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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The K. P. Furniture Manufacturing Company lias been incorporated at 

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



The North Carolina Chair Company of North Wilkc&barre, N. C, has 

 changed its name to the Shell Chair Company. 



The Bayou Sara Lumber Company of Bayou Sara, La., has been put 

 in the hands of Receiver E. G. Westmoreland. 



J. M. Murdoch & Bro. of Johnstown. Pa., recently purchased a 40,00(1 

 acre tract of white oak timber near ililboro, Va. 



The Lenker Hub Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at 

 Leslie, Ark. The company has $15,000 capital. 



The Hamilton Scale and Tank Company has been Incorporated at Ham- 

 ilton, 0. This company has $250,000 capital stock. 



The Northern Hardwood Lumber Company of Marshflekl, Wis., is re- 

 ported to have filed a notice of dissolution at Madison. 



The Alabama Box & Lumber Company has been incorporated at Mont- 

 gomery, Ala. This company has $25,000 capital stock. 



The Gifford Crate Company is an incorporated concern starting business 

 at Mancclona, Mich. This concern has §5,000 capital stock. 



The Bennett Seating Company has been organized at Cincinnati. O. 

 This company is incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000. 



The Burhen Utilities Manufacturing Company is the style of a newly 

 incorporated St. Louis, Mo., concern with $50,000 capital stock. 



J. A. McLean, Jr., and J. D. McLean have been appointed receivers 

 of the Newton McArthur Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, N. C. 



The Union Lumber Company is the style of a recently incorporated 

 concern which will operate at Parkersburg, W. Va., with $5,000 capital 

 stock. 



The Challenge Refrigerator Company has been incorijorated to manu- 

 facture refrigerators at Grand Haven, Mich. The company is capitalized 

 at $200,000. 



The Flindall-Morris Company is the style of a newly incorporated 

 concern organized to manufacture furniture at Griffin, Ind. The company 

 has $50,000 capital. 



The Clay Couuty Land & Lumber Company has been incorporated at 

 Pineville, Ky., with $30,000 capital. The company will develop timber. 

 land and manufacture lumber. 



The Bridgeport Body Company is the style of a new incorporation 

 recently started at Bridgeport, Conn. This concern has $150,000 capital 

 and will manufacture auto bodies. 



The McElroy-Shannon Spring Bed Company of Louisville, Ky., has 

 been succeeded by the Loggott & Pratt Spring Bed Manufacturing Company. 

 The headquarters of this concern are at Carthage, Mo. 



It is reported" that the new sawmill of Raisch & Sons of Sims. Cal., 

 which mill has a daily capacity of 40,000 feet, will be started at once. 

 Logs will be brought to the mill on a narrow gauge railroad. 



The Nahawka Lumber Company is the style of a newly incorporated 

 concern at Charleston, W. Va. This company has a capital slock of 

 $25,000 and will build a sawmill with a daily capacity of 35,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber. 



< CHICAGO y 



F. R. Whiting of the Whiting Lumber Company, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 spent several days of last week with the local trade. 



C. L. Faust, president of the Faust Brothers Lumber Company, Pa- 

 ducah, Ky., was in Chicago in conference with his local manager during 

 the early part of last week. Mr. Faust's opinion is that business is 

 excellent. 



M. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Lumber Company, Poplar Bluff, 

 Mo., spent several days of last week in Chicago on business. 



A. P. Goldsmith, general manager of the Radford-Portsmouth Veneer 

 Company, Radford, Va., spent most of last week and the early days of 

 this week on a business trip to the local market. 



F. R. Gadd. vice-president of the Wisconsin Lumber Company, has just 

 returned from a visit of several days to the company's mill which is in 

 the course of construction at Deering, Mo. The new mill is to be 

 modern in every respect and it is expected that it will be in operation 

 by the first of December. 



W. D. Reeves of the W. D. Reeves Lumber Company, Helena, Ark., 

 made one of his periodic trips to the Chicago market last week on a 

 J selling expedition. 



J. M. Wells, sales manager of the American Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, Mo., has been spending the last two weeks in Chicago 

 and adjoining territory. 



1. A. Bushong of the Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company. 

 Gladstone. Mich., spent Thursday of last week with the local trade. 



D. S. Watrous, general manager of the Lansing Company's plant at 

 Parkin, Ark., was in Chicago on Tuesday of last week en route to 

 Parkin from the company's headquarters at Lansing, Mich. 



J. H. Faust of J. H. Faust & Co., Paducah, Ky., spent several days of 

 last week with the local trade. 



D. J. Arpin of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, 

 Wis., was with the local trade for several days of last week. 



The editor Is in receipt of a picture postal from T. W. Fry of the 



Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company. St. Louis, dated at 

 Paris. August G, in which Mr. Fry says that Paris is some town ; that 

 his nerves are on the rack all the time from the fear that he will be 

 run over by an automobile in French. He says that the auto conjestion 

 on the streets there is worse than in Chicago. Mr. Fry is enjoying a 

 well-earned vacation. 



