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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January lij, 11)22 



"Perfectly Dried Veneers 



at WocdMusaic Co., LoiiistiUc. A'j. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company has hit the 

 bull's-eye of a tremendous buying- 

 interest with its well-known advertis- 

 ing slogan — 



TerfecdyDriedVeneers 



The Wood-Mosaic Company is gaining 

 customers and holding them because it 

 makes good its promise and diies all 



its veneers in "Proctor" Automatic 



Veneer Dryers. 



The "Proctor" Dryer never fails to pro- 

 duce a uniformly dry product, of lasting 

 Bat n ess and pliability — having all the 

 qualities you would personally associate 

 with the term — 



"Perfectly Dried Veneers" 



Closes Quarter Century of Career With a "Little" Dinner and 

 Talk of the Early Days 



In celebrating the 

 close of twenty-five 

 years of service with tbe 

 Wood-Mosaic Co., of 

 Louisville and New Al- 

 bany, Merritt Rogers, 

 treasurer of the com- 

 pany, aslsed eigliteen of 

 the officers, department 

 heads, etc., to a little 

 dinner at his home on 

 New Year's night. At 

 least he said it was go- 

 ing to be a little dinner, 

 but according • to lln' 

 boys who attended, it 

 was about the finest din- 

 ner that a man ever sat 

 down to. 



Rogers is one of the 

 best-known timber l)uy- 

 crs in the country, be- 

 ing well known from 

 Memphis to Chicago, 

 and having luui charge 

 of the log buying divi- 

 sion of the Wood-Mosaic 

 Co. for many years. lie 

 started with the Mac- 

 Lean interests when 

 they were established at Merritt Rogers 



Cioverdale. Ind., and 

 was with the Iluglt Mac- 

 Lean Lumber Co. until about IhOG, when the Wood-Mosaic Co. was estal)- 

 llshed at New Albany, and the MacLean Interests established separate 

 companies. 



Mr. Rogers, following the dinner, was in a reminiscent attitude, and pro- 

 duced a letter he received from W. A. MucLean on June .1, 1«!99, which 

 he claims is the first written Instructions he ever remembers having re- 

 ceived, as in the (dd days Instructions were carelessly given and verbal. 

 This letter pertained to buying some timber at a time when a thousand 

 dollars would i>urchnse half the limber in a county, whereas today it would 

 liurchase mighty few prime logs. In those days a thousand dollars in- 

 vested in logs was real money, therefore the letter with the Implicit In- 

 structions concerning careful buying. 



When Mr. Rogers read this letter W. A. Maclean, president of the com- 

 pany, was heard to emit a few chuckles, and a number of interesting stories 

 resulted concerning the early days of the MacLean Interests at Bedford 

 and Cioverdale, Ind. 



-Attending the dinner were W. A. Macl-ean, II. H. Barclay, H. C. Ilobbs, 

 W. II. Day. Ralph Rich, J. J. ICgan, C. F. .•Vnderson, Stuart MacLean, N. H. 

 Whitehead, R. R. Pickens, O. L. Hays, E. A. Minnick. Charles Deatrlck, 

 Mrs. O. L. nays and Miss Mary K. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. 



At the conclusion of the dinner Mr. MacLean on behalf of the attend- 

 ance presented Mr. Rogers willi an elegant watch chain and Knights 

 Templar charm. 



Long-Bell Increases Capital Stock 



The close of 1921 marked the passing "if another milestone of progress 

 for the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo. The authorizeil 

 capital stock of the company was increased to $2.^1,000,000 at a meeting of 

 the stockholders of the company December 30. B. A. Long, chairman of 

 the board, announced. The increase wag made to decrease the company's 

 surplus account. Heretofore the company has had paid-up capital stock of 

 .$9,000,000. 



The company is a Missouri corporation, .\mendment to its charter has 

 been filed with the Jackson county (Missouri) recorder and with the 

 secretary of state at Jefferson City, Mo. 



A stock dividi'Ud was declared at a meeting of the directors December 31. 

 The result of these changes Is that the issued paid-up capital stock of the 

 company will he $22,000,000, with a surplus account of $6,000,000 

 remaining. 



"This transaction docs not contain any factor of refinancing, " said 

 Mr. Long. "It is merely a rearrangement of the capital account of the 

 company to reflect more properly the growth and expansion of Its busi- 

 ness." 



Newscine and Trump for Company 

 I. J. Newsome, for eight years sales maunger for Lee Wilson & t'ompany. 

 and E. IT. Trump, for eighteen years connected with Thomas & I'lociz 

 Lumber Comiiany, all of St. Louis, announce their severance with their 

 respective firms and the establishment of a new company. The new com- 

 pany name will be Newsome-Trump Lumber Company, and their offices will 

 be located at 2010 Railway Exchange building, St. Ix)uis. Missouri. They 

 will engage in the wholesale handling of all kinds of hardwooii lumber. 



