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HARDWOOD RECORD 



stock of par value; that a plant was sui 

 fully operated and subsequently closed, depreci- 

 ating his " bing, and 



jing Ins reputation in the sum ol $50, 



visit to Memphis and Corinth, Miss., and other 

 points south, where he went on business in eon- 

 □ with a lumber deal. 



Bristol. 



At a IIoo-Hoo con in Bristol on 



July ". some forty members were initiated into 

 the order. Much interest was taken In the af- 

 fair and lumbermen from all over ibis section, 

 representing the leading concerns in the lumber 

 business, attended thi .ion. A number 



of lumbermen from Johnson City, Knoxvllle, 

 Mountain City, Elizabethton and Abingdon, Va., 

 were initiated into the organization 

 the ceremonies incident to the initiation of the 

 new members a banquet was spread. Hoo 

 was given a great impetus in this section. 



The New River Lumber Company, operating a 

 single band mill at New Elver, Tenn.. will soon 

 begin Hi. construction of a double band mill on 

 the New liver in close proximity to the present 

 mill and railroad faeili 



J. A. Wllkenson is making a number of Im- 

 provements in his plant in South Bristol, chief 

 among which is the installation of a new 150- 

 ini boiler. Mr. Wllkenson has 

 lately made a number of heavy shipments of 

 hardwood I reign markets. He lias also re- 

 cently purchased a boundary of timber at Men 

 dota, Va., and is now busy cutting same in con- 

 junetion with the operation of a number of 

 other mills. 



F. K. Thomas, a young lumber buyer of Bal- 

 timore, Md., was In Bristol on Important busi- 

 ness last Wl 



George I!. l'eters of the Paul W. Pleck Lum- 

 ber Compat irned from a trip to But- 

 ler and other points in Johnson nnd Ca 

 counties, Tennessee, where he has been for 

 eral days superintending the loading of 

 The Fleck Lumber Company is now selling al 

 most the entire output mill of the 



Lnppert Lumber C panj and other conct 



in that locality. Mr. l'eters reports business 

 oi i in i panj s ■ got it 



Lynn Bosklns, a lumberman of this city, has 

 returned fn m n visit to friends and relatives at 

 Kiiowiiie. Tenn 



George E. Boren, attorney for the Bradley 

 Lumber Company, w $50,000 lumber corpo- 

 ration at Elizabethton, Tenn., mowing out of 



the lltigatl the Whiting Lumber Company, 



lias returned from Elizabethton, where hi 

 spent several Mays on important legal business 



in com lion with the launching of the new 



lumber corporation. Mr. Boren reports that the 

 new concern is starting off nicely. 



Villain Bradley, a young lumberman and en- 



tbusiasl 1 1 i. 1 1 i Elizabethton, Tenn., was 



a visitor in Bristol last week. 



Owen T. .leaks of Cleveland. O., is spin 



in Bristol 



and surrounding territory. 



ilentine I.uppert and George C. Luppert of 

 the Luppert Lumber Company of Butler, Tenn.. 

 were visitors amont local lumbermen this week. 



W. G. McCain and sons, W. 11. and J. D. 

 Mei ail ii county, Tennessee, 



constituting the tirni ol W. '■ McCain & Sons, 

 were in Bristol on Important business last week. 

 Tbey report business in tbeir section as good, 

 with better pros) 



The marriage of Eugene Galyon, president of 

 the Knoxvllle Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 of Knoxvllle, Tenn to Miss Mayne Davis, 

 a popular young lady of this section, which 

 red at the home of the bride in Knoxvllle, 

 June 2S. was largely attended by friends of the 

 "inlnent social event of this 

 section. Mr. Galyon Is well known as an un- 

 usually bright lumberman and has made a re- 

 markable success In the business as a young 

 man. They will make Knoxvllle their future 

 home. 



iles J. Uarkrader has returned from a 



Chattanooga. 

 The river mil!-, including the Mel. can Lum- 



impany, the i nis & Hart Manufacturing 



ipany, the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, 

 1'. W. Blair ami Snodgrass & Fields, have a 

 large supply of h gs on band as a result of the 

 recenl tides. Most of the mills have enough to 

 run them until the first of December ami others 

 will run the year round. The quality of tin- 

 logs which are beinj down the river 

 now is not what il once was, and timber iu this 



idgrass ,v. Fields have installed a 

 new band sawmill the sto,k of hardwoods has 



been increased to ;:. ,000 feet. This concern 



now has ahoui :.. n the 



river. 



Chattanooga Burial i I my. which 



was organ! zed ago by the 



■ entral Manufacturing Company, 

 has abandoned business ami the machinery of 

 been moved to the new plant 

 of the Alabama Coffin .\ I ( ompany iu 



North Birmingham. H ' Smith, who was tnan- 

 al plant, is also manager of the 

 Birmingham plain. 



S. n Card, formerly vice president of the 

 .i \i Card Lumber Company, has resigned his 

 position ami is establishing a bush of his 

 own at Tuscaloosa, Ala. He will deal In bard- 

 woods, as doe, the local i ol Ml 



plant of the Brownlee Lumbei 



was recently damage,] |, v fire to the extent of 



$800. I a the 



telephone and 



telegraph purposes and i- operating two saw 



mills at Summit, Tenn. 'The company has a 



planl .n Meridian, Mi-- . and in other sec- 



intry. 



.1. II. Seyn ■, formerly c tected with the 



W. B. Seymoui 



burg, Mi--,, was in the city recently. 



I i. i' ■ Igi "i , [,,. Partridge Lumbei i 



pany ol I England, ri ently purchased 



i in this city. 

