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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1919 



President Morgan announced that the regular nominating committee to 

 select officers for the year would be composed of the following: F. H. 

 Dooling, Myles Byrnes and Dwight Hinckley. The following committee 

 was named from the floor : R. W. Phillips, Roy Thompson and Newell 

 Hargrave. 



John R. O'Neill, head of the committee on telephone service, was 

 instructed to watch the course of the proceedings in the Ohio courts, 

 where an injunction has been issued against the new rates. 



The club, on motion ot Harry R. Browne, went on record .as opposed 

 to the repeal of the ordinance which would give an extra hour of daylight. 



The following firms were elected to membership : Howard-Barber Lum- 

 ber Company, Harry F. Henry & Co., Lyon Lumber Company, Risley- 

 Roudebush Lumber Company, Ward-Montgomery Lumber Company, Edgett 

 & Fulton Lumber Company, Milne, Hall & Johns, Inc., and L. W. Rading 

 &Co. 



Ryan Heads Southwestern Club 



At the meeting of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club 

 held at New Orleans on February 24, Philip A. Ryan of Lufkin, Tex., was 

 elected president ; F. L. Adams, Eunice, La., is first vice-president ; J. B. 

 Robinson, Mound, La., second vice-president and A. N. Smith, Blanks, 

 La., third vice-president, with A. C. Bowen of Alexandria, La., secretary. 

 Directors for three years are : C. E. Walden, Beaumont ; H. J. Brenner, 

 Alexandria ; Albert De Deutsch, Oakdale, La. 



The next meeting will be held at Alexandria, March 19. 



With the Trade 



C. W. Hill Represents Rib Lake Lumber Company 



The Rib Lake Lumber Company of Rib Lake, Wis., announces that C. 

 W. Hill is now representing that firm in southern Wisconsin. Mr. Hill 

 lives at Jlilton Junction, Wis., this being very accessible to all parts of 

 the territory he covers. The company is sending out a monthly stock lii5t 

 covering its hemlock and hardwood stocks. 



The Rib Lake Lumber Company has established a remarkably clean 

 reputation for honesty of its methods and goods. 



J. T. Kendall Becomes Manager of Lumber Company 



J. T. Kendall, assistant secretary of the .\merican Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, has resigned his position, effective March 15, to be- 

 come sales manager of the Gayoso Lumber Company which has two large 

 band mills in Memphis and Blaine, Miss., and which carries from 10,000,- 

 000 to 12,000,000 feet of southern hardwoods in stock. 



Mr. Kendall was Assistant manager of the old gum association until 

 he was made secretary of the old oak association. When these two bodies 

 were merged into the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, he 

 was made assistant secretary of this. He is very popular with members 

 of this body and his resignation has been accepted by officers of this 

 organization with expressions of the most sincere regret. His successor 

 has not yet been announced. He is no stranger to the selling end of the 

 lumber business. He was. before becoming identified with the association 

 work, assistant sales manager of the York Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 



pany, Memphis, and prior to that he was connected with the sales depart- 

 ment of the Memphis Column Company. He is a comparatively young 

 man and has such ability and such energy that his friends are making 

 very optimistic predictions regarding his future. 



To Operate Casket Factory 



The old Bennett furniture factory at Charlotte, Mich., which has stood 

 idle during the past ten years, has been sold to Grand Rapids parties 

 who will convert it into a factory for making hardwood caskets. The 

 firm will be known as the Charlotte Casket Company. The factory has 

 a lot of good machinery, which can be put to good service. 



New Insurance Company Organized 



The Lumber Industries' Insurance Exchange has been formed In Chi- 

 cago and authority granted by the Illinois Insurance Department to 

 solicit members. The exchange is under the management of Fleming & 

 Davis, a partnership made up of A. J. Davis of A. J. Davis & Co., insur- 

 ance brokers, Chicago, and Walter S. Fleming, who has been associated 

 with that company for some time. 



Membership in the exchange is limited to concerns engaged in lumber 

 manufacturing whose financial rating is over $200,000, and whose risks 

 me-asure up to a high physical standard. 



In announcing the exchange it is stated the object is to reduce the cost 

 of insurance through the medium of personal service and the elimination 

 of risks that are not in line with uniform standard. 



Perkins Sues North Carolina Company 



The Perkins Glue Company has brought suit against the Consolidated 

 ■Veneer and Panel Company and W. G. Munyan of High Point, N. C, for 

 Infringement of the Perkins vegetable glue patent. The Perkins company 

 charges the defendants have infringed by mixing up and using vegetable 

 glue in glueing up veneered stock for furniture and also that W. G. Mun- 

 yan has sold vegetable glue for this purpose. 



Death of Prominent Lumberman 



Anthonj- Miller, a well-known lumberman of Buffalo and long at the 

 head of a large hardwood business here, died at his home, 220 Emslie 

 street, Buflfaio, on February 24, aged sixty-one years. He had been in poor 

 health for the past six months or more and for two months had been able 

 to give little attention to business. On February 14 he underwent an 

 operation from which he failed to rally. 



His first experience in the lumber business was gained with the Buffalo 

 and Pennsylvania firm of F. H. & C. W. Goodyear, with whom he started 

 in 1875 and worked up to a responsible position. In 1894 he entered the 

 hardwood trade on his own account, with office and large wholesale yard 

 at 893 Eagle street. Two years ago he formed the Miller Lumber Com- 

 pany, Inc., his associates being his sons, Oscar L. and Elmer C, and 

 Eugene Nostrand. He was a man of quiet but genial temperament, popular 

 among the many with whom he came in contact socially and in business. 

 He was fond of automobiling and was a strong advocate of road improve- 

 ment. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emilie Langner Miller, and by 

 five children : Mrs. Edwin Maier, Oscar L., Elmer C, Ella and Alfred 

 Miller. The funeral, which was held at the family home on February 26, 

 was quite generally attended by the lumbermen of Buffalo. 



The business of the Miller Lumber Company is to be continued by Mr. 

 Miller's two sons and their cousin, Eugene Nostrand. 



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THOMAS E. COALE, PRESIDENT AMERICAN 

 EXPORT LUMBER CORPORATION. 



J. T. KENDALL, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



THE LATE ANTHONY MILLER, 

 BUFFALO, N. Y. 



