August 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A. P. Jacobs has sold liis interest in the well-known firm of Baker, 

 Jacobs & Co., hardwood manufacturers. Henderson Baker, senior member, 

 bought the interest of Mr. Jacobs, and will continue the business as in 

 the past. Mr. Jacobs has locate<l at Paris, Tenn., where he will operate 

 a wholesale lumber j'ard. Ue will draw his stock from a number of saw- 

 mills near Paris, and will bu.v both green ami dry lumber. The .vards 

 secure<l are conveniently located on the Louisville & Nashville and Nash- 

 ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis terminals. 



Thos. J. Dye & Son, Kokomo, Ind., has entered suit against the Ryman 

 Line, steamboat operators, to recover several hundred dollars damages 

 for 1,118 cedar logs alleged to have been lost from a shipment handled 

 on Cumberland river. 



K. C. Duff of Duffield, Va.. has purchased timber rights and will have a 

 sawmill built at Kingsport, Tenn., for development of same. A tram 

 road will be constructed for hauling lumber one and one-halt miles. It 

 will be ferried across Holston river. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has filed a complaint with the Tennes- 

 see Kailroad Commission, seeking to compel the railroad to make the 

 same allowances for stakes, standard strips and supports, used in load- 

 ing logs on flat, gondola and coal cars, as they make on lumber loaded 

 on the same kind of equipment. An allowance of 500 pounds per car is 

 allowed in case of lumber, which it is charged is unreasonable, unjust 

 and discriminatory, and the same allowance is pra.ved on logs. 



Charles M. Morford, a prominent hardwood manufacturer, is a candidate 

 for commissioner of lire, street sprinkling and building inspection of 

 Nashville, subject to the municipal primary election to be held Septem- 

 ber 9. 



Timber rights on 22,000 acres of land have been sold by W. R. Allen, 

 receiver for the Dayton (Tenn.) Coal and Iron Company, to E. M. William- 

 son, H. K. Thomas and J. S. Frazier. The purchasers are allowed six 

 years in which to remove the timber. 



M. S. Hastings, a lumber manufacturer of Pine Bluff, Ark., died suil- 

 denly near Dickson, Tenn., while en route to Murfreesboro, Tenn., accom- 

 panied by bis wife and two children. They were making the trip in an 

 automobile. He was sixty-two years old. 



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The Chess & Wymond Company of Louisiana has installed equipmeul 

 at Holly Ridge, La., for the manufacture of rotary cut veneers. It will 

 begin the production of gum and red and white oak veneers immediately. 

 Equipment both for manufacture and drying has been installed. The com- 

 pany is associated with the Chess & Wymond Company of I,ouisville and 

 the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, both of which are operating at Holly 

 Ridge. Sales of veneers will be handled from the Holly Ridge office. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company of Louisville, is preparing to 

 start its sawmill in operation again. It has been down for several months, 

 and during that time the company has been devoting its attention prin- 

 cipally to dimension manufacturing. Mr. Davis is now purchasing logs, 

 and has secured some unusually fine timber for the resumption of opera- 

 tions. 



Ralph Jurden, the popular veneer man, was in Louisville last week and 

 gave the Louisville correspondent of H.\rdwood Record some interesting 

 facts about the operations of Penrod. Jurden & McCowen. of Memphis, of 

 which he is vice-president and secretary. L. H. Kessler, one of the most 

 practical and efficient veneer men In the country, has been added to the 

 organization, and is in charge of the big rotar.v mill of the company at 

 Helena, Ark. He resigned his position as superintendent of the Clarendon, 

 Ark., plant of the Chicago Veneer Company of Danville. Ky., to take his 

 new post. Alex. Lendrum, who has been in charge of the Penrod, Jurden 

 & McCowen null at Helena, is now head of its log and lumber department 

 there, the company having recently begun the manufacture of lumber as 

 well as veneers at Helena, where it has fifteen acres available for its 

 operations. The company's big mill at Brasaeld, Ark., which has been 

 down for several months, has started operations again with K. S. Daugh- 

 erty in charge. 



Fred McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer Works is what is known to 

 the fans as "some golfer." He has been playing regularly at the Audubon 

 Country Club. Victor Lamb of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is also 

 an Audubon golfer, while Mart and Graham Brown of the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons I,uml)er Company, who have recently taken up golf, are rapidly 

 climbing out of the duffers' class. 



Clarence R. Mengel, president of the C. C. Jlengel & Bro. Company, 

 has returned from a trip to New York. J. C. Wicklitle, secretary of the 

 company, is still abroad. Emmet Ford, who is in charge of the dimen- 

 sion lumber department, has been pushing business aggressively, and is 

 doing a lot of educational work that is beginning to have its effect on 

 mahogany buyers. 



Eugene Graham, who is general manager at Holly Ridge, La., for the 

 Chess & Wymond interests, was in Louisville recently, and while here 

 participated in a meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club, held at the 

 Eight-Mile House, on the Shelbyville road. A chicken dinner was the 

 chief feature of the occasion. 



Local hardwood men believe that the recent decision of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission in I. and S. 520, ou the subject of proposed 

 increases in freight rates from the South, was favorable to this city, as 



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