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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July in, 1921 



Tlio O'Hi'lii Funilturo Conipnn.v. newly organizi'il, Is niaiuifactnrlng 

 upholstered I'lirnltmc at 1254 Addisnii street. 



The Anchor Tarlur Furniture .Manufacturing ('iini[pany has recently 

 commenced the nnuiufacture of parlor frames at 172.T W. Vauliuren street. 



The United States I.umlwr Mills. Inc., with a capital of .$10,000 has 

 been Incorporatwl by M. .M. Haas. I!. L. Haas and Hugh A. Caperton, and 

 Is located at 19-13 McCormIck building, Chicago. 



BUFFALO 



Chairnuin William I'. Betts and llic inejiihers of the outing coniuiittcc 

 have nuide plans to hold the lirst annual outing of the HulTalo Lumber 

 Exchange at the Canoe Club. Point Ahlno, on .luly 2U. The ladies are to 

 be Invited to attend. The spot is a hne one for an outing, as facilities 

 there permit of boating, swimiriing. baseball and tennis. 



Lumbermen say that Koehester has been one of the poorest places In this 

 territory to sell lumber In for the past few months, owing to the long- 

 continued strikes, which have tlc<l up Industry. It is said that the city 

 has 13,000 building workers, of whom all but 750 are idle through strikes. 

 An Investigating committee lias been appointed by the common council 

 and It is hoped that sonu,- agreement may so<m l>c reached. George East- 

 man was reeontly chosen as an arbitrator over the question of wages and 

 he has reduced tliose of masons and bricklayers from .SL25 to .fl.06 an 

 hour. 



The lloueoye Falls (N. Y.) Furniture Co. lias IIUhI a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy with liabilities of $148,780.87 and assets of .$53,425.31. The failure 

 Is said to be due to the breaking of a bank in that village. 



Chester W. (Jraves, treasurer of (Iraves, Manbert & George, and presi- 

 dent of the Empire State Lumber Salesmen's Association, was married on 

 June 25 to Miss Lucyanna H. Joss, of Indianapolis, Ind. The ceremony 

 took place at the home of the bride's sister at Wayland. Mass., and was 

 performed by the Rev. Sherrard Bullings, of Groton School. Jlr. and .Mrs. 

 Graves will make their home in New York City. 



PITTSBURGH 



E. H. Shrelner, president of the E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company, made 

 a visit to the West Virginia mills lately. 



A. Rex Flinn, president of the Duquesne Lumber Company, was down 

 at the company's big mill in Virginia recently. 



L. L. Satler of the Satler-Hamllton Lumber Company says that good 

 business Is still quite a ways off, but that railroad buying must begin 

 before many months. 



II. F. rionihoff, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, says that 

 Industrial inquiry is very bad. Most concerns seem willing to do their 

 little bit with as little expense as possible. 



W. W. Vosburgh, head of the wholesale lumber firm of W. W. Vosburgh, 

 with offices in the Besse;iier huilding, committed suicide two weeks ago 

 by shooting himself at his summer home in Sewickley, Pa. He was a 

 member of tlie Pittsburgh W'holesaie Lumber Dealers' .\ssocIatIon and 

 was formerly one of the officials of the old firm of Bemis & Vosburgh. i He 

 left his widow and one son. Win. W. Vosburgli, Jr.. who liad just gone to 

 Italy to study. 



The Housing Corporation, which has been formed by the Pittsburgh 

 Chamber of Commerce to arrange for building 2,000 houses this year in 

 Pittsburgh, is showing type of the houses which will be built. The project 

 Is sure to go ahead if enough prospective house builders can be secured. 



BALTIMORE 



The Oriole Wood Works, organized a little more than a year ago, has 

 outgrown its old plant and established a new one at 3233 O'Donnell Street, 

 Canton, Baltimore. Additional macliinei-y has been installe<l and other 

 modern improvements have been completwi. 



Tlie first of the cargoes of Pacific coast lunilier on the way to Baltimore 

 for the depot here of the Weyerliaeuser Timlier Corporation, aboard the 

 steamer Birmingham City, arrived June 24. It consisted of 2,715.856 feet 

 and the sliiiunent was quickly put into the distributing and expert depot 

 established at Curtis Bay by the company. The Steel Voyager is on the 

 way with another similar cargo, and likely to get In any day now. 



Robert S. Gill, who was executive secretary of the Loyal Legion of 

 Loggers and Lumbermen, an organization of workers and employes called 

 into lieing during the war to spee<l up production In the Northwest, has 

 been brought to Baltimore by the Typothetae or employing printers of that 

 city to undertake the task of creating In'tter relations between the printers 

 and their employers. The former have been on a'strike since May 1 for 

 higher pay and shorter hours, with the result that a number of the printing 

 establishments have declared for the open shop. 



M. S. Baer, of the wholesale hardwood firm of Richard P. Baer & Co., 

 the tower of the Maryland Casualty Building, is down South on a trip 

 to the mills at Mobile and Bogaiusa, I^a., owned by subsidiary companies, 

 to see how matters are coming on. The plant at Magazine, near Mobile. 

 is running, but the one at Bogaiusa was shut down some time ago. and 

 resumption of operations is uncertain. The owners feel that at the pre- 

 vailing prices of lumber there Is no money in the business, and they 

 consider it an unwise policy to go ahead and cut up timber which cannot 

 be replaced. 



May we quote you on 

 our present stocks of 

 Southern Hardwoods 



Oak Poplar 



Chestnut Ash 



MANUFACTURERS 



BAND mills: 



rAYETTVILLE .TENN. 



BASS.ALA. 



rinnBTTvnj:.E ,Tehk. 



Tennessee Red Cedar 



{AROMATIO 



Basswood Maple 



Elm Walnut 

 OTHER HARDWOODS 



J. V. Stimson & Co. 



OWENSBORO 



KENTUCKY 



Regular Width and Lengths; Dry 



White Ash Com. & Bet. 4/4 to 16/4 



Beech Log Ruit 4/4 to 8/4 



Chestnut Com. & Bet. 4/4 



Elm Log Run 4/4 to 16/4 



Red or Sap Gum. . .Com. & Bet. 4/4 to 8/4 



HickoiT' No. 1 Com. 4/4 to 16/4 



Maple Log Run 4/4 to 16/4 



Qtd. White Oak.... All Grades ^" to 8/4 



Qtd. Red Oak All Grades 3/4 to 8/4 



PI. White Oak All Grades 5/8 to 16/4 



PI. Red Oak All Grades 3/4 to 16/4 



Poplar All Grades 5/8 to 8/4 



Qtd. Sycamore Log Run 5 8 to 4/4 



Walnut All Grades 5, 8 to 8/4 



You will like our careful method of handling 

 orders, either domestic or export for mixed 

 or straight car load shipments. 



BAND 



Owensboro, Ky. 



MILLS 



Campbellsville, Ky. 



