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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 2"., 1917 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawatf 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We mxke a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 m«at, Waton and Vehicle Stock in the roueh. 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Jackson & Tindle 



ELM and BIRCH 



4/4 to 12/4 All Grades 



Well assorted stock 



4/4, 5/4, 6/4, & 8/4 No. 3 

 Hardwood 



Mills at PELLSTON, MICH. 

 MUNISING, MICH. 

 JACKSONBORO, ONT. 



Main Office 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Send your inquiries to 



SALES OFFICE: 303-304 Murray Building 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Pioneer Lumber & Coal Co., Pioneer, O., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $15,000. The incorporators are Ralph W. Sprague, 

 Elmer Myers, Emma Myers, Bert E. Wing and Bert P. Sprague. 



The Portsmouth Veneer and Panel Company will close its business and 

 cease operation after September 15. 



■< CLEVELAND >■ 



The Reserve Lumber Company has Increased Its capital stock to $50,000, 

 according to J. V. O'Brien, its secretary. The company handles lumber 

 and builders' supplies. 



Illustrating the dubious outlook In the matter of lumber transportation 

 the Federal Box Company has just purchased between three and four 

 acres of land on West Third street for the purpose of augmenting its 

 present stocks of lumber, which already amount to a value of $70,000. 

 The stocks already on hand are sufficient to last through the greater 

 part of next year, but the company will continue to prepare itself for 

 the worst that may happen between now and the dawn of normal con- 

 ditions again. Another reason for laying in such large stocks is the 

 contemplated establishment of a new box factory in a nearby city. Com- 

 plete plans have not been announced as yet. 



In order to aid in solving the building problem, which is becoming 

 acute, the Cody Helper Company is starting fifty frame dwellings of four 

 rooms each on Cut road, in the cast end factory district. If these are 

 a success 100 more will be erected and if the 100 seem to fill the expected 

 need, arrangements will be made to raise the next increment to 300. Sev- 

 eral other projects are afoot to solve the housing problem, which is 

 acute. The apathy of the wood construction people in this regard is 

 giving the fireproof interests an opportunity to experiment in the single 

 dwelling field. 



=-< CINCINNATI >= 



F. R. Gartd, assistant to the president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States is in Memphis on business. On August 24 

 the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau met here, and August 2.'i there 

 will be a conference of the Open-Competition Plan Committee. 



The Dayton-Wright Airplane Company has purchased the three-story 

 factory building in Miamisburg from the Enterprise Carriage Company, 

 and will remodel it at once for the establishment of a branch factory 

 for the manufacture of airplane parts. The deal involves approximately 

 $125,000. The need of additional space, despite the completion of new 

 buildings, in this city is given as the reason for the purchase. 



The Sherrill-Russell Lumber Company, Paducab, Ky., has filed amended 

 articles of incorporation. 



Fifty-two miles of wooden water pipe are being laid in the Camp Meade 

 Baltimore grounds, the national army camp near Annapolis. These pipes 

 are from the Pacific coast and working men have come with them to super- 

 vise the laying. The pipe is made of California redwood. It Is put through 

 a special process after the pipe is sawed out of large trees. Four storage 

 tanks, each capable of holding 100,000 gallons of water, are being con- 

 structed at the camp out of wood. The reason that wood is being used 

 is stated to be that the government wants to save every bit of steel and 

 galvanized iron for ships. 



Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were instituted In the United 

 States district court recently against the Trimble Cypress Company. The 

 petitioning creditors are W. W. Moss, as (rustec iu bankruptcy of the 



M. H. Hitt Lumber Company, Decatur, Ala. ; the Waldstein Lumber Com- 

 pany, Patterson, La. They set up unsecured claims for $472.36, $1,077.71 

 :ind $674.61, respectively. It is charged the respondent company is in- 

 solvent within the meaning of the bankruptcy act. . and that it com- 

 mitted an act of bankruptcy in transferring a tract of timber land in 

 Washington Parish, La., to J. G. Trimble with intent to prefer him over 

 other creditors. 



George H. and Harry D. Riemeler, doing business as the Riemeier Lum- 

 ber Company, Cincinnati, have filed their petition in United States dis- 

 trict court for discharge in bankruptcy. 



