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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 191T 



WE MANUFACTURE bandEawed, plain and quarter tawed 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We m*ke a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

 Y our Inquiries sollclte d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



The Lowe Bros. Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., has changed its 

 name to the Lowe Lumber Company. 



The Brightwood Lumber Company, Indianapolis, Ind., has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capitalization of $10,000. The directors are Oscar L. Huey, 

 Curtis S. Hester, Charles W. Bell, William Pence, and Leland C. Huey. 



Henry J. Chatten, Miltord, Ind., who owns a sawmill at Claypool, Ind., 

 has recently purchased a tract of hardwood timber from Stephen Boyer 

 near Packerton, Ind. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >-= 



The annual summer outing of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will be 

 held on the steamer Prince and barge Princess on the Ohio river on Tues- 

 day, June 19. The boat will leave at about two o'clock in the afternoon, 

 and return about eleven. There will be dancing, music and refreshments 

 and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon a fried chicken supper will be served. 

 There will be no more meetings of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club until 

 the second Tuesday night in September. 



Harry Massie has accepted a position as traveling salesman with the 

 Chestnutt Lumber Company, with offices at Nashville, Tenn., and mills at 

 Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Massie was with the Evansville Sash and Door 

 Company for a number of years and later was with a large sash and door 

 concern in Chicago. In his new position he has Indiana and Kentucky and 

 reports a good trade. 



Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture 

 Company, who attended the national convention of the furniture manu- 

 facturers at Chicago a few days ago, announced upon his return that the 

 furniture factories of the Middle West would continue to operate on full 

 time. Many of the furniture factories in Evansville have enough orders 

 on hand to keep them running on the day and night schedule for several 

 weeks. 



J. W. Cunningham, manager of the plant of the Simpson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Washington, Ind., is making several improvements about the plant. 



The Coatesville Lumber Company, Coatesville, Ind., has filed articles of 

 incorporation with the secretary of state, the capital stock being $10,000. 

 The directors of the concern are C. E. Edmondson, R. L. Ader and L. G. 

 Appleby. 



Robert E. Wilson, aged seventy-four years, for many years owner of a 

 large furniture factory at Rushville, Ind., and well known to the lumber 

 manufacturers of the central and southern parts of the state, died a few 

 days ago at Long Beach, Cal. 



K. A. Thompson, who for many years traveled for the Owensboro Wagon 

 Works at Owensboro, Ky., and who was well known among the lumber 

 people of the southern states, died at his home at Lebanon, Ky., a few days 

 ago. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company announces that his com- 

 pany is now pushing the hardwood end of its business and that trade is 

 good. Bert Tisseraud is in charge of the hardwood department. Mr. 

 Greer says his company receives the output of some of the largest mills in 

 the South. Mr. Greer reports that the company's three large stave fac- 

 tories in Tennessee are being operated on full time and that the outlook 

 for the stave market is gratifying. 



The various tie companies in this section report a steady trade. A 

 good many ties are being brought here in barges from points along Green 

 and Barren rivers in western Kentucky. The tie business is said to be 

 much better than it was this time last year. 



--< MEMPHIS y- 



The new plant of the Charleston Cooperage Company, now in process of 

 construction at Charleston. Miss., will shortly be in readiness for opera- 

 tion. It is being built Jointly by the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company and the 

 Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company of St. Louis, and will be operated 

 under the management of the latter. There are some 70,000 acres of 

 timber from which the company may draw its supplies and this means 

 operation for an indefinite period. The bolting and sawmill, the steam 

 boxes and the finishing sheds are all nearing completion and it is antici- 

 pated that the entire machinery will be going by June 1. 



The Chickasaw Cooperage Company has filed an amendment to its 

 charter through which it seeks to increase the capital stock from $30,000 

 to $150,000. The application is signed by Walker Wellford, general 

 manager of the compaay, and all of the other principal stockholders. 

 This company has only recently completed the reconstruction of its big 

 cooperage plant here destroyed by Are some months ago. It his likewise 

 substantially increased the capacity of its other finishing plant, located 

 at Gretna, La. Furthermore, it has recently installed two rough mills 

 for getting out material in the woods. One of these is located at Parkin, 

 Ark., and the other at Crowder, Miss. Mr. Wellford is president of 



Associated Cooperage Industries and is one of the big factors in the 

 cooperage trade of the country. 



