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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25. 1922 



of the European countries, A month or so ago they returned from a 

 two months' trip to Honolulu and Hawaii. 



B. L. Boiling, president of the Boiling-Griffith Lumber Company, has 

 been elected to membership in the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. 



W. A. Noble, hardwood dealer with offices in the Second National Bank 

 HuiUling, has gone to Poplar BlutE, Mo., on a Ashing trip. Incidentally 

 Mr. Noble will look after twenty-five cars of hardwood lumber which he 

 has coming out of a mill there within the next few weeks. 



of the "crack" shots of llichlgan and enjoys nothing better than shooting 

 over the traps. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Houghton Lumber Compauy, of Indianapolis, recently reduced its 

 capital stock from $100,000 to $75,000. 



For the purpose of manufacturing, buying and selling lumber of all 

 kinds, the R. H. Humphrey Lumber Compauy has been organized at New 

 Albany, Ind. The company will have an initial capital stock of $50,000, 

 which likely will be increased later. The organizers of the company are 

 Carl C. Frederick, Matthew G. Roehm and Richard II. Humphrey. 



The McLaughlin Mill Supply Company has been organized at Hammond, 

 lud., with a capital stock of $50,000. The company will buy and sell 

 lumber and contractors' equipment. The directors are Roy C. McLaughlin, 

 G. McLaughlin and George B. Grossman. 



Fire, believed to have been caused by a skyrocket, virtually destroyed 

 the plant of the Acme Manufacturing Company at South Bend. Ind.. re- 

 cently. The plant manufactures cedar chests. The loss will be about 

 $65,000. 



More than one hundred members and employes of the O. D. Haskett 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis held a picnic July S at Norwood beach. 

 G. D. Bray and Ira Lamb were the committee which arranged a program 

 of ball games and general picnic activities. 



As they have been absorbed by the Hercules Corporation at Evansville, 

 or have been discontinued, the Hercules Tractor Compauy, the Hercules 

 Body Manufacturing Company, the Hercules Wheel Company, the Her- 

 cules Buggy Company and the Hercules Gas Engine Company have 

 dissolved their individual corporations. The tractor company has not 

 manufactured tractors for several years, while the other companies have 

 been merged into the larger organization, which some months ago began 

 the manufacture of furniture on a large scale. 



The Seymour Woodworking Company at Seymour, Ind., has tib'd n pn- 

 Hminary certificate of dissolution with the secretary of state. 



EVANSVILLE 



Hayward Fllckner of Evansville has been made manager of the General 

 Box Company, Ransom division, at Nashville, Tenu., and has assumed his 

 new duties. Mr. FHckner has been employed by the Ransom Company, now 

 a part of the General Box Company, for the past year. Before going to 

 Nashville he was associated with McFerson & Foster, box manufacturers 

 of this city. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bradley of Shawneetown, II!.. a few days ago 

 announced the engagement of their daughter, Frances, to Claude Wert/. 

 of Evansville, the wedding to take place in the early fall. Mr. Wertz has 

 been associated in busines.s with his father. Daniel Wertz of the Maley & 

 Wertz Lumber Company, for the past few years. 



Fred E. Bergmann, planing mill owner and lumber dealer at Chrisuey. 

 Ind., who was in Evansville a few days ago, reported consideral)le building 

 this season in the towns of central and northern Spencer county. He 

 looks for building operations to remain active the balance of the year. 



Logging operations are again become active along Green and Barren 

 rivers in western Kentucky, and it is expected that a great many logs 

 will be gotten out by this fall and most of them will be rafted here for 

 the local saw and veneer mills. 



Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company has returned from 

 a business trip to Indianapolis. Mr. Wertz believes that business is going 

 to get much better with the ending of the railroad and miners* strikes. 



Joe Waltman of the Evansville Band Mill Company, Elmer D. Luhiiug 

 and Paul Luhring of the Luhring Lural)er Company and J. C. Greer of the 

 J. C. Greer Lumber Company will take a leading part in the fall cere- 

 monial of Iladi Temple of Shriners to be held here late this fall. 



MEMPHIS 



F. K. Conn of the Bayou Land & Lumber Compiiuy, Yazoo City. Jliss.. 

 who spent some time in Memphis during the week beginning July 17. 

 estimates that hardwood production in the N'alley territory is on a basis 

 of about 70 to 75 per cent of normal. He is conducting an investigation in 

 connection with the number of hardwood firms in the southern field which 

 have already cut out, or are on the verge of cutting out, their timlier. He 

 believes that definite information along this line will prove quite illuminat- 

 ing as bearing on the future supply of hardwood timber in the territory 

 in question, 



Otis A. Felger, one of the owners of the Memphi-s Band Mill Company. 

 who came down from his home at Grand Rapids some days ago, led the 

 entire field in the shoot at the Memphis Gun Club Saturday afternoon. 

