July 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



NASHVILLE 



C. M. Hume, of Columbia, Tenn.. will remove to Waverly, Tenn., where 

 he will engage iu the lumber business. 



Kennedy & Stephens, of Nashville, with authorized capital stock of 

 $15,000, has been incorporated by J. F. Stephens, E. H. Webb, C. W. 

 Webb, L. F. Thweatt and T. W. Schlater, Jr., to deal in timber. 



D. S. Hutchison, who for about twenty years has been connected with 

 John B. Ransom & Co., of Nashville, has accepted a position with the 

 0. B. Andrews Company, of Chattanooga, manufacturers of fibre, paper 

 and wood containers, and will represent the Chattanooga company iu the 

 Nashville territory, with offices at 191 North Second street. 



Increasing activity in production of lumber and products is reported 

 from McEwen, Tenn. Three plants at that place have resumed operation 

 recently, these being the stave mill of David Patterson and the sawmills 

 of W. R. Webb and Westbrook & Ledbetter. The plants are running ten 

 hours with full crews. 



W. R. Cornelius Lumber Co., Inc., of Nashville, with capital stock of 

 $25,000, has been chartered by W. R. Cornelius, R. J. Woods, W. W. 

 Gambill. Jr., Lucien Emerson and W. R. Campbell. 



Farris Hardwood Lumber Co.. of Nashville, has filed suit in the United 

 States District Court at Cincinnati against Haberer & Co., of that city, 

 seeking to recover on an alleged breach of contract to purchase four 

 cars of lumber, which were shipped to defendant and were not received. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Mengel Company's baseball team, which in recent years has been 

 one of the strongest of Louisville's industrial teams, has been on the 

 hummer this summer. So far this season the team has won three and 

 lost seven games. 



The Hazard Lumber Company, Hazard, Ky., which is developing the 

 hardwood district in the Cumberland mountain region, has filed amended 

 articles of incorporation which increase the company's capital stocli from 

 $100,000 to $300,000. The Owensboro Wheel Company of Owensboro has 

 also filed amended articles increasing its capital stock from $100,000 to 

 $300,000. 



M. S. Shadburne of the Louisville division of the Soutliern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association has returned with the Louisville temple of the Shrine 

 from the month-long pilgrimage to San Francisco to the Shriners' national 

 convenaon. The trip was made on a special train, which stopped at all 

 the large cities for a short visit. 



Roscoe Willett of the W. R. Willett Luml)er Company is in Castle Park, 

 Mich., with his family. Mr. Willett will remain three weeks for his vaca- 

 tion, the family remaining for the rest of the summer. The party will be 

 joined in a few days by Walter P. Cumnock, head of the Roth Lumber 

 Company, and Mrs. Cumnock. Mr. Cumnock is a brother to Mrs. Willett. 



A. .K. Egle of the traffic department of the Wood-Mosaic Company is 

 preparing some data on log freight rates in Indiana which will be used at 

 a conference called in Indianapolis July 13 by the Indiana State Public 



Service Commission. The commission has filed a complaint, it is under 

 stood, on the high log rates. According to Mr. Egle. it is almost impossible 

 for the Wood-Mosaic company to operate its New Albany plant on a pay- 

 ing basis with log rates as high as they are. 



WISCONSIN 



The East River Planing Mill Co., of Green Bay. has filed an amendment 

 to its articles of incorporation increasing the capital stock to $80,000. 



Work on the construction of the dry kiln at the Below Lumber Co.. 

 Marinette, is progressing. A crew of twenty men is working on the job, 

 which will be completed about the end of July, according to Superintend- 

 ent Lee. 



The Stolle Lumber Co. has been incorporated at Tripoli to engage in 

 general logging and conducting a wholesale and retail lumbpr business. 

 Capital stock is $50,000, and the incorporators are H. H. Stolle, D. L. 

 MacLennan and C. M. Stolle. 



Platteville is to have a new industry to be conducted by a company 

 just formed by Ernest Johnson, of Muskegon, Mich., inventor of a new 

 product composed of sawdust, glue and a combination of chemicals. Va- 

 rious articles made of this composition withstood tests showing it to be 

 indestructible. A factory will be established. 



A. G. Peterson, for many years a resident of Kennan, has been made 

 general manager of the Northern Sash & Door Co, at Hawkins, Wis., to 

 which city he is moving with his family. 



Walter Ballinger, suprrintendent of the plant of Andrew Kaul. Jr., & 

 Co.. Merrill, was married to Mrs. Emma Olson of the same city. The newly- 

 weds left for a two weeks' honeymoon and will spend the summer at the 

 summer home on Lake Pesobic. W. C. Watrous. manager of the Kaul com- 

 pany, attended the groom at the ceremony. Mr. Ballinger has been with 

 the Kaul concern for about a year, following his return from France, 

 where he served in the A. E. F. 



Alfred H. Holt, son of W. A. Holt, Oconto, has been elected commander 

 of the newly organized American Legion Post at Canton, China, where 

 he is a teacher in Canton College. He is also a member of the Canton 

 College baseball team. 



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Will Rents Decline? 



What factors point to declining rents for residential quarters? What 

 grounds are there for the belief that a radical curtailment of residential 

 building may be expected? 



Will industrial building throughout the summer and fall increase suffi- 

 ciently to take the place of the volume of residential building now 

 under way? 



What are the prospects for next year? 



What effect should the cut in freight rates have upon buying policy 

 for building materials? 



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 at length in current Brookmire Bulletins. 



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