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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 25, 1' 



HOW DO YOU DRY YOUR VENEER? 



HaZ-a COE ROLLER VENEER DRYER 



we venture the assertion that many times you have wished you did have one. There is no time like the 

 present to gratify that wish and thus place your plant on a much more efficient basis and give an added 

 quality to your product. If you are not familiar with the performance of this wonderful machine, write 

 us for a list of users and investigate and you will be surprised to find what a handicap you have in being 

 without one. 



ALSO SEE THE NEW TWENTIETH CENTURY COE VENEER LATHE 



In a short time now we will send you a new Clipper bulletin, in which 

 you will find described our style L Clipper with the automatic stop 



THE COE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A. 



A Dependable Source 

 For Your Requirements 



About One Million Feet of 



PLYWOOD 



3 16 to 1 2 in Thickness 



AND 



Over One and One-half 

 Million Feet of 



VENEER 



in Stock. We make Panels 



to Your Sizes in Car or 



L. C. L. Lots. 



QUALITY & SERVICE 



Write or Wire for Price List 



Geo.L.Waetjen 8C Co. 



717-723 Park Street 

 MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 



Hoffman Brothers Company 



ESTABLISHED 1867 



INCORPORATED 1904 



VENEERS 

 HARDWOOD LUMBER 



800 W. Main St., FORT WAYNE, IND. 



Vlatits: Fort Wayne, Ind. Kendallville, Ind. Burnside, Ky. 



if'nntiiiucd from pagt- aS) 



After liis exjiciii'iife as a laborer, Mr. Sligh clerked for several 

 years in a hardware store in his native eity, Grand Rajiids. Then 

 lie went on the road as a salesman for Berkey & Gaj'. This exjie- 

 rienoe he considers the most valuable in his career, for it gave him 

 tlie knowledge and confidence to go in business for himself. In 

 ISSO, with the aid of several friends, he organized the Sligh Furni- 

 ture Company, with a total paid in capital of $18,500, of which he 

 contributed $4,000. The building of the factory started in Jauu- 

 ary, 1880, and operations commencod in June. That year $25,000 

 wortli of goods was shipped, with a profit of $4,500. This enabled 

 the company to secure $11,000 additional capital, making a total 

 investment of $ii9,500, which is all the money ever invested in the 

 liusiness. What they have taken out and what they have now reiire- 

 sents profits from this original investment. 



The I'onipany now owns nearly five acres of land in the heart of 

 (u'.ind R.'ipids and the factory has fourteen acres of floor space and 

 uses nearly 10,000,(100 feet of lumber each year in the manufacturi' 

 of its product, which is exclusively medium priced bedroom furni- 

 ture. The slogan of the Sligh Furniture Company has always been 

 ■'(Quality," and this year it has produced at a rate which promises 

 to make 1922 the biggest year of its history in pieces produced and 

 sold. 



When he left scliool to assume a man's burdens, Mr. Sligh was in 

 the ninth grade, but he has always striven to overcome this early 

 deficiency in education. After working hard all day he studied at 

 night, often rising at four and five a. m. for more study. He was 

 assisted in his efforts at self-education by an old school friend, 

 who had graduated from the University of Michigan. He has con- 

 tinued to study until this day. 



Mr. Sligh has not only achieved outstanding success in his pri- 

 vate business, Ijut has been prominent in the public affairs of his 

 native citj- and state. In 1883 he was elected to the Board of Edu- 

 cation of Grand Ra]iids and served a two-year term, refusing to 

 stand for re-election because of the demands of his growing busi- 

 ness. He was a student of finance who subscribed to the doctrine 

 of bimetallism and in 1895 was active with many prominent Bepub- 

 licans of his state in organizing the Silver Republican Party of 

 Michigan. He was elected chairman of the State Centra! Commit- 

 tee of this organization. In 1896 he was nominated for governor 

 of Michigan by the fusionists against his friend, Governor Pingree. 

 lie was defeated for election, but jioHed the largest vote ever given 

 .'111 opposition candidate in Michigan. 



He was aiipointed by Governor Chase Osborn to the commission 

 wliirli drafted the Workmen's Compensation Law of Michigan. 

 The citizens of Grand Rapids elected him to the commission which 

 drafted the Commission-Manager Charter, under which tlie affairs 

 of the city are now administered. 



During the years 1884 and 188.") he was president of the (irand 

 K;ipids Furniture Association and from 1888 to 1892 was president 

 of the National Furniture Manufacturers' Association. 



