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Hardwood Record — ^Veneer & Panel Section 



April 10, 1922 



VENEERS 



UNDERWOOD QUALITY 



PROMPT DELIVERIES 

 ATTRACTIVE PRICES 



PANELS 



During the past twenty-five years our constant aim has been 

 to make Veneers and Panels especially adapted to the needs of 

 our customers and our ever-widening field of trade has been built 

 up on this principle. 



We carry a large stock of both logs and seasoned Veneer at 

 all times. Our shipping facilities are excellent and orders are 

 promptly filled. 



Send us your inquiries. We carry a large stock of Three and 

 Five-ply Panels on hand at all times— Write for list of sizes. 



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UNDERWOOD VENEER CO. 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



Mayor Bosse, Giant in Furniture Industry, Dies 

 Suddenly 



Benjamin Bosse, mayor of Evansville, Ind., and president of the 

 GIobe-Bosse-World Furniture Company, died at his home in Evans- 

 ville on April 4, death being due to pneumonia with complications. 

 He was ill but a few^ days. 



Mayor Bosse was one of the wealthiest citizens of Evansville 

 and was one of the best known furniture manufacturers in the 

 United States. Several years ago he w^as president of the National 

 Furniture Manufacturers* Association. Mayor Bosse was one of 

 the largest buyers of lumber in the city of Evansville and was 

 w^idely known among the lumber manufacturers and w^holesalers 

 of the western states. He was a self-made man and at the time of 

 his death he was connected with about twenty-five of the leading 

 manufacturing or business concerns of his home city. He was 47 

 years old and is survived by his wife, five brothers and two sisters. 

 He was born on a farm near Evansville and when 16 years old 

 started to work in Evansville, driving a delivery wagon for a grocery 

 store. Later he helped to start one of the first furniture companies 

 in Evansville, known as the Globe Furniture Company. At the 

 time of his death he was president of the Globe-Bosse-World Fur- 

 niture Company, the West Side Bank of Evansville. the Imperial 

 Desk Company, the Evansville Furniture Company, the Evansville 

 Courier Publishing Company, the Bosse Coal Company, the Evans- 

 ville Top and Panel Company, the Ohio Valley Roofing Company, 

 the Vendome Hotel Company and others. He was a director in 

 the Evansville Enameling Company, the Furniture Building Com- 

 pany, the Atomized Fuel Company, Karges Wagon Company, Ev- 

 ansville Supply Company and other large manufacturing concerns. 

 He recently w^as elected president of a large insurance agency in 

 Evansville. He was chairman of the democratic state central com- 

 mittee of Indiana and one of the leading figures in democratic poli- 

 tics of the state. His friends believe that had he lived he would 

 have been the nominee of his party for governor of the state in 



1924. Mayor Bosse started on the first of the present year serving 

 his third term as mayor. He was active, progressive and public 

 spirited and he was known as the mayor who built. 



Testimony Given in Thin Lumber Case 



Representatives of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 

 and numerous veneer men appeared before a hearing of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, Louisville, Ky., April 3 and 4, for a 

 continuance of arguments presented by the shippers for lumber 

 rates to apply to plain veneers, and a rate of 1 5 per cent over 

 lumber rates for figured veneers. A lot of testimony was heard 

 from several veneer men, showing why such rates should be granted. 



The Foreign & Domestic Veneer Co., Louisville, recently chart- 

 ered with a capital of $50,000, with Sam C. Mengel as president, 

 and E. J. Mengel, secretary-treasurer, has located offices at 1210 

 Starks building, and has under lease part of the Brunswick-Balke- 

 Collendar Co. plant at Knoxville, where it will produce fine grade 

 veneers, also jobbing veneers. The company will feature ma- 

 hogany, oak, walnut and gum veneers. 



Sheboygan Takes Piano Plant Site 



The S. W. Miller Piano Company of Sheboygan, Wis., has been 

 obliged to defer its new factory construction project because 

 the city of Sheboygan has started condemnation proceedings upon 

 the site, which is located on the lake front, and is -wanted for 

 extensions of public park and bathing beaches. It is now seeking 

 a new site. Since it must vacate its present quarters by May 1 5, 

 arrangements have been made to purchase the old American 

 Theater building on South Eighth Street, near Clara Avenue, 

 which is being remodeled for temporary use as a factory and ■ware- 

 house. According to William H. Ackerman, treasurer and gen- 

 eral manager of the company, it is hoped to get a fair start on 

 a permanent new plant before the end of the summer. 



