December 25, 1918 



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struction to Jackson, Tenn., will be completed by May next according 

 to Federal manager K. V. Taylor. 



=•< LOUISVILLE >= 



An interesting feature In connection with production ot talking machine 

 cabinets is the fact that a number of producers of low-priced but fairly 

 »ood cabinet machines are featuring black walnut cases. Bohon & Sons of 

 Harrodsburg, Ky.. manufacturing consumers who deal direct with consumers, 

 have been featuring walnut cases, at prices around $60, and claiming that 

 no first class $150 cabinet machine costs more than about .$50 to build. 

 The company in its efforts to sell machines direct by mail is telling a few 

 secrets out ot school, or making some allegations which would be hard to 

 prove. In this advertising the company calls attention to the material 

 and workmanship in a piano and in a talking machine, and then the rela- 

 tional prices of the two, as an argument that a large percentage of the 

 cost of high-priced talking machines Is in the name, patents and selling 

 costs Several other manufacturers of lower-priced talking machines are 

 going to walnut, which can be utilized in dimension stock and common 

 grades where solid cases are made. 



A consuming hardwood manufacturer recently cautioned the hardwood 

 manufacturers to hold up prices, claiming that price cutting would result 

 in the furniture and other trailes cutting prices, whereas labor is high 

 and showing no indications of going loner tor some time to come. This 

 consumer further stated that he didn't believe labor should be cut, and 

 that he felt that every effort should be made to hold prices instead of 

 cutting He had been 'approached with a lower offer, after one offer had 

 been turned down, and explained that it wasn't a question of price which 

 had kept him from buying, but the fact that he just wasn't in the mar- 

 ket, and advised the manufacturer to stick to his guns. This coming from 

 a consumer is unusual, but it is told on authority. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company, which had a quantity of aero- 

 plane stock on its hands when cancellations came out, is straightened up 

 on this matter, as the government inspectors have recently taken up the 

 stock As aeroplane stock doesn't include sap as a defect cut walnut for 

 propellers would be very hard to sell for ordinary furniture or cabinet 

 wood It is believed that the government will protect dealers holding such 

 woods to an extent where they can be utilized to advantage, while It Is 

 also believed that there will be greater extension of the aeroplane service 

 after the war than heretofore, which will result In a good demand for 

 such material. 



When peace was declared the Wood-Mosaic Company at New Albany, 

 Ind had quantities of walnut logs purchased, some en route to the plants, 

 and as a result has had a considerable quantity of walnut logs on hand 

 since the government demand let up. The company's plant at Cincinnati, 

 O which was purchased from the government during the war in connec- 

 tion with a sale of alien owned property in this country, will manufacture 

 walnut stocks exclusively hereafter. 



W P Brown & Sons Lumber Company of Louisville has made arxange- 

 ments to immediately rebuild its two band mills which were destroyed by 

 fire at Fayette, Ala., late in November. In this lire two mills were 

 destroyed, but the kilns and lumber on the yards were not hurt. Preston 

 P Joyes of the company, who was in the Officers' Training School, Camp 

 Taylor for several months, was recently commissioned a first lieutenant, 

 on "the reserve list, then mustered out, and is again on the job at the Brown 

 office. 



Edward B. Devol, formeriy sales manager of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, but more recently a lieutenant with the Coast Artillery at 

 Fortress Monroe, was recently given honorable discharge and returned to 

 his home at New Albany. He will join the company shortly after the first 

 of the year. 



Charies C. Mengell, III, grandson of C. C. Mengel of Louisville, head 

 of the Mengel Box Company and an officer in the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Co., 

 recently died at his home in Louisville of pneumonia, following an attack 

 ot influenza. Master Mengel was seven years of age. 



John Churchill of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, Greenwood, 

 Miss arrived in Louisville a few days ago and will remain here over the 

 holidays. He came a bit earlier than he had intended in order to attend 

 the convention of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



Raymond O. Embrv, brother of Harry and Norris Embry, of the Embry 

 Lumber Company and Embry Box Company, died a few days ago In Louis- 

 ville as a result of having been shot down while entering his office In the 

 Starks building by E. D. Burch, a contractor who has been mixed up in 

 numerous gun plays, and who claimed to have a grievance. Burch has been 

 in jail awaiting trial. , „ » .. 



H J Miller ot Seattle. Wash., known as the "Lumberman s Poet, was 

 in Louisville on necember 11 and 12. in attendance at the meeting ot the 

 Ohio Valley Improvement Association, a work in which he is interested 

 sufficiently that he subscribed to the campaign fund with a liberal sub- 

 scription "considering the distance he is located from the Ohio Valley. 

 The association discarded rumored plans of asking tor a Federal appro- 

 priation of $10,000,000 for barge lines, and concentrated on the greater 

 work of first having the Ohio river improved to a nine-foot stage. 



R R May, manager ot the Louisville branch of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, has gone to his old home at Dlow, Miss., where he will 



spend the holidays. _ ., «.oc rim\ 



The City Mill & Lumber Company, which recently suffered a $25,000 



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