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front tlipro. The offices of the Evans firm will be nioveil to the other 

 location. About 1,000,000 feet of lumber is InoluiieJ In the assets talien 

 over. 



John L. Alcock. of John L. .Vlcooli & Co.. hardnooil exporters, with 

 offices in the ^lunsey Buihling, liere, returned recently from a business 

 trip which tool; him as tar west as Detroit. He reports considerable 

 activit.v in the section visited. 



Eilward P. Gill of Wm. D. Gill & Son, Inc., Phllpot street, who was 

 reported to be progressing very satisfactorily after an operation to which 

 he submitted some time ago, has had a setback, and at last accounts his 

 condition was not so satisfactory. 



C. C. Morse of Morse Bros. & Co.. Rochester, was in Baltimore last 

 week and conferred with some of the hardwood men here. 



COLUMBUS 



J. S. McVey. president. Central West Coal & Lumber Company, left 

 recently on a trip to the West Coast to look after lumber interests. 



B. F. Pryor, salesmanager of the W. M. Eitter Lumber Company, reports 

 a strong market in hardwoods although orders are not quite as plentiful as 

 fornterly. This is accounted for because of the approach of the semi- 

 annual inventory period. Because of the time of listing' stocks dealers 

 are not inclined to lake on any nu^re stocks than is absolutely necessarj-. 

 Prices are well maintained at former levels. 



\V. M. Ritter, head of the concern bearing his name, was in Columbus 

 December ."» from his home in Washington, D. C, to confer with depart- 

 ment managers. Since the order went out to put all of the company's 

 mills in operation most of them have been started and the remainder will 

 be put into commission during December. 



Horace D. Brasher, H. D. Brasher Lumber Company, left recently for 

 Glendon. Ala., to visit the mill of the Brasher Lumber Company, now in 

 the hands of receiver, H. E. Stafford. Steps are being taken to put tlie 

 mill in operation. 



-M. W. Stark, American Column and Lumber Company, reports a steady 

 trade although the volume of business is not as large as formerly. Prices 

 are firm all along the line. This company recently decided to start opera- 

 tions at its hardwood plant at Stark. W. Va., soon after the first of the 

 year. E. M. Stark, vice president and treasurer of the company, was 

 called to New York on business early in December. 



CINCINNATI 



Thomas H. Hall, president of the Thomas H. Hall Lumber Company. 

 Charleston. W. Va., was in this city durinjr the past ten days conferring with 

 officials of the investment firm of Channel- & Sawyer, relative to floating a 

 bond issue of $500,000. The money will be used to finance a new proposi- 

 tion of the company's in the New River Tennessee territory, where it has 

 built a modern band mill and will start operation on January 1. The com- 

 pany has leased approximately 27,000 acres in Scott and Morgan counties 

 which is forested with poplar, oak and chestnut timbers. This is an entirely 

 new proposition of the company's in Tennessee, because it has heretofore 

 concentrated it operations in West Virginia. 



Appeal from the decree of the United States District Judge at Grand 

 Rapids. Mich-, holding to be valid and infringed the patent of the Perkins 

 Glue Company. Lansdale, Pa., enjoining further infringement and direct- 

 ing an accounting of profits and damages, has been filed in the United 

 States Circuit Court here by the Holland Furniture Company, Holland. 

 Mich. 



J. J. Linehan. sales manager of the Mowbray & Robinson Company 

 ami chairman of the Cincinnati committee making arrangements for 

 the annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Association here on 

 January 25 and 20, announced that headquarters will be at the Hotel 

 Sinton. He also said that the l>anquet will be held at the Business Men's 

 Club on the night of January 25. Entertainment will be provided for the 

 ladi»'.s and this will be looked after by W. J. Eckman of the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company. 



S. B. Stanbery, Cincinnati manager of the Chicago Coal and Lumber 

 Company, has been commissioned a brigadier-general in the Officers' Reserve 

 Corps. During the war, Mr. Stanbery was brigadier-general in the Seventy- 

 sixth Corps of the Thirty-seventh Division, which served in France and 

 Belgium. 



Newell H. Hargrave of the Kirbpatrick Lumber Company and president 

 of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, has been confined to his home at 345 

 Thrall avenue for the past month, with a cold which has settled on his 

 <-hest. 



EVANSVILLE 



The Whitmore Handle rompiiuy at Mt. Vernon, Ind.. has finished the 

 building of a new addition to its i)lant in that city. The new addition 

 will lie used as the sawmill department for the company. A big increase 

 in the business of the concern necessitated the building of the new addi- 

 tion. Several other improveno-nts around the plant also have been made 

 by the company. Various kin<ls of handh-s are manufactured by this com- 

 pany and they are shipped to all parts of the United States. During the 

 past summer months the company also manufactured a large number of 



baseliall bats and a ready sale was found tor them. William J. Rumier. 

 the secretary and treasurer of the eomi)any, reports that the company is 

 enjoying a good business at the present time. 



