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HARDWOOD RECORD 



'Lhe Header Furniture Company, Cincinnati, O., bas reduced its cap- 

 ital stock to ?16,000. 



The capital stock of the Ross Cabinet Company, Otsego, Mich., has 

 been increased to $70,000. 



The Badger Chair Company has been incorporated at Sheboygan, Wis., 

 with a capitalization of $25,000. 



At Pikeville, Ky., the Big Sandy Spoke Company has been organized 

 with a capitalization of $20,000. 



The Hudson Lumber Company, Garnett, Mich., has been succeeded by 

 Iho D. N. McLoed Lumber i.'ompany. 



The American Timber Company has been incorporated at Cleveland, 

 O.. with a capital stock of $100,000. 



George Kunz has been appointed receiver for the .lames & Meyer 

 Buggy Company, Lawrenceburg. Ind. 



The Marion Chair Company has been incorporated at Alarion, Ind., 

 with an authorized capital of $40,000. 



(ieorge H. Taylor has been appointed receiver for the Poughkeepsie 

 Chair Company at Poughkeepsie, N. X. 



The Missouri Casket Company of St. Louis, Mo., has consolidated with 

 the St. Louis Coffin Company, that city. 



An increase in capital stock has been made by the Buckeye Incu- 

 bator Company of Springfield, Ohio, it now being $T5,000. 



The Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation is rebuilding its big mills at 

 Georgetown. S. C, which were destroyed by fire last spring. 



The Miller Manufacturing & Lumber Company was recently incor- 

 porated at Linwood, N. C, with a capital stock of $100,000. 



Fergus.nn & Wheeler have recently again engaged in the manufacture 

 of hardwoods at Poplar Bluff, Mo., after a lapse of a few years. 



The Ocala Furniture Company has been organized at Kissimmee. Fla., 



for the manufacture of mission furniture, and is erecting a plant there. 



The Klrkham-Mattson Company, manufacturer of tables at Grand 



Uaten, Mich., bas incorporated with an authorized capital stock of 



$20,000. 



The South Side Lumber Company has been organized at St. Louis, Mo., 

 by Louis .L Gamble, H. .7. Gamble and O. L. Gamble, with a capital stock 

 of $35,000. 



The capital stock of the Patterson Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturer of wagons and hob sleds, at holly. Mich., has been Increased 

 to $75,000. 



The plant of the Lindsey Lumber Couipany, Pollard, Ark., destroyed by 

 fire a short time ago is to be rebuilt, and will have a daily capacity of 

 75.000 feet. 



The Mercantile Trust Company of Little Kock. Ark., has been ap- 

 pointed receiver tor the Cromer Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., and 

 Crossett, Ark. 



An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy bas been filed by the Reliance 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, and a receiver has 

 been appointed. 



Another new St. Louis corporation is the Trio Lumber Company, of 

 which the incorporators are : Robert Kamin, Thomas C. Bledsoe and 

 W. M. Kingsbury. Capital stock $2,000. 



The Standard Lumber & Supply Company has recently commenced 

 business at Baltimore, Md., to manufacture lumber and veneers, with 

 offices at Howard and Stockholm streets and mill at Bristol, Tenn. 



It is stated that the Marathon Lumber Company, Wausau, Wis., will 

 establish a sawmill of 125,000 feet daily capacity at Laurel, Miss., and 

 has purch.ised 50.000 acres of timberland in Newton, Jasper, Smith and 

 Scott counties, Miss. 



A plant for the manufacture of library, dining tables, chairs, etc., will 

 be erected by the Tampa Furniture Manufacturing Company at Tampa, 

 Fla. The capital stock of the new company is $100,000, and B. L. 

 Goode is president and manager. 



A large hardwood sawmill is to be erected at Vinton, Calcasieu Parish, 

 La. The parties interested in this new enterprise are understood to 

 be : T. D. BonBeld and D. M. Seott of Detroit, Mich. ; E. Elms of New 

 Orleans ; Frank Jarsey and -\1. Powers of Chicago. 



The Atlantic Coast Veneer Company, of which James A. Rowan Is 

 president, at Wilmington, N. C, will build a veneer plant for the manu- 

 facture of veneer and fruit baskets and furniture. J. T. Davis is vice- 

 president ; W. P. Adams, secretary, and Martin Schnibben. treasurer. 



Several of the oflJcers of the United States Lumber Company, to- 

 gether with other parties from Phllndclphla and Scranton, Pa., have 

 recently purchased Ifi.OOO acres of land in Bath, llisbland and .\ugusta 

 counties, Va., and Pendleton county, W. Va., including some of Virginia's 

 finest white oak. 



=•< CHICAGO >- 



E. T. Bennett, president of the Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 Memphis. Tmn., that prince of good lumbermen as well as good fellows, 

 spent a day or two in Chicago the latter part of the week on his way 



home from a month's vacation in the Cape Cod country, where he has 

 been engaged in his usual annual stunt of deep-sea fishing. 



Charles S. Gladden of Memphis, Tenn., spent last Saturday in Chicago 

 en route to a little outing in the Grand Traverse country. 



