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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25, 1917 



NEW BRASFIELD, ABK., MILL OF W. P. BROWN & SONS, RECENTLY 

 PURCHASED FROM PEXROP. Jl'RDEN & McCOWEN 



-■< MISCELLANEOUS >■ 



The Sangamon Hardwood Lumber Company has been incorporated with 

 $10,000 at Bcardstown, 111., by John Goodell, Allan D. Millard and Omer 

 C. Pilger. 



With $20,000 capital W. II. Moore, .Y. C. Clopton, Brown White, and 

 others have incorporated the Handy Airtight Hetrigerator Company at Fort 

 Worth, Tex. 



The Cooley Mauutacturing Company has l)cen incorporated at West Bend, 

 Wis., to manufacture boxes. Capital stock is $12,000. 



The Brigg & .Mlyn Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of sash and 

 doors at Lawrence, Mass., is reported to be liquidating. 



A new chair factory, the output of which is to be taken by the Grand 

 Rapids Chair Company and the Imperial Furniture Company, is being con- 

 sidered by E. H. Foote, secretary-treasurer of the former concern, F. Stuart 

 Foote, secretary-treasurer of the latter company, and associates in the two 

 concerns. The tentative plans are for a building costing approximately 

 $2uO',000. The promoters have planned to take definite steps next fall if 

 the venture materializes, but as yet no certain action has been taken. 



Captain Gus Gnndcrson and Benjamin Paddock have become financially 

 interested in tiio American Parlor Frame Company. Slielmygan. Wis., the 

 deal having been consummated April 2. Jlr. Paddock is an experienced 

 salesman, having been identified with the Crocker Chair Company and 

 other Sheboygan manufacturing concerns. He becomes a member of the 

 sales force tor the American I'arlor Frame Company and will enter upon 

 his duties in the near future. 



The Acme Manufacturing Company of Chattanooga, Tenn,. manutac 

 turer of trunks and boxes, has been succeeded by the O. B. .\ndrews Com- 

 pany, while the St. Paul Show Case & Fl.xture Company. St. Paul. Minn., 

 has changed its name to tlie Van Duyne-.Moran Hxture Company. 



The Gem Manufacturing Company, Greenville, O., has become an involun- 

 tary bankrupt. 



Deed of trust for the Rupp Furniture Company, Lineboro, Md., has been 

 given to E. O. Weant. 



The following incorporations have been reported recently : Helena 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Helena. Ark., capital stock $10,000; New 

 England Wood Heel Company, Havi rhill. Mass., capital $15,000; Bedford 

 Cedar Company, Shelbyville. Ind. ; Triangle Manufacturing Company. 

 Buckbanuon, Wis.; Southern Illinois Timber Cou.pany, Marion. 111., capital 

 $16,000 : South Bend, Dowel Works, South Beud. Ind. ; Worcester Builders 

 Finish Company, Worcester, Mass., capita! $10,000; Tacoma Cabinet 

 Works, Tacoma, Wash., capital $20,000 ; Hamburg Lumber Company. 

 Newark, N. J.; Tichy Woodworking Company, New York City; Walke Box 

 Company, Norfolk, Va.. manufacturer box shooks. 



The Williams & Voris Lumber Company, with headquarters at Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn., has started a sawmill at Birmingham. Ala., known as the 

 Williams & Voris Saw Mill Company. 



The Veit Manufacturing Company of Gra.il Rapids, Mich., has Increased 

 its capital stock to $50,000. 



T. J. Elton, secretary of the Buckley & Douglas Lumber Company. Mauls 

 tee, Mich., died recently. 



The Eagle Utilities Mfg. Company recently began tlie manufacture of 

 window and door screens at Kirkwood, Mo. 



The Valley Park Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of screen doors 

 at Valley Park, Mo., is out of business. 

 The Srhauss Parlor Frame Company. Toledo. O.. is closing out. 

 The Wetumpka Planing MiH has been incorporated at Wetumpka, 

 Ala., with $5,000. 



The Lake Charles Planing Mill Company. Lake Cliarlcs. La., has de- 

 creased its capital stock from $.50,000 to $25,000. 



The Shaw Annis Woodworking Company has been incorporated at 

 Lowell, Mass., with $2,000 capital stock. 



Caflish Spicker Ailing & Co., Jamestown, N. T., has been succeeded 

 by Caflish, Spicker & Maurer. 



The Toxaway Lumber Company has been incorporated at Lake Toxa- 

 way. N. C, with $50,000 capital. 