J. «'. Greer, head of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company and president of 

 the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, has returned from a trip through the 

 South and while gone he inspected the company's stave mills down in 

 Tennessee. He reported that the trade conditions of the South are In 

 better shape than they were six or eight months ago. 



Daniel Wertz, presfdcnt of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, has 

 returned from a business trip to Indianapolis and the central part of 

 the state. 



Arthur A. Sharp, of Hickory Valley, Tenn.. has been awarded a verdict 

 for .f.'i.SOO by a Jury in the Vanderburg county superior court here against 

 the Evansville Itauil Mill Company. Sharp sued the local company tor 

 $ll!,O00. He charged that the company contracted to buy 200,0(10 feet 

 of lumber from him but accc]itcd only 2',;, 000 feet, causing him to lose 

 *12.0(lO on the deal. 



MEMPHIS 



Max Sondheimer. president of the E. Sondheimer Company and host to 

 a group of business and lumber men on a hunting trip into the wilds around 

 Sondheimer, La., Insists that the story sent out about his killing a deer 

 from a comfortable seat In a camp rocker, is entirely true. "That is my 

 story, I had it sent out, and I am going to stick to it," is the way he puts 

 it. But this version does not prevent his many friends from almost "kid- 

 ding" the life out of him. The gentlemen who were his guests have all re- 

 turned to their homes and all report the hunting trip a wonderful success. 



The two band mills controlled by Xickey Brothers. Inc.. and the Green 

 River Lumber Company of Memphis, are now operating on full time after 

 an extended shut down during which they were "nailed up" and the 

 management reports that it is pretty well supplied with logs and that 

 it contemplates steady operations. The veneer plant of Xickey Bros., Inc., 

 however, is being operated only in a small way because of the rather 

 poor tone of the market therefor. 



James E. Stark & Co., Inc.. are running their old band mill In north Mem- 

 phis at practically full capacity and the management was considerably 

 worried several weeks ago over its inability to secure logs but it has more 

 recently met with unexpected success in this direction. This firm is also 

 operating its band mill at Dyersburg, Tenn. The power plant is now be- 

 ing rushed to completion by this firm in North Memphis but this will " 

 probably not be placed in operation until late winter or early spring. 

 It is learned that this mill, which is equipped with band saw, resaw, 

 edger, trimmer and other up-to-date appliances, will have a daily capacity 

 around 90,000 feet. The new mill will be largely used to cut cotton 

 wood, gum and cypress into lumber and timbers, with special reference 

 to the latter. 



M. B. Cooper, assistant to R. M. Carrier, president of the Carrier Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, Miss., who was in Memphis several 

 days ago, says this firm is operating its band mill and flooring plant on 

 full time and that It has several million feet of logs available for the 

 winter and spring as a result of the fact that it took advantage during 

 the summer and fall of every opportunity to cut timber and prepare it for 

 delivery to its mill over its own logging road. 



The Rush Lumber Company is able to operate its hardwood mill at 

 Memphis only part of the time on account of inability to secure suf- 

 ficient logs and the same is true of some other manufacturers here. Very 

 heavy rains have fallen in Eastern Arkansas. North MissLssippi, West Ten- 

 nessee anil Southern Missouri and these have Interfered with logging to 

 an appreciable extent. The point in this connection is this : Mills in 

 Memphis are generally poorly supplied with logs and are therefore largely 

 dependent on their current receipts, and since rains have largely stopped 

 work in the woods, the mills themselves have had to suspend operations in 

 part if not entirel.v. 



The PenrodJurden Lumber Company repiuts that It has resumed op- 

 erations at one of its mills at Helena. .\rk. It Is unable to secure enough 

 logs to start up Its other plants at the same point. 



J. L. Penrod, of Kansas City, Mo., who is one of the owners of the Pen- 

 rod-Jurden Company and who is interested In other woodworking en- 

 terprises in the South, was a visitor in Memphis this week. 



LOUISVILLE 



Lcroy Olcott. of W. V. Brown i; Sons Lumber Company, was elected presi- 

 dent of the City Limits Improvement and Community Club at the annual 

 election a few days ago. Olcott Is a fine executive, and has been an active 

 worker In the club, which has done much for one of Louisville's finer 

 stiburban districts. 



Although cedar is rather scarce in this section a good deal of stock 

 is coming from Tennessee points, a river tow of three barges, loaded to 

 the guards with cedar posts, having passed Louisville in tow of the 

 ge-ollne boats, Ifelcn .1/. and Circle A., a few days ago. 



The John C. Graham Lumber Co.. Louisville, capital $.'i.'j,000, has been 

 chartered by John C. Graham. L. C. Spillman and C. J. Stinson. 



A recent report from Barlow, Ky., was to the effect that the sawmill of 

 Howard Vancey was burned at a loss of $12,000. 



Whitesburg, Ky., reports that H. 11. Harris and others of that city have 