 S. A, Williams of the Voris Williams Lumber 



Company ha- retur 1 from a trip to sulphur 



.Springs. Ala. 



II .1. i owan, manager of the firm of Schultz 

 Bros. ,v Bei go, w as hei i 



J. \v. Brownlee "i the Brownlee Lumber I 



pany is iu Meridian. Miss., on business con- 

 i with the plant at that p 

 W. 1*. McBroom, manager of the Lookout 

 Ing Mills, ha.- returned from a nip to Nash- 

 ville. 



I. i wis ideal, and the athletic events 



were entered into witli much enthusiasm. 



no ball game, however, so that the 



contest i" twei n the Hardwoods and the Pines 



will remain unsettled until next year. 



St. Louis. 



The Chai ilardwood Lum- 



Company has been having a falrlj brisk 



In I trdwoods generally, notwlth- 



ding the midsummer dullness. Their mills 



are all running In good shape, and they are 



w n pli ised with the volume of business for 



this season of the year. 



iness with the Garetson-Greason Lum- 

 ber company continues quite brisk, and their 

 al plants in this state are busily occupied 

 with orders. They are making a specialty of 

 gum squares, white oak piling and oak bridge 

 plank. 

 Recent visitors to this market included O. 



1'. Hind. Cairo. III.: I. I I'.ride, stave 



manufacturer. Cape Girardeau, Mo., and 

 i t ridge of \V. B. A; (J. l'artridge, 

 London, England. 



The Milne dumber Company has moved 

 from the Security building to more commo- 

 dious quarters in the Fullerton building. 



The annual picnic of St. Louis lumbermen 

 was held under the auspices of the Lumber 

 Exchange, Thursday, June 22, at Cottage 

 Grove, twenty-two miles north of this city. 



Nashville. 



The son for $175. brought in the name 



!m it. Ransom ,v Co. by thirty-three insur- 

 ance i manies agalnsl the Nashville, Chatta- 

 nooga ,V St. I. ..in- Kailway was decided by the 

 jury in favor of the railroad company after only 

 fifteen minutes' deliberation. This .suit grew 

 out of the burning of the lumber yards of 

 Ransom ,\ Co several months ago. John B. 



Kan- A io lust, in addition to the lumber 



Insured, about $25, worth that was not in- 

 sured, ii iiad been sold luit not delivered and 

 was hence not covered by the policies. Imine- 

 ... ut with Mr. Hansom 

 the Insurance companies sued the railroad com- 

 pany, claiming that the lire bad been caused 

 by a spark from a passing locomotive and al- 

 leging carelessness en the part of the railroad 

 company in tins regard. Evidence was intro- 

 Iroad i ompany showing that it 

 is impossible for the lumber to catch lire from 

 a flying spark. Ii was proven that sparks from 

 bituminous coal different from those from 



w 1 ami iu addition every locomotive is 



ped wiiii apparatus which arrests sparks 

 that might set lire to even dry grass often 

 found railroad tracks in dry weather. 



M. I Green of the Davidson Benedict Lumber 

 Company will leave on July 17 for the Portland, 

 me. exposition, accompanied by his family. 



John \\ Love, B' • d ,\ Co. and his 



on .luly 20 lor their summer 

 home in Noi i Si 



John R. Tiithill of the Tu thill I'attlson Saw- 

 mill & 1 1 Florence, Ala., has 



purchase,! ■ .,. | i in ,.| I harloslou, a 



comparatively new craft, and will use It for 

 towing rafts on the fennessee river and from 

 the waters of Elk liver. 



John Hoover, an employee of a mill belong- 

 ing to the Davidson Benedict Company at Mon- 

 was probablj fatally injured there re- 

 cently, lb was assisting In unloading some 

 fell and rolled over him. 



J. \. Blown, a l.i r and dealer of 

 i. Tenn,, ha- assigned his sto.k to Attor- 

 ney .1. B \v lward His debts are $1,200 and 



assets noi, ii. the same. Mr, Brown recently 

 moved from Mnrii i - hoi ,, to Pulaski. 



The Volunteer Carriage Company of Nash- 

 ville tnlzation by the election 

 of the following officers: W. P.. Metzger, presi- 

 dent ; J. D. Blauton, vice president ; \V. M. 

 Hunt, secretary; Eugene Smith, general mana- 

 ger and treasurer. Mr. Smith has been In busl- 

 ness here for years. 



There has been great activity on the Cumber- 

 laud liver lately. The steamer Cowling has 

 brought In one of the largest loads of lumber 

 ever bl n the river, 300,000 feet. The 



Red River brought In ITJ.OOO feet and the 

 Scovil 1 15,000 feet. 



The Bauer Cooperage Company has bought 

 from the Southern Creosote Company in this 

 city a tract of land on the Tennessee Central 

 belt line near this city and will at once estab- 

 lish a big cooperage plant there. The consider- 

 ation was $6,600, The Bauer Cooperage Com- 

 pany has a plant in I.awrcnceburg, Ind., and 

 will continue to operate it, but expects to make 

 Nashville headquarters. 



A new hoop factory Is to be established at 

 Gleason by I. G. Travatham. The building has 

 already been commenced. 



George II. Nolen, a merchant and timber 

 dealer of Palmyra, Tenn., has assigned. The 

 liabilities are about $3,000. The Ayer & Lord 

 Tie Company Is the largest creditor with a 

 claim of about $1,000. The assets consist of a 

 store house, merchandise, sawmill, grist mill, 

 lumber and lumber lights. 



