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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1919 



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. 



Lidgerwood Cableway 

 Skidders 



with Mechanical Slack Puller 

 Multiple Skidding Lines 



These exclusive features of the Lidgerwood Skidders 

 reduce time of hooking on logs to a minimum. 

 Send for catalogues 



LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. 



Originators of Overhead and Ground Steam Logging Machinery 



Chicago 96 Liberty St., New York Seattle 



New Orlsans; 

 Woodward. Wight & Co., Ltd. 



Canada: 

 Canadian Allls.Chalmers, Ltd., Toronto 



destro.ved by fire several weeks ago, as noted. Most of the machinery has 

 been placed in condition, but a few items of new equipment are being pur- 

 chased. John Tracy is general manager. 



Elmer A. Taylor, Emil Fisher and J. M. Schmidt, Ladysmith, Wis., have 

 formed a partnership under the name of the Taylor-Schmidt-Fisher Com- 

 pany to engage in the manufacture of tool and broom handles, knobs, 

 organ stops, wooden buttons, paper cores and similar specialties of hard- 

 wood. The former building of the Jahnke Creamery Company is being 

 equipped as a factory. 



The Multitone Manufacturing Company, Bau Claire, Wis., manufacturer 

 of reproducing machines, cabinets, etc., has engaged R. L. Rickman, archi- 

 tect and contractor, to design and erect a new plant which will involve 

 an investment of about $50,000 in buildings and machinery. E. J. Sailstad 

 is president and general manager. The company is now operating in 

 leased quarters. 



The Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, Wis., has resumed the operation of 

 its big sawmill for the season. The mill wa.s closed down earlier in the 

 year to permit of overhauling and replacements in plant and equipment, 

 and to await an accumulation of logs. The supply on hand at the mill, 

 and the cut of the past winter in the camps insure a long and uninter- 

 rupted run at capacity. Nearly all of the old force has been re-employed 

 and more men will be added soon. 



The American Auto Body Company, North Milwaukee, has been made 

 defendant in involuntary bankruptcy proceedings. One of the petitioning 

 creditors is the H. F. Below Lumber Company, Stanley, Wis., which has 

 a claim of $1,188.38. 



.Vccording to deeds filed at Antigo, Wis., the Chicago & Northwestern 

 Railroad Company has sold 822 acres of timberland In the extreme north- 

 eastern part of Langlade county to the Riverside Fiber & Paper Company, 

 Appleton, Wis., for $27,000. 



W. L. Covey has resigned as manager of the Rhinelander branch of the 

 Wilson Mercantile Company, Wausau, Wis., to become associated with 

 the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Lumber Company, Phelps, Wis. 



The National .\uto Wheels Company, Wausau, Wis., manufacturing a 

 resilient, solid-tired automobile wheel of the artillery type, with hickory 

 spokes and felloes, is planning to enlarge Its plant at 409-411 Jackson 

 street and will install considerable new equipment. John R. Mentzer Is 

 general manager. 



The Wisconsin Textile Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wis., 

 which some time ago took over the Alberts & Meyer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. The com- 

 pany manufactures spools, bobbins, forms and other hardwood specialties 

 for textile mills and factories and will enlarge its facilities and output. 

 Gustavo C. Kirst is president, and Oscar B. Alberts, secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



Ben Mcuroke, Chicago, has been appointed manager of the land depart- 

 ment of the C. II. Worcester Lumber Company, Chassell, Mich., to suc- 

 ceed his brother, Paul Meureke, who has become associated with another 

 company with headquarters at Chatham, Marquette county, Mich. 



The Kenfield-Lamoreaux Company, Washburn, Wis., operating one of the 

 largest exclusive box and crating factories in the United States, is now 

 publishing a monthly magazine under the title of "K-L News" for the 

 benefit of the employes of the Washburn plant ; the Northern Crating 

 Company, Cass Lake, Minn., and the Bemidji Box Company, Bemidji, 

 Minn., which are controlled by the same interests. The general sales 

 olBces are located in Chicago. 



Walter J. Elliott, son of W. M. Elliott, treasurer of the Menasha Wooden- 

 ware Company, Menasha, Wis., died from pneumonia on March 13 at 

 Glenside. Pa., just a few hours after the death of his 5-year-oId son, Duane, 

 who succumbed to the same malady. Mr. Elliott arrived in Glenside only 

 a short time ago, having been transferred to the position of eastern man- 

 ager of the Wyatt-Prock Lumber Company, Seattle, Wash. He was thirty- 

 three years of age and a native of Menasha. 



The International Toy Company, Eau Claire, Wis., which was estab- 

 lished only six months ago, has booked such a large volume of business in 

 coaster wagons, doll cabs and similar goods that its maximum capacity 

 for the remainder of the season is fully occupied. The company con- 

 templates the erection of a complete new plant, it now operating in leased 

 quarters. L. D. Pangborn is president and manager. 



C. I. Wells, former woods and railroad superintendent of the Girard 

 Lumber Company, Wausaukee, Wis., and Joseph .\. Beitz of the same place 

 have acquired possession of 2,640 acres of timberland at Sidney, near 

 Goodman, Wis,, and plan to start logging the tract in June. Mr. Wells 

 has been logging superintendent of the Forster-Mueller Lumber Company 

 at Hiles, Wis., since retiring from the Girard company. 



The Badger Box & Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Wis., which recently 

 suffered a heavy loss by fire, may relocate its plant at Black River Falls, 

 Wis., to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain a largo supply of 

 raw materials available in that vicinity. J. T. Thompson is proprietor of 

 the business. 



Peter MacRae, one of the old-time loggers and lumbermen of Delta 

 county, Mich., died at the home of his son in Milwaukee on March 15, at 

 the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. MacRae went to Escanaba in 1884 

 as logging superintendent for McArthur Bros., Saginaw, Mich., then con- 

 ducting large operations on the Escanaba and Whiteflsh rivers. Later he 

 managed a sawmill of his own at Little Lake. He lived in Escanaba more 

 than thirty years and funeral services were held In that city. 



