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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 111. I'.IIO 



Making Business for 



Dealers Wtio Sell 

 T onG-ReLL 



Trade-Marked Lumber 



Mr. Dealer, if you sell TonG-ReiX trade- 

 marked lumber, our big national adver- 

 tising campaign will help you satisfy and 

 hold your customers and increase your 

 sales. The combined circulation of the 

 publications in which our advertisements 

 appear is 7,500,000; the estimated number 

 of readers is 37,000,000. Our advertising 

 will impress readers with the fact that our 

 lumber products bear this trade-mark — 



The Mark On Quality Lumber 



Readers are being told why our trade-mark 

 stands for service and uniform high qual- 

 ity. They are being told about our ca- 

 pacity, ability and equipment to produce 

 good lumber; our care in manufacture, 

 grading, piling, drying, storage and ship- 

 ment. And every advertisement carries 

 this line, "Ask your dealer for T ono-ReiX 

 brand." 



Benefit by this advertising cam- 

 paign by placing your orders for 

 T onG-ReLL trade-marked lumber. 

 If you now handle l onG-Reix 

 lumber, increase your stock of 

 that brand and so increase your 

 profits for 1919. 



THe T one-ReLL T umber C ompanvi 



R. A. Long Bldg. 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



Manufacturer of 

 SOUTHERN PINE, HARDWOOD, OAK FLOOR- 

 ING; CREOSOTED LUMBER, TIES, POSTS, 

 POLES, PILING AND WOOD BLOCKS. 



Harry L. CoCfman, on North Prospect street, Hagerstown, Md., causing a 

 loss of $12,000. covered partly by insurance. The Moller organ works 

 was damaged. 



Roger B. Wood and Calvin P. Moon have been appointed receivers for 

 the Eastern Shore Shipbuilding Company, a Delaware corporation, with 

 a yard at Sharptown, Md. The receivers bonded in the sum of $30,000. 



COLUMBUS 



The newly elected board of directors of the Columbus Lumbermen's 

 Club met recently and elected tlie following officers ; J. E. McNally, J. J. 

 Snyder Lumber Company, president; A. T. Jones, E. J. Joues & Company, 

 first vice-president ; Edwin A. Prentice, Edwin A. Prentice Company, 

 second vice-president and A. D. Rogers, secretary-treasurer. 



Building operations in Columbus are becoming more active as is shown 

 by the most recent report of the Columbus building department. Accord- 

 ing to the report the department issued 295 permits having a valuation 

 of .$281,670 in March, 1919, as compared with 236 permits and a valua- 

 tion of $378,810 in March, 191S. For the first three months of the year 

 the permits were ."5.57 having a valuation of $976,500 as compared with 

 366 permits and a valuation of $615,835 for the corresponding period in 

 1918. 



Papers have been filed increasing the authorized capital of the Cleve- 

 land Lumber Company, Cleveland, from $25,000 to $100,000. 



General Disque, who, was the head of the spruce production division 

 of the U. S. .\rray recently visited Cincinnati where he stopped with his 

 parents. He said that it would take at least two years to liquidate the 

 affairs of the organization formed to produce spruce in the northwest. 



Harry G. .\llen, formerly of Matheny, Allen & Mounts has severed his 

 connection to accept a position with the D. T. McKeithan Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Lumber. S. C. Robert L. Gilliam of Columbus is president of 

 the company. 



O. L. Dargis of New Orleans has been appointed Cincinnati representa- 

 tive of the Louisiana Red Cypress Company to succeed the late J. D. 

 Farley. 



Lieut. Morgan L. Stewart, recently discharged from the army after 

 serving overseas in the tank corps, has been made treasurer of the Enter- 

 prise Lumber Company of Cincinnati. 



The organization of the Great Lakes-Ohio River Barge Canal Associa- 

 tion via Sandusky, Marion, Columbus, Chillicothe and Portsmouth was 

 effected at a meeting held in Columbus recently, attended by representa- 

 tives of business organizations along the proposed route. Henry A. 

 Williams, president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce was elected 

 president and J. T. Daniels, secretary of the same organization will act 

 as secretary. A vice-president will he selected from each of the zones 

 through which the proposed route passes. These vice-presidents will 

 select an executive committee to have charge of pushing the route be- 

 fore federal authorities. 



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

 demand for hardwoods, especially from manufacturers. Concerns mak- 

 ing automobiles, implements and furniture are in the market. Retailers 

 are also buying some but their orders are generally small. Prices are 

 well maintained all along the line and prospects are bright. 



The Prasse Lumber Company, Cleveland, has increased its authorized 

 capital from $50,000 to $60,000. 



F. D. McCIure, Warren, is organizing a new concern to be known as 

 the McClure Lumber Company, which will be located in that city. He 

 was formerly connected with the Home Lumber Company, now known as 

 the East Ohio Lumber Company. 



.\ loss of $10,000 was sustained recently by a Are at the Ward Lum- 

 t>t'r Co.. Ironton. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



steadily improving business conditions throughout Indiana increase 

 optimism regarding 1919 affairs, and the fear of trouble from unemploy- 

 ment has practically vanished through an actual shortage of labor ap- 

 pearing at many places throughout the state. The tone of improving 

 business is reflected by conditions in Indianapolis, where in March 606 

 building permits were recorded with a valuation of $529,314, bringing 

 permits for the first quarter of 1919 to within a few thousand dollars of 

 the average for that period during the last seven years and more than 

 doubling the figures for 1918. 



Governor Goodrich has announced the appointment of W. A. Guthrie, 

 of Dupont. Ind.. a timber man and member of the state board of forestry, 

 and Stanley Coulter, dean of the science school of Purdue university 

 and also a member of the state board of forestry, as the Republican 

 members of the new state conservation commission created by the 1919 

 general assembly. John W. Holtzman of Indianapolis, a former mayor 

 of the city, and R. M. Holman of Crawfordsville. professor of botany in 

 Wabash college, are the Democratic memliers. The board has appointed 

 Richard Lieber of Indianapolis as secretary of the commission, and will 

 complete its organization in a short time. Mr. Lieber has long taken 

 an active interest in the conservation of Indiana's timber resources. 



The Anderson Investment Company of Anderson, an organization of 

 real estate men, has increased its capitalization from $50,000 to $100,000 

 in order to begin immediately the construction of 100 houses in Anderson. 



Showers Brothers Company, Bloomington, Ind., has completed plans for 



