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S<-o\iIl ('uiupan.v, mauufju'tiirors of autoniuliik's and raniayos, (.'iitcrtainnl 

 tliiir wives and a nunilier of guests. Emil E. Iless. general inannger of the 

 eimipany, coneluded the entertainment with a talk <in "Co-operation." 



The eastern division of the Italdwln Piano Company, whkh has heen 

 hieated in this elty for many years, has heen moveil to (iGo Fifth avenue, 

 New V(U-k City, where offlees and the wholesale deparlmout will lie located. 

 The company has moved the Howard I'iano Company, one of Its anxllinries, 

 from Eirih and Eggleston avenui' to the new plani on lllllierl avenue, near 

 the Kden Tark entrance. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The LiimlMTiiu'n's Mutual Casualty Company rcc*'ntly file<l suit apainst 

 tlu' Lcwis-Knrlti's Lumber Company, Janifs Phillips!, a driver for the 



lumlxT conipnny. anil the City of Indianapolis, askiuK tlamages of $2,000. 

 While thi- lumln-r eompany and Phillips were named as defendants the suit 

 was illrcrted against the City of ludianapolis as the eompaint sets out 

 that IMiillips. while driving a mule team over a bridge near Shelby street. 

 August 'Jit. lOltl, was seriously injured when the team ran away because 

 of a l)roken plank in the bridge in which one of the mules caught its foot. 

 The lumber company hcM insurance In the casualty company. Damages 

 of $*J.00n were asked l)y the casualty company in thf suit. 



Alleging that the Indianapolis Hody Corporation was insolvent, two 

 suits were tiled yesterday in the Mariou County courts, one by Alliert 

 Vock who asks judgment of $4;}1.40 and interest from August 10, 1921. 

 plus attorneys fees of $100, the other by Henry Knighohann who asks 

 judgment on foreclosure of lien for $2,57'). with interest from May 1, 1920. 

 and attorney fees of S500. Each asked for the appointment of a receiver 

 for the corporation and foreclosure of mechanic's liens. 



OflScials of the Siedel Buggy Company of Richmond, which filed a pre- 

 linnnary certificate of dissolution here recently, state that the manage- 

 ment and ownership of the company will renmin the same, and that tlie 

 notice merely indicated that the campany had retired all their stock. The 

 (^■ompany will retain its old trade name. 



Applicatiun was made recently to Charles ('. I)eani. state forester, for 

 information concerning exemption of forest land from taxation under the 

 new forestry law. by S. J. Peabody Lumber Company, of Columbia City, 

 Ind., which owns about 500 acres oif land in Cass county and which they 

 are proposing to classify as forest land. Much interest has been mani- 

 fested by various lumber companies in the new forestry program of the 

 state. 



Plans f(jr a cauTpaign to obtain better homes were laid before a luncheon 

 meeting of manufacturers and retailers of furniture recently at the In- 

 dianapolis Chamber of Commerce by Uoliert L. Jordan of Chicago, man 

 aging director of the Furniture Publicity lUireau which was organized 

 last April with the object of building uj) sentiment towards the home by 

 means of an educational campaign. Mr. .Jordan made an appeal to tb" 

 meeting for subscriptions to a $1,000,000 fund to cover a three-year pul>- 

 licity campaign in the interest of better American homes. 



EVANSVILLE 



There are millions of'ties in the yards of the Indiana Tie Company in 

 this city, and never before has the company hail so many on hnnd. the 

 <ifficials of the company assert. The orders that the company now has on 

 hand will keep the plant in operation for the next year, it is asserte<l. 

 Some time ago the negro tie carriers at the plant accepted a rut in wages, 

 i)Ut are still capable of earning all the way from $5 to $8 a day. The men 

 work on the piece basis. 



Daniel Wertz, head of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company of this city, 

 has returned from Bay View, Mich., where he spent several weeks with 

 his family, who have been summering there. Mr. Wertz says that tra<le 

 conditions are now more promising than they have been for some time past, 

 and he believes that trade will show a big improvement in Septemlier over 

 bdth the months of July anil .\ugust. 



Announcement was matle a few <iays ago to the effect that J. W. Kosr. 

 manager of the branch of the Midwest Box Company at Anderson, Iml.. 

 had been transferred to the company's heailquarters at Chicago. For 

 many years Mr. Rose was a resident of Martinsville. Ind. 



Charles A. Wolflin, head of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company, is 

 the president of the West Side Nut Club here, and steps now are being 

 taken to incorporate this club and make it an international organization 

 like the Rotary and Klwanis Clubs. 



Common stock in the Mutual Truck Conipany of Sullivan. Ind., may be 

 accepted by creditors in payment of debts, according to a resfdutimi that 

 was adopted a few days ago at a meeting of the cretlitors. If the cred- 

 itors sell the property of the truck company at a forced sale, it is said 

 they would receive less than 10 cents on the dollar. The company's plant 

 was established at Sullivan about two years ago. 



C. Otto Iloltnuiu, formerly connected with the Evansviiie Planing Mill 

 Company, has joined the city sales force of the Wolflin Wi'st Side Lumber 

 Company. 



A few d;.ys ago the fine country home of C. W. Gooding near Xobles- 

 ville. Ind.. was destroyed by fire. 



Building ^>perations are holding their own very well, and the contractors 

 and buIVdrig material men in Evansviiie wry' of the opinion that there 



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