HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25. 1922 



holders and creditors of the company. Mr. Johns said that hn will engage 

 in the lumber business for himself later on. 



The Stratemeyer Hardwood Lumber Company, a new concern of Cin- 

 cinnati. O., has been incorporated with a capital of $25,000 by O. P. 

 Stratemeyer and Leon S. Miller. The company, which will conduct a hard- 

 woods jobbing business, has op^med offices in the First National Bank 

 buildinj;. Mr. Stratemeyer is well known in lumber circles, having been 

 engaged in the lumber business for himself for many years in the west end 

 of Cincinnati. He left Cincinnati about four years ago to operate sev- 

 eral sawmills at Monticello, Ky. Mr. Miller is not a newcomer in the 

 business. 



Donald K. Brewster, nationall-y known as an expert on dry kiln prob- 

 lems, has announced his entry into the kiln drying field as an expert 

 consultant in operation of lumber dry kilns, with specialization on the 

 problems connected with operating large batteries of progressive kilns so 

 as to secure maximum production with minimum waste. His headtiuarters 

 will continue to be in Cincinnati. 



MEMPHIS 



V. L. Colbert, secretary of the H. W. Darby Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, has been appointed as receiver under involuntary bankruptcy pro- 

 ceedings instituted by the Grenada Bank. Mrs. Hortense Darby of Grenada. 

 Miss., and D. L. Holcomb, against H. \V. I)arby, alleging insolvency. The 

 appointment was made by the referee in bankruptcy and he has instructed 

 the receiver to make an inventory of the property of the H. W. Darby 

 Hardwood Lumber Company and H. W. Darby and to submit this to the 

 proper district court within ten days after the date the proceedings were 

 instituted. 



Mr. Darby recently disappeared from Memphis under somewhat sensa- 

 tional circumstances. Mrs. Hortense Darby was his first wife. Her aUege<l 

 claim against him is approximately $B,500. Total claims are in excess of 

 $35,000. 



By the tenns of the will of William Moore. Hoopeston, 111., senior 

 member of the firm of Moore & McFerrln. engaged in the manufacture of 

 lumber and boxes, the affairs of that concern are to be wound up within 

 three years after Nov. 17, li>21. the date of his demise. The instrument 

 specifies that all of the Tennessee property of the firm is to be sold within 

 that time, but that the lands owned by the company in Arkansas may be 

 cleared and cultivated for a longer period if the beneficiaries think best. 



The bulk of the valuable estate goes to the widow ; to the two children, 

 Claude Moore of Memphis, who has been In charge of the business of the 

 firm in this city for many years, and Mrs. Cora Haynes. also of Memphis: 

 and to the children of one of the sons who preceded him in death. 



An exemplified copy of the will has just been filed here. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Lanham Maniifaoturiu;: ('niniiany, Loiii:*vilI»'. oapital S4f),000, has 

 been Incorporatpil by J. M. Lanham. V. X. Nash and .1. \V. Campbell to 

 operate the business of the Lanham Manufacturing i'ompany, which for a 

 number of years was operated by J. M. I^anham as an individual. The com- 

 pany manufacturers hardwood flooring. 



The Louisville Hardwood f'luh. startins; May 16. has taken up its sum- 

 mer schedule of meetinj; at the Devils Kitchen, a roadhouse a few miles 

 from the city, after holding winter sessions at the hotels and Pendennis 

 Club. Optimism and j;ood business were much In evidence in rei)orts at 

 the meeting on May IB. 



The 1. li. Wilco.x Lunil)er Company, Louisville, with mills at Burdette, 

 Miss., after operating as a timi for some years, has been incorporated. 

 The capital stock is $200,000. and the charter parties are George E. 

 Wilcox and George E. Wilco.\. .Tr., Louisville ; and W. B. Wilcox of 

 Burdette. Miss. 



Reports from the Barbourville. Ky.. section indicate that lumber mills 

 are running fiill and that considerable high grade oak is moving, but that 

 the low grade can't move very well on account of high freight rates. 



S. B. Combs, of .Teff, Ky., at a reported price of $40,000. has sold 2,000 

 acres of timberlaml near ,Ieff, Perry county, on the L. & X. railroad, to the 

 Harmound Woolfe Tie Company of Chillicothe. O.. which plans to cut ties, 

 staves, heading and lumber, installing portable mills. 



The Court of Appeals on May 12 finally decided a case affecting the 

 Millers ("reek Lumber Company, Eastern Gulf Oil Company and John S. 

 Robinson heirs, which has been in the courts for years, as a result of the 

 Miller Creek land becoming some of the best oil producing tracts in the 

 state. The hot argument was over a tract of 100 acres of land. All the 

 land in question was cut-over land sold by the Millers Creek people, but 

 in which it retained a one-half interest in any mineral rights discovered. 



WISCONSIN 



The Universal Toy and Novelty Manufacturing Company of Oak Park, 

 111., which recently decided to relocate its factorj- in Mellen, Wis., to be 

 in the heart of the northern hardwood belt and in close proximity to 

 mills, la starting work on its new plant. This will he TtO by 100 feet in 

 size, two st<.ries high, and cost about $.")0.000. including supplemental 

 equipment. William F. Gibian is president and general manager of the 

 Universal company. 



The Bower City Millwork Company of .Tanesville, Wis., has been incor- 



porated with a capital stock of $75,000 by L. A. Atwood, P. F. Korst and 

 .1. J. Koeberl. It takes over an existing sash, door and trim factory, 

 which it is propossed to enlarge during the summer. 



