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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10. 192ip 



With the Trade 



Arkansas Lays Off 5,000 Lumbermen 



Five thousiiDil men employed in the lumber industry in Arkansas have 

 been laid off since tbe middle of last month, according to estimates of the 

 State Labor Department, based upon reports from all parts of the state. 



It is estimated that likel.v another 1,000 men have been affected in one 

 way or another by tbe reduction of hours or partial shutdown of mills 

 and other plants in the industr.v, the department states. 



Supreme Court Upholds Stark 



The supreme court of Tennessee has atlirmed the decision of the 

 chancery court at Memphis awarding to James E. Stark & Company, Inc.. 

 of Memphis, damages in the sum of approximately $27,000 against the 

 Kelsey Wheel Company for alleged breach of contract. The litigation grew 

 out of alleged refusal on the part of the defendant company to accept a 

 portion of a contract for lumber purchased for the manufacture of vehicles 

 for the government during the war with the central powers. 



The association points out that this represents from SO cents to $2 on 

 each car and that, if documents are submitted showing that shipments left 

 their origin prior to Aug. 26, the overcharge can be recovered. 



Chinnock in Bankruptcy 



The first bankruptcy petition for several years to be tiled in Memphis by 

 any one connected with the hardwood lumber indiistry is that of E. E. 

 Chinnock, a lumber broker. He lists liabilities with the clerk of the 

 United States district court of $33,618. 0-l, while his assets are scheduled 

 at approximately $24,000 principally in alleged "slow" accounts. A strik- 

 ing feature of the petition i.s the disclosure that practically all of the 

 creditors of the petitioner are unsecured, secured claims amounting to only 

 approximately $3,000. 



Now Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company 



- Announcement has been made by Ward F. Brown and Thomas B. 

 Bledsoe that the name of the lumber firm of Brown-Bowman & Bledsoe 

 has been changed to the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company. The change 

 affects the name only. The company's office is in the Munsey building, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Bruce Talks on Advertising 



.\ most attractive and illuminating iirochure on the advantages of adver- 

 tising has lieon issued by the E. L. Bruce Coniriany. hardwood flooring and 

 lumber manufacturers of Memphis, Tenn., and Little Itock. Ark., to the 

 retail lumber trade. The booklet urges the retailer to supplement the 

 manufacturer's advertising with advertising of his own. which localizes 

 the proposition and makes direct sales for flooring. The manufacturer's 

 advertising creates the interest and the goodwill, says the Bruce booklet, 

 lint tlif ri'tailcr must make the sale. 



Godfrey Holds Unloading Contest 



The (iudfrey ('onve.\'or Company of Elkhart, Ind.. concluded on Nov. 30 

 an unloading contest between owners of their conveyor.s. Six cash prizes 

 of .f.-iO. .i;2.">. $1.". and .fill will he awarded to tbe owner who during the 

 course of rbc cuiiti'st iiia'le the best time in unloaclint; a car of coal. 



National Lumber Exporters Meet in January 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the Xatinnal Lumber Exporters' 

 Association will be held at the New Willard Hoti'l in Wnsliington, D. C. 

 nn Wednesday and Thursday. January 26 and 27. 1921. The opening 

 session will convene on Wednesday. January 26. at 10 a. m.. according to 

 announcement nnide by Harvey M. r>icks<ui, secretary, Baltimore, Md. 



West Virginia Lumberman Dies 



lloi'ace F. Henderson, father of M. J. and J. H. Henderson of the Heuder- 

 stin Bi'ofhers l^umber Company. Clarksburg, W. Va., died at his home in 

 that city Nov. 14 after a brief illness. Mi-. Henderson was 71 years old, a 

 faithful I'resbyterian. a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar 

 and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Henderson 

 was buried in Pompey, N; Y. 



Waltman May Again Lead Club 



At the next monthly meeting of the Evans\-ille Lumbermen's Club at 

 Evansville, Ind.. that will be held at the New Vendome Hotel in that 

 city on Tuesday, December 14th. it is exiiected that Joe Waltman. presi- 

 dent of the l<]vansville Band ]\Iill Ci>mpany. will be re-electetl president 

 of the club, which position he bus h<dd during the past two years. He 

 has made a most popular presiding officer and there is a keen desire that 

 he be honored in the job for another year. William S. Partington, secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the club for three years past, will be re-elected to his 

 position by acclamation, it is predicted. Mr. Partington is the traflSc 

 man for the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company and is one of the most popular 

 lumbermen in southern Indiana and has done much to build np the mem- 

 bership of the Evansville Lund-ermen's Cliili during flie past few years. 



Charles B. Willey Meets Sudden End 



Charles 1',. Willey. son cif tbe late Cameron L. Willey, rounder and 

 bi'ad of the C. L. Willey Lumber Company of Chicago, succumbed to an 

 attack of heart disease on Nov. 27, while on a hunting trip near Liver- 

 liool. 111. Mr. Willey was thirty-seven years of age and was president of 

 the C. L. Willey I^undjer f'ompany. He was a member of the Midlothian, 

 the South Shore and tile Illinois Athletic clubs. He was also a member of 

 the Mystii; Shrine. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Lulu B, Willey. 



