September 25, 1917 



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woods from the South and West to New England, but the progress of 

 work on the new distributing yard of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., outside 

 of Providence, is expected to enlarge that road's capacity sufficiently to 

 give substantial relief. 



Wm. E. Litchfield, the Boston hardwood dealer, has been appointed 

 delegate from the Boston Chamber of Commerce to the convention of 

 national industries at Atlantic City for the adoption of policies by all 

 commercial factors in the country to aid war measures. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Among the members of the lumber trade from this city who have under- 

 taken to "do their bit" in the war of the United States against Germany is 

 G. L. Wood, general manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company. G. L. 

 Wood has been commissioned a major of one of the regiments of foresters 

 being raised for service back of the front in France. He is a practical 

 lumberman, familiar with all of the details of the business, from the work 

 of felling the trees to sawmill operations and even the distribution of the 

 product, and his services are therefore certain to prove of great value in 

 France, where the cutting and manufacture of lumber is an increasingly 

 important detail back of the fighting lines, and where timbers for mining 

 and lumber for a variety of purposes is to be gotten out. 



E. Stringer Boggess. Charleston, W. Va., at one time Snark of the 

 Universe, Con:?atenated Order of Hoc Hoo, was a recent Baltimore visitor. 

 His old friends were glad to learn that he has successfully worked out of 

 the financial difficulties in which he became involved about two years ago, 

 and is once more successfully engaged in the export trade, doing a good 

 business. 



The ordering into camp at Anniston, Ala., of all of the units of the fed- 

 eralized Maryland National Guard last Sunday, has resulted in the depar- 

 ture from the city of Charles M. Buchanan, a young hardwood man, who 

 became a member of Battery A, Light Artillery, at the time this command 

 was organized last year, Mr. Bucbanan has of late for some time repre- 

 sented the interests of William Whitmer & Sons at Baltimore, and is 

 well known in the trade. 



Another recent visitor was Mr. Kosse of the Kosse, Shoe & Scbleyer 

 Company, Cincinnati. Mr. Kosse conferred with Harvey M. Dickson in 

 regard to some shipments in New York, and also looked in at the branch 

 office of his firm in the Law building. The firm, which makes a specialty 

 of walnut exports, has a distributing yard in southwest Baltimore aLso. 



^-< COLUMBUS > 



The Farm and Timber Company, Cuyahoga Falls. O., has been incor- 

 ported with a capital of $10,000 to deal in lumber. The incorporators 

 are T. A. Steele, W. H. Schnabel, F. K. Steele, R. M. Wilhelm and Charles 

 McCluske.T. 



F. B. Pryor of the sales department of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company was married recently to Miss Ruth Cleveland Kinsey, daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. William Russell Kinsey of Roanoke, Va. After the 

 wedding trip the couple will be at home at 869 Franklin avenue. Columbus. 



It has been announced that because of the reorganization of the American 

 army on the basis of the French and British forces, it will be necessary 

 to reconstruct a portion of the buildings at the Chillicothe cantonment 

 in southern Ohio. The buildings were first designed to care for companies 

 under the old regime. Now with the companies enlarged the changes are 

 necessary. It Is said that about 3,000,000 feet of additional lumber will 

 be required. 



The sash and door warehouse of A. Teachout Company, Cleveland 

 was damaged to the extent of $5,000 by fire recently. 



Plans have been completed for an open meeting of the Columbus Lum- 

 bermen's Club to be held the latter part of the month. At that time 

 it is announced that the restaurant will be opened for noon-day lunches. 

 It is planned to hold monthly meetings during the fall and winter. 



R. W. Horton pf the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods, especially from manufacturers. Concerns making 



furniture and boxes are in the market. Retailers are buying also in 

 limited quantities. Prices are strong and every change is toward higher 

 levels. 



J. A. Ford of ihe Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand for 

 hardwoods from West Virginia. Prices continue Arm in all varieties and 

 grades. 



■< CLEVELAND >= 



F. T. Peltch of the F. T. Peitch Company, hardwood wholesaler, and 

 a party of friends will leave Sunda.v, September 23, for Honey Harbor, 

 Ont., for a ten days' fishing trip. Other Clevelanders who will go along 

 are M. R. Snell of the M. R. Snell Lumber Company and George Earner 

 of the Earner Meade Lumber Company. A number of lumbermen friends 

 will be picked up at Buffalo on the way up. 



Arch C. Klumph. president of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company, is de- 

 voting considerable time to the operations of the government secret service 

 in Cleveland. He is president of the Cleveland chapter of the National 

 Security League, which is assisting in every way the running down of 

 slackers and examination of all claims for exemption. 



The September outing of the Cleveland Lumber Club has been announced 

 for .September 20 at the Roadside Club. Thirty-five members are expected. 

 -\fter the ball game on the green, a banquet will be served. Two ball 

 teams will be chosen from among those present. 



Cleveland manufacturers, who have been hampered for months in their 

 effort to secure adequate help and who have also been at a loss to house 

 the help which is willing to come to Cleveland, have taken matters into 

 their own hands. It is estimated that there are 10.000 families in 

 Cleveland without proper housing facilities, of which 3,000 families are 

 negroes recently brought in from the South. To meet this problem the 

 manufacturers propose to form a building company and subscribe the 

 stock themselves sufficient to build small priced houses on a large scale. 

 These houses will cost not more than .$4,000 and will rent for about $20 

 a month. Practically the entire demand is for this type of house. The 

 company will pay a nominal interest on all fund.s loaned but the chief 

 aim of the manufacturers is to get the population housed and then dispose 

 of the real estate to the occupants on- easy terms. The manufacturers 

 are willing to advance the money in the shape of a second mortgage and 

 allow the workman to pay it off as rent. The manufacturer expects to 

 profit by thus securing an adequate and contented labor supply. 



=■< CINCINNATI >■- 



The Sayers & Scoville Company has declared the regular quarterly divi- 

 dend of IVi per cent in the preferred stock, payable October 1, to stock- 

 holders of record September 20. 



The Dudley Lumber Company, Petersburg, W. Va., has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $5,000. The incorporators are E. B. Gribble, C. H. Sen- 

 seney, Joseph H. Anderson, E. C. Calhoun and W. F. Hiser, all of Peters- 

 burg. 



The Glenn L. Martin Company,. Cleveland, was recently incorporated 

 with $2,000,000 capital stock, to manufacture all kinds of aircraft. The 

 incorporators are Glenn L. Martin, C. E. Thompson, S. Livingston Mather, 

 Carl N. Osborne and Alva Bradley. 



A contract has been awarded to the Xordyke & Marmon Company, 

 Indianapolis, for $2,700,000 worth of airplanes. Under the terms of the 

 contract 3,000 planes must be completed and ready for delivery by June 1, 

 of next year. 



W. Richardson, Warren, Mo., has sold to the Probst Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, several hundred acres of virgin timber in northwestern 

 .Vrkansas. The consideration was $13,000. The new owner will erect 

 mills to cut the timber into lumber. 



In the suit of Paul V. Connolly, as trustee in bankruptcy of George and 

 Harry D. Riemeier, Cincinnati, bankrupt lumber dealers, vs. George H. 

 Riemeter, sister of the bankrupts, and Mary Stolting, defendants, filed 

 answers in which they denied personal knowledge of the affairs of the part- 



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