September 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



Trimble Company's Bankruptcy 



Schedules in bankruptcy filed Tuesday for the Trimble Cypress Company 

 by its president, C. C. Trimble, show that the total liabilities of the con- 

 cern amount to $80,790. Of that sum the secured debts for $46,832, the 

 unsecured $14.5-15, those that should be paid by others $14,000, accom- 

 modation paper $5,430. The assets comprise stocks and bonds amounting 

 ■ to $40,000 face value, open accounts of $13,901 and cash $117. In the 

 secured debts are included $33,000 due to W. W. Moss, as trustee of the 

 H. H. Hitt Lumber Company, who holds as collateral $40,000 stock of the 

 Hltt Lumber and Box Company. Other creditors are the Green Lumber 

 Company for $4,282, C. C. Trimble $315, J. G. Trimble $1,757, the Dexter 

 Lumber Company of Norwood $1,780, Lobnitz Company of Norwood $589, 

 Hyde Company of South Bend $654. 



Hurry-Up Table Order 



The Cadillac Cabinet and Construction Company, Cadillac, Mich., recently 

 secured an order from the government for 6,000 army mess tables to be com- 

 ple.ed within six weeks. The tables are to be made of any Michigan hard- 

 wood. They are to be two feet in width, seven feet six inches in length and 

 of standard table height. The construction company will immediately add 

 to its force of workmen and will be forced to operate day and night to 

 complete the contract within the specified time. 



Hardwood Mill for Bogalusa 



A new hardwood mill and a by-products plant probably will be erected , 

 this winter by the Great Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa, La. 

 Arrangements to this end practically have been completed, but a formal 

 ratification of the project is expected to take place at the meeting of the 

 board of directors in Bogalusa, October 15. 



Adding More Floor Space 



The Tannewite Works, of which Carl E. Tannewite is manager. Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., have added a- three story building to their factory south 

 of their present site. This gives a total frontage of 300 feet. This estab- 

 lishment manufactures woodworking machinery. 



Demsey Becomes Secretary Priorities Board 



Raymond T. Demsey, secretary of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas 

 City, Mo., has been called into the service of the government as executive 

 secretary to the Priorities Board, one of the units of the Council of Na- 

 tional Defense. 



The Priorities Board is headed by Judge Robert S. Lovett, former chair- 

 man of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad. The other members of the 

 board are Edwin B. Parker, of the law firm of Baker, Botts, Parker & 

 Garwood, Houston, Tex. ; J. L. Replogle, formerly president of the Republic 

 Steel Company ; J. R. Armsby of the Consolidated Canning Industries ; 

 Major General Aleshire of the United States Army ; Rear Admiral Zane 

 and Rear Admiral Mason of the United States Navy. The board was 

 created under the so-called Priority bill, recently enacted, and will control 

 the production and movement of raw materials and manufactured articles 

 throughout the country for the purpose of expediting delivery of arms, 

 ammunition, equipment and supplies for the United States as well as for its 

 allies. 



Mr. Demsey has been appointed to serve without pay and at his own 

 expense for the duration of the war. The Long-Bell Lumber Company has 

 granted him indefinite leave of absence. He is thirty-six years old and has 

 been connected with the Long-Bell Lumber Company for the past fourteen 

 years. 



W. C. Calhoun's Tragic Death 



The trade was shocked last week to learn of the tragic death on Sun- 

 day, September 16, of W. C. Calhoun of the Frost's Veneer Seating Com- 

 pany, Sheboygan, Wis. 



Mr. Calhoun was drowned at the mouth of the St. Joseph river at 

 Benton Harbor, Mich. He was one of a party of eight people which had 

 left Benton Harbor in the afternoon. The large launch in which they 

 were cruising had a row boat in tow. .\s the rope attached to this boat 

 was too long, Mr. Calhoun stepped onto the cushions and taking hold 

 of It started to pull the row boat closer to the launch. The launch at 

 this time ran into a trough of the waves and Mr. Calhoun lost his 

 balance and pitched forward. It was noted when the body was recovered 

 that two ribs had been fractured and that he seemed to have suffered 

 bruises which indicated that he had struck the row boat in falling, thus 

 being rendered unconscious. He sank immediately and the body was 

 not recovered for an hour. 



The funeral was held at Sheboygan from Mr. Calhoun's late home on 

 Wednesday morning, September 20. Brief church services were conducted 

 at the home and the Elks' burial services were given at the grave. 



Mr. Calhoun was highly esteemed not only in his home city but 

 throughout the entire trade. He was born at St. Johns, N. B., Septem- 

 ber 8, 1885. He came to this country when a young man and being an 

 expert millwright, supervised the construction of the big Frost's Veneer 

 Seating Company plant at Sheboygan in 1SS4. He later built a plant 

 for the company at Antigo. 



Until the death of the late George Frost in 1912, Mr. Calhoun had been 

 superintendent and general manager of both plants, but since that date 

 he has been president and treasurer of the company. 



Mr. Calhoun's death was antedated by that of his wife by five months. 

 He Is survived by one sister and three sons, all of them prominent in 

 Wisconsin business circles. One daughter, who resides at Sheboygan, 

 also survives. 



Claude E. Maley 



Claude E. Maley, member of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufac- 

 turers at Evansville, Ind.. and who was interested in many other large 

 industries in that city as well as in other cities, died on Friday, Septem- 

 ber 14, at Swampscott, Mass., where he had been spending the summer 

 with his family. Mr. Maley had not been in good health for the past 

 year and his death was due to ulcer of the stomach. 



Mr. Maley was fort,v-one years old and was one of the best-known hard- 

 wood lumber manufacturers in Indiana. He was born and reared at 

 Edinburg, Ind., being the son of the late Henry Maley of that place, 

 who was for years one of the leading lumber manufacturers of southern 

 Indiana. About twenty years ago Mr. Maley went to Evansville and 

 with Frank May established the Maley & May sawmill. Later he sold 

 the interest in this company to his brother, Charles, and to his father 

 and became a member of the firm of Maley & Wertz. Mr. Maley was vice- 

 president of the Wertz-Klamer Furniture Company, a director in the 

 Citizens' National bank, the Klamer-Goebel Furniture Company and the 

 O. A. Klamer Furniture Company, all in Evansville. He was also inter- 

 ested in the firm of D. R. Webb Company, Inc., manufacturers of veneer 

 at Edinburg. Ind., Daniel Wertz & Co. at Graramer, Ind., and Maley 

 & Wertz, lumber manufacturers at Vincennes, Ind. He was also president 

 of the Maley Lumber & Land Company. This company, which has its 

 headquarters in Evansville, owns large timbered tracts in Mississippi. 



Mr. Maley was one of the charter members of the Evansville Lumber- 



R. T. 



DEMSEY, SECRETARY 

 BOARD. 



PRIORITIES 



THE LATE W 



CALHOUN, SHEBOYGAN, 

 WIS. . 



THE LATE CLAUDE MALEY, EVANSVILLE, 

 IND. . 



