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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25. 1922 



Thos. F. Christopher, head of the hardwood firm of Thos. P. Christopher 

 & Co., is able to visit his office again after an illness of some months from 

 nervous prostration. 



The National Cooperage Company, recently incorporated with Samuel 

 Leibowitz as head, has abandoned its old factory at Russell and Warner 

 streets, and moved into a new one-story brick building at Russell and 

 Haines streets. The company lately increased its capital stock to $50,000. 



David T. Carter of David T. Carter & Co., Inc., is back from a business 

 trip, which covered about ten days, and during which he visited a number 

 of the mills. 



The saw mills of the companies subsidiary to Richard P. Baer & Co. of 

 this city at Mobile, Ala., and Bogalusa, La., are getting so many orders 

 that operations are carried on after regular hours to keep up with the 

 demand. 



The Baltimore Lumber Excliange at its semi-annual meeting, held on 

 the evening of Jone 6 at the Merchants' Club, found nothing but regular 

 routine business to dispose of. the monthly reports of the secretary and 

 treasurer being read and approved. After the meeting an excellent 

 luncheon was served. The monthly meeting of the managing committee in 

 the afternoon at the rooms of the Old Colony Club also was mostly an 

 informal affair, with an interchange of views as to the prevailing trade 

 situation as the chief feature. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co. appeared in the role of the 

 father giving away hia daughter in marriage last Saturday afternoon. The 

 bride was Miss Margaret Leighton Alcock. The groom was John Warner 

 Remington, a young attorne.v of Rochester, N. Y. The ceremony took 

 place at First Methodist Episcopal Church here and proved to be very 

 much of a society affair. A reception took place afterward at the home 

 of the bride's parents. 



Much interest was manifested among hardwood men here last week 

 in the proceedings at Louisville, where a new hardwood organization came 

 into being under the name of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. 

 While this city was not represented by any of the hardwood men, it is 

 altogether likely that some of them will help to swell the membership. 



CLEVELAND 



There has been a general improvement in business in this district, and 

 the hardwood trade keeping up with the general trend of affairs has taken 

 a sudden spurt. Fred Marquard, sales manager of the Marquard Sash & 

 Door Manufacturing Company, reports that It has added to its working 

 force and that where it was working eight hours before it is now working 

 nine. 



However, this sudden spurt has not entirely satisfied members of the 

 Industry here. E. A. Krauss of the Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany states that as business is steadily picking up he expects the future 

 to show the hardwood trade well on the way to reaching the high water 

 mark. 



This steady increase may be due to the fact that the hardwood men of 

 this city are beginning to see that advertising means more business. Up 

 until this time little has been done in this field, due to the attitude of the 

 dealers that business will come without any effort on their part. 



The Trebing Manufacturing Company is one of the first to enter this 

 field. It has been running in the daily newspapers a picture of the Trebing 

 Stairways of Colonial Design, with a small article telling of the advantages 

 in better millwork. An invitation was also extended to the public to visit 

 the factory and become better acquainted with their line of work. C. J. 

 Trebing, member of the firm, says: - "A little publicity will not hurt, and 

 if we find that this newspaper advertising is increasing business we may 

 put out a series of pamphlets." 



The Trebing Manufacturing Company has been doing a great amount 

 of estimating work lately ; an encouraging sign that business is picking up. 



The Martin-Barriss Company is also using advertising as a means of 

 attracting business. A large article telling of the advantages of finishing 

 rooms in genuine mahogany, and showing that the difference between the 

 cost of finishing a house of mahogany and wood stained to represent 

 mahogany is just $170, is attracting lots of attention. 



Oak, birch and yellow pine, according to R. U. Stofer of the Diamond 

 Glass Company are the best sellers. F. Gruss of the Theodore Kundtz 

 Company states that maple has taken a jump in popularity here. 



F. Wagner, sales manager for the Theodore Kundtz Company, has left 

 that company to take a position at the Hardwood Products Company of 

 this city. 



Dealers of this city were grieved to hear of the death of Albert R. 

 Teachout, well-known lumber dealer and mill work operator, who died 

 after an illness of four months. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



barrels and similar cooperage. About $25,000 of its capital stock is rep- 

 resented in this state. 



The Reel-Blue Lumber Company of Petersburg. Ind., has begun work 

 on a large addition to its lumber yards, which will greatly increase the 

 capacity of the plant. The Simplex Lock Rim Company of the same city 

 has begun work on an addition to its factory that will be thirty feet wide 

 and seventy feet long. 



Construction of a $103,000 warehouse at the northwest corner of Ray 

 and Dover streets in this city has been started for the Adams Rogers 

 Company, wholesale dealers in sash, doors, blinds and other building sup- 

 plies. The building will be of brick. 