The Sells Lumber & Manufacturing Company has recently secured an 

 amendment to its charter through which the capital stock has been 

 increased from $50,000 to $75,000. S. R. Sells, George C. Sells and 

 other directors of the company signed the application. The company 

 is planning a substantial increase in the scope of its operations. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >= 



A large number of hardwood men were in Louisville on May 12 for the 

 double purpose of doing whatever business they could, and also in order to 

 witness the forty-third consecutive running of the famous Kentucky 

 Derby. Almost 40,000 people were present at Derby post time, and saw 

 a sterling race, in which a band of sixteen Class A performers negotiated 

 the mile and a quarter route. Omar Khayyam, English bred colt, upset 

 the record of the race by landing in front in the fast time of 2 :04%, the 

 third best time ever recorded at the Churchill Downs track for the dis- 

 tance, with Ticket in .second place and Midway in third. Many of the 

 bettors lost heavily when the Macomber entry and Rickety finished out of 

 the money. A few of the out of town lumbermen present were : Charles 

 Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind. ; W. E. Delaney, Lexington ; Basil Kenney, 

 Fayette, Ala. ; Frank Fish, Chicago ; Lewis Doster, Indianapolis ; F. B. 

 Barkley, Rochester ; Ed. Defebaugb, Chicago ; and a large number of local 

 operators, including T. M. Brown, John Churchill, and Smith Milton. 



The Churchill-Milton Lumber Company has announced that it Is dis- 

 continuing its yards at New Albany. Ind., and in the future will handle 

 all shipments from the mills at Greenwood and Glendora, Miss. 



Several of the youngsters connected with local lumber concerns have 

 received commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps during the past few 

 days, and have been ordered to Indianapolis. John Miller, from the office 

 of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company ; W. P. Clancy, sales depart- 

 ment, Louisville Point Lumber Company ; and W. H. Christian, son of 

 Tom Christian of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New .\lbany, are among the 

 men now in camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. Young Colgan 

 Norman, son of Barry Norman of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, has 

 ioined the First Regiment ; and J. Cripps Wickliffe, secretary of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, Is chairman of a local defense corps that is being 

 organized. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has gone to 

 Arkansas, where he will visit the company's three band mills, and look 

 over logging and other conditions. 



Will McLean, head of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., Is 

 on a trip East, taking in Buffalo, Rochester, Montreal and other points. 



The National Mirror & Sand Blasting Company and the Falls City Mirror 

 Works, 134 and 138 South Fourth street, were badly damaged in a recent 

 fire which swept through several buildings. These concerns manufacture 

 mirrors, principally for furniture manufacturers. 



As a matter of court record Olaf Anderson has filed with the county 

 clerk papers affirming ownership of the Anderson Veneer & Saw Mill Com- 

 pany, a privately owned concern, doing business under a corporate title. 



For the purpose of manufacturing mantels, hardwood flooring and 

 similar products, the Hegan^agruder (Company, Louisville, has been in- 

 corporatid with a capital of $35,000. The incorporators are : James E. 

 Began, W. C. Magruder, and E. C. Hall. 



Lumber operators are somewhat worried at present concerning the coal 

 situation. Mine operators are refusing to make any season contracts or 

 take any future delivery orders, and prices at present are higher than top 

 prices asked last winter. It is claimed by the mine operators that they 

 are unable to get the cars, and feel that they will have a great deal of 

 trouble with the car supply next winter, the result being that they will 

 not load themselves down with contract orders when they may be able to 

 sell on the open market at a better price. If loaded with low-priced con- 

 tract orders during another period of car shortage, the mine operators 

 would be forced to make deliveries on such orders first, and if only a 

 limited number of cars could be secured, they would stand small chance 

 of entering the open market. The county grand Jury is now conducting 

 a hearing in connection with coal prices and conditions. 



The products of the HlUerich & Bradsby Company, golf club and bat 

 manufacturers of Louisville, are moving In such Quantities that the com- 

 pany is again enlarging Its plant and Is Installing eleven additional motors. 



Osslan Edwards, Paris, Ky., has purcliased a lot of standing walnut on 

 the farm of W. T. Buckuer, and is cutting the logs and shipping them to 

 a Cincinnati mill. Many of these logs are of large size and fine quality. 



After Ijeing out on strike for several days the shipbuilders and car- 

 penters of the Paducah Marine Ways, the Ayer & Lord Dry Dock Company 

 and several other concerns on the Ohio river have returned to work, a sat- 

 isfactory settlement having been reached. 



The Broadhead-Garrett Company, Clay City, recently closed down its 

 sawmill, and sent a number of its men to Nada, Ky., to aid in getting out 

 logs. The planer has been operating full time, and the sawmill will resume 

 shortly. 



According to a recent report of the Hubi)ard Lumber Company, Harlan, 

 Ky., larce retailer and small wholesaler of hardwoods and other lumber, 

 the concern will sell approximately 3,000,000 feet of lumber this season 

 If the present active demand continues. The company recently furnished 

 the red gum Interior trim used in the fine new Baptist church at Mid- . 

 dlesboro, Ky. 



