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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 191T 



WE MANUFACTURE bandtawed, plain and quarter aawad 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We m*ke a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 H«at, Waton and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 



-Your Inquiries aollclted- 



ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



PALMER «& PA.RK:ER CO. 

 TEAK MAHOGANY ^bony 



ENGLISH OAK 

 CIRCASSIAN WALUT 



103 Medford Street, Charlestown Dist. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



DOMESTIC 

 VENEERS HARDWOODS 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHII-ADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



INDIANAPOLIS > 



nerships. Miss Riemeier admits she occasionally made entries in the books 

 of the partnership and assisted in the preparation of trial balances, but 

 denies her knowledge of bookkeeping was such as to enable her to under- 

 stand the financial condition of the partnership disclosed in the trial 

 balances. 



Both defendants aver they had no knowledge or reason to believe any 

 payments made to them on account of loans to the partnership were made 

 at a time the partnership was insolvent or that these payments were made 

 with intent to defraud other creditors and prefer them. 



George W. Huston, assistant secretary of the Carriage Builders' National 

 Association and publisher of the Spokesman, its official organ, announced 

 the program for the forty-fifth annual convention at the Hotel La Salle, 

 Chicago, Septemlier 24 to 27. Committees at the convention will report 

 that notwitwithstanding the continued popularity of the automobile, car- 

 riage busine.s.s is better than it has been in a long time. Prospects of still 

 better trade are in sight with the coming of word from Washington that 

 the carriage men will be asked to manufacture guus and carriages for the 

 ITnited States army. 



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Local lumbermen and operators nl woiMlworking |il;inls an' still endeavor- 

 ing to land centraets for the manufacture of ammunition cases for the 

 government. The Indianapolis trade is now in a position to handle many 

 large contract.s. Early in the season the lumber trade was very busy sup- 

 plying material for use in construction work at Fort Benjamin Harrison, 

 but very little construction work is being done there now. 



William H. Burton, forty-eight years old, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Indiana Cooperage Company of this city, died suddenly last week. He 

 complained of l)eing ill in the office of the ccmiiiany. and a few minutes 

 later he was found in an unconscious condition in a wash room in the 

 plant. A physician was called but he had died before the physician could 

 arrive. .V coroners investigation revealed that death was due to apoplexy. 

 He is survived by a widow and one son. 



The Wynne Cooperage Company of .\nderson, Ind., has l>een incorporated 

 with a capitalization of .f20.000. Directors of the company are Cary 

 Cookman, Willard N. Pease, and A. J. Pease. 



Incorporation papers have been issued to the Columbia Furniture Com- 

 pany, Rensselaer, Ind., the company having an autliorized capital of .?20,- 

 000. The company expects to manufacture all kinds of furniture. Direc- 

 tors are E, N. Loy, Emil Besser, Solon G. Spiegel, S. O. Penrod, and A. M. 

 Ley. 



W. H. Cook & Co., lumb(*rmen and mill operators of Warsaw, Ind., 

 have announced plans for the construction of a new sawmill which will be 

 140 feet long and 30 feet wide. The plant will be housed in a two-story 

 structure, and will have a capacity of two carloads of lumber a day. The 

 company Is busy filling orders for the government. Aeroplane frames and 

 propeller blades are being manufactured. 



=^ EVANSVILLE >-= 



The next meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will be held at 

 the Hotel McCurdy on October 9. 



Fred Bergman of Bergman & Mann, planing mill owners and lumber 

 dealers at Clirisney, Ind., was a business visitor recently. He reported 

 trade in his section good. 



The Electric Planing Mill Company, Owensboro, Ky., is erecting a new 

 building to take the place of the old plant. 



Charles .\lbert Gubelman, a well-known saw mill owner and lumber- 

 dealer, died at his home at Mt. Carmel, 111., on September 11 of injuries 

 received a few days before In an automobile accident. Mr. Gubelman was 

 born in Mt. Carmel in 1865 and had spent all his lite there and was 

 regarded as one of the leading citizens of that pliice, being prominent itt 

 business and civic affairs. He owned mills in Knox county, Indiana, as. 

 well as in Wabash county, Illinois. He is survived by the widow and six 

 children. 



George O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, reports- 

 trade active but says there has been a little uncertainty in the market 

 and many buyers are showing a disposition to hold off buying. The plant 

 is being operated on full time during the day and some of the depart- 

 ments are running at night. Mr. Worland says that the log situation 

 is worrying the veneer manufacturers as much as the labor shortage- 

 problem. 



