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ifOlt" Club, has eslablishod his family ami members of the firm of Currier 

 A: Campbell on a farm at Elkton, Md.. where they are enjoying to the 

 full the rustic scenery and the genuine fresh farm products. Mr. Currie 

 finds it convenient to spend the Sundays there. 



In order to better designate the character of the business, the house 

 of Daniel B. Curll will hereafter be known as the D. B. Curll Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Curll recently returned from a trip to his portable mills 

 in Tennessee and is now making a tour of New York City and sur- 

 rounding towns. During the last ten days he has been booking some 

 desirable orders. 



The Brown-Bates Company is not inclined to quarrel with conditions. 

 H. E. Bates, treasurer, says there is a more healthy demand for goods 

 at this time, with most encouraging signs as to outlook. Mr. Bates has 

 Just left for Cleveland. O., bis old home, where he will enjoy a few weeks' 

 vacation. G. W. Brown, vice-president, has just returned from a vacation 

 spent at his old home in Saginaw, Mich. 



Stroud & Wilgus are now established in their wholesale hardwood yard 

 at Beach street and East Montgomery avenue. Mr. Stroud, who for 

 many years was connected with W. H. Lear, is well known and very 

 popular throughout the eastern field. 



The Goodyear Lumber Company has given up its Philadelphia office, 

 l>ut William Hukill of this concern will continue to take care of this 

 tield with headquarters at the main ofHce in Buffalo. 



Frank J. Liebke. vice-president of the C. F. Licbke Hardwood Mill & 

 Lumber Company. St. Louis, was a recent visitor to local trade. 



Charles H. Wislcr is on an extensive trip through the far West. Ho is 

 keeping his many friends informed as to his whereabouts by postal 

 cards forwarded to John H. Lank, secretary of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change, who sees that they are conspicuously placed for a general view. 

 So far he has been heard from in Colorado and T.'tah. 



Flames destroyed the Ijox factory and lumber sheds of D. H. Davidson 

 on Aug. 12. It is estimated that at least 130,000 to 200,000 feet of 

 lumber and many finished boxes were burned. The loss, including 

 machinery, etc., is thought to be about .?10,000. 



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G. M. Chambers, sales manager of the Kendall Lumber Company, is 

 spending his vacation in the East. The affairs of the Kendall company 

 were never in better shape so far as a big business is concerned than 

 this summer. 



President J. L. Lyile of the J. L. Lytle Lumber Company recently made 

 a trip of inspection covering two weeks among the Ohio yards. He found 

 them rather slow buyers and most of the retailers hesitating to stock 

 up any until prices were more firmly fixed in the fall. 



,7. C. Linehan. formerly of the Liuehan Luml)er Company of this city 

 and who has been for several months in the East, has returned to the 

 I'ressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburgh, where be has a fine position. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is pushing things along all lines this 

 summer with a firm hand and its sales of hardwoods, chiefly oak and 

 chestnut, have been very encouraging. President H. M. Domhoff took a 

 short vacation recently in Atlantic City. 



The Morland-Ricks-McCreight Company is pretty well satisfied with the 

 year's business to date and especiall}' its yard trade. Very few concerns 

 take better care of their retail customers than this company and it has a 

 line of trade among the Pennsylvania yards which is a credit to any 

 concern. 



President J. X. WooUett of the Aberdeen Lumber Company will go 

 South in a few days for a two weeks' business trip. He finds some 

 tendency among manufacturers to cut prices on gum and Cottonwood as 

 they seem anxious to unload all stock possible before the increase in 

 freight rates goes into effect this fall. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has just completed a railroad in 

 Blair count.v. Pa., which will help along considerably in its big hardwood 

 operations that the company started there some months ago. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company is well satisfied with the year's busi- 

 ness to dale and looks for a nice trade In hardwoods this fall. 



The .Shrcve Chair Company, Union City, Pa., whose big plant was 

 burned last winter, has started shipments again just five months after the 

 fire. 



The American Keg & Barrel Company of Pittsburgh which is building 

 a big plant at Morgantown, VT. Va., has recently had important changes 

 made in the plans that will greatly increase the proposed capacity. 



.Toseph W. Cottrell, who has been doing business for years in the 

 Ferguson building and is a well known member of the Pittsburgh Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, has incorporated his business as the Joseph W. 

 Cottrell Lumber Company. His partners in the deal will be J. Herbert 

 Rush and R. S. Smith of this city. 



W. D. Johnson, president of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, believes that there will be a brace in prices this fall. In 

 hardwood he notes that quotations have been held up very firm consider- 

 ing the big slump in yellow pine. The American's hardwood business is 

 ranch better than the average and they regard the outlook as encouraging. 



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owners will incorporate and continue the business, which is located in 

 Westfield. 



