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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September in. 1'J21 



May we quote you on 

 our present stocks of 

 Southern Hardwoods 



Oak Poplar 



Chestnut Ash 



MANUFACTURERS 



BAND MILLS: 



TAYETTVILLE .TENN. 



' BASS.ALA. 



EinnBTTVXLLE ,TEHH. 



Tennessee Red Cedar 



iJROMATlC) 



Basswood Maple 



Elm Walnut 



OTHER HARDWOODS 



SPECIALS 



Attractively Priced for Prompt Shipment 



4/4 Log Run Hackberry 50,000 



6/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Hackberry 12,000 



12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Hackberry 13,000 



6/4 Log Run Pecan 40,C00 



6/4 Log Run Hickory 22,000 



4/4 Softwood Boxing 70 000 



5/8 Softwood Boxing 50,000 



5/8 Log Run Sycamore 70,OrO 



5/8 Log Run Elm 50,000 



4/4 Log Run Elm 150,000 



6/4 Log Run Elm 25,C00 



8/4 Log Run Elm i 0,000 



10/4 Log Run Elm 40.000 



12/4 Log Run Elm 30,000 



5/8 Log Run Sap Gum 180,000 



10/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Ash 70,000 



12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Ash 60,000 



Tliis lumber is all dry, band sawed, edged 

 and trimmed and can be shipped promptly 



We specialize in 



KRAETZER CURED GUM 

 5 8 LUMBER 



Write for Complete List with Prices. 



North Vernon Lumber Mills 



NORTH VERNON, INDIANA 



cxiji'cts to visit the Monumental Clt.v at frequent intervals and give much 

 attention personally to the new representative. 



The arrangement effected hy the American Ilanlwood Flooring Company 

 to have a liranch here to introduce its output in this territory ami gain 

 a firm hold upon the Kastern market includes the construction of a ware- 

 house on (Juilford avenue, where stocks of the various i^roducts will always 

 be found and where McKwen Kansom is in charge. The American Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, as is generally known in the trade, has its factory 

 and head<juarters at Nashville. Teun., and is controlled hy the Ran^'om 

 interests. 



Uichard P. Baer, of the hardwood firm of liichard P. Baer & Co.. sailed 

 on August 20, from New York on the steamer Lapland for England, to 

 he gon<' about si.K or eight weeks, visiting lumber centers in the United 

 Kingdom and other countries. 



.John Sloniker. of The Mowbray & Robinson Companv, manufacturers of 

 hardwoods and flooring at Cincinnati, was here on September 1 and saw 

 various hardwood men. It was the windui> of an extentled Eastern trip, 

 and after stopping in Baltimore it was Mr. Sloniker's expressed intention 

 to turn homeward. lie gave it as his oi>inion that a somewhat better 

 demand appeared to have developed of late. 



W. II. Schleyer, head of the Baltimore branch of the Kosse. Shoe & 

 Schleyer Company, whose home oiSce is in Cincinnati, made a business 

 trip North a week or .so ago and reports that he found trade in Philadelphia 

 (luite active, but that in New York anil most other places pronouuced 

 (|uiet prevailed. 



COLUMBUS 



II. C. Creith, head of Th<* II. C Creith Lumlier Company, sustaiiieii a loss 

 of more thau .^1.000 rcfcntly when his residence was burglarized for the 

 third time in the past six months. 



Papers have been filed reducing the capital of the Uniteil States Ilamlle 

 Company of IMqUa, Ohio, from $10,000 to $500. 



The three Silver bills, passed by the Ohio legislature at the last session, 

 appropriating $70.(iO0 for reforestation purposes, have heconip a law, fol- 

 lowing the expiration of the tinu^ for tiling n^ferendum petitions. Edmund 

 Secrist, has been named state forester to have charge of the administration 

 of the laws. 



A fire in the shavings chut<' <>f the Poddington Lumiier Company at 

 Kroad and McDowell street recently caused considerable excitement, but 

 only a loss of $200. 



W. E. Jones of the E. .T. & W. E. Jones Company, 406 West Spring street, 

 millworkers and lumber dealers, has lieen appointe<l chairman of the forum 

 steering committee of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, in which 

 ciipacity he has charge of preparing the programs for the weekly meetings. 



George H. Harlowe, formerly a traveler with the W. L. Whitacre Lumber 

 Company, has opened a wholesale office for himself, but will continue to sell 

 the Whitacre lino. 



CINCINNATI 



Sales agents and dealers of Ihc Clobo- Wernicke Company, from all parts 

 of the United States and foreign countries, concluded thpir first annual 

 o<)nvention held in Cincinnati on August 24. 25 and 26. with headquarters 

 ;it the Hotel Gibson. The sessions were held in the Administration build- 

 ing of the plant in Norwood, which manufacturers filing cabinets, book- 

 cases, desks and other ofl5ce equipment for all parts of the world. The 

 agents and dealers were shown through the various departments and 

 buildings of the factories and were addressed by E. Z. lilagg. vice-prpsident 

 of the company, and others. The visitors were entertained with auttimobile 

 sight-seeing trips about Cincinnati and suburbs, and dinners at the 

 Zoological (harden and Coney Island. They had a golf tournament at the 

 Hamilton County Country Club, and enjoyed a banquet at the Norwood 

 plant of the company. 



A triple increase in the business facilities of the American Trunk Com- 

 pany will take place before fall is well advanced, the corporation headed 

 by Charles Heinlein, Sr., having completed a deal for the purchase of the 

 southwest corner of Court street and Central avenue. At the present time 

 the American Trunk Company is limited to turning out 30,000 cases a 

 year, but it expects to increase this to 100,000 in the new quarters. The 

 working force is to be enlarged as soon as the mechanical equipment has 

 been installed in the new home, a four-story brick building. 



M'. F. Gammage, dealer in hardwoods and staves, with offices in the 

 Neave building, who recently recovered from a spell of sickness, has gone 

 to Indian Lake, 0., for an extended vacation. 



W. J. Eckman. vice-president of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, 

 reports that there has Iteen a decided improvement in the export business 

 here during the past two weeks. 



The first meeting of the fall session of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 

 will be held at the University Club on September 13, according to Secre- 

 tary Will Sterrett. 



More than 100 persons attended a chicken dinner and dance at Phil- 

 lippi's Garden on August 30, where officials and employes of the Sayers & 



