July 25, 1922 



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hold by Hugo Froohlich, Henry Arndt and Erwin Bartz. thus securing full 

 ownership. Mr. Kretschmer was formerly owner of the Advanct' Furniture 

 Co. which merged with the present concern seven years ago. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Wisconsin Timber Prod- 

 ucts Co., Bruce, to deal in logs, timber and timber products. The capital 

 stock is $50,000. Incorporators are D. J. Arpin, Jr., E. P. Arpin and 

 Frank A. Leavens. 



Incorporation is noted of the Cheever-Tomlinson Lumber Co. of Superior. 

 which has been formed with .$60,000 capital stock. The incorporators in- 

 clude I. T. Lovejoy. P. S. Robertson and P. J. E. Wood. 



The Kiel Development Co., recently incorporated with $1,500 capital 

 stock, will "try the efficiency of patented articles, especially the Alarm 

 Tire ami Wooden Shoe and other models or patented articles." William 

 Bickhoff, Walter Klemme and Walter Schuette. of Kiel are the incorpora- 

 tors. 



Work has been started by the Appleton Wood Products Co., at Appleton, 

 on the construction of a new combination warehouse, shipping room and 

 office building, 40 by 70 feet, of brick, steel and concrete construction. 

 The addition will be located on a site adjoining present buildings of the 

 concern. 



Doud Sons & Co. of Winona. Minn., has filed articles of incorporation 

 in Wisconsin with $100,000 capital stock. The firm has headquarters at 

 Morek, Wis., and is authorized to manufacture and sell lumber, etc. 



The sawmill of the A. H. Stange Co., Merrill, is resuming operations on 

 logs purchased from A. Kaul. Jr.. & Co. The mill was closed down for a 

 few days owing to difficulty in getting logs northeast of Star Lake, but 

 shipments from that source will be resumed shortly. 



The Universal Toy & Novelty Co.. an Illinois corporation Incnted at 1132 

 North Boulevard, Oak Park. 111., has filed articles in Wisconsin. Of its 

 $250,000 capital stock, $32,000 will be used in Wisconsin. W. F. Gibian, 

 F. A. Herrnian and others are interested. 



Blum Brothers are installing a heating plant and additional equipment 

 in their box factory at Marshfield. The bids call for a 100 h. p. heating 

 boiler, a boxboard matcher, 30-incb double planer with motor connected and 

 sectional feed rolls and chip breakers, three joiners, one heading turner, 

 electric motors, etc. 



An increase of 5 cents a thousand feet for unloading pine and a decrease 

 of 5 cents for unloading hardwood has been agreed upon by the Lumber 

 Carriers' Association and Local No. IS of Milwaukee of the International 

 Longshoremen's Union, it has been announced. 



The Holt I-umhor Co. has delayed opening its sawmill at Oconto because 



of a shortage of logs due to the lack of men to operate its camps. The 

 mill was shut down June 20 and as soon as the company is able to catch 

 up with its log supply the mill will resume operations. 



Camps and mills of the J. H. Kaiser Lumber Co. at Winter have been 

 closed for repairs. Since the mill was started in April the company sawed 

 IS.OOO ties, 960,000 laths and 250,000 feet of lumber. The ties were sold 

 to the Omaha Road and the other products shipped to Milwaukee. The mill 

 is to be enlarged to twice its present size. At present the mill is fMiuipped 

 with a 90 h. p. boiler and a new 200 h. p. boiler. A 150 h. p. engine will 

 be installed shortly and the boiler equipped with a Dutch oven. A Corliss 

 engine will be used. 



The Northern Sash & Door Co. of Hawkins has been recapitalized for 

 $100,000. The company recently engaged A. G. Peterson of Kennau as 

 general manager. 



Frank L. Mitchell, 70 years old. prominent Racine manufacturer, died 

 at Santa Barbara. Calif., where he had lived during the last twelve years 

 since retiring from active charge of the Mitchell Lewis wagon plant shortly 

 before it was converted into an automobile manufacturing plant, which 

 still bears his name. He became head of the Mitchell Lewis & Co. in 1884. 



Walter M. Miller has resigned as manager of the Stanley Supply Co. 

 to accept the management of the Dependable Baggage Co. of Stanley, 

 manufacturing trunks and other baggage. 



The Heath Cedar Co. has started construction of a large addition to its 

 plant at Maxinette, formerly the Brown-Mitcheson sawmill. An addition, 

 one story and 100 by 50, will be added to the present three-story. 140 by 

 50 structure. Twelve electrically driven machines have been ordered. 

 The plant will specialize in interior finishing and silo production, continu- 

 ing the cedar yard in connection. The Heath Cedar Co. was incorporated 

 two years ago with $5i),000 capital stock. 



The Hardwood Market 



CINCINNATI 



Sales sheets indicate that a fairly good volume of business is being 

 transacted by Cincinnati liardwood distributors at the present time. Some 

 dealers said that business is especially good in view of the railroad strike 



