July 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



41 



STANDARD 

 VENEER MACHINERY 



MERRITT MFG. COMPANY 



LOCKPORT, N. Y., U. S. A. 



The rush is especially pronount-fd in tlic nntoniulfilo deinirtment. Large 

 shipmentt! o( farm wagons will Ijo made within tl'.e next sixty days or so, 

 it has heeii announced. 



Victor P. Worland. connected with the Evansville Veneer Company, 

 and who has liad charge of the busincs.s while his t)rother, George P. 

 Worland. the secretary-treasurer and general manager of the company, 

 has been in Chicago and the Northwest on his bridal trip, says business 

 has been fair and the factory has been Ijept busy. "We are not rushed to 

 death," is the way Mr. Worland put it, "but we are doing a nice liusines> 

 and have no room to complain at all.'* 



Jlost of the large hardwood mills in southern Indiana, southern Illinoi- 

 and western Kentucky are still being operated on an average of about 

 eight hours a day. 



It is exiiected that work on the new desk factory at Jasper. ln<l.. will 

 begin in a short time. The company recently organized to liuilil tb. 

 factory has been selling stock and the stock has been liberally bought. 



Charles VonBebren, secretary and treasuri'r of the Vonl'.ehren .\Ianii 

 facturing Company here, makers of spokes and hubs, is making a lri|. 

 to the Pacific coast and will be gone for several weeks. 



William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Ruggy Company, witli 

 members of his family, is spending the heated season on the lakes in 

 Michigan. 



Box factories in Evansville have been operated on fairly gooil tiiUi 

 during the past month and business, while not rushing, has bi'en very 

 good. The largest box factory here is that operated by McFcrson & 

 Foster, a concern that has been in business for many yc^ars and whicb 

 is known in most parts of the I'nited States. 



The large coffin factory here, .-is wi'U as the eoffln factories al Lawrenc- 

 burg, Ind., and Aurora, Ind., have been operated on fairly good tini'- 

 during the past two or three months. 



=-< MEMPHIS >- 



A branch plant of the Kelly Handle Company, one of the largest 

 makers of hickory handles in the country, has been (established at 

 Blytheville, Ark. It is giving employment to about 100 men. JI. li. 

 Grace, the manager, has ctjntracted for enough timber to run the plant 

 for twelve to fifteen .years. This company is turning out about three 

 cars of handles per week at Us new plant. 



The J. H. Hamlin & Sons Stave Company. Little Itoek. has purchased 

 1,000 cars of timber in the northwestern portion of Dallas county frouj 

 Cooke Brothers. A large hardwood mill is being erected near Risen. 

 Ark., for the development of this timber and a number of teams hav. 

 been put to work hauling the timber to the proposed plant. Tile new 

 plant will give employment to a large number of men. 



The stave mill of Byuum & .Vlexauder at Chicot, -Vrk., has resumed 



operations and will be kept running steadily as long as timber can he 



secured. W. E. Rust is in charge. 



=-< NASHVILLE >■= 



There was a hearing recently in the case of the Xasbville Lumber- 

 men's Club against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and other lines. 

 The club seeks to obtain milling-in-transit privileges and reshipment of 

 lumber at Nashville, alleging that the local market is greatly handicapped 

 by not having these privileges that are granted other points. \ large 

 number of witnesses were examined by Examiner Kelly of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, both for complainants and defendants. The lum- 

 bermen were confident of success in their fight. 



Sam K. Cowan has resigned as treasurer of the Nashville Lumbermen's 

 Club, due to the fact that he will be abseut from the city a large part 

 of the summer. Secretary Cecil Ewing will act as treasurer until his 

 successor is named. 



The Tennessee-Alabama Lumber Company has been incorporated by 

 M. M. Ransom, George Trabue, Avery Handley, W. D. Trabue and 

 Charles Trabue, The authorized capital stock is $5,000. and the com- 

 pany is organized to buy timberland. manufacture and deal in lumber. 

 The headquarters will be in Nashville. 





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