HARDWOOD RECORD 



lu Obio and two brniiclK^s in Ipdinnn, lias adopted a system of proUt 

 sbarin!; for all of Its employe?. EviTy one on th'; payroll of the company 

 will be ini'ludrd In tbc selienio. 



The riqua Sjirlng l>oul>Ictrec Company of PlQua. Ohio, has beiii In- 

 corporated with II enpltal of JIC.OOO to innntifaeturo fnrmlni; mil- 

 chlnery by T. C. Jones, IX E. Werner, Albert Werner, Robert Werner 

 and .1. \. Ilauver. 



The capital stock of the Cellar Lumber Company of Westerville, Ohio, 



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The Charter Oak Handle and I.uniber Company, liichiiuind, has volun- 

 tarily dissolved Its corporation. 



The William V. .Jobiisou Lumber Company has taken out a permit to 

 rebuild Its planlii); mill, which waji burned recently at a loss of ?35,000. 



Kavld I!. Webb, owner and operator of the Muloda veneer plant at 

 KdlnburK since 1000. died at bis home in that place March 30, after a 

 short illness. He was sixty years old and is survived by his widow and 

 two daughters. .Mrs. Claude Xialey of Evansvillc and Mrs. Percy Brodeck 

 of Kdlnbiir^. 



Thomas .\. I'letcher of this city has acquired 4.120 acres of timberland 

 near Yazoo, Miss., from Peter P. Sturgeon of Xisland, S. U., and Grant 

 .•V. Dentler of Taconia, Wash. Jlr. Fletcher traded Indianapolis properties 

 and farms in Indiana and Illinois. 



Samuel L. Winternil/. and Company, auctioneers, Chicago, have bousbt 

 at auction the bankrupt property ot the .\merlcan Motors Company, 

 through i'rank E. Smith, receiver, for $110,000. The plant will be dis- 

 mantled and sold piecemeal. This was one of the older motor car plants 

 in the city, but the company was unable to withstand the financial depres- 

 sion that began in the autoiuolii!.' iinlii<try l:i-^t summer. 



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The Price-Uuhl Lumber Company, whose incorporation was published in 

 Hardwood Recoiid some months ago, has completed Its plant at Dyers- 

 burg, Tenn., for the manufacture ot lumber. It will be pla(;cd in opera- 

 tion in a short while. 



R. J. Darnell. Inc., has removed its olHces from the Exchange building 

 to tlie fourteenth floor of the new half of the Bank of Commerce & 

 Trust Company building on Main street. Several rooms have been 

 taken, the suite being one of the most extensive occupied by any single 

 lumber firm in Memphis. Several other hardwood firms have leased 

 oflices in the building in question and will occupy these as rapidly as 

 they are completed and placed in readiness for them. The Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Bureau has likewise given up its offices in the Exchange 

 building and lias taken more commodious quarters adjoining those of 

 IS. J. Darnell, Inc. The Gum Lumber Manufacturers" -Vssoclation has an 

 attractive suite in that building also and indications are that there will 

 be a decided sprinkling of lumber firms and lumber organizations in ttmt 

 building. 



Announcement is made that I". T. Turner, for a number of years in 

 charge of logging operations for Itusse & Burgess, Inc., has been apnoiuted 

 manager of the two mills of the Darnell-Love Lumber Company at Leland, 

 Miss. He has had wide experience in logging work and his duties along 

 this lino, according to his friends, have admirably fitted him for the 

 promotion he has received. The Darnell-Love Lumber Company is closely 

 allied with It. .1. Darnell. Inc., with an extensive hardwood plant only 

 recently placed in operation at Batesville, Miss. R. J. Darnell is head 

 of botli firms. 



Tlie Four .States Land & Timber Company has recently been incorporated 

 here, with a capital stock of ?,")0,000. It is the purpose of the new 

 firm to attract northern capital for the development of timber and cut- 

 over lands in Mississippi. .\Ialiama, Arkansas and Tennessee, the four 

 states from which it takes its name. E. R. Parham, a well known real 

 estate man here, is head of the new company. 



The W. B. Bayless Company has been incorporated here with a capital 

 stock of $70,000. W. B. Bayless, W. M. Turner, L. M. Thompson, ,1. M. 

 Patten and S. W. Scott signed the incorporation articles. The company 

 has been formed for the purpose of manufacturing tool handles at Its 

 several plants In Arkansas. It will also act as distributing agent in 

 other lines. Its headquarters will be maintained in Memphis. 



The anti-shingle ordinance is still being pressed by the, insurance men 

 of this city who are seeking to prevent the use of wooden snlngles for 

 a house covering within the city limits. It Is not likely, however, that 

 they will be successful for the reason that the ordinance Is being vigor- 

 ously opposed by Thomas Dies, ommissloner of puldic utilities. He says 

 that the ordinance in its present form will work a serious hardship on 

 many people and that it is not Justified. 



George D. Burgess, of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. returned recently from a 

 trip to northern and eastern points. He spent some time in Washington 

 conferring with .1. li. Walker, attorney for the Southern Hardwood Traf- 

 fic Bureau, of which h" Is chairman. He also held a conference with 

 K. D. McKellar in regard to the bill now pending looking to compulsory 

 issuance of through bills of lading on all commodities. It Is designed 

 through this measure to prevent the railroads from discontinuing, on 

 one pretext or the other, the issuance of through bills on lumber and 

 lumber products every once In a while, causing the exporters of lumber 

 a great deal of loss Id time and money and seriously handicapping them 



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