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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1920 



BRISTOL 

 TRI 



DIAMOND TENNESSEE BRAND 



GUARANTEED 



BRISTOL 

 DOOR & LUMBER CO. 



BRISTOL, TENN. 



REPRESENTATIVES 



J. W. TURNBULL LUMBER CO Philadelphia, Pa. 



I. N. CHASE LUMBER CO Boston, Mass. 



SIMONDS 



Inserted Tooth 



SAWS 



Stand Heavy Feed, Hold Their Tension 

 STAY Sharp. — Teeth Are Renewable 



Write us about your cutting problems 



SiMONDs Manufacturing Co. 



"TnE SAW MAKERS" 



FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS 



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



"it takes 275 men to run the mill and we cut between 8,000,000 and 

 9,000,000 feet of lumber, with common labor paid from $2.50 to $3.50 

 a day." 



He writes that bis mills are shut down "because we are unable to manu- 

 facture lumber cheap enough to sell it on the present market. This is the 

 first complete shut-down we have had on account of trade conditions in the 

 32 3'ears of my experience as a sawmill operator in this district." 



Practically all of the Cincinnati architects. In drawing plans and mak- 

 ing out specifications for residences, are advocating the use of hardwood 

 wherever feasible. It is said in building circles that six out of every ten 

 homes being built in Cincinnati are to have hardwood floors. 



T. J. Keeveney of the T. W. Keeveny Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 back at his desk after an illness of several months. He says business 

 is slow, but that he looks forward to better things after the first of the 

 year. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Following an operation recently, M. W. Hission, sixty-three years old, 

 secretary-treasurer of the Union City Carriage Company of Winchester, 

 Ind., died at his home in Union City, Ind. 



Last July the Kobblns Body Corporation of this city filed a petition 

 asking that the Bull Tractor-Madison Motors Corporation of Anderson, 

 Ind., be declared bankrupt. Recently the plant was ordered sold. 



The Wabash Basket Company at Converse, Ind., was destroyed by fire 

 recently with a damage estimated at more than $150,000. The fire origi- 

 nated in the boiler room of the plant and was well under way before it 

 was discovered. The plant will be rebuilt. 



Plans are being made by the Petersburg Improvement Association of 

 Petersburg, Ind., a newly formed organization, for the construction of 

 about 200 houses to take care of the workers that have crowded there 

 upon the opening of the coal fields. 



The city of Indianapolis is the defendant in a "squatter's" title suit 

 for the possession of 150 acres of the best timber land in Marion county. 

 The plaintiff alleges he has title to the land because of the fact that he 

 and his father have had possession for more than twenty years without 

 any effort being made to oust them. 



Word has been received here of the death of George W. Harvey, fifty- 

 five years old, a resident of Hartford City, Ind. He had been a manu- 

 facturer of shcvel handles for years in Marion, Logansport and Newcastle. 

 He is survived by a widow and one son. 



An Indictment was returned here recently by the Marion county grand 

 jury against Rufus Morgan, formerly night watchman for the Talge 

 Mahogany Company, charging him with arson. Police oflScials say Mor- 

 gan confes.sed setting fire to the plant the night of Oct. 4, when a $200,000 

 loss was sustained. His excuse was that he believed a fire would induce 

 the company to put on another man at night to help in the work. 



Charles B. Harrison, for more than eleven years superintendent of the 

 C. F. Schmoe Furniture Company, manufacturers in Shelbyville, Ind., 

 Just south of this place, died Nov. 14 at his home In Indianapolis after an 

 illne-ss of more than three years. He was sixty-one years old, a prominent 

 members of the Masonic lodge and is survived by the widow, two brothers 

 and three sisters. 



The case of the New Albany Veneering Company of New Albany, Ind., in 

 a suit asking for $25,000 Judgment against the Talge Mahogany Company 

 of Indianapolis for damages and account, said to have resulted from a 

 contract to supply veneered lumber and plywood used in making airplanes 

 under a government contract early in the war, has been tried in circuit 

 court here. A decision will be handed down later. 



The trade here Is interested in some proposed changes in the municipal 

 building code that will be recommended by a special committee of the 

 Chamber of Commerce to the city council shortly. One of the changes 

 is that the entire building department be taken out of politics and be 

 placed on a permanent basis. It is understood that no changes will be 

 recommended in the code as regards the restrictions now in force in the 

 fire area. 



The purchase of an addition of 108 acres of land for the state forest 

 reserve in Scott county has been announced by the state conservation com- 

 mission. The land will be used entirely for conducting experiments in 

 practical forestry. 



EVANSVILLE 



The question of the "open shop" is going to enter into the issues of the 

 municipal campaign that will open in Evansville In May of the coming 

 year. The Farmer-Labor party, that polled something like 2,800 votes in 

 Evansville and Vanderburg county, in the presidential election that was 

 held on Nov. 2 last, has decided to put a full ticket in the field in the 

 coming city campaign. The leaders of the party assert that their nominee 

 for mayor will stand on a platform advocating the "closed shop," and that 

 the party will be rather vigorous in its declaration against the "open shop." 

 The leaders further assert that in their opinion the candidates of the two 

 old parties will be pledged to the "open shop." Practically all the large 

 manufacturers of Evansville went on record about a year ago as being 

 Irrevocably in favor of the "open shop," and It Is not believed that the 

 Farmer-Labor party will get very far in opposing the "open shop." 



Daniel Wertz, head of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers 



