July 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



members and arrange for the opening: of a restaurant in connection with 

 the club rooms. 



J. C. Marshall, secretary of the Columbus Lumber Exchange, is soon 

 to start a publicity campaign to educate the building public in the use 

 of mill construction in factory buildings. Data and figures will be pro- 

 duced, showing the many advantages to be gained by using mill construe- 

 tiou in certain classes of buildings. 



K. W. Ilorton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods with prices continuing firm in all grades. Buying 

 on the part of the factories is the best feature of the trade. Shipments 

 are coming out better as the result of an improvement in the car supply. 

 Retailers are buying only in limited quantities. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a better demand for 

 West Virginia hardwoods with prices remaining strong in every partic- 

 ular. 



H. D. Brasher of the H. D. Brasher Lumber Company was called to 

 .\labama on business about the middle of July. He is engaged in operat- 

 ing several mills in that section. 



-< CLEVELAND y- 



The steamer D. W. Mills of the Mills Carleton Company, arrived from 

 Duluth with lumber July 6. 



Aimer G. Webb, secretary of the West Virginia Timber Corporation, tooli 

 a ten days' ^-acation in the Canadian woods. 



Garfield Tark, south of Cleveland, was the place of the outing of the 

 Cleveland Lumber Club, which was held July 7, under the direction of 

 Arch C. Klumph, A. C. Teare and other members of the committee. 



C. A. Moore of the Federal Box Company spent his three weeks' vaca- 

 tion at Lake Wawassee, Ind. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS >- 



O. D. Haskett of the O. D. Haskett Lumber Company, who was chair- 

 man of a committee of Indianapolis retail lumbermen which headed a gen- 

 eral buying movement to provide lumber for construction work at Fort 

 Benjamin Harrison, reports that the government demand for that army 

 post has been filled. Approximately 6,000,000 feet of dimension stock was 

 shipped to the government reservation and army officials as well as mem- 

 bers of the construction company that had the contract have praised 

 the work of the Indianapolis lumber trade in making prompt deliveries. 

 As far as could be learned, the government was not called on at any time 

 to request railroads to make preferred shipments. 



W. F. McKnight, a salesman for the William F. Johnson Lumber Com- 

 pany, saved three persons from drowning in White river north of Indi- 

 anapolis recently. 



The McGregor-Phillips Manufacturing Company, of Terre Haute, Ind., 

 has changed its name to the Phillips Brothers Mill and Lumber 

 Company. 



The Stork Furniture Company of Evansville, Ind., has filed preliminary 

 articles of incorporation. 



The Pierce Furniture Company's plant at Anderson, Ind., was unroofed 

 during a storm last week. The damage amounted to several hundred 

 dollars. 



O. D. Haskett, president of the O. D. Haskett Lumber Company, Indi- 

 anapnlis. has been appointed chairman of the industrial committee of the 

 Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >-= 



Daniel A. Wertz of Maley and Wertz, hardwood lumber manufac- 

 turers, and former president of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, in 

 company with his wife and daughter. Miss Aubrey, has grone to Bay 

 View, Mich., where they will spend the balance of the summer. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company returned a few days 

 ago from Tennessee w^here he inspected the company's stave mills at 

 Louise, Cumberland Furnace, and Lone Oak, Tenn. All of these 

 large plants are being operated on full time. The factories turn out 

 staves for tobacco hogsheads. Mr. Greer says that the tobacco crop 

 in both Tennessee and Kentucky is quite promising and that planters 

 are expecting high prices for their weed. 



Frank M. Cutsinger, president of the Evansville Band Mill Company, 

 returned a few^ days ago from a business trip to Florida. 



Mrs. Margaret E. Pound, aged seventy-six years, widow of the late 

 William C. Pound, died a few days ago at Lawrenceburg, Ind. Mrs. 

 Pound was a large stockholder in the Ohio Valley Coffin Manufacturing 

 Company at Lawrenceburg and was well known among the lumber 

 manufacturers and retailers of that section of the state. Her husband 

 was the president of the coflin company tor a number of years. She 

 is survived by two sons and one daughter. 



D. B. MacLaren of the D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned from a trip on the road and reported business conditions coming 

 along all right. Mr. MacLaren thinks that the lumber manufacturers 

 of the central western states will enjoy a great boom in trade after 

 the war. 



Building operations in Evansville are not so active this summer as 

 last, although the contractors and architects .say that there is a good 



deal of building in sight for the balance of the summer and that they 

 expect to keep reasonably busy. Many of the towns and cities in 

 southern Indiana and western Kentucky are witnessing a good deal of 

 building this season. At Bicknell, Ind., a thriving mining city sixty 

 miles north of here, it is said that there is not a vacant house in the 

 town and that hundreds of houses are being erected. 



