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HARDWOOD RECORD 



B £59 — What Is Just Commission? 



Montgomery, Ala., Sept. C. — Editor n.ir.DwooD Uecokd : Agreeable to 

 .Tfrangement witli a wholesale concern we accepted an order recently and 

 made a shipment of one of its orders, which according to terms of order 

 would have amounted to ."5750. Complaint being made of the quality of 

 the lumber, an allowance of .$30 to the buyer was made on the sale. Do 

 you consider the commission man entitled to commission on $750 or $700? 



LcMBER Company. 



If the contract with the commission house contemplated a specific 

 commission on net avails of sales, it would be entitled to a com- 

 mission on $700 rather than on $750. On the contrary, if the con- 

 tract, provided for commission on the sale regardless of subsequent 

 settlement, the commission man would be entitled to a commission on 

 the entire amount. — Editor. 



Clubs and Associations 



Meeting of Commissary Managers 



The National Commissary .Manacers' Association hold a three-days' ses- 

 .sion at the Planters hotel, St. Louis, Aug. 19, 20 and 21, and carried out 

 a program of discussion which included numerous topics with which the 

 members were closely concerned. The president, T. R. Crumpler of West 

 Virginia, was unable to attend, and C. C. Jackson of Arkansas served 

 as acting president. Ma.vor Henry W. Kiel of St Louis delivered an 

 address of welcome, to which Mr. Jackson responded. 



These preliminaries having prepared the way for business, the serious 

 work of the association was at once taken up by tbe reading of the 

 secretary's report. The matter of general interest in it was the rapid 

 growth of the organization in the three years of its existence. It was 

 organized at Baltimore with nine active and two associate members. A 

 year later its roll contained 4.'>0 active and l.W associate members, and 

 at the late meeting the list contained 1,14.3 store managers and 146 

 associate members. 



The discussion occupied the chief part of three days, and was devoted 

 to half a dozen h'ading topics, among them being the best arrangement 

 of the store, and the display and care of merchandise : the cost and 

 profit with many factors which are apt to worry and confuse : the way 

 credits should be handled, and the .solving of difficult problems con- 

 stantly coming up in that department of the store : handling cash sales, 

 and the related subject of coupons, mi-tal checks, and the cash register 

 and cash carrier systems ; losses and leaks, with many puzzling and dis- 

 agreeable features connected with that phasic of the case. The selling 

 end, which came up for consideration late in tlie meeting, was in many 

 ways the principal topic. The comparative merits of wooden and fiber 

 boxes came in for extended discussion, without any decision l)eing 

 reached. The election of officers resulted in tbe following : 



I'RESiDENT — C. C Jackson. Graysonia, Ark. 



Skckktary — Tracy D. Luccock, Chicago. 



PACIFIC Coast Vice-President — G. A. Mussou, Weed, Cal. 



Central Vice-President — F. M. Meadows. I'inevllle, Ky. 



Southern Vice-President — Herbert Moss. Manning, Tex. 



.Northern Vice-President — John 1. Kellaire, nianey. Mich. 



Southeastern Vice-President — A. W. Dowling. Belfast, Ga. 



ICastekn Vice-President — J. Milton Bailey, I'enland, N. C. 



The following members of the advisory board were appointed to i-ei)re- 

 seut their several states: 



Alabama — .\. M. Phillips, Altoona. 



Arizona — 1'". A. Sanderson. Clifton. 



Arkansas — E. L. Barley. Warren. 



California — C. S. Sharpe, Bulwinkle. 



Colorado — D. T. Givens, Bowen. 



Florida — A. Adkissou. Pine Barren. 



Georgia — J. F. Graddy. Crcil. 



Idalio — Frank G. Pickford. Hope. 



Illinois — Roy Lockridse. Cbristopher. 



Indiana — Clark Whitman. Littles. 



Iowa — O. L. Canning. Iliterran. 



Kentifkv — O. H. Carter, Princess. 



Louisiana — J. C. Ziegler. Clarke. 



Maryland — L. K. Bellinger. Dodson. 



Michigan — H. .\. MacMillan. Jenson. 



Minnesota — E. D. Alger.- Tenstrike. 



Mississippi — F. M. Young, Lucedale. 



Missouri — C. C. Mathews, Garwood. 



Montana — Thos. McCIuskey. Kader.sburg. 



New Jersey — J. W. Walters, Frnnkliu Furnace. 



New York-^George A. Holmes, Tunesassa. 



North Carolina — S. B. McGill. Bowdens. 



Ohio — Frank R. Anderson. Columbus. 



Oklahoma — E. T>. MacLeod. Bismarck. 



Oregon — II. W. Stanlev. Wendling. 



Pennsylvania — C. Z. Wilson. Morgan. 



South Carolina — L. Brinkley. (ieorgetown 



Tennessee — Alvis J. Can-. I.aFollette. 



Texas — W. J. Hollnnd. Waterman. 



Virginia — J. B. Jackson. Austlnvillo. 



