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Hble trouble in meetlag the great demand tbat will be made upon them 

 for containers, and the problem of housing the rapidly Increasing popula- 

 tion ol' thn lity, with the many new manufacturing and other enterprises, 

 together with the government work that Is going on, will give the retail 

 dealers and others their dlCScuIties to got a supply of lumber sufficient 

 to meet the calls that will be made upon them, but a generally prosperous 

 year seems to he assured. 



The election of officers resulted as follows : 



Peeside.st — -Parker D. Dix. 



Vice rRESiDENT — Pembroke \V. Wonible. 



TRE.ist'RER — L. H. (iwaltney. 



MAX.%r.ixr, Committee — F'ehibrokc M. Womble : .Tohn I.. .Mcock. of .Tohn 

 I.. Alcock & «'ii. ; F. .\. Ascherfold. .lames I.uiiiImt Oonipanv : W. Hunter 

 Kdnards. B. W. Edwards & Sons: I<>wis Dill. Lewis Pill & Co.: Ileury I>. 

 I'ri'ver: liufus K. (ioodenow: Daniel .MacI.ea. Macl.ea Luml>er Cmnpiiuy : 

 KidBaway Merryman ; Theodore Mottu. Theodore Mottu & Co.; David M. 

 Wolf. Canton Lumber Company, and .lohn II. Zouck. 



The secretary will be elected later by the managing committee, and there 

 Is every indication that Mr. Gwaltney will be continued In the office. 



Th5 question of the inspection rules under which the exchange works 

 rame in for some discussion, the point being ralsetl whether, since the 

 exchange has adopted the rules of various associations peculiar to the 

 respective woods, any changes adopted by these organizations would have 

 to be actetl upon especially by the exchange or the managing committee, 

 or whether they would go Into effect automatically from time to time. 

 The question was finally referred to the inspection committee for its 

 recommendation. 



The liability of the exchange for injury to any of the inspectors also 

 came up. it being the opinion that the exchange itself would not be liable 

 under the law. but that the individual firms or corporations employing 

 the inspector injured would be. 



Memphis Club Nominates 

 The following candidates frir offic.-rs nf ?1h' Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis for the ensuing year were announced b.v the nominating com- 

 mittees at the meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis on Decem- 

 ber 3. 



Red Ticket. — For president. Earl Palmer. Ferguson-Palmer Company. 

 Inc. ; first vice-president. Jr. B. Cooper. Three States Lumber Company : 

 second vice-president. R. .1. Hackney. Brown & Hackney, Inc. : secretary- 

 treasurer. J. Staley ^\"ilIiford, Bellgrade Lumber Company. 



BUE Ticket. — For president. J. F. McSweyn. Memphis Band Mill Com- 

 pany : first vice-president. J. H. Hines. Ilines Lumber Company ; second 

 vice-president. D. F. Heuer. A. N. Thompson & Company ; secretary- 

 treasurer. J. Staley Williford. Bellgrade Lumber Company. 



Directors nn the red ticket are : E. L. McClallen, Nickey Brothers, 

 Inc. : John Walsh. James E. Stark & Co. : and Richard Petrus, Stimson 

 "Veneer & Lumber Companj'. 



Directors on the blue ticket are : W. C. Bonner, J. H. Bonner & Sons : 

 R. A. Taylor. DeSoto Hardwood Flooring Company ; and Edgar Lehr. 

 Green River Lumber i'ompany. 



The reports of the nominating committees were made in most humorous 

 vein by II. J. M. Jorgensen and J. D. Allen, Jr.. chairmen, respectively, 

 of the red and blue, while the nominees made brief responses. 



The election will be held December 1>5. Electioneering has already 

 begun and will be kept up to a high pitch until the last vote Is cast. 

 These campaigns are conducted in a friendly rivalry and always add 

 much zest to the spirit of good fellowship. 



Six new members were elected at the meeting and three applications for 

 membership were filed with the proper committee f*»r action prior to the 

 next meeting. 



Tlie question of taking steps that will improve the condition of labor 

 employed at the hardwood plants owned by members of the club came in 

 for considerable discussion. The club decided that final action should be 

 postponed until the next meeting. 



There were seventy-three members and visitors present and the meet- 

 ing was characterizefi by much entliusiasm. R. C. Stiinsun, vice-president, 

 occupied the chair in the absence of President Ralph May. The usual 

 luncheon was served. 



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Wkh the Trade 



Moore & McFerrin Suffer Fire Loss 

 Fire (>i unknown origin destroyed the sawmill of Moore & McFerrin. on 

 Wdlf river, north of Memphis. December ."i, with an estimatetl loss of 

 $2.'i,000, fully covered b.v insurance. The mill had not been in operation 

 during the day and the fire is supposed to have been <iccasioned b.v sparks 

 from some of the stacks in the vicinity. Firemen from the cit.v fought the 

 blaze for four hours and succeeded in confining the (lames to the mill 

 proper, thus saving 4.000,000 feet of lumber and the box factory of the 

 firm located close by. 



