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tlie much prcadied efficiency in all business drpartmrnts as cordial and 

 frirndly relations between tlie heads and their faithful subordinates, the 

 truth uf which proposition, it is needless to say, Mr. Wbitmcr has made a 

 success^ful test. 



A Big Arkansas Incorporation 



The Sanitary Veneer and Karrel Company Is the name of a new 5300 000 

 corporation recently organized in Little Itoik. This company filed articles 

 of incorporation with the secretary of state on January .'U, and shows 

 a capital stock of $500,000, with II. I. Cutsinger of Indianapolis as Its 

 president ; \V. M. Karanaugh of Little Rock, vice-president and treasurer ; 

 W. D. Cammack of Little Rock, secretary ; Chris Ledwige, L. L. White and 

 A. C. Read, all of Little Rock, arc the other members of the board of 

 directors. 



This new concern purposes to erect a large manufacturing plant in 

 the Factoria addition to Little Rock within the nest ninety days. It 

 comes to Little Rock as the result of negotiations on the part of A. C. 

 Read and the Little Rocs Chamber of Commerce. The Factoria Land 

 Company, of which A. C. Read is general manager, donated a ten-acre tract 

 in the Factoria addition, and the Chanibcr of Commerce has entered Into 

 an agreement to pay five per cent of the company's pay roll during the 

 next two years, provided the company will employ more than 200 men, 

 and provided further that the amount thus paid out by the Chamber of 

 Commerce during the period will not exceed ?20,000. 



It is the plan of the new company to erect a plant of such capacity as 

 10 employ from 400 to 600 men. with a daily capacity of 40,000 barrels. 

 The company will manufacture a new form of veneer barrel. This barrel 

 is said to be stronger, neater and more compact than the old stylo 

 barrel, and is also so arranged that it can be readily shipped in a knocked 

 down form, thus saving freight charges. The new barrel will be cylindrical 

 in form, built of three-ply veneer, with a metal hoop in the center to give 

 it strength. 



Yeager Lumber Company Organizes at Buffalo 



The organization of the Yeager Lumber Company, Inc., was completed 

 on February 2 with the following officers and stockholders : Orson E. 

 Yeager, president ; F. G. Yeager, vice-president ; C. A. Yeager, secretary ; 

 P. N. Yeager, treasurer. The last three men are brothers of Orson E. 

 Yeager and have been associated with him for several years past in the 

 administration of his business as Orson E. Yeager. The directors of the 

 new company are F. G. Yeager, P. N. Yeager and Orson E. Yeager. 



The Yeager Lumber Company. Inc.. has purchased the entire stock, yard 

 and equipment previously owned and operated by I. N. Stewart & Bro., 892 

 Elk street, Buffalo, which property adjoins the present location and pro- 

 vides the company with an exceptionally large and complete assortment 

 of dry hardwoods with increased yard and shipping facilities. The capital 

 stock of the company is $200,000. 



Death of DeWitt G. Courtney 



The death of Dewitt G. Courtney occurred at bis home at Charleston. 

 W. Va., on January 29, 1914, in his sixty-sixth year. He was widely 

 known as a business man and had tie. lumber and stave mills in Lincoln, 

 Putnam. Kanawha, Boone and Greenbrier counties. West Virginia, and in 

 Bath county, Virginia. At the time of his death he was president and 

 largest stockholder in the Courtney Company. Mr. Courtney was also 

 interested in oil, gas and coal in a number of West Virginia counties. On 

 account of failing health he retired troir. active business about a year ago. 

 The immediate cause of bis death was Brights' disease. 



lie was born at Grove City, Pa., December 15, 184S. He remained 

 there, engaged :n the lumber and stave business, until 1SS4, when he 

 removed to West Virginia, where he took up the same line with great suc- 

 cess. He was never married, and is survived by four sisters and two 

 brothers : S. P. Courtney and T. E. Courtney of Charleston, W. Va., and 

 Mrs. G. D. Roberts of Memphis, Tenn. ; Mrs. Nancy R. L'len of Grove 

 City, Pa. ; Miss Amanda and Miss Mary C. Courtney of Charleston. 



The funeral services were conducted by Charleston Lodge 202, B. P. 

 0. E., at his late residence, and the Interment took place In Woodland 

 cemetery at Grove City, Pa., after appropriate services at the Grace M. E. 

 Church at that place. 



Joins Forces of the Simonds Manufacturing Company 



The Slraonds Manufacturing Compan.v, Fitchburg, Mass., and Chicago, 

 III., announces that William Miller, who recently discontinued his con- 

 nection as secretary of Henry Disston & Sons of Philadelphia after a 

 service of thirty-seven years with that concern, has become affiliated with 

 the former institution. Mr. Miller is one of the most experienced and 

 efficient men In the saw, knife and file-making business and It Is quite 

 likely that no man is better known or more favorably thought of among 

 the thousands of hardware dealers and sawmill men throughout the United 

 States and Canada. He has been successful throughout his many years In 

 the saw-making industry and brings to the Simonds Manufacturing Com- 

 pany his good will, energy, enthusiasm and a conscientious desire to see 

 that the customers of this company are always furnished with goods of 

 the highest quality. He has already taken up his new work in the executive 

 offices of the Simonds company at Fitchburg. 



Interior Finish Plant Being Overhauled 



The work of overhauling and repairing the interior finish plant of Henry 

 S. Koppin of Fenton, Mich., is being pushed rapidly and it is expected that 

 machinery will be in operation very shortly. A. C. Standart, general mana- 

 ger of the company, states that the contract for new machinery has been 

 let and that the machinery will soon arrive. The company has already 

 purchased considerable lumber for operation. 



Thornton A. Green Betires 



Thornton A. Green, manager of the Greenwood Lumber Company of 

 Ontonagon, Mich., sold out his interest and retired from that company at 

 the annual meeting held at Houghton. C. H. Worcester, who has been 

 associated with him since the summer of 1908, purchased Mr. Green's 

 interest. At the same time Mr. Green purchased of the company all of its 

 many thousand acres of cut-over lands and all that will be cut for some 

 years to come. It is his Intention to go into the land and timber busi- 

 ness and he will more than ever devote his time to the development of 

 Ontonagon county. 



Mr. Green went to Ontonagon in 1900 to take charge of the sawmill of 

 B. M. McMillen. The mill had just started to saw lumber and was one 

 of the first to saw hemlock lumber in quantities in that district. The firm 

 name changed in 1900 to C. B. McMillen & Brother, and a few years later 

 to the C. B. McMillen Company, at which time Mr. Green bought a quar- 

 ter interest and became general manager. The Ontonagon railroad was 

 built by him and his associates in 1903. Mr. Green has been president and 

 manager ever since and will still remain as president of the road. In 

 1908 Mr. Green bought out the McMillen Brothers and organized the com- 

 pany under the present style, Mr. Worcester becoming interested with him 

 at that time. Mr. Green became secretary and general manager, which 

 position he held until his retirement. 



THE LATE DEWITT G. COURTNEY. CHAR- 

 LESTON, W. VA. 



TIIOKN'IDN A. GKEEN. ONTONAGON, MICH. ORSON E. YE.MJKU, liU.HIDKNT YEAGER 



LU.VIBER CO.MPANV, INC., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