Washln-ton — W. H. Mot^auley. Mukilleo. 



West Vlr-dnia — J. P. Minear. Ilardini:. 



West Virginia — P. H. Ilonkins. Powellton. 



Wisconsin — Fred Tucker. HHos. 



Wyoming — E. B. Treat Cheyenne. 



The contest tor place of meeting In 1914 was between St. Louis, Cm- 

 cinnnti, Chicago and Louisville. After the (Irst ballot St. Louis and 



Cincinnati were dropped. On the second ballot the vote showed that 

 Louisville was the choice of the convention for 1914. 



Meeting of Evansville lumbermen's Club 



The first fall meeting of the Evansville, Ind., Lumberman's Club was 

 Held at New Vendome hotel, Tuesday night. Sept. 9. there was a busi- 

 ness session, a banquet, and good fellowship prevailed. Most of the 

 lumbermen had returned from their summer vacations. D. B. MacLaren 

 of the D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company, is president, and George O. 

 Worland secretary. 



Houston Iiumbermen Organize 



The Lumberman's Club of Houston, Texas, has been granted a char 

 ter to run fifty years. An election of officers resulted in the choice of 

 B. F. Bonner, president. J. M. West, vice-president, and Earl Dlonne, 

 secretary. 



A committee was appointed on conservation of forests, as follows: 

 J. Lewis Thompson, chairman ; S. F. Carter, John H. Kirby, H. S. Fil- 

 sou and A. L. Ford. 



The purposes of the club include tbe acquisition and dissemination of 

 knowledge, tacts, and statistics concerning the lumber industry, and the 

 protection and preservation of the forests. 



Nashville Club Postpones Meeting 

 Owing to the fact that several of the members of the Nashville Lum- 

 bermen's Club are cut of town on their vacations and that there would 

 necessarily be more or less irregularity in the attendance of the members 

 for the next se^-eral weeks. President C. M. Morford has announced 

 that there will be no further meetings of the club until the first Tues- 

 d.ay in October, when the weekly luncheons and business meetings at the 

 Commercial Club will be again resumed. 



Memphis Lumbermen Plan Outing 

 The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis has arranged a boat excursion on 

 Iho Mississippi for tl-e evening of Sept. 11. whicfi will be attended by a 

 number of the members, their wives, daughters and sweethearts. This 

 boat excursion has become an annual feature of the entertainment pro 

 gramme of the club and It is looked forward to with a great deal of 

 pleasure. There arc still a number of lumbermen who have not re- 

 turned from their vacations but it is anticipated that there will be 

 quite a numlier on the excursion. The entertainment committee, beaded 

 by F. E. Stonebraker, has arrangements In charge and preparations 

 have been made for refreshments, music and dancing. 



Logging Congress 



I'he Pacific Loiiging Congress, of wliich E. P. Blake of the Wash- 

 ington Log Brokerage Company, Seattle, Wash., is president, and George 

 M. Cornwall, I'ortland, Ore., secretary, has sent out Its tentative pro- 

 gram for the fifth session of the organization to be held at Spokane, 

 Wash.. Sept. 24-27. Numerous good topics relative to eflJcient logging, 

 logging systems, cableways, methods of teaching logging engineering, 

 etc.. etc., have been assigned to experts in the subjects treated, to be de- 

 livered at the sessions. 



The entertainment committee lias provided a very attractive pro- 

 gram. Incliidiug a banquet, automobile ride, welfare dinner, and a day's 

 trip to Elk River, Idaho, visiting the electrically driven sawmill and 

 logging camp of the Potlatch Lumber Company. 



Wisconsin Cut and Shipments 

 Secretary R. S. Kellogu's report of the eut and shipments o[ the 

 Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association for July. 

 1913, shows that during that month 2."i.G17,000 feet of ail varieties of 

 Hardwood were sawed, and 30.0.SG,000 feet shipped. This report indicates 

 a decrease of over lO.OOO.Ono feet in cut and a slight Increase in ship 

 inents over .Tune. 



With the Trade 



Receiver for the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 



As a direct result of the sudden death of Thomas J. Moffett at the 

 Hotel Emory, Aug 28, who was president and treasurer of the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company, hardwood lumber and veneer manu- 

 facturer of Cincinnati, O., the business of that concern was llirown 

 into the hands of a receiver In the Insolvency court. Saturday following 

 his death. Attorney Frank H. Shaffer of the law firm of Peck. Shaffer 

 & Peck was named as receiver. The action was tbe result of a suit 

 tiled by Edward J. Bobbins, vice-president of the company, who sued as 

 the owner of more than half of the capital stock and as the surviving 

 partner of the MolTott & Robbins Company, which is a creditor of the 

 Maley, Thompson & JIofTett Company to the extent of $S.'),000. The 

 petition states that the Moffett & Robbins Company was operated con- 

 jointly with the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company and that the 

 affairs of the concerns are now at a standstill and somewhat muddled 

 up on account of Mr. Moffctt's death, as he had full charge of the 

 financial affairs of the companies and the members of the board of 



