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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1918 



of fine hardwoods, including oalt, cypress and gum and otlicr nicrchautable 

 timbers. Later the lands, which will be valuable as farming lands, are 

 to be cleared and placed in cultivation and sold. This tract is said to 

 lie in one of the richest farming sections of the state. 



The plant at Newport lormerl.v owned and operated by the Fee-Crayton 

 Hardwood Ijumber Company of Uerraott. Ark., has been sold, and the new 

 owner is overhauling the plant preparatory to the manuraiture of wagon 

 stock. 



E. P. Ladd, the well known hardwood lumber manufacturer of Furth. 

 Ark., is now in a hospital in Pine Bluff where he was taken for treatment 

 for bullet shot wounds received by him on March 15. Mr. Ladd inter- 

 fered with a quarrel that was taking place between a negro man and the 

 mill foreman at Mr. Ladd's plant. The negro turned on him and fired 

 two shots from a revolver. One of the shots penetrated Mr. Ladd's arm 

 and the other entered his chest. Reports from Pine Bluff are to tlie effect 

 that the wounds are not regarded as serious. 



The shingle mill of P. A. Byrd at Wrightsville, Ark., was destroyed 

 by fire on the night of March 10. The estimated loss is $3,000.00, with 

 no insurance. The plant is to be rebuilt. 



The Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad has been granted a franchise 

 by the Hot Springs city council, to construct tracks in that city so as to 

 make physical connection w-ith the Rock Island lines entering that city. 

 The move will likely ultimately result in a direct and through line over 

 these lines from Little Rock through Hot Springs to Texas and the West. 

 Some time ago the .Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Company was notified by 

 Directer General McAdoo that it would be retained by the Government 

 if physical connection were made between that line and the Chicago, Rock 

 Island and Pacific lines at Hot Springs. 



Hardwood Ship Supplies 



The Gulf Coast Hardwood Milling Company. Sweeny. Tex., has been 

 organized for the purpose of manufacturing live oak ship knees, launch- 

 ing wedges for ships, and tree nails. The company controls 26,000 acres 

 of tlmborland containing pine, ash, oak. and pecan, and will operate a 

 mill with a capacity of 20,000 feet a "day. The officers of the company 

 are : W. H. Gilmartin, president ; C. F. Browning, vice president ; H. E. 

 Cummings, secretary and treasurer, and P. V. Petty, general manager, the 

 officers constituting the board of directors. 



Mackintosh Becomes Dollar-A-Year Man 



Charles H. Mackintosh, editor of "Logging" and "The Clyde Diamond." 

 journals published l)y the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth. Minn., aifd inter- 

 ested in advertising service work in Duluth, has answered the call for 

 service in Washington as editor of bulletins for the division of four- 

 minute men and the committee on public information. 



Mr. Mackintosh is quite prominent in advertising and literary circles. 

 and those in charge at Washington w'ere directed to him through some of 

 his patriotic editorials in "Logging." 



The division of four-minute men has charge of the worX of the organi- 

 zation of 25,000 jiatriotic speakers. In addition it prepares and distributes 

 bulletins to the army cantonments here and abroad. 



It will bo Mr. Mackintosh's work to prepare, assemble and edit material 

 on which will be based the four-minute addresses for the four-minute men 

 and in addition the preparation of bulletins to more than 45,000,000 school 

 children, the purpose being to stimulate their interest in causes and effects 

 of the war. lie- will also edit bulletins to the cantonments. 



Mr. Mackintosh is for the third time president of the Advertising Club 

 of Duluth ; president of the Direct-Mail Association, and of Mail Adver- 

 tising Department of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. As 

 president of the Direct-Mail Association he is chairman of the War Service 

 committee. 



The ofllciais of the Clyde Iron Works have freely consented to Mr. 

 Mackintosh's acceptance of the call and arrangements will be made to 

 continue the publication of some type of magazine based upon "Logging" 

 and "The Clyde Diamond." He will assume his duties at Washington at 

 the end of March. 



Isaac Stephenson 



The death of Isaac Stephenson, pioneer in the lumber industry of the 

 northwest and former United States senator from Wisconsin, occurred 

 after a week's illness at the family home in Marinette at 1 :35 o'clock 

 Friday morning, March 15. The cause was hardening of the arteries, 

 a condition resulting from the deceased's advanced age, which was nearly 

 eighty-nine years. The veteran lumberman was conscious almost to the 

 last moment. All but one of his children were at his bedside. The report 

 of his demise caused widespread sorrow throughout the state and tele- 

 grams of condolence and sympathy were received from all parts of the 

 state as well as from the northwest and Washington, D. C, where the 

 former senator had hundreds of friends. The funeral, held at Marinette 

 at 2 :30 o'clock Monday afternoon, March 18, was largely attended notable 

 among the mourners in the cortege being Governor Philipp and several 

 of the state officers as well as a delegation from congress. For five 

 minutes all bu.siness and manufacturing plants in the cities of Marinette 

 and Menominee remained idle as a tribute to the twin cities founder and 

 in accordance with a proclamation issued by the mayors of the two 

 municipalities. 



Isaac Stephenson was born in York county near Frederlcton, New 

 Brunswick, June IS, 1829, and lived a life full of stirring experience 

 through the days when all those who lived in Wisconsin were pioneers. 

 He never shirked a hardship nor expected the man who worked for him 

 to do things he did not himself take part in. He was always democratic 

 and lived in the greatest simplicity. He had a reputation for uprightness 

 and honesty which caused the tax assessors, it is said, to accept his in- 

 ventory of property without checking it over. Investigations had always 

 shown Mr. Stephenson had assessed himself at a higher figure than the 

 officials themselves would have done. 



Mr. Stephenson first went to Milwaukee in 1845 but remained only a 

 short time leaving for Janesville, Wis., where he had much misfortune 

 as a wheat farmer. He determined to try his fortunes in the north woods 

 and in 1848 began a two-year experience as a hauling contractor. His 

 winters were spent in the woods and in the summer he was a sailor on the 

 great lakes. Before he was twenty-two years of age he owned a control- 

 ling interest in a large schooner. After several years in the transporta- 

 tion and lumber business, Mr. Stephenson entered politics and in 1866 

 was elected to the Wisconsin assembly. In 1882 he was sent to congress 

 and served three terms in succession. He was first elected to the United 

 States senate by the legislature at the memorable session in 1906, when, 

 after a deadlock of days, he was chosen by a majority of 3 votes. He was 

 reelected in 1909. The election caused the legislature to file a demand 

 with the senate for an investigation and although the expenditure of 

 $107,000 in the campaign was shown Mr. Stephenson was not found to 



CHARLES H. MACKINTOSH, DULUTH, 

 MINN. 



THE LATE ISAAC STEPHENSON. 

 MARINETTE, WIS. 



J. H. TOWNSHEND, MEMPHIS, 

 TENN. 



