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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1919 



his home in Louisville following a llnjri'ring ilhipss of two years. Mr. Bush 

 was flfty-tive years of at''", and for a number of years after leaving Ann 

 Arbor University wa.s in the railroad contracting l)usiness, aiding in build- 

 ing several important systems. In V.)0:i he organized the Dean Tie Com- 

 pany, which later liecame the Ohio Valley Tie Company, this concern hav- 

 ing important marketing facilities with the Pennsylvania ami several 

 other big railroad systems. 



Nickey Man to Return from Active Service 

 Paul B. Berry, for several years with Nickey Bros., Inc., .Memphis. 



Tenn., and well known for his sales connection with that company, has 



been in the service on the other .side since about the beginning of the 



real fighting of the .\merlcan forces and writes on Jlarch 3 from La Ferte 



lienmrd, France, as follows : 



.lust to inform you of my early departure for overseas, also to request 



that yon kinilly cease scuiding me the paper in the event of mv still being 



on your mailing list. 



It may lie you have long since ceased sending it to me as I have not 



received an issue since I left the :i()th Division in Julv and went to the 



regular army. 



. -y.""'..' "'" transferred to the nist Division and anticipate an earlv return 

 to the rotates. 



My ten months In Europe carried me through everv big Iiattle thc^ \nieri- 

 V>"V r™>' enjoyed as well as some trench service in fr.mt of Ypres with tlie 

 Itrltish. I am still 100 per cent solid an<l expect to be back lumberini; bv 

 .May (u* June. 



Very sincerely yours, 

 Paul B, Berry, 1st Lieut. Co. B.. :5f;4th Inf., A. P. O. 776, A. E. F. 



Dewey Goes to Bay City 



.Tames E. Dewey, who for eight and a half years has been with the 

 .Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, Ludlngton, acting as salesmanager for 

 the last seven years, will on April 1 become associated with the Bigelow- 

 Cooper Company of Bay City, Mich. Mr. Dewey will occupy the same 

 position at Bay City. 



The Bigelow company was established several years ago to handle the 

 products of the two Kneeland-Blgelow mills and it also operates a maple 

 flooring mill, planing mill and salt block. It is the intention in the future 

 to do a general wholesale business such a.s Mr. Dewey has previously han- 

 dled at Ludlngton, specializing in northern and southern hardwoods 

 •Mr. Dewey has had a long training in lumber. Previous to his connection 

 with the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, he was in the wholesale busi- 

 ne.ss with his brother, Harry Dewey, of New Xork City and for two years 

 before that connection operated a sawmill at Elizabethton, Tenn Durin'' 

 his wholesale experience, he has handled Pacific Coast products yellow 

 pine and southern hardwoods in connection with the products from Michi- 

 gan and Wisconsin. In making the change Mr. Dewey takes with him 

 two Stearns' salesmen, Harry L. Randall. Bay Citv. and Hugh W Bates 

 of Crand Rapids, Mich. 



Arrow Lumber Company Reorganizing in West Virginia 



The Arrow Lumber Company, Parkersburg, W. Va., has been reorganized 

 James (i. Morris, vice-president, has purchased the interests of G l' 

 Dudley, Sr. and G. L. Dudley, Jr. The business will be continued undsr 

 fasoon"'™ P*""^""""' management and the capitalization increased to 



The new officers are James G. Morris, president: J. W Bvaul vice- 

 president ; L. B. Wilson, secretary and II. C. Shilling, treasurer ' 



The new organization also takes over the sawmilliug interest' of Dudley 



& Morris, a . partnership, and acquires the interest of the Burkes-Arrow 

 Company, Belle Point, W. Va. 



It is the intention of the reorganized concern to continue specializing in 

 henv}' timliers. 



Conkling Heads Farrin's Southern Department 



Frank A. Conkling recently retired from the Korn-Conkling Company 

 of Memphis. Tenn.. and Cincinnati, O., and who was one of its pro- 

 prietors, has gone back with his former associates, the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, and now has entire charge of the southern 

 department with headquarters at Memphis. This important oflice of the 

 Farrin company has in the past been mainly the buying oflice. but it is 

 expected that Mr. Conkling will develop direct sales "to an important ex- 

 tent. He will have associated with him Fred M. Fergason, who has 

 been in charge of this office, and will specialize mainly in buying and 

 supervision of mill cuts. Mr. Fergason will continue as formerly, devot- 

 ing practically all of his time to his former work. 



Both Mr. Conkling and Mr. Fergason are very well known in hard- 

 wood circles, and both have gone all the way through the mill in their 

 lumber experience, which has been primarily in the hardwood lines in 

 which, the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company deals. Mr. Conkling has per- 

 sonally manufactured a good deal of lumber, is thoroughly conversant 

 with the mill end of the busine.ss. He has also had very important inside 

 connections, notably of which is the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company and 

 the Korn-Conkling, of which he was one of the organizers. 



.Mr. Fergason is one of the old timers in the hardwood field, having come 

 originally from Michigan. He has been located in various important hard- 

 wood sections, having been in Memphis for the past four years as man- 

 ager of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company's southern department. 

 Adds to Woodworking Plant 

 The Manitowoc Church Furniture Company, Waukesha, Wis., advises 

 that it is now erecting an addition to the factory building and putting 

 in additional dry kiln facilities. The addition to the plant will be in 

 the foi-m of a building 60 by 60 feet to be used as a glue room. This 

 company is a well-known manufacturer of church furniture. 



New Wagon Wood Stock Plant for Little Rock 

 The Davis Lumber Comi.auy, manufacturer of wagon woods, has ac- 

 quired a four and one-half acre tract of land and will erect a plant in 

 Little Rock, Ark., according to announcement recentlv made by George 

 Firmin, manager of the Little Rock Board of Commerce, The Davis Lum- 

 ber Company will manufacture at this new plant, wagon tongues, wagon 

 reaches, wagon sides and bottoms and all other kinds of wood which go 

 into the make up of wagons except what is known as the bent-woods 

 The new plant will be located on the Rock Island muiroad and the Arch 

 Street Pike leading out of Little Rock to the South. The plans are to 

 begin the work of constructing the plant at once, and when ready for 

 operation the plant will consume about 20,000 feet of oak and hickory 

 timber per day. 



The officers of the Davis company are M. R. Davis, president ; H K 

 Davis, secretary and treasurer, and R. M. Davis, manager. The Davises 

 were formeriy engaged in business at Gillette. Ark., but through the in- 

 strumentality of the Little Rock Board of Commerce and the advantages 

 offered by Little Rock as a wood manufacturing center, they have been 

 induced to transfer their plant, to this city. When in full operation the 

 company will have a monthly payroll of $50,000 or more. 



JAMES E, DEWEY, NEW SALES- MANAGER 

 BIGBLOW COOPER COMPANY 



THE LATE WILLl.UM II. YAWKEV 



FRANK A, CONKLING, IN CHARGE MEMPHIS 

 OFFICE, M. B, FARRLN LUMBER COMPANY 



