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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1917 



^tKVICE DEPARTMENT 



snow YOUR CUSTOMJniS HOW TO GET ALL THE LATEST EFFECTS 

 ON THE LUMBER TOU SELL THEM 



SERVICE is now the big idea in the retail lumber business. 

 Sell Serviee as well as Lumber. Help your customers to get 

 the latest finishing effects. They will appreciate it, and you 

 will gain thereby. 



We specialize in paint and wood 

 finishing products for the lumber 

 irade and will gladly co-operate 

 with you. Submit your problems 

 In us, stating wood and finish de- 

 sired and we will give prompt and 



efficient service. 



Many retail lumber dealers are 

 successfully operating a Bridge- 

 port Standard Service Department. 

 L.-l us tell y..u about this SERVICE 

 IHEA lor Increasing lumber sales. 



BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO. 



NEW MILFORD. CONN. 

 New York Chicaoo Boston 



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all other box plants are advertising. The Mengel company is also advertis- 

 ing for girls over sixteen years of age, having placed girls in many positions 

 formerly held by men in the paper box department. Lalior agents are adver- 

 tising for hundreds of men to go North and East, offering colored labor 

 free transportation, free lodging, and thirty cents an hour for a ten-hour 

 day. Carpenters are being offered ,$3. .50 a day, and laborers $2.50 a day to 

 go to Newport News to work on cantonment building, and local manu- 

 facturers are having trouble in holding men or securing additional hands. 



The Mengel Bo.t Company in a recent announcement in the local papers 

 stated that it was figuring on erecting a paper mill to supply material 

 to its local i)aper box department, but that nothing would be done until 

 the city decided whether it would grant free taxation for a period of five 

 years, as a new industry. The company now operates a paper mill at 

 Elkhart, Ind., and has been discussing the problem of locating a mill in 

 Louisville for some time. However, upon erecting its paper box department, 

 a separat ' department, the city refused to grant the exemption allowed to 

 other new industries, and in a recent ruling in another case the judge 

 held that in order to obtain exemption a concern had to be brought to the 

 city as new in its entirety, as it would be impossible to separate new and 

 old business, or what was merely an extension. This probably means that 

 the company will build its new plant elsewhere, instead of at Louisville. 



Thomas G. Johnson of Middlesboro, Ky., was shot and killed by Simpson 

 Thomas, a former partner in the timber business, in an argument over 

 timber holdings at Hazel Patch, near London, Ky., on September 15. The 

 two men are residents of Jliddlesboro. and have been well known in eastern 

 Kentucky timber deals for years, having been partners for a long time. 

 Johnson was sixty years old and left a wife and several children. Thomas 

 was forty years of age. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., and Highland Park, Ky., 

 is getting a fair supply of logs from which to manufacture its big govern- 

 ment contract for walnut gunstocks, but is still advertising for logs. 



Kentucky will sortly lose the services of J. E. Barton, Kentucky state 

 forester, who is responsible for much improvement in the state, including 

 increased numbers of wardens, fire lookout towers and a general decrease 

 in the number of fires from year to year. Mr. Barton has done much 

 good work toward reforesting cutover lands, etc. He was recently offered 

 a commission as captain of engineers in a forestry regiment and accepted 

 at once. 



The sawmill of W. H. Rltter of Nobob, near Glasgow, Ky., was destro.ved 

 by fire early this month. 



.\s a result of a recent boiler explosion at the sawmill of T. A. Stanley, 

 .\rlington, Ky., Mr. Stanley is dead, and his two sons in serious danger. 

 Mr. Stanley died two days after the accident, and so far little hope has 

 been held for the recovery of Lester Stanley. Bud Stanley is getting along 

 well. The men were seated in a bidlding near the boiler, when tho latter 

 let go with such force that the building was wrecked ami the men thrown 

 a considerable distance, lieing scalded as well as injured by tlie expbisbm. 



Hamagc estimated at .$20,000 was done to the storage houses and yard 

 stock of the I'aducah Box & Basket Company in a fire on September 17, 

 occurring just one year following a prior fire which cleaned out the same 

 section of the plant. However, in Ijoth cases the blaze was kept out of 

 the niill, and the loss held to a minimum. 



(WHITE OAK) 



LENOX LOGS 



KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 



HARDWOODS 



AMERICAN LUMBER & MFG. COMPANY 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



=-< ARKANSAS >•= 



Thr PriKiitr I'uruiture Company has been oi'ganized ;it * aindi.n .\i"U., with 

 a capital stock of $10,000. 



The handle factory of W. D. Grant at Newport, .\rk., has been destroyed 

 by fire. The loss Is placed at $12,000, with no Insurance. 



The Norton & Wheeler Stave Company Is erecting a sawmill at I!oe, 

 -Vrk., which is to have a dally capacity of 25.000 feet. 



W. E. Grace, formerly manager of the Kelley Handle Company plant 

 at Blytheville, .\rk., has been employed to again take charge of the plant. 

 He has for some months past been at work in Memphis. 



The National Cooperage Company has opened a new gum stave mill at 

 Rison, Ark., with a daily capacity of 75,000 feet. The company expects 

 to put in another plant to make gum liarrel heading In the immediate 

 future. 



The Arkansas Uailroad Commission has designated October 4 as the time 

 for hearing the petition of the Arkansas Hickory Company, in which 

 amendment of Section J, of Item 1000 of Tariff No. .'!, providing for rough 

 material rates when the articles shipped are tupelo holts and tie plugs, is 

 asked. The petitioners claim that the outbound tonnuirn .should not be 

 less than twenty per cent of the weight of the tupelo bolts from which 

 the articles are made. 



Kalph Graham and E. S. Skldler, bankers and ranchmen of Kaw City, 

 Okla., have recently purchased 20,000 acres of cutover tlmberland from 

 the A. J. Ncimeyer Lumber Company of Little Rock. The purchase price 

 is given as ?~'O.OO0 cash. These lands were formerly covered with oak and 

 pine timber, nml are situated about eighteen miles west of Little Hock. 

 It is stated tli:it the new owners expect to use the lands tor cattle ranches. 



The planiiij mill and stave factory at Sparkman, .\rk., owned and oper- 

 ated by the Arkadelpbla Milling Company, was burned on Septemlier G, 

 entiilling a 1 .ss ..f about $10,000. 



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The Bekkcdi; Lumber Company, Couderay, Wis., Is planning to establish 

 .new sawmill to replace the plant destroyed by Are last spring, in order 



