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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 25, 1921 



Beautiful Birch 



ROTARY GUT VENEERS 



There is no better Birch grown than that found on our 

 Timber Hohlings. Send us a trial order for a crate or a 

 carload, and we are confident you will forward repeaters 

 without solicitation. Quality considered, you will find 

 our itriccs reasonaMe. 



Bissell Lumber Company 



Mills: 

 rRIPOLI, WIS. 



Address Dept. 3 

 MARSHFIELD, WIS. 



TJ^URNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 



are specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also mzmufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 



Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 



cars and cargoes or mixed with aur "Peerless Brand" Rock 



Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. Cct Our Prices 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block 



GLADSTONE, MICH. 



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British Honduras Mahogany 



B. E. & P. CO. 



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question of time until the situation in the east will be reflected in 

 the west and central west. "Yes, things are looking better for us," 

 said Mayor Bosse upon his return from the Chicago market. 

 "Things are going to get better right along now and in my opinion 

 the manufacturer who shows a willingness to take his share of the 

 reconstruction burden is going to get the business. The manufact- 

 urers must stand their share as well as everybody else." 



Pay envelopes of the furniture workers in Evansville were some- 

 what lighter a week or so ago when the cut of wages went into 

 effect. Practically all the furniture, chair, desk and table manu- 

 facturers announced a cut to the men, the cut being an average of 

 about 5 cents on the hour. The furniture workers accepted the 

 cut without a complaint as they are glad to be able to keep the 

 plants running at this time and would rather be working at a few 

 cents less on the day than to remain idle, the men say. The local 

 factories continue to operate on part time in most instances, some 



of the plants operating almost full time. The situation is getting 

 a whole lot better, as stated in a letter in the Hardwood Record 

 two weeks ago and manufacturers believe that it will be only a 

 question of time until trade is something like normal again although 

 they do not expect this thing to come all at once. Oscar A. Klamer, 

 who is head of four of large furniture factories in Evansville, says 

 that furniture has hit rock bottom prices and that people are start- 

 ing to buy again. "People have started to buy furniture again" 

 is the way Mr. Klamer expressed it the other day. "They are 

 beginning to realize that furniture can go no lower and that the 

 only revision in price will be upward. The general buying move- 

 ment has not started, but here and there, we who have learned to 

 interpret conditions, see the signs that point to renewed prosperity. 

 Rush orders now come in from various localities. 



Henning Will Give Whole Time to Glue Work 



It will be of interest to the panel and veneer consuming trade 

 to learn that Sherburn IVI. Henning, manager of the panel depart- 

 ment of the Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis, Tenn., has re- 

 signed in order to be free to devote his entire time to the installa- 

 tion of water-resistant casein glues in panel and furniture factories. 

 Mr. Henning is widely known in the hardwood industry, especially 

 among panel users. 



When this country entered the war, Mr. Henning was chemist 

 for the Northern Pacific railroad. He volunteered his services to 

 the Bureau of Aircraft Production and was thereupon transferred 

 to the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis. He w^as the 

 first chemist to engage in research on the developing of water- 

 proof glues for airplane panels. In this work he was highly suc- 

 cessful and developed satisfactory water-proof glues both from 

 blood albumen and casein. He also is the originator of the dry 

 gluing process whereby three-ply panels can be made from veneer 

 as thin as one-hundredth of an inch without employing a glue 

 spreader or brush. This is regarded as a notable achievement, for 

 it has been found impossible before, with the old wet glue process, 

 to make a three-ply panel much thinner than three twenty-eighths of 

 an inch. The panels made by this process were three one- 

 hundredths of an inch in thickness, were water-proof and w^ere 

 employed as substitutes for linen as airplane wing material. 



Since the war, Mr. Henning has been actively engaged in the 

 manufacture of w^ater resistant panels, both with the Wisconsin 

 Veneer Company of Rhinelander, Wis., and the Anderson-Tully 

 Company of Memphis. His experience has been extremely varied 

 and covers fancy woods as well as northern and southern hard- 

 woods. In the past two and a half years he has supervised the 

 manufacture of millions of square feet of northern and southern 

 hardw^ood panels, using casein glue exclusively and w^ith complete 

 success. 



Mr. Henning has now become associated with the Peter Cooper 

 Glue organization of Gowanda, N. Y., to manufacture casein water- 

 resistant glues of high quality and low cost in powder form, so that 

 the furniture and panel industries can avail themselves of his vast 

 experience in the use of high grade cold w^ater adhesives. It is 

 said that Mr. Henning plans to devote his entire time to the actual 

 installation of these glues in the plants and educating manufac- 

 turers in its use. His technical services will be available to all 

 users of these glues. 



Mr. Henning is probably the foremost authority in this country 

 on water-proof adhesives and it is believed that his future efforts 

 will result in increased quality in the products of the American 

 plywood industry. 



Mr. Henning is a native of Milwaukee and a graduate of the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



The Great I.akes Lumber Company of 105 X. Clark Street, Chicago, com- 

 posed of A. W. Harper, president: F. M. Johnson, first vice-president: A. 

 E. Harper, secretai'y-tn-asurer. and W. H. O'Connor, vice-president, has 

 recently added a hardwood department to handle both northern and 

 southern woods. Mr. O'Connor was until recently with Clarence Boyle, 

 Inc., and will he manaircr of this new department. The company's south- 

 ern otlico is located at Ilattiesbiirg. ^liss.. whcrt^ H. B. Lusk is in charge. 



