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p. Busse of this city, and Carl WnlHiu, will take place on Friday, July 1, 

 and after an extensive bridal tour the couple will make their home in this 

 city, where Mr. Wolflin is associated with his father, Charles A. Wolllin, 

 in the management of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company. T'ntil 

 recently young Wolflin was connected with a large lumber company at 

 Minneapolis, Minn., but returned to Evansville to arrange for his approach- 

 ing wedding. He is a member of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club and is 

 well known to the trade in southern Indiana. 



It is expected more logs will be gotten out in the camps along iJreen 

 and Barren rivers in .Tuly and August than during the previous months 

 of this year. Most of the logs will be rafted here for the local mills. 



The journeymen carpenters and bricklayers at Evansville, Ind., will 

 accept a cut in wages amounting to 14 per cent under their scale that 

 prevaile<l last year. This was the decision of the board of arbitration 

 that was appointed some time ago to fix the wage scale for most of the 

 building trades in Evansville. On the first of last April the building 

 trades of Evansville went out on a strike after the contractors had madi' 

 an announcement that the wages of the men would be cut 20 per cent 

 under that of the scale of 1920. The men had not been out long until 

 they agreed to submit their case to a board of arbitration. The under- 

 standing was at the time that the cut in wages would not be less than 

 10 per cent nor more than 20 per cent of last year's scale. The contractors 

 selected Frank II. Hatfield, attorney, as their member of the board of 

 arbitration, while the building trades selected Albert J. Veneman, also an 

 attorney. Mr. Ilatflebl and Mr. Veneman in return selected the Rev. A. E. 

 Craig, pastor of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, as the third 

 member and he was named as chairman of the board. The board heard 

 evidence on both sides of the case. They announced in their decision that 

 they thought a reduction of 14 per cent would be Just to both sides. It is 

 expected that practically all the other building trades of the city will 

 accept reductions in wages amounting to 14 per cent. 



Lumber and furniture manufacturers at Evansville, Iml., took a leading 

 part In the special election held in Evansville on Thursday. .Tune 17, to 

 vote on the question of the city manager form of government for Evans- 

 ville. The proposition was defeated at the ratio of two to one. Now that 

 the city nmnager propi)sition has been disjiosed of the people of Evansville 

 will hold their regular election in the coming Xovend)er. This will be 

 especially interesting to the lumber and furniture world when it is known 

 that Mayor Benjamin Bossc, Democrat, is opposed in the election b,v J. S. 

 Hopkins. Ma.yor Bosse is at the head of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture 

 Company and is associated with many more large wood consuming com 



panics, while :\Ir. Hopkins is manager of the Never-Split Seat Company 

 of Evansville. Mayor Bosse is also Democratic state chairman for Indiana. 



MEMPHIS 



W. E. Nickey, of the Green River Lumber Company and Nickey Bros., 

 Inc.. has returned from an extended trip to Los Angeles and other Pacific 

 coast points. lie says that, when he left that territory, business was 

 decidedly better than in the South. 



Nicke.v Bros., Inc. are operating their veneer plant on part time on 

 cypress veneers. They are runiung their sawmills only enough to cut the 

 flitches from which the veneers are produced. 



Jas. E. Stark & Co., Inc., announce that their mill at Pyersburg, Tenn,, 

 closed down Saturday, June 18, and that their mill at Memphis will close 

 down at the end of the current week. This is a direct result of completion 

 t»f the cemversion of logs on hand int<t lund»er. >Ir. Stark. presi<lent of the 

 firm, is authority for the stalcmcnt that the liaiid mill at Dyersburg will 

 remain down indefinitely, while the mill at Memphis will be operated inter- 

 mittently during the remainder of the year. This is due to the fact that 

 the firm has a timber contract requiring removal of a certain amount of 

 timber during 1!I21. Aside from taking care of this particular timber, the 

 company is nmking no preparation for g(*tting out logs or for conducting 

 milling operations. 



The closing down of these two mills is a striking illustration of what 

 is happening at other points in this territory. It is regarded as practically 

 certain that mttre mills have closed down during the past thirty days in 

 Memphis anil the Memphis territory than have resumed operations. This 

 nutans that the output of hardwoo<l lumber has ib-creascd rather than 

 increased. It also means that the produi'tion of southern hardwoods is at 

 the lowest ebb in the history of the trade at this time of the year. Some 

 members of the trade estimate that hardwood output is not more than 15 

 per cent of normal, while some others i)lace their figures even lower. 



This is the time of the year when there is ustially very great activit.v 

 in getting out logs and in making jireparations for late summer and early 

 fall production. But. even so. thiu'e is almost uotbing being accomplished 

 in this direction. The few firms \v1k> are going aliead with their manu- 

 facturing operations and who are proilucing the bulk of the lumber at the 

 moment are ne<'essarlly going ahead with their timber operations. The 

 vast majority, however, are doing practically nothing. It is pointe<l out 

 that soinetliing like sixty to ninety da.vs would be required to supply the 

 nulls with timber for fall operations and it is beginning to be quite gen- 

 erally realized that, even if logging should start up in the near future. 



