offered them and they further ex- 

 press the view that in a short time the two lines 

 will be able to handle all shipments turned over 

 to them. The shops here have been successfully 

 manned and the same is true of those at other 

 points where repair facilities are maintained. 

 The embargo on carload shipments of lumber 

 and logs was removed more than ten days ago 

 and since that time a considerable amount of 

 logs has been handled by these roads as well as 

 some shipments of lumber to domestic markets. 

 In this connection it may be noted that the Illi- 

 nois Central System is not now accepting any 

 business for export, with the result that those 

 lumber manufacturers and dealers having no 

 other outlet than the Illinois Central, and the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads have been seri- 

 ously handicapped. Whore they have been sell- 

 ing to domestic markets it has been possible 

 during the last few days for them to move their 

 lumber. The improvement in the situation on 

 the Illinois Central has helped to bring about 

 an increased amount of log receipts at Memphis. 



The Mississippi river has risen enough during 

 the last fortnight to increase materially the 

 amount of logs available by water. Some of the 

 concerns in North Memphis were threatened with 

 a shut down on account of lack of timber, but 

 they have since been able to bring out enough 



logs to keep them steadily in operation, and the 

 indications are that the supply of logs for early 

 winter will be satisfactory. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company has cut out 

 all of its timber holdings at its plant at Bell- 

 grade, Miss., aud has removed its railroad and 

 logging equipment from that point to its other 

 timber land iioldings near Midnight, ^liss., about 

 fifteen miles farther down. The company oper- 

 ated several miles of railroad for the develop- 

 ment of its original timber holdings and these 

 facilities are being installed on the other timber 

 property with a view to its immediate develop- 

 ment. The plant at Bellgrade will continue in 

 o(>eration. John W. McClure, secretary of this 

 company, states that the strike on the Illinois 

 Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads 

 has been relieved for domestic shipments but 

 that it is impossible to make export shipments. 



The Anderson-Tully Company is putting up 

 a plant for the manufacture of built-up material 

 in North Memphis and will be in readiness for 

 operation about Nov. 1. This plant will involve 

 an outlay of alwut $20,000, exclusive of the 

 power plant, and will have a daily capacity of 

 25,000 feet of lumber. Gum will be used ex- 

 clusively for the manufacture of three-ply stock, 

 which is to be its principal output. The veneer 

 plant of this company, closed recently for re- 

 pairs, is again in operation. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell, Inc., has been 

 at Freeport, L. I., during the last few days at 

 the bedside of his daughter, Pauline, who was 

 severely injured recently in the automobile wreck 

 which caused the death of Mrs. Darnell and Miss 

 Beatrice. Mr. Darnell accompanied the bodies 

 of his loved ones to Memphis and immediately 

 after the funeral and burial services returned to 

 Freeport. The double funeral services, Bishop 

 Gailor of the diocese of Tennessee officiating, 

 were impressive. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 has returned from a trip to Europe covering a 

 number of weeks. Mr. Burgess landed iu New 

 York about two weeks ago and since that time 

 has been traveling in the New England states 

 and in the West. Mr. Burgess says that at first 

 he found conditions iu England and on the Con- 

 tinent very satisfactory, but more lately the 

 foreign markets have been unfavorably affected 

 by heavy consignments of American lumber 

 growing out of the unsatisfactory conditions in 

 America. He says the presence of so much con- 

 signed stock makes it very difficult to put 

 through direct order business on anything like 

 a satisfactory , basis. 



The Johnson-Fitzgerald-Sweeny Lumber Manu- 

 facturing & Railway Company, capitalized at 

 $5,000,000, has been granted a charter under 

 the laws of Mississippi and purposes to establish 

 several sawmill plants at different points in the 

 Pearl River valley where the members of the 

 company have extensive timber land holdings. 

 These mills will have a capacity of 150,000 feet 

 per day. The holdings are reported to be 150,000 

 acres, including much hardwood. The principal 

 organizers of the company are Joel F. Johnson, 

 Jack^, Miss., P. H. Fitzgerald and Andrew M. 

 Sweeny, Indianapolis. Ind. 



The Cremer Lumber Company has been incor- 

 porated and will have headquarters at Little 

 Rock, Ark., capital $2,200,000, to do a general 

 milling and lumber business, build and operate 

 sawmills, handle real estate and timber lands 

 and to transact any other business connected 

 with the lumber industr.v. The incorporators 

 are J. C. Cremer. C. G. Powell, W. W. Atkinson, 

 A. J. Reap and R. S. Wilson. 



Application for a charter has been filed in this 

 city by the Martin Furniture Company, capital 

 stock $15,000, incorporators M. M. Martin, L. 

 E. Madden and others. 



The Sargent Lumber Company has filed articles 

 of incorporation here and will engage in the 

 lumber business, "fhe capital stock is $5,000. 

 William Sargent, Charles W. Anderson and others 

 are the incorporators. 



