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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 10. 1922 



New Company Acquires Davies-Putnam Stock 



The Davies-Putnam Company has been sold to a newly-formed 

 concern to be known as the Stuart Furniture Company. The 

 authorized stock will consist of $ 1 50,000 preferred stock and 

 7,500 shares no par common. The company will take over all 

 assets and liabilities and continue to manufacture a furniture line 

 similar to that produced in the past, at Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Directors of the new^ company w^ill be named soon. F. Stuart 

 Foote, manager of the Imperial Furniture Company has been 

 active in the reorganization and w^ill head the new company. 

 George L. LaBour will be active manager. He comes from the 

 Ahdawagam Furniture Company in Wisconsin Falls, Wis. For- 

 merly he was w^ith the Kent Furniture Company of Grand Rapids. 



Wood Finishing Companies Merge 



The Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company, manufacturing 

 »vood finishes for furniture, and the Walter K. Schmidt Company, 

 conducting technical and chemical laboratories, have been merged 

 under the name of the former. 



New Orleans World's Chief Mahogany Port 



New Orleans is by far and wide the largest and most important 

 mahogany port in the world, now handling about 85 per cent 

 of the mahogany importing business, and rapidly growing and is 

 destined to make her mahogany business among the most important 

 businesses of the city. Such w^ere some rather startling statistics 

 adduced and roseate predictions made in one of the most instruc- 

 tive and entertaining talks yet made before the Lumbermen's Club 

 of New Orleans, the speaker being Thomas Gordon, superintendent 

 of the International Mahogany & Trading Corporation, importers 

 and manufacturers of mahogany logs, lumber and veneers, w^ith 

 offices in New Orleans, and the occasion being the luncheon of the 

 lumbermen at the club on August 29. 



For half an hour or more Mr. Gordon held the strictest attention 

 of a large gathering of the New Orleans lumbermen, relating to 

 them his queer and instructive experiences in the rich mahogany 

 and other jungles of tropical Africa and also his observations on 

 the logging of mahogany and the other valuable woods of Central 

 America. 



New Furniture Making Corporation Formed 



Incorporation papers will be filed within a short time with the 

 secretary of state at Indianapolis for a new furniture company at 

 Evansville, Ind., organized by a group of younger business men of 

 that city. It is expected the capital stock of the company will be 

 $500,000. Organizers are A. F. Karges, Gus Schelosky, E. F. 

 Karges, Ed. Small, Norman Scholz and Cornelius Gilbert, who will 

 be manager. Mr. Gilbert has had wide experience in the manu- 

 facture of the line contemplated. 



Several suitable sites are under consideration and the company 

 will get into production within the next thirty days. 



Hoffman Brothers Company 



ESTABLISHED 1M7 



INCORPORATED 19«4 



VENEERS 

 HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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



Plants: Fort Wayne. Ind. KendallviUe, Ind. Bumside, Ky. 



The purpose of the new company, according to Edw^in Karges, 

 is to furnish a fourth line to afford car loading facilities for the 

 smaller buyer of the Karges, Wemyss and Crown lines. 



The new concern w^ill manufacture overstuffed furniture of the 

 medium and high priced lines, including davenports, davenettes, 

 arm chairs, fireside chairs, etc. 



This line will afford the smaller buyer and jobber an opportunity 

 to load a full car from Evansville, saving the important item of 

 freight, and securing delivery more expeditiously. The expensive 

 lines of the Karges company, bedroom furniture; the Wemyss, din- 

 ing room furniture, and the Crown lines of odd chairs, is such, 

 said Karges, that few^ buyers can afford to buy a car of the three, 

 but with the fourth line, the carloading w^ill be cheaper and advan- 

 tageous as well. 



Other prominent Evansville men are to be identified w^ith the 

 company before actual production begins. No estimate of the 

 number of men to be employed has been made, but most of the 

 labor will be skilled, owing to the contemplated high class of the 

 product. 



Jasper Stockholders EJect Officers 



At the annual stockholders' meeting of the Jasper Desk Company 

 at Jasper, Ind., the following officers were elected: E. J. Kuebler, 

 president; Leo C. Jahn, vice-president; Louis P. Joseph, secretary 

 and Dr. L. A. Salb and Bomar Traylor, directors. 



Algoma Builds Addition to Factory 



Both the Algoma Panel Company and the Algoma Wood Prod- 

 ucts Company at Algoma, Wis., are making extensions on their 

 factories. More men will be employed as the additions are con- 

 structed. The panel company is building a 50 by 160 warehouse 

 and the Wood Products Company a factory addition having a 

 5,000 foot factory space, Charles Schmidt, manager stated. 



Cabinet Companies Merged 



Because of increased business, which the present organization 

 and plant can not take care of, the Borden Cabinet Company 

 of Jeffersonville, Ind., with a capital stock of $25,000 has been 

 merged in a new corporation, the Indiana Borden Cabinet Com- 

 pany, with a capital of $100,000. The new company has twenty- 

 six incorporators, and a new plant will be built. 



Form Company to Make Furniture 



The Gregg- Willmore Company, of Vincennes, Ind., recently 

 was organized for the purpose of manufacturing furniture. The 

 company has a capital stock of $50,000. The organizers are 

 Claude E. Gregg, who this year is head of the Indiana depart- 

 ment of the American Legion, William M. Willmore, Ira D. 

 Shaffer. John L. Klemeyer, William Viets and John S. Watters. 



Specialists in 

 /DIFFICULT ITEMS\ 



We Manufacture 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 

 THIN LUMBER SPECIALTIES 



BIRCH DOOR STOCK 

 MAPLE PIANO PIN BLOCKS 



YEMRS OF EXfCRIEMCE BEHIND OUR PRODUCTS 



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MUNISING. MICHIGAN 