The Simplex Short Turn Trailer Company, formerly at Wabash, Ind., 

 has l)een reorganized at Lagro, Ind.. and given the name of the Transport 

 Tr.Tiler Company. New directors an^ officers of the organization are : 

 Amos Smith. Lagro, president ; Sam Ferrell. vice-president and manager ; 

 D. W. Gillespie. Lagro, treasurer ; D. E. Purlvance, Wabash, secretary ; 

 Robert Batton, Wabash, attorney : O. B. Parkman, auditor, and Hoyte A. 

 Summerland, a member of the board. The company will manufacture two- 

 wheel and four-wheel model truck trailers. 



Firemen worked hard June 17 to prevent the spread of flames, fanned 

 by a strong wind, that apparently would destroy the Commercial Box 

 Company, 141S South Capitol avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Four firemen 

 were overcome by smoke. It was estimated that the loss might be $50,000. 

 The company had five warehouses, an office building and a machine and 

 mill room. All were destroyed. 



The United States Lumber & Supply Company has been organized at 

 South Bend. Ind., with a capital stock of $100,000. The company will 

 deal in all kinds of lumber and building materials. The organizers are 

 John G. Schaub, Frank C. Toepp, G. J. Bader, Ulrich J. Hiss, Fred J. 

 Smith. Hubert Archambeault and Clarence W. Bader, all of South Bend. 



EVANSVILLE 



The General Box Company, an organization incorporated under the 

 laws of Delaware, has qualified to do business in Indiana. A total of 

 $1,000 of its capital stock is represented in this state. Chase Harding 

 of Crawfordsville, Ind., has been named state agent. 



11. Brumflel of Kokomo. Ind., has been named state agent of the San- 

 dusky Cooperage & Lumber Company, an Ohio corporation, which qualified 

 today to do business in Indiana. The company manufactures and sells 



Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wcrtz Lumber Company of Evansville, 

 Ind., has been re-elected secretary of the Evansville city school hoard, 

 which position he has filled for a number of years. 



Gus E. Bauman of the Gus E. Bauman Hardwood Company of Evans- 

 ville, Ind., has returned from a business trip to Memphis and the south- 

 west and reports that trade conditions in that section arc looking up all 

 right, and that he is looking for a nice improvement in traile a little 

 later on. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company and president of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club has returned from San Francisco, Cal., where 

 he represented the Evansville Rotary Club in the international meeting of 

 Rotary Clubs. Mr. Greer has been president of the local Rotary eUib for 

 the past year. 



George W. Sanson. 62 years old. who for a number of years operated a 

 planing mill and lumber yards in Evansville. died a few days ago at Cave 

 City, Ky.. a few miles southeast of Evansville. where he had been engaged 

 in the lumber business for a number of years. 



The Murdock Lumber Company at Washington. Ind., has finished install- 

 ing the saw mill, which was purchased recently from the Grayville Mill 

 & Lumber Company at Grayville, 111., on the Wabash river, a few miles 

 west of here. The mill was dismantled and moved to Washington. 



It is expected that the Rockport Lumber Company at Rockport, Ind., 

 will soon rebuild the planing mill that was destroyed by fire several months 

 ago. 



All arrangements have been made for the annual summer outing and 

 picnic of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, that will be held on the 

 steamer Verne Swain on the Ohio river on the afternoon and evening 

 of Tuesday, June 27. The affair has been arranged by the entertainment 

 committee of the club, composed of Gus E. Bauman of the Gus E. Bauman 

 Hardwood Company, chairman : Joe Waltman of the Evansville Band Mill 

 Company and Carl G. Wolflin of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company. 



LOUISVILLE 



Edward L. Davis reports that business is quite fair, and that since 

 January 1 his stocks show a reduction of about a half million feet in spite 

 of very fair production. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company reports that while business is a 

 little slower than it was, the company is getting a fair volume of business 

 and is very well satisfied. 



Norman Willis of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company stated that better 

 conditions in the South made it possible for the company to again operate 

 its string of mills. Business has been more active and collections better. 



.\. A. Egle. formerly with the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 

 and some of the railroads, also for about two years traffic and sales man- 

 ager for the R. H. Humphrey Company, New Albany, Ind., has taken charge 

 of the traffic department of the Wood Mosaic Company. Mr. Egle is an 

 experienced hardwood traffic man and a valuable addition to the organiza- 

 tion. 



.T G. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company recently returned 



from a mill inspection trip to the South, left at once for Detroit, returned 



in time for the end of the hardwood meeting in Louisville on June 16, 



anil this week goes to Chicago for the National hardwood lumber meeting. 



I'lie -\ndcrson Manufacturing Company. Louisville, which about a year ago 