The plant of C. L. Willey, the noted veneer and fancy wood manu- 

 facturer at Chicago, is running night and day on mahogany, black walnut 

 and Vermillion. Mr. Willey is at present in Europe on a buying and 

 pleasure trip. 



E. H. Klann of the E. H. Klann Lumber Company, and S. C. Bennett 

 of the Hardwood Mills Lumber Company, Chicago, are close neighbors at 

 Hess Lake, Newaygo, Mich., where they are finishing out their vacations, 

 and find fishing great fun. 



=-< NEW YORK y- 



Robert W. Higbie, hardwood manufacturer and wholesaler of New 

 York, is mentioned among possible Fusion candidates to be named to 

 run this fall for the otHce of Borough Presider^t of Queens. Mr. Higbie 

 is active in civic affairs in the Borough of Queens where ho has been a 

 resident for many years, and the campaign now being conducted in his 

 behalf if successful will give the people of Queens an efficient executive. 

 Mr. Higbie is an ex-president of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association and has always been active in matters of legislation. He Is 

 also identified with many local organizations in his home borough. 



J. S. Wiliford of the Bellgrade Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., 

 was a recent visitor in New York. 



H. H. Hitt, prominent hardwood manufacturer, head of the H. H. Hltt 

 Lumber Company, Decatur, Ala., was a recent visitor to this city. 



Charles Grosskurth, surviving partner In A. P. Bigelow & Co., will 

 continue the business under the same style as heretofore. The estate of 

 A. P. Bigelow retains its interest in the business. 



H. F. Witbeck, representative of the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company 

 cif Alexandria. La., sailed from this city on the steamer Vasari, for points 

 in South America in connection with business. 



J. H. MackelduCf of the Case-Fowler Lumber Company, manufacturer of 

 poplar at Macon, Ga., was a visitor to this city during the fortnight. 



=■< BUFFALO y 



\\. L. P.lakcslec <if Hhikeslee, Perrin & Darling has returned from a 

 vacation of several weeks at Block Island. B. E. Darling is now taking 

 a vacation and will si)end It not far from the city. 



Anthony .Millei- reports business In hardwoods as rather dull this 

 month. The yard is not receiving mucti stock just now, but is well 

 supplied with most kinds of lumber. 



H. C. Mills, treasurer of Taylor & Crate, is taking a rest from lumber 

 iiusiness and his duties as councilman and has gone on a vacation to 

 the New England states. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is oue of the few yards to 

 receive any stock by lake so far this season. Receipts by two recent 

 .argoes amounted to 1,000,000 feet, chiefly of birch. 



Hugh McLean found the fishing excellent on his recent trip to the 

 I'ytonga Club, on the Gatineau River, northern Canada, having caught 

 not only big fish but many of them. 



O. E. Yeager has been taking a rest from business and started about 

 the middle of the month for a ten days' automobile trip to New Y'ork, 

 Philadelphia and Atlantic City. 



The Jerseyfield Lumber Company, which is now a Goodyear concern 

 by purchase from former owners, is preparing to develop a large tract 

 ■ if timber in Herkimer county and will build a line of railroad. 



F. M. Sullivan has returned from a trip east by automobile. He 

 ixpects to do some hunting this fall, both on the Canadian side and In 

 llie central part of the state. 



The Atlaniic Lumber Company has lately largely increased its hard- 

 wood stocks here, having filled up a good share of the Scatcherd yard 

 with various sorts of hardwoods. 



The National Lumber Company states that there is a good demand 

 for flooring at present in both oak and maple, while prices continue on a 

 firm basis. Hardwood demand is fair. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >. 



Robert W. Schofleld of Schofield Brothers, who has Just returned from 

 a trip to the mill at Schofleld, S. C, reports the plant now running full 

 capacity and a decided iucrease In volume of business during the last 

 fortnight. 



The Schoficld-Lance Company, Reading, Pa., a connection of Schofield 

 Brothers, Philadelphia, reports excellent trading. The company has a 

 storage and shipping yard with a capacity of from :!.000.000 to 4.000,000 

 feet of high-grade hard and soft wood stock for immediate shipment. 



H. L. Prouse of the II. L. Prouse Lumber Company, dealer in railroad 

 lumber, ties, etc., speaks encouragingly of conditions. Railroads are buy- 

 ing more extensively and indications as to outlook are favorable. 



Jerome H. Sheip, Incorporated, has plenty to do these days filling orders. 

 ■Mr. Sheip says the cigar box lumber business Is In good shape, orders 

 liberal and prices stiffening. 



Ben C. Currle, the popular secretary of the Philadelphia Lumbermen's 



