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Tlic l-ouK-Itfll Luiiilur i'..piimiii.v will \. H- li'fnl olUies from llif 



State Life bulldlDS to lOOS Morcliiiiits litilUlliii:. 



.\ eontrnct for the Interior linrdwooU trim for the new poBtonice build- 

 Ids at TUnn, O., has been received by the W. K. Johnnon Lumber Coni- 

 pauy of this city. 



A lumber yard lias rocontly been established by The Comer A Smirce 

 Company at Mars lllll. a nrw Industrial suburb west of the city. 



The Talge MnhoKany Company lind several tlniits In the parade during 

 the convention of tin Travelers' I'rotectlvr Assoelatlon hold here u few 

 days aBo. The parade represented products sold by the travelers. 



ilnrdwood floor concerns have elTected a settlement with siune of their 

 employes who went on strike recently. The men have all returned to work. 



Howard Maxwell has been appointed administrator of fho estate of 

 John Lusk, who died at Uloomlnpdale reeeiilly. Mr. l.usk owned s.>nii- 

 of the Inrccst hardwood tracts In southern Indiana. Ills estate is valued 

 at more than $100,000. 



The plant of the Ranln & Bender Itefrlgerator Company at Mgouler 

 suffered a loss of about $40,000 by fire on May 10. The loss was partially 

 Insured and the plant will be rebuilt. 



With an authorized capitalization of $100,000. the Arkomlss Lumber 

 Company has been organized and Incorporated here to conduct a general 

 lumber business. Those Interested In the concern are n. A. Bingham, 

 L. G. Sears and J. H. Unkrlch. 



The National Flooring Company has received several large eontrnets 

 at Hamilton, O.. which were closed recently by Raymond B. Stilz, man- 

 ager of the company. 



Harrison W. Godfrey, sixty-eight years old and for thirty years cnga^-ed 

 in the lumber business at Elkhart, and William It. Beaty, seventy-three 

 years old, a pioneer Inmlu rnian of lUiilTtnn. died at their homes May 19. 



=■< EVANSVILLE >= 



V f.H ila.\s as;.! :i lar^e tract of timb. r land of the Folk estate In War- 

 rick county, Indiana, a f.-w miles east of this city, was sold at puhlie 

 auction and the timber was purchased by J. V. Stimson, the well-known 

 lumber manufacturer at Huntlngburg, Ind. It Is one of the finest timbered 

 tracts in sontliern Indiana. 



Daniel .\. Wertz. president of the EvansvlUe Lumbermen's Club, says 

 he expects many lumber manufacturers and retail dealers from southern 

 Indiana, southern Illinois and western Kentucky will come here on Tues- 

 day, June 8, to attend the summer outing of the Evansville Luml)erm<n's 

 Club which will be held on the steamer John S. Hopkins on the Ohio river, 

 X large number of Invitations will be sent out to lumbermen and their 



families. 



J. N. Woodbury, who represents John A. Reltz & Sons of this city at 

 I>aGrange, HI., was in Evansville on business a few days ago and was a 

 visitor at the last monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermens Club, 

 Mr. Woodbury is ijulte optimistic about the business outlook in bis sec- 

 tion. He has been associated with John A. Reltz & Sons for a number of 

 years. 



George O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, has 

 gone for a trip through the southern states in the Interest of his firm. 

 Mr. Worland assumed the management of the Evansville Veneer Com- 

 pany several months ago and he reports that the business of the company 

 Is showing a nice increase. He is now taking the output of two more 

 veneer mills and expects to take over the output of another mill In a 

 short time. 



Fred W. Reltz of the Clemens Reltz Sons Company Is a member of the 

 Evansville city council and has been appointed to some of the mo.st 

 Important committees of the city's legislative bodies. Mr. Reltz has 

 been favorably mentioned as the next mayor of Evansville. He is a 

 public-spirited man and would make an ideal mayor of tlie city. 



Henry Ruscbc of the Specialty Furniture Company, John Frisse of the 

 Evansville Furniture Exchange, Harry H. Schu of the Crescent Furniture 

 Company. Oscar Klamer of the Schclosky Table Company, William A. 

 Koch of the Evansville Metal Bed Company, A. F, Karges of the Karges 

 Furniture Company, and Edward M, Ploeger of the Globe-Bosse-World 

 Furniture Company were among those from here who attended the con- 

 vention of the National Furniture Manufacturers' Association at Chicago 

 a few days ago. 



The Sumners-Mlllett Company, lumber jobber, which had Its offlce In 

 the Boehne l>uilding at the corner of Main and Eighth streets, has gone 

 out of business. Mr. Sumners has returned to his former home at Owens- 

 ville, Ind., while Mr. Millett has gone to Mississippi, where it Is understood 

 he will engage in business. 



C. P. Honnlcutt, who until recently was engaged in the lumber business 

 here and who was an active member of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 is now living on his farm near Newport. .Vrk., and has written his friends 

 here that he is "having the time of his life and Is free from all cares of the 

 lumbermen." 



Claude Malcy of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers, has 

 returned from a busines.s trip to Indianapolis, Edinburg and other points 

 In central and northern Indiana. Mr. Maley says be believes the business 

 conditions of those sections are Improving. 



Bert Tlsserand, who recently accepted a position with the Brooks- 

 Scanlon Lumber Company, of Kentwood, La., with headquarters at Indian- 

 apolis, was here on business a few days ago. 



