(iitoliir :;,">, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



(if William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company of 

 this lity. and Mrs. Lillian de Lipkau of Chicago, the marriage to take 

 place in January. Mr. McCurdy is well and favorably known to the lum- 

 bermen of the middle western states. 



The Princeton Home Building Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, 

 has just been organized at Princeton, Ind., near here, and will tile articles 

 of incorporation with the secretary of state within a short time. The 

 company will build homes for people at Princeton and sell them on the easy 

 payment plan. The officers are: M. P. Hollingsworth, president; Thomas 

 H. Riggs, vice-president ; E. J. Baldwin, secretary, and Herman Oraper, 

 treasurer. 



William Partington, traffic manager for Maley & Wertz and .secretary 

 and treasurer of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, had his right hand 

 caught under a derrick in the yards of Maley & Wertz a few days ago and 

 the tips of two of his fingers mashed off. He is now carrying his hand in 

 a sling. 



The plant of the Grayville Mill & Lumber Company at Grayville, 111., a 

 few miles west of here, is now being operated on steady time and the 

 company has increased the number of their employes. The mill ha.s a 

 large supply of logs on hand, and it is expected the plant will be able 

 to operate on full time for several months to come. 



The marriage of Miss Leone Aliene Clark, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Clark of Winchester, Ind.. and Edwin Lawrence, who is engaged in the 

 lumber business at Adair, Okla., took place a few days ago at Winchester. 

 They will reside at Adair. 



Ueorge O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, is 

 back from a business trip through the southern states. He reports trade 

 coming along all right. The company's plant here and the one at Mobile, 

 Ala., are being operated steadily. 



A Home Savings Club for Evansville people has been suggested by Clar- 

 ence P. Hammerstein, secretary of the .Allied Building Contractors' .Asso- 

 ciation. The plan is to have people who have ambitions to own a home 

 start a savings club, similar to the Christmas savings clubs that have 

 been conducted so successfully by several of the local banks during the 

 past few years. 



LOUISVILLE 



3. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, has recently secured the membership of the 

 Columbus Handle & Tool Co of Columbus. Ind.. after a trip to that place. 

 The Louisville Hardwood Club has been meeting regularl.v but with 

 nothing of special importance ccjming up at the weekly meetings. The 

 annual meeting will be held on election night, Nov. 2, either at the Seel- 

 bach Hotel or Pendennis Club. 



Lug supplies are generally reported good at this time, all of the mills in 

 this section having good log piles, and prospects of running through to 

 February or later, although it is claimed that log cutting has been light 

 this summer, and prospects for later supply are not so good. The Wood- 

 Mosaic Company, R. H. Humphrey Company and Louisville Point Lumber 

 Compan.v, as well as Louisville Veneer Mills are well supplied. The North 

 Vernon Lumber Mills reports a fine log stock at Its mills at Dyersburg, 

 Tenn.. and also at North Vernon. The I. B. Wilcox Lumber Co., Louisville, 

 reports a fine log supply at Burdette. Miss., mills. The Edward L. Davis 

 Lumber Company reports good supplies at Its two Alabama mills. Logs to 

 run to February are generally reported. 



The remains of Clarence R. Mengel, Jr., sales manager of the mahogan.v 

 department of the Mengel Company, Louisville, arrived In Louisville on 

 Oct. 18, and a private funeral was held on Tuesday. Mr. Mengel recently 

 died at Grand Bassam. West Coast of Africa, at company operations which 

 he was visiting. The body was brought back to this country on a Mengel 

 steamer, accompanied by R. H. Allen, branch manager at Grand Bassam. 

 Mr. Mengel Is survived by his wife, a son, parents and three brothers. 



Joseph C. Tussell, 84 .years of age, former prominent lumberman, 

 retii'ed, died on October IS, at his home in Louisville. He was a member 

 of the old house of the Behren-RussoU Lumber Company and also of the 

 R. B. Cotter Lumber Company. He was a native of Indiana. He is sur- 

 vived by a son, Samuel W. Russell ; two brothers, Charles W. Russell and 

 John S. Russell, the latter of Kansa.s City. Mo. ; a sister and a daughter. 

 The Kentucky Cabinet Company, Louisville, to manufacture general 

 lines of musical cabinets, including piano cases and talking machine 

 cabinets, music cabinets, etc., has been Incorporated with a capital of 

 $10,000, by Philip Sengel, president ; George Sengel, secretary-treasurer ; 

 Harry B. Towles, Adam W. Wright and V. T. McGee. The same interests 

 operate the firm of Phil Sengel & Son, operating the Gambrlnus Cooperage 

 Company. The cabinet company will occupy a portion of the cooperage 

 company plant. Some new machinery will be needed. 



James E. Dearborn, operating a small sawmill at Little Rock. Ky., near 

 Paris, Ky., was killed in his mill on October 14, while sawing out tobacco 

 sticks, when a piece of flying timber struck him in the head. He died 

 later at a hospital in Paris. Ky.. of a fractured skull. .\ wife and three 

 children survive. 



Walter W. Knott, 43 years of age, prominent retailer and wholesaler of 

 Lebanon, Ky., died at the Watterson Hotel on Saturday night, October 16, 

 the body being found in bed the next day. Death was due to heart failure. 

 Mr. Knott is of a very prominent family of bankers, and nephew of the late 

 Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky. 



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