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November 10, 1920 



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MEMPHIS, TENN. CHICAGO. ILL. NEW ORLEANS, UA. 



Lumber Company of Bargersville, Ind., had been sold to the Graham 

 Manufacturing Company of Franklin, Ind.. the consideration being about 

 $20,000. The plant is now being operated Ijy the new owners. 



.\nnouncement was made a few days ago of the death of Charles E. 

 Cooper, 94 years old, a retired lumberman, at his home at Plymouth, Ind. 

 Death was due to the infirmities of old age. Mr. Cooper had been retired 

 for a number of years. lie made a fortune in the lumber business fifty 

 years ago. 



A new power plant ha.s been built by the Monitor Furniture Company 

 of this city that furnished power to the entire factory. The Monitor 

 Furniture ('«)nii)an\- started in business about a year ago and the plant 

 now is being operated on full time. 



Kric U. Lane, assistant manager of the Pullman Company at Chicago 

 and well known among lumbermen, and Miss Zola Lowe of this city were 

 united in marriage in this city several days ago and after an extensive 

 bridal tour will reside in Chicago. 



During the fall months the camp of tie workers along Green and Barren 

 rivers in western Kentucky have been quite active and a good many ties 

 nave been sent here in barges to be shipped ou-t by rail. .\ good many ties 

 are also being gotten out along the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers. 

 The demand for ties is good at this time and the opinion is expressed that 

 the railroads will carry on a big campaign of improvements during the 

 coming year. 



Gus Baumun of Maley & Wertz has returned from a business trip to 

 Memphis and other southern cities. lie reports trade a little sluggish at 

 this time. 



MEMPHIS 



Wallace R. Ueid is now secretary-treasurer and general manager of the 

 Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company, having been recently elected to 

 that position as successor to C. M'hitman, who has become identified with 

 the sales department of the E. I.. Bruce Company. Memphis and Little 

 Rock. Mr. Reid came to Memphis in 1917. when the Empire Floor & 

 Lumber Corporation, with which he was connected, established its plant 

 in this city. It was burned some months ago and this accounts for the 

 fact that Mr. Reid could accept his new position. He brings to it a wide 

 experience in the flooring and lumber business. Incidentally, he announces 

 that the company is enlarging its plant fully 20 per cent through the 

 installation of a new flooring machine and the building of larger dry kilns 

 at a cost of approximately $75,000, and that the company is planning 

 an active selling campaign to take care of its larger output. Sales officer 

 have lieen opened in Chicago. New York and Detroit, and there is to be 

 material increase in the number of men traveling out of the Memphis 

 otRces. E. M. Slattery, sales manager for James E. Stark & Company, 

 Inc., with headquarters at Chicago, will have charge of the Chicago terri- 

 tory for this firm. J. D. Mershon i.s in charge of the New York City 

 offices, while D. A. Gordon occupies a similar position in Detroit. 



The James & Graham Wagon Company has begun a building 150x250. 

 of brick and concrete construction, for the housing of its wagon plant. 

 The new structure is located at South Dudley street. This company suf- 

 fered a rather severe fire here some time ago and this really accounts for 

 the new building. The old plant was located on Jefferson avenue in the 

 downtown district. This company has been engaged in the manufacture 

 of farm and other wagons for more than half a century. 



E. G. Meers. secretary of the Memphis Builders' Exchange, is authority 

 for the statement that, if the union bricklayers, who have filed demands 

 for an increase to $1.50 per day, effective Jan. 1. 1920, attempt to strike 

 to enforce their demands, plenty of men will be brought to Memphis to 

 take their places. He points out that, with living costs coming down and 

 with building at a very low ebb, the pre^^ent is a very poor time for the 

 bricklayers or anybody else to insist upon higher wages. 



The Southern Alluvial Land Association is preparing to issue two new 

 booklets, one descriptive of the Mississippi delta and the other of the 

 alluvial lands of Eastern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana. They will be 

 off the press within two or three weeks. They will be profusely illus- 

 trated, with more than 100 cuts each, and they will contain articles by 

 some of the most noted authorities in the alluvial area on drainage, road 

 construction, levee building, malaria control, housing and other subjects 

 of prime interest to those who now live, or who contemplate living, in the 

 alluvia! area. Material for these booklets has been gathei'ed by P. D. 

 Beneke. secretary, and his able staff of field men. Copies will be dis- 

 tributed among the principal publications of the United States and the 

 cliambers of commerce and other civic organizations. They are designed 

 primarily to attract settlers to the alluvial area and to bring about sub- 

 stantial increase in farm products of the most fertile lands in the world. 



KNOXVILLE 



The Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company expects to have its mill 

 at Duff. Campbell county, Tenn.. in operation about January 1. 



Carl F. Maples has been elected director and treasurer of the new 

 Business Men's Club, which has taken over the four-story Eagles' home 

 and will house the local board of commerce. Rotary, Kiwanis. Traffic and 

 other civic organizations, operating a cafeteria on the ground floor, and 

 having a fine auditorium on the top floor. Mr. Maples procured several 

 hundred members for the new club, which has about 1,000 members. 



