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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10. 192'J 



Offering 



Thoroughly Kiln Dried 

 Lumber and an Efficient 

 Kiln Drying Service 



A thoroughly modern kiln equipment at 

 Owensboro enables us to make orompt shio- 

 ment on our own stock, thoroughly kiln dried 

 and also to offer kiln drying service of nroven 

 efficiency for handling either green or dry 

 lumber. We offer quick shipment, either 

 domestic or export, straight or mixed cars, 

 all N. H. L. A. grades in our soft texture 

 oak ideal for good furniture. We also have 

 splendid walnut, a fine stock of poplar, chest- 

 nut, gum. hickory, maple, elm, cottonwood. 

 heech and quartered sycamore. Thus prac^ 

 tically everv line of woodworking is offered 

 a thoroughly reliable source of entirelv de- 

 pendable material. 



Trv STIMSON at Owensboro 

 the next titne 



J. V. Stimson & Co. 



OWENSBORO, KY. I 



summer outing of the club will be held on a steamboat on the Ohio river. 

 It is expected that the coming season will be a live one for the club and 

 several special activities have been planned. 



Plow manufacturers of Evansvillc say that indications point to a good 

 fall and winter business in the south and southwest. The.v sa.v that the 

 railroad strike is affecting their business some, but that in spite of this 

 their trade is showing up a little better than last year. 



Claude Wertz, who is associated with his father, Daniel Wertz. in the 

 Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, has returned from a business trip to 

 Shawneetown. III., and reported business conditions in southern Illinois a 

 whole lot better than they were last year in spite of the railroad strike 

 and the four months' miners' strike. 



George li. Foote. of the Evansville Band Mill Company, is back from a 

 business trip to Vincennes and Terre Haute, Ind. 



A good many cottonwood logs along the Wabash river in southern 

 Indiana and southern Illinois have been cut during the past summer and 

 shipped to an egg case factory at Caruthersville, Mo. 



J. S. Hopkins, manager of the NeverSolit Seat Company at Evansville, 

 has returned from his vacation spent on the northern lakes. He is of the 

 opinion that fall and winter business is going to be good and with the 

 ending of the railroad strike he looks for it to be exceptionally good. 



LOUISVILLE 



The large quantity of hardwood flooring, interior trim, etc., moving 

 through planers and retailers into building operations locally can be taken 

 from the report of the close of the fiscal year, .\ugust 31, by the city 

 building department, which shows a total of 3,S56 permits issued for 

 .$13,915,075 in new work, as against 3,025 permits last year for ,$6,039,900. 

 There were 1,130 residences, costing .16,039,000, as against 445 last year, 

 for ?2, 339, 750. 



Edward L, Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, Mobile, -Ma., 

 was recently in Louisville, and spent an evening at the meeting of the 

 LiOulKvllle Hardwood Cluli nt the Louisville Country Club. At this meet- 

 IDS it was generally admitted that the lumber business for the next few 

 months will be chiefly a question of transportation. 



W. A. MacLean, president of the VTood-Mosaic Company, Louisville, is 

 ^ponding a tew weeks at his summer home, north of Ontario, Can., having 

 Mt Louisville about ten days ago. 



Tom J. Fullenlove of W. P. Brown & Sees Lamber Ooinpaiiy, formerly 

 vice-president of the Churchill Milton Lumber Company, lost his mother, 

 Mrs. Mary D. Fullenlove, 60 years of age, who died September 2, follow- 

 ing a lingering illness. 



An Interesting suit is before the courts in which the Wood-Mosaic Com- 



pany, operating at Highland Park, recently annexed to Louisville, is con- 

 tending for five-year exemption from city taxation, on the grounds that 

 the plant is a new industry for Louisville. The circuit court has held 

 against the company, on the ground that its property was taken into the 

 city, under annexation permitted by the legislative act of 1898, and that 

 it did not elect to locate in Louisville. The case will go to the appellate 

 court. A number of other companies in Highland Park are materially 

 interested in the decisions. There is a local or<linance in Louisville under 

 which all newly established concerns are given five years' exemption on 

 buildings, equipment, land, etc., from city taxes, to encourage new indus- 

 tries to locate here. 



W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has closed down its mill at 

 Guin, .^la.. due to inability to secure log cars for moving logs to the mill, 

 the Frisco lines having considerable car shortage at this time. Right now 

 the company is operating only its Fayette, A]?., mills. 



J. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division, Southern Hardwood 

 Tratfio Association, has returned from a motor vacation to Missouri, where 

 he spent two weeks. In commenting on the traffic situation, Mr. Thompson 

 reported that it was still bad, but easier than it had been, as roads were 

 operating more trains and there are fewer embargoes. 



NEW ORLEANS 



From Fort Smith, Ark., comes news that-^the Fort Smith Wagon Com- 

 pany, owned by the John Deere Company, Moline, 111., has recently 

 resumed operations on part time, with prospects that the plant will be 

 started up at capacity output within the near future. The plant is now 

 giving employment to 100 men, and it will use the services of 300 when it 

 booms up in full. 



The Louisiana Red Cypress Company of New Orleans reopened its hard- 

 wood department in its headquarters building at Carondelet and Poydras 

 streets here on September 5. after having maintained the office in Memphis 

 for approximately one year. 



Th« Southwestern Hardwood Manufactui'ers' Club announces its next 

 meeting at Lumbermen's Club's quarters here on Wednesday. September 13, 

 when President R. G. Bohlssen expects to draw out a big attendance for 

 confiideration of various and sundry important matters. 



WISCONSIN 



The Wiese Laboratory Furniture Company of Manitowoc. Wis., was 

 awarded the contract to furnish the laboratory equipment for the new 

 Marquette University Dental College at Sixteenth and Grand avenue, 

 Milwaukee. .Architects Krichoflf and Rose arc in charge of the plans. 



The M. Ililty Lumber Company. Milwaukee, is building a three-story 

 113 by 102-foot factory building in the town of Wauwatosa, a suburb of 

 Milwaukee. 



The Seaman Body Corporation, 1732 Richards street, Milwaukee, is 

 awarding contracts on the construction of a new L-shaped brick and tim- 

 ber factory building, to be five stories, part steel construction. 423 by 100 

 feet and 100 by 225 feet. 



(J. IL Bulgrin. sales manager for the R. Connor Company. Marshfield, 

 Wis., has returned from a visit to the Connor holdings known as the 

 Canadian Puget Sound Lumber & Timber Company, Ltd.. at Victoria, B. C. 

 Industries were found to be in a prosperous condition'in that section of 

 the country, according to Mr. Bulgrin. 



Clowns, fireworks and comic floats featured the parade of the Hamilton 

 Manufacturing Company through Two Rivers, Wis., on the occasion of the 

 annual holiday and fete day of the employes recently. The various depart- 

 ments of the company were represented by floats. Company officials, senior 

 employes and the company band occupied the positions of honor in the 

 parade. Planing, cutting, finishing, trimming, cabinet and type depart- 

 ments were represented by special floats. 



Excavation has started for the erection of the new addition to the 

 Thompson Brothers factory at Peshtigo, Wis., whose boats arc nationally 

 advertised. The addition will he 60 hy 100 feet and will he throe stories. 

 Increased business and lack of floor space necessitated the new addition. 

 The plant is now enjoying one of the busiest seasons in its history. 



The Heineman Lumber Company of Merrill, Wis., is preparing to let 

 lofiging jobs in two weeks for the cutting of twelve million feet of mixed 

 timber on the company lands in Pine River, Schley, Birch and Rock Falls 

 counties. Soon after the letting of the contracts the Merrill sawmill of 

 the company will start operations. The log cuts will be of choice timber 

 to replace high grade stocks in the company yards. 



M. H. Murphy, head of the Manitowoc branch of the American Seating 

 Company, Manitowoc. Wis., announced that the company will start the 

 factory on a twelve-hour basis in order to complete a large number of 

 rush orders for furniture. Contracts for the furnishing of five Jewish 

 synagogues were received recently, each of the orders ranging between 

 $1S.OOO and $25,000. The seating company is at present employing two 

 hundred men. 



Completion of the large storage sheds to house lumber used in the manu- 

 facture of cars and trucks of the Kissel Motor Car Company, Hartford. 

 Wis., has been announced by officials. The sheds are 40 by SO feot and 

 contain modern concrete drying racks. The building was constructed 

 under the supervision of O. P. Kissel. 



Fire caused by overheated machinery totally destroyed the sawmill of 

 the E. F. Potter Lumber Company at Stephenson, Mich., last week? causing 



