November 10. 1918 



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The SIurray-Mylroa Machine Company, Antigo, Wis., is enlarging its 

 power house and installing a new boiler, together with a complete new 

 steam heating system for its foundry and machine shops, which are de- 

 voted principally to the manufacture and repair of sawmill and planing 

 mill machinery, logging equipment, etc. 



The A. M. Chcsborough Lumber Company, Thompson, Mich., was obliged 

 to close its mill and suspend operations temporarily at the close of 

 October because of the acute shortage of labor and difficulties encountered 

 in transportation of its products. The company employed from GOO to 

 <J00 people in ordinary times. 



The George Ryan Company, Oshkosh, Wis., which operates a ship- 

 building and ship repair yard on Lake Winnebago, is experiencing one of 

 the busiest seasons in its existence. The concern is building five large 

 boats for the Fox River Navigation Company and one tug for service on 

 the Fox river and Lake Winnebago, All are of wood construction. 



The poorest showing ever made in any one month since the establish- 

 ment of the department was made in October by the building inspector's 

 office at Milwaukee. There were issued 105 permits, valued at $48,878, 

 compared with 283 permits and a value of .$702,322, in October last 

 year. 



The Phoenix Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis., is breaking ground for 

 a four-story brick mill factory addition, GO by 140 feet in size, to pro- 

 vide facilities required to fill large government orders. 



The Racine Handle Company, Racine, Wis., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $10,000 to engage in the manufacture of handles for 

 tools, brooms, brushes, etc., and other hardwood specialties. The in- 

 corporators are Ralph E. Pugh, Robert V. Steele and M. E. Walker. 



A first dividend of 5 per cent, amounting to $2,489.78, has been de- 

 clared and ordered paid to creditors of the Maxson Lumber Company, 

 formerly doing business in the Majestic building, ■Milwaukee. 



The Northwestern Manufacturing Company, Fort Atkinson, Wis., is 

 running night and day shifts, GG hours per week, to fill government con- 

 tracts for office chairs. The latest order booked by the company calls 

 tor 1,000 chairs. 



The Matthews Brothers Manufacturing Company, JNIilwaukee, is work- 

 ing on a government contract calling for 200 new type airplane propellers 

 and twenty pontoons for seaplanes, 



Wisconsin casket manufacturers are experiencing exceptionally good 

 business but are badly hampered by the acute shortage of labor. Calls 

 recently were issued by the United States Employment Service for twenty- 



two men tor the Northern Casket Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., and a 

 considerable number for the Cream City Casket Company, Milwaukee. 



Joseph H. Austin, general superintendent of the main factory of the 

 Menasha Woodouware Company at Menasha, Wis., died Oct. 28 after an 

 illness of more than a year's duration. He was 60 years of age and Is 

 survived by two sons and two daughters. 



The beautiful Goodrich home at 420 Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, hai. 

 been purchased by Patrick Cudahy, a prominent meat packer, as a gift 

 to his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. August C. Beck. Mr. Beck 

 is president and general manager of the August C. Beck Company, Mil- 

 waukee, manufacturing hardwood flooring, boxes, etc. 



George L. Stephenson, formerly of Marinette, Wis., and Milwaukee, and 

 now a well known lumberman of Michigan City, Miss., spent several days 

 in Milwaukee recently on business matters. 



\ federal grand jury sitting in Milwaukee has indicted two Wisconsin 

 railroad corporations on charges of granting rebates to lumber manu- 

 facturers in violation of the Elkins act. The Chicago & North Western 

 Railroad Company is indicted on charges of granting rebates to the 

 Crocker Chair Company, Sheboygan ; Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Com- 

 pany, Soperton, and the Holt Lumber Company, Oconto. It is alleged 

 that the railroad has given rails free to these concerns in consideration 

 of patronage in routing shipments over the line. The lumber companies 

 likewise indicted on charges of accepting rebates. The "Soo Line," or 

 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company, also is 

 indicted on similar charges involving the Goodman Lumber Company, 

 Goodman, which is held on the charge of accepting rebates. 



The chair factory operated with inmates of the Milwaukee County House 

 of Correction manufactured 11,271 articles of this nature during Septem- 

 ber; 12,523 in August, and 12,041 in July, according to the latest quar- 

 terly report. The number of chairs remaining unsold on October 1 was 

 2.012. 



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The minds of the local trade are occupied mostly at present in shaping 

 things up for normal business, which it is confidently expected will shortly 



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