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HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



The controlling factor of the Cooley cheese box factory in West Bend 

 has become a partnership with the commercial joining of II. E. Cooley with 

 Edward J. Krieger, prominent West Bend young man. 



The plant of the Rice Lake Manufacturing Company, Rice Lake. Wis., 

 recently began operations for the season and is now busily engaged in filling 

 large orders for uouse finishings, office fixtures, cabinets, planing mill 

 work, etc. 



The Willow River Lumber Company. Grand View, has nearly completed 

 its cut for the season, which will total nearly 20,000,000 feet of hemlock 

 and hardwoods. There ar5 still about 300 men in the woods, and it is said 

 that this force will be kept all summer. 



With a cut of 2,000,000 feet in prospect, the big sawmill of the 

 Wachsmuth Lumber Copipany, Washburn, Wis., recently began operations 

 with a force of eighty men. 



The Western Pattern and Manufacturing Company, Racine, Wis., organ- 

 ized for the purpose of manufacturing woodeu and metal patterns, has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. It is a consolidation of 

 K. J. Jacobsen & Co. and the Western Pattern Company. 



The will of 'miliam H. Schmidt, former president of the Schmidt & Sons 

 Sash & Door Company, Wauwatosa, and which was recently admitted to 

 probate, leaves his property, consisting of -$11,000 personality, in trust to 

 bis wife,' Henrietta, and at her death to be divided equally between her 

 son, William II. Schmidt, Jr., and the widow and children of a dead son. 



Frederic William Hahn, for several years superintendent of the Phoenix 

 Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis., died recently at his home in that city 

 at the age of thirty-five years. He is survived by a wife and a seven- 

 year-old daughter. Death was the direct result of a serious case of acute 

 lobar pneumonia. The funeral services were in charge of the Masonic 

 Lodge. Mr. Hahn was also a member of the Elks and of the Knights of 

 Pythias. 



The Lee sawmill, iu Rice Lake, has been purchased by Rhinelander in- 

 terests, who will remove it to the latter city after sawing 1,000,000 feet of 

 lumber at its present location. 



Adam Bentley, who cut about 300,000 feet of logs during the past season, 

 has started to manufacture his felling into lumber and shingles at his saw- 

 mill on the I^lover river. He will also turn out window frames, doors, and 

 other finished building materials. 



The good ship I. Watson Stephenson, now in winter quarters at Wells. 

 Mich., has passed federal inspection and will soon he on the lake paths 

 with cargoes of lumber. 



The Barkow Company, manufacturing wagons, is to build a new plant 

 at 190 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis. 



The sawmill of Ed. Shirkey, at Marinette, is turning out 25,000 feet of 

 oak logs, the sawed product of which will be shipped to Green Bay to be 

 used in the construction of boats and tugs. Captain James Larsen of 

 Marinette has inspected the wood. The logs were cut and hauled by the 

 Kiel Woodenware Company. Kiel, Wis., from its land east of Wausaukee. 



Rieboldt & Wolter, boat builders. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., have been ottered 

 the contract to build a large steamer for the Crosby Transportation Com- 

 pany of Milwaukee, owner of the passenger steamers United States and 

 E. G. Crosby, which ply all year round between Milwaukee and Grand 

 Haven. The building of a boat of the dimensions specified by the company 

 would mean an outlay of ?150.000 or more. 



The Cornell Wood Products Company, Cornell, Wis., is taking bids on the 

 general contract for the erection of a one-story storage building of frame 

 construction, 100x130 ft. 



O. B. Joerns, head of the Joerns Brothers Company, Sheboygan and 

 Stevens Point, furniture manufactory, is retiring as mayor of Sheboygan 

 after a successful term of two years. Mr. Joerns recently announced that 

 the Sheboygan plant, seriously damaged by fire a short time ago, will be 

 rebuilt. 



The Wausau Manufacturing Company, Wausau, Wis., is arranging con- 

 tracts for the erection of a two-story factory addition, of concrete block 

 construction, 40x150 ft. 



The Gurney Refrigerator Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., has adopted a 

 system of blanket insurance for the protection of its employes. Every 

 person who has been employed by the Gurney company for one year is 

 presented with a life insurance policy for $500, paid for by the company. 



The Marsh Refrigerator Service Company. Milwaukee, Wis., has been 

 organized and incorporated with a capital stock of .$800,000. Announce- 

 ment is made that it has bought the business formerly conducted by the 

 Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit & Car Company. H. W. Marsh, who for 

 seven years was manager of the latter company, will be in active charge 

 of the plant under the control of the new organization. The ofl5eers are; 

 President, H. W. Marsh ; vice-president, O. C. Fuller ; secretary, J. J. 

 O'Connor. 



• The Barker Lumber & Fuel Company, Watertown, Wis., recently pur- 

 chased the holdings of the X. S. Washburn Lumber Company in 

 Sturgeon Bay. The Washburn company will remain in active business 

 until July 1 and in the meantime will fulfill all its contracts for de- 

 liveries. The transaction constituted one of the largest business deals 

 ever made in Door county. 



Members of the North Wisconsin Loggers' Association at a recent meet- 

 ing of the organization contemplated seriously the prospect of planting 

 food crops for human consumption on the cut-over timberlands to supply 

 their large armies of workmen. Many delegates expressed the belief that 



All Three of U« Will Be Benefited if Yon 



'•Life ain't in lioidin' a good hand but in plaiiin' a pore hand u-ell." 

 — The Oi-d Cattlem.in. 



Stocks are badly broken, yet here 

 is what we have to o£Fer in 



DRY LUMBER 



for 



Immediate Shipment 



Northern Stock 



2 cars 1" L. R. Black Ash 



3 cars 1" Is & 2s Birch 



4 cars 1" No. 1 Com. Birch 

 *30 cars 1" No. 2 & No. 3 Com. 



Birch 

 ^10 cars 114" No. 3 Birch 



4 cars I" L. R. Soft Elm 

 *10 cars 1" No. 3 Maple 

 *4 cars lj4" No. 3 Maple 

 *3 cars 1-%" No. 3 Maple 

 *3 cars U/a" No. 3 Maple 

 *4 cars 2" No. 3 Maple 



* Can be surfaced and resawed if desired. 



Southern Stock 



3 cars 1" No. 1 Com. Red Gum 



2 cars 2" No. 1 Com. & Btr. Red 



Gum 

 6 cars I" No. 2 Com. Sap Gum 



3 cars 1^4" Is & 2s Sap Gum 



3 cars l^^" No. 3 Com. Sap Gum 

 10 cars 1" Is & 2s White Oak 

 10 cars 1" No. 1 Com. White Oak 

 15 cars 1" No. 2 Com. White Oak 



4 cars %" No. 1 Com. & Btr. 



White Oak 



3 cars 2" Oak Bridge Plank 



4 cars 1" Is &,2s Otd. Wh. Oak 

 4 cars 1" No. 1 Com. Otd. White 



Oak 

 3 cars 1" No. 2 Com. Otd. White 



Oak 

 2 cars \}i" Is & 2s Otd. White 



Oak 

 2 cars 2" Is & 2s Qtd. White Oak 



At our Arkansas and Wisconsin plants we are 

 daily putting new stock into pile, whose texture 

 and quality will appeal to the careful buyer 



THE 



G. W. Jones Lumber Co. 



Manufacturers of 

 Northern and Southern Hardivoods 



APPLETON, WISCONSIN 



SOUTHERN PLANT 

 FORREST CITY MFG. COMPANY, Forrest City, Ark. 



MentloD HARDWOOD RECORD 



