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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25. 1922 



Moore's Progressive Kiln 



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 all kinds of hard and softwood lumber. 

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Clubs and Associations 



Herman Paepcke Dies; Builder of One of Country's Greatest 

 Lumber Organizations 



Herman Paepcke, 

 founder and chairman 

 of the boanl o£ di- 

 rectors of thi' Chicago 

 Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany, died Sunday. 

 July 23, at bis home. 

 140 East Pearson 

 street, after a brief 

 illness. 



In the death of Mr. 

 Paepcke there closed 

 the career of one of 

 the biggest figures in 

 the hardwood lumber 

 industry, and a man 

 who built up one of 

 the greatest lumber 

 institutions in the 

 country. Mr. Paepcke 

 was born at Teterow, 

 German y, Feb. 12, 

 iS'il. It was in 1873 

 that he came to Chi- 

 cago and engaged in 

 the lumber business. 

 In addition to his 

 leadership of the Chi- 

 cago Mill & Lumber 

 Company, he was 

 president of the Paepcke-Lcicht Lumber Company and the Helena & South- 

 western Railroad Company, and was chairman of the board of the Blythe- 

 ville, Leachville & Arkansas Southern Railroad Company. 



In politics Mr. Paepcke was a Republican and he was a prominent figure 

 in leading Chicago clubs. He was a member of the Chicago Athletic Asso- 

 ciation, Union League Club, South Shore Country Club and Chicago Lincoln 

 Club. Besides his residence on Pearson street, Chicago, he maintained 

 homes at Glencoe, 111., and Pasadena, Cal. 



Mr. Paepcke was a man of tireless energy and outstanding organizing 

 and executive ability. He was a "big business" man in the highest sense 

 of the word. 



Mr. Paepcke is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Paepcke ; three 

 daughters, Mrs. Sophie Pflueger of Bonn. Germany, and Mrs. Lydia Wilms 

 and Mrs. Alice Guenzel of Chicago ; and one son, Walter P. Paepcke of 

 Chicago. Funeral services were conducted Jlonday, July 2-1, from the 

 home, with burial in Graceland cemetery. 



The Late Herman Paepcke 



Donald R. Brewster 



Expert Consultant 

 OPERATION OF LUMBER DRY KILNS 



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TRAINING OF KILN OPERATORS A SPECIALTY 



Institute Organizes Membership and Other Committees; Inspec- 

 tion Service Starts 



F. K, Conn, I'azoo, Miss., chairman of the membership committee of the 

 I Ian] wood Manufacturers' Institute, who has been spending some time at 

 nliices of this association at Memphis, following the serious illness and 

 death of his mother, has announced the personnel of his associates on that 

 important arm of the new body. There is a chairman for each state and 

 around these state chairmen are grouped a number of influential members of 

 this organization. The total is more than sizty. Mr. Conn says that he has 

 received, within the past two or three weeks, respeuses to letters addressed 

 to all the charter members, and that in every single instance they have 

 pledged their heartiest co-operation in building up the membership of this 

 organization, something which he characterizes as " entirely new to me in 

 association work." Here is the full personnel of the membership com- 

 mittee : 



Ohio 



J. W. Mayhew, chairman, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company. Columbus ; 

 H. E. Everley, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus ; E. O. Robinson, 

 Mowbray & Robinson Company, Cincinnati. 

 West Virginia 



W. H. Weller, chairman, Rockcastle Lumber Company. Huntington ; 

 B. K. Mahan. Peytona Lumber Company, Huntington ; B. B. Burns. C. L. 

 Rilt'T Lumber Company, Huntington; A. D. Pickering. Hutchinson Lumber 

 iniiijiany. Huntington; John Raine, Meadow River Lumber Company, 

 Kainelle. 



Louisiana 



J. B. Edwards, chairman. Hillyer, Deutsch, Edwards Company, Oakdale ; 

 H. B. Johnson, Manstield Hardwood Lumber Company, Shreveport ; H. J. 

 Brenner, Ferd. Brenner Lumber Company, Alexandria ; W. D. Lurry, latt 

 Lumber Company, Colfax ; .\. N. Smith, Bomer-Blanks Lumber Company. 

 Blanks ; W. J. Thomas, Delta Hardwood Lumber Company. Rayville, La. ; 

 J. T. Hollowa.v. Hodge-Hunt Lumber Company, Hodge ; Geo. H. Damon, 

 H. H. Wiggin Lumber Company, Plaquemine. 



Illinois 



E. A. Lang, chairman. Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company, Chicago: E. C. 

 Artman, E. C. Artman Lumber Company, Metropolis ; B. L. Hendrix, Hen- 

 drix Mill & Lumber Company, Mound City. 



Virginia 



S. A. Fulton, chairman, Boyd-Ryburn Lumber Company, Bristol. 

 Missouri 



,Tay Tschudy. chairman. Tschudy Lumber Company. Kansas City ; Frank 

 Dillman, Weis-Dillman Lumber Company. Carutbersville. 

 North Carolina 



L. E. Hunter, chairman. Norwood Lumber Company, Forney ; W. T. 

 Latham, Andrews Manufacturing Company. Andrews, N. C. 



Indiana 



C. E. Platter, chairman. North Vernon Lumber Mills. North Vernon,; 

 Jos. Waltman, Evansville Band Mill Company, Evansville. 



Kentucky 



John E, McCall, chairman. Ashland Hardwood Lumber Company, Ash- 

 land ; J. A. McLean. Wood Mosaic Comjiany. I^ouisville : H. H. Hensley. 

 Bell Point Lumber Company, Bell Point ; F. P. Dabolt, Bond Foley Lumber 

 Company. Bond ; S. M. Bradley. Morehcnd : G. H. Gearhart. Clearfleld 

 Lumber Company, Clearfleld : E. B. Norman. Holly Ridge Lumber Company. 

 Louisville ; W. E. DeLany, Kentucky Lumber Company. Lexington ; H. L. 

 Page, H. M. Page Lumber Company, Lexington ; R. W. Henderson, Stearns 

 Coal & Lumber Company, Stearns. 



Mi.ssissiPi'1 



C. L. Faust. Faust Brothers Lumber Company. Jackson : J. W. Bailey. 

 Eastman Gardiner Hardwood Company. Laurel ; W. W. I^ogan. Merl Luiii- 

 iier Company. Meridian ; C. .1. Copnock. C^ybur I^umber Comnany, Cybur ; 

 T>. H. Hall, D. H. Hall Lumber Compan.v, New .\lhany ; M. B. Cooper, 

 C.Trrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, Miss. 



Arkansas 



G W. Allport. chairman, Long-Bell Lumber Company, Pine Bluff; Carl 

 L. White. Breece Manufacturing Company. Arkansas Citv ; S. A. Williams, 

 Fordyce Lumber Company. Fordyce ; H. L, Coldran. Northern Ohio Cooper- 

 ate & Lumber Company, Parkin ; R. J. Hackney, Brown & Hackney, Inc., 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



Texas 



II. G. Bohlssen, H. G. Bohlssen Manufacturing Company, Ewlng ; Win. 

 Graydon. Wm. Graydon Hardwood Company, Gra.vburg; P." A. Ryan. P. .\. 

 Ry.m Lumber Company, Lufkin : A. Temple, Southern Pine Lumber Com- 

 pany, Texarkana. 



Georgia 



1'. F. Fitzgibbons, chairman. Fort Valley Crate & Lumber Company, 

 K'-yncdde. 



Pennsylvania 



P. Noel Pearce. chairman. Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, 

 riiilndelphia. 



