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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1917 



Have you seen any better Walnut \oe» tban theaat 



'~r'HEY all grew right in Indiana where 

 ■'• hardwoods have always held the 

 choicest farm lands. The best growth of 

 timber as well as the best yield of wheat 

 comes from good soil. The soundness of 

 the log-ends shows that they fed on the 

 fat of the land. My 



Indiana Oak 



comes from the same soil 



CHAS. H. BARNABY 



Greencastle, Indiana 



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I Plam & Qtd. Red & White i 



I OAK I 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



= Even Color 



Soft Texture = 



MADE (MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



S PROMPT SHIPMENTS S 



I The MOWBRAY I 

 I & ROBINSON CO. I 



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of the stock consisting of wagon parts and wheels, some of this stock being 

 merely finished at the Jeflfersonville plant. 



Business with the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company has been ex- 

 tremely good, and the company is steadily advertising for additional labor. 

 It is handling some big truck assembling work for the government, and has 

 opened a special department for this work. 



X recent report from Bloomington. Ind,, was to the effect that male labor 

 was so scarce that one of the large furniture factories is now working sev- 

 eral hundred women, an action which was taken by the Wengel Bos Com- 

 pany of Louisville several months ago. Incidentally the Inman Furniture 

 Company of Louisville has put in a number of female employes, and is 

 pleased with results. 



The Hazel Heading & Sawmill Company, Hazel, Ky., operated as the 

 Adventist mill, and owned by R. H. Maddox and C. G. Lowry, recently 

 burned, lire starting from a pile of sawdust. Part of the machinery was 

 not damaged and can be re-used. The company specialized on barrel stock. 



With a capital of $2,000 the Lentz Spring Hub Company of Benton, Ky., 

 has been incorporated by T. H. Curd, R. E. Irvan and H. B. Lyles. 



Smith Milton of the Churchill Milton Lumber Company is back from a 

 visit to the mill at Greenwood, Miss., and John Churchill has left for a 

 month's visit to the mills located at that point and at Glendora. 



=-< AEiKANSAS >•= 



Thp National Cypross Pole and Piling Company, a Missouri corporation, 

 last week filed a certified copy of its charter and was granted permission 

 to operate in Arkansas. L. N. Jordan of Bertlg was named as its agent. 



B. A. McKinney has sold his stave mill at Georgetown, Ark., and re- 

 turned to Harrisburg, w^here he formerly resided. No announcement has 

 been made as to his future plans. 



Charles Jeffrey of Jamestown, Ark., has closed a contract with the 

 Springfield Fire Arms Company of Springfield, Mass.. to supply 8,000 feet 

 of perfect walnut timber to be used in the construction of airplane pro- 

 pellers. According to the announcement, which comes from BatesviUe, 

 Jeffrey is to receive $150 per thousand feet for the lumber. The material 

 is now being brought to BatesviUe, from which it will be shipped at an 

 early date. 



The Kerr and Helve Lumber Company's mill and about 200,000 feet of 

 lumber on the grounds were destroyed by fire at Faith, about twelve miles 

 south of Pine Bluff, on September 28. There was no insurance on the 

 plant, but the lumber was partially Insured. The total loss is said to be 

 about $in.0O0. No announcement has yet been made as to rebuilding plant. 



T. E. Wood and H. R. Wilson, members of the Arkansas Railroad Com- 

 mission, and H. M. Gregory, the commission's rate clerk, spent some time 

 in St. Louis last week conferring with representatives of various traffic 

 liureaus and attornej-s in Docket No. 7304 of ttie Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, locally known as the Memphis rate case. This case will come 

 up for a rehearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission in a short 

 time. It was passed upon l)y the Interstate Commission last year, but at 

 the request of the Arkansas commission the case was reopened. It in- 

 volves the rates on lumber, both interstate and intrastate, in this section, 

 the aim of the Interstate Commerce Commission being to equalize the rates 

 into Memphis with those iH'tween points in Arkansas, the rates from St. 

 Louis to Arkansas points also being Involved. 



A company composed of T. E. Nelson, L. C. Smith and J. M. Cannon has 

 been organized at McGehee, Ark., for the purpose of erecting a sawmill at 

 Trippe. five miles south of McGehee. It will manufacture hardwood lumber 

 and cross ties. 



W. B. Grant of the Grant Manufacturing Company, Newport, Ark., on 

 September 20 purchased from F. G. Bridges two acn-s of land just west of* 

 Pine Bluff, on which he proposes to build a plant for the manufacture of 

 a.\. pick and sledge handles. The plant will cost approximately $20,000 

 and will employ some twenty men. Switch tracks are now being laid by 

 the Missouri Pacific Railroad. 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



The Kii'l Woodenware Cotiipany, Kit-l, Wis., has engaged the Thomas S. 

 Watson Company, consulting engineer, Milwaukee, to prei»are plans for 

 a brick and steel factory addition, 80x320 feet in size, and an addition to 

 the steam generating plant to accommodate the enlarged power demand. 

 The improvements will cost about $7.T,000, it is estimated. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Company, Bayfield. Wis., has sold its last trace 

 of red oak timber on the Bayliebl peninsula to I). W. O'Connell, who will 

 log it during the coming winter for the Wisconsin Veneer Company, Rhine- 

 lander, Wis. The tract consists of about 300,000 feet and lies about elglit 

 miles from Bayfield. 



The Banderob-Chase Manufacturing Company, 100 Ceape street, Oshkosh, 

 Wis., furniture manufacturer, has Incorporated Its business under the same 

 style, with an authorized capital stock of $64,500. The incorporators are 

 George W. and W. J. Banderob and J. C. Scheer. 



The Menasha Woodenware Company. Menasha, Wis., has iirrangetl with 

 A. J. Vaiiderlliden, Glenwood City, Wis., to pui-chjise bolts for the com- 

 pany's mills at Glenwood City and neighboring stations on the Soo line 

 during the coming winter. 



The L. S. Barber & Sons Manufacturing Company, Butternut, Wis.. 

 broom and brush liandle manufacttirer, has contracted with tlie Kneeland- 

 McLurg Lumber Company, rhillips, Wis., to furnish r)00,000 feet of maple 

 luKs to its plant during the I'oming winter. I'Mrst deliveries will be made 



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