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Sullivan of Buffalo, did quite a good business for a while, liut has now 

 retired and been dissolved. In this connectiou Mr. Sullivan obtained con- 

 trol of a sawmill at Jamestown, N. Y.. where considerable of the stuff 

 was sawed out. The Jamestown member of the company was Warren 

 Ross, proprietor of the mill. Mr. Sullivan also bought a large amount of 

 rejected Pacific coast lumber at the Curtiss plant here, for which he ob- 

 tained a ready market. 



The Buffalo Automobile Club held an athletic contest and boxing match 

 at Elmwood Music Hall a few nights ago and the members presented to 

 President Orson E. Yeager a beautifiil Turkish rug in recognition of his 

 services in office. In his reply he stated that the club now had a mem- 

 bership of 4,500, and though these are record-breaking figures he hoped 

 to see them doubled. James B. Wall was elected a director of the club. 



The building of wooden canal boats is progressing rather more slowly 

 than friends of that class of work would like to see. The fact that every- 

 body is hesitating over It is shown by the fact that the Buffalo Marine 

 Construction Company states it went out of wooden shipbuilding last 

 August, when it completed twenty lighters for the government. Since 

 that time no orders have been obtained, although the company looks for 

 something in wood for the canal next summer. 



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The annual meeting of the Massachusetts WTiolesale Lumber Associa- 

 tion, Inc., was held at Youngs hotel, Boston, Wednesday evening, Decem- 

 ber 11, and the following officers were elected : President, H. M. Bick- 

 ford of the H. M. Bickford Company ; vice-president, Welles Blanchard of 

 the Blanchard Lumber Company ; treasurer, E. Carleton Hammond and 

 secretary, Arthur M. Moore. The directors are the first three named 

 officials, with Martin A. Brown, H. W. McDonough, Wm. Bacon, Donald 

 F. Cutler, C. F. Leatherbee, R. H. Stevens, H. C. Philbrick and Wendell 

 M. Weston. Delegate to the Massachusetts State Board of Trade, Martin 

 A. Brown, and delegate to the Chamber of Commerce of United States of 

 America, Wm. E. Litchfield. 



The reports of the president and secretary developed the especially 

 valuable work of the association during periods of rapid changes in con- 

 ditions indicating the continued advantages of organized effort through 

 the many readjustments to come. Resolutions were adopted by the as- 

 sociation on the death of Waterman A. Taft. 



The speaker of the evening was S. A. Linnekln of Babson's Statistical 

 Organization whose subject was "The Building Outlook." He was opti- 

 mistic as to the trade in 1919 especially the first half of the year, citing 



many elements of the situation which could not he disregarded as factors 

 of heavy consumption. He believed that a "breathing spell" after the 

 excessive activity of the last few years was certain to take place, but 

 the buying power and necessities were very real facts, while the disposi- 

 tion to use personal initiative and private enterprise for constructive 

 purposes had been so deeply implanted that, to him, the outlook for a 

 commodity of the character of lumber was good. 



W. W. Schupner of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion brought to the meeting a better realization of the mode and objects 

 of the Atlantic, City conference. W. S. Phippen, traffic manager of the 

 National association expressed the view that traffic conditions were to 

 improve still more, even to the state where the Trunk Lines would soon be 

 soliciting business. T. H. Shepard of Shepard & Mor.se Lumber Company 

 made some interesting statements of several causes of enforceti curtail- 

 ment in production in the northeastern field. 



Kelly Brothers. Inc., have been organized at Gardner, Mass., with 

 capital of $100,000 for the manufacture of chairs, baby carriages, etc., 

 the incorporators being John B. and R. T. B. Kelly. 



Bankruptcy is reported of the Stockbridge Body Company of Spring- 

 field, Mass., with liabilities of $14,000 and assets of about $4,000. 



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S. O. Moore, formerly Framptou-Foster's manager here, has organized 

 the Tennessee Saw Mills Company and has opened offices in the HoIstOD 

 Bank building. He already has several nice orders from the railroad 

 administration, making a specialty of railroad supplies. 



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Fire broke out in one of the ouildings of the Spedden Shipbuilding 

 Company plant, on December 7, and destroyed a lot of patterns, together 

 with much other valuable material, causing a total loss estimated at 

 perhaps $100,000. Some $1,200 or $1,500 of this falls on the Canton 

 Lumber Company, whose place adjoins. 



Hardwood men display decidedly more inactivity than they have shown, 

 as far as this activity is indicated by business trips, and a number of 

 visitors have been here in the last two weeks. Among them were R. H. 

 Darnell of R. J. Darnell, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. ; Mr. Ransom of the 

 Gayoso Lumber Company of Memphis ; C. L. Drawbaugh of E. W. Mc- 

 Clave & Son of New York and N. Atwood Hanlng of the West Virginia 

 Aircraft Company .of Wheeling. W. Va. Messrs. Darnell and Ransom 



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