Will Spend Winter in Manila 



Two officials of the Insular I^umi'cr Company of Philadelphia. I'a., and 

 Manila, P. I., are enroute to the island to spend the winter and remain 

 until April 1. They are W. P. Clark, president of the company, who is 

 accompanied by his wife, and A. E. Edgcomb, general sales manager, who 

 is taking his family. J. Sloat Fassett is also in the party. 



W. M. Ritter Publishes Book on Lumber 



The most \:ihiable addition to the al]-too-scant,\- literature cO' lumber, 

 has just been made by W. M. Ritter, president of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company. Columbus, O., who has just published a book on "The Lumber 

 l:>usines.s — Organization, Production, Distribution." It is welcomed by 

 the trade not only because of the splendid handling of the subject, but 

 becau.se of the authority it bears as coming from the pen of one of the 

 foremost lumber mantifaeturers in the country. 



Visiting Son in Chicago 



.\ugust C. Ebenruter. one of the well known hardwood men of Chicago, 

 has been enjoying a visit from his father, H. J. Ebenruter. and his sister 

 from Plymouth, Wis. Mr. Ebenruter's father is a retail furniture dealer 

 and in a discussion of the probable purchases of retailers in the January 

 nmrket. said their volunu' wi;)uld depen<l largely on tbe prices quoted. He 

 is of the opinion thjit buying will be small if the new price lists do not show 

 substantial reductions. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



The Williamson Veneer Company, T\'hiob recently established a branch 

 office in Chicago at 282 East Jackson boulevard, announced this week that 

 II. E. Glaeser had joined their staff of t^alesraen and will represent them 

 in the Middle West territory, Mr. Glaeser is a veneer man of broad 

 experience. The 'phone number of the Chicago office of the company is 

 Harrison 2771. 



Harry G. Uhl has been named awsistant to Dr. Wilson Compton. secre- 

 tary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers" Association, suc- 

 (fcding E. A. Harrington, who resigned from the association's service 

 Nov. 15, Mr. XJhl has already assumed his duties, having come to Chi- 

 cago from Marion. O., on Oct. 1. He was formerly connected with Asso- 

 ciateil Editors, a Chicago newspaper syndicate. Mr. Harrington has not 

 yet announced liis plans for the future. 



Hardwood men are very much agitated by the issuance of Supplement S 

 to Kelley's Tariff No. 22S, which increased rates by Vy to 2Vj cents a 

 hundred pounds on hardwood lumber from points south of the Ohio river 

 into Chicago and eastern territory. The supplement is exceedingly com- 

 plicated and affects a number ()f its advances by puzzling combinations of 

 1 ates. 



R. E. MacLean of the I. Stephenson Company, Wells, Mich., is under 

 'reatment at the Mercy Hospital, this city, for blood poistuiing and is said 

 to be seriously ill. 



Among the recent visitors iu Chicago are the. following : Hal Levissee 

 of Scott & Ilowe Lumber Company, Tronwood, Mich.: F. J. Darke, sales 

 manager J. S. Stearns Lumber Company. Odanah, Wis. ; F. E. lirown. 

 general sales manager for the John Schroeder Lumber Company. Ashland, 

 Wis. ; Ray McQuillan, manager of the T^anglade Lumber Company, Antigo, 

 Wis. ; E. L. Davis of the E, L. Davis Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky. ; 

 Jolin J. Ferguson of the Ferguson Hardwood Company, Paducah, Ky. ; 

 Ben R. Woodhead of the Beaumont Lumber Company, Beaumont, Texas, 

 director of the Anu'rican Wbidesale Lumber Association ; A. Vredenburgh 

 of the Vredenburgh Saw Mill Company, Vredenlmrgh, Ala.; W. .T. Loveliss 

 of the r'otton I'lant A^eneer Company. Cotton Plant, Ark. ; A. Lory of F. 

 Lory & Sons (Inc.), planing mill operators at Charleston, W. Va. ; V. Os- 

 burn. Bluemont, Va. : W. H. White of the W. 11. White Company, Boyne 

 City. ]\Hch. : Charles Gill of t^he Charles Gill Lumber Company, Wausau, 

 ^lich. ; William Eckman. prrsidnit of the E. & W. Lumber Company (Inc.), 

 South r.end. Ind. 



Among the foreign visitors in Chicago during the past week was R. P. 

 Evans, a representative of Edward Chaloner & ('(uiipany, wood brokers of 

 TJverpool. England. Mr. Evans is in this country to investigate lumber 

 comlitions and possibly to place some orders for bis ttrm. He left Chicago 

 for an extensive tour of tbe southern hardwood iminufacturing region. 



BUFFALO 



Miss Lucia Depew, daughter of Ganson Depew, president of the Good- 

 year Lumber Company, was married on Nov. 24 to Edward de Cernea. of 

 this city. The ceremony was performed at St. PauTs Episcopal Church 

 by the rector, the Rev. Charles A. Jessup. The church was elaborately 

 decorated with white chrysanthemums. A reception followed at the home 

 of the bride's parents in Summer street. Air. and Mrs. de Cernea will live 

 at 771 We.st Ferry street. 



Buffalo l)nilding permits for November numliererl 30S,- with costs of 