=-< CHICAGO >■ 



F. E. Bartelme, president of the Keith Lumber Company, Chicago, re- 

 turned recently from a trip west, where we learn he distinguished himself 

 as a fl,shcrman. 



The O. G. Leach Hardwood Lumber Company has been incorporated at 

 Chicago. 



The National Picture Frime & Lamp Company has become an involun- 

 tary bankrupt. 



The American Cabinet Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 here with $25,000 capital. The incorporators are Joseph J. Quinn, James 

 F. Quinn and A. Zern. 



The American Ladder Company has sold its factory building at Mo- 

 mence, 111., to the WTiole Grain Wheat Company and has moved its ladder 

 factory to Chicago. 



The Wm. C. Schrelber Lumber Company succeeds Wm. C. Schrelber & 

 Co. The new concern is capitalized at $100,000. 



On April 17, Division "C" of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago 

 was responsible for the program at the luncheon. It was fortunate in 

 securing Mr. Anthonj- Czarnecki of the Chicago News, who has recently 

 come back from the war zone. He talked feelingly on the conditions 

 he found in Poland. ^ 



The Lumberman's Ix)g, which is sort of a year-book issued by the 

 Lumbermen's Association of Chicago, is exceptionally helpful this 

 year. It gives a great deal of information on the Chicago lumber trade 

 and contains annual reports of various officers and committees of the 

 association covering the work of 1010. 



The following prominent northern manufacturers were in the city re- 

 cently, all of them optimistic on future outlook in the hardwood busi- 

 ness ; Sam Horner with William Horner. Reed Cily, Mich., tnanufac- 

 turer of "Smoothest" maple, birch and beech flooring ; Luke Wheeler, 

 Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company, Wausau, Wis. ; George Itobson, Kinzel 

 Liuuber Company, MorriH, Wis. ; Roy Smith. Mason-Donaldson I,umber 

 Company, Rhlnebinder. Wis.; .\rtbur Jarvis. vicepri'sident of the Steven 

 & Jarvis Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis. 



C. W. Talge, president of the Evansville Veneer Company, EvansviUe, 

 Ind., got into town on Tuesilay, April 24, on his way back to Evansville from 

 California. He has been spending his time getting ink) physical trim, not 

 because he had to, but just for the satisfaction of the thing. Mr. Talge 

 stayed over Just two days and spent most of his time with W. C. Calhoun, 

 of the Frosts Veneer Sealing Company, Sheboygan, Wis., who came Into 

 Chicago to meet him. 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



.\n extension is being made to tlie planing mill and dry kiln of G. Ellas 

 & Bro., the work 'o cost $18,000. Considerable new machinery Is to be 

 Installed. 



Elmer J. Stur:n and W. 1'. Miller spent a week in Ohio and Pennsylvania 

 this montli, making purchases and looking over the hardwood situation in 

 the Interest of Miller, Sturm & Miller. 



The Brady Bros. Lumber Company, Nortb Tonawanda, lately purchased 

 the steamer United L\imberman and the barge Jeannctte from the Morden 

 Transit Co., of Midland, Ont. These vessels have been In service in the 

 lumber trade for thirty years or more and will be active again this season. 



The state employment bureau Is getting a list of all men experienced in 

 shipyard work and they will be eligible for employmi'Ut in building tlie 

 1,000 wooden., boats which the government Is to put into trans .\tlantlc 

 service. 



The Taylor & Crate yard on Elk street, which has carried many millions 

 of hardwoods during Its long existence, is now getting to be very bare of 

 stock. Much of it has been sold direct from (he yard, while the remainder 

 has been going for several months to the firm's new Elmwood avenue yard. 



One of Buffalo's leading hardwood men has recently sworn off the use of 

 tobacco, after having been soothed by Ijady Nicotine for at least a dozen 

 years. His resolution was not due to any sermon or to the advice of a 

 medical man. but was brought about by mature reflection and an attack of 

 the grip. While he was ill he lost his smoking appetite, and he makes l^he 

 philosophical remark : "A friend that goes back on ,you w^hen you are 

 sick is no friend at all." He is now firmly and hlgbly resolved never to 

 smoke again, but, so far as learned, has made no bets on the subject. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports that the car situation has 

 been bad at its southern mills for some time and that the outlook for the 

 Immediate future shows little Improvement. The difiicully in getting lum- 

 ber from the South is said to be helping the Buffalo market. 



