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cars. Shipmi-Uts of lumber by rail last mouth were 12.762 cars. A .year 

 ago the shipments were 11.168, showing a gain this September of 1,594 

 cars. There were no shipments or receipts of lumber by river either this 

 year or last. ' 



.Toseph O'Neil, secretary of the O'Xeil Lumber Company, St. Louis, 

 and Miss Helene Wrape, daughter of Henry Wrape of the Henry Wrape 

 Company, stave manufacturer, were married Wednesday, Oct. 1, and have 

 gone to Washington, D, C, and thence on an eastern motor tour. 



Thomas E. Powe, president of the Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company, 

 returned last w'cek from Waynesville, X. C, where he has been on his 

 summer vacation. Ilis wife and little daughter have been there all 

 summer. 



L. M. Borgess of the Stetle & Elibbard Lumber Company has returned 

 from a selling trip through Iowa and Minnesota. He reports business 

 as fairly satisfactory with every prospect of being excellent before many 

 weeks, as the majority of the retailers are short of stock and will have 

 to buy soon. 



-•<, ARKANSAS >-= 



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|Hardwoil Manufacturers and Jobbe rsl 



I SHAWNEE LUMBER CO. 



1 HARDWOODS, WHITE PINE and HEMLOCK 



M Sales Office — South Side Station — C. H. & D. R. R. 



I JAMES KENNEDY & CO., Ltd. 



OAK, POPLAR AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



WALNUT, OAK, AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



103-4-5 CAREW BUILDING 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2624-34 COLERAIN AVENUE 



KIL.IN DRIED OAK 



AIND OTHER HARDWOODS 



are one of our many "specialties" which are 

 so satisfactory to others. Why not you? 



Might pay you to get in 

 touch with us. It has others 



THE M. B. FARRIN LUMBER CO. 

 CONASAUGA LUMBER CO. 



MANUFACTURERS HARDWOOD AND PINE 



FOURTH NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



Johns, Mowbray, Nelson Company 



OAK, ASH, POPLAR & CHESTNUT 



GUM AND COTTONWOOD 



C. CRANE & CO. 



MANUFACTURERS HARDWOOD LUMBER 



1739 EASTERN AVENUE 



DAY LUMBER & COAL CO. 



Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



GENERAL OFFICE — CI..\Y CITY. KY. 



RIEMEIER LUMBER CO. 



OAK, POPLAR, CHESTNUT| 



SUMMERS AND GEST STREETS B 



M. p. Welch ot the American Handle Comiiany. after spending some 

 time in Hot Springs in an effort to regain his health, is now in Jonesboro 

 convalescing. He has suffered a severe attack of fever and spent some 

 time in a hospital at Jonesboro. 



W. \\ . Halipeter ot the Wisconsin Stave and Hoop Company, Mem- 

 phis. Tenn., has completed arrangements for the establishment of a large 

 plant at Blytheville, Ark. 



Under the supervision of Francis Kiefer. supervisor of the Forest Ser- 

 vice at Harrison. Ark., the United States Forest Bureau will sell 1,000.000 

 feet of wliite oak timber from the government reserves in Stone county, 

 .■irkansas. 



The Jlendenhall Stave Factory at Peach Orchard, Ark., has recently 

 been completed and Is now in operation. 



L. C. Hausman has recently succeeded .T. M. Chambers, resigned, as 

 the Arkansas representative for the St. Louis Cooperage Company. 



The H. D. Williams Cooperage Company ot Leslie, Ark., which was 

 closed down some months ago by reason of a tire damaging the plant to 

 the extent of $150,000, has resumed operations. 



A charter has recently been issued to the Meyers Stave and Manufac- 

 turing Company of Piggott, Ark. The concern is capitalized at $25,000, 

 and has the following officers : J. M. Meyers, president ; J. B. Meyers, 

 vice president, and G. W. McWilliams, secretary and treasurer. 



