May 20, 1917 



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Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



TTte Home of the "Peerless *' Standard Brand Products 



Westeni Office : 

 516 LiDinfavr Exchange, Mlzin«apoU». Minn. 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



MUli at Gladstone and Eacanaba, BrllchlEiui 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties, 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



"Peerless" Rock Maple, Beech& BirchFlooring 



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have a standard of their own. are ruaranteed 

 and are aald by Jealeri to hold trade. We 

 ahip It In straight or mixed cars— Car or Carro. 



TRY IT THE 

 NEXT TIME 



Uemheri 0/ Maple Flooring Uonufacturert' AsiooiationiWheii wrltlnc mention the Hardwoed Recard.; 



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The Mail Bag 



Bins— Oak Chair Posts 

 Oshkosh, Wis., May 17. — Editor Hardwood Hkcokd : We are in the 

 market for a car ot chair posts Ii4x2x42" long and one car of Ii4xl%x42" 

 long. This must be clear oak, either red or white or mi.xed. If you have 

 no dry stock, please quote us on a car to lie dcliviTed in the next ninety 

 ■days to be sawed at once. . 



B 1116— Wants Wagon Oak 

 New York, N. Y., May 9. — Editor II.MmwooD Record : Ws are in the 

 market for 10,000 feet of 4, 4 firsts and seconds or panel oak 15 inches 

 and up wide. This is to be used for wagon work and we want it as free 

 from split ends as possible, . 



B 1117— Has Wood Ashes to Offer 

 Ft. W.ivxEj IXD., May 10. — Editor H.\rdwood Kecord ; We understand 

 that wood ashes are easily salable, and if we could get in touch with 

 ■consumers of these, we would like to do so, as we could arrange to 

 furnish several carloads from our various mills. If you know any con- 

 cerns who are in the market for these, would be pleased to have you 

 favor us with this information. . 



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Clubs and Associations 



Next Hoo-Hoo Annual to Be Held in New York 

 Secretary-treasurer E. E. Tennant of the Concatenated Order of Hoo- 

 Hoo, announces that the twenty-sixth annual meeting of Hoo-Hoo will 

 he held in the Hotel McAIpine, New York, Septemljer S-12. 



Chicago Tournament Goes to Flossmoor 



On account of the recent destruction by _flre of the Beverly Country 

 ■clubhouse, the tournament of the Lumbermen's Golf Association of Chicago, 

 to be held on Tuesday, .lune 12, will take place at the Flossmoor Country 

 Club, which is located about twenty-eight miles south of Chicago, and 

 is reached by the Illinois Central Railroad. 



The tournament is scheduled according to the original program as to 

 events, prizes, etc. 



Fast express suburban trains run frequently from the Randolph and 

 Van Buren street stations on regular schedule. 



Change in Date of Michigan Meeting 



Secretary Knox of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 has sent II.vuuwuod Kecoud the following letter rcsardiug the coming 

 meeting in Chicago : 



I notice that the summer meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 lacturors .\ssocuition has been published as of date June 13, this infor- 

 mation probably coming from action of our association at Detroit last 

 month, where we decid-d to hold our meeting the day before the National 

 Hart wood Lumber .\ssuciation meeting in Chicago, but action of the 

 Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association placing its 

 meeting as of the morning of the 14th has made us change our plans, 

 and It IS probable that we will hold our annual meeting at the Hotel 

 Sherman. Uiica.go. Thursday, June 14, at 9:30 a. m. This question has 

 been placed betore our jiresident and without doubt the latter date will 

 be the one selected. 



Big Cutover Land Meeting in Memphis, June 11 



The semi-annual meeting of the Southern Alluvial Land Association will 

 be held in Memphis at Hotel Chisca, June 11. This was decided by the 

 executive committee of the association which met in Memphis May 19. 



The purpose of the meeting is to stimulate and co-ordinate the many 

 forces at work hjoking to the legitimate development and colonization 

 of the alluvial regions of the South, and more than 1.000 invitations, 

 it is announced by Secretary F. E. Stonebraker, have already been, or 

 will immediately be. sent out. Governors of seven states, comprising the 

 alluvial regions to be developed, have been asked to be present and to 

 deliver addresses. Representatives of the leading agricultural schools and 

 colleges in these states" have likewise been asked to send representatives 

 and it is announced that most of them have already signlBed their inten- 

 tion of doing so. The five railroads operating in the alluvial regions of 

 Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois and Ken- 

 tucky have also been reauested to send representatives of their agricultural 

 departments. 



The association plans to begin shortly the publication of a monthly 

 bulletin devoted to the interests of the membership as well as the terri- 

 tory covered by the organization. It will contain all the up-to-date news 

 pertaining to the agricultural progress of the various sections of the 

 delta region. This information will be gathered and compiled by ■\'. H. 

 Schoffelmayer. field secretary. Mr. Schofitelmayer has been making per- 

 sonal investigation of the properties of various members ot the associa- 

 tion during the past several weeks and he is thoroughly in touch with 



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