HARDWOOD RECORD 



57 



Miscellaneous Notes 



D. F. Sullivan has begun the manufacture of 

 hardwood lumber at Naples, Tex. 



Doemling Brothers of Detroit, Mich., recently 

 began the manufacture of furniture. 



Charles E. Osborne. Mucklow, W. Va., recently 

 began the manufacture of hardwood lumber. 



The Portland Body Works, Portland, Ind., has 

 Increased its authorized capital stock to $54,000. 



The Haverhill Woodheel Company, Haverhill. 

 Mass., recently began the manufacture of wood- 

 heels. 



The John M. Woods Lumber Company, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. 



The Wisconsin Central Lumber Company, Osh- 

 kosh. Wis., has been incorporated with a capital 

 slock of $50,000. 



The John A. Dunn Company, manufacturer of 

 chairs, Gardner, Mass., has increased its capital 

 stock to $500,000. 



The Williamson Mill & Lumber Company, 

 Rochester. N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $75,000, 



The McCammon & Lang Lumber Company, 

 Corsicana, Tex., has increased its capital stock 

 from $40,000 to $50,000. 



The Salamanca Veneer & Panel Company, 

 Salamanca. N. Y., has changed its name to the 

 Salamanca Panel Company. 



The Menominee White Cedar Company, for- 

 merly of Menominee, Mich., has removed its 

 headquarters to Marinette. Wis. 



The Bedell Furniture Company. Muskogee. 

 Okla.. has been succeeded by the Muskogee Fur- 

 niture Manufacturing" Company. 



The Central Illinois Lumber Company. East 

 St. Louis. III., has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital stock of $42,000. 



On Jan. 26 fire destroyed the plant of the 

 Standard Veneer Company of Stockholm. Me., 

 entailing a loss estimated at $50,000. 



The Banta & Bender Company, manufacturer 

 of incubators and refrigerators. Ligonier, Ind., 

 has increased its capital stock to $100,000. 



The general offices of George F, Craig & Co., 

 large lumber wholesalers formerly located at 

 Savannah. Ga., have been moved to Jacksonville, 

 Pla. 



The Blair Veneer Company of North Troy, Vt.. 

 Is erecting a new plant at that point and will 

 transfer its Montgomery, Vt., basiness to North 

 Troy.' 



The Schweitzer-Westerman Company, Louis- 

 ville, Ky., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $1,000 and will manufacture hardwood 

 flooring. 



The Kleymeyer Lumber Company. Vincennes. 

 Ind., has been succeeded by the W. M. Simpson 

 Lumber Company, with headquarters at Gales- 

 burg, III. 



It is announced that the piano factory of 

 Knabe Brothers Company of Cincinnati, which 

 was recently burned entailing a $100,000 loss, 

 will be rebuilt. 



The Patton Lumber & Timber Company, 

 manufacturer of hardwood lumber at Catletts- 

 burg, Ky.. has been succeeded by Doran & Co., 

 with headquarters at Cincinnati, O. 



The McFarland Lumber Company, Houston, 

 Tex,, has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. The incorporators are J. A. Mc- 

 Farland, E. G. Shilkee and N. B. Judd. 



The Grand Rapids Veneer Works. Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., has purchased about 2.500.000 feet 

 of logs this season, consisting of oak, maple, 

 basswood, ash and elm, with a little sycamoi'e. 



H. V. Butler & Co., manufacturers of cabinets, 

 mantels, etc.. New Brunswick, N. ,1., have been 

 succeeded by the Butler-Howell Company, which 

 is incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000, 



Paul G. Mehlin & Sons are well under way 

 with the erection of their new piano factory at 

 West New York, N. J. The new plant will be 

 four stories high and 200 x 225 feet. It will be 

 modernly equipped in every way. 



The Northern Hardwood Company. Herkimer, 

 N Y.. has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $50,000 to deal in lumber, timber lands, etc. 

 The incorporators are C. H. Smith, Jr., Utica : 

 L. L. Southwick and J. Montgomery of Herkimer. 



The J. W. Heninger Company. Inc.. has re- 

 cently entered the lumber business at Chilhowie. 

 Va. The company has a maximum capital of 

 $20,000 : minimum. $15,000. The officers are 

 J. W. Heninger, president : J. B. Sechler, vice- 

 president and secretary. 



The Mitchell Parquet Floor Company of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $25,000, divided into shares of 

 $100 each, Tlie directors are as follows : Perci- 

 val S. Jones and Vincent C. King of New York 

 City and Charles W. Dunfee of Brooklyn. 



A new veneer plant will shortly be erected at 

 Arlington, N. J., by Garrett Gordon of New York. 

 The plant will be composed of two buildings, the 

 cutting department being in one 50 x 100 feet, 

 and the storage department in another of similar 

 size. Mr. Gordon will specialize in imported 

 cabinet woods. 