Striking lumber and mill workers extended their fight for an eight-hour 

 i!ay by calling for a strike in all the mills in' Wasbiugtun and Oregon, 

 according to advices received here. This action was the result of the 

 failure of the negotiations between mill owners and labor union repre- 

 sentatives, held under the auspices of the State Council of Defense. Lum- 

 lier operators have assured the government of tbeir ability to furnish 

 :;00, 000,000 feet of spruce for airplane construction within the next 

 fifteen months, if the nation should need that much. 



Secretary Baker, acting for the Council of National Defense, urged in 

 recent telegrams acceptance of the eight-hour day as a basis for the settle- 

 ment of the strike. He appealed to the patriotism of the lumbermen and 

 said that every foot of lumber that can be produced now is necessary for 

 the prosecution of the war. He urged both employers and employees to 

 settle tbeir differences. 



— ■< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce last week published a statement 

 iu defense of the retail lumber companies of the city, which had been 

 charged by malicious rumors of having charged exorbitant prices for ma- 

 terials that were sold to the government for construction work at Fort 

 Tcnjamin Harrison. Rumors were current in Indianapolis that all kinds 

 of irregularities had existed in meeting the government's demands at the 

 fort. About 6,000,000 feet of dimension stock was sold to the government 

 and practically every retail firm in Indianapolis joined in a co-operative 

 movement to supply the government's needs in record time. The lumber- 

 men were so successful in getting lumber delivered that they were praised 

 highly by government and army officials alike. The statement issued by 

 the chamber of commerce refuted the graft rumors and since its publication 

 the discussion of the su'oject has been dropped. 



Hixon W. Davis, a prominent lumberman of Sullivan, Ind., died last 

 week following a long illness. Until he was forced to retire on account of 

 his health, he operated the Sullivan Planing Mills. Mr. Davis was vice- 

 president of the Sullivan .National Bank and was president of the Sullivan 

 County Building and Loan Company. He was born in Sullivan county, 

 Ind., and spent his entire life there. He is survived by a widow and two 



si'US. 



The Rochester Lumber Company of Rochester. Ind., has been incorpo- 

 i;ite(l with capitalization of $20,000. The incorporators are Wirt M. 

 llazeu, Henry I. Isbcll and J. Albert Herbster. 



The White River Lumber Company of South Bend, Inil., has increased 

 its capitalization from J5,000 to $20,000. 



The Ilayslett Solid Shade Roller Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, 

 Ind., has been incorporated with a capitalization of $50,000 to manufac- 

 ture wooden rollers. The directors of the company are Edgar Ilayslett, 

 I'rosper A. Ball, Francis E. Gam. Charles H. Glaub, Jacob E. Kubtz, 

 G. W. Anglin, and James A. Sweeney. 



I. L. Andres of Shelbyville, Ind.. has been appointed manager of the 

 Rushville Furniture Company of Rushville, Ind. Mr. .\ndres had been 

 connected with the Rushville company before he moved to Shelbyville a 

 few years ago. 



=^ EVANSVILLE >-= 



Mertice E. Taylor, secretary of the Bvansvillc Lumbermen's Club, has 

 resigned his position with Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers 

 of this city and has taken a position with the Burroughs .\dding .Machine 

 Company. He will travel over a large territory for this company. For 

 the past four years Mr. Taylor was cashier of Maley & Wertz and he en- 

 joys a wide acquaintance among the lumber manufacturers and retail 

 dealers of this city and they all wish him success in his new position. Mr. 

 Taylor has turned the secretaryship of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 over to William S. Partington of Maley & Wertz and It Is probable that 

 at the next regular meeting of the club Mr. Partington will be selected 

 permanent secretary of the organization. 



George O. Worland, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville 'Veneer 

 Company, is recovering from a vicious attack made upon him in his office 

 several days ago. While engaged in his office two strange young men 

 entered and inquired for a certain employe of the company. The young 

 nien said they were from the local recruiting office for the United States 

 army and said they wanted to take the employe with them, also to collect 

 a fee for his examination. Mr. Worland suspected that the men were trying 

 to work some fiini-flam game and ordered them from the ofHce and at this 

 one of them hit him. Mr. Worland struggled with flie men from the office 

 out into the street and delivered some good blows on them and finally they 

 liroke away and ran up the street. Mr. Worland received some bodily 

 bruises and also hurt his arm, which he was forced to carry In a sling for 

 several days. One .voung man was arrested. 



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