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Hardwood 'News Notes 



< MISCELLANEOUS >- 



The Saginaw Wood Product Company will discontinue business at 

 Saginaw. Mich. 



The Joseph Peters Furniture Company, St. Louis, Mo., suffered a small 

 loss by fire on June 14. 



W. B. Jordan & Co. have been incorporated at Brooklyn. The company 

 has $220,000 capital stock. 



R. J. Colby has been appointed receiver for the Fox & Mason Furniture 

 Company at Corunna, Mich. 



The Hudson River Saw Mill Company has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital of .$10,000. 



The National Box & Barrel Company has been incorporated at Canton. 

 O.. with a capital stock of $25,000. 



The Manchester Lumber Compan.v was recently incorporated at Rich- 

 mond, Va.. with a capital of $100,000. 



The Dana Guthrie Lumber Company has been organized at Charleston. 

 W. Va., with a capital stock of $30,000. 



The Riverside Lumber Company, Knoxville, Tenn., has been Incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The W. H. McGee Lumber Company started business at Elizabeth City, 

 N. C. This company has $225,000 capital. 



The Northern Michigan Lumber Company has been incorporated at 

 Toledo. O.. with a capital stock of $10,000. 



Daniel B. Curll of Philadelphia. Pa., has changed the style of his 

 concern to the D. B. Curll Lumber Company. 



The A. E. Darling Lumber Company. Grand Rapids, Mich., has moved 

 from Grand Rapids. Mich., to Big Rapids, Mich. 



The Louisville Store Fixture Company and the H. Wolke & Bro. 

 Furniture Company, both of Louisville, have been consolidated. 



The Forked Deer Manufacturing Company. Trenton. Tenn., has sold its 

 planing mill and lumber yard to the W. T. Ingram Lumber Company. 



The Hale Lumber Company is the style of a new corporation starting 

 business at Plirkman. Ky. The company has a capital stock of $10,000. 



The A. L. Ivcrsher Furniture Company is the style of a newly incor- 

 porated company at Lonisville. Ky. The company has a $1,500 capital. 



The N. A. Curtis Manufacturing Company has started business at 

 Columbus, O. This concern is capitalized at $15,000 and will manufac- 

 ture show cases and similar articles. 



The Doernljacher Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of furniture 

 at Portland. Ore., will soon erect an additional factory building, office 

 and sample structure at a cost of $20,000. 



The Sterling Lumber Company of Clio. Ark., has increased its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $100,000. The principal stockholders are : B. J. 

 Altheimer. J. H. Allen and W. J. Lockwood. 



The Sterchi-Tlllery-Rich Company is the style of a newly Incorporated 

 furniture manufacturing company which will operate at Wilmington. 

 N. C. This company is capitalized at $25,000. 



The Castle Hayne Stave Company has been incorporated under the 

 laws of North Carolina to do a stave manufacturing business at Castle 

 Hayne. The company has $100,000 capital stock. 



H. A. Llghtner. A. S. Guthrie, R. K. Ford, J. S. Dana and W. E. K. 

 Byrne, all of Charleston. W. Va.. have incorporated the Dana-Gutbrie 

 Lumber Company of that city, the capital stock being $50,000. 



The Southern Pine Lumber Company at Dlboll. Tex., has just completed 

 the addition of a modern hardwood sawmill and hardwood flooring plant 

 at that point. It is expected that this company will make a specialty of 

 end-matched oak flooring. 



The C. D. Burns Lumber Company of Martinsburg. W. Va.. was recently 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000. C. D. Burns is president ; 

 C. E. Allen, vice-president and general manager, and J. C. Allen, chief 

 accountant. The company is planning the erection of a fine new offlce at 

 its yard and is also planning extensive improvements at the yard itself. 



=■< CHICAGO >- 



C. E. Davis, sales manager of the Richland Parish Lumber Company. 

 and the C. C. Mengel & Brother Company of Louisville, was in the city 

 last week. 



A. L. Arpin. of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, 

 Wis., spent several days last week calling on the trade. 



H. F. Below, of the Vollmar & Below Compan.v, Marshfleld, Wis., made 

 one of his frequent trips to the Chicago market a few days ago. 



H. F. Arnemann. manager of the veneer department of the Hardwood 

 Mills Lumber Company of Chicago, has Just returned from an extended 

 trip to Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia mill points. Mr. Arnemann 

 spent the time looking over the plants of the various veneer concerns 

 supplying him with stock. 



C. B. Allen, manager of the veneer department of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company of Memphis, Tenn., spent a week with the local trade a short 

 time ago. 



A. P. Steele, secretary and treasurer of the Carrier Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company. Sardis, Miss., stopped off af Chicago for a few days 

 a short time ago. 



