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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1919 



Dawson Lumber Company Starts Business 



Feeling that the future of the hardwooJ industry is more promising than 

 at any previous time in several years the Dawson Lumber Company of 

 Louisville opened for business on January 2. This concern was organ- 

 ized several months ago, hut decided to sidetrack its plans until the close 

 of war. Now conditions are again promising, and the company has gotten 

 ready to make a hard drive, featuring poplar and other hardwoods. 



The Dawson Lumber Company is Incorporated with, a capital of $30,000. 

 J. L. Dawson of Louisville is president ; .Tohn W. Kitchen of Ashland, 

 vice-president, and K. S. Dawson of Louisville, secretary-treasurer. Mr. 

 J. L. Dawson has been connccte<l with the Norman Lumber Company for 

 the past fifteen years, in the capacity of purchasing agent and sales man- 

 ager. John Kitchen of Ashland is an officer and stockholder, but will not 

 be active in the management. Mr. Kitchen is a large eastern Kentucky 

 hardwood operator and well known in the trade. R. S. Dawson has been 

 In the lumber business for ten years, having started with the Kentucky 

 Wagon Manufacturing Company, and later being with the Norman Lum- 

 ber Company. For the past few years he has been with the North Vernon 

 Lumber Company of North Vcmon. Ind., at its Louisville plant. All three 

 men have had a very wide experience in the hardwood industry, and espe- 

 cially in handling Kentucky and Indiana oak, poplar and other hardwoods. 



This company has recently closed a lease with the Louisville Planing 

 Mill Company for the old mill property of the Parkland Sawmill Company, 

 Beech and Woodlawn streets. This property will be used as a rehandling 

 yard. Offices for the present will be over the offices of the Louisville 

 Planing Mill Company, but will later be in a new building which will be 

 erected in the spring. 



The company lias made arrangements with adjoinnig lumber concerns 

 for dressing and finishing stock, and will feature both rough and dressed 

 lumber. Later on it plans on entering the manufacturing end, featuring 

 beveled poplar siding, and probably poplar box shooks. The poplar line 

 is the one that will be featured to the greatest extent, as J. L. Dawson 

 has been a poplar man for a number of years, but the company will handle 

 a general line of hardwoods, from the South and adjoining districts. 



During the past year the company was incorporated, and a plant was 

 purchased in South Louisville and partly equipped. J. L. Dawson was 

 not especially pleased with the outlook at that time, and was made an 

 excellent offer on the plant, which he turned over at a nice profit without 

 turning a wheel. However, he is now in the hardwood game to stay, and 

 believes that 1919 affords great prospects for the general hardwood 

 industry. 



Roussel-Ryan Wedding 



On January 2, 1919, at the home of the bride at Memphis, Tcnn., occurred 

 the marriage of George Albert Roussel and Miss Kathryn Francis Ryan, 

 Monsignor Murphy of St. Patrick's Church officiating. The attendants 

 were Miss Claire V. Ryan, sister of the bride, and St. Claire Roussel, 

 brother of the groom. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. 

 R.van of Memphis. Mr. Ryan is head of the Philip A. Ryan Lumber Com- 

 pany, whose mills are at Lufkin, Texas. Mr. Roussel has been with the 

 I'nited States Pure Food Department, in the Lufkin district. He was 

 formerly with the Angelina County Lumber Company. Miss Ryan for the 

 past year had been with the P. A. Ryan Lumber Company at Lufkin. She 

 Is an accomplished violinist. Mr. and Mrs. Roussel will make their home 

 in Lufkin. I 



New Lumber Company for Memphis 

 Thompson & De Fenelon is the style of the latest addition to the Mem- 

 phis hardwood trade. The firm was organized to handle ash, oak and gum 

 and is located in the Central State National Bank building at Memphis. 

 The active man in the business is I. S. De Fenelon, who has been well- 

 known for his association in the purchasing department of the Anchor 

 Saw Mills Company, Memphis. He will be the active manager and will 

 have associated with him Jake Thompson of Powell, Miss. Several mill 

 cuts have nircnfiy been secured. 



Upham & Walsh, Inc., Succeeds Upham & Agler 

 Upham & Walsh, Inc., a ?150,00C company, with that amount of money 

 all paid in, succeeds the old firm of Dphara & Agler on Throop street, 

 Chicago. James C. Walsh, who has been manager of the company since 

 the death of Oliver O. Agler several years ago, retains his association with 

 Fred W. Upham, Walsh becoming vice-president and treasurer, and con- 

 tinuing in active management of the concern. 



The concern does a wholesale hardwood lumber business, but Mr. Walsh 

 states that there will be absolutely no change in its policy or methods. 



Adair Lockwood Dies 



Adair Lockwood, vice-president of the Germain Company, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., died on Monday, January 6, following a virulent attack of influenza, 

 which developed into pneumonia, 



Mr. Lockwood had a wide experience in the lumber business. He was 

 thirty-four years old at the time of his death and was born in Houston, Tex. 



After graduation from college he entered the employ of the Kirby Lum- 

 ber Company, later becoming sales manager for the Thompson-Tucker 

 Lumber Company, and also for the American Lumber Company at Merry- 

 ville. La. 



His connection with the Germain Company started in 1913 when he 

 became sales manager, attaining the office of vice-president two years ago, 

 During 1917 and part of 191S he was in charge of western sales in the 

 Chicago office. 



Mr. Lockwood is survived by his widow and daughter. Marjorie, thirteen 

 years of age. Also by his father and mother and a sister. 



The services took place in the Pittsburgh Cathedral at nine o'clock 

 Wednesday morning. January 8, 



W. W. Brown Organizes Sales Agency 

 W, W. Brown, formerl.v of Two Rivers, Wis., but more recently in the 

 government service as buyer of airplane veneers and hardwoods, has opened 

 offices at 1630 Old Colony building, Chicago, where he will operate a lum- 

 ber sales agency. 



Mr. Brown is recognized as a ranking expert in northern hardwoods 

 and takes up his new work with every promise for successful development. 

 Previous to going in on government war work he was wood expert and 

 buyer for the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wis., with 

 which concern he had been associated for a number of years. During one 

 interval, however, he served as hardwood sales manager for a very large 

 Wisconsin operation, but left to return again to the Two Rivers connection. 

 Mr. Brown will cover territory within a prescribed radius around 

 Chicago, and will handle the stock for two Wisconsin mills well known 

 for the quality of their output and the integrity of their business methods, 

 namely, the Rib Lake Lumber Company of Rib Lake, Wis., and the Brooks 

 & Ross Lumber Company, Schofield, "Wis. Both concerns are large opera- 

 tors and Mr, Brown will have available a ver.v complete and well assorted 

 stock of high-grade lumber. 



L. DAWSON, PUESIDLNT DAWSON 

 LUMBER COMPANr. 



S. DAWSON, SlXliEIAKV-TRKASURER 

 DAWSON LUMBER COMPANY, 



W. W. BROWN, CHICAGO, ILL. 



