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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25. 1922 



Joe Thompson Feels Optimistic 



In the language of the eloquent president of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, Joe Thompson, head of the ThompsonKatz Lumber Company, 

 "the clouds of business depression have been penetrated and the mists are 

 disappearing." He is not overoptimistic, however, as indicated by the 

 following picturesque forecast : "Lady Luck has gone off on a Rip Van 

 Winklp sleep and we need not expect her to return for a long time. But 

 1922 and the years that follow will reward go-getters." Mr. Thompson 

 rtelivei-ed himself thus before a recent meeting of the Kiwanis Club of 

 Memphis. 



J. T. Willingham Takes a Bride 



J. T. Willingham, president of the Memphis Coffin Company, one of the 

 big woodworking enterpii.^es in Memphis, and Mrs. Laura Walker, a promi- 

 nent club and society matron of Memphis, were quietly married Monday 

 afternoon, April 17, at the Second Presbyterian church in the presence of 

 immediate relatives. Dr. A. B. Curry performed the ceremony. The 

 wedding came as a distinct snrprisf to friends of the contractiui; parties. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The J. J. Kearns Lumber Company has recently commenced the manu- 

 f.icture and exporting of hardwood lumber at Memphis. Tenn. 



The Vernon Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at Vernon, 

 Ind. 



The capital stock of the Southern Wood Products Company. Louisville. 

 Ky., has been increased to $100,000, and that of the I-X-L Furniture Com- 

 pany, Goshen, Ind., to $200,000. 



At Hernando, Miss., the Hernando Lumber Company has started in 

 business. 



The capitalization of the Arkansas Oak Flooring <'ompany, Pine Kluff. 

 Ark., has increased to $300,000. 



The Society Hill Casket Company, Society Hill. S. C.. is a recent incor- 

 poration. 



BUFFALO 



T. Sullivan & Co. have Ijeen busy lately making an addltiou to the 

 office building, which Avill give needed room to both the wholesale and 

 retail departments. 



Hugh McLean has returned to his desk again after an extended trip to 

 California, having been away for about two months. 



Orson E. Yeager, who spent some days at Hot Springs. Va., last month, 

 also visited some of the Georgia mills to look over the hardwood situation. 

 He returned home by way of Moscow, Pa., where on A[iril he helped to 

 celebrate the 79th birthday of his mother and on lln' following day his 

 parents' fifty-seventh wedding anniversary. 



BALTIMORE 



Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National liUmber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, with office in the Knickerbocker Building, Baltimore. Md., is back 

 at his desk after an attack of influenza, complicated with other troubles. 



which kept liim confini'd to the house for five wpeks. 



The Uyland & Brooks Lumber Company of Baltimore has btM-n n-organ 

 ized, this step having \)vvu made desiii'ililc by thi' i-mitiiiuwi illness of 

 Samuel P. Kybiud. Jr., who for many yejirs was the lu-iid of the corpora- 

 tion. Turner W. Isaar, who has been presicU-nt of the company f<ir two 

 years, recontinues in that position, while rne place of Walter B. Brooks 

 as vice piesident is taken by Benjamin IL Head, who was also elected 

 a director. S. J. Brauer remains as secretary and treasurer. Tlie capital 

 stock has been increa.sed to $100,000. 



Title to the property occupied by the James Lumber Company on 

 Aliceanna street at Exeter street. Baltimore, has Imen conveyed to the 

 corporation by its president, Norman Janu's. The consideration, as indi- 

 cated by the stamps aHixed to the deed, was $1(10.000. 



The Rex Lumber Company, with ofiice at 10 East Lexin;;ton street. 

 Baltimore, has been incorporated under the laws of Maryland by Frederick 

 D. Carozza, William H. Grannis and Clyde H. Wilson. The capital stock 

 is $150,000. Mr. Grannis was connected with the Manasota Lumber Com- 

 pany some years ago, superintending the erection of a saw mill and the 

 laying out of the lumbering town of Manasota. Fla. 



lumber need, and Mr. Haas says that the company will be in the market 

 with the start of next season, which should begin around September. 



The Oak Floor Manufacturers' Association, with offices in Chicago, were 

 preparing an extensive exhibit for the American Building Exposition, 

 scheduled to have opened April 22. 



Representatives have been in Cleveland for the past few weeks arrang- 

 ing the exhibit which will demonstrate the latest materials and methods 

 for getting the greatest efficiency and utility from oak flooring. 



According to reports, the Theodor Kundtz Company will retire from the 

 retail lumber business around the first of next month, devoting all energies 

 to the manufacture of cabinets, furniture and other products and to a 

 general wholesale business. 



