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anyway at soino time durins; llic ivi'iiins. anil lie proposed to j;lve blm a 

 leRitimnte excuse. 



Mr. Sondhelmer responded warmly and proposed that those In attend- 

 ance drink a toast to the lumber business, summarizing the Idea of the 

 toast with the exprcssod wish that •something might be dolnc pretty 

 soon." and it is nwdless to say that with one accord the vlsltlnK and 

 resident lumlHrnicn drank this toast standing. 



President I'rltchard then called on various local and visiting celebrities. 

 Including W. U. Conley and C. P. J. .Mooney, editors of Memphis dailies : 

 John Tuthers. secretary of the Husiness .Men's Club ; C. K. Hnvls. Louis- 

 ville lumberman ; W. K. Del.aney. Cincinnati, president of the Ilardwooil 

 Manufacturers' Association of tlie United States : Frank F. Fish, secretary 

 of the National Hardwood Luuilier .\ssoclation, Chicago, and James Haird 

 of Nashville. 



With the Trade 



Death of A. W. Mowbray 



Hardwood Kkcori> regrets to announce the sudden death of Albert W. 

 Mowbray, vice-president of the Johns-Mowbray-Nelson Company. Cincin- 

 nati. O. Mr. Mowbray was taken 111 Sunday nigbt. November 9. while at 

 t;reenville. Miss., on business In the interest.* ot his company. He devel- 

 oped double pneumonia and died Saturday night, November l.'i. The inter- 

 ment was at Peru, Ind., the place of Mr. Mowbray's birth. 



Mr. Mowbray was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mowbray and is survived 

 by a widow, Mary C. u daughter. Nellie, aged three, and son, Albert. Jr.. 

 aged one. His parents are also still living and reside in Peru. The 

 deceased is also survived by three brothers, Fred W. of the Mowbray & 

 Robinson Company, Cincinnati, O.. O. Ralph, professor of languages. Chi- 

 cago Vniversity, and Merrill of Chicago, and by two sisters. Miss Clara 

 Mowbray and Mrs. Stella Tretier. Peru. Ind. 



When Mr. Mowbray was seventeen years old he went to work with the 

 Mowbray & Robinson Company, and starting in at the very bottom by 

 diligent work and ambitious effort acquired an intimate knowledge of all 

 departments of the hardwood business. After leaving the employ of the 

 Mowbray & Robinson Company he spent several years as an inspector, 

 buyer and salesman for different hardwood concerns. Two years ago, 

 spccificaUy. November I'O. 1911. be witli Walter E. Johns and Coleman C. 

 Nelson organized the Johns-Mowbray-Nelson Company, which concern 

 started business as a wholesaler and manufacturer of hardwood lumber 

 with offices in the Provident Bank building, Cincinnati. The expansion 

 of the firm's interest necessitated enlarging facilities, and several months 

 ago the offices were moved to the newly equipped yards at Eighth and 

 Horn streets, Cincinnati. The company's affairs were just rounding Into 

 goo'd shape and promised to result in an unusual success, when Mr. Mow- 

 bray's untimely death occurred. 



Jobn H. Marble, Commerce Commissioner, Dies 



John IT. Marble, who has been prominently connected with the admin- 

 istration of the affairs of the Interstate Commerce Commission for years, 

 died at bis home in Washington, D. C. at 6 o'clock Friday night. Novem- 

 ber 21. His death came unexpectedly and was the direct result of uraemic 

 poisoning. 



.Mr. .Marbles career has been a highly liouorable one and his excep- 

 tional qualities and abilities have enabled him to handle with pronounced 

 success the varied and Intricate affairs ot the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. 



In connection with this body he has become well known to the big 

 lumber interests of the country, and has been highly thought of by the 

 shipping interests because of his absolute fairness In th<' way he han- 

 dled matters. 



W. E. Heyser in New Enterprise 



One of the most important lumber enterprises launched in this sec- 

 tion recently is that of the Issaquena Lumber Company, which has been 

 organized to operate a big hardwood mill at Issaquena. Miss. The in- 

 corporators are W. E. Heyser of the W. E. Heyser Lumber Company. 

 Cincinnati. Weaver Haas, at one time local manager of the interests of 

 W. E. Heyser Lumber Company, and James L. Pierson, an experienced 

 logger and timberman. The plant consists of a band saw and resaw and 

 the company has already secured control of al»ut 65,000,000 feet of 

 timber. Logging operations have begun on a large scale. The company 

 is capitalized at .$100,000 and the entire output of the new plant will 

 he handled by tlie W. K. Heyser Lumber Company, with head(]uarters at 

 t'incinnati. 



Meeting of Creditors 



Tlie announci'ment has just been received from Charles T. Greve. 

 referee in bankruptcy, in charge of the defunct Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company. Cincinnati, ot a meeting of the creditors which is to 

 be held in the offices of the referee, -2 Peru building, Clnmnnati, Decem- 

 ber 5, at 1 o'clock p. m. There will be taken up at this meeting the 

 consideration of offers for the purchase of the assets of the company, 

 and also matters with relation to the distribution and allowance of com- 

 pensation and declaration of dividends, and all matters with relation to 

 the compromise of claims in favor of and against the estate of the bank- 

 rupt. 



Creditors are directed to have all matters in controversy ready for 

 consideration at that meeting. 



Buffalo Concerns in Receivers' Hands 



On November T2, the Blue Grass Lumber Company. Inc.. and the Empire 

 State Hardwood Lumber Compan.v. Inc., both with main offices in Buf- 

 falo. N. Y., tiled petition in voluntary bankruptcy before Judge Hazel in 

 the Federal court and pending the appointment of trustee, Messrs. Roland 

 Crangle and Frank Gibbons, l)oth ot Buffalo, were appointed receivers for 

 the respective companies. 



Early in November at a called meeting of stockholders and directors of 

 the two companies it was decided to call a meeting of creditors and the 

 above action was determined upon at said creditors meeting on November 

 21. C. M. Clark of Cincinnati, who has for the past few weeks been in 

 Buffalo representing some large stockholders in the South, looking into 

 the affairs of these companies in the capacity of temporary vice-president, 

 was asked at this creditors meeting to allow his name to be presented to 

 the court for the position of receiver, but he declined. 



It is understood the affairs of the Blue Grass Lumber Company and 

 the Empire State Hardwood Lumber Company are badly involved and 

 the liabilities will be far in excess of the assets. The Blue Grass Lum- 

 ber Company handled western pine and the Empire State Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company dealt largely In hardwoods. 



THE I^VTi: A 

 MOWBRAY. 



NELSON I 

 NATL 



\Y OF THE JOHNS. 

 J.MPANY, CINCIN- 



. M. PKITCIIAKK. I"RES11>1:NT ME.MPliU 



CLIB, HOST TO NASHVILLE AND LOIlS- 



VILLE CI.rK AND RED GVM .MEN 



HEYSER. CINCINNATI, O.. INTEl! 

 ESTED IN THE ISSAQUENA LUMBER 

 COMPANY, ISSAQUENA, MISS. 



