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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1919 



Walnut 



Of Character and Color 



Manufactured at Kansas City, U. S. A. 



Large Stock of All Grades and Thickness 



Thirty-five years' experience 



IN WALNUT ONLY 



Prompt Shipment, and 

 Guaranteed Inspection 



FRANK PURCELL 



515 Dwight Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



Vestal Lumber 

 & Mfg. Company 



INCORPORATED 



POPLAR 



100,000 4/4" Com. 

 150,000 6/4" Com. 

 25,000 3" Com. 



20,000 3" 2 Com. 

 200,000 4/4" 2 Com. 

 100,000 6/4" 2 Com. 



OAK 



10,000 3" 1&2 Plain Red 



50,000 2" Com. Plain Red 



50,000 6/4" 1&2 Plain White & Red 



50,000 4/4" 1&2 Plain White 



35,000 4/4" 1x2 Quartered White Oak 



75,000 4/4" 2C Plain Red & White 



ALL BAND— GOOD WIDTHS— DRY 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT 

 VESTAL -KN^^^ig^ FONDE,KY. 



of Willi:nris, Richards & Co. of Liverpool and M. J. Sapperton of the 

 Liverpool Hardwood Company. Both called on Harve.v M. Dickson, secre- 

 tary of (ho National Lumber Exporters' Association. While they did not 

 speak of the special reason for coming to the United States at this time, it 

 is surmised that tliey desired to see about space on steamers for the ship- 

 ment of lumber. 



Information has been received of the death in that city of Mrs. Flor- 

 ence Bryan .Simmons of Hagerstown, mother of Roger E. Simmons, one of 

 the five special commissioners who were sent abroad about two years ago 

 by the I'nited States government to .study lumber trade conditions and get 

 information as to the opportunities for an expansion of the markets for 

 American woods. 



=-< COLUMBUS > 



The Itnltie Bending Company of Baltic. (_»hio, ha.^ been chartered with 

 a capital of ^1.5,000 to deal in lumber and do woodwork manufacturing. 

 The incorporators are C. Aukerman, J. G. Crill, G. I. Schumaker, A. W. 

 Stantz and Charles B. Klein. 



M. M. Farber of Ft. Wayne. Ind., who has been with the Dayton branch 

 of the Curtis Sash & Door Company, has accepted a position with Charles 

 T. Abies & Co., Little Rock. 



The Prospect Lumber Company of Prospect. Ohio, has been incorporated 

 with a capital of .$15,000 by Peter Kuntz, Martin Kuntz, J. A. Payne, G. F. 

 Hill and H. C. Dietenbach. 



D. J. Peterson of the D. J. Peterson Lumber Company, Toledo, accom- 

 panied by his wife, has left for a long trip in California. 



The capital of tbe Winn Cypress Company of Dayton has been increased 

 from .$10,000 to $20,000. 



The Ea.st Ohio Lumber Company of Warren has been chartered with 

 a capital of $100,000 by J. W. Walsh, W. R. Miller, R. M. Smith, C. C. 

 McConnell and Sol Lowendorf. 



The Ilaines-Walker Lumber Company of Warren has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $50,000 by John F. Haines, Henry G. Welker, C. C. 

 Clawson, William J. Hyde and George Hunting. 



E. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a better 

 feeling in hardwood circles. Inquiries both from retailers and manu- 

 facturing plants are more numerous. Prices are well maintained in every 

 locality and he expects a better trade when the spring building season 

 opens. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >-= 



.John (_'. KelliT, traffic manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, has 

 been notified that the freight rates on shingles from the north Pacific coast 

 to points in the East have been increased eighty cents on the hundred and 

 rates on lumber have increased seventy cents on the hundred. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lunlber Co. has returned from a trip 

 through the South and reports that he found business conditions coming 

 along all right. Mr. Greer sees nothing of a discouraging nature in the 

 lumber situation at the present time, he says. He does not look for any 

 lowering of lumber prices during the present year. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz reports that the business of his com- 

 pany during the past year ran over the million dollar mark and he looks 

 for the company to do as well, if not better, during the present year. 

 Mr. Wertz is of the opinion that the export lumber liusiness will begin 

 to look up soon. In fact, he has received numerous inquiries from foreign 

 buyers since the ending of the European war. "We expect to see foreign 

 buyers put in their appearance in this city before very long," said Mr. 

 Wertz. 



William H. McCurdy, head of the Hercules Buggy Company, has been 

 re-elected president of the Morris Plan Bank of this city. Daniel Wertz 

 of Maley & Wertz has been re-elected vice-president and Edward Wemyss 

 of the Wemyss Furniture Company has been re-elected treasurer of the 

 institution. 



. John C. Keller, traffic manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 has been notified that there is no longer any discrimination in freight ship- 

 ments from and to Evansville. Beds, dressers, chairs and other commodities 

 are now on an equal footing with searchlights, steam shovels, gasoline 

 engines and plows. A shipment of furniture from this city now gets to 

 Chicago as quickly as a carload of coal. Another order from the war trade 

 board permits the shipment of all kinds of commodities to Holland, pro- 

 vided they are consigned care of the Netherlands Overseas Trust and are 

 sent on Dutch vessels. The Netherlands Overseas Trust is a serai-official 

 organization, which hamlles virtually all importations into Holland, guar- 

 anteeing payment and distribution. 



H. H. Schu, president of the United States Furniture Company and sec- 

 retary and treasurer of the Crescent Furniture Company, both of this city, 

 is expecting a big increase in the foreign business of Evansville manu- 

 facturers during the nest year. He says that in the past local manu- 

 facturers have not gone after this foreign business to, any great extent, 

 but now that the war is over and new conditions have arisen he believes 

 the manufacturers will be more anxious to expand their markets, 



F. Webster McClure, aged twenty-seven years, manager of the branch 

 of the Simpson Lumber Companj' at Vincenues. Ind.. died of pneumonia at 

 his home in tlmt city a few days ago after a short illness. He was one of 

 the best known lumbermen in that section of the state and widely popular. 



The Evansville Manufacturers' Association has elected A. V. Burch of 



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