April 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Our Methods Typify Modern 

 Lumber Merchandising 



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

 twenty-four hours after receiving them. This strong statement is a fact 

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

 shipping points. Frequently, by concentrating all five points on one order we 

 have loaded out ten or fifteen cars of one grade and thickness w^ithin one day. 

 In this era when you order what 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, Cum, Cypress, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Elm. 



erecting immediately a $300,000 aildition to its large furniture plant, to 

 be devoted to the manufacture of kitclien cabinets. The new buildings 

 will be of brick and steel construction, similar to the most modem units 

 of the plant. 



Reports of Indiana incorporations are carrying an unusually large 

 number of new building material and lumber firms throughout the state. 

 Prominent features of these incorporations are the increase by the Huff- 

 Stickler Lumber Company, South Bend, of its capital stock, from $10,000 

 to $200,000 ; the incorporation of the Rowlands Company, Ft. Wayi.e, 

 furniture, for $100,000 ; and the incorporation of the Gordon Furniture 

 Company, IndianapolLs, with $50,000 capital. 



B. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, are finding in the coal shortage in 

 Italy, Spain and other European countries, a decided boom for their for- 

 eign business, with a fair home demand growing steadily and promising 

 a bright future. Maurice Cahne, European representative of the firm, 

 with headquarters in Paris, is in Indianapolis, and in an interview here 

 said : "In Europe the .American to be a success must to a decided de- 

 gree forget his livewiredness. Bustle and rush do not pay in Europe. 

 The European business man does not act on an impulse, but gives every 

 proposition close consideration. And he Is different from the American 

 business man in another way. The American will buy from me today 

 and from you tomorrow. In Europe, once the business man there buys 

 from you and your goods are all you represent them to be, your busi- 

 ness with him is secure. Another thing America must learn in her ex- 

 port business — the European must see the goods he buys before he pays 

 for them. Americans must give credit." Mr. Cahne says he has the 

 brightest hopes for American exporters, declaring the opportunity of the 

 nation's life is at hand. 



EVANSVILLE 



The Victory Liberty Loan campaign in Evansvllle and Vanderburg 

 county will open April 21 and come to a close on May 10, and as on the 

 previous campaigns lumber manufacturers of Evansvllle will take a lead- 

 ing part in the big drive. Henry C. Murphy, local newspaper publisher, 

 is chairman of the sales department in the drive and many lumbermen have 

 been named on committees to take part, 



Louis Holtman of the Schnute-Holtman Lumber Company, who has been 

 ill at his home here for several days past, is able to be out again. 



Charles Johann of the Evansville Planing Mill Company has been 

 elected president of a new bank here, known as the Farmers' and Mer- 

 chants' Trust Company. The new institution will open for business on 

 May 1. 



The Carriage Woodstock Company, one of the largest wood working con- 



cerns of Owensboro. Ky.. has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to 

 $500,000 and will greatly enlarge its business. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz is one of the stockholders in the Evans- 

 ville Baseball Fans' Association that was formed a few weeks ago for 

 the purpose of placing an Evansvllle ball team in the reorganized Three I 

 Baseball League. 



The Simpson Lumber Co., Poseyville, Ind., is erecting several buildings 

 and sheds in its yards in order to Increase the storage space. The com- 

 pany has been doing a very nice spring business. 



The Showers Brothers Company, manufacturer of furniture, Blooming- 

 ton, Ind., is erecting an addition that will cost about $300,000 and will add 

 kitchen cabinets to its line of manufactures. 



Edmou V. Ervin, aged seventy-six, died a few days ago at his home at 

 Franklin, Ind. He had been sick for some time. Mr. Ervin was a native 

 of Marion county, Indiana, and with the exception of the time he was in the 

 Union army during the Civil war spent his entire life in the Hoosier state. 

 After the war Mr. Ervin located in Indianapolis, where he was associated 

 with the H. C. Long Lumber Company for a number of years. In 1899 he 

 went to Franklin and established the Ervin-Pittman Lumber Company and 

 remained with this company until he retired from active business a few 

 years ago. Mr. Ervin founded the Farmers' Trust Company at Franklin 

 and for many years was one of the leading business men of that city. He 

 was twice married and is survived by his widow and several children by his 

 first marriage. 



Work is progressing nicely on the new addition that is being built by 

 the Wertz-Klamer Fumiture Company. The Faultless Caster Company is 

 making arrangements to build an addition this summer. 



E. H. Hyman, who has held the position of secretary and manager of the 

 Evansville Manufacturers' Association tor the past year, has been chosen 

 secretary of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce to take the place of 

 Frank Albus, who resigned a short time ago to embark in business here. 

 Mr. Hyman will continue to hold both positions and the headquarters of the 

 two associations will be in the same building, although they will remain 

 separate and distinct organizations. 



Samuel L. May, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, has 

 appointed several committees to arrange for the big industrial exposition 

 that will be held here in October. 



NASHVILLE 



The committee which made a survey of the various state departments 

 has determined to recommend the consolidation of the mining department 

 and workshop and factory inspection, with the geological survey placed 

 under the mining department as a special bureau. The committee will 



