May 10, 1922 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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 the best, and is a project of the highest grade. Wells Brothers was 

 founded by Warren A. Wells and began building in Chicago in 

 1871, after the great fire. The company has grown and prospered 

 with Chicago and today two sons and two grandsons of the founder 

 are engaged in the business. The president, A. E. Wells, and vice- 

 president and treasurer, F. A. Wells, give their whole time and 

 energies to planning and execution coming in daily personal con- 

 tact with the work. H. L. Wells, second vice-president and secre- 

 tary, and P. .A. Wells, general superintendent, have also grown up 

 in the organization. The company has to its credit such buildings 

 as the Lyon & Healy, Marshall Field & Co. (retail) and Rand- 

 McNally & Co. buildings in Chicago; administration building of the 

 Simmons Company, Kenosha. Wis.; hotels, warehouses, factory and 

 office buildings and residences in many cities both in the United 

 States and Canada. They are big builders, worthy in every iWay to 

 erect the American Furniture Mart biiilding. 



Indiana Furniture Manufacturers Plan National 

 Selling Campaign 



A nation-wide campaign to increase the sale of Indiana-made 

 furniture was inaugurated April 2 I at a meeting of furniture man- 

 ufacturers from all sections of Indiana at the Columbia Club in 

 Indianapolis. The first step is to be the immediate establishment 

 of a i^urniture freight forwarding company to be known as the 

 Indiana Freight Forw^arding Company and to be operated on West 

 New York street, Indianapolis. All shipments of less than a car 

 load will come through the forwarding company. It w^as decided 

 that the manufacturers would be urged to abandon the practice 

 of displaying their furniture tw^ice a year at the Grand Rapids fur- 

 niture market and instead to join with manufacturers of the Middle 

 West in making possible the Furniture Mart in Chicago. A com- 

 mittee composed of B. F. Smith of Shelbyville, Howard T. Griffith 

 and Charles A. Albrecht of Indianapolis, was named to complete 

 the details for the forw^arding company. The same committee also 

 w^as instructed to obtain the co-operation of the freight and traffic 

 bureau of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in waging an 

 aggressive campaign to secure an equalization of freight rates on 

 furniture shipments to Western points. 



Indianapolis Furniture Makers to Show "Home 

 Folks" What They Make 



The Indianapolis Furniture Manufacturers" Association has taken 

 several booths at the Home Complete Exposition, to be held in 

 Indianapolis, Ind., at the state fair grounds in the manufacturers' 

 building. May 8 to 13. The display will be of all types of Indian- 

 apolis-made furniture. This exhibit will occupy 1,000 square feet 

 near the center of the exposition hall. 



Charles .Albrecht, president of the Indianapolis Furniture Man- 

 ufacturers' .Association, says the association is having its exhibit 

 at the exposition because the show oflers an excellent opportunity 

 to acquaint Indianapolis and Indiana people with the quality and 

 range of furniture made in this city. "We're proud of our prod- 

 ucts, " he said, "and we know that every Hoosier will be, too, and 

 people who don't know the wide scope of furniture manufacture 

 going on in Indianapolis will be acquainted with the facts at the 

 Home Complete Exposition." 



Evansville Furniture Plants Nearly Fully Manned 



.According to the employment bureau of the Evansville (Ind.) 

 Manufacturers" Association, eighteen of the leading furniture fac- 

 tories in that city now employ 98.2 per cent of their normal force 

 and the problem of the unemployed is becoming less intense each 

 day. Many of the large woodworking plants of the city are work- 

 ing on much better time than they did at the beginning of the 

 year. Box factories are increasing their business right along. 



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