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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1922 



LUMBER 



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 

 VENEERS j Our flitches are especially selected for obtaining 

 ' quality wood — Special attention to color. 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



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



AGENTS IN ALL FURNITURE CENTERS 



Ofbces: Baltimore, Md.: Jamestown. N. Y.. and 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



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

 New York City and San Francisco 



Going to Gotham in a Body 

 The board of directors ot the Ciucinnati Carriage Makers' Club at a 

 meeting at the Business Men's Club, Sept. 15, decided to attend in a body 

 the flftieth annual convention of the Carriage Builders' National Associa- 

 tion in New York, October 9 to 13. Carriage builders at Louisville, Ky., 

 Owensboro. Ky., Henderson, Ky., Indianapolis, Seymour, Columbus, Evans- 

 ville, Ind.. and St. Louis, Mo., will be invited to go to the convention on the 

 Cincinnati club's train. Joseph H. Wallenstein was appointed chairman of 

 the Transportation Committee. 



Resume Meetings Soon 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis will resume its regular semi-monthly 

 meetings at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday, September 30. These have been 

 suspended since early in June of the current year. During this period, 

 the directors have looked after the affairs of the organization. Joe Thomp- 

 son of the Thompson-Katz Lumber Company Is president and Tom Ken- 

 dall is secretary-treasurer. 



Preparing for Memphis Golf Tourney 



Plans are rapidly progressing tor the fourth annual tournament of the 

 Lumbermen's Golf Association, which will be held over the links of the 

 Memphis Colonial Country Club Friday, October 6. H. B. Weiss, president, 

 has named committees on handicaps and on prizes, and these will be in 

 position to make known their decisions within the next few days. Joe 

 Thompson of the Thompson-Katz Lumber Company is chairman ot the 

 committee on prizes, while W. N. Coulson is chairman of that on handi- 

 caps. It is understood that there will be not less than fifteen prizes, 

 ranging from the championship emblem down to the booby cup. There is 

 always very keen competition for the latter, far keener than for the 

 former, on the theory, perhaps, that "there is more room at the bottom 

 than at the top." 



There will be eighteen holts in the forenoon and eighteen in the after- 

 noon, making a total of 36 holes. There will be a smoker or dinner in the 

 evening, and following this there will be the election of officers for the 

 ensuing year. 



Bohlssen Reads Durgin Letter to Club 



The September meeting of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Club, held at Lumbermen's Club quarters. Union and Carondelet streets. 

 New Orleans, September 13, proved of unusual interest, due, principally, 

 to the fact that the discussions dealt with a number of topics of much 

 importance and timeliness to the trade, particularly of the southwest, 

 and also to the further fact that no meeting had been held for the pre- 

 ceding month. 



The attendance, though not large, was nevertheless representative, with 



manufacturers present from all three states, Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 Texas, comprising the southwestern district, contributing to the discus- 

 sions, dealing with the progress of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Insti- 

 tute, the transportation situation, labor, wages and various and sundry 

 other interesting subjects. 



H. G. Bohlssen of the H. G. Bohlssen Manufacturing Company, Ewlng, 

 Tex., president of the club, read to the delegates a copy of a letter written 

 by William A. Durgin, chief of the Division of Simplified Practice of the 

 Department of Commerce, in which Mr. Durgin denied that the commerce 

 department was sponsoring government control of lumber inspection, which 

 he claimed Frank F. Fish, secretary-treasurer of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, sought to credit it with. 



"Here Is a letter I want to read to you, gentlemen." announced Presi- 

 dent Bohlssen, immediately after he had called the club to order. 



"I do not know whether there are any members of the National present 

 or not, but I feel that it is my duty to read the letter anyway. It would 

 seem that Frank Fish has been trying to sail under false colors, and 

 the Department of Commerce has entered an objection." Mr. Bohlssen then 

 read the letter, which is published elsewhere in Hardwood Record. 



Mr. Bohlssen remarked when he finished the letter that he thought 

 "that ought to help the Institute, if it would affect its progress in any way 

 at all." No one else offered any comment. 



Secretary George Sohaad made an instructive report on the transporta- 

 tion situation, warning the members that with the fall crops coming on 

 and the necessity for many cars for the transportation of coal, they had 

 "better be glad to get what cars they can and to load them clear to the 

 top," that a drastic car shortage will prove inevitable irrespective of 

 what may be done with regard to the strike. 



A movement set on foot by the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club to have 

 the hardwood operators set their meeting date up from Wednesday to 

 Tuesday so as to make it simultaneous with their luncheons was deterred 

 indefinitely, C. J. Coppock. Cybur Lumber Company, Cyhur, Miss. ; John 

 DeBlieux, Soniat & Deblieux. Inc., Opelousas, and others entering vigorous 

 objections to the advisability of such amalgamation, on the ground prin- 

 cipally that they feared the manufacturers' club would perhaps lose or 

 have diminished its identity. 



Other hardwood persons adding to the various discussions included : 

 R. E. O'Rourke, manager, American Overseas Forwarding Company ; F. H. 

 Sanguinet. Lyon Lumber Company, Garyvllle, La. ; G. H. Jones, Newell 

 Lumber Company, Eunice, La., and A. L. Wilson of the 4-1 Box Manufac- 

 turers' Association, Chicago. 



The next meeting of the club will be held as usual on the second Wednes- 

 day of October. 