J. H. Dion of Maisey & Dion. Chicago, gave an interesting talk before 

 the Chicago Association of Commerce at its weekly meeting at the Hotel 

 LaSalle on June 11. The meeting was given up to a review of the 

 growth of various industries in Chicago, and Mr. Dion spoke for the 

 lumbermen, reviewing the growth of this vast business since its beginning 

 in 18.34. when Captain Carver started a yard on the Chicago river. 



C. E. Swanson of Chicago has entered an involuntary petition in 

 bankruptcy. 



G. C. Robson. sales manager of the Heinemann Lumber Company, 

 Merrill, Wis., spent the greater part of last week calling on Chicago and 

 surrounding trade. 



J. T. McKoberts, secretary-treasurer of the Hooton Hardwood Com- 

 pany of St. Louis, spent last week with the local trade. 



John A. Nourse of John A. Nourse & Co., prominent in the pine trade 

 of Chicago, died at his home in Wilmette, 111., last week. 



C. W. Kendle, secretary of the Nicholson-Kendle Furniture Company 

 of Huntington, W. Va., spent several days of last weSk in the Chicago 

 market. 



G. W. Sims of Proctor. Ark., a prominent hardwood manufacturer of 

 that place, was in Chicago last week. 



Haines Egbert, president of the Sanders & Egl)ert Company, Goshen, 

 Ind., spent the latter part of last week with the local trade. 



Major Edward C. Griggs of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, 

 Tacoma. Wash., was in the city for a tow days the early part of last 

 week, stopping en route from New York to the Pacific coast. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corporation, whose head- 

 quarters are at St. Louis. Mo., publisher of the Blue Book, has opened a 

 branch offlce of that publication in the Otis building, Chicago. A. C. Fish, 

 who has had an extensive experience in credit work, has charge of the 

 Chicago office. 



=-< NEW YORK y- 



Secretary Perry has prepared for distribution to the members the 

 usual handsome booklet covering the proceedings of the annual meeting 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, held at Atlantic 

 City last March. 



L. Isaacsen who represents the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, oak 

 and poplar specialist of Coal Grove, O., is spending the summer at Belle 

 Harbor, Long Island, and will conduct his business for the summer from 

 that place. 



The Hudson River Saw Mill Company is a new firm in the lumber 

 trade of the Metropolitan district. The firm will conduct a retail and 

 wholesale lumber and milling business and has leased a site at Edgewater 

 on the Jersey shore opposite upper New York. Charles K. Buckley, C. K. 

 Buckley Jr.. and B. L. Stafford Jr. are principals in the new company. 



Vicegerent Lewis is making a strenuous effort to round up the local 

 cats for the concatenation at Coney Island, June 26. Indications are 

 that there will be a good number of the members present to welcome the 

 new kittens. 



The hardwood and cabinet business of E. B^ Jordan of Brooklyn has 

 been incorpnr.ited as Edward B. Jordan & Co., capital $230,000. The 

 incorporators are: Edward B. Jordan, Edward B. Jordan Jr. and A. B. 

 Wilson. 



The New York Lumber Trade Association held a regular meeting on 

 June 11, at which time only routine matters were brought up. 



=-< BUFFALO y 



George B. Miller of Miller. Sturm & Miller has been spending several 

 weeks in the Adirondacks recuperating after attending closely to busi- 

 ness for a number of months with the new firm. 



JIanager H. L. Abbott of the Atlantic Lumber Company has taken a 

 part of the Scatcherd & Son yard, where he will have much needed 

 space for the carrying of lumber stocks. 



H. A. Stewart was in Pennsylvania the early part of this month and 

 while there shipped out a quantity of hardwoods, principally cherry, in 

 which trade is reported to be fair. 



Angus McLean, formerly a Buffalo lumberman, spent part of the month 

 in the city and called on some of the members of the hardwood trade 

 while here. 



James M. Briggs & Co. will soon start sawing hardwoods as well as 

 hemlock at Protection, N. Y., where they recently purcha.sed a timber 

 tract and a sawmill. 



President George A. Corson of the A. A. Engle Lumber Company has 

 been spending several weeks at the company's tracts at Harriman and 

 New River. Tenn. He reports the weather there as rather unfavorable 

 for lumbering. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports a fair demand for 

 lumber this month, but expects to see larger sales in the furniture trade 

 after the summer conventions are over. 



Blakeslee. I'errin & Darling are receiving hardwood stocks in a num- 

 ber of lines this month, principally in oak. Local trade is reported to 

 have been quiet on account of the teamsters' strike. 



-< PHILADELPHIA > 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular monthly meeting on June 

 5, with William H. Fritz, vice-president, in the chair. Only routine 

 business was transacted and the meeting adjourned until September 6. 



A large body of retail and wholesale lumbermen met at Griffith Hall. 



