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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 25, 1922 



Rotary Cut Box Lumber Club Joins Institute 



The Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufacturers held the first 

 monthly meeting they have had for upward of six months at the 

 St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, September 1 9, elected new officers 

 and voted unanimously to affiliate with the new Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Institute. 



The Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufacturers' Association, which 

 formerly met monthly at New Orleans, was an associate member 

 of the old American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. When 

 that organization went out of existence six months or more ago, 

 the box lumbermen, in the language of one of their spokesmen, 

 "were an orphan w^ithout a guardian." The members at the New 

 Orleans meeting on September I 9 voted to come into the Institute 

 as a class "B" member, w^hich is provided for such associated in- 

 dustries. 



E. B. Martin, of the Martin Veneer Company, Pascagoula, Miss., 

 and chairman of the association, called the meeting to order and 

 the delegates got right down to business with the usual enthusiasm. 



The first matter up was the election of officers and this election 

 resulted as follows: chairman, W. D. Hayes, Neal Veneer Company, 

 Brew^ton, Ala.; and the governing committee — Messrs. Hayes, Mar- 

 tin; C. B. Ashbrook, Mississippi Veneer Co., Sandersville, Miss.; 

 John Lindsey, Jr., Lindsey Lumber Company, Laurel, Miss.; H. J. 

 Wilson, Hazlehurst, Miss, and Charles Lohmon, Hope Veneer Com- 

 pany, Flammond, La. 



The various talks w^ere brief and snappy, being confined mostly 

 to the hopes and aspirations w^hich the Rotary Cut Box Lumber 

 Manufacturers' entertain from an association with the Hardwood . 

 Manufacturers' Institute, w^hich was hailed by more than one en- I 

 thusiastic association spokesman as symbojyzing the "dawn of a 

 new day." 



John M. Pritchard, secretary of the Institute, is also secretary 

 of the Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufacturers' Association. anS was 

 present for the Nevi^ Orleans meeting. 



Manufacturers Issue Folder on "Real Walnut Furniture" 



A striking feature of the new^ -nation-wide publicity campaign of 

 the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association is a large four- 

 page folder just issued under the heading, "Real American Walnut 

 Furniture — how to identify the genuine and avoid the substitute." 



The association, according to George N. Lamb, secretary, plans 

 to distribute thousands of these folders to the retail furniture deal- 

 ers of the country and through them to the public. They are 

 designed to be of great assistance in promoting the sale of walnut 

 furniture to the public and thus should benefit the retailer and in 

 turn the furniture manufacturers. 



The folder undertakes to tell the prospective buyer of furniture 

 about "The Wood Itself," about "Walnut Plywood Panels," "How 

 to Judge an Individual Piece of Furniture," describes the "Proper 

 Classification of Walnut Furniture" and concludes with a number 

 of striking reasons why walnut furniture is desirable. 



The section of the folder which describes the appearance and 

 properties of the w^ood is thoroughly illustrated with photographs 

 of the various kinds of typical figures found in walnut wood, as 

 well as the characteristic and identifying grain. Also, photographs 

 of cross sections of walnut under the microscope, revealing the 

 cellular structure, are used. 



Another illustration shows a section of a walnut plywood panel. 

 with each component part of the panel carefully described. 



Illustrations are also used to show "How to Judge an Individual 

 Piece of Furniture." The various parts of a bed, table, dresser and 

 chair are lettered and the public shown how to proceed to deter- 

 mine for himself whether these parts are real walnut or not. 



ture Company and later by the Period Cabinet Company, which 

 recently has been using the buildings for warehouse purposes. 



The capital stock of the corporation is $25,000 and the incorpo- 

 rators are Jefferson T. Conner, Frank H. Seibel and William H. : 

 Klerner. Mr. Conner is president of the company; Mr. Seibel, vice- 

 president and manager, and Mr. Klerner, secretary. 



The company will engage in the manufacture of period and 

 other furniture and will begin installing its machinery next week, ifl 

 Mr. Seibel said Saturday that the new company would be ready for 

 operations within four or five weeks, giving employment to a force 

 of men that will be increased from time to time. 



The Wisconsin Chest & Cabinet Co., Sheboygan, has been in- 

 corporated with $10,000 capital stock by W. E. Bendler, G, J. 

 Hahn, H. J. Meerdink and J. Starich to manufacture wooden cabi- 

 nets, etc. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Waukesha Woodl 

 work Co., Waukesha. The corporation has $10,000 capital stock 

 and the incorporators are William H. Madden, Gaetano V. Rucci and 

 Sylvester A. Snyder. 



A Unique Bid for Logs 



Seibel One of Furniture Plant Organizers 



Frank H. Seibel, for many years superintendent of the plant of 

 the F. Eggers Veneer Seating Co., at Two Rivers, Wis,, is one of the 

 organizers of a new furniture company at New Albany, Ind. Mr. 

 Seibel, an expert in the veneer and furniture manufacturing busi- 

 ness, left Two Rivers about ten years ago and was connected with 

 the Plumbers Woodworking Company at Algoma. Later he moved 

 to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he remained until he accepted a 

 position with a large concern at New Albany. Ind. 



Advices from New Albany state that the Conner Furniture Com- 

 pany has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State 

 and has leased the factory building at East Fifth and Oak Streets, 

 which was occupied for many years by the Henry Klerner Furni- 



One of the interesting exhibits at the Kentucky State Fair in 

 Louisville was a small sawmill unit operated by a Fordson Tractor, 

 and the unusual feature about this was a billboard announcement 

 that it was being demonstrated by the Wood-Mosaic Co.. who are 

 cash buyers of logs and timber. It was simply a unique bid for 

 logs and farm lot timber tracts by the Wood-Mosaic Co., who are 

 large buyers of timber for sawmill purposes and for veneer making 

 and are always scouring the country for new supplies of good 

 timber, making a feature of walnut, but using almost every kind 

 of native commercial wood. 



The Webster Manufacturing Co.. of Chicago, HI., has secured 

 the contract for the installation of a conveyor at the plant of the 

 Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co., Marshfield, Wis. 



