Juue 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



pROM such soft, 

 yellow poplar 

 logs, we are making 

 the best poplar 

 crossbanding that it 

 is possible to pro- 

 duce. There is noth- 

 ing else as good. 



Itnporters and Manufacturers 



Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced 



Quartered INDIANA White Oak, Red Oak, 

 Figured Red Gum, American Walnut, Etc. 



Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross 

 Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels 



The Evansville Veneer Co. 



Evansville, Indiana 



Nelson A. Gladding, vice-president of E. C. Atkins & Co.. has been 

 appointed to one of the permanent committees of the Pan-American con- 

 ferences which will seek to promote trade with South America. 



Charles H. Barnab.v, hardwood manufacturer of Greencastle, has orders 

 for several hundred thousand feet of gunstock flitches for European coun- 

 tries and is shipping at the rate of about 50,000 feet a week. He is 

 receiving walnut logs from all over Indiana for the work. 



>< EVANSVILLE >■ 



Mertice E. Ta.vlor of Maley & Wertz, and secretary of the Evansville 

 Lumbermen's Club, says he will devote his spare time during the summer 

 months to getting new members for the club. He has his eye on several 

 prospective members and hopes to be able to land them before the next 

 regular meeting, the second Tuesday night in September. 



The following have been elected directors of the Evansville Ways Com- 

 pany, which concern was incorporated here a few days ago, mention 

 of which was made in the last issue of Hardwood Record : John C. Greer, 

 • 'harles F. Kley, Charles .4. Fuhrer and Thomas Williams. Mr. Greer 

 is at the head of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company here. The new com- 

 pany will manufacture steamboats and barges, and marine ways will be 

 ■established at once on the Ohio river here. 



During the past two weeks the Evansville Edge Tool Works have 

 received several orders for hatchets and other tools from Johannesburg. 

 South Africa. Ftank Lohoff, the manager of the local company, says 

 that formerly a great portion of the South African trade went to Ger- 

 many but he now hopes to see the American manufacturers keep the 

 trade. Recently Maley & Wertz sent a large shipment of hardwood 

 lumber to South Africa. 



Stock to the amount of $13,000 has been subscribed to a company 

 that is arranging to build a new desk factory at Jasper, Ind. The com- 

 pany will sell about $40,000 of stock and it is being taken up rapidly. 

 .Jasper is one of the live manufacturing cities of this section and there 

 are several desk, furniture and chair factories there which have been 

 running on fairly good time during the past few months. 



Local contractors are preparing estimates for the flve-story factory 

 building for the Southwestern Furniture Company at Tell City, Ind. 

 The new building will be of brick and concrete and work will commence 

 in a short time. 



Charles W. Talge. pre-sident of the Evansville Veneer Company, with 

 his wife, is enjoying himself up on the lakes in Wisconsin. He has 

 written to George O. Worland, the secretary and treasurer of the com- 

 pany, to the effect that he expects to do a great deal of iishing during 

 the summer months, and this fall he and Mrs. Talge will go to Indianap- 



olis to reside, although he will retain his connection with the Evans- 

 ville Veneer Co. Mr. Talge was one of the pioneer veneer manufacturers 

 of this city and it was largely through his management that the Evans- 

 ville Veneer Company has been built up to its present commanding posi- 

 tion in the business world. He actively managed the company until 

 several months ago when the business was turned over to Mr. Worland, 

 who has been with the company for a number of years and he thoroughly 

 understands the veneer business. Since he assumed the management he 

 has taken over the output of several large veneer mills, because of the 

 increase in business. 



George H. Foote, manager of the Maley & Wertz saw mill at Vin- 

 cennes, Ind., who attended the recent National hardwood meeting in 

 Chicago, reports he had one of the most enjoyable times of his life. 



Thursday, June 17, was a big day in Evansville, the occasion being 

 the dedication of Bosse Field, formerly Garvin's Park, which is said to 

 be the first municipally-owned baseball park in the world. The new field 

 was named in honor of Mayor Benjamin Bosse, who was the first to 

 suggest the idea. Mayor Bosse is president of the Globe-Bosse- World Fur- 

 niture Company and is associated with many more leading industries 

 of the city. 



Wheat harvest has been on in southern Indiana and southern Illinois 

 for several days and from present indications the yield will be from 

 sixty to seventy per cent normal. When the new wheat comes, in the 

 slack barrel cooperage manufacturers of this section expect to run their 

 plants on better time. Many thousand flour barrels will be turned out 

 by the local plants during the next few months. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company reports that the com- 

 pany's stave mills in Tennessee and Mississippi are now operated on full 

 time and that the business outlook is better than it had been for some 

 time. Mr. Greer states that May proved quite an active month for his 

 company. 



William Schmuhl of the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company 

 with headquarters in this city, has returned from a business trip and re- 

 ports trade coming along fairly well. 



Frank Laughlin. president of the Wolflin-Luhring Lumber Company, 

 has returned from French Lick, Ind. 



W. E. Blount of the Blount Plow Company, who is chairman of a com- 

 mittee recently appointed b.y the Evansville Business Association to 

 select a foreign trade committee, will act as chairman of the committee. 

 He has selected a committee of prominent business men and manufac- 

 turers of Evan.sville for the work. The duties of the committee will be 

 to work out plans for getting Evansville manufactured products into 

 the South American markets and to put the city in close touch with large 

 eastern exporting companies. 