Funeral services for George R. Nicolson, prominent hardwood and 

 lumber operator in this district for the past 25 years, were held March 

 29. Mr. Nicolson's death was the result of a protracted illness. His 

 funeral was attended by representatives of a majority of the important 

 hardwood interests in the district. 



The Emrich Lumber Company is the latest entry in the Cleveland field. 

 The concern has been capitalized at $120,000 and will do a general mill- 

 work and lumber business. 



The firm of B. F. Rider & Son has recently opened offices in the Finance 

 Building. This concern will wholesale lumber and lumber products, with 

 hardwoods as the chief item through connection, with southern mills. 

 Both B. F. Rider and his son, G. M. Rider, were formerly connected with 

 the Arkomiss Lumber Company, well known throughout the South, as well 

 as locally. 



EVANSVILLE 



The saw mill at Grayville, 111., a few miles west of here that was owned 

 formerly by J. M. Blood & Bros., has been sold by Grafton Johnson, of 

 Greensburg. Ind., the present owner, to the Murdock Lumber Co. at Wash- 

 ington, Ind.. whose plant was destroyed by tire recently. The mill is 

 being dismantled and will be shipped at once to Washington. It will 

 be the first time in many years that Grayville will be without a saw mill. 

 The plant was sold about a year ago to Johnson and since he purchased 

 it he has operated it under the name of the Grayville Mill & Lumber 

 Company. 



Directors of the Petersburg Lock Kim ^Company at Petersburg, Ind., 

 have decided to build an annex, thirty by seventy feet, to the factory. The 

 Lock Kim company is manufacturing a luggage carrier tor automobiles 

 and during the last few months the orders for the carriers have exceeded 

 the capacity of the factory. 



Daniel Wertz, president of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company at 

 Evansville. Ind., has returned from a business trip to Kdinburg, Ind. 



George H. Foote of the Evansville Band Mill Company at Evansville, 

 Ind., is hack from a business trip to A'incennes, Ind. For many years Mr. 

 Foote was a resident of Vincennes when lie was associated with the old 

 lumber firm of Maley, Wertz & Foote. 



John C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, president of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club, also president of the Evansville Kotary 

 Club, will represent the local Rotary club at the national convention of 

 Uotary clubs at San Francisco this .year. 



Theodore E. Uechtin, of the Rechtin Lumber Company of this city, who 

 established a lumber yard at Tennyson, Ind., some time ago. reports that 

 business is jiicking up and that he is looking for a better season this year 

 than last. 



BEAUMONT 



W. A. Nichols & Co., who have been handling yellow pine on a commis- 

 sion basis for the past three years, announce that they will open up a 

 hardwood department on May 1. This department will also be handled 

 on a strictly commission basis. The new department will be in charge 

 of J. J. Ilamersley, who has had years of experience with southern hard- 

 woods. 



The oldest plant in this section of the state doing millwork has been 

 sold to the Petroleum Tank Company, and the site will be used to accom- 

 modate their office buildings. This is the C. W. George Manufacturing 

 Company, which was the only concern in this section turning out mill- 

 work and cypress cisterns a quarter of a century ago. 



The Bernard Manufacturing Company has purchased the manufactur- 

 ing end of the Deutser Furniture Company and will continue the manu- 

 facture of furniture and mattresses. This plant has built up a good busi- 

 ness in furniture in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. The company has been 

 making a low priced line, hut Martin Riggs. president of the company, 

 states that other lines of furniture will be added from time to time. 



CLEVELAND 



Another hardwood concern is scheduled to begin business about the 

 first of the month in West Park, Ohio, suburb of Cleveland. It will be 

 known as tlie Hardwood Products Company, and will do a local business 

 in mill products. The firm is sponsored by local interests. Fred Wagner, 

 now connected with the retail end of the Theodor K\mdtz Company, 

 will be with the new concern. 



H. li. Haas of the Empire Plow Company reports that the past season 

 was especially good. At present the firm is in the midst of the off season, 

 but will begin more extensive production in the fall. Red oak is the chief 



LOUISVILLE 



The Ferguson Lumber Company, capital $10,000, debt limit $50,000. has 

 been chartered by C. C. Ferguson. C. L. Croan and W. N. Griffin, taking 

 over the Croan & Griffin business, yards and office at First and Central 

 avenues, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad. The c<'mpany operates a 

 number of coiuitry mills producing hardwoods, and will specialize in 

 milliug-in-transit business through its Louisville quarters, doing a pro- 

 ducing, sorting, grading and planing business, as well as jobbing hard- 

 woods. C. C. Ferguson is active manager of the concern and one of the 

 best known hardwood men in this section, having been National Associa- 



