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Hardwood Record — Veneer fit Panel Section 



May 25. 1921 



■American Walnut 



We manufacture both lumber and veneers 

 from selected logs grown in the famous 

 Iowa walnut district. The result is our 

 product possesses unusual merit, being 

 favored by Nature with a most beautiful 

 grain and color. We will appreciate a list 

 of your needs in both lumber and veneers 

 of walnut. 



DES MOINES SAWMILL CO. 



10th and Murphy Streets Des Moines. Iowa 



Moller Heads Organ Builders 



Officers for the ensuing year were elected by the Organ Builders' 

 Association of America at the Wednesday, May 1 1 , session of 

 the annual convention of the association, held at the Drake 

 Hotel, Chicago, in conjunction with the great convention of 

 music industries under the auspices of the Music Industries Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. M. P. Moeller, M. P. Moeller Organ Works, 

 Hagerstown, Md., was elected president. The following are the 

 other officers chosen: 



Vice-president, Charles Kilgen, Charles Kilgen & Son, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



Secretary, S. T. Gruenstein, Editor, Diapason, also made execu- 

 tive manager. 



Treasurer, Farney R. Wurlitzer, Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Com- 

 pany, North Tonawanda, N. Y. 



Directors, Adolph Wangerin, Ernest M. Skinner, John T. Austin, 

 J. C. Deagan, Jr., David Marr, C. B. Floyd, R. P. Elliot. 



The members voted to send a telegram to Senator Reed Smoot 

 and George W. Pound, general counsel of Music Industries Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, approving the Smoot bill, which offers relief 

 from the war excise tax on musical instruments. The convention, 

 approved of a standard form of church and theater organ and 

 recommended that specific points be incorporated by individual 

 builder*. 



Demand on Indiana Plants Improves 



Furniture manufacturers at Evansville, Ind., as well as those at 

 Tell City, Ind., Jasper, Ind., Henderson, Ky., and Owensboro, Ky., 

 report that there has been a picking up in their business during 



the past month and in most of those cities the factories are being 

 operated on better time than they have at any time since the first 

 of the present year. At Evansville the plants of the Bockstege 

 Furniture Company and the Never-Split Seat Company are now 

 running on full time and the plant of the Karges Furniture Com- 

 pany is being operated on a schedule of forty-two hours a week. 

 Quite a few of the plants now are running from forty-two to fifty 

 hours a week. Things are gradually getting better and the 

 manufacturers are feeling greatly encouraged at the outlook and 

 believe that trade is going to gradually improve. The Evansville 

 furniture factories are in the market for more lumber, especially 

 quartered white oak and plain white oak lumber and the prices of 

 these two items are inclined to stiffen some. The conditions in 

 the East have greatly improved, according to the Evansville 

 manufacturers, and they report they are shipping some furniture 

 to that section now. The manufacturers report that trade condi- 

 tions in the South and West are still chaotic but in their opinion 

 things will change for the better in those sections within from 

 thirty to sixty days. The depression was first felt in the East, 

 they point out, and later it was felt in the West and South. They 

 argue that the East is first to show signs of revival and that the 

 Central West will soon feel the revival that is now being felt in the 

 East. The conditions taken as a whole have improved a whole 

 lot during the past month or six weeks. Within two or three 

 months the Evansville manufacturers believe that things will be 

 something like normal again. The manufacturers are going ahead 

 with their plans for the September market and believe that this will 

 have an effect of stimulating the furniture business. The furniture 

 manufacturers right now are more encouraged over the trade 

 situation than they have been at any time since the beginning of 

 the business depression last year. They say that labor troubles are 

 fewer, in fact, no labor troubles are reported in Evansville and that 

 there is a better outlook in every way. 



