May 25, 191o. 



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world. Members of the association also produce more shoes in one day 

 than arc produced by all the leading foreign competitors of the United 

 States in a week. They produce eighty per cent of the automobiles made 

 throughout the world, and gather with machines made In their factories, 

 half of the harvest of the 'world. 



Grand Rapids Club Holds Election Today 



The Grand Kapids Lumbermen's Association has announced two tickets 

 for the annual election to be held today. May 25, at Grand Rapids. The 

 ballots have been in the hands of members for the past couple of weeks 

 and are returnable on the evening of the annual meeting. 



.'\t the head of each ticket is the committee responsible for the same 

 and judging from indications, there will be quite little excitement in 

 the campaigning for the different otBcers. 



.\mple plans have been made for a profitable and pleasant meeting. 



The committee composed of Earl Grossman, F. L. Fassett and J. W. 

 Warner submits the ticket known as "the hustlers." On this .\rthur M. 

 Manning is recommended for president ; Robert K. Jardine, first vice- 

 president; Walter C. Winchester, second vice-president; .\driau Van 

 Keulen, secretary, and Glenn Fitzgilibons, treasurer. 



The committee composed of F. I. Nichols, David Wolf and .\. L. Dennis 

 recommends the ticket entitled "the boosters," showing N'. .T. G. Van 

 Keulen, president: G. W. Perkins, first vice-president; K. K. Dennis, 

 second vice-president ; A. M. Manning, secretary, and David Boland, 

 treasurer. 



Cedar Men Plan Meeting 



The Xorthwcsteru White Cedar Associallon has accepted the invitation 

 extended by Baudette and Spooner, Miun., to hold the annual meeting 

 at Baudette. A special train will leave Minneapolis and it is expected 

 there will be at least one hundred aboard. 



The meeting will take place on .Tune 26 and 27. President T. M. 

 I'artridiii' tif Minni/apfilis will preside. 



Arkansas Association Plans Convention 



The Arkansas Association of Lumber Dealers has given out details of 

 its eleventh annual convention to be held at Little Rock, on Friday and 

 Saturday, May 28 and 29. J. D. Weber is secretary of the organiza- 

 tion. The convention will be held at the Hotel Marion. 



The following is a summary of the probable program : 



Friday 



Following informal opening with addresses of welcome, responses, etc., 

 President G. E. Hopkins of Cotter will deliver his annual address. This 

 will be followed by the reports of the secretary and the treasurer. 



Carl J. Baer, secretary of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, will 

 deliver an address on "Profitable Farming and a Closer Relation of 

 Retail Lumbermen to the Farm." 



Following the luncheon the afternoon session will be opened with an 

 address by O. O. Axley of the Southern Lumber Company, Warren, Ark., 

 on "Co-operation and the Campaign Against Wood Substitutes." J. R. 

 Morehead will talk on the subject of "What the Association Stands For." 

 Other addresses will be "Sound Facts about Hoo-Hoo" by George II. 

 Grayson, and "The Awakening of the Lumberman" by L. F. Ross. 



There will be a theater party in the evening. 

 Saturday 



Saturday's session will include committee reports, election of officers, 

 naming of time and place of next meeting, discussions on treatment of 

 competitor, educating the consumer and improving the retail lumber yard. 



Inspection Report National Association 



The May bulletin of the National Hardwood Lumlier .Vssociatiou just 

 issued shows the total amount of hardwood lumber inspected under the 

 bonded certificates of the association during the month of April to be 

 11,077,467 feet. This total compared with April, 1014, shows a slight 

 diflference. 



The earnings of the inspectors performing this work was slightly in 

 excess of their salaries and expenses. 



Golf Tournament in East 



The program of the Lumber Trade Golf Association's tenth annual tourna- 

 ment issued by that association has been received by Hardwood Record. 

 The tournament will be held at the Woodland Golf Club at Boston, June 

 8 and 9. 



The Woodland Park hotel at Anburndale, Mass., has been selected as the 

 headquarters during the tournament. The annual dinner of the association 

 will be held on Tuesday, June 8, at eight o'clock at the hotel, and will be 

 preceded by the annual meeting at seven o'clock. 



The booklet contains a list of all questions as to prizes, score cards, 

 matches, ties, entrance fee, etc. It also gives detailed information as to 

 how to reach the golf course. 



The officers for 1915 are: Frank Buck, Philadelphia, Pa., president; 

 Frank W. Lawrence, Boston, Mass., vice-president : W. H. Smedley, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., treasurer ; H. A. Reeves, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., secretary. 



