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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1918 



pany, received a great surprise recently in the announcement that he had 

 been married. The bride was Miss Anna Slioolbred, daughter of John N. 

 Shoolbrcd. a business man of WaynesviUe. N. C, where the ceremony 

 took place. The couple afterward wont on a tour and are now residing 

 on Park avenue, in the residence which Mr. Wood has occupied for years. 



--•<, COLUMBUS > 



John SStahlfauth, who was Inrmeriy connected with the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, and later with the war department in Washington, has 

 been appointed manager of the Detroit ofBee of the W. M. Ritter company 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. R. Asher. which occurred 

 several weeks ago. Mr. Stahlfauth has taken up his new duties. Mr. 

 .\sher was connected with the Detroit office for about nine years and was 

 well known in the lumber industry. Previous to his connection with the 

 W. M. Ritter company he was engaged in the lumber business with the 

 Coffman Lumber Company of Washington Court House, O., and later with 

 the Marvin Woodworking Company of Columbus. 



R. W. llorton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company says trade in hard- 

 woods is rather quiet since hostilities ceased. He looks for an increase 

 in business gradually after the reaction is passed. Prices are firm all along 

 the line and shipments are coming out fairly well. 



J. A. I'''ord of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a fairly good demand 

 for hardwoods from West Virginia with prices remaining firm in every 

 respect. 



Lumbermen generally in central Ohio territory believe that there will 

 be more activity in the lumber business with the closing of hostilities. 

 While the time of the year is not favorable for any great expansion in 

 t)uilding operations, still quite a few building projects are already being 

 revived. 



yards in that city. The machine is mounted on trucks and is operated 

 i)y a traction engine, but the carriage of the saw is Just the same as is 

 used in larger mills. The machine was made for the purpose of sawing 

 out small tiinher into railroad ties for the government. It has the advan- 

 tage over other equipment of its kind because it is easily carried from 

 one place 1o another. 



S. J. Peabody. a lumberman of Columbia City, Ind., has purchased a 

 winter home at Daytona Beach, Fla. 



The Peabody Lumber Company of Plymouth, Ind., has opened a branch 

 mill at Bourbon, Ind.. and has purchased a 100-acre farm for $20,600. 

 .\bout fifty acres of fine hardwood timber are on this farm and the timber 

 will he cut as soon as possible. 



■< EVANSVILLE >• 



=-< CLEVELAND >•- 



Hardwood business will benefit with lumber of all kinds in this district 

 as a result of peace arrival. Immediate effect of the new condition will 

 not be noticeable as much in hardwoods as in other lines of lumber on the 

 ground that it will take several months for building to get under way, 

 If the winter is at all mild. Inquiries for hardwoods tor interior finish 

 in housing construction will be among the first to be heard, and it is in 

 this direction, the principal outlet in normal times, that the trade will 

 benefit most here. Already there are permits for 200 houses which had 

 been passed by the local non-war construction committee, but not sanc- 

 tioned by the state or national authorities. These are expected to be 

 released at once, and at least part of the 12.500 houses needed here will 

 he under way soon, it is believed. These 200 houses will be financed pri- 

 vately, but the deposits in national and state banks here since September, 

 1916, have increased as well, from about S455,(10(l,000 at that time to 

 $510,000,000 which, if taken, will permit building and loan associations to 

 obtain new loans by the sale of their mortgages to trust companies, which 

 will afford still further financing independent of the banks. 



Hardwood interests are backing the movement to safeguard all industries/ 

 in The Flats in the event the proposed new union passenger railroad 

 station is built. Arch C. Klumph. president of the Cuyahoga Lumber 

 Company, and C. H. Prescott of the .Saginaw Bay Lumber Company, are 

 on the lumber committee of the Cuyahoga Valley Business Association 

 formed for this purpose. It the station is built on the Public Square, 

 as proposed, it will mean the vacating of many streets leading into The 

 Flats, among them West Third street, considered the principal thorough- 

 fare. This is the shortest route for all trucks going to the city proper. 

 If this street is closed it will mean a long roundabout course around the 

 northerly hill of The Flats, over a steep grade. Lumber and allied inter- 

 ests have suggested a tunnel be bored through the liill at West Third 

 sirei'i. leading up to the city proper by a light grade. 



During the several months prior to the signing of peace there was an 

 abnormal amount of materiaj on hand here. Many yards were over- 

 stocked. To unload these stocks in the regular way might have resulted 

 in uustabilizing prices. Yards that were short of these materials were 

 permitted to take them at market quotations. Through this plan 500.000 

 feet of all kinds of material have been thus exchanged. 



< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The phint of the Hawks Furniture Company, established in Goshen, Ind., 

 in 1875, has been sold to a stock company composed of Herbert H. Gortner, 

 Myron C. Dow and Charles E. Gorham of Goshen, M. E. Austbrook and 

 E. L. Jones of Sturges, Mich., and John W. Shank and James D. Miskell 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Jones and Mr. Miskell were former Goshen 

 residents. Messrs. .\ustbrook and Jones own the Austbrook-Jones Fur- 

 niture Company of Sturges, Mich., to which city Mr. Jones removed about 

 ten years ago. Messrs. Shank and Miskell are experienced furniture sales- 

 tiuMi and will sell the output of the factory. The new company is capital- 

 ized at $100,000. 



The infiuenza epidemic throughout tlu' country caused sucli a demand 

 for the production of casket factories in Indiana that many of these con- 

 cerns made public appeals for workmen. Many of the plants have been 

 working to capacity night and day and production has been speeded up 

 in every way possible. 



The S. J. Peabody Lumber Company of Columbia City, Ind., has per- 

 fected a miniature sawmill and now has one of the machines at its lumber 



Since the announcement of peace there has been a great awakening in 

 building operations in Evansville. For the past year building operations 

 in Evansville and many other southern Indiana towns have been prac- 

 tically at a standstill. Now there is new life in all building lines, and 

 contractors, building material men, and yellow pine dealers are making 

 elaborate plans for the future. It is expected that the winter weather 

 Will retard building in this section to some extent, but by spring build- 

 ing plans will be well under way, and it is expected that next year will 

 witness one of the biggest building booms in the history of Evansville. 

 Everything points to that and public Improvements that have been at a 

 standstill for over a year upon order of the State Council of Defense, art 

 expected to start up anew, and things are going to boom, in the opinion 

 of lumbermen. Real estate dealers in this city report there is already 

 new life in their trade, and that many inquiries are coming in from all 

 directions. 



The next meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will be held at 

 the new Hotel McCurdy on Tuesday night, December 10, at which time 

 annual election of officers will be held and the newly-elected officers will 

 be installed. 



Gustavo -\. Nonweiler, aged forty-sis, for many years head of the Evans- 

 ville Furniture Company, died at his home here a few days ago following 

 an operation. He was well known among the lumber manufacturers. 



In the opinion of Daniel Wertz of Maley and Wertz. this city, it 

 will take from eight to twelve months before the business of the United 

 States settles down to a normal basis. George O. Worland of the Evans- 

 ville Veneer Company, and president of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 gives it as his opinion that it will take a much longer time. "The thing 

 for the manufacturers to do is to sit steady in the boat and not attempt 

 to rock it," said Daniel Wertz the other day. "Business is going to 

 improve from time to time and in my opinion there are great things in 

 store for the American people, but they must wait and not grow impatient. 

 Things are looking better every day and I am quite optimistic over the 

 results." Mr. Wertz and many other manufacturers of this section believe 

 that within a short time they will be able to greatly increase their foreign 

 trade. For the past two or three years they have done practically no export 

 business. They are looking for new markets in the South and Central 

 American countries, and in many other countries as well. 



Frank Albus, secretary of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, a few- 

 days ago announced plans for a campaign here to raise $250,000, which 

 will be used to bring new factories to Evansville and to assist those that 

 are already here. The campaign to raise the money will start within a 

 short time, and lumber manufacturers and retail dealers will take a promi- 

 nent part in the drive. 



The BicknoU Improvement Company at Blcknell, Ind., a few days ago 

 let the contract for the building of twenty-five dwellings houses, and as 

 soon as these buildings are completed early nest year, contracts for more 

 dwellings will be let. 



A. H. Mankedick. who for the past several years has been manager of 

 the Groer-Wilkinsou Lumber Company and the Allan Wilkinson Lumber 

 Company at Petersburg, Ind., has resigned his position and gone to 

 Sullivan. Ind. to embark in the retail hardware business with his brother. 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



J. W. Dickson, president of the Valley Log Loading Company, reports 

 that firm is loading logs on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley and the Mis- 

 souri Pacific roads on a basis of about 1,300 cars a month at present. 

 For the first sixteen days of the current month, 750 cars were deliverea 

 to mills in Memphis and other points on these two lines of railway. 



Mr. Dickson says that weather conditions have seriously interfered 

 with logging operations during the past several weeks but that the quan- 

 tity of logs prepared for shipments has been materially larger than indi- 

 cated a short time ago when so many millmen were threatening to close 

 down their plants following enforcement of the sweeping embargo order 

 placed by the car service section of the United States railroad administra- 

 tion. 



The labor supply is materially larger in the wooils and this is proving 

 a help not only in preparing timber for delivery to the mills but also in 

 hauling it to the railroads and loading it on cars. 



The Memphis Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association will have able representation at the forthcoming reconstruc- 

 tion conference at Atlantic City, December 4-6, when business interests 

 generally will squarely face problems created by the ending of the war 



