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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1919 



We Want 

 to Buy 



"POPLAR" 



1" Firsts and Seconds, 

 Selects and Saps. Any quantity. 



Can use stoch 30 days or 

 longer on sticks 



J.V.STIMSON&CO. 



OWENSBORO, KY. 



VESTAL LUMBER 

 & MFG. COMPANY 



INCORPORATED 



Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



The Folding Furniture Company, Stevens Point, Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $50,000 by J. J. Bukolt and others. 



The Tinsel Manufacturing Company, Manitowoc, Wis., which for several 

 years operated a large toy factory at 51 Oneida street, Milwaukee, has 

 moved this department to the main works at Manitowoc. William C. Protz 

 is president and general manager. 



The Janesvllle Housing Corporation, incorporated recently at Janesville, 

 Wis., with a capital stock of $300,000 by leading manufacturers, business 

 and professional men, will build 500 dwellings, about 250 of which are 

 planned to be undertaken this year, J. P. CuUen is in general charge of 

 the project. 



L. A. Black, for five years connected with the J. R. Andrews Lumber 

 Company. Escanaba, Mich., nas resigned to accept the position of pro- 

 iluition manager of the Iron Range Lumber Company, Pentoga, Mich. 



The Appleton Hub & Spoke Company, Appleton, Wis., sustained a heavy 

 loss by fire, which on January 28 destroyed its main factory, a landmark 

 of the vicinity. John Tracy, who has been connected with the interest 

 since 1S65 and is now principal owner, intends to resume operations in a 

 new location at once. 



J. R. Meyers, Chicago, who owns several tracts of hardwood timber and 

 considerable stocks of hardwood material in, the vicinity of Sheldon, Wis., 

 is planning to establish a woodenware and novelty goods manufacturing 

 plant at that point. It will employ about twenty-five operatives at the 

 beginning. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee and Ashland, Wis., will 

 build a .?10,000 addition to its general office building at the foot of Walnut 

 street in Milwaukee. 



The West Side Manufacturing Company, 3100 Walnut street, Mil- 

 waukee, a large maker of store fixtures, interior woodwork, etc., has 

 Incorporated its business without change of style, with an authorized cap- 

 ital stock of $200,000. Jesse Cappon, Albert Quast and Edward Schild- 

 knecht, who have been the principal partners, are the main stockholders 

 and principal officers of the new corporation. 



The Wisconsin Shiplmilding & Navigation Corporation, Milwaukee, which 

 was organized In May, 1918, with a capital stock of $5,000,000, is ready 

 to proceed with the establishment of plant and yards. The city of Kewau- 

 nee, Wis., has contributed a forty-acre site on the Inner harbor, at the 

 mouth of the river and Lake Michigan. Provision will be made to build 

 six boats of 3500 tons each year. George F. J«hnson, head of the Johnson 

 Lumber Company, Milwaukee, and other well known lumbermen of Wis- 

 consin are interested in the project. 



The United Phonographs Corporation, Sheboygan, Wis., which is owned 

 and controlled by the same interests as the Wisconsin Chair Company, 

 and operates in the three plants of that company in Sheboygan, Port 

 Washington and Grafton, Wis., is preparing to increase its facilities. The 

 first extension to be made will be that of the Sheboygan factory. Twelfth 

 street and Illinois avenue. Fred R. Dennett is president and general 

 manager. 



The Northland Lumber Company, Green Bay, Wis., which lost its sawmlf! 

 by fire several months ago, has not completed definite plans for the future, 

 but it is reported that an arrangement will be made with the Sawyer- 

 Goodman Company, Marinette, to do its sawmill work. This, however, is 

 not confirmed. 



The Milwaukee Talking Machine Company, 41C-418 Fourth street, Mil- 

 waukee, has lea.sed additional floor space and is installing much new wood- 

 working equipment. The company is having tentative plans and estimates 

 prepared for a complete factory group of its own, which may be under- 

 taken late this year or in the spring of 1919. Stanley F. Roth is secre- 

 tary and general manager. 



An interview by E. Schroeder, vice-president of the Joseph Flxter Coop- 

 erage Company. 457 Fourth street, Milwaukee, is to the effect that the 

 company does not anticipate an extensive loss Ijy reason of the progress 

 of the dry movement to the point of absolute prohibition. Coopers, he 

 says, have turned to other lines and already have compensated largely for 

 the loss of business which the decline of brewing and distilling has suffered 

 in recent years. There are so many other sources of business, Mr. Schroeder 

 says, that in time the absence of demand for cooperage from liquor sources 

 will be entirely overcome. 



Maj. Edward Scofleld, Oconto, Wis., former governor of Wisconsin and 

 a pioneer in the timber, logging and lumber manufacturing Industry of 

 the North, is reported to be seriously ill at his home. Maj. Scofleld is 

 seventy-two years of age and it is feared that this may be an unfavorable 

 factor in his recovery. 



R. Bruce Stewart, vice-president of the Rieckboff Box & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Superior, Wis., died January 25 after a long illness with a rheumatic 

 trouble. He was thirty-four years of age and is survived by his widow 

 and two small children. 



Lieut. William Lee, U. S. A., formerly lumber expert for the Hamilton 

 Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wis., and widely known in the hard- 

 wood industry, died of disease in France on December 24, according to 

 notice received by his brother, T. E. Lee, general manager of the Below 

 Lumber Company, Marshfleld, Wis. 



Henry I.,. Colman, secretary of the C. 1... Colman Lumber Company, 

 LaCrosse, Wis., died February 1 at the age of flfty-seven years. For 

 many years Mr. Colman was manager of the Colman company's saw and 

 planing mills at LaCrosse, but since these were abandoned he took only an 

 inactive interest in the management of the business. 



