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polnls. s|»'niliiiK sevi'rnl wi'iks iit Tiiiii|m iiiiil St. IVtorsUurg. While 

 Mr. ttruic hi'iMiKlit linik with liini astimlshlnK stories of hiivlng been sun- 

 burneil while In ti hiithliiK suit in Floriila. it was Kenerall.v uverre<l thiit 

 there was iin poiin 1)11 thi' faie iif tile wiirlil where' the sun luul shone Ioiir 

 oui'tiKh i>r hot inoii^h to even sllKhtl.v seoreh an.vone. 



Mr. anil Mrs. llroee will reslile In LexinKtan. K.v.. where lln' lunin iHlhe 

 of Ilu' Spntswooil roiiipany Is loeatei). 



New Factory for Marquette 



The Kiystciiir Ihniiile i'iiin|ian.v will muve iis two laetories from reiiii 

 sylvania to Maniiietle, Mleh.. aecorilin^ to Marquette t'hroniele of .lanuiir.v 

 2G. The olii Sanilironk mill in South Mari|uette Is lielns retitteil anil will 

 house the new eoneerii. wlileli will einploy from fifty to one hunilreil men. 

 The supplies of harilwoinls tributary to Mari|uette will be ilrawn uiion by 

 the factory. The upper peninsula of Miihipin eontains about i;,(iOO,000 

 acres of liariiwoiul forest. 



Charles Good Enters Military Service 



■ral niaiiiiL'er nl" the iiconto Company. Oeonto, Wis.. 



the military service In an executive capacity on the 

 regiments for duty in France. Mr. Good has been 

 s step for many months, luit was prevalleil upon to 



until now. lie has been accepted for two officers" 



was offered a captain's commission in the V. S. 

 some time ago. The Oconto company finally has been 

 by the acquisition of R. C. Flanders, formerly sales 

 Lumber Company. Oconto, and later manager of the 

 interests in the (Jeorglan Bay district, who already 



duties and made it i)ossiblc for Mr. Good to enter 



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t'harU's (;<HKi. <;tni 

 has ro>iKne<l tn enter 

 forestry cnKl'it'erlnfr 

 Intenilin;; to take tin 

 remain at his duties 

 tniinin^ eainps aiiil 

 Knj^ineers i Forestry) 

 altie to fill his plaee 

 mauaKer of the Holt 

 Georpe Holt luinher 

 has assuniPtl his new 

 aetive service. 



Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company Moves Offices to Phelps 



»'. M. riii-isti;iiiseu hecanie inaiiairiT of the lIuckley-lMu'lps-Bonnell 

 Company ou January 1. and tlie company the same day moved its general 

 offices to Pheips. Wis., where the splendid new mill is located. 



This i-ompany has been in business a good many years and has handle<l 

 Us sales work throngh different channels. With Mr. Christiansen in charge 

 at Phelps, there should he no difficulty in selling the product and getting 

 a price for it. 



It will be recalled that the company's mill burned down a year or so 

 ago. The new mill is a high-class proposition in every way and it is 

 unusually well equipped all the way through. The company does its own 

 logging, on its own timber, and Mr. Christiansen has n man sized job on his 

 hands to keep the product going through as well as turning it over into 

 "bills receivable.*' 



The new mill started last November and there will be a substantial 

 amount of lumber on hand in the near future. 



R. S. Kellogg Takes New Position 

 R. S. Kellogg, secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association for the past three years, announced his resignation 

 February o in onler to accept an invitation from the manufacturers of 

 news print paper to become secretary of the News Print Service Bureau. 

 New York City, on February 15. 



Mr. Kellogg takes to the new position an experience of eight years in 

 executive capacities in connection with trade associations, and previous 

 thereto a conne<tion of nine years with the United States Forest Service. 

 during which time he organized and supervised the methods of collecting 

 and publishing annual statistics of all forest products, still carried on by 

 the government. 



The News I'rint Ser\-ice bureau is a new organization of the manu- 

 facturers of news print paper, the purpose of which is to gather and 

 disseminate Information ( oncerning the supply of and demand for news 

 print paper thnnigliont the I'nited States and Canada, as well as abroatl, 

 the collection of data upon the supply of all materials used in the manu- 

 facture of news print, the tievelopment of manufacturing processes, the 

 studying of scientific methods nf cost accounting, ami investigations into 

 economic conditions aflTectlng the industry. The president of the News 

 Print Service Itureau is J. A. 15. Cowles of the Pejepscott Paper Com- 

 pany, the vice-president, Maurice Iloopes. president of Finch Pruyn & 

 Co.. while Mr. Kellogg will be secri-tary-treasurer. The chairman of the 

 executive eomnilttee is John A. Davis of George 11. Craig & Co.. New 

 York, and the other members, Sir Wm. Price of Quebec, and George II. 

 Mead of Grand Rapids, Wis. 



