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rtirectors are not abl« to manage the affairs of the concern and conserve 

 it in the interest of the creditors. The receiver states that as tar as 

 lie has been able to loarn the concern is solvent and lias assets esti- 

 Hinted at .$200,000. 



Will XiOg Pennsylvania Land 

 A tract containing from 15,000,000 to 18,000.000 feet of .yellow pop- 

 lar, oak and hemlock in Ligonier valley, Pennsylvania, will be logged 

 hy the Ligonier Lumber Company, reoently chartered at Connellsville. 

 Pa. A band mill is being moved from West Virginia to that place to do 

 I he work. The company owns other valuable tracts of timber in the 

 vicinity. 



A New Wholesale Company 

 The Stillwell, Moore & King Lumber Company has been incorporated 

 under the laws of Illinois, with an authorized capital of $200,000, and has 

 'ipened oflices at 501 McCormick building, Chicago, The company will 

 handle both hard and soft woods by wholesale. The officers are Addi- 

 ^on Stillwell, president ; W. C. King, vice-president, and T. A. Moore, 

 secretary. 



Will Build Another Mill 

 The ManslieUi Hardwood Lumber Company, with headquarters in 

 .^ureveport, La., and whicli concern operates large hardwood sawmills at 

 .Mansfield and Winnfield, La,, is preparing to build another plant at 

 Winnfield. This new plant will be a band mill of from 30,000 to 40,000 

 leet daily capacity, the machinery for which will be furnished by the 

 ,Sinker-Davis Coinpau.\- of Indianapolis. Construction work will be com- 

 menced upon this plant at once, and it is expected that it will be com- 

 pleted and in operation by Jan. 1. 



The building of this second plant at Winnfield is rendered necessary 

 by the fact that Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company contracts to take 

 all of the hardwood timber off' the holdings of the Tremont Lumber Com- 

 pany as it is delivered, and the company also has limited timber leases 

 upon other hardwood stumpage. The capacity of the original mill was 

 insufficient to manufacture this stumpage as fast as delivered. 



Buettner-Meeker 



ICdwin W. Meeker, associate editor of Hardwood Itccouit, was married 

 • m Saturday. Aug. 23, to Miss Nita Buettner, daughter of Dr. and Jlrs. 

 .\dolph Buettner. Dr. Buettner up to the time of his death, about three 

 years ago, was promi/ient in medical circles in Chicago, practicing mainly 

 iin the north side, where the family has lived for the past twcnty-flve 

 years and is well known. 



Mr. Meeker, who is popular among the trade, is a graduate of Dr. 

 Schenck's Biltmore Forest School, and is a son of E. J. Meeker of New 

 York and East Orange, N. J. 



The bride and groom are spending a few weeks at New York and the 

 .New Jersey coast, and will be at home after Oct. 10 at 926 Airdrie Place, 

 city. 



Hakdwood Recoud and the local contingent extend t" Mr. and Mrs. 

 Meeker their congratulations and best wishes. 



Clarence Boyle, Inc. 



The above title is the stylo of a recent addition to the many Chicago 

 wholesale lumbering concerns, the head of which organization is Clarence 

 Royle, a veteran of high standing in the hardwood field here, having entered 

 (he local market in 1S81. 



The new company was incorporated on August IS last with a capital 

 stock of .$10,000. hy ^Ir. Hoyle. Maurice F. O'Connor and Milton o. Nnr.n- 



more, and its offices are located at 312 Portland Block. Mr. O'Connor is 

 • ■onnected with Armour & Co., this city, and will not be actively interested 

 in the new firm of Clarence Boyle, Inc. 



Mr. Boyle is a graduate of the Butler College. Indianapolis, Ind., of the 

 'lass of '83. Immediately after his graduation in 18S3 he stepped into the 

 lumber business, acting as salesman for his father under the style of L. V. 

 l!oyle & Sous, Chicago, for a good many years thereafter. 



For many years and up to a short time ago, Mr, Boyle was connected 

 with the firm of D. K. Jeffris & Co., this city, more recently in the 

 capacity of sales manager. 



Mr. Boyle's past record shows he has been a success in the lumljer busi- 

 ness, and everything points to his continued prosperity. 



Death of Thomas J. Moffett 



Thomas J, iloffett, president and treasurer of the Maley, Thompson 

 ,\; Moffett Company, Cincinnati, operating a sawmill and veneer plant 

 at Cincinnati and ^a mahogany sawmill at Havana, Cuba, died suddenly 

 about six o'clock in the evening of Aug. 28, at the Hotel Emery, Cin- 

 cinnati. The cause of Mr. Moffett's death was heart disease. Mr. 

 Moffett had just returned to the city from a business trip and being 

 taken suddenly ill on the street, secured a room at the Hotel Emery 

 and called a doctor. Death closely ensued following the arrival of 

 the physician. Mr. :Moffett is survived by bis wife, two daughters and 

 one son. 



Mr. Moffett was born in Edinburg, Ind., Dec. 30, 1864. He was edu- 

 cated in the public schools of that town and was graduated with honors. 

 .\s a youth he was emplo.ved in a drug store, and later went to Phila- 

 delphia, where he entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the 

 leading institution in that line in the country at that time. He grad- 

 uated from that college and returned to Edinburg and engaged in the 

 drug business with his two brothers. Later he removed to Dayton, C, 

 and bought an interest in the lumber firm of Maley, Daniels & Thomp- 

 son, and the firm then became Male.v, Thompson & Moffett, Twenty 

 years ago the plant was moved from Dayton to Cincinnati, and since 

 that time Mr. Moffett's concern has been a large operator in fancy 

 woods both in the form of lumber and veneers. .Associated with Mr. 

 Thompson was E. W. Robbins. 



Besides his connection with the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 

 Mr. Moffett was also a member of the Uockport Sawmill Company of 

 Rockport, Ky., and was also identified with the Moffett & Robbins Com- 

 pany of Havana, Cuba. The latter concern deals in mahogany and 

 while it does a large export business, it furnishes most of the mahogany 

 logs for the large veneer plant of the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Com- 

 pany. Cincinnati. 



The deceased was one of Cincinnati's leading and most esteemed 

 citizens. He was a director of the Flfth-Tbird National bank and a 

 director of the new Hotel Gibson Company. He was prominently 

 identified with the Receivers' & Shippers' Association and was particu- 

 larly active In the fight put up by that association on the freight rate 

 question. Several years ago he was president of 'the Cincinnati Busi- 

 ness Men's Club, and gave that organization one of the best administra- 

 tions it has ever had. He was twice president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Manufactur- 

 ers' Club, director of the University of Cincinnati, and a member of 

 ntber leading Cincinnati institntions. 



CLARENCE BOYLE, CHICAGO. 



EDWIN W. MEEKER, CHICAGO. 



THE LATE THOMAS J. MOFFETT, CINCIN- 

 NATI, O. 



