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S. Gavnett. Sr., of Norfolk have been appointed 

 receivers. Tlic liabilities are given at $103,032 

 and the assets $103,159. 



Albert Schoenliui. president of the A. Schoen-, 

 hut Company, which conducts one of the largest 

 loy-makin? plants in the United States, was 

 loimd dead in bed on Feb. 3. His death was 

 due to paralysis of the heart. Mr. Schoenhut 

 v,-as sixty-three years of age. He leaves six sons, 

 all of whom wit-? .Tssnciated with him in busi- 

 ness. 



PITTSaUROH 



D. L. Gillesiuc of D. L. Gillespie & Co. and 

 wife will spend the remainder of the winter at 

 Augusta. Ga. Mr. Gillespie says that his com- 

 pany will be busy taking care of present orders 

 up to April 1 at least. 



.7. J. Linehan. president of the Liuehan Lumber 

 Company, attended the recent hardwood conven- 

 tion at Cincinnati. He returned believing that 

 the lumber business will right itself, especially 

 in the line of hardwoods. 



Frank E. Smith, hardwood manager of the 

 lireitwieser & Wilson Company, has been busy in 

 the eastern territory the past two weeks. He is 

 sending in some nice orders. 



H. E. Ast, hardwood manager of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, attended the 

 hardwood convention at Cincinnati. He reports 

 that be never found stocks so short in West 

 Virginia as during the past six weeks. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is branching out 

 and steadily increasing its trade. Its Xew York 

 office, which is under the management of Mr. 

 Hollahan, is doing a good business. 



B. W. Cross. Pittsburgh manager for the 

 Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, is in Buf- 

 falo this week hustling for business. 



.John C. Shafer, a well-known Pittsburgh car- 

 riage manufacturer, died recently at his home 

 at 209 South Xewville street. Oakland. He was 

 for years the leading carriage manufacturer of 

 the South Side. 



R. G. Camp of the Camp Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, stopped off in town recently to see how 

 Pittsburgh business stood up. He reports stocks 

 very short at the mills. 



laimber & Manufacturing Company of Danville, 

 Va., has taken a position to represent the Mor- 

 gan Mill Work Company of Baltimore in Vir- 

 ginia and other Southern states, where he is 

 widely known. 



Among visiting lumbermen here during the 

 past two weeks were James West of the Midland 

 Lumber Company. Parkersburg. W. Va. ; Eugene 

 C. Hayden, vice-president of Boynton .Sc Co., Inc., 

 Chicago ; Mr. Holland of the Holland-Cook Man- 

 ufacturing Company. Tacoma. Wash., and G. G. 

 Barr of Beecher & Barr, Philadelphia. 



Philip Littig, formerly connected with the 

 Stirling-West Company of this city, a hardwood 

 exporting concern which went out of existence 

 after the great fire, and subsequently in the em- 

 ploy of the Dickson Lumber Company of Norfolk, 

 was in Baltimore ten days ago on business and 

 also to see members of his family. Mr. Littig is 

 carrying on a sawmill operation near Roanoke. 

 Va., being one of the young Baltimoreans who 

 promise to sustain the reputation of the city in 

 the hardwood trade. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald Intends to 

 spend six weeks or two months at Los Angeles, 

 Cal., with a married daughter who resides in that 

 city. His health has not been good of late and 

 it is thought that a change of scene will com- 

 pletely restore him. 



An application for the appointment of a re- 

 ■ ceiver for the Heise & Bruns Mill & Lumber 

 Company of this eit,y, filed last week, was with- 

 drawn later on payment of a claim of some $200. 

 H. J. Munro of the firm of H. J. Munro & Co.. 

 of Liverpool, stopped in Baltimore last week on 

 his way back to New York, preparatory to tak- 

 ing the steamer for home. He had been in the 

 Lnited States since the early part of .January 

 and had visited some of the lumbering sections. 

 He reported that prices were held rather high by 

 the millmen, all of whom had gone up in their 

 figures. 



President Harvey M. Dickson of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association : Edward Barber 

 of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company of 

 Cincinnati, and J. W. Eekman, vice-president of 

 the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company of Cincin- 

 nati, visited Baltimore after the annual meeting 

 of the organization in Washington. 



BOSTON 



George E. Miller, formerly prominent in the 

 lumber biSsiness in Boston, died suddenly Sunday, 

 Feb. 4. 



Herbert W. Bowler, who has been the New 

 England inspector. for the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association for several years, will enter 

 the employ of the Holt & Bugbee Company, 

 Boston hardwood lumber dealer, on Mar. 1. 



The L. H. Shepard Company, Boston, has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000. 

 This company succeeds to the business of 

 Lindsley H. Sheijard. 



William H. Wood of the W. H. Wood Lumber 

 Company, Cambridge, who has been confined to 

 his home by sickness has so far recovered as to 

 be able to go to Florida, where he will spend 

 several weeks. 



Robert Cowdery. for many years a member of 

 the firm of Cowdery. Cobb, Nichols & Co., manu- 

 facturers of piano cases, Boston, died late in 

 .January. 



BALTIMORE 



CLEVELAND 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Barriss Company 

 states that although there is no unusual demand 

 for any particular commodity, his company has 

 had a steady trade for the past month aiid 

 thinks that the next three or four months will 

 show marked improvement. 



