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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25. 1922 



American Black Walnut 



Our Specialty 



I ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES 



( 3 8" to 16/4" 



We have a goodly supply on hand at all times. 

 Our Band Mill is in daily operation cutting Black 

 Walnut exclusively. Let us figure on your re- 

 quirements. STRAIGHT OR MIXED CARS 



Prompt, Efficient and Courteous Service 



j 1 28" SLICED WALNUT VENEER 



LUMBER 



VENEERS 



Our flitches are especially selected for obtaining 

 quality wood — Special attention to color. 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



Home Office: Lock Box No. 18, St. Bernard 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



AGENTS IN ALL FURNITURE CENTERS 



Offices: Baltimore, Md.; Jamestown, N. Y., and 

 Grand Rapids, MIcli. 



Represented In Chicago. Rockford, III.. Detroit, Kitchener, Ont., Can. 

 New York City and San Francisco 



Hardwood Man Sells Country Estate 



Josoph Natwick. of tin- hardwriml Jirni of J. Natwic-k & Co., of Balti- 

 more, I\ld., who not long ago purchased "Briarfiold," the country residence 

 of former Postmaster Sherlock Swanu, paying, according to report, $100,- 

 000, has sold the estate to Mrs. Nannie R. Jackson, widow of Elihu 

 Jackson, former one time governor of Maryland and largely identified 

 with the lumber interests of this city and state. It was supposed that 

 Mr, Natwick intended to occupy the place as his residence. 



Wife of Theodore Rechtin Dies 



Mrs. Rechtin, 57 years old, wife of Theodore E. Kt'chtiii, well known 

 lumber dealer who has yards and mills in Evansville. Ind,, and in other 

 towns in southern Indiana and western and northern Kentucky, died at 

 her home in Bvansyille on Wednesday, May 17. Iler death was sudden 

 and was due to organic heart trouble. Mrs. Rechtin was one t»f the best 

 known women in Eyansville and was a member of the Church o£ the 

 Assumption. She is survived by her husband and one daughter. 



Lumberman Ends Long Career 

 George B. Hunting, who had been with the .Inmes Lumber Company 

 and its predecessors, the N, W. James Lumber Company and Henry 

 James & Co. for a matter of seventy years, died May 11 at his home in 

 Baltimore at the age of 84 years. He was born in Boston, but came to 

 Baltimore when a boy and at the age of 14 entered the employ of the 

 late Henry James, the father of Norman and Charles I. James, both of 

 whom are prominent in the lumber trade. The father was a pioneer in 

 the business and amassed considerable wealth. At the time of his death 

 Mr. Hunting was vice-president of the company. His fidelity to the 

 interests of his associates and his courtesy were almost proverbial. He 

 acted for years as treasurer of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange and is 

 survived by two daughters. His health began to fail after he received 

 news in 1918 that his only son had been killed in the w^ar in France. 



Ward F. Brown Dies on Return from Europe 



Much regret has been expressed over the death of Ward F. Brown, who 

 was largely interested in the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company, of Balti- 

 more, Md., wholesalers and exporters of hardwoods. Mr. Brown passed 

 away at the Jefferson Medical Hospital in Philadelphia, on May 11, having 

 been taken ill while on a trip to Europe, receiving treatment for a time 

 at the American Medical Hospital In Paris. He was received in the latter 

 institution on April 11, but failing to show improvement, he was brought 

 to New York and at once conveyed to Philadelphia, dying two days after 

 his arrival. His malady was an enlargement of the glands, which was 

 declared hopeless from the first. Mr. Brown was born 52 years ago at 



Bills Mills, Pa., and graduated from the State Normal School there. In 

 course of time he engaged in the lumber business near Punxutawney, 

 where he remained until 1906, when he became interested in timber in 

 West Virginia, and changed his field of operation to that State. In 1911 

 he acquired a timber tract in North Carolina, making his home at Escota, 

 where he conducted a sawmill until the timber supply became exhausted 

 in 1921. Just about that time the mill was destroyed by fire, and because 

 of the small amount of stumpage remaining, the plant was not rebuilt. 

 Subsequently he became interested in the Brown Bledsoe Company. On 

 February 11 last he sailed tor an extended European trip, intending to 

 combine business with pleasure. 



Commission Grants Transit Extension 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has granted carriers in southern 

 and southwestern classification territory autliority to publish, on one 

 day's notice, tariffs providing for an extension of three months on rough 

 material tonnage expiring during the months of May, Jime and July, 

 according to announcement made by the Southern Hardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation. 



This organization requested a six months' extension on rough material 

 tonnage, but the commission has granted only a three months' extension. 

 Furthermore, the commission has so restricted its ruling that it applies 

 only to tonnage which has not been the subject of a previous extension. 



Most of the carriers in the territories in question are affected. 



Reconsignment Charges Reduced 



Charles Bourne, assistant general freight agent of the Missouri Pacific 

 at Memphis, announces that the charge of reconsigning car load lots of 

 lumber after June 10 will be $3 instead of .?7 per car, as at present. 



Prepared to Supply Quality Hardwoods 



The Pearl River Valley Lumber Company, with modem band mills at 

 Canton, Miss., and Hammond, announces unusual facilities for supplying 

 hardwoods of known quality. They have approximately three hundred 

 million feet of standing timber located on the Pearl River, consisting of 

 oak, gum, ash, elm and poplar, the major portion of which is white oak 

 and red gum. Their two modern eight-foot band mills have a dally 

 caiiacity of 70.000 feet. In connection with these mills they have in- 

 stalled a soda dipping vat which keeps their lumber bright and free from 

 stain. They have one of the most modern hardwood yards in the South, 

 which has been built on scientific lines suggested by engineers in order 

 to permit making full use of the best air circulation. J. A. I'ease. wi'll- 

 known and practical hardwood man. has supervision of the production 

 and sales of this company, and his many friends will be pleased to hear 

 of his success. 