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

 ture Company, returned a few days ago from Chicago where he 

 attended the furniture market. Mayor Bosse reports nothing in the 

 trade situation that is discouraging to the furniture manufacturers. 

 The large furniture plants here continue to operate on steady time 

 as they have done for several months. Reports from the South and 

 Southwest say that trade conditions are promising and things look 

 good for fall and winter. Most of the w'ood consuming plants in 

 Evansville are running on full time. Plow manufacturers have had a 

 splendid year and their business has been unusually good since April. 



Thomas Kinder, aged twenty-six years, owner of a large sawmill and 

 dealer in lumber at Mt. Olive near Bedford, Ind., was seriously injured 

 recently when he had trouble, the authorities say, over lumber meas- 

 urements with Benjamin Stapleton, aged fifty years. It is alleged 

 that Kinder was struck over the head wuth a heavy club and his skull 

 was fractured. He may not recover. 



George O. Worland, president, and Mertice E. Taylor, secretary of 

 the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, state that they expect an unusually 

 large attendance at the first fall meeting of the club which will be 

 held on the second Tuesday night in September. The meeting will be 

 held at the new Hotel McCurdy that was recently opened to the public. 

 Roth Mr. Worlaud and Mr. Taylor are conducting a quiet campaign 

 for new members and it is expected that several new faces will be 

 seen at the September meeting. 



John C. Keller, traffic manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 and traffic commissioner of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, held 

 a meeting here a few days ago with the coal operators of the southern 

 Indiana field at which it was decided to protest to the Indiana Public 

 Service Commission over the proposed fifteen per cent increase in 

 freight rates. 



Guild C. Foster, manager of the Evansville Carriage Woodstock 

 Company, has returned from a business trip to the East. 



=•< MEMPHIS >-= 



Excellent rains appearing in the entice Memphis and valley sections 

 have brought about distinct improvement in the crop outlook. These rains 

 have been heavy enough to insure a splendid yield of coru imi! to stimulate 

 development of other food stuff crops in a most satisfactory manner. They 

 have likewise been of material benefit to the cotton crop throughout the 

 valley and the outlook for this is now distinctly more promising than at 

 any time this season. Lumber interests are cultivating cut-over lands on 

 a large scale this season and they will profit directly by the improvement 

 now taking place. Hence their decided interest in the appearance of these 

 rains. 



William Pritchard, president of the Pritchard & Wheeler Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently incorporated here with a capital of $300,000, reports that 

 the band mill being constructed by that firm at Wisuer, La., will be 

 ready for operation between Sept. 1 and Sept. 15. Charles G. Kadel, 

 general manager of the company, is at Wisner superintending the installa- 

 tion of the machinery, part of which was bought new and part of which 

 has been previously used. As soon as the company completes the con- 

 struction of this plant it will proceed with the building of another band 

 mill and re-saw at Bruin Lake where the other timberland holdings 9f 

 the firm lie. .\ veneer plant is to be constructed at one location or the 

 other. The company has not decided Just which will be most available. 



Lumber interests having mills and woodworking enterprises on Wolt 

 river, in North Memphis, are very much pleased with the announcement of 

 the Mississippi river commission that steps will be taken immediately 

 looking to the keeping open of the harbor of Memphis. There is a big sand 

 bar or mud bank in front of Memphis and this threatens to close the 

 mouth of Wolf river through which the interests referred to secure their 

 principal supplies of logs and other rough material. Three suction dredges 

 have already been placed in operation and large dippers will be installed 

 in the immeiliate future with a view to insuring the continued use of 

 Wolf river. In appealing to the commission the point was emphasized 

 that entrance to Wolf river was threatened and that this would be a 

 particularly unfortunate development in view of the large contracts for 

 government now being filled by mills and wood working enterprises along 

 that stream. 



The Jorgensen-Bennett ^Manufacturing Company has recently filed ap- 

 plication for a charter under the laws of Tennessee, with domicile at 

 Memphis and with capital stock of $23,000. H. J. M. Jorgensen and 

 E. T. I'ennett. both of whom have been conspicuously identified with the 

 hardwood trade of this city and section for a number of years, are among 

 the principal stockholders. 



Box manufacturers here report a continued active demand for their 

 output. "We are running everything in the way of saw mill, veneer plants 

 and box factories on full time," said a prominent manufacturer today, 

 "and, if we were able to secure more cottonwood and gum lumber, we 

 would have every one of our plants going on double time. We are running 

 our box factory at Vicksburg and the big band mill at that place twenty- 



