January 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



OurSpecialtyls AMERICAN WALNUT 



Lumber and Veneers 



Our Band Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation 

 and we now carry a stock of over three million feet 

 of walnut lumber. 



We have also ready for prompt shipment three mil- 

 lion feet of walnut long- wood veneers, half million 

 feet of walnut stumpwood and one million feet of 

 African and Central American mahogany veneers. 



We Also Handle 



AHOGANY 



MEXICAN 



PHILIPPINE 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Home OflBce: Cincinnati, Ohio 



Lock Box 18, St. Bernard Branch 



The two Sullivan brothers of the Buffalo wholesale lumber trade, — Fred 

 M. and Frank T.. — have gone to Bogalusa, La., "where they will attend 

 the wedding of their brother, W. H. Sullivan, vice-president of the Great 

 Southern Lumber Co., which takes place on January 27. Three other 

 Buffalonians, interested in the latter company, are also in Bogalusa, — 

 A. Conger Goodyear, Walter Piatt Cooke and Ganson Depew, The weddipg 

 will be a very largely attended event, as blanket invitations have been 

 issued to all residents of the towns of Bogalusa and Slidell. 



CINCINNATI 



Alexander Smith, domestic sales manager of the Kosse-Shoe & Schleyer 

 Lumber Company, who has just returned from a two weeks' inspection 

 tour of the southern lumber camps, reports unusual quiet for this time of 

 the year. Mr. Smith said that a majority of the mills are not operating 

 on full time. 



Cincinnati hardwood lumbermen were surprised when they learned that 

 C. D. Crane, for many years manager of the Cleveland office of the Klrby- 

 Bonner Lumber Company, would sever his connection with that company 

 on February 1. Mr. Crane has accepted the position as manager of the 

 Ohio district for the Long-Bell Lumber Company, of Kansas City, Mo. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Window Sill Food Box Company recently was organized in Indian- 

 apolis with a capital stock of $25,000. The company has already begun 

 the manufacture of special air cooled refrigerators which will be attached 

 to any window sill and has established offices on Virginia avenue here. 

 The directors are J. A. Newstadt, Emma E. Maas and R. H. Halmage. 



Thomas E. Day, of Greensburg, recently purchased the sawmill at 

 Shelbyville. Ind., which was operated by J. N. Lynch & Son company, for 

 $2,000. The Lynch firm was recently declared Insolvent in the Shelby 

 circuit court. 



EVANSVILLE 



W. H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company, of this city, 

 has been selected as one of the directors of the Chicago and Eastern Illi- 

 nois railroad. 



Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company has been re-elected 

 a vice-president in the Morris Plan Bank here. He also has been elected 

 one of the vice-presidents of the Mercantile-Commercial bank here, along 



with Elmer D. Luhring, of the Luhring Lumber Company and H. M. Lu- 

 kens, of the H. and M. Lumber Company. Theodore E. Rechtin, of the 

 Rechtin Lumber Company, has been chosen again as a director of the 

 North Side bank here. William H. McCurdy, of the Hercules Buggy Com- 

 pany, has been re-elected president of the Old State National bank, also 

 the Morris Plan bank here. 



The Kelsay Hame Company has written to Harry S. New and James E. 

 Watson, United States senators from Indiana, asking them to use their 

 influence to have a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem put on hames coming 

 into the United States from Canada. The plant of the company in Evans- 

 ville is practically closed down and it is alleged by the management that 

 the shutdown is due to the bringing into the United States of hames from 

 Canada. 



Announcement was made a short time ago that the firm of Herdrich 

 and Lemon, lumber dealers at Mechanicsburg, Ind., and Kirkland, Ind., 

 had been dissolved. Under the new arrangements, B. F. Herdrich of Leb- 

 anon, Ind., will take charge of the mill of the old firm at Mechanicsburg, 

 while Mr. Lemon will have charge of the planing mill at Kirkland. 



It is expected that logging operations will be resumed along Green and 

 Barren rivers In western Kentucky during the early spring months. The 

 logs that are cut will be rafted to the Evansvllle mills, while some of them 

 will be sent to the mills at Owensboro and Henderson, Ky. 



It is expected that a new planing mill will be built at Rockport, Ind., 

 in the near future to take the place of the plant of the Rockport Planing 

 Mill Company, that was destroyed by fire several months ago at a loss of 

 about $10,000. 



J. C. Greer, of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, and president of the 

 Bvansville Lumbermen's Club, who will leave within a short time for a 

 tour of the south, will Inspect the company's stave mills in Tennessee 

 while he is away. Mr. Greer looks for 1922 to be a very good year for the 

 stave manufacturers of the central west. 



B. F. Von Behren of the Von Behren Manufacturing Company, makers of 

 spokes and hubs, has returned from a trip to Portland, Ore., where he 

 visited his daughter. 



LOUISVILLE 



lyouisvlUe Is quite pleased with the decision of the directors of the 

 American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, whereby the annual con- 

 vention will be held in Louisville within the next few weeks, the date not 

 having been announced as yet. It may be remembered that the meeting 

 was held In Louisville in the fall of 1918, at which time the consolidation 

 was affected between the Cincinnati and Memphis organizations, and 