The stave department of the Graften Stave and Heading Company of 

 I'ocahontas, Ark., has been closed down for the past few weeks. The 

 cause for ceasing operations was the oversupply of stock for the season's 

 demands. The heading department of the plant is running on full force, 

 and there is a ready demand tor that stock. The Graften plant at Poca- 

 hontas is one ot the largest of the kind in that section of the state. 



.\fter a final refusal of the proprietors of the heading factories at 

 paragould. Ark., to recognize the local Coopers' International Union, on 

 Sept. 23. one hundred and fifty men walked out on a strike. The mills 

 involved are the Pekin Manufacturing Company, the Henry Wrape Stave 

 Company and J. F. Hasty & Sons Slave and Heading Company. The 

 managers of the various factories have made no statements, other than 

 the refusal to recognize- the union. The plants ari' now operating with 

 men who accept employment without union recognition. 



On the night of Sept. 24, practically all the belts were stolen from the 

 machinery at the plant of the Little Rock Handle Factory, and the fac- 

 tory was closed down on account thereof for some forty-eight hours. On 

 the second day after the loss the belting was found by the detectives of 

 the Little Rock police force. Two negroes had gone to the factory and 

 :ippropriated the belts with the hope ot being able to dispose of them 

 for cash. It was through the dealer to whom they tried to sell the 

 stolen property that the police found the guilty parties and the property. 

 The plant has recently boon taken over by the Berry Hartwell Handle 

 Company and was reopened with a contract for 30.000 dozen handles. 



The Black & Norton .\xo Handle Factory of Brinkley was destro.ved 

 by fire on the morning of Met. 4. the loss of .|.S..')00 being partially cov- 

 ered b.v insurance. 



The Shelton Handle Company will install a factory at Malvern. Ark. 

 The company's plant at Biorno was recently destroyed by fire. The new 

 plant at Malvern, which will replace the lost one, will employ about 

 twenty men, and the management expects to have it in operation within 

 sixty days. 



::-< MILWAUKEE y 



The Kiel Furniture Company of Milwaukee and Kiel. Wis., was one 

 of the largest exhibitors of a fine display of furniture at the recent 

 .\nnual Household Show in llic Auditoric.m. .MihvanUee Local retailers 

 in wood products were also exhibitors. 



The Willow River Lumber Company, whose sawmill at New Richmond 

 was totally destroyed rocentl.^ with a loss ot $73,000, of which ,$00,000 

 was covered by insurance, lias purchased the plant of the North Wis- 

 lonsin Lumber and Manulacturing Company at Hay ward, from ICdward 

 nines of Chicago. The Willow River Company will not rebuild the 

 New Richmond plant, but will transfer its lumber manufacturing opera- 

 tions to Ilayward. It is said to have a suuply of timber in Bayfield and 

 .\sliland counties to run twenty years. The Hayward plant, including 

 a water power and elcctiic light plant, is said to have bt^on sold for 

 a price of .$38,000. 



The Tomahawk Voneer and Box Company has been incorporated at 

 Tomahawk, with a capital stock ot .f .-.0,0110. •I'he Incorporators are Rhein 

 hard Meyer, proprietor of the Rheinhard .Mi'yor Box and Veneer Company 

 of Merrill. Max Meyer and .lulius Gromol, lor several years connected with 

 the Merrill veneer works. The new concern will occupy the old No. 2 mill 

 in which the Bradley company will cease operations Oct. 31. The plan- 

 ing mill will be enclosed and enlarged, necessary machinery Installed, dry- 

 kilns built, steaming tanks put in and work started In manufaotu.-lng 

 high-grade veneer and cheese boxes. From 75 to 100 hands will be em- 

 ployed. The present sawmill will bo replaced next spring to double 

 the present capacity. The company plans to cut 2.."i00,000 feet of bard- 

 wood tim'ocr annually and will rnn the plant full time the year around. 



the Mvmich Statuary and Altar Company has been Incorporated at 



