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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1918 



enlarged for the purpose of taking care of sick or wounded soldiers who 

 may be sent bore liy the government, and for tlic purpose of more than 

 doubling the number of nurses who may be trained for caring for Red 

 Cross work and other duties In behalf of the men In khaki. 



Ellas B. Gates delivered a talk on the Income tax and gave the lum- 

 bermen a great deal of valuable Information to guide them in making 

 their personal returns as well as returns for their lirms and corporations. 

 The Interest in what he said was evidenced by the many questions asked 

 him when he had llnished. 



Otis E. FIger of Grand Rapids, Mich., spoke briefly. He said among 

 other things that the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis was the finest body 

 of lumbermen anywhere In the world, and that he always enjoyed their 

 hospitality and their fellowship when he came south about once each year. 



Secretary J. Staley Willlford read a letter from the War Food Garden 

 Commission at Washington urging the lumbermen to continue to give 

 ground to their employes for gardens and to see that they cultivated Hut 

 plots and thus added to tho quantity of vegetables available. 



With the Trade 



Edgerton-Fulton Company Organizes 

 One of the new companies operating in the wholesale trade with a 

 yard at Earlinger, Ky., is the Edgerton-Fulton Lumber Company, with 

 general ofliees at Earlinger, and operating mills in Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee. Mr. IMgerton for a number of years has lived at Somerset. Ky., 

 where he has been doing a wholesale business, and Blaine Fulton for some 

 eleven years has been connected with the Clearfield Lumber Company at 

 Clearfield, Ky. 



Canadian Carriage Factories Consolidate Purchasing 



The Carriage Factories Limited, composed of The Canada Carriage Com- 

 pany. Ltd., Brockville ; The lieney Carriage & Harness Company, Ltd., 

 Montreal ; The Munroe & Mcintosh Carriage Company, Ltd., Ale.\andria, 

 and The Tudhope Carriage Company, Ltd., Orillia, Canada, announce the 

 centralizing of the purchasing department at the head olBce of the com- 

 pany. Correspondence should be addressed to the Carriage Factories 

 Limited, 30G Excelsior Life building, Toronto, Ont. 



Will Cut Blighted Chestnut 



The town of Frederick, Md., owns 1,200 acres of chestnut timber on 

 the municipality's watershed property, and plans are being formed for 

 cutting it. The timber has been killed by blight and unless it is used 

 soon it will be a total loss. Other large tracts of chestnut timber in that 

 part of Maryland will be cut in order to save it from becoming a total loss. 



Crane Holdings Worth $3,000,000 



The holdings of the late Clinton Crane in the southwestern counties 



of West Virginia have been appraised at .f3,199,G23. A large part of this 



property consists of timber and it is scattered through a number of 



counties. Many of the tracts belonged in part only to Captain Crane. 



New Plant for Louisville 



It has been announced that Louisville. Ky., is to have another whole- 

 sale lumber and manufacturing plant to be operated by the Dawson Manu- 

 facturing Company at First street and Central avenue. The company 

 was recently incorporated for $30,000 with John L. Dawson, of Louisville, 

 president ; John W. Kitchen of Ashland, Ky., vice-president, and R. L. 

 Dawson of Louisville, secretary. The factory will specialize in beveled 

 siding, and it 'will employ forty or fifty hands. 



Stack Burns Out 



The fine new mill of the Stack Lumber Company. MasonvIIle, Mich., 

 ■which was completed only a couple of years ago, was destroyed by fire on 

 Sunday morning, ,Tanuary 27. The fire destroyed the band, circular and 

 resaw mills, although the boiler house and engine room were saved. The 

 loss is about .$110,000 on which the company carried .?G5.000 insurance. 



H. M. Stack, secretary and general manager of the company, states that 

 as soon as weather permits, the company will rebuild and will erect a con- 

 crete mill with two handsaws and resaws, all to be electrically driven. 



Southern Company Victim of Bogus Checks 



The Green River Lumber Company, Inc., ot Memphis, Tenn., reports 

 it has been the victim of the bogus check hold-up. The company was 

 called on the 'phone by a Memphis bank last week and advised that a 

 check purporting to be that of the Green River Lumber Company and 

 printed up in regular size had been turned in. The check, while printed 

 up in regular style, was on different paper, drawn on a different bank and 

 made out on a different form than that used by the Green River Lumber 

 Company. Therefore, while the man responsible for the theft seems to 

 have had no difficulty In cashing the cliecbs, it should be easy enough to 

 check him up in the future. 



The Green River Lumber Company has never had an account with the 

 bank on which the checks were drawn. 



T. H. Klemmer is the man who signs these bogus checks, and the Green 

 Elver Company is anxious to do everything it can to help apprehend him. 



Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance 



Tlic annual liiKuiclal stat.ni.nl of tli.' Luinlicrmen's Underwriting 

 -Vlllance, Kansas City, Mo., was compiled for 1917, and shows the fol- 

 lowing facts : The total income since January 10, 1905, was $5,019,582.78, 

 and the total expenditures during the same time ?4, -179, 240. CO, leaving a 

 surplus and reinsurance reserve ..f $1,140,342.12. 



