March 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Our Methods Typify Modern 

 Lumber Merchandising 



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WE are equipped to load and start shipment on special orders within 

 tw^enty-four hours after receiving them. This strong statement is a fact 

 based on our having planned our operating facilities to provide vv^ell assorted 

 shipping points. Frequently, by concentrating all five points on one order w^e 

 have loaded out ten or fifteen cars of one grade and thickness within one day. 

 In this era w^hen you order v/hat you need you usually need it immediately. 

 Try out these facilities with a guaranteed straight grade shipment. 



Clean Dealing Is Our Business Policy 



Aberdeen Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 



FIVE MILLS: Ten Million Feet on Sticks, Oak, Gum, Cypress, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Elm. 



City, Tenn., was a business visitor in Baltimore two weeks ago. 



T. W. Bledsoe of Brown, Bowman & Bledsoe is back after a trip down 

 to sections of western North Carolina and other territory, and states that 

 he found much interest among buyers there in the offerings. He inclines 

 to the belief that the demand will keep up and that prices will be main- 

 tained. 



John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co., and Walter B. Brooks, Ryland & 

 Brooks Lumber Conmpany, have been named among the directors and 

 incorporators of the newly organized Export and Import Board of Trade, 

 which will encourage foreign business in all its branches. 



COLUMBUS 



According to the moothly report of the Columbus building department 

 the number of permits issued during February, 1919, was 167, having a 

 valuation of $571,470. This is an increase of about 261 per cent over the 

 valuation of permits issued during February, 1918. Among the largest 

 pennits was one for the construction of the Pennsylvania round house to 

 cost $370,000. 



The Wootten Lumber Company, Akron, has been chartered with a capital 

 of $50,000 by M. L. and J. E. Wootten, Carl M. Myers, D. F. Stambaugh 

 and C. S. Lamb. 



The Garber-Marsh Lumber Company, Dover, has been incorporated with 

 a capital of $40,000 by John H. Garber, Alvin C. Marsh, Wallace P. Marsh, 

 John J. Marsh and Francis J. Huff. 



A complete reorganization of the Ward-Brock Sash & Door Company. 

 Cincinnati, has been effected by the election of H. W. Brock, president : 

 (;. R. Lampton, vice-president ; J. J. Raleigh, secretary, and L. W. Brock, 

 treasurer. 



The Purdy Lumber Company, Cincinnati, has been chartered with a 

 capital of $10,000 by Donald G. Purdy, Edward F. Peters, Frank E. Bur- 

 nett, J. G. DeFosset and S. Geismar. 



The Risley-Roudebush Lumber Company, Cincinnati, ha.s been incor- 

 porated with a capital of $20,000 by Archie W. Bell, Jacob Weber. F. E. 

 Risley. J. L. Roudebush and D. M. O'Hearn. 



The McCuer Lumber Company, Warren, has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $50,000 by F. R. McCluer. Arthur Job, Maude Gillmer, R. A. Cobb 

 and R. I. Billings. 



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

 demand for hardwoods, especially from manufacturing plants. Retailers 

 are also buying better, but the bulk of the trade comes from factories. 

 Prices are well maintained all along the line. Shipments are coming out 

 well and no delay from railroad congestion is reported. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand for 

 West Virginia hardwoods with prices holding up well in every respect. 



With the election of B. M. Freeman as secretary and treasurer of the 

 National Association of Builders' Exchanges the executive headquarters 

 of the association will be moved from Philadelphia to Columbus. Mr. 

 Freeman served the year previous as treasurer and previous to that time 

 he was commissioner for Ohio. The work of the secretary consists largely 

 of collecting and tabulating statistics on building and construction work. 



EVANSVILLE 



During the past few weeks the Evansville Veneer Company ha-^ pur- 

 chased considerable lumber, which it has stored in its yards adjoining the 

 big veneer mills. George O. Worland says that a natural dropping off 

 of foreign woods during the recent war has caused a big shortage in the 

 exotic veneers, and as a result the American woods are in greater demand 

 than before. Red gum, black walnut and other veneer woods of this 

 country are now taking the place of Circassian walnut, mahogany and 

 other imported timbers. 



Walter Palmer, a well-known lumberman, late of Memphis, Tenn., has 

 accepted a position as salesman with Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of this city, and is now installed in his new job. 



Ralph May of May Bros.. Memphis, Tenn., visited friends and trans- 

 acted business here recently. He was formerly a resident of Evansville 

 and has a large circle of acquaintances here. 



Plans have just been completed for the new addition for the Wertz- 

 Klamer Furniture Company. The addition will have 50,000 square feet 

 of floor space. Ground has been broken and work on the new .iddition 

 has started. 



A real employes' club house, containing a library, cafeteria and audi- 

 torium and even a hospital, will be erected by the Bucyrus Steam Shovel 

 Company, according to an announcement just made by J. J. Morris, the 

 new manager. It will be the first club house of this character built in 

 Evansville. 



Christian Ilartman, a well-known timber buyer for the C. H. Barnaby 

 saw mills at Greencastle, Ind., was recently badly cut and bruised in an 

 automobile accident. 



The D. L. Conrcy Furniture Company, Shelbyville, has filed a final cer- 

 tificate of dissolution with the secretary of state of Indiana. 



The HutC-Stickler Lumber Company, South Bend, recently increased its 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $200,000. 



A. V. Burch, head of the Blount Plow Company, and newly-installed 



