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I Plain & Qtd. Red & White I 



I OAK i 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



= Even Color 



Soft Texture I 



MADE (MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



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i The MOWBRAY I 

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FOR SALE 



HUNTSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY 



S. S. FLETCHER, Trustee, DECATUR, ALA. 

 All machinery and equipment, belts, pulleys, etc.; 7 ft. Clark Band 

 Mill; 6 Boilers; engines, dry kilns; also hardwood flooring plant. 

 AViU sell as a whole or separately. For full list of machinery and 

 prices, apply S. S. Fletcher, Trustee, Decatur, Ala. 



WE MANUFACTURE bandiawed, plain and quarter sawad 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock In the roufh. 

 Y our Inquiries solicit* d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arliiigt«ii, Kentucky 



PALMER & PARKER CO. 

 TEAK MAHOGANY ebony 



ENGLISH OAK VMC »|« DC DOMESTIC 



CIRCASSIAN WALUT VENEERS HARDWOODS 



103 Medlord Street, Charlestown Dist. 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straifht 



The traffic situation has become worse Instead of better in the Louis- 

 ville district (luring the past two weeks, due largely to the general short- 

 age of cars In the South, which has resulted in several of the southern 

 lines, liichKllng the Mobile & Ohio, Cotton Belt, Illinois Central and Iron 

 •Mountain placing embargoes against their equipment leaving their lines. 

 Shipments from Louisville are managing to get through in fairly good 

 shape, but through shipments from the southern mills are being handled 

 only with great difliculty. A goml deal of material at tbls time is moved 

 to Louisville, the freight paid here, and handled as a new shipment to 

 the East, thus losing on the reconsignment privilege. However, prices 

 have been so good that in some cases the losses could be absorbed. 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



The Menominee l!ay Slmre Lumber Company, Soperton, Wis., has pre- 

 sented each emiJloye of its saw and planing mills, lumber yard and office 

 with a $50 Liberty bond and $10 in cash as a bonus on 1917 wages. The 

 bonus was paid to those who on January 1 had completed three years ot 

 continuous service, which includes about one-third of the entire working 

 force. 



The McGeoch Estate, West Allis, which is given credit for a large share 

 in the establishment and upbuilding of this big manufacturing suburb 

 of Milwaukee by the erection of residences and workmen's dwellings, has 

 undertaken the construction of fifty new homes and may double this num- 

 ber because of the great demand for housing accommodations. The lumber 

 is being furnished by the Tower-Hubbard Lumber Company, West Allis, 

 and the millwork by the Grobben Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee. 

 During the last ten years the McGeoch interests have built more than 

 300 homes in West Allis. 



The Paine Lumber Company, Oshkosh, considered one ot the largest 

 manufacturers of sash and doors in the world, on March 16 distributed the 

 sum of $32,378.46 on a profit-sharing plan among its employes. The pay- 

 ment was made on the basis of 1917 earnings of all employes in service 

 fol- more than one year's time. About 900 of the 1,100 employes shared 

 in the distribution. Following the payment, a campaign was conducted 

 among the workmen to invest their dividends in War Savings .Stamps. 



The Home Builders' Finance Company, Milwaukee, organized with a 

 capital stock of $100,000 by Milwakee woodworking and lumber interests, 

 has perfected its organization by the election of these officers : President, 

 Jesse Cappon ; first vice-president, George F. Eller ; second vice-president, 

 B. F. Hewitt ; secretary, H. R. Graham ; treasurer, W. B. Osborn ; assistant 

 secretary and treasurer, A. J. Obenberger ; directors, Stephen Croft, Henry 

 Droegkamp and Edward Schildknecht. 



The Menominee River Boom Company, Marinette, at its annual meeting 

 re-elected all officers, including Hon. Isaac Stephenson, who died several 

 days later. The 1917 drive practically completed the active operations of 

 the company. In the largest season, which was in 18S9, the company 

 floated 642.137,348 feet of logs down the Menominee. The smallest drive 

 was In 191G, when 15,591.850 feet were brought to the Twin Cities. This 

 was exceeded last year. In 1893 there were twenty-one sawmills on the- 

 rlver, while at present there are but five, and In recent years only three of 

 these received logs by water. 



John T. Tule. the last of the coterie of pioneers who established a vast 

 wagon manufacturing industry in southern Wisconsin, died at his home 

 in Kenosha, Wis,, on March 16, at the age of 87 years. Mr. Yule was 

 actively engaged In wagon manufacture for more than fifty-five years. 



Milwaukee Is to have a large aeroplane manufacturing industry, which 

 will use a large amount of the capacity of local woodworking plants, whose 

 business has suffered considerably from the curtailment of building opera- 

 tions. As the result of the efforts of the millwork bureau of the depart- 

 ment ot manufactures of the Milwaukee County Council of Defense, a 

 movement has been put under way to bring to Milwaukee the Lawson 

 Airplane Corporation of Green Bay, Wis., which needs larger facilities and 

 more capital to handle prospective government contracts. A committee of 

 representative business men of Milwaukee is now engaged In making a 

 canvass with a view to interesting local capital in the Lawson company, 

 the idea being to increase the capital stock from $200,000 to $500,000. 

 The Lawson company is to move its plant to Milwaukee and do the 

 assembling work, while local woodworking factories are to manufacture 

 the materials. At this time It appears that the undertaking will be suc- 

 cessful. 



The Milwaukee County Council of Defense, ■with the eo-operatlon of 

 about 100 representative manufacturers and merchants, is raising a fund 

 of $30,000 with which to establish and maintain a bureau In Washington, 

 D. C, to provide Milwaukee and Wisconsin industries with Information 

 enabling them to make bids for government contracts. The woodworking 

 Industries are especially active In the plan, as they not only have con- 

 siderable unusued capacity available, due to the slackening of new con- 

 struction and peace-time demands, but feel that Milwaukee has been badly 

 neglected In the distribution of war material contracts. It has been 

 discovered that 75 per cent of all war work has gone to seven eastern 

 states, none of which has resources and industrial facilities equalling 

 those of Wisconsin. 



The Wisconsin State Conservation Commission during the past winter 

 logged approximately 100,000 feet of timber in the Peninsular State park 

 In Door county. Wis., under Its plan to take 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 

 feet of timber in the reservation during the ten-year period ending In 1927. 



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