July 10. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



CHICAGO 



W. A. Harris. I. H. Harris ami Rose Harris bave incorporated the Harris 

 Furniture Company, 112 W. Adams street, city, with $40,000 capitalization. 

 The line of manufacture will be office, store and household furniture and 

 fixtures. 



On July 1. S. F. D. Meffley rosifined as secretary-manager of the Lum- 

 liermen's Association of Chicago. Mr. Meffley has not disclosed his future 

 plans, hut it is understood that he may join one of the large lumber organ- 

 izations of Chicago. Frank r.urnaby, president of the club, has not an- 

 nounced what he will do to provide a successor for Mr. Meffley, but at 

 present the secretarial duties of the club are being discharged by Mr. 

 Buruaby with the help of the assistant secretary and other members of the 

 office force. 



Mr. Meffley was with the club for about fifteen months. Previous U\ 

 taking this position he had had considerable valuable experience In the 

 management of automobile clubs and chambers of commerce. 



Wh-^n he resigned Mr. Meffley was presented with a handsome traveling 

 bag by Division C. of the club. The presentation speech was made by 

 <;. A. Vangsness. 



BUFFALO 



Fred M. Sullivan has returned from a fishing trip to Port Ruwan. He 

 has been building a new launch, which is now completed and it will be 

 used for later fishing and excursion trips this season. 



Orson E. Yeager has returned from a visit to the Pacific Coast as one 

 of the Rotary Club members attcn<ling the convention at Los Angeles. 

 lie was much pleased with the reception accorded the delegates. 



Receipts of lumber by lake at Buffalo during June were 3.594,000 feet, 

 as compared with 2.411,i>(i0 feet during May. This is a rather larger 

 ;im<mnt than in some preceding season for the same months. 



The membfrs of the l^.uflfaln Lumber Dealers' Association, to the num- 

 ber of about fifty, were entertained on June 20th by Commodore Louis A. 

 Fischer, member of Dohn, Fischer & Beyer, on his yacht "Romana." mak- 

 ing a trip down the river and enjoying an outing on Grand Island. Some 

 of the members were taken down the river on the yacht "Flick," owned 

 by Frank T. Sullivan. The chief feature of the afternoon's sport was a 

 Itaseball game between nines captained by C. Ashton McNeil and F. Flem- 

 ing Sullivan, the former winning. K. C. Evarts, secretary of the associa- 

 tion, officiated as umpire. 



PITTSBURGH 



J. C. Linehau, of J. C. Linehan & Co.. specialist in hardwoods, is taking 

 a few days' vacation. 



Acorn Lumber Company reports hardwood trade with the plant falling 

 cff quite a lot. This is due partly to the strikes and partly to the fact 

 ihat purchasing agents loaded up heavy a few weeks ago. 



Carl H. Hunter and O. F. Oray, of Moundsville, W. Va.. have bought 

 500.000,000 feet of virgin oak and poplar near Glen Easton. W. Va.. 

 and will cut off the timber at once. It is expected that the tract will also 

 produce 200.000 mine props. 



(ienrge H. Young, who has been associated with the J. C. Donges Lum- 

 ber Company for a number of years, is now with tlie Lafayette Lumber 

 ('umpany in the First National Bank Building. 



BALTIMORE 



James F. Thrift and Morris A. Rome were appointed receivers for the 

 International Wood and Paper Products Company in the United States 

 <'nurt at Baltimore by Judge Rtise on July 31 and bonded in the sum of 

 S7.500. The company, which manufactured toys, had been declared 

 'bankrupt earlier in the month after proceedings brought by the New 

 F.ra Electric and Machine Company and other creditors. 



The Douglas-Walkley Company, distributor of hardwoods, especially for 

 the export trade, which moved its main offices from Cleveland to Balti 

 more nearly two years ago, and secured offices in the Lexington Building, 

 has gone hack to Cleveland, having found conditions in the Maryland 

 port somewhat different from what it believed them to be. 



W. Schleyer. who withdrew recently from the Kosse. Shoe & Schleyer 

 Lumber Company of ('incinnati. retiring also as the manager of the Bal- 

 timore office. Is engaged in organizing a new corporation, in which his 

 brother-in-law and others will be interested with him and which will 

 op*'rate a chain of retail yards in the Middle West, with headquarters at 

 <'olumbus, O. The work of organization has progressed so far that it 

 will lie possible to announce details in a short time. Mr. Schleyer is 

 • (unpleting arrangements to remove from Baltimore. 



CINCINNATI 



P. D. Bailey, formerly with the Richey-IIalstead & Quick Company and 

 the Eakin Lumber Company, is now connected with the J. C. West Lumber 

 Company of this city. Mr. Bailey is now on a two weeks' tour of the com- 

 pany's mill connections in West Virginia. Upon completion of this trip 

 he will take charge of the company's office in Detroit, Mich. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club a committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Max 



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