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2245 S. Fortieth Ave. Chicago, III. 



M. L. Pease, vice-president of the Galloway-Peasc Company of Poplar 

 Bluff, was a visitor at the Lumbermen's Exchange a few days ago. 



W. P. Anderson, vlcc-prcsldint of the Gideon-.Vnderson Lumber & Mer- 

 cantile Company, Is back from his buntlni; trip to northern Michigan. 

 He was one of a party of some twelve or fourteen which killed quite a 

 lot of game and deer and had a good time generally. Mr. Anderson says 

 he never had a better time In his life and It has done him a world of 

 good. 



G, E. Breece, president and general manager of the West Virginia Tim- 

 ber Company, Charleston. W. Va., was In St, Louis for one day last week 

 and called at the headquarters of Hakdwood Record. He came up from 

 the mills of the company in the South. He visited in town, the mills In 

 Arkansas Cit.v. Ark., Monroe, La., and Baskin, La. He says they are all 

 doing a splendid business but have been handicapped somewhat by the 

 scarcity of cars. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is back from 

 a short trip to the Pacific coast, where he went on business. He visited 

 Los Angeles. Sacramento. San Francisco and stopped at El Paso, on his 

 way home, and while he stepped over Into Old Mexico for an hour or two, 

 he did not tarry long. 



Harry Graus. a box manufacturer, will receive $13."). 000 by the terms 

 of a settlement made In litigation between Mr. Gaus and thlrty-flve In- 

 surance companies. The terras were announced a few days ago, In the 

 St. Louis Circuit Court. 



Mr, Gaus recently obtained a verdict for $60,000 in a suit for damages 

 he brought against the chief of the St, Louis Fire Prevention Bureau and 

 the thirt.v-flve insurance companies for false arrest. He sued for $.500.- 

 000, alleging he had been arrested at the instigation of the defendants 

 who investigated a (ire which destroyed the box manufacturing plant of 

 Henry Gaus & Son several months ago. Mr. Gaus also sued the companies 

 for insurance on the burned plant and verdicts for S102.000 had been 

 returned in his favor. .\ll the litigation has been appealed. 



John H. Johanning. president of the Johanning Lumber Company, died 

 last week of arterio sclerosis. He had not been actively engaged In busi- 

 ness since 1910, partly due to the illness which caused his death. Mr. 

 Johanning. who was seventy-six years old, had been a resident of St. 

 Louis since 1847, coming from Germany when ten years old. He was 

 educated in private schools in St. Louis and became a clerk In a planing 

 mill in 1857. Later he became a partner in the business and the firm 

 'was known as Philibert & Johanning Manufacturing Company. He estab- 

 lished the present firm in 1887. 



=-< ARKANSAS > 



The strike of the coopers at Paragould, .\rk., is still on, with no indi- 

 cations of either side weakening or showing any disposition to com- 

 promise the differences. Some time ago the strikers proposed to arbitrate 

 all questions of difference, but this proposal was refused by the mill 

 owners, and now the strikers are refusing to submit the proposition to 

 arbitration, and are also making an additional demand for increased 

 wages. The mills show no disposition to change their former attitude in 

 regard to the situation. 



Contracts have already been awarded by the forestry office at Harrison, 

 Ark., for the sale of two large tracts of white oak timber in the Ozark 

 National Forest. The contracts cover 1.100.000 feet standing in Baxter 

 county. Ark., at a price of $.?.S0 per thousand feet, or a total value of 

 $4,180.00: also 1.600.000 feet in Cleburn county at $3.75 per thousand 

 feet, or a total value of $6,000.00. By these two sales about $1,000.00 

 will be added to the good roads fund of the Ozark National Forest, most 

 of which will be available for expenditure during the next fiscal year. 



A certificate of dissolution was filed in the offlce of the Secretary of 

 State of Arkansas, on November 23, by the Clarendon Boat Oar Company 

 of Clarendon. Ark. 



Articles of incorporation were filed In the office of the Secretary of 

 State of Arkansas, on November 21, by the McDonough-Thoits Company 

 of Hot Springs. The company is capitalized at $20,000, and will do a 

 general manufacturing and stave business. The incorporators are William 

 McDonough, A. T. Thoits and Tom Thoits. 



It has been announced that the Bentonville Cooperage Company has 

 purchased the Keller Wagon Factory property at Joplin, Mo., including 

 nine acres of land. The purchase price was $10,000. The cooperage 

 company proposes to move a part of its factory from Bentonville, Ark., 

 to Joplin, Mo„ about April 1. 1014. It proposes to continue the manu- 

 facture of slack barrels at Bentonville, hut the tight barrels will be 

 manufactured at Joplin, where enlarged facilities and additional ma- 

 chinery will be Installed. 



The final step in a case of long standing was taken on November 23, at 

 Fort Smith, when the United States District Judge Frank A. Youmans, 

 granted the application of W. W. Keys of Eureka Springs to sell the 

 I'a.vetteville Wagon Wood and Lumber Company of Fayetteville, Ark., for 

 which Mr. Keys is trustee. This company went into the hands of a re- 

 ceiver several years ago. It was capitalized at $40,000. .\t the making 

 of this order the attorneys for the New Hawley Company of Omaha, Neb,, 

 holders of $40,000 worth of the company's bonds, opposed its being made, 

 but were overruled by the court. The Hawley Company recently lost a 

 suit In which they sought to have these bonds declared preferred claims 

 against the bankrupt estate. 



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