W. B. Townsend, president of the Little River Lumber Company. 

 Townsend. Tenn., accompanied by his wife, is spending a few days in 

 Chicago this week. 



The Commercial Handle Company, Chicago, has changed its name to 

 the Commercial Handle & Novelty Company, and has increased its cap- 

 ital to $10,000. 



Charles Darling & Co., this city, has incorporated under the same 

 name, the capital being $50,000. 



H. W. Childers, who has been associated with Nickey Bros. & Bass, 

 Inc., Memphis, Tenn., for some time has taken the position of sales 

 manager of the H. II. llitt Lumber Company, Decatur. .\la. Mr. Childers 

 entered upon his new employment Sept. i. 



A. C. Lange, formerly associated with the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Com- 

 pany in its Mississippi and Arkansas operations, is now engaged in the 

 manufacture of boxes at Clarksburg, W. Va. He spent a few days in 

 Chicago last week renewing acquaintances with his old friends. 



John C. Spry, the well-known timber factor of Chicago, is sojourning 

 down in the Cape Cod country .at the present time, luxuriating in 

 fresh-plucked clams and other things which contribute to longevity, 

 health and liappiness. 



The eighth annual convention of the Federation of Trade Press Asso- 

 ciations is scheduled to be held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, Sept. 

 l.S to 20. 



The Chicago Association of Commerce in one of its recent bulletins 

 announces a convention of the Handle Manufacturers' Association to 

 be held at the Hotel Planters, Chicago, Sept. 12 to 15. 



Acknowledgment is made, through the courtesy of the Clyde Iron 

 Works, Duluth. .Minn., of the receipt at this oQice of a very handsome 

 leather card case, interspersed with memorandum leaves. Advertising 

 Manager Charles Mackintosh is distributing a limited quantity of these 

 handsome books to the jiet customers of the Clyde Iron Works. 



D. E. Kline of the Ixiuisville Veneer Mills, Louisville, Ky., accom- 

 panied by his wife, spent a few days in Chicago last week. 



A. C. Quixley of the Quixley & Bulgrin Lumber Company, this city, 

 has just returned from a month's stay In northern Wisconsin. 



W. B. Barns, of the St. Louis Lumberman, was a welcome caller at 

 ILiRDwooD Record offices on Sept. 3. Mr. Barns is on his way home 

 from a two months' sojourn at his summer cottage near Northport, 

 Mich. 



Edward Skecle. Jr., son of E. E. Skeele of the Estahrook-Skeele Lum 

 ber Company, Chicago, has started out as third assistant-commodore or 

 something of that sort, on the Columbus fleet, Santa Maria. Pinta and 

 Nina, en route down the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence river. Boston, New- 

 York, Philadc'lphia, Baltimore, through the Chesapeake canal and thence 

 down the .\tl.intic coast to the Panama canal, and thence down the west 

 coast of South America and hack in time for the opening of the San 

 Francisco Exposition. 'Ibe promoters of this enterprise expect to have 

 the distinction of putting the Columbus fleet flrst through the com- 

 pleted canal early in January, 1914. Ed Skeele will certainly be onvli'd 

 by thousands of hoj'S in the country for having captijred a berth aboard 

 this expedition. 



Acknowledgment is made to Frank F. Fish, secretary and treasurer of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber .Vssoclation, McCormiek building, Chi- 

 cago, for a copy of the association rules for the inspection and measure- 

 ment of hardwood lumber, dated Scptomter. 1913. This set of rules is 

 entirely up-to-date, as it incorporates the most recent changes. Copies 

 will be promptly supplied to the trade upon application to the secretary. 

 G. N. Lamp of the Forest Service spent a few days in Chicago last 

 week on his way from Washington, D. C, to California, where he will 

 investigate the botany of the chaparral growth which covers much of the 

 steep lands. The chaparral is a dense mass of brush of different species, 

 which never develops into trees. 



T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Compan.v, Louisville. 

 Ky., was in town for a few days last week. 



E. B. Brown, the wagon Woodstock manufacturer of BulTalo. N. Y., 

 was a welcome caller at Record oflicc Sept. 4. 



Earl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer Company. Paducah, Ky., was 

 in the city Sept. 4. 



R. H. Butters, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Mar- 

 shall Butters Lumber Company, L'Anse, Mich., was among the Chicago 

 visitors last week. 



George McSweyn, vice-president of the Memphis Band Mill Company. 

 Memphis, Tenn.. was in town Aug. 30, en route to Grand Rapids. Mich. 

 W. B. lleinemann, vice-president of the Heinemann Lumber Company. 

 Wausau, Wis., called on the local trade last week. 



Walter E. Kelly of the W. B. Kelly Company, Detroit. Mich., stopped 

 off in Chicago Aug. 28. on his way homo from a western trip to Colorado 

 and Yellowstone National Park. 



J. T. Edwards, president and manager of the Medford Veneer Com- 

 pany, Medford, Wis., spent a few days In Chicago recently. 



William A. Eager, the local wholesale hardwood man. is home from 

 an outing in the Fox rl\rr country where be owns a bungalow. Incl- 



