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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1918 



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HICKORY 

 Oak and Ash 



Dimension Stock for 

 All Purposes 



Gainesville and Gunntown Florida 



Union & Planters Bank BIdg., Memphis, Tenn. 



General Sales and Export Office 



11 Broadway, New York City 



The Mengel Box Company of Louisville, operating a large lumber plant 

 at Hickman, Ky., recently lost a towboat, "The Mengel Box Company," 

 in a high wind on tbe Mlsslssiijpl, near Hale's Point, Tenn., opposite Os- 

 ceola. The high wind filled the boat with water and she broke in two. 

 A barge of logs was carried down stream, but will probably be caught. 

 The steamer was waiting for a derrick boat to complete loading some 

 log barges at the time of the accident. The vessel was valued at $50,000. 

 At Somerset, Ky., the I. R. Longsworth Company, spoke manufacturer, 

 has resumed operations after being out for some time as a result of the 

 recent floods in that district. The company is now buying material to 

 manufacture spokes to fill government orders on escort wagons and ar- 

 tillery wheels. 



A new concern, operating as the Edgctt & Fulton Lumber Company, 

 has been incorporated at Erlangcr, Ky., with a capital of $20,000, by J. R. 

 Edgett, Minna Edgelt and Blaine Fulton. Col. John Edgett recently 

 stated that he had purchased timber In Tennessee and was planning to 

 install a mill. 



The Turner, Day & Woolworth Handle Company of Louisville, manu- 

 facturer of handles, chuck blocks and wood specialties, has also entered 

 the spoke game. This company, through its state Ijranch plants, has been 

 handling local advertisements for hickory and white oak rived spokes at 

 London and other towns. 



R. C. JIcNay, head of the R. C. McNay Lumber Company of Crittenden, 

 Ky., has succeeded J. W. Bennett as manager of the Wllliamstown Lumber 

 Company of Wiliiamstown, Ky., Mr. Bennett having enlisted in the For- 

 estry Service. 



G. B. Borders, purchasing agent for the McCammon & Keller Company 

 of Lebanon, Ky., sawmill operators which has installed a new spoke fac- 

 tory, has been kept on the jump in supplying the mill with spoke material 

 of late. Mr. Borders is offering to buy white oak and hickory spoke 

 timber delivered at factory on side track on woods ; split out in block, log 

 "T tree. In fact, he is willing to take material in most any form to 

 i>l)tain it. 



Announcement has been made to the effect that the Huddleston Timber 

 Company of Huntington, W. Va., has started work on the second boundary 

 of timber recently purchased from F. M. Stafford, near PaiDtsville, Ky. 

 .T. H. Johnson who, for several years, has been with the Rock Castle Lum- 

 ber Company, has secured a big crew and has gotten things well started. 



Open Yard, Narrow Piles, 



Narrow Stickers, Assure 



Uniform Drying of 



LENOX LUMBER 



KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 

 Hardwoods 



American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



=-< ARKANSAS >= 



The Sweaney Manufacturing Company of West Memphis, Ark., has 

 tiled articles of incorporation and received a charter to do business. The 

 capital stock of this company is placed at $25,000. This company is 

 erecting a sawmill, installing new machinery, and will cut dimension 

 stock. A. S. Sweaney is president and manager of the company. 



The Standard Lumber Company of Texarkana, Ark., has recently filed 

 articles of incorporation, showing a capital stock of $100,000. H. P. 

 Fouke, C. W. Fouke and George Weber are the incorporators. This con- 

 cern has been in business at Texarkana for many years, but has only 

 recently incorporated. 



The Hicks-Stevenson Lumber Company of Mena, Ark., has bought thirty 

 auto trucks to be used in hauling logs from the woods to the mill and 

 lumber from the plant to the railroad. 



Both William A. Priddie, snark of the universe and vice-president of 

 the Beaumont Lumber Company at Beaumont, Texas, and Emerson D. 

 Tennant, secretary-treasurer of the Concatenated Oder of Hoo-Hoo, Saint 

 Louis, have signified their intentions of attending the big .Arltansas Hoo- 

 Hoo concatenation to be held in Hot Springs on the night of June 8, in 

 connection with the fourteenth annual meeting of the Arkansas Associa- 

 tion of Lumber Dealers, which will be hold in that city on June 7 and 8. 

 The two meetings coming together are expected to insure a large attend- 

 ance, and Secretary J. B. Webster of the Association, who is also vice- 

 gerent snark for the state of Arkansas, is expecting the biggest and most 

 successful gathering of lumbermen and Hoo-Hoo that has ever been ex- 

 perienced in Arkansas. The citizens of Hot Springs, through the Business 

 Men's League, are preparing entertainment features that will make the 

 visitors long remember their visits to the Vapor City. 



=^ WISCONSIN >.= 



The Weldemann-Lindem Manufacturing Company, Marinette, Wis., 

 manufacturer of lumber, interior woodwork, etc., has decided to estab- 

 lish a department for the production of coffins and caskets. An addition 

 will be built to the plant at once and new equipment installed. The 

 working force will be increased by about twenty-five men. 



To get every piece of rolling stock into service without delay and keep 

 it in good shape, the West Milwaukee car and locomotive shops of the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul are now working a ten-hour day. About 

 4.500 men are affected. The car shop has been working nine hours and its 

 2,000 employes now are receiving overtime for one hour's work a day. 



Milwaukee box manufacturers furnished a large amount of box and 

 crating stock gratis to Base Hospital No. 22, a Milwaukee unit which 

 has been in training at the Milwaukee Auditorium for several months, 

 and is now going into active service. Donations were made by tbe John 

 Schroeder Lumber Company, August C. Beck Company, Slueller & Son 

 Company, Kieckhefer Box Company and National Box Company. 



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