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of the Karges Furniture Company and other capitalists at Evansville have 

 bought the controlling interest in the Schroeder Headlight Company in 

 Evansville and assumed charge on January 14 with William A. Carson as 

 the new manager. The plant will be enlarged. The Schroeder Headlight 

 Company during the past three years has been manufacturing many locomo- 

 tive headlights for the Allies and will continue to do so. 



John AUoway, aged ninety-four years, one of the best-known men in 

 western Kentucky, died recently at his home at Clay, Ky. Two of his 

 sons who survive him are engaged in the lumber business, Frank Alloway 

 being at Clay and Fred Alloway at Sturgis, Ky. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will 

 be held on the second Tuesday night in February at the Hotel McCurdy, 

 when the log shortage question will be discussed. John C. Keller, traffic 

 manager of the club, will make a short talk on the government control 

 of the railroads. 



The VonBehren Manufacturing Company is making spokes and hubs for 

 the federal government and expects to fill several large orders during the 

 present year. The C. P. White Manufacturing Company at Boonville, Ind., 

 is also working on a government order making the wooden parts of guns 

 for the army. Walnut lumber is used in this line of work. The Never- 

 Split Seat Company of this city has furnished seats for every military 

 cantonment in the United States, it is announced. During the past year 

 this company has also sold seats In Canada, Australia, New Zealand and 

 many other countries. 



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The first January meeting of the Ijoulsvllle Hardwood Club was given 

 over largely to discussion of trafBc matters, inability to ship government 

 orders, and the drafting of a wire to Secretary Me.\doo, director general 

 of railroads, asking for relief In handling government orders, stating that 

 even where such orders carried the government contract number of bills 

 of lading the carriers were refusing them. Discussion was also heard 

 concerning the new demurrage rates, which it is believed will aid some- 

 what, and the members were generally of the opinion that Secretary Mc.Adoo 

 would shortly unravel the traffic problem. The shortage of log cars in 

 the South was also discussed, but there appears to be little relief in sight 

 at the present time. At this meeting George Wilcox, representing the 

 I. B. Wilcox Lumber Company of Louisville, was admitted to membership 

 In the club. 



.\n answer has been filed by the nillerich & Bradsby Company of Louis- 

 ville, manufacturer of baseball bats and golf clubs, to a charge made by 



the Federal Trade Commission that it had fixed prices. In answer the 

 company stated that the dealers themselves fixed the prices, and that 

 about ninety-eight percent of the dealers fixed their prices so that they 

 could make a reasonable profit, which could not be made otherwise. The 

 company claims full power to select its customers under the last paragraph 

 of the act, and that this has been done, but not in restraint of trade. 



The Kentucky legislature, which is now in session, has been so busy draft- 

 ing a state wide prohibition amendment that it hasn't had much time for 

 anything else, and outside of the prohibition amendment and regulation 

 of railroads, very little has been undertaken, as national conditions are 

 such that the legislature is going slowly so as not to upset things any 

 more than possible. However, one bill that has been introduced will prob- 

 ably be warmly opposed by the lumber interests, this bill being "An act 

 abolishing the oflice of forester in the state of Kentucky," intrdouced by 

 R. T. Smith. Tliere is no doubt but what the office has been a big thing 

 for the timber and lumber interests. Through its efforts the annual fire 

 loss to timber has been greatly reduced, while on the other hand it has 

 greatly increased the movement to replant forest lands, and has been 

 instrumental in getting some of the largo coal companies to endeavor to 

 reforest their lands. The cost of the office to the state is not great. 



Ameudeil articles of incorporation have been filed by the Louisville 

 Planing Mill & Hardwood Flooring Company changing Its name to the 

 Louisville Planing Mill Company. This company is planning to rebuild 

 its planer, sawmill and veneer mill, which was burned in December. 



Bond Brothers of Elizabcthtown, Ky., dealers in ties and timbers, have 

 purchased 5,200 acres of timberland at Decatur, Ala., and are plaonlDg 

 to install machinery to cut ties and bridge timbers. 



Damage of $.'5,000 was recently done to the plant of the Owensboro Plan- 

 ing Mill Company, Owensboro, Ky., by fire, which broke out early In the 

 evening. Due to the fact that the mill proper is of brick and concrete, 

 witb gravel roof, no insurance was carried on the building. Most of the 

 damage was to belting and machinery. 



The five-day shut down ordered by the Fuel .\dmInistration is being 

 fully complied witb by all lumber concerns of LK)uisville, many of which 

 were on the point of closing down when the order was announced. With 

 trallic In such shape that even government orders could not be moved, 

 many concerns were in favor of closing down until some of the stuff could 

 be shipped, and it is said that aside from being patriotic the trade is of 

 the opinion that this shut-down will result In freer movement later on. 

 The order could not have come at a more opportune time for most of the 

 local concerns, as with eighteen Inches of snow on the ground, and traffic 

 generally demoralized, it was impossible to have cars switched even in the 

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