William nulltman. formerly with the Wolfiln Lulirlnic Lumber Company 



»( Ibis cily, now Willi the Natnlbany Lumber Company of Ham id, Im., 



Willi lll'lld<|uarler^ at IndlnnnpoIlK, was a buHlness visitor In KvanMvllIu 

 a few days ago, and reported that trade in Ills sectiiui had looked up n 

 great deal during Ibe lust few weeks. He said .\prll was the be»t month 

 of the year to him ami that prospecls for future business are brlBlit. 



Ileiijaiiiin Bosk.', iimyor of Evansville, president of the Globe Ilosse- 

 World FurnllHp' Cuiipaiiy, and w.-ll known to Ibe hardwood lumber 

 inaiiufacliirers In Ibis secllon, says that many of his friends have advised 

 him against making the race for governor of Indiana next year, but 

 Instead they Insist upon hla niakloB the race for congress in the first 

 Indiana district. .Mayor Itosse has been mentioned as a candidate for 

 governor for the past several months. 



A great deal of materials furnished by the inunufncturcrB of this city 

 are being used on the big railroad bridge Hint is being built across the 

 Ohio river at Melmpolis, 111. The new bridge will cost in the neighbor- 

 hood of $M,000,000 anil will be completed some time this year, A great 

 deal of the luiiibiT used in the bridge was cut In western Kentucky and 

 southern Illinois. 



Evansville is fast becoming one of the greatest markets for railroad ties 

 in the United States. Many of the ties that are cut along Green and 

 Barren rivers in western Kentucky are shipped here to be sent to points 

 all over the United Slates. The Indiana Tie Company of this city Is doing 

 a, nice business now, which Indicates that railroads are getting more active, 



Roliert Gray, maniiger of the Indiana Tie Company, who was recently 

 injured in an automobile accident, is able to be out again and has been 

 warmly greeted by ins many friends. 



Albert Starhuck, owner and manager of the Stnrliuck sawmills at Peters- 

 burg, iDd., was a recent business visitor In Evansville. 



--<, MEMPHIS >• 



The IMill .\. Ryan Lumber I'cjiiipaiiy is rapidly compbllng a new mill at 

 Lufkin, Tex., and has removed its main ofllces from Onalaska to the former 

 point. This is a band mill and when it is completed the firm will have two 

 in operation. The company has also purchased a considerable quantity 

 of timber in the vicinity of Lufkin whicli will keep this new mill supplied 

 for a number of years. Phil A. Ryan Is head of the I'hll .\. Ryan Lumber 

 Company, and before leaving for Texas he was for a number of years 

 identified with the hardwood trade at Memphis. 



The Shepard-J( nkins I. umber Company has been incorporated at Green- 

 ville, Miss., with a capital stock of $15,000. H. A. Hoover, John J. Sbepard 

 and others are the incorporators. 



The Clay Products Company, Fairhope, -Ma., Is planning the establish- 

 ment of a sawmill as well as a box and crate factory at that point. This 

 company is capitalized at $100,000. F. L. Brown is president and G. C. 

 Streeter is secretary. 



The following gentlemen Identified with the lumber and woodworking 

 industries in this territory have been named as chairmen of committees in 

 the Business Men's Club for the ensuing year : Taxation. James .Mexander. 

 president Builders' Exchange ; dental college debt. T, R. Wlnfleld, presi- 

 dent Cole Manufacturing Company ; building trades, P. A. Gates, York 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company; foreign trade. Walker L, Wclford, 

 secretary and general manager Chickasaw Cooperage Company, Then- 

 Is a large number of lumbermen Identified with the Business Men's Club 

 and they have always taken an active Interest In the welfare and advance 

 ment of this organization. • 



Within the past few days the mills of the Singer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Trumann, Ark., and tlie Three States Lumber Company, liurdettc, 

 Ark., ha\e resumed operations. The plant of the Springfield Cooperage 

 Company, also located at Trumann, has lilfewlse started up its machinery. 



The Cahawba River Lumber Company, Brent, Ala., has purchased 0,400 

 acres of land In Bibb and Perry counties. This consists of pine, oak, ash, 

 cypress, hickory, poplar and maple. There is an unusually large quantity 

 of ash on the tract and ample facilities are present for the development of 

 the timber in question. 



=•< BRISTOL >= 



Several lumber mills in this secllon liavc resumed operation witbin the 

 past fortnight. The Black Mountain Lumber Company this week started 

 its band mill at BluU City, South of Bristol, which has been Idle tor 

 several months. 



The Kingsport Lumber Company has completed and put Into operation 

 a second mill near Kingsport, Tenn. The company has Just completed 

 a railroad from its mills to Kingsport, connecting at that point vs-ith 

 the Carolina, Clinehfield and Ohio railroad. 



Congressman Sam K. Sells of Johnson City, Tenn., head of the Sells 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, was here this week. He reports 

 that business is fifty per cent better than It was thirty days ago and 

 a hundred per cent better than It was a few months ago. 



Several new mills have been started in Scott county, Va. The R. C. 

 Dull Lumber Company has nearly finished cutting Its timber at Huflield. 

 In this county, but has purchased a large additional area of hardwood 

 timber and will move its band mill to It about July 1. 



C. F. Hagan has sold several boundaries of timberland along the Vir- 

 ginia and Southwestern and Carolina, Clinehfield and Ohio railroad in 

 Scott County, Va., as trustee for the large estate of his father, Col, 

 Patrick Hagan. 



