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 For some time past the principal production was £urniture, the output 

 of phonographs having lieen considerably reduced because of the curtailed 

 lemand. 



The Hilbert Woodenware Company of Flilbert, Wis., which has been 

 inactive for a long time, has tiled notice of the dissolution of the 

 corporation. 



Principal officers of the Cudahy Brothers Company, of Cudahy, Mil 

 waukee county, meat packers, have organized the Northern Refrigerator 

 Car Company of Milwaukee, under the laws of Wisconsin, with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $425,000. It will operate refrigerator cars and also 

 build and repair such rolling stock. Provision will be made in the 

 main plant at Cudahy for car construction and maintenance. Michael F. 

 Cudahy is president and general manager. 



The Radcllffe Manufacturing Company of Eagle Kiver is the style of 

 a new Wisconsin corporation organized with .$20,000 capital stock to deal 

 in real estate, timber lands, manufacture and deal in wood products, etc. 

 The incorporators are Amos Uadcliffe, G. F. Sanborn and B. N. Hammes. 



The Combination Door and Screen Company of Fond du Lac has let 

 contracts for the erection of a$25,000 factory addition, to be 50 by 50 

 feet in size and two stories high. 



Cudahy Bros. Company, Cudahy, Milwaukee County, are building a new 

 box factory, 80 by 190 feet in size, which will replace the unit which was 

 destroyed by fire in November. Most of the machinery and equipment 

 cequires replacement and orders are now being placed. 



The Northern States Casket Company of Chippewa Falls, Wis., re- 

 cently adjudged bankrupt, Is winding up its affairs under the direction of 

 Peter J. Murphy of Eau Claire, appointed trustee, Larrabee & Larrabee 

 <if (Chippewa Falls to represent the liankrupt concern as attorneys. 



The Grobben Manufacturing Company. Milwaukee, a large sash, door 

 and millwork concern, is equipping its entire plant with an automatic 

 sprinkler system of fire protection. Similar systems also have been 

 contracted for by the Kieckhefer Box Company, Sixteenth and Canal 

 Streets. Milwaukee, and the William H. Schmidt Company, sash and door 

 manufacturers, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county. 



Blum Brothers Box Company of Marshfield, Wis., has completed 

 arrangements whereby it will greatly increase its capacity for making butter 

 tubs as well as cheese boxes and other veneered packages. It has ac- 

 quired a large warehouse building from Miller Bros., which is 60 by 100 

 feet in size and three stories high. This will be enlarged by two, wing ad- 

 ditions about March 1. New equipment will be installed. The present 

 output of the butter tub department is 1,000 tubs daily,- and this number 

 will be increased to 3.000 to 3. .^00 by the middle of the year. The present 

 force of 100 men is being increased to 150 at once and when the new 

 facilities are read,y, about 75 additional workers will be needed. 



The Kinzel Lumber Company of Merrill has completed additions to 

 its office building to accommodate its enlarged administrative department, 

 especially since the company has taken over the business of the Union 

 Land Compan.v. 



The J. E. Curtis planing mill at Ingram, Wis., which has been operated 

 by John Wilbert under lease for some time, was almost totally destroyed 

 by fire several weeks ago and probably will not be rebuilt. 



The A. Kaul, Jr., Company, Merrill, Wis., manufacturer of hubs, 

 spokes, textile mill supplies, etc., reports more orders on hand for bob- 

 bins than ever before in its history. This is due to the active state of the 

 woolen mill industry. The automobile industry Is also taking larger 

 quantities of spokes and felloes. The company recently booked an order 

 from the Studebaker Corporation for a large quantity of 36-inch maple 

 squares for use in manufacturing steering wheels. Paper plug trade is 

 also picking up, according to W. C. Watrous, general manager of the Kaul 

 compan.v. 



Henry J. Wachsmuth, president of the H. J. Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany of Washburn, Wis., and M. 11. Sprague of Bayfield, a prominent saw- 

 mill owner, have recently been elected members of the board of directors of 

 the Bank of Southern Wisconsin at Janesville. 



The Von Platen-Fox Lumber Company of Iron Mountain, Mich., has 

 tlonated to the county board of supervisors of Florence count.v, Wisconsin, 

 forty acres of timberland for public park purposes. The park is to be 

 called Von Platen-Fox Park. The board is given the privilege of making 

 its own selection of the land from the company's extensive timber hold- 

 ings along the Florence-Long Lake Tipler trunk highway. 



The Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, Wis., which closed its sawmill 

 early in September, has resumed operations and is daily receiving large 

 shipments of logs from its camps at Long Lake, Townsend, Neopit and 

 fjakewood. 



The niamond Lumber Company of Green Bay, has reopened its sawmill, 

 which was shut down last July, the improved situation also having induced 

 the resumption of logging operations, which are expected to be carried 

 forward throughout the summer. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company of Appleton expects to start 

 up its new sawmill by Februar.v 1. Final installations of machinery are 

 now being made and an adequate supply of logs has been delivered to the 

 new mill to keep it running at capacity for an indefinite period ahead. 



The Appleton Wood Products Company of Appleton has completed the 

 installation of new electric motive equipment which provides about four 

 times the old power capacity. A shaving and dust collection system 

 also has been installed which feeds refuse direct to the boiler house. The 



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