August 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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THEO. FATHAUER CO. 



1428 CHERRY AVENUE 

 Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



YARD 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



Direct Shipments in 



CAR AND CARGO LOTS 

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MILL 

 HELENA. ARK. 



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Mr. Worland reports that business has been good all summer and he is 

 looking for a very nice fall and winter trade. The company's large plant 

 here has been operating on full time for the past several months, and In 

 spite of the war, business has gone ahead just the same. 



W. V. Dixon, manager of the Evansville Bookcase and Table Company, 

 has returned from a trip to .Atlantic City, N. J., having been accompanied 

 by Mrs. Dixon and son George. 



The Rochester Lumber & Coal Co., Rochester, Ind., recently filed articles 

 of incorporation with the secretary of state, the purpose of the company 

 being to buy and sell lumber and building materials. Its capital stock is 

 $20,000 and the directors are Wirt M. Hazen, Henry I. Isbell and J. Albert 

 Herbster. 



Early in September the members of the Evansville Furniture Manufac- 

 turers' .A.ssociation will go to Tell City, Ind., where they will be the guests 

 of the members of the Tell City Furniture Manufacturers' Association. An 

 old-fashioned barbecue will be given and a good time is In store for the 

 Evansville men. The local association has for several years been enter- 

 tained once a year in grand fashion by the Tell City manufacturers. A. P. 

 Fenn, one of the leading furniture and veneer manufacturers of Tell City, 

 is on the committee of arrangements this year. 



Charles M. Frisse, secretary and treasurer of the GIobe-Bosse-World 

 Furniture Company, has returned from a bu.siness trip to Indianapolis and 

 the northern part of the state. 



Charles A. Wolflin, who is in charge of the West Side Lumber Company, 

 reports the retail business is picking up nicely and that the outlook for fall 

 trade is good. 



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-Amended articles of incorporation were recently filed by the Holly Ridge 

 Lumber Company of Louisville, increasing the capital stock of the company 

 from $150,000 to $250,000 in order to take care of increased operations 

 and additional plants at Meeker and Monroe, La., which have been pur- 

 chased within the year. The amendment was signed by W. A. Watts, L. H. 

 Wymond, E. B. Norman, W. 1. Wymond, L. H. Wymond and others. 



A great deal of labor will be released shortly due to the completion of 

 Camp Taylor, at Louisville, the first of the cantonments to be completed. 

 Major Lamphere, in charge of the construction, announced a few days ago 

 that the original units would be completed on August 25, and that the 

 additional buildings would all be finished by September 1, Mason & Hanger, 

 the general contractors, being about a week ahead of their schedule on 

 completing the camp. .4bout 8,000 or more men have been employed 



within the past few weeks, and with the release of these men the local 

 manufacturers expect to be in good shape on the labor situation. Many 

 men left lumber plants, planers, etc., for the camp, and labor has been so 

 scarce that all building was sidetracked until the camp was completed. 



Harry C. Inmau of the Inman Panel & Veneer Company and Mrs. Inman, 

 liiimerly Miss Margaret Elizabeth Kline, are back from a honeymoon, 

 li:iving recently been married at Chautauqua, N. T. Mr. Inman states 

 that much delay has been met with in getting the machinery into the com- 

 pany's new plant at Louisville, but that operations will start shortly. 



The Lucas E. Moore Stave Company of New York and New Orleans 

 has leased the Edward Dow ling Cooperage Works, Lexington. Ky., and 

 will manufacture white oak rum puncheons for the West India trade. 

 Harry A. McCoy of Lexington has been placed in charge of the Lexington 

 branch, which will employ about thirty men. 



Witli a capital of $10,000 and a debt limit of $100,000 the Fibercraft 

 Chair Company of Frankfort, Ky., has been incorporated to manufacture 

 chairs, furniture and woodenware. The incorporators are Ell H. Brown, 

 Jr., Charles Irion and A. H. Foley. 



E. B. Ford of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company recently returned from 

 Grand Rapids, where he spent a few days in connection with the com- 

 pany's exhibits at the furniture show, where a dimension exhibit was 

 featured. 



The military movement is taking a large number of the most promising 

 youngsters out of the Louisville hardwood companies ; six of the boys at 

 the C. C. Mengel ofllce have been ordered to report for the next reserve 

 camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, on August 27. These six 

 men are E. B. Ford, William Johnson, Culver Vaughn, E. C. Kornfeldt, Sam 

 C. Mengel and Ferd Graham. The Roth Lumber Company is sending 

 Walter Cumnock, while Avery Robinson is leaving Chess & Wymond, and 

 Mark Wymond has applied for a commission. Several men have already 

 received commissions following training at the first camp, among whom 

 were John Miller of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, first lieu- 

 tfuant ; J. R. Green of the same company, second lieutenant ; W. P. 

 (_'lancy, Louisville Point Lumber Company, first lieutenant, and Holmes 

 Christian, son of Tom Christian, sales manager of the Wood-Mosaic Com- 

 pany, New .\lbany, Ind., second lieutenant. George F. Sengel of Phil 

 Sengel & Son, operators of the Gambrinus Cooperage Company, received a 

 lieutenant's commission. 



The Turner, Day & Woolworth Handle Company has started work on a 

 branch hickory handle plant at Lafayette, a few miles from HopklnsvUle, 

 Ky. The latter plant is in charge of B. C. Grain, while Charles C. Craln, 

 his son, will have charge of the new plant. The company has also an- 



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