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

 Company, who is a candidate for re-election, has opened his campaign. 

 His republican opponent is .\lbert R. Messick, head of the Vulcan Plow 

 Company. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company left recently for a 

 trip through the South. His company operates three large stave mills in 

 Tennessee and these plants have been in steady operation most of the 

 year. Bert Tisserand of the company reports that trade has been unusu- 

 ally good during the past few weeks. 



The furniture and wagon factories at Henderson and Owensboro, Ky., 

 continue to run on steady time and the outlook for fall and winter trade 

 is encouraging. 



Towboats and tugboats during the past few weeks have been busy bring- 

 ing in staves and ties from points along Green and Barren rivers in western 

 Kentucky. The stave business has been unusually good of late. 



-< MEMPHIS > 



Work was resumed September 17 on the aviation camp at Millington^ 

 a few miles north of Memphis on the Illinois Central railroad, after a 

 suspension due to some confusion regarding the contract. This was 

 awarded at first to the Thomas-Harmon Comiiany but It has now been 

 given to E. -V. Wickham & Co. of Omaha, Neb., and the latter announce 

 that the buildings will be erected within sixty days and the camp made 

 ready for the aviation forces within that period. The new company has 

 taken over all the men employed by the old firm, about 1,400 in numltcr, but 

 the forces will be increased as rapidly as possible until more tluiu .'!,000' 

 persons are at work. It is announced that all material for the camp will 

 be purchased In Memphis provided prices are right. More than fifty houses 

 will have to be built and there will likewise be a vast amount of drainage, 

 clearing and other work before the camp is ready to be turned over to the 

 government. 



The I>amb-FIsh Lumber Company at Cliarleston, Miss., according to 

 L. P. Inil'.ose. is canning tomatoes at the rate of 10.000 cans per day and 

 it Is estimateii that somelhiug like 7.").otlo one- and two-[H»und cans will* 

 be put up before the supply has been exhausted. ISIr. r)uHose said while' 

 here that the company would harvest between 7."), 000 and 100,000 liushels 

 of corn on its big cut-over holdings and that there were likewise large- 

 yields of peas, alfalfa and other crops. The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 

 announced last spring that it would go so far toward helping in the 

 increase of foodstuff crops that it would not plant any cotton at all and' 

 the Ijig yields at tomatoes, corn and other products are the result of this 

 action and of the splendid season which has prevailed. The company is 

 planning to oiierate Its big band mill at CIuirlest<'n on doui)le sliift as 

 soon as it can bring out (jnough logs for this purpose and it Is apparent 

 that its activities in the direction of raising foodstuff crops are not impair- 

 ing in the least Its facilities or its keenness for handling hardwood lumber- 

 In a very big way. 



The Cri'nshaw-Gary Lumber Company, with headquarters at Memphis 

 and mills in Mississippi, reports that It Is negotiating for the purchase 

 of hargi's lor the handling of the output of the plant at Richey, on the- 

 Sunflower river. This town is located on the Southern Railway In Missls- 

 sii)pi and the firm has had extreme diflicuUy during the past few months 

 In securing cars for the handling of its outi)Ut. .\t one time It had orders 

 on its biii.ks which were practically twelve months bi'hind in the matter- 

 of delivery. The railroad Is giving much better service now than for some- 

 time but the company does not like the Idea of leaving Itself at the "tender 

 mercies" d' the railroad in question. On the contrary, it is going to put Im 

 the barges to .'iui)plenu'nt the railway service, although it admits that this- 

 cannot In- done at the monient because of the low stage of the river. 



.Tohn W. McClure, who was to have left Memphis Septembi'r l."i to attend 



the annual nf the I'nlted States Chamber of Conn ce as representative- 



of the Siiiithirn Hardwood Traffic .Vssoclatlou, found at the last moment 

 that he would be unable to go. The association is therefore w^lthout repre- 

 sentation but it Is very much Interested In the action of the chamber on 

 the priority law recently passed by Congress and on the resolutions adoi>ted 

 by the ass<»ciatIon calling for the building of cars by the government for 

 the use of th" railroads on a rental basis. The Soulbern Hardwood Traffic 

 .•\ssocIati")i originated the idea of the building of cars and other equipment 

 for the riiilroads as a war measure and the Idea has been taken up by the-, 

 Lumberniin's Club, the Mciiiiihls Chamber of Comnicne ami other organi- 

 zations. I'.ilN. too. l.ave ki'i-n introdnced Into both branches of Congress: 



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