The assets for 1917 were cash, $704. 407. is ; l)onds, $378,448.68; accounta 

 receivable, $137,709.20 ; accrued interest, $2,052.91 ; total, $1,223,277.97. 

 The liabilities for 1917 were, losses, $50,452.44 ; expenses, $20,483.41 ; sur- 

 plus and reinsurance reserve, $1,140,342.12; total. $1,223,227.97. 



The statement also shows that in the face of enormous hazards due to 

 war conditions, the average saving for the year has been 31.78 per cent 

 of the earned premium. The statement also shows that while the Alliance 

 disbursed to Its subscribers $142,183.45 as savings dividends, its surplus 

 and re-insurance reserve shows an Increase of $199,020.90. The Alliance 

 now carries Insurance on 024 properties amounting to $49,292,357.17, 

 representing an increase of insurance in force for the twelve months of 

 $9,013,435.53. 



Becomes Salesman for Chicago Company 



J. K. Van Etta, who lias repri'senled tlie Wi'sllioro Lumber Company of 

 Westboro, Wis., in Chicago territory, for several years, has started similar 

 work for the Quixley Lumber Company of Chicago. Mr. Van Etta left 

 his Westboro connection last week. 



He has been connected with northern hardwood markets for a good 

 many years. His first work was with the Foster-Latimer Lumber Com- 

 pany. Mellen, Wis., after which be handled lumber for the Collins Bros. 

 Lumber Company of Madison in southern Wisconsin and northern Illi- 

 nois. 



"Jake" Van Etta is probably one of the best known salesmen operating 

 in this region. He is a distinct acquisition to the Quixley company Just 

 as his connection with the Quixley company is a distinct acquisition to 

 him. The combination should be a winner. 



Ernest W. Tickle Writes from France 

 HARnwoon Record is pleased to publish herewith a letter dated January 

 10, 1918, which it has just received from "somewhere in France," from 

 Ernest W. Tickle, proprietor of Tickle, Bell & Co.. Ltd., 517 Royal Liver 

 building, Liverpool, England. Mr. Tickle is very widely known throughout 

 lumber circles and Hardwood Record Is certain that a great many people 

 will be interested in hearing from him at the front : 



Somewhere in France, Januar.v 10. 1918 : .\s a lonely reader of 

 Hardwood Record, may I ask if you will seu.i me copies of it as pub- 

 lished? I find my home office sends it to me only spasmodically. 



Tou might put a paragraph in your paper to say that although I, the 

 sole proprietor of Tickle. Bell & Co.. am out here as a gunner in the Royal 

 Regiment of Artiller.v (R. G. A.), my business is being carried on as usual 

 at the old address. 517 Ro.yal Liver building, Liverpool. I am writing from 



and hope my American friends will remember that Tickle, Bell & 



Co. are alwavs at their service. 



My address is: Gnr. E. W. Tickle. Xo. 171193. No. 88 Siege Battery, 

 H. G. A., B. E. F. Franc. 



Strong Statement from Boston Mutual Company 



The Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 141 Milk street, Boston, 

 Mass., has just issued an interesting financial statement showing financial 

 condition of the company on January 1. 



The assets cover considerable investment in government and Canadian 

 bonds, state, municipal, railroad and miscellaneous bonds. Also cash of 

 various kinds amounting to $1,214,201.13. Liabilities cover insurance in 

 force, unearned premiums, taxes, losses resisted or in process yOf adjust- 

 ment, reserves, cash surplus, surplus to policy holders, etc., which balance 

 up in line with assets. Thus the total assets are $3,081,552.36. 



Payments from the organization to date, inclusive, show total losses 

 paid policy holders $1,919,682.30; total dividends paid policy holders, 

 $2,061,296.45, making total payments to policy holders, $3,980,978.75. 



The rate of dividend to policyholders on terminating policy is forty per 

 cent. 



De Camp Joins Thomas Hall Forces 



E. W. De Camp, who has been representing the American Column & Lum- 

 ber Company, at St. Albans, W. Va., having headquarters at South Bend, 

 Ind., has joined the Thomas Hall Lumber Company of Charleston, W. Va., 

 and win represent that company in the field. 



The Thomas Hall company is manufacturing the majority of its timber 

 now into the special rcquii'ements of governmi-nt contracts and has felt 

 the need of capable representation in constant touch with the trade holding 

 such contracts. 



The company's hand mill at Marmet, W. Va.. is operating on full time 

 cutting largely white oak into planking and timbers, on government work 

 for tile trade having contracts for this class of material. 



The mills at Trace Fork and Burnt Cabin, W. Va.. are also operating 

 on this class of material. 



Mr. De Camp will retain headquarters at South Bend. 



Bruce-Case 



Charles W. Bruce, secretary of E. R. Spotswood & Sons Company, of 

 Lexington, Ky., stole off and got married a couple of weeks ago. Mr. Bruce 

 had been paying marked attention to Miss Bertha M. Case, of Willmore, 

 Ky., for some little time, but suddenly had the bright idea that it was really 

 foolish to wait for an indefinite period, so he suggested that the matter be 

 taken care of promptly. 



After the ceremony in Louisville, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce left for Florida 