Fire has again visited the plant of the Woodstock Lumber Company at 

 Woodstock, N. H. A large amount of lumber was destroyed, together 

 with trucks and small buildings, but the large mill of the company is 

 reported saved. 



Word has been received in Boston of the death of Alexander Gibson, 

 one of the oldest lumber merchants in New Brunswick, on Aug. 14. 

 Mr. Gibson was ninety-four years of age. For years he has carried on 

 an extensive lumber export business. 



George Whitfield Macauley, well known in Boston lumber circles, died 

 at his home in Brookline, Ma.ss.. Aug. 15. as a result of blood poisoning. 

 About three weeks ago Mr. Macauley tripped over a suit case, causing the 

 injury from which he died. 



The George W. Gale Ltimber Company will erect a fine set of new 

 buildings on their site in Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Mass. Plans have 

 already been drawn. 



A very important deal, involving a large amount of timber property 

 and mills, has just been put through in Maine. This deal involves 

 about .$523,000. The estate of the late William Engel of Bangor, Me., 

 has sold this property to James M. McNulty, O. S. Townsend and Isaac 

 M. I'ierce, all of Bangor, Me. 



Ira H. Proctor of Proctor Brothers, Nashua, N. H., died early in 

 August at the age of seTenty years. This firm is a large manufacturer of 

 heavy barrels. 



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George G. L. 'Wood, general manager, and Clarence E. Wood, assistant 

 general manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, have gone to 

 Bristol. Tenn.. to look after the construction of a plant to be erected 

 on a 2,500-acre tract of hardwoods purchased some time ago by R. E. 

 Wood, president of the company, which is to be developed. A six or 

 seven-foot band mill is to be built on the tract, and the Messrs. Wood 

 went to the scene of the proposed operation to make the necessary prepa- 

 rations and decide upon some of the details. From Bristol Clarence E. 

 Wood was going to Fontana, N. C, the scene of another one of the 

 company's operations. 



Henry C. Chipman and George PL Chipman, members of the chair 

 manufacturing firm of George Chipman & Son. 2630 Boston street, on the 

 12th instant, applied for the benefit of the bankruptcy law, the applica- 

 tion being made by them individually and as members of the firm. The 

 individual liabilities of Henry C. Chipman were put at ,'523.S, and those 

 of the firm at $55,099, with no assets. The Messrs. Chipman succeeded 

 to the business conducted by their father, the late George Chipman, for 

 a number of years, but became involved in difficulties and made an 

 assignment some years ago. 



Mrs. Anna Stockton Sloan, wife of Fisher Sloan, president of the 

 Sloan Lumber Company, died on Aug. IT, after an illness of about eight 

 months. She was stricken with paralysis last November and had not 

 been in good health since. Mrs. Sloan was prominent in society when 

 active and held in the highest esteem. 



Another death of interest to the lumber trade was that of Col. George 

 II. Dobson, who was active in the lumber trade here until about twenty 

 years ago, but who is hardly remembered by the i^resent generation. 

 Colonel Dobson passed away rather suddenly on Aug. 10, while on a 

 visit to a cousin at ;Mount Washington, a suburb. 



The first of the so-called Bond trials in West Virginia, in which W. C. 

 Bond, a member of the firm of Bond Brothers, extensive lumljer operators 

 in Maryland and West Virginia, is accused of arson in setting his own 

 place afire for the insurance, came up at Keyser, W. Va., recently and 

 attracted much attention. Jack Cramer was the defendant in the first 

 case, it being charged that he was seen to run away from the scene 

 of the fire immediately after it had broken out. Presumably Cramer, it 

 is the theory of the prosecution, bad been induced to set the place on 

 fire. W. C. Bond personally is also accused, he being the defendant in the 

 second case. He is said to be worth not less than .5400,000 and is a 

 brother of N. U. Bond, a retired capitalist of Oakland, Md. The 

 brothers founded the town of Bond, Garrett county. Maryland, and car- 

 ried on extensive operations there, finally going over into West Virginia 

 and running mills in that state. 



Mr. Buckingham, of the Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Company, 

 dealers in hardwoods, is back after a brief vacation spent at Atlantic 

 City. 



Daniel MacLea of the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company has returned from 

 a stay of several weeks at Ocean Grove. N. J. 



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Beckwith Brothers, manufacturers of piano legs, have sold their 

 inti-rests in the business to William P. Marconillicr and Charles Smith 

 of Westfield, Mass.. and Florence Wheeler of .Springfield. The new 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager of John E. Gobey & Co., of Columbus, 

 left recently on bis annual vacation on the lakes. 



Steps are being taken to have the voters of Columbus pass upon a plan 

 of preventing fioods. Consulting Engineer John W. Alvord has prepared 

 plans and specifications which will be submitted to Mayor Karb soon. 

 The U. S. army engineers are also working on a plan of flood preventing 

 for the Buckeye capital. 



The Knox Lumber Company of Columbus has sold to the Ford Motor 