No announcement has been made by the management with respect to 

 rebuilding, but it is expected that the plant will be rephiieil in due course. 



A Difficult Job 



The United States agent wlio went to Russia six months ago to study 

 the lumber situation Is probably not Hniling the Job an easy one Just now. 

 Roger E. Simmons was bolding the Job down somewhere in Siberia at last 

 accounts; hut that was before complete anarchy broke loose in that 



unfortunate country. Since then no news from Mr. Simmons has been 

 made public ; but general news coming out of Siberia has not been 

 reassuring. There arc accounts of robbery of travelers as well as of all 

 well-to-do citizens, even in cities and hotels. Persons wearing good 

 clothes are stopped on the street.s and compelled to exchange their gar- 

 ments for rags, and are relieved of their money and Jewelry. It is to be 

 hoped tbat Mr. Simmons has not fared so badly as some others in that 

 land where anarchy reigns at present. 



Wood Made Waterproof 

 The Dunton End-Graln-Vp Wood Company was recently organized at 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., to produce wood products by a process which it Is 

 i-lalmed will remler it impervious to water. It will bear as a trade mark 

 the words "Mo -Nark, " and It Is announced that the wood so treated will 

 be useful for rountertops. tables, and wainscoting, .\mong those interested 

 in the new company are: John C. Dunton, Charles B. Kelscy, fJregory M. 

 Luce, John W. Blodgett, G, K, McMullen, C. P. Foote, A. II. Brandt, A. 

 Otte, James Bayne, James S. Hawkins, Mae Godfrey, H. C. Cornelius, G, A. 

 Krause, James A. Curtis, O. H. L. Wernicke, A. F. Porter, F. T. Ilulswit. 

 I-'red N. Rowe, Gilbert H. Daane, Charles M. Alden, F. W. Lonsby. and 

 Carroll F. Sweet. 



Planing Mill Burns 



The Dixie Planning SIlUs at Di.\on. Tinn.. one of the largest establish- 

 ments of its kind in middle Tennessee, which had been working at full 

 speed for some time on a government contract for tent poles, was com- 

 pletely"destroyed by fire on November 20. The lilazc was discovered about 

 11 o'clock and spread rapidly, despite all efforts "of the fire department. 

 The buildings, together with the lumber yard, were completely destroyed. 



H. T. Cowan, president of the company, estimated the loss at $ir>0.000, 

 with no insurance. .\t least 100 men will be thrown out of employment 

 as a result of the fire. 



Returns to the West 

 George X. Wendling has returned to the Far West, where he had spent 

 the most of his busy life in the lumber business. Two years ago he 

 accepted a position with an adding machine company in Ohio, but the call 

 of the wild has been too strong for him and the announcement has gone 

 out tliat he is again in the lumber business on the Pacific coast. 



Change in Organization and Ownership 



The Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company, Still River, Conn., has 

 announced changes in its organization. The paint and wood finishing 

 department has been sold to E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. of Wil- 

 mington, Del. The Bridgeport company will continue to operate Its silex 

 business and will retain Its ownership of the Still River plant, hut the 

 name, for convenience, will be changed to the Llthowhite Silex Company, 

 which is more descriptive of the business it will still carry on. 



The Last Call 



Colonel W. A. Mitchel, in command of the Tenth Engineers, the forestry 

 regiment which has the distinction of being the largest regiment in the 

 world, has sent out the last call to lumbermen who wish to Join the regi- 

 ment. Between now and December 15 men who have been registered can 

 volunteer in the forestry regiment, even though they have been called by 

 local boards to report for physical examination. They can enlist upon 

 presentation to the recruiting officer of the certificate for his local board 

 that he will not be needed to fill any deferred percentage of the quota of 

 its board. 



This affords an opportunity to those who understand lumbering to Join 

 the foresters. The opportunity ends on December 15, and after that the 

 drafted men will be sent to camps lii the Inited States for training tor 

 service abroad. 



A Big Hickory Log 



Commenting on the big hickory log illustrated on this page, U.vuDWOOD 

 Record has received the following letter from Peers & McGlone, who 

 manufacture hickory dimension stock at Bierne. Ark. : 



•We enclose herewith a post card picture which explains itself. There 

 may be larger hickory logs than tills one, but so far we have not heard 

 of them." 



HICKORY LOG 41"xlO' MANUKACTIRED INTO AUTOMOBILE RIM 

 STRIPS l!V PEERS & .McIil.ONE AT r.EIRNE, ARK. 