The Xorthem Oak Chair Company has been incorporated at Pulaski. 

 Wis., with .floO.OOO capital to engage in the manufacture of chairs, furni- 

 ture and other hardwood products. The incorporators are .7. \. Peplinski. 

 .Joseph LeFevre and Frank Paprocki, all of Pulaski. 



The Nash Motors Company of Kenosha. Wis., has started work on the 

 erection of a three-story addition. 100 by 400 feet, to its Milwaukee plant, 

 known as the Four-Cylinder Car Division. The new building will be used 

 entirely for the manufacturer of bodies and sheet metal work. It was to 

 have been erected a year ago. but the project was deferred until now to 

 await improvement in business conditions. The Investment in building 

 and machinery will be approximately $250,000, accoriling to B. W. Twy- 

 man. general manager of the Milwaukee division. 



The Hardwood Products Corporation of Xcenah. Wis., is the name of a 

 new concern which has just been chartered in Wisconsin. It succeeds the 

 Hardwood Products Company. The new concern has $3,'J0,000 capital in 

 jireferred stock, plus ,"iO0 shares of non-par value common stock. S. F. 

 Shattuck. Neale Spoor and E, D. Beale. 



The Wisconsin Manufacturing Comjjany of Merrill. Wis., is a new cor- 

 poration with $10,000 capital stock organized by W. H. AuBochon and 

 E. P. Chauvin to build a factory near the Anson-GJlkey & Hurd Co.'s 

 sawmill and manufacture sweeper compounds and other articles from 

 mill waste. 



The Schwartz Box Comiiany of Milwaukee has been organized with 

 $L'.").000 capital stock by Edward G. .Tung and \. .7. O'Connor, .S.5 Michigan 

 street, to engage in the manufacture of a general line of boxes and con- 

 tainers. 



The Wisconsin Textile Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wis., has 

 completed its new factory, 60 by 200 feet, three stories high. It manu- 

 factures spools and bobbins as well as other hardwood specialties for tex- 

 tile mills, including hosiery forms. 



Blum Bros. Box Ccmipany, Marshfleld. Wis., is erecting a large factory 

 addition. 4.t l)y 120 feet, with a wing ."iB by SO feet, which will be useil 

 largely for the manufacture of butter tubs and provide capacity for a daily 

 output of 3.600 of these articles. It is to \>e ready abimt .Tuly 1, when 

 seventy-five men will be added to the payroll. 



The Belle City Incubator Company of Racine. Wis., is erecting a two 

 storj' factory addition, 45 by IHO feet in size, to give much needed produc- 

 ti<m space. It will cost about $35,000. James V. Rohan is president of 

 the company. 



The Hough Shade t'orporation of Janesville. Wis., is engaging in quau 

 tity production of a new design of shade, known as the Ra-Tox, made for 

 windows of factories, offices, schools and hospitals in which steel sasb 

 is used. 



The abandoned sawmill at Hayward, Wis., belonging to the Edward 

 Hines interests of Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire recentl.v, causing 

 a loss of $120,000. The mill has not lieen operated for four to five years 

 an<l it is not known if it will be rebuilt. 



The Milwatikee Board of School Directors, Frank M. Harbach. secre- 

 tary and business manager, is asking sealed bids until June 1 for furnish- 

 ing and installing pupils' desks and seats and opera chairs in the new 

 Bay View High School at Lenox street and Montana avenue. The work 

 is to he finisheil by August 1."). 



Martin Rasmussen of Racine. Wis., a well known inventor of wood- 

 working machinery and tools, has been granted letters patent on a new 

 machine, patterned after the style of engraving machines which follows 

 the lines of a pattern and reproduces the work in wood. It is also useful 

 in connection with carving work from blueprints, and can easily i)e used 

 as a boring mill. Mr. Rasmussen is organizing a company to manufac- 

 ture and market this machine, which is his most important invention. 



The Automatic Seating Company of Superior. Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $200,000 by John Grief. George .\. Carlson 

 and H. W. Dietrich. It will manufacture and market all kinds of household 

 aiKl office furniture and fixttires. including automatic chairs and seating 

 ilevices for theaters, schools, restaurants, auditoriums, etc. A factor)- will 

 be erected in Superior at once. 



The D. J. Murray Manufacturing Company of Wausau, Wis., specializing 

 in the manufacture and repair of saw and planing mill machinery, logging 

 equipment, etc.. is building a one-story machine shop addition, 60 by 12^ 

 feet, to provide additional capacit.v. 



The O. & X. Lumber Company of Chippewa Falls. Wis., has purchased 

 the millwork factory of Schaefer & Olson, High and Willow streets, in th^- 

 same city, and will continue its operation under the management of F. H 

 Green. Schaefer & Olson intend to confine their activities to general con 

 tracting hereafter. 



Fred J. Schroeder, president of the John Schroeder Lumber Company. | 

 Milwaukee and Ashland, Wis., was re-elected treasurer of the Rotary Club ^ 

 cif Milwaukee at the recent annual meeting. Mr. Schroeder has held this 

 IKKsition since the club was organized about nine years ago. 



The A. H. Stange Company. Merrill, Wis., has started logging its newly 

 opened timber tract northeast of Star Lake with a crew of fifty men 

 under the direction of J. H. Regan, logging superintendent of the com 

 pany. 



Charles W. Radford has sold his interest in the Wilkin-Challoner Com 

 I uiy, Oshkosh, Wis., to John C. Challoner and sons, George C. and Frank 



