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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, 1917 



Have you Been may better Walnut }ogm than theaef 



' I '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 Plain & Qtd. Red & White i 



I OAK i 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



= Even Color 



MADE 



Soft Texture = 



RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



I'ompnny Inst week to Walls Brothers of Chicago, who are building the 

 Wlnton hotel at Clevclnnd. This contract Is a bonus arrangement, and 

 the time Is nearly up. A cur ot luiiibor shipped from Louisville on October 

 :;3 did not reach Cleveland until November IT), and the contractors are not 

 taking further chances. The express charges to Cleveland are about $400 

 to $.'.00 a car, as compared with $150 by freight. However, on a bonus 

 contract, working in favor ot both contractor and owner, a day's difference 

 on the wrong side means considerable. 



The country In western Kentucky Is being combed for hickory and white 

 irnk l)y the Forbes Manufacturing Company, wagon builder, who has a big 

 government contract for wagons. About $50,000 worth of hickory is 

 required, big logs being used as well as small bolts for axles, singletrees, 

 spokes, etc. The company Is advertising in the papers In hopes of being 

 able to get the farmers Interested in turning loose of a bit of timber. 



One of the largest and most attractive weddings of the season was that 

 of Miss Elizabeth Booker, sister of Ned Booker and Bodley Booker of 

 the Booker Box Company, to Capt. George Maynard Chescheir of the 

 One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery, held in Louisville last 

 week. l'"ollowing the ceremony the young couple went South, where they 

 will occupy an army shack at Camp Shelby, Ilattlesburg, Miss., where 

 Capt. Chescheir Is stationed. 



About forty men have been released from the works of the Winchester 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Winchester, Ky., due to traffic 

 conditions which have tied up things for the organization. At the present 

 time embargoes prevent it from shipping its manufactured products into 

 much ot the East, where its principal business is handled, while at the 

 same time It has been unable to secure cars In which to make shipments. 



W. U. Willett, head of the W. R. Wlllett Lumber Company of Louisville 

 has been kept hustling during the past few days In getting a big pine con- 

 tract of about 2,000,000 feet of pine for government work at JeffersonvIUe, 

 Ind., delivered, but has about cleaned up this work, and Is again lending 

 most of his attention to hardwood business. 



=-< ARKANSAS >■= 



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



S our own manufacture, from our own tim- — 



= ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. E 



= PROMPT SHIPMENTS = 



I The MOWBRAY i 

 I & ROBINSON CO. I 



= (incorporated) = 



I CINCINNATI, OHIO | 



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All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD 



.\s the result of the scarcity ot railroad equipment, operations at a 

 number of the veneer and hardwood manufacturing plants at Helena are 

 now suspended, among which are Included the Kurz-Downey Company, the 

 Arkansas Veneer Company and the Theo. Fathauer Company of Arkansas. 

 The car shortage situation has been acute for some time, hut it has 

 recently gotten to such a stage that some of the plants, as above stated, 

 have found It advisable to suspend operations for a while at least. While 

 the railroad officials exhibit a hopeful attitude, the plants are without suffi- 

 cient raw materials to justify their operating, and many of them are 

 finding it very difficult to secure sufficient cars in which to ship out the 

 manufactured products made before the car shortage became so bad. It 

 is not determinable just when these plants will again be able to proceed 

 with their work. 



Some of the Helena Industrial plant owners are feeling some elation 

 over what they consider a signal victory for the lumbermen of that place, 

 in the recent announcement by the railroad officials that the order Issued 

 some time ago forbidding the use of equipment of any character for cross- 

 town swItchlDg has been withdrawn, and that the old arrangements will 

 now be put Into operation again. Several industries of that place are 

 entirely dependent upon custom mills for their products, and in a number 

 of cases this business is necessarily handled by cross-town switching, or 

 between Helena and West Helena, a distance of some seven miles. 



The restoration of the old order ot things is due to the efforts of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic .\ssocIatIon, which had charge ot and handled 

 the question of the discontinuance of this class of service for its members 

 at that point. 



Practically all of the plants manufacturing boxes, barrels and screen 

 doors are now employing many women, and even the regular lumber 

 manufacturing plants, both hardwood and yellow pine, are finding women 

 suitable for certain kinds of the lighter work. 



Most of the manufacturing plants of the state have shortened the hours 

 of labor, and Increased the scale of wages for labor. The average is per- 

 haps 20 or 25 per cent over what it was a year ago. But even this added 

 inducement fails to bring out all the needed laborers, probably due to 

 the fact that they are simply not to be had. While some of the larger 

 manufacturers say they are getting along In fair shape, most of them 

 admit that they are having considerable difficulty In securing all the help 

 they need. 



The Frisco Stave Company of Jonesboro has filed articles of Incorpora- 

 tion with the secretary of state and Is now operating as an Arkansas 

 corporation. Its capital stock Is $15,000. R. L. Smith, H. L. McNieve 

 and W. W. Case are the incorporators. 



.•V. J. Weislnger Is preparing to erect a plant at Lake Village, Ark., for 

 the purpose of manufacturing sawed staves. 



The Delta Jflll Work Manufacturing Company of Dermott, Ark., and 

 the Mohawk Lumber Company ot Magnolia, .\rk., have recently surren- 

 dered their charters. 



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The Northern Casket Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., with branch plants 

 at Sioux City, la., and Denver, Col., Is est-abiishing new departments for 

 the production of all-metal coffins on a commercial scale. The output of 

 hardwood caskets will not bo diminished. 



