June 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



55 



foreign trade bureau recently organized as a part or ttie Merchants and 

 Manufacturers' Association for the development of foreign business for 

 the benefit of MUwauk-'e industries. 



The body of Charles Curry Chase, vice-president of the Banderob- 

 Chase Furniture Company, Oshkosh, recently was found in the basement 

 of his home. No. 2 West Algoma street. It is supposed he was killed by 

 the accidental explosion of a shotgun which he had fastened in a vise for 

 cleaning. He was prominent in civic life. His widow and three daugh- 

 ters survive him. 



The dedication of the soldiers' monument being erected by former U. S. 

 Senator Isaac Stephenson, lumberman, on the island near his home city, 

 Marinette, will take place on July 4. The former senator recently cele- 

 brated his eighty-eighth birthday. 



Blood poisoning recently developed in the right arm of Richard McLean, 

 general manager of the X. Stephenson Company plant in Wells, Mich. A 

 wood sliver that entered his finger was the direct cause of the malady. 

 An operation was performed in Chicago, and Mr. McLean is at present 

 confined to his home. 



Several Wisconsin lumber companies are reported to have formal com- 

 plaints issued against them by the Federal Trade Commission as a result 

 of the investigations held in connection with charges of conspiracy to 

 stifle competition from mail order houses. 



C. E. Snyder, for seventeen years in the employ of the I. Stephenson 

 Compan.v and lately in charge of its lumber yards at Escanaba, Mich., 

 has accepted a position as Delta county, Mich., representative of the 

 Equitable Life Insurance Company. 



The new plant of the Wausau Manufacturing Company is rapidly being 

 pushed to completion to take care of the many orders of thp company. 



Tile Hardwood Products Company, during the recent campaign for the 

 Liberty Loan, notified its employes how the bonds could be purchased 

 with facility through the company. The suggestion was an inspiration 

 and in twenty-four hours the men employed by the concern had subscribed 

 to .$2,400 worth of Uncle Sam's mortgages. 



Lumber takpn out of the old Elizabeth hotel. Fifth and National ave- 

 nues, Milwaukee, which was built a hundred years ago, is as good as new 

 In all respects. 



C. F. Wiche, secretary of the Edward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, 

 recently was united in marriage to Mrs. Florence Earl Lounsbury of Lake 

 Mills, Wis. 



The following officers were elected at the eighth annual meeting of 

 stockholders of the Rice Lake Lumber Company : President, O. H. In- 

 gram ; vice-president, William Carson ; secretary, Orrln Ingram ; assistant 

 secretary. E. B. Ingram ; treasurer, W. K. Coffin. 



The tug J. D. Kylor, loaded with lumber, recently was towed into port 

 at Marinette to undergo repairs of damage sustained in a severe gale on 

 the lakes. 



The Mohr Lumber Company, which began operations in Tomahawk 

 last spring, has remodeled a part of its veneer plant into a planing mill. 

 It was planned at first to erect a new building for the accommodation 

 of the planing plant, but upon investigation it was found that the erec- 

 tion of a new structure would cramp the facilities of the yards in general. 



The A. E. White Machine Works, sawmill machinery, Eau Claire, will 

 erect a new building in that city. 



Mrs. Oliver P. Pillsbury, widow of Oliver P. Pillsbury, prominent Wis- 

 consin lumberman who died in 1S90, recently passed away in Milwaukee 

 hospital, Milwaukee, after an illness of only a few hours. 



The sawmill of the Lake Shore Lumber Company, Washburn, recently • 

 began work on a big-season run. 



One of the finest buildings for housing horses in Taylor county is the 

 stable being built by the Rib Lake Lumber Company, Rib Lake. It is 

 38x150 feet in dimensions. 



There is a probability that the logs of the Mason-Donaldson Lumber 

 Company. Rhinelander, will be sawed by the Keith & Hiles mill in Cran- 

 don. The Mason-Donaldson firm had always secured sawing service at 

 the mill of the Stevens Company, recently destroyed by fire. 



The Wisconsin & Michigan Railway Company, operating a short main 

 line and a logging road between Peshtigo, Wis., and Iron Mountain, Mich., 

 recently was denied exemption from the provisions of the Adamson law 

 by Federal Judge Geiger. 



Ralph A. Wagers, well-known lumber dealer of northern Wisconsin, 

 has entered the firm of Kellogg Brothers Lumber Company, Clintonville, 

 Wis., and has been named secretary of the concern. 



The Lawson Aircraft Company, recently organized by Alfred W. Law- 

 son, has obtained its first factory and equipprd it for the manufacture of 

 airplanes. The company has also taken over two woodworking shops in 

 Green Bay. Lawrence Allison, formerly with the Curtiss, the Standard 

 and the Burgess companies, is chief engineer. Lee Wallace, who has 

 had ten years of experience with airplanes, first with the Christoferson 

 Company, Califoi-nia. and later with the Curtiss, is chief designer. Rudy 

 Sanders, formerly with the Standard, is assistant designer. 



The New Dells Lumber Company, Eau Claire, has been ordered by the 

 Wisconsin supreme court to pay damages to five employes and two widows 

 in accordance with a recent decision of the state industrial commission. 

 It was found that the company had negligently furnished the employes 

 with drinking water infected with typhoid germs, two of the men dying 

 as the result of typhoid fever. 



"Life ain't in holdin' a good hand 'but in playin' a pore hand toell." 

 — The Old Cattleman. 



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" 1 & 2 Birch. 



3 cars 1" No. 1 C. Birch. 



2 cars 11/2" C.&B. Birch. 



2 cars II4" No. 1 & No. 2 C. Birch. 



5 cars 1" No. 2 & No. 3 C. Birch. 



2 cars 1" No. 1 C. Red Birch. 



1 car 1" No. 3 C. Basswood. 



3 cars ll^" No. 1 & No. 2 C. Maple. 



6 cars 1" No. 3 C. Maple. 



2 cars ll/o" No. 3 C. Maple. 



4 cars 1%" No. 3 C. Maple. 



2 cars 1%" No. 3 C. Maple. 



6 cars 2" No. 3 C. Maple. 

 1 car 1" No. 3 C. Oak. 



Can be surfaced and resawed if desired. 



Southern Stock 



3 cars 2" C. & B. Red Gum. 



4 cars 1" No. 2 C. Sap Gum. 



3 cars 1" 1 & 2 Quartered Wliite Oak. 



5 cars 1" No. 1 C. Quartered White Oak. 



4 cars 1" No. 2 C. Quartered White Oak. 

 1 car 11/4" 1 & 2 Quartered White Oak.^ 

 1 car'2" l'& 2 Quartered White Oak. 



7 cars 1" 1 & 2 White Oak. 



6 cars 1" No. 1 C. White Oak. 



8 cars 1" No. 2 C. 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 buytt" 



THE 



G.W. JONES LUMBER CO. 



Manufacturers of 

 Northern and Southern Hardwoods 



APPLETON, WISCONSIN 



SOLITHERN PLANT 



FORREST CITY MFG. COMPANY, Forrest City, Ark. 



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