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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



ity of the system, that there is not much 

 left to doubt about on that score. The 

 value of this department of tlie associa- 

 tion to the trade is great and is treated 

 more at length in another column of this 

 issue. 



EVANSVILLE LUMBERMEN 

 ORGANIZE. 



The Kvansville Lumbermen's .Associa- 

 tion was organized Sat>n-day night at the 

 Acme Hotel. A majority of the firms in 

 the city were represented and the assueia- 

 tion expects to enroll the names of every 

 manufacturer and dealer in the city in the 

 near future on their membership books. 



The object of the association is set forth 

 in the seventh paragraph of the by-laws, 

 wliieh is as follows: "The object for 

 wliich this association is formed is the 

 providing of suitable offlce and assembly 

 ro nis wherein members may meet and 

 buy, sell and exeliange lumbers, to encour- 

 age and maintain fair dealing and uni- 

 formity in the customs of trade, to collect 

 and preserve infwmation, establish rules 

 and regulations and adjust controversies 

 between members. 



The meeting last night was the result of 

 a preliminary meeting lield two weeks 

 ago, when plans were discussed for the 

 organization. 



The following officers were elected: 

 F. J. Reitz, president; AV. Thelkeld, vice- 

 president; Fred W. Reitz, vice-president; 

 D. M. McLaren, secretai-y and treasurer; 

 F. Ooss, J. M. Moeller and Dan Wertz. 

 directors. 



.\t the next meeting of the association 

 tlie board of directors will decide upon 

 wliere tlieir permanent quarters will be 

 located and also whether or not tlie mem- 

 bers shall, as a body, join the Business 

 Jleu's Association. 



Mr. Thelkeld presided at the meeting 

 last night. In a short address he spoke 

 of the possibilities of such a society and 

 showed what had been accomplished by 

 similar organizations in other cities. 



After the meeting he said to the Courier 

 reporter: "The organization will do much, 

 if properly managed, to increase the busi- 

 ness of the city. At the general office 

 information will be given to prospective 

 buyers of the different dealers in the city 

 and the kind and quality of lumber they 

 handle. It will greatly facilitate, I believe, 

 the trade of the Evansville lumber mer- 

 cliants. Within a short time we expect to 

 have the names of every firm in the city 

 and adjoining territory on our membership 

 books. The organization should prove one 

 of the most influential and powerful in the 

 city." 



After the meeting those that were pres- 

 ent enjoyed a liglit lunch .served by Host 

 Adler of the Acme. 



Tlie following firms were represented at 

 the meeting: 



Evansville Hardwood Manufacturing 

 Company, Moeller & Storrs, Jolm A. Reitz 

 it Sons, James Piatt & Co., Charles Pyeatt 

 & Co., JIaley & Wertz. C. P. White Lum- 



New President Cincinnati Lumber Club. 



F. M. POSSELL. 



It gives us unmixed jileasure to present 

 in this issue a biogi-aphical sketch of one 

 of the most popular and successful among 

 the younger generation (if hardwood lum- 

 liermen. F. M. Posspll. tlie newly elected 

 president of that famous organization, the 

 Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, and mem- 

 ber of the well-known liardwnod firm (if 

 G-age & Possell of Ciivcinnati. 



Mr. Possell was born in Buffalo in 1861 

 and is at present forty-one years of 

 age, and in spite of his gray hair, which 

 has, in connection with his general charac- 

 ter, earned him the title of "Silver King" 

 Possell, does not look his age. 



Mr. Possell secured his education in the 

 common schools, where so many of the 

 most polished and cultured .Vmerican gen- 

 tlemen received all their schooling. 



Thrown upon his own resources at a very 

 tender age, Mr. Possell, after flirting with 

 several occupations which provided him 

 with tlie very necessary bread and butter^ 

 was finally so fortunate as to secure em- 

 [iloyment with that great training school 

 for lumbermen, the school which graduated 

 so many men who are now pursuing 

 successful careers in the hardwood lum- 

 l>er ti'ade, the great tti-m of Scatcherd & 

 Son, at that time Scatcherd & Belden. 



After being thoroughly drilled in the 

 Buffalo yard of his employers he was sent 

 to Indianapolis to assist their agents, 

 Jlessrs. L. H. Gage and Isaac Wrig-ht, in 

 looking after their western business. 



In 1880 at the age of nineteen he was 

 employed as lumber buyer for the Stude- 

 baker Wagon Company at South Bend, 

 Ind., a corporation which probably pur- 

 chases more domestic hardwonds than any 

 firm in the United States. Tliis resiKinsible 

 position he held for seventeen years, and 

 then took his savings and engaged in busi- 

 ness for himself, purchasing an interest 

 in the Cortland Wagon Company of Cort- 

 land, N. Y. 



Not being thoroughly satisfied he de- 

 cided to go back into the lumber business 

 and at the end of two and a half years 

 formed a partnershiij with his erstwhile 

 tutor, Mr. L. H. Gage, under the firm name 

 of Gage tfe Possell at Cincinnati, and was 

 on last Monday evening elected president 

 of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club. 



The foregoing constitutes a brief out- 

 line of Mr. Possell's successful business 

 career. Personally, Mr. Possell is a high- 

 class man in every resi>ect. Everybody 

 who knows him is his friend. He is sin- 

 cere, upright and honorable, a true gentle- 

 man and deservedly one of the most popu- 

 lar men in the trade. 



ber ComixMiy. Crosby & Beckley Company, 

 H. Maley Lumber Sompany, Evansville 

 Lumlier Company, .T. Elliott, May, Tliomp- 

 son & Tliayer. Charles Wolflin. Anton 

 Brucken. 



REMOVAL NOTICE. 



Doddsville. Miss., .May .5, 1902. 



After this date our main offlce will be 

 Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi. 

 Clarksdale is a thriving little town of 

 about three thousand people, with good 

 hotels, accommcxlations. and located 77 

 miles south of Memphis, on the Y. & M. V. 

 Ry. ; also at the junctions of the Clarksdale 

 lV- .Jackson and the Clarksdale & Belzonia 

 ("Yellow Dog") branches, making it a close 

 center of three of the best hardwood lum- 

 l>ering roads in the South. 



We have an'anged to put in a very large 

 yard at this place, to concentrate quite a 

 lot of the lumber from our mills, and ex- 

 pect in a short time to have one of the 

 finest assortments of hardwood lumber to 

 be found in the South. 



Clarksdale is only a few hours' run from 

 ilemphis, and we have ten passenger 

 trains in and out of Clarksdale, besides 

 about as many local freights, carrying pas- 

 sengers. We will be glad to have all our 

 old ft'iends and customers pay us a visit 

 in our new quarters. 



SUNFLOWER LUMBER CO. 



READY FOB BUSINESS. 



We wish to announce tliat we have now 

 completed the erection of a new and mod- 

 ernized band saw mill at Mitchell. Ind., 

 with a capacity of eighteen to twenty 

 thousand feet per day in quartered oak. 



This location places us in the heart of 

 Southern Indiana's best timber, on the 

 Jlonon and B. & O. S. W. railroads. From 

 this date all communications should be ad- 

 dressed to us at Mitchell, Ind. We shall 

 be pleased to have our hardwood friends 

 "write or call upon us, assuring you we are 

 in a iwsition to serve you. 

 Very truly yours, 



WM. L. BROWN. 