Thomas J. Shryock 

 Raltimorp has tn recent months lost several members of the lumber 

 trade by death, the latest of the decedents being Gen. Thomas J. Shryock, 

 president of T. J. Shryock & <'o.. Inc.. who on February li succumbed to 

 pneumonia, after an illness of less than three days. General Shryock. 

 though primarily engaged In the (Jeorgia and white pine business, also 

 handled considerable quantities of the northern woods and his company 

 had In recent years given much attention to Pacific Coast lumber, which 

 It was planning to handle on a much larger scale than before, lie was a 

 native of Virginia, a son of a furniture manufacturer, and entered his 

 father's business soon after leaving school. W)ii*n only a .vouth he engagc<l 

 In the lumber trade, and established the firm of Shryock & Clark. This 

 firm he managed with much success for thirty years, when he withdrew 

 and organized the firm of Shryock & Co., which engaged in wholesale opera- 

 tions and attained prominence in the trade here. It acquired also exten- 



sive tracts of white jjine In West Virginia, which enterprise proved to 

 be exceedingly profitable. 



General Shryock had been grand nmster of the Maryland Grand Lodge 

 of Masons for 33rd degree ami only last Thurwiay evening was at the 

 Temple conferring degrees upon a number of candidates. He took an 

 activi' Interest in politics and served as the first republican state treasurer 

 in the history of Maryland. For a time Iw held the position of treasurer 

 ot the Maryland Repuldiean Central Committee, being subsequently made 

 chairman. For a time he was also a police commissioner here, (ieneral 

 Shryock. who obtained his title by appointment on the staff of Governor 

 Lowndes, had a host of friends, lie Is survived by four sons and six 

 daughters, one of the latter bi-ing the wifo of J. McD. Price, a wholesale 

 hanlwood man and former secretary of the National IjUmber Exporters' 

 Association. 



I Pertinent Information \ 



Our Periodical Manufacturing Census 

 Tile I'nited ."States is ahead of all other countries in the world in the 

 manner of taking a periodic census of nlanufacturing and other product. 

 lOvery five years sui-h a census is talien, and no other country does it at 

 regular intervals. This policy keeps the business men informed in regard 

 to the raw material used, the finished product, the cost of material anti 

 the cost of labor, as well as supplies information roganUng various indus- 

 tries and their growth or decline during regular periods. 



American Tools in England 



A consular report from lUrmingham, Kngland, Ucc. 19, 1917, speaks 

 of a chance in that country for increased sale of American tools with 

 liandles. The report says that light multiple-purpose hand tools, such as 

 .Vmerican makers specialize in, are being urgently sought, particularly 

 by market gardeners. Horse hoes, lioth British and .Vmerican. are like- 

 wise in request, as are horse plows, tirills and all sorts of miscellaneous 

 appliances. Special consideration is being given to augmenting supplies 

 of cultivating tools and to other aspects of the campaign to increase pro- 

 duction of home-grown food. Edge-tool makers are in receipt of more 

 orders than they are able to deal with. Kfforts are being made to give 

 all the facilities possible to this branch of the trade, which. Important in 

 itself, is still more important just now in its bearing on tlie food question. 



Lumber Reclassification Case Submitted 



The lumber reclassification case has finally been submitted to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission for decision after oral arguments during two 

 days in which the bone of contention was the tentative report submitted 

 by Examiner Fred Esch for approval of the commission in this case, recom- 

 mending a uniform lumber list for railroads throughout the country and 

 a s.vstem of classifying lumber and other forest products according to the 

 weight of each shipment by the carload. 



There were some kind words spoken by attorneys for various interests 

 for the uniform lumber list idea, but all sjieakers but Mr. Esch himself 

 took exception to his carload mininuim weight basis for lumber classifica- 

 tion, ratings and rates. Counsel for shippei-s and railroads agreed on this 

 lioint, though not in detail, and there was a consensus of opinion expressed 

 in favor of postponing further action in the lumber reclassification matter 

 until after the war, J. S. Burchmore, representing the National Whole- 

 sale Millwork .Vssociation, opposed this idea, pointing out that it woulil 

 involve delay In redressing the discrimination found by the commission 

 in the Anson-Oilkey & Ilurd case, final action in which has been held 

 up pending the conclusion of the classification investigation. Also Com- 

 missioner Meyer Intimated that the commission might think that war 

 conditions called for radical action in the matter instead of indefinite 

 posti)ouement. 



Prices Due to War 



The only era in our national history that nught be used as a measurj- 

 nient as to what could be expected at the present time were It not for 

 food control Is that of the Civil war. Now. after three .years of drain 

 there is a known world-wide shortage in food, whereas as a matter of 

 comparison during the Civil war there was no actual shortage in food- 

 stuffs, and yet prices not only went up very rapidly but continued ascenil- 

 iug in the latter iJDs, after the war had endeil. The crest of high prices 

 in any conimoility was not reached In that era prior to 1SC4, and then on 

 but few. Some prices ceased advancing at the close of the war in 1865, 

 and some commenced to decline only in IStiT, lS(i8 and 1869. While the 

 general basis of prices at the commencenient of the present era was con- 

 siderably higher than those at the commencement of the Civil war era, 

 the precetitagc of iu<-rease so far has been, and promises to continue, very 

 much lower. Many commodities in which there was then no real national 

 shortage, ht alone a worlil shortage, increased several hundred per cent 

 over the basii' jirewar prices. These Increases were almost, if not entirely, 

 due to speculation rather than to any natural laws of conimercc. It was 

 partially to |)revent a repetition of this disastrous experience that the 

 r. S. Food Administration was created. 



