September 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



45 



Rogers Company's plant, which has been running pretty well all the time 

 during the past year, is continuing on a full schedule. The new handle 

 factory, owned and operated by Hale & Darr, also bouan running about 

 two weelfs ago. The combined pay rolls of these companies have been of 

 great aid toward making the brisk cash business for the Paragould 

 merchants. 



Bott Brothers have recently bought a site south of the city of Marianna 

 and are now installing the ■machinery for a stave mill. When in operation 

 the new mill will employ about seventy -five men. 



The plant of the Searcy Spoke & Felloe Company of Searcy, Ark., was 

 destroyed by flre on the night of September 11. The local officers are 

 investigating the origin of the flre. which is by them believed to be of an 

 incendiary nature. It is said that S. II. Wright, the owner, recently 

 received a large order for walnut lumber to be used in manufacturing 

 gunstocks for the allied armies of Kuropc. .\ large supply of the material 

 had been made ready for shipment and was to .have been forwarded on 

 the day following the flre, but was destroyed. The officers are convinced 

 that the circumstances surrounding the fire are such as to justify a con- 

 clusion that the plant was set on flre. A German who left the vicinity 

 under somewhat mysterious circumstances immediately after the flre is 

 suspected. His name is not revealed and the officers have been unable 

 to locate him since the flre. 



Mr. Wright placed the amount of loss sustained at $7,500, which was 

 only partially covered by insurance. The main plant was 140 by 40 

 feet and contained a large quantity of machinery, some vehicle spokes and 

 felloes which were destroyed, in addition to the walnut gunstock timber. 



Two suits have recently been filed in tlie Pulaski circuit court against 

 the II. D. Williams Cooperage Company. The suits have arisen over the 

 non-payment of two notes held by St. Louis and New York bankers, 

 which aggregate, according to the complaint, ?246,0n4.55. One suit is for 

 the collection of a note for .$168,500, executed to the Mississippi Valley 

 Trust Company of St. Louis, Mo., on .\prii 1, 1914. The other suit is for 

 the collecting of two notes and interest in favor of the National City 

 bank of New York, as follows : One note for $25,000, executed April 't, 

 1912, and the other for $50,000. executed April S. 1912, with interest from 

 date, amounting to $.'{,494.55. 



Tlie H. D. Williams Coopera.ge Company was organized under the laws 

 of the State of Missouri, but until about three months ago operated a 

 plant at Leslie, Ark. It is now in the hands of a receiver. The plant at 

 Leslie has been said to be the largest plant of the kind in the world. 



The oflicials of the Ozark National Forest of this state have recently 

 confirmed the sale of 4,000.000 feet of white oak timber to the Chess & 

 Wymond Company, which operates stave mills at Mountain View, A:k., 

 and other places. The timber lies in the Panther Skin creek country of 

 Stone county, Arkansas, and will he worked into staves. .\ mill has 

 also been erected on adjoining property by the company. 



=■< MILWAUKEE >= 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee has completed 

 plans for the erection of a two-story factory building on Fourth street. 

 50x60 feet in dimensions, to be occupied by the Milwaukee Die Casting 

 Company. 



O. T. Swan, Oshkosh, Wis., secretary of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, submitted to an operation for 

 appi'udicltis at the Lakeside hospital in Oshkosh on September 9 and 

 was unable to attend the meeting of the association, held in Milwaukee 

 on September 17. 



The Green Bay Show Case Works of Green Bay, Wis., against which 

 an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the Milwaukee federal 

 court some time ago, filed its schedules on September 14. Liabilities were 

 placed at $26,699.88 and assets at $12,530.41. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company has closed its sawmill at Wash- 

 burn, Wis., for a period of about a month. L. K. Baker, president of the 

 company, says that the company's mill at Odanah, Wis., will probably 

 close on October 1 and remain closed until about the first of the year. 

 The Odanah mill has been operating on both a day and night shift. 



Milwaukee wholesale lumbermen are much interested in the action of 

 l-'rank Barry, secretary of the traffic bureau of the Merchants and Manu- 

 facturers' Association, in urging shippers in all lines of industry to rush 

 the work of unloading and loading cars which they may have for service 

 and to tax the capacity of every car loaded. Because of the demands of 

 the grain interests, shippers of lumber and other commodities are having 

 a hard time getting cars. 



Work has started on the construction of a new logging railroad for 

 the Brooks & Ross Lumber Company of Wausau, Wis. The line will run 

 from the Chicago & Northwestern railway, three miles east of Bowler, in 

 a northwesterly direction toward Bartelme. 



The Wolf River Lumber Company lost about 1.. 300.000 feet of lumber 

 in a recent flre at a railroad siding near Monico, Wis, A considerable 

 (iuantity of puip^ood was also destroyed. The loss was partly covered 

 by insurance. 



The Ilofstedt Saw & Machine Company, recently organized at Neenah, 

 Wis., has opened its plant on River street and is turning nut a general 

 line of saws for sawmill and other use. 



The Falls Manufacturing Company, paper manufacturing concern of 

 Oconto Falls. Wis., has completed the erection and equipment of one of 

 rbe most modern wood rooms in Wisconsin. The building is of fireproof 



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