July 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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OurSpecialtyls AMERICAN WALNUT 



Lumber and Veneers 



Our Band Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation 

 and we now carry a stock of over three million feet 

 of walnut lumber. 



We have also ready for prompt shipment three mil- 

 lion feet of walnut long- wood veneers, half million 

 feet of walnut stumpwood and one million feet of 

 African and Central American mahogany veneers. 



We Also Handle 



ANY 



PHILIPPINE 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Home Office: Cincinnati, Ohio 



Lock Box 18. St. Bernard Branch 



sociation ; J. H. Townshend, of the Southern Hardwood TrafiBc Association, 

 and C. H. .Shcrrill of the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Company, who pointed 

 out forcefully the discrimination which is alleged to be obtaining against 

 the manufacturers of the tri-state territory and also Alabama as well as 

 states further North. 



Another important matter handled by the club was the troublesome 

 question as to its legal right to prepare and discuss at its meetings pro- 

 duction cost data, which was definitely settled in the affirmative by a 

 letter from L. C. Boyle, counsel of the American Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, read at the meeting. -Attorney Boyle assured the 

 members that the fact that some were also members of the American did 

 not affect their right to hold their club meeting or to gather production 

 cost data. 



To further the work, the following resolution, offered by C. H. Shcrrill, 

 was adopted and a committee appointed to carry out its provisions : 



"That a new committee be appointed to prepare a scale of standard 

 production costs for the manufacturers of hardwood lumber, based on 

 single band mill of 30,000 feet capacity per day and also on double band 

 mill of 60,000 feet capacity per day based on fixed scale of wages for 

 necessary employes, except oflicers and office employes, excepting also sell- 

 ing costs, discounts, interest, insurance, taxes, depreciation and adver- 

 tising expenses. This standard to be based on first run timber." 



C. J. Coppock, president of the club, appointed on this committee : C. 

 H. Sherrill, chairman ; W. B. Morgan, John Deblieux, F. R. Gadd, J. W. 

 Thompson, Percy Bass and C. W. Weeks. 



With the Trade 



Stark Resumes Sawing 

 James E. Stark & Company, Inc., Resumed operations at their band mill 

 in North Memphis last week. They are taking care of contract timber 

 which must be moved during 1921 and will have a run of approximately 

 30 days. 



Kelsey Saw Mill Closes 



The saw mill of the Kelsey Wheel Company, North Memphis, Tenn.. 

 which has' been operating heretofore, has closed down. The management 

 is authority for the statement that it is impossible to profitably manufac- 

 ture low grade lumber on present transportation rates, and gives this as 



the reason for its action. Closing down of the saw mill will not affect 

 the wheel plant, which is operating on partial time. 



Coulson Company Bankrupt 



The Coulson Lumber Company, with headquarters in this city and with 

 mills at Tchula, Miss., and Garland City, Ark., filed an involuntary peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy in the federal court here late Tuesday evening, July 19, 

 as a result of its inability to convert its assets into cash and difficulty 

 in effecting satisfactory settlement of a judgment of $25,000 rendered 

 against it in favor of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture Company, Evans- 

 ville, Ind. 



Liabilities are scheduled at .$200,413.44, while assets are placed at 

 $147,951.22. A considerable portion of the liabilities are reported to con- 

 sist of contingent notes, and It is pointed out that, if these were elimi- 

 nated, liabilities would amount to only about $125,000. 



It is expected that Harry B. Anderson, referee In bankruptcy, will 

 appoint a receiver to take charge of affairs of the firm, which has been 

 engaged in the lumber business here for about nine years. 



Thorn Launches Own Business Ship 



W. S. Thom, sales manager of the Langlade Lumber Company of Antigo, 

 Wis., has resigned, effective July 15, to engage in business on his own 

 account, with headquarters at Wausau, Wis. His place has been filled by 

 the appointment of Roy E. James, who up to this time has been represent- 

 ing the Langlade interests in the Southern Wisconsin territory. Mr. 

 Thom was associated with the Langlade company for five years, or virtually 

 since Its Inception. 



Long-Bell General Manager Retires 



C. H. Dodd, for the last eleven years treasurer and general manager 

 of the Hudson River Lumber Company at DeRidder, La., one of the oldest 

 associated companies of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, has announced 

 his resignation, effective July 1, 1921. Mr. Dodd will retire and will make 

 his home in Dallas, Tex. 



Mr. Dodd will be succeeded at DeRidder by W. E. Sailor, who has been 

 superintendent at that mill for the last twelve years. 



Both Mr. Dodd and Mr. Sailor have been with Long-Bell more than 

 twenty-five years. 



Perkins Wins Judgment 



On July G, 1921, the District Court in the Grand Rapids District, entered 

 judgment tor $20,000 against the firm of The Hood-Wright Company (or 

 infringement of the Perkins' patents. The appeal which had been previ- 

 ously taken from the decision in this case has been abandoned and the 

 judgment paid by Mr. Hood and Mr. Wright. 



