HARDWOOD RECORD 



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stantl and give individual cases of the discrimi- 

 nation complained of. In addition, tlie subject 

 of roconsiRnmcnt privileges will be taken up, as 

 the commission bas been urged to grant the same 

 rights in this regard to Louisville as exist else- 

 where. 



Edgar H. Defebaugh of Chicago, one of the or- 

 ganizers of the club and an honorar.v member of 

 the organization, was present at the meeting 

 October IS and at the invitation of President 

 Norman addressed the members. lie said that 

 the association spirit is spreading and that the 

 Hardwood Club is one of the pioneers in devel- 

 oping better feeling among members of the 

 trade. Mr. Defebaugh described the work of 

 organizations which he recently visited, includ- 

 ing the Pittsburg and New York clubs. 



The memljcrs of the club are taking much in- 

 terest in the annu.al meeting, which will be held 

 Novembcii 1, the club having been organized the 

 first Tuesda.v in November. 1908. For a young 

 club the organization has done extremely well, 

 and every member is convinced that it has 

 added much to the prestige and importance of 

 the market. President .\. E. Nnrman of the 

 Norman Lumber Company can have the chief 

 office if he wants it, but it Is thought that he 

 desires to retire after two years of leadership 

 and surrender the reins to one of the other 

 members. Vice-President Edward L. Davis Is 

 mentioned strongly in connection with the presi- 

 dency, while Edward Shippen of the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, who is one of the most 

 entluisiastic members of the clut) and who helped 

 to organize it. is also favored. The annual 

 meeting is expected to be an interesting and 

 enjoyable event. 



The log situation is causing much discussion 

 among local hardwood men. those who operate 

 sawmills finding it about the hardest problem 

 they have to deal with. In view of luriiber 

 quotations prices on logs are aI)normally high, 

 and another unsatisfactory feature is the dif- 

 ficult.v of getting them out. a scarcity of labor 

 having been keenly felt of late in the country 

 districts. In spite of this, however, it is agreed 

 that more logs are moving than ever before, this 

 being generally attributed to high prices, which 

 have caused ever.v timberman to cut his trees 

 and market the logs. What the effect of such 

 production will be, in view of current trade 

 conditions, has given local lumbermen cause for 

 some hard thinking. 



A. A. .Vgler of Upham & Agler of Chicago 

 visited Louisville the past week. He was warmly 

 greeted by the local hardwood contingent, among 

 whom he has many friends. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company has been attending the world's 

 series of baseball games. Not content with 

 going to Philadelphia to see the opening, he 

 planned to journey to Chicago to witness two 

 games there as well. 



Two live tiger cubs were part of a cargo 

 brought over by one of the steamers of C. C. 

 Mengei & Bro. Company, which carried 1.000.000 

 feet of mahogany logs from Axim, Africa, to Pen- 

 sacola. The cubs are now in the Florida town. 

 and members of the company are wondering what 

 will be done with them when they reach Louis- 

 ville. 



Charles E. Davis, manager of the lumber de- 

 partment of the Mengei Box Company, i-ecently 

 returned from a trip through the consuming 

 markets. He found conditions very good. 



The Dickson, Tenn., mill of the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company has been started and 

 is in charge of ,Tohn Smith. Mr. Smith is the 

 southern buyer of the firm and lias secured some 

 unusually fine logs to be manufactured at Dick- 

 son. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills was 

 in Chicago last week. Harry Kline, of that con- 

 cern, reported that collections are improving 

 The mill on the point has been running steadily, 

 the demand being very good. 



Claude M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis 



Lumber Company has returned from a trip ICast. 

 Mr. Sears said that he found most of the con- 

 sumers busy, with their factories running full 

 time, but that they were not stocking up heavily. 

 This is taken as an indication that business is 

 bound to improve, as stocks gradually become 

 exhausted. 



.1. E. Davis, manager of the Barren county 

 mill of the Edward Ij. Davis Lumber Company, 

 was in Louisville last week and attended the 

 meeting of the Hardwood Club. 



Harold Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company is making a trip east. Edward Ship- 

 pen of that firm has been buying logs along the 

 Kentucky river and in southeastern Indiana, 

 and found prices unusvially high, while getting 

 the logs from the stump to the railroad also 

 proved difficult. 



Barry Norman and L. E. Booker of E. B. 

 Norman & Co. witnessed a clash between the 

 football teams representing their respective alma 

 maters in this city October 17. Mr. Booker is 

 an alumnus of Central University, while Mr. 

 Norman graduated at Sewanee. Much to the 

 pleasure of Mr. Booki-r and the equal chagrin 

 of Mr. Norman. Central won 19 to and is now 

 in line for the southern championship. 



B. M. Geiger of the Kentucky Veneer Com- 

 pany said that business is getting better right 

 along, although prices in some instances are 

 not as good as they might be. Rotary stock is 

 selling at a satisfactory figure. 



R. F. Smith of the Oliio River Saw Mill Com- 

 pan.v is busy handlin,g the big stocks which h.ave 

 come into the local yard from the river mills 

 controlled by that compan.v. H. F. McCowen 

 of the firm was in Louisville a few days ago, 

 dropping down from Salem, Ind., to see how 

 things were getting on. 



The Henry Kleher Furniture Company, manu- 

 facturer of New Albany, Ind., has begun vol- 

 untary dissolution, with Fred Sauer as trustee. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Belzoni Hardwood Lumber Company at 

 Belzoni, Miss., of which company Charles E. 