Date Set for Evansville Outing 



The date of the annual summer outing of the Evansville Lumbermen's 

 Club has been fixed for Tuesday, June 8. The outing will be held on the 

 steamer John S. Hopkins, one of the finest steamers in the local port. A 

 trip of several miles will be made up the Ohio and Green rivers. The boat 



will leave Evansville at two o'clock and return at eleven at night. A 

 banquet will be served and there will be dancing and refreshments on board 

 the boat. It is expected that over 200 lumbermen, their families and friends 

 will take in the outing. Secretary Mertice says he hopes to make the June 

 affair the greatest (.■\eut in the history of the local ciub. 



With the Trade 



Mississippi Veneer & Lumber Company 



Several years ago tb-? Hardwood Products Company of Xeenah, Wis., 

 established at Cedars, Miss., a sawmill and veneer iilant for the manufac- 

 ture of raw material for use in the Hardwood Products Company's door 

 and interior finish factory at Neenah. Gradually the southern operating 

 business was enlarged and the company found it expedient to dispose of 

 some of its veneers, lumber and panels for the commercial trade. 



The southern operation was formerly operated as the Kimberly-W'ing 

 Company, but recently was incoi-pornted as the ilississippi Veneer & 

 Lumber Company, it still being controlled as heretofore. 



The company owns a large tract of hardwood timber located fifteen miles 

 south of Vicksburg, Miss., on the main line of the Yazoo and Mississippi 

 Valley Railroad. The timber is mostly red and white oak. red gum, w-hite 

 ash. cypress and other .southern hardwoods. The timber supply is sufficient 

 to last a good many years. 



The main factory and mills are located at Cedars, Miss., a few miles 

 north of the timber. The company operates a modern band mill with a 

 ten-hour capacity of 25,000 feet, and a modern veneer mill. It also has a 

 large three-story factory for the manufacture of panels. It maintains a 

 mill town, owning a hotel and a number of dwellings for the use of em- 

 ployes at Cedars. 



In the manufacture of panels the southern plant is supplemented by 

 additional panel plant at Neenah. Wis., where panels and veneers of birch, 

 quartered oak and northern hardwoods are made up. 



The company gets out rotary cut veneers in plain red and white oak. 

 selected red gum, sap and unselected gum, white ash, poplar, cypress and 

 Cottonwood. The panels are made up in red and white oak, unselected and 

 red birch, selected rotary-cut red gum, sap and unselected gum, white ash, 

 poplar, cypress and in fact about all the woods commonly used for this 

 purpose. 



New Company Organizes 



It is announced that the Badger Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 which has purchased the box factory and saw'miU of the Campbell-Cameron 

 Company, Oshkosh, Wis., has perfected its organization. Directors and 

 officers have been elected. H. I. Boynton is president : Richard Salzieder, 

 vice-president, and Paul Steinhilber, secretary-treasurer. 



The company will manufacture boxes, screens for doors and windows, 

 and a general line of millwork. 



Tennessee Company to Erect Buildings 



The Johnson City Lumbi r & .Manufacturing Company. .lobuson City, 

 Tenn., will erect three buildings to contain 30,000 square feet of floor 

 space, boiler house and office building. The company will install a band 

 sawmill, planing mill, woodworking plant, including bending plant, with 

 200 H. P. steam plant. 'It will manufacture lumber, dimension stock, 

 flitches, bent rims for vehicles and round tables, and wooden parts for 

 looms for textile mills. Also other woodworking specialties. 



Accepts Position with West Virginia Company 



W. C. Barlett. wlio has for years occupied the position of sales and 

 office manager of the W. E. Heyser Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., has 

 resigned that position, his resignation becoming effective on May 15. On 

 that day he became sales manager of the American Column & Lumber 

 Company, St. Albans, W. Va. 



Mr. Barlett has established a wide acquaintance in the hardwood 

 manufacturing and consuming trade. He takes with him a world of 

 experience and the best wishes of his unlimited number of friends for his 

 continued success. 



Walter Clark to Erect Plant 



The Walter Clark Veneer Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., has completed 

 plans for the erection of a three-story and basement brick warehouse 

 on the corner of Granville and Prescott streets, south. It is said the 

 purchase price of the property was $7,000. 



The company has been awaiting the decision of the Pere Marquette 

 railroad regarding placing siding alongside the property, and with a 

 final affirmative decision on this question has finished plans. 



The new building will be 111x105 feet and work will be commenced 

 June 1. The structure will cost about $25,000. 



Mr. Clark has been doing business at Grand Rapids for thirteen years. 

 He started business in quarters for which he paid four dollars a month. 

 Mr. Clark's road representatives are Leon Snyder and Ernest Devries. 



Considering Operating Philadelphia Company's Property 



John O. Sheatz, receiver for the International Lumber & Development 

 Company, Drexel building. Philadelphia, left New York on May 13 to 

 inspect the San Pablo ranch of the company, situated at Champeton, state 

 of Campeche, Mexico. With Mr. Sheatz are C. B. Hobart, who has 

 had tea years' experience in Mexico, and who has been made general 



