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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



Dec 



25. 1921 



SPECIALISTS IN 

 DIFFICULT ITEMS 



We Manufacture 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 

 THIN LUMBER SPECIALTIES 



BIRCH DOOR STOCK 

 MAPLE PIANO PIN BLOCKS 



YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BEHIND OUR PRODUCTS 



— MUNISING WOODENWARE CO. — 



MUNISING. MICH. 



Rotary Cut 



Northern 

 Veneers ^„,,, , 



-^ Mfmbers of 

 Maple Flooring 

 Manufacturers' 

 Association 



rj^URNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 



are specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 



Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 



cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 



Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring, (n't Our Frucs 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 MonadnocU Block GLADSTONE. MICH. 



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WATERPROOF GLUE 



For Jointing and Veneering 



STRONG— UNIFORM 



USED COLD EA SILY PREPARED 



ECONOMICAL 



"CASCO" uniformity is assured because 

 we manufacture our own casein 



THE CASEIN MANUFACTURING CO. 



Largest and Longest-Established Manufacturers 

 of Casein Products in America 



15 PARK ROW NEW YORK CITY 



Branch Offices in Principal Cities 



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 a ntanual on Veneers. Panel- 

 Making and Glue. 

 Samples of "CASCO" on request. 



Manitowoc Company Protected by Court Ruling 



The Wiese Laborator}- Furniture Company of Manitowoc, Wis., 

 was in effect the w^inner of a suit recently instituted against the 

 school board of Aurora, Minn., and the Kewaunee Mfg. Company. 

 The suit was brought by a taxpayer of Aurora, to force the school 

 board of this school district to set aside a contract awarded the 

 Kewaunee company to furnish furniture for a new high school at 

 Aurora. The complaint was that the contract was awarded to the 

 Kewaunee company in spite of the fact that the bid of the com- 

 pany was from $3,800 to $1 1,000 higher than bids submitted by 

 others, including the Wiese Laboratory Furniture Company. The 

 district court of St. Louis county, Minnesota, held that school 

 boards can not arbitrarily award a contract to a high bidder, and 

 where a lower bid is rejected there must be some reasonable 

 ground to justify the action. The evidence in this case, the de- 

 cision said, clearly established that the action of the board was 

 arbitrary and not based upon reasonable grounds for rejection of 

 lower bids. The bid of the Kewaunee company, of which Frank 

 \X^iese, head of the Manitowoc company was former manager, w^as 

 $31,886 and the bid of the Manitowoc company, $27,802.50. The 

 court had the following to say by way of comment on the case and 

 the bid of the Wiese company: 



"The Wiese company, while a new concern, has at its head a 

 man who has had a large experience in this sort of work, is a 

 concern that was founded for the purpose of doing this particular 

 kind of work and from the testimony introduced Mr. Wiese, the 

 president of this concern, was the man who more than anyone 

 else was responsible for the Kewaunee people entering this field. 



"In the same connection it might be noted that Mr. Langley 

 (Kewaunee representative) has been around Aurora for at least 

 several days before the letting of this contract, that he has boarded 

 at the home of one of the school board members and that there 

 has been talk of this contract being awarded the Kewaunee com- 

 pany several months before bids were called for. 



"The question resolves itself into one of whether the board was 

 justified in paying the sums ranging $3,800 to $1 1,000 in excess 

 of the lower bids. No attempt was made to show^ that workmen 

 or superintendents in charge of the construction at any of these 

 factories were superior to the workmen or superintendents of any 

 of the other factories. 



"The court is thus forced to the conclusion that the award made 

 was an arbitrary one and made without sufficient investigation 

 and not founded upon any reasonable basis and that the discretion 

 of the board was not exercised in the interests of the taxpayers." 



Plvwood and Lumbermen Form Company 



The New London Manufacturing Company has been orgartized 

 at New London, Wis., by a number of Milwaukee and local men 

 identified with the logging, lumber, veneer and plyw^ood manu- 

 facturing business. They are E. W. Wendlandt, E. L. Zaug, H. B. 

 Christy, New London; W. A. Alexander, A. Sauer, P. Hanusch and 

 M. F. Alexander, Milwaukee. A factory has been leased and is 

 now being equipped, with the expectation that operations may be- 

 gin about December 7 or 15. 



Casket Company Inspector Quits 



Announcement has just recently been made of the resignation 

 of B. r. Watt, head of the inspection department of the National 

 Casket Company, Louisville, who had been with the company 

 for tw^enty years, and who is well known to the lumber trade. 



The Phoenix Chair Company, Sheboygan, has engaged Edward 

 A. Juul, local architect, to design a new factory, office, w^arehouse 

 and showroom building, four stories, 168x180 feet, to cost about 

 $250,000. It will be situated at South Twelfth Street and Virginia 

 Avenue. Work is to begin as soon as plans are completed and 

 contracts can be let, it is stated. 