 Thomas and Ed. W. Wiese of the Thomas & 

 Wiese Lumber Company are the principal stock- 

 holders, has commenced the erection of a new 

 sawmill at Belzoni. The new mill will be built 

 on the site of the old one now being dismantled. 

 It will be a band mill with a capacity of 50,000 

 feet daily of gum or 30,000 feet daily of oak. 



The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company is also 

 operating a mill near Petee, Miss. This firm 

 reports that while at the present time business 

 is quiet some of the items which are scarce in 

 the market are in pretty good demand. As the 

 company has a good supply of nearly every item 

 on the hardwood list, it is doing a fairly good 

 business. 



Invitations have been sent out for the marriage 

 of Miss Grace McCulloch, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Robert McCulIocb, and Thomas E. Powe or 

 the Powe Lumber Company of this city. The 

 wedding will take place on November 10 at St. 

 Peter's Episcopal Church at 8 p. m., followed by 

 a reception at the home of the bride's parents ir. 

 Westminster place. Miss Roberta McCulloch, the 

 bride's sister, will be maid of honor, and W. R. 

 Powe of Chicago, the brother of the groom, will 

 be best man. 



The Vaughn Lumber Company which recently 

 moved to St. Loui>, from Memphis and bought out 

 the Bonsack Lumber Company's stock, reports 

 that most of the Bonsack stock has been sold off. 

 The company is now occupying the Bonsack office 

 and yard, but will soon move to their own yard 

 on Angelica street near the river, where they are 

 putting in a big stock of lumber. 



R. F. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a three weeks' trip 

 among the northern manufacturers. He found 

 that while the manufacturers were busy they did 

 not have orders very much ahead. For Ibis 



reason they are not buying except for their imme- 

 diate wants. While Mr. Kiebs booked a good 

 many orders, the orders were for rather small 

 amounts. 



William Lothman, president of tlie Lothman 

 Cypress Company, is back from a trip to New 

 York in the interest of the company. 



Edward H. I.uehrmann of the Charles P. Luehr- 

 mann Hardwood I,umbcr Company says he Is 

 lilling many orders for the upper grades of 

 hardwood. 



MILWAUKEE 



Tlie mill of the Merryman Manufacturing 

 Company at Marinette, Wis., has resumed opera- 

 lions after being closed down for a period of 

 several weeks owing to a lack of logs. Mr. Mer- 

 ryman, in a recent interview, stated that the 

 Marinette mill would i)o operated for several 

 yeai"s. 



Fred Aldeu of the Fred .\lden & Sons Com- 

 pany of Ladysmith, Wis., has announced that 

 the company's wood turning and enameling 

 Ijlant. which was recently destroyed by fire at 

 Ladysmith, will be rebuilt at Bruce. 



The two mills of the Robbins Lumber Com- 

 pany at Rhinelander, Wis., are being operated 

 both night and day. This is being done for the 

 purpose of clearing the company's pond, which 

 has become overstocked with logs. 



H. J. Wachsmuth, president of the Wach- 

 smuth Lumber Company, has denied the report 

 that his company was planning the purchase of 

 the mill and timber holdings of the Red Cliff 

 Lumber Company, in the vicinity of Bayfield, 

 Wis. He said that an attempt had been made 

 to purchase the timber but the the matter of 

 the mill transfer had never been considered. The 

 Red Cliff company will operate its mill, using 

 logs brought from the northern shore of Lake 

 Superior. 



Plans for the new oflice building to be erected 

 by the Berlin Machine Works of Beloit, Wis., 

 have been completed by Architects Nimmons & 

 Fellows, of Chicago. The building will be 55 

 by 121 feet in dimension and three stories in 

 height. 



William .1. Rademacher. vice-president of the 

 Cream City Casket Company of Milwaukee was 

 married to Miss Millie Rhemer of that city on 

 October ID. The wedding took place at the home 

 of the bride. 



F. A. Dennett, president of the Wisconsin Chair 

 Company of Port Washington, Wis., Is at the 

 head of the Lakeside Crafts shops of Sheboy- 

 gan, which has been incorporated with capi- 

 tal stock of .$50,000. The other incorporators 

 are J. F. Dennett, J. M. Boston. W. H. Thomp- 

 son and Edward J. Barrett. The company will 

 manufacture pedestals and similar articles. 



After the hardest season's work in the log- 

 ging history of the Menominee river, the main 

 drive of 20,000.000 feet of timber has reached 

 Marinette, Wis. It required twenty-nine days 

 for a crew of fifty men to bring the drive from 

 Quinnesec Falls at Niagara to Marinette, owing 

 to its being hung up on account of low water. ' 

 Senator Isaac Stephenson, president of the Me- 

 nominee River Boom Company, who is more 

 than eighty years old, personally superintended 

 the drive during the last few days. 



George H. Foster, a well-known wholesale 

 lumberman of Oshkosh, Wis., was severely in- 

 jured in an automobile accident which occurred 

 near Oshkosh recently. Mr. Foster was driving 

 the car with a party of friends at night when 

 they suddenly met a team, and in turning out. 

 the car went into a ditch and turned turtle, 

 catching some of the party underneath. Mr. 

 Foster had several ribs broken and his face 

 badly cut and bruised. 



Fire destroyed the planing mill and box fac- 

 tory of the .lohnson Creek Lumber Company 

 near Knowlton, Wis., recently. The cause of 

 the fire has not been discovered. The loss is 



