Xovembei- 10. 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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twelve lots at the corner of Wabash avenue and Ohio street from the 

 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Compuny, the consideration bt'iu^ 

 private. The company now has its warehouses and office on this iaml 

 which has been leased from the railroad company for it number of years 

 past. It is the intention of the company to erect a modern warehouse 

 on the site that that will be two or three stories high, have concrete 

 foundation. The dimensions of the buildinir will be *J50 by 350 feet. 

 E. S. O'Hara says plans for the new warehouses have been drawn anrl 

 that worlc on the structure will start within a few weeks. 



The body of James V. Rush, for several years past engaged in the 

 hardwood lumber manufacturing business at Memphis, was brought here 

 for burial on Saturday. October 22 and burial took place in St. Joseph's 

 cemetery. Mr. Hush died several months ago and his body was i)laced 

 in a vault at Memphis as Mrs. Rush was not able at the time to make 

 the trip north owing to the condition of her health. Mr. Rush was engaged 

 in business in Evansville for a number of years and was one of the early, 

 presidents of the old Evansville Business Association, that was the prede- 

 cessor of the Chamber of Commerce. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club was 

 held at the New Vendonie Hotel on the evening of Tuesday. November S. 

 After a business men's luncheon, several business matters were taken up 

 and discussed. Election returns were announced during the evening, 

 this being the date of the municipal election in the city. 



Hardwood lumber manufacturers in this section have been buying lib- 

 erally of logs during the past month. Many logs have been coming in 

 from the south, also from points along Green and Barren rivers in western 

 Kentucky. r>og prices are regarded as rather high. Quite a few of the 

 local manufacturers are stocking up heavily on logs and are getting ready 

 for the rush in bu.siness that they believe will come next spring. 



A piece of yellow poplar placed under the dam at Spottsville, Ky.. on 

 Green river near this city ninety years ago, is now on display in the 

 show window of a store at Henderson. Ky. It was removed a few days 

 ago by government engineers in making preparations to improve the 

 locks and dams. The lumber is in tine state of preservation in spite of 

 the long number of years that it was in use. 



LOUISVILLE 



Members of the Louisville Hardwood Club are generally reporting good 

 business, there being very few dissenting voices, and in fact business has 

 been so much better that the club is now meeting weekly instead of every 

 other week, as there is more coming up for discussion, and greater need 

 of getting together more frequently to meet the new problems as they arise. 

 A few houses are reporting fair to good collections, but the majority report 

 that collections are a little slow, and some have some fairly good-sized 

 accounts which are behind. The annual meeting of the club will t>e held 

 on November 8. 



R. R. May of the R. R. May Hardwood Company reports that business as 

 a whole is very fair, volume having been good for the past two months, 

 while export demand has been improving, there being more inquiry from 

 Europe than for some time past. 



D. F. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills is almost recovered from 

 several weeks* illness and expects to be back at the office shortly. H. E. 

 Snyder has been ill for some weeks past, but is reported as a little !>etter. 

 The company is completing a $25,000 traveling veneer dryer, veneers going 

 in wet and coming out dry on a slow moving conveyor system. 



Charles A. Sicker, 53. lumber manufacturer of Campbell, Mo., was 

 recently married in Louisville to Mrs. Lena M. Edwards, 42 years of age, of 

 Louisville. 



A recent report from Henderson, Ky.. was of the death there of Aaron 

 Lockett, 68 years of age. for years a sawmill operator. He is survived by 

 a son, Stewart, and a daughter^ iliss Jeffie Lockett. 



Amateur cracksmen recently ruined two safes in the office of the Progress 

 Chair Company, Louisville, tearing off the hinges and combinations, but 

 failing to open the doors, although the safes were not even locked. 



At Hickman, Ky., the Mendel Company of Louisville has resumed opera- 

 tions in its veneer mill, which has been down for two weeks or more for 

 repairs and installation of ailditional machinery. 



C. P. Steele. 29 years of age. wanted in Louisville for cashing a forged 

 check on the Willard Hotel for .$64. was arrested in Indianapolis on October 

 26 on information furnished by the local detective department. The 

 prisoner while in Louisville posed as a representative of the Steele-IIibbard 

 Lumber Company, St. Louis, and is said to have made the same representa- 

 tion to the Long-Knight Lumber Company at Indianapolis. 



A few weeks ago a man giving the name of J. C. Stein, and alleging that 

 he represented the Philip flruner Lumber Company, was in Louisville and 

 placed at least one order for lumber, this order amounting to four cars. 

 He endeavored to cash a check with the house from which he bought the 

 lumber, but was stalle<l off. The concern notified the St. Louis house that 

 it had received the order and was waiting for shipping instructions. The 

 St. Louis house answered promptly, stating that the man was an impostor, 

 and that it had no one on the road at the time. The Louisville man 

 stated that the visitor undoubtedly knew the lumber game, but was i^lO a 

 thousand high on tupelo, while he also questioned his reason for buying 

 tupelo in Louisville. 



Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company was recently 



appointed chairman of the Sales Code Committee ol" the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club, which recently had a fresh communication from the Sales Code 

 <.'ommittee of the National Hardwood Lumber .Vssociation, Memphis. The 

 local club endorsed a plan proposed some months ago, but with certain 

 reservations. 



H. O. Van Tyle of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, who has been 

 with the High Bridge. Ky., mill of the company for some months past, has 

 again joined the main office organization at Louisville. 



Ceorge Wilcox of the I. B. Wilcox Lumt)er Company reports that he has 

 about all the business he can handle just now, and that his Mississippi 

 mill is running at capacity. 



W. P. Brown & Sons Lund)er Company is planning starting its mill at 

 Brasslield. Ark., about the tirst of the year, it now operating at Ouin and 

 Fayette, Ala. Some of the other mills of its chain will probably be started 

 early in the new year. 



NEW ORLEANS 



The Weis-Patlerson Lumber Co., Alexandria, La., has sold its sawmill, 

 shingle mill, planing mill and lath mill and other property there to the 

 E. Sondheimer Co., Memphis, according to news reaching here. The 

 Memphis concern is doing some emergency remodeling work with the 

 view of startiug up the plants about the tirst of the next year. The E. 

 Sondheimer Co. is the owner of about 16,000 acres of the finest hardwood 

 and cypress timber in Louisiana situated in Avoyelles and St. Landry 

 parishes, which it will manufacture at the plants just taken over by it 

 at Alexandria, not many miles distant. 



The Pelican Luml>er Co., of which J. B. Robinson is general manager 

 and George S. Yerger is president, will continue in business at Mound 

 until the large stock of both hardwood and cypress lumber it has on 

 hand is disposed of and then it is understood that at some future date 

 the company will re-engage in the manufacturing end of the business, 

 though no definite plans have been made public as yet by the Pelican 

 officials. The Pelican Lumber Co., Mound, La., recently has sold out to 

 the Stimson Veneer & Lumber Co., Memphis. 



Richard Petrus was sent from the Memphis office to take -charge of 

 the newly-acquired property, which was transferred about the middle 

 of the last month, though its announcement was withheld until more 

 recentl.v- 



George S. Balmer, veteran of the New Orleans hardwood trade, has 

 recently been appointed manager of the hardwood department of the 

 S. L. Belknap Lumber & Export Company, of that city. In addition to 

 all species of hardwoods. Mr. Balmer will handle in his new office staves, 

 box shooks and some cypress lumber. 



WISCONSIN 



The E. F. Wipckert Lumber Company of Xeenah. Wis., has be<>n incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $125,000 to take over and continue the busi- 

 ness founded in 1876 by E. F. Wieckert, who died some time ago. The 

 concern operates a sawmill and planing mill and does general mlllwork. 

 Officers of the new corporation are : President. A. H. Wieckert : vice- 

 president, H. E. Wleckert ; secretary and treasurer, Arthur H. Kuether. 

 .Stockholders include Mrs. E. F. Wleckert, Mrs. Minnie Ilaertl and all of 

 the officers. 



The board of education at Racine. Wis., has accepted the bid of the 

 E. n. Stafford Company of Chicago to furnish 1.00<i folding chairs, and the 

 Northwestern Furniture Company of Milwaukee 600 opera chairs for the 

 equipment of the auditorium of the new Franklin and JIcKinley graded 

 school buildings, now being completed. 



The Hartmann Trunk Company of Racine. Wis., which closed its plant 

 for several weeks to balance inventories and make readjustments, has 

 resumed operations with a normal force of nearly .1,50 men. Orders now on 

 the l)Ooks insure capacity production for several months forward. 



The Phoenix Tartrey Company of Prairie du Chien. Wis., has completed 

 its new veneer mill, located on the banks of the Mississippi river, and is 

 now operating the plant at full capacity. The concern is affiliated with 

 two large manufacturing companies, which divide the entire output. One 

 is the Phoenix Products Company of Milwaukee, manufacturing laundry- 

 men's wood supplies, and the other is the Parfrey Company of Richland 

 Center, Wis., manufacturing cheese boxes, staves, heading, etc. Charles A. 

 Parfrey, head of the Richland Center concern, is president, and G, W. 

 Wordingham, head of the Phoenix company, is vice-president. A. R. 

 MacEachron is secretary and treasurer as well as general manager of the 

 Prairie du Chien mill. With the new facilities the PhoenixParfrey com- 

 pany fs able to handle requirements of outside manufacturers to some 

 extent. 



The Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan, Mich., has awarded 

 contracts for the erection of a new four-story fireproof factory building and 

 power plant at South Water Street and New .Terse.v avenue, which will 

 represent an investment of at least $100,000 when completed. It will be 

 four stories high, 95x105 feet in size, and was designed by Architect W. C. 

 Weeks. 720 Ontario avenue, Sheboygan. 



The Milwaukee Washing Machine Company is a new Milwaukee cor- 

 poration organized with a capital stock of $50,000 to engage in the manu- 

 facture of domestic washing machines, wringera, etc. The offices and 