D. D. Langton. formerly engaged in the manu- 

 facture of gun stocks in Des Moines, la., an- 

 nounces that he will establish in Des Moines a 

 veneer factory to be conducted in connection 

 with the C. L. Willey factory of Chicago. The 

 new factory will involve an investment of 

 $20,000, and will be in operation within two 

 months. Mr. Langton has several other veneer 

 factories in tlie Middle West located at Glasgow. 

 Mo. : McCrory. Ark. ; Pekin, III., and Memphis, 

 Tenn. 



The Cincinnati Veneer Company of Cincinnati, 

 O., has been somewhat delayed in the erection 

 of its new veneer plant which will take the 

 place of the company's recently burned mill, but 

 expects to have it fully equipped and running 

 v.'ithin a month. The new mill will give the 

 company a greatly increased output, as it will 

 be equipped with unusually ample drying facili- 

 ties, which will be more than enough to take 

 care of the large mill output. It is expected 

 that the new plant will be superior in every 

 way, and will turn out a line of veneers of 

 unexcelled quality. 



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CHICAGO 



H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, has left on a trip among the Wis- 

 consin mills. 



F. II. Schneider, a well-known Wausau. Wis., 

 hardwood wholesaler, was in town for a few- 

 days this week. 



Joseph Okeneski of the Arpin Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Atl.inta. Wis., called on the local 

 trade the past week. 



W. E. Allen, a wholesale dealer of Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., was in the city on business last week. 



F. B. Smith of the Buswell Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, the widely known Wausau. 

 Wis., hardwood concern, visited several of his 

 Chicago friends the early part of this week. 



P. H. Edwards of the Edwards-Fair Lumber 

 Company, Lansing, Ark., is in town on a short 

 buying trip. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of 

 Odanah, Wis., was represented in town this 

 week by C. B. Bontelle. 



C. M. Christiansen of the Christiansen Lum- 

 ber Company. Rector building. Chicago, left this 

 week for a trip among the mills of Wisconsin. 



Taylor & Crate, the well-known Buffalo. N. Y. 

 wholesalers, had their Mr. Todd visiting the 

 local trade this week. Mr. Todd is Wisconsin 

 and Michigan buyer for Taylor & Crate's south- 

 ern mills. 



B. W. Ackles. secretary of the Alton Lumber 

 Company. Buckhannon, W. Va., spent several 

 days in Chicago last week. 



Hardwood Recokd had the pleasure of a call 

 from J. W. Long of New York City, editor of 

 the New York Lumber Trade Journal, on Wednes- 

 da.v of this week. 



George D. Burgess of the hardwood manufac- 

 turing and export house of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis. Tenn., called at Hardwood Record 

 offices on Feb. 5. on his way home from a busi- 

 ness trip to New York. Mr. Burgess reports an 

 improving condition in the eastern trade. 



F. L. Brown of Crandall & Brown of Chicago 

 spent several days in Pittsburgh this week on 

 business. 



E. E. Skeele of the Estabrook-Skeele Luml>er 

 Company left the city on Wednesday of this week 

 for a buying trip of several days' duration in 

 northern Wisconsin. 



Ralph May of the May Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany. Memphis, Tenn., was in town this week, 



W. W. Gamble, secretary and manager of the 

 Wausau Lumber Company of Rib Falls, Wis., 

 spent several days of the past week on business 

 in Chicago. 



F. K. Bissell, secretary and general manager 

 of the Rib Falls Lumber Company of Rib Falls, 

 Vv'is.. called on the local trade Thursday and 

 Friday of this week. 



Robert J. Ray of the Sun Lumber Company, 

 Weston, W. Va., visited the city on a selling trip 

 a few days ago. 



R. C. Schulz, sales manager of the Yawkey- 

 Bisseil Lumber Company, Arbor Vitae, Wis., was 

 in town recently. 



A. S. Pierce of Danielson & Pierce, the well- 

 known Rhinelander manufacturing and whole- 

 saling house, visited the trade last week. 



R. F. Hodges of Milwaukee, prominent as a 

 hardwood wholesaler, was in town a few days the 

 tirst part of the month. 



Harry Wilber was in the city on a selling trip 

 Feb. 6 and 7. Mr. Wilber has just left the 

 service of the Brittingham & Young Company, 

 Madison, Wis., and has gone with the Brooks & 

 Ross Lumber Company of Schofield, Wis. He 

 will make his headquarters at Madison. 



The firm of J. O. Nessen & Co., a co- 

 pintnersbip composed of J. L. Nessen and Andrew 

 .7. Doble. doing a lumber, commission and ship- 

 ping business at Manistee. Mich., and Chicago, 

 has been dissolved. Mr. Doble has withdrawn 

 and Mr. Nessen will continue the business under 

 the styles J. O. Nessen Lumber Company, an 

 Illinois corporation, and the Nessen Transporta- 

 tion Company, an Indiana corporation. 



The Huddleston-Marsb Lumber Company of 

 Chicago states that the month of January was 

 highly satisfactory for it, and that its veneer 

 and mahogany business was far ahead of Jan- 

 uary, 1911. 



The Theodore Fathauer Company of Chicago 



