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meeting at the Hotel Pfistcr recently and re-elected the following officers 

 for the ensuing year : President, A. J. Lludemann ; vice-presidents, ICoIand 

 D. Roehr, E. A. Piepenbrink, A. E. Martin, John W. Suetterle and George 

 F. Wltte ; secretary, Roland B. Koehr ; treasurer, Louis Hoffman ; general 

 counsel, Julius Roehr; directors — Henry Hnrnischfeger, A. E. Martin, 

 Julius Roehr, Robert T. Ilazelwood and Paul K. Mueller. The company 

 now has more than TOO policyholders. 



The Andrews sawmill at Hirnaniwood, Wis., recently closed a contract 

 with Charles Fish of the Fish Lumber Company of Elcho, Wis., for sawing 

 7,000,000 feet of lumber. The plant started work on the contract on 

 April 5. The logs to ho sawed at Birnamwood are being shipped from 

 Kopenick and Kempster. The Ilsh Lumber Company is said to have put 

 in about L'U',000,000 feet of logs during the past winter. 



The sawmill of Philip Menzer at Marathon, Wis., was destroyed by fire 

 recently, entailing a loss of more than $15,000. No insurance was car- 

 ried. The tire started from the engine room. It is not known at this 

 writing as to whether or not the plant will be rebuUt. 



The Green Bay Sectional Roll Company of Green Bay, Wis., manufac- 

 turer of planing mill rolls, has increased its capital stock from .1:25,000 to 

 $50,000. The company plans to enlarge its plant and increase its working 

 force. 



The Holt Lumber Company of Oconto, Wis., has placed its sawmill on 

 a day and night shift. The company's planing mill has also been placed 

 In operation. The Oconto company has also placed its plant in operation. 

 It is expected that both mills will saw about 60,000,000 feet of lumber 

 this season. 



The Westboro Lumber Company of Westboro, Wis., has placed its saw- 

 mill In operation and has put 100 men at work. 



The N. S. Washburn Lumber Company of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has 

 placed its planing mill and sawmill in operation, both plants having been 

 thoroughly overhauled and equipped with considerable new equipment. 

 New safety devices have been installed throughout. The company's dry- 

 kiln has been enlarged. 



The Schram Manufacturing Company, formerly the A. W. Schram & 

 Sons Company of Oshkosh, Wis., manufacturer of chairs and a general 

 line of furniture, has decided to move its plant to Ladysmlth, Wis., where 

 it will be nearer to a supply of timber, where tlu_' labor sui)ply will be 

 adequate and where it will have more room to expand. Citizens of Lady- 

 smith have offered the company a site and will invest capital in the con- 

 cern. Work on the erection of a new plant will start at once. The 

 concern has a capital stock of $100,000. 



The Albrecht Manufacturing Company of Kewaunee, Wis., is erecting a 

 new lumber warehouse near its mill and woodworking plant. The building 

 will be 50x100 feet in dimensions. 



Blum Brothers of Marshfleld, Wis., have purchased a site and will erect 

 a new plant for the manufacture of cheese boxes. The main building will 

 be two stories high, G0xl20 feet in dimensions and will be strictly fire- 

 proof. A complete outlay of new equipment will be installed and the 

 plant will have a daily capacity of S.OOO boxes. The company's present 

 plant will be used for warehouse purposes. A new power house will also 

 be erected. It is hoped to have the plant in operation soon after June 1. 



The Page-Kenkel Manufacturing Company, beehive manufacturing con- 

 cern of New London, Wis., recently filed a voluntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy in the Milwaukee federal court, scheduling its liabilities at 

 $17,335.SS and its assets at $34,004.78. 



Milwaukee woodworking concerns arc much interested in the Martin 

 bill now before the state legislature, appropriating $10,000 for a survey 

 of the congested factory districts of Milwaukee, in the effort to discover 

 means for reducing the fire hazard. The proposition is to induce property 

 owners in the business and factory districts to install sprinkler systems. 

 a plan supported by the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of 

 Milwaukee, W. D. Harper, building inspector, and others. Thomas A. 

 Clancy, Milwaukee fire chief, and H. L. Ekern, Wisconsin commissioner 

 of insurance, recently appeared before the state senate committee on cor- 

 porntions in favor of the measure. 



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The local market is still being held up by lack of final action involving 

 the carpenters' strike, which has tied up building construction all over 

 the city. Until this matter is definitely settled it will be pretty difficult to 

 form a definite, or give any reasonable Idea, of the actual condition of 

 business in this city, as the sale of lumber in practically all of its branches 

 is more or less involved in this case. 



Box factories are about the only ones that are actually doing very 

 much, and they continue along on. a fair basis as they have been for some 

 time past. The yards and interior finish, planing mills and other manu 

 facturing products going directly into the construction of buildings, are 

 proceeding cautiously in the absence of definite developments surrounding 

 the strike. With this question definitely settled and out of the way, it will 

 be possible to foretell what can be expected in the next few months. 



It would appear on the surface that with the strike settled favorably. 



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1st and 2nds Chestnut 



No. 1 Common Chestnut 



No. 3 Common Chestnut 



Sound Wormy Chestnut 



Sound Wormy Chestnut 



No. 1 Common and Better Chestnut 



1st and 2nds Poplar 



Clear Saps and Selects Poplar 



No. 1 Common Poplar 



No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak 



No. 1 Common and Better Plain Red Oak 



No. 3 Common Oak 



No. 3 Common Oak 



1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak 



No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak 



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Williams Lumber Co. 



(MANUFACTURERS) 



WHOLESALE 

 HARDWOOD 



LUMBER 



Band Mill Planing Mill Dry Kiln 



Fayetteville, Tenn. 



We manufacture PLAIN and QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, ASH, CHESTNUT and 

 other HARDWOODS 



Our Specialty is Quartered White Oak 



We Manufacture Dimension 

 Stock —Hickory a Specialty 



