January Id, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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RED GUM y 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



12M' 8/4 FAS 



PLAIN 



3M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



15M' 8/4 FAS 



QUARTERED 



8M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



We have the above amounts on 

 hand in dry stock, manufactured 

 on our own band tnitls, and can 

 make 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



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F. E. Stonebraker, secretary of the Southern Alluvial Land Association, 

 says that formal program is now being arranged for the forthcoming 

 annual of that organization to be held in Memphis January 31. He inti- 

 mates that there will be a number of unusual features and says that 

 everything points to an exceptionally large attendance. 



Erskine Williams has become sales manager for the General Lumber 

 Company, of this city, and has already entered upon his new duties. He 

 only recently secured his discharge from the officers" training camp at 

 Camp Gordon, near Atlanta, following signing of the armistice by Ger- 

 many. He is in line for a commission in the reserve corps of the regular 

 army. Before entering the training camp last September, Mr. Williams 

 was sales manager for the Bliss-Cook Oak Company, Blissville, Ark., and 

 prior to his connection with that firm he was assistant sales manager for 

 the Lamb-Fish Luml>er Company. He therefore brings to his new connec- 

 tion, which handles all hardwoods but which specializes in cypress, wide 

 experience in the selling end of the lumber business. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



Berry Norman of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, has gone South for 

 a few days to inspect the company's southern mills, and go over the 

 general situation. 



R. R. May. Louisville manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic As- 

 sociation, who has been in the South, is expected back about January 15. 



Preston Joyes of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, 

 reports the arrival of Preston Joyes, Jr. Mr. Joyes was recently com- 

 missioned a lieutenant at Camp Taylor, but has been mustered out and 

 is back at the office again. 



B. F. Avery & Sons, Louisville manufacturers of plows and tillage im- 

 plements, have recently taken over the Champion line of harvesting 

 machinery, formerly made by the International Harvester Company, 

 which is being regulated by anti-trust laws. The Louisville concern will 

 erect several additions to its plant, and increase its force from SOO to 

 1,200 people. 



The Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company has recently declared 

 a three per cent somi-annual dividend, the first of several years. Efficient 

 management and excellent progress on war orders finally took the old 

 concern out of the hands of the bankers and placed it on its feet. 



With a capital of $18,000 the Vine Grove Lumber Company, Vine 

 Grove, Ky., has been incorporated by Neff Jenkins, William M. Essex, 

 E. H. Massie and T. O. Gatton. The same men have incorporated the 

 Glendale Lumber Company, Glendalf. Ky.. capital .$20,000. 



The Wirth, Long & P.orgcl Coiiiiiany. manufacturers of interior fixtures. 

 Louisville, has recently <'hanged its title to the Wirth-Long Company, 

 and increased its capital from $20,000 to $30,000. 



The Louisville Board of Trade has recently adopted resolutions calling 

 on Congress for the return of American railroads to their rightful owners 

 at the earliest possible moment. The organization favors a continuation 

 of open terminals, car pooling and direct routing of freights, however. 



Announcement was recently made by tho C. C Mengel & Brother Com- 

 pany of Louisville, to the effect that it would spII at public auction 2.500 

 shares of common stock and 1.1S8 shares of preferred stock in the Rich- 

 land Parish Lumber Company, a Kentucky corporation, which has a 

 fine, but idle mill in Louisiana. 



=-<; BEAUMONT >.= 



Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont Lumber Company, has 

 been re-elected president of the Beaiunont chamber of commerce, the first 

 time that honor has been conferred upon a citizen in the history of the 

 organization which dates back eighteen years. Mr. Woodhead was in- 

 duced to rescind his determination not to accept another term when It 

 was made known to him that the election was unanimous and the direc- 

 tors had refused to consider any other name. 



Mr. Woodhead first began his career as a lumberman as a stenographer 

 for thp old Texas Tram & Lumber Company. He rapidly rose in that 

 organization until it was purchased by the Kirby Lumber Company when 

 he removed to Houston for a short time, being connected with the Con- 

 tinental Lumber Company. Returning to Beaumont, he organized the 

 Beaumont Lumber Company, dealing in hardwood and yellow pine. 

 WTien elected president of the chamber of commerce it was in debt and 

 its activities at a low ebb. He promptly called the most Influential mem- 

 bers together, a large part of them lumbermen, and stated that if he was 

 to have anything to do with the work it would have to be run on the 

 same principle as he applied to the lumber business. At this meeting 

 $28,000 was raised to place the organization on its feet and, under his 

 guidance, has accomplished more than in any previous five years of its 

 history. 



"Enormous business to follow," is well taken, according to a statement 

 of L. L. Chipman, manager of the export department of the Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company in a review of European conditions. Before the war 

 Mr. Chipman was a frequent visitor to Europe in connection with the 

 business of the company and has kept in close touch with lumber condi- 

 tions on the other side of the Atlantic during hostilities. 



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