J. L. Sands of the F. T. Peitch Company has 

 returned from a trip through West Virginia and 

 reports finding stocks badly broken. 



L. W. Ford, secretary of the, Goodlander-Rob- 

 ertson Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., was 

 in town last week. He says conditions are very 

 favorable and is optimistic regarding the future. 



W. C. Thompson of the W. E. Heyser Lumber 

 Company. Cincinnati, was another visitor in this 

 market last week. 



George Wright, formerly connected with the 

 Cuyahoga Lumber Company, has accepted the 

 position of manager of the Scranton Road Lum- 

 ber Company. 



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will he conducted under the name of the Slagle 

 Lumber & Coal Company. The officers of both 

 companies are C. E. Slagle, president ; W. C. 

 Slagle, .vice-president and secretary, and Arthur 

 Slagle, treasurer. 



The Conneaut Handle Company of Conneaut 

 has been incorporated with a capital of $12,000 

 to manufacture wooden handles and similar ar- 

 ticles. The incorporators are E. M. Comstock. 

 G. M. Benton. C. Dusenbury, H. G. Kingdom and 

 Fred F. Smith. 



D. A. Gear, who has been in the employ of thr 

 Koss & German Lumber Company of Fostoria. 

 O., for years, has accepted a position in the 

 wood-working department of the Overland Auto- 

 mobile Company of Toledo. 



George C. Drlin, a well-known business man of 

 Columbus. 0., has sold his interests in the Grand- 

 view Lumber Company of Columbus. 



D. C. Shank & Co. of Pandora. 0., has been in- 

 corporated with a capital of $.50,000 to deal in 

 lumber. The incorporators are D. C. Shank, A. 

 C. Diller, Phillip Neunschender, Llewellyn Geiger 

 and C. M. Shank. 



The Clifton Park Lumber Company of Cleve- 

 land, O., has increased its capital stock from 

 $25,000 to $50,000. 



The Edgewater Lumber Company of Cleveland, 

 O., has increased its capital stock from $25,000 

 to $50,000. 



The creditors of C. Roehr & Co., bankrupts of 

 Bucyrus. O.. recently met and discussed the mat- 

 ter of continuing the business of the defunct 

 company. A bid of $2,400 was accepted for the 

 lower mill of the concern located near the end 

 of Walnut street, and the plant was ordered sold 

 to H. E. Startsman. 



F. B. Pryor. manager of the Chicago office for 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, and A. J. 

 Williams, manager of the Philadelphia office of 

 the same concern, were in Columbus Feb. 5 to 

 confer with R. W. Horton, sales manager for 

 the Central division. Both reported much im- 

 provement in the demand in their respective ter- 

 ritories and said the outlook for the future was 

 better. R. W. Horton reports a good trade in 

 all lines of hardwoods and says the outlook is 

 excellent. 



R. C. Willis, who has been in charge of the 

 Maryland territory for the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company, has been assigned to the Columbus 

 office to flu the vacancy caused by the resigna- 

 tion of W. Granville Taylor, who left to become 

 purchasing agent for the National Casket Com- 

 pany in North Carolina. C. J. Robinson, who 

 has been traveling in Pennsylvania territory, has 

 been assigned to the Maryland territory with 

 headquarters at Baltimore, and E. C. Callinan. 

 traveling in western New York, has been as- 

 signed to Pennsylvania territory. 



John Becker of the Becker Mill & Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Marietta, O., was a visitor in 

 Columbus recently. 



COLUMBUS 



One of the new incorporations is the J. A. 

 Denison Lumber Company of Hagerstown, which 

 has been authorized to engage in the lumber busi- 

 ness with a capital stock of $25,000. The incor- 

 porators are J. A. Denison and A. M. Denison of 

 Hagerstown and George A. Reed of Williamsport. 

 J. A. Denison, the president of the new com- 

 pany, is also president of the Maryland Lumber 

 Company of Denmar, W. Va. 



Edgar J. Schuman, formerly with the Danville 



The Byesville Planing Mill Company of Byes- 

 ville, O., has been awarded a contract to furnish 

 the lumber for four waiting stations for the Mid- 

 land Power & Traction Company. 



The Slagle Lumber & Coal Company of Wash- 

 ington C. H., O., has purchased the business of 

 the Fayette County Lumber Company of that 

 city for about $60,000. The lumber business will 

 be conducted under the name of The Fayette 

 County Lumber Company, with offices on South 

 Fayette street, and the building material business 



CINCINNATI 



The Korn-Conkling Lumber Company w; 

 recently incorporated with a capital of $10,0i"i 

 to engage in the wholesale lumber business. The 

 stock is divided into one hundred shares of $100 

 each, the incorporators being C. F. Eorn. E. A. 

 Conkling, A. Volkert, W. C. Rippey and L. M. 

 Schulte. Temporary offices have been opened in 

 the Winton Place Savings Bank. 



The firm of Ault & Jackson Company is being 

 liquidated. Cliff S. Ault will enter the Ault 

 Wooden Ware Company with his brother. It is 

 expected the stock will be disposed of and the 

 affairs of the firm wound up within sixty days. 

 The Thompson Lumber Company has made ar- 

 rangements to take over the trams and yards 

 of the Ault & Jackson plant. 



The F^iiierton & Powell Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, with headquarters at South Bend. 

 Ind., has decided to close its Cincinnati yard 

 and concentrate its business at headquarters. 

 The stock is being disposed of. 



