J^aly 25, 1922 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



45 



When a young man lie was superintendent of Grace Churcli 

 Sunday School, of Grand Rapids, and is now and lias for many years 

 been a, vestryman of that church. He has long been a friend of the 

 Boy Scout movement and for years and until recently was president 

 of the Grand Eapids branch of the organization. 



He was one of the builders of the Pautlind hotel of his city and is 

 vice-president of that compauj-. He was also one of the promoters 

 of the Empress Theater in Grand Rapids aud is a director in the 

 company which owns that playhouse. He is a director of the 

 Grand Rapids National Bank and Grand Rapids Trust Company, 

 aud has for many years been a director of the Grand Rapids Furni- 

 ture Association. 



In the 80 's Mr. Sligh made a trip to Central America with his 

 friend, James D. Lacey, and following this engaged for several 

 years in the importation of mahogany as an adjunct to his furni- 

 ture business. 



In 1906 he associated \rith the late M. J. Clark of Grand Eapids 

 in the purchase of timber on the Pacitic Coast, organizing the Clark- 

 Sligh Timber Company of which he is president. This company 

 owns some 200,000,000 feet of fir in Washington state. 



In 1909, in eompanj' with Mr. Clark, he bought an irrigation sys- 

 tem and several thousand acres of land in Arizona in the cotton dis- 

 trict of that state. These holdings have become very valuable. 



Later Mr. Sligh organized the Santiani Land & Timber Company 

 of Oregon, of which he is president. This company still owns about 

 700,000,000 feet of fir in Linn county, Oregon. 



Early in the late World War, Mr. Sligh became an ardent pro- 

 ponent of jireparedness. In September, 191.5, he attended the 

 Plattsburg Camp, although he had passed forty-five years of age. 

 In January, 1916, he organized the Business Men's Battalion of 

 Grand Rapids, which included four hundred of the prominent busi- 

 ness and professional men of the city. They drilled each week and 

 received instructions from officers of the XT. S. Army. When this 

 country went into the war in April, 1917, 90 per cent of these men 

 entered the service, or engaged in war work. Mr. Sligh was re- 

 jected for active service because he had passed forty-five. But he 

 was invited by Howard E. Coffin to take charge of the lumber sec- 

 tion of the Aircraft Department. He organized this section in 

 June and July of 1917. He was commissioned major and served 

 with headquarters in Washington until the spring of 1918, when he 

 resigned. 



This unusual zeal for patriotic service is characteristic of Mr. 

 Sligh. It has always been his belief that every citizen should give 

 his time, money and best thoughts to the welfare of his com- 

 munity and his state and nation. He is an active member of his 

 local association of commerce and was its vice-president for several 

 years. For ten years he was chairman of his city's River Improve- 

 ment Committee and is an untiring worker for the deep water con- 

 nection of Grand Rapids with the Great Lakes. He holds that 

 Grand Rapids occupies a position relative to Lake Michigan that 

 Glasgow, Scotland, does to the Irish Seas and should be connected. 

 He is also a booster for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway 

 and was a delegate recently from Grand Rapids to conventions on 

 this subject in Detroit and Washington. 



The keynote of Mr. Sligh 's philosophy of life is WORK, in 

 capital letters; but not for what a man may accumulate and hoard. 

 He believes in work, and plenty of it, for the opportunity success 

 gives for serving society. "As a man accumulates, so are his re- 

 sponsibilities," declares Mr. Sligh. "The joy of giving and being 

 able to give is one of life 's compensations. He lives most who gives 

 most." 



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The New Albany Veneering Company, at New Albany, Ind., 

 has issued $15,000 preferred stock. 



The C. F. Schmoe Furniture Company at Shelbyville, Ind., 

 has doubled its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. 



Des Moines Sawmill Co. 



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