HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The WiscunsiD Coal and Lumber Company of East Clilcauo bas llliU 

 notice witb tbe Indiana secretary of state of an increase in capitalization 

 from t25,000 to * 100.000. 



Willlnui H. McUenry. a retired lumberman of Aurora, died at bis home 

 In that city a few days ago from paralysis. He wos seventy-nine year- 

 old and la survived by a widow and two sons. 



William K. Stillwell. who was president and manager of the Henry 

 Taylor Lumber Company. Lafajette. until that company went into tbe 

 bands of a receiver, died at a sanitarium In this city recently. He had 

 been a patient in tbe sanitarium two years. A daughter survives. 



George Se<'ger. Sr.. sixty-six years old and one of tbe oldest lumber 

 dealers in Lafayette, died of heart failure at his home in that city a few- 

 days ago while talking with members of bis family. He was formerly 

 a member of tbe Lafayette city council. 



Building operations are increasing in the city, which is regarded as 

 an indication ot improved business conditions. In January building 

 permils issued amounted to $450,000 as compared with $305..S8.5 for the 

 corresponding month of last year. 



With the purpose in view ot maintaining the open shop in dealing 

 witb labor questions, the Associated Employers of Indianapolis has been 

 formed. Witll the new organization are merged the Employers' Association 

 of Indianapolis and the Commercial Vehicle Employers" .\ssociation. Many 

 lumbermen belong to the new association. 



=-< MEMPHIS >.= 



.Ta:ues F. St;u-k, presiil.nt nt .lames E. Stark & Co. and vice-presid.nt 

 of the Memphis A'eneer & Lumber Company, will represent the luinlu'r 

 interests of Memphis and tbe Memphis territory at the bearing to be con- 

 ducted at New Orleans February 12 in connection witb tbe proposed 

 establishment of a regional bank at this point. .\ll the commercial organi- 

 zations of this cit}-, together with the various lines of activity, including 

 the banks, will be represented hy a large delegation, and everything pos- 

 sible will be done to secure one of these institutions for Memphis. Tbe 

 Lumbermen's Club ot Memphis some time ago adopted resolutions strongly 

 favoring Memphis and the luml)ermen have been prominent in the 

 movement looking to the designation of Memphis as the home of one ot 

 the institutions. Efforts to secure a hearing at Memphis failed and then 

 it was decided that a delegation should be sent to the Crescent City on 

 the date indicated. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau iias again been successful in a 

 petition filed before tbe Interstate Commerce Commission. The latter has 

 iiist banded down a decree in the case of this body against the Illinois 

 .ntrai and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads, whereby a rate of ten cents 

 - ordered on shipments of logs from points south of the main line of the 

 .Southern Railway in Mississippi to New Orleans, as against the old rate 

 of eleven cents. By virtue of this decree, the rate from points north of 

 (he main line of the same road is reduced from twelve to eleven cents. It 

 i^ estimated that lumber iirms here will effect an annual saving of about 

 ■^."i.OOO by the terms of this decision. Tbe petition was filed in the interest 

 ■ 1 R. J. Darnell, Inc., Itusse & Burgess. Inc., the Bellgrade Lumber Com- 

 |iany, A. N. Thompson & Co., and other firms here having extensive timner- 

 land holdings in Mississippi. 



Prospects are bright for the establishment of one or more hardwood 

 mills in Clarke county. Arkansas, by McDonald Brothers for the develop- 

 ment of the timber on 10.742 acres which they have just purchased from 

 C. S. Thornton and others in that territory. The consideration was 

 ¥150.000. The transaction was consummated through the real estate de- 

 partment of the Union & Planters' Bank of this city. There is a large 

 quantity of cypress, oak and gum on the property and it is announced 

 that immediate steps will be taken for the development thereof. The pur- 

 chasers reside at Pine Bluff, Ark. 



J. K. Ingrain, a prominent millman of Byhalia, Miss., who was recently 

 «hot from ambush by a negro and who has been in the Baptist Memorial 

 Hospital here for more than a week, is rapidly recovering. It was thought 

 that be had but little if any chance to recover, but he has safely passed 

 the crisis and is gaining in strength every day. The negro who shot him 

 has been arrested through tbe unusual efforts of about 250 men in the 

 section tributary to Byhalia. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Pine Bluff. .\rk., has raised a bonus of 

 $2,000 with which to ptirchase a site for a large veneer firm in Indiana.- 

 and it is announced that the latter will erect a plant at that point, in- 

 volving an outlay of approximately $50,000. 



Tbe Arkansas Land & Lumber Company, Malvern, Ark., has begun oper- 

 :iting its new mill nt that point. Gilbert L. Mettlson is in charge of tbe 

 plant and A. Lanott is .saks nianag"r. 



J. W. McClure of the Eellgr.".de Lumber Company has been reappointed 

 head of tbe supervisory board of mendicancy by Mayor Crump. He filled 

 the position so successfully last year that it was desired that he should 

 continue to look after that important municipal problem. 



The new plant of the Usher Lumber & Manufacturing Company nt 

 Meridian. Miss., has been completed and placed in operation. It repre- 

 •nts an outlay of about $25,000 and will be used In conducting a 

 mllllng-ln-transit business, catering particularly to the wholesale trade. 



J. T. Willingham. president of the Memphis Coffin Company, will head 

 the delegation that will go from Memphis to Nashville to attend the annual 

 of the Tennessee Manufacturers' .Association to be held there In .\prll. 

 He la president of this body. The exact date of the meeting will be an- 



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