 .Tuly 15. He broke 50 targets in succession, thus carrying off first honoi-s 

 in that contest. Ijiter, when placed on the five-yard handicap line, he 

 smashed 24 out of 25, thus again leading all of his competitors. He is one 



NASHVILLE 



The Delta Export Lumber Corporation, with offices at Wilmington, Del., 

 has registered its charter with the secretary of state of Tennessee. The 

 capital stock of the company is $500,000, and the purpose of registering 

 the charter was to authorize opening an office in Memphis, in order to do 

 business in that important hardwood center. 



The Leonard Lumber Company of Nashville, with capital stock of 

 $150,000, has been incorporated by E. P. Leonard, C. H. Simpson, R. C. 

 Leonard, Tony Sudekum and A. W. Williams. 



Chancellor John R. Aust has ruled against the Bon Air Coal & Iron 

 Corporation in a suit in the chancery court at Nashville seeking to enjoin 

 the operation of valuable timber lands by John B. Ransom & Company, and 

 also seeking to have a receiver appointed for the same. The court held 

 that the complainant failed to show any reason why the operation of the 

 timber tract should be enjoined, and also failed to show any grounds for 

 appointment of a receiver. The Bon Air Lumber Company, a subsidiary 

 of Ransom & Company, was also defendant, and the court held that there 

 was no evidence to sustain the suit. The land involved includes some of 

 the largest and most valuable tracts of virgin hardwood timber in the 

 South, and the case was one involving a large amount to those interested. 



LOUISVILLE 



For the next few weeks the members of the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 will meet at the Louisville Country Club for the weekly dinners instead 

 uf at the Pendennis Club, Seelbach, or Baur's Road House, which have 

 heen the i>referred meeting places. Desire to get out where it is cool and 

 quiet, and where there could be some golf and tennis controlled the move 

 to the Country Club. A large number of the members are golfers, and 

 indications are that a good many of the local hardwood men will take 

 Tuesday afternoons off for the next few weeks. 



W. H. Day of the Wood-Mosaic Co. reports that he is back from a suc- 

 cessful Canadian trip, having spent two weeks in visiting consumers in 

 the Dominion. Mr. Day reported that walnut had been good in thin 

 grades, but that from 2% inches to four inches, the movement was quiet. 



J. G. Brown, of W. 1'. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., recently returned 

 from a trip of inspection to the comiiany mills at Guion and Fayette, Ala., 

 also Brassflebl. .\rk. The company may start one more of its chain of 

 mills in the fall, Init is not even considering starting the rest of the string 

 this season. 



The Mowbray & Robinson interests of Cincinnati, operating timber and 

 mill interests at Quicksand, Ky.. have chartered the E. O. Robinson Moun- 

 tain Fund. Quicksand, non stock, charter members being E. O. Robinson 

 and F. W. Mowbray, Newport ; William H. Ilyden of Clay, Ky., and E. C. 

 ORear, Frankfort. 



J. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, reports that the G. E. Bauman Hardwood 

 Co., Evansville. Ind., has recently joined the Louisville office. Mr. Bauman 

 is well known in the trade, leaving for some years been with Maley & 

 Wertz prior to entering business for himself some time ago. 



Edwin Norman of the Norman Lumber Co. reported that demand for 

 jioplar lumber had been good, but that siding has slumped a little in 

 demand, low-grade siding being especially dull. I'ox shooks have been 

 slightly more active. 



The Wood Mosaic Co. has just broken grotuid for an attractive new 

 office building to cost about .flS.OOO at the Highland Park, Louisville 

 headquarters, where the company has been occupying temporary quarters 

 since moving its main office from New Albany a few weeks ago. 



NEW ORLEANS 



'i'he big double baud hardwood plant of the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber 

 )nipany, situated at Merryvillo, La., has been placed back in operation 

 aiu recently and is now running at full capacity. 



Soniat & DeBlieux, Opelousas, La., whttse plant heretofore has been 

 tting cypress, is «oon to engage in the manufacture of gum and other 

 rdwoods. according to recent annoimcemeut. 



The Fleming Lumber Company will soon be operating its hardwood plant, 

 cording to recent announcement of R. H. Fleming, president of the 

 inpany. 



A new unit to its plant at Shrewsbury. La., has just been added by the 

 iitlieru Hardwood Lumber Company. This makes the second large unit 

 the company, which is specializing in flooring, but space has been 

 taiued for a total of four, the other two of which are to be added as 

 sincss exigencies demand. 



WISCONSIN 



The Dillingham Manufacturing Co., Sheboygan, has s<'curetl a permit to 

 erect a new dry kiln on South Water street at an estimated cost of about 

 $7,500. The structure will be of brick. 



Julius Kretschmer, president of the Art Furniture Co., Sheboygan, has 

 ncqnhed the remaining ■'iO per cent of the capital stock In the company 



