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legal houd oi thf coiubiuc. The other lirms who lisured in the ti'unsiu-- 

 tlon are the Northern Chair Company of Grafton, the Lakeside Craft 

 Shop of Shehoygan and the Wisconsin Seating Company of New London. 

 All of these concerns were organized by Kred L. Dennett of Sheboygan, 

 president of the Wisconsin Chair Company. For the present each one will 

 be operated separately. 'Xhe amount of assets taken over by the Wis- 

 consin Chair Company in the transaction approximate nearly $700,000 

 and with its own assets the total will be more than $2,000,000. Each 

 of the four concerns is in prosperous condition and the combining ot 

 these industries makes one of the largest chair factories in the world. 

 The Northern Chair Company is one of Grafton's growing Industries. 

 Th'j Lakeside Craft Shop recently enlarged Its plant at Sheboj'gan and 

 the Wisconsin Seating Company ot New London Is adding to Its 

 capacity. The company will continue to operate each factory under Its 

 original name. 



Utley-HoUoway Company Starts Business 



The L'tlcy-Iiollow.!}' Company is the stylo of the most recent addition 

 to the Chicago hardwood trade and is composed ot John B. Utley. who 

 has retired from the Kerns-Utley Lumber Company, and Glenn II. Hollo- 

 way, who has retired from the Holloway Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 of that city. These two men, who are well qualined to handle such an 

 operation, will maintain offices at .501 and 502 Great Northern building 

 in this city, until such time as the Lunibermen's building is completed, 

 when they will move to that structure. 



The Utley-lIoUoway Company is an incorporated concern, being cap- 

 iinlized at ?r>0,000, and the company's business will be to manufacture 

 and wholesale hardwood lumber. Southern hardwoods will represent 

 the bulk of the concern's stocks, although it will do some business in 

 northern woods also. The new company will sell the output of four 

 large band sawmills in the South, which will give it a good assortment 

 for mi.\ed car orders as well as facilities for handling large orders. It 

 goes w^ithout argument that the concern will make every effort to servo 

 its customers in a manner that will insure profitable and satisfactory 

 business relations. As the mills with which this concern is connected 

 are first-class operations which have a gonoral reputation for the high- 

 class character of the stock which they turn out. its source of supply is 

 guaranteed to be high-class in every way. 



Glenn H. Holloway comes from a family of lumbermen, having been 

 born at Lebanon, Ind.. where his father, A. M. Holloway, operated a 

 large band mill. A. M. Holloway also owned and operated two circular 

 mills, one at Thorntown and one at Cloverdale. Ind. G. H. Holloway 

 was brought up in the atmosphere of the lumber business, living at 

 Lebanon until he graduated from high school when he went to the Uni- 

 versity ot Indiana. After finishing bore he took an apprenticeship course 

 ill various Arkansas mills, serving in various capacities and learning 

 the routine work of mill operations, lumber inspection, etc. From 

 Arkansas he returned to Cloverdale where he acted as manager of his 

 father's mill at that place until it burned down in the tall of '98, being 

 there for one year, from whence he took a position as assistant manager 

 in the railway timber and dimension department of the Fullerton- 

 I'owcll Hardwood Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind. He shortly after- 

 wards became head of that department and worked in that capacity for 

 two years, when he and J. M. Schultz organized the Schultz-Hollowav 

 Lumber I'onipany with olTicos in the Fisher luiilding. Chicago. 'I'liis 



pariiursliip was coiitiiiued for two years up to .March, I'.IIL', when .Mr. 

 Holloway sold out his Interest and organized the Holloway Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, of which concern he was president until the present 

 time. 



J. B. Utley has also been clo.sely associated with the lumber business 

 for years. lie is tlie son of H. B. Utlc.v, purchasing agent ot the Inter- 

 national Harvester Company. Mr. Utley started his active work In the 

 lumber Inislncss with an apprenticeship course at the ICdward liines 

 Lumber (Company mills at Iron River, Wis., where he passed through the 

 various departments. Inspecting lumber, working in the ofllce and doing 

 similar services. He was with this concern for two years and then spent a 

 year in the yards ot the International Harvester Company at the Deer- 

 ing works. From there he took a position with W. O. King & Co., Chi- 

 cago, and after a year with this concern he organized the Kerns-Utley 

 Lumber Company with George F. Kerns, which concern was started in 

 the early part of 1908. Mr. Utley served as secretary and treasurer 

 of this company up to the time of severing that connection to form the 

 present corporation. 



.ludgins from the personnel of the Utley-IIolloway Company. Its 

 spl,>ndld mill connections and its other features, there is no room for 

 doubt as to the success which will attend its efforts. 



A Busy Kentucky Plant 



Thoro is a plaui in soutlieastorn Kentucky, which judging from re- 

 ports as to its operations here, offers an excellent market for llrst-class 

 hickory timber, for such uses as vehicle wood stock and golf sticks. 

 This concern is the Bassett Hardwood Manufacturing Company with 

 headquarters at Monticello. Ky. This concern operates a plant at Mill 

 Springs, one at Heaver Creek, Greasy Creek and Blackflsh, besides a num- 

 ber ot other mills which are cutting stock in large quantities. In spite 

 ot the large quantity of raw material which has been furnished, orders 

 liave been received for more stock tlian can be supplied by the various 

 mills operated by this concern. 



It is the company's policy to purchase hickory logs and holts of good 

 quality brought in in small parcels by farmers and others residing within 

 twenty miles or so of its operations. 



The Bassott Hardwood JIanufacturing Company manufactures large 

 quantities of shafts, bolts, cross-bars, pole circles, reaches, rim strips, 

 auto spokes and other stocks, and has recently gone into the manufacture 

 of golf shafts. In the manufacture of the latter article a very high 

 grade of second-growth clear, straight-grained hickory is required, and 

 this stock is gotten mainly from neighboring points. 



The Bassett company recently supplied the Ford Motor Company of 

 Detroit with a large quantity of spokes which have been put into the 

 famous Ford cars. The Bassett company recently constructed a 100-toot 

 barge at JUU Springs, and is now installing an incline to haul the lum- 

 ber and hickory butts to the Mill Springs plant from the river. It is 

 receiving huge quautities of stock on the Cumberland river below the 

 Locks, which stuck is finished at the Mill Springs plant. 



Recently Joined Paepcke Leicht Forces 



In this connection is shown a good likeness of James H. Walsh, who 



has for years been known in the eastern hardwood markets as one of the 



most able hardwood salesmen in the game. On October 1. 191". Mr. 



Walsh joined the sales force of the Paepcke Leicht Lumh.-r Crunpany of 



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