Decfmber 10, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



49 



Inc., who has been in Europe In the interest of his Ann for the last few 

 months, is expected in Cincinnati within the next ten days. It is said 

 that Mr. Linihan has accumulated some vi'ry salient information regard- 

 ing the condition of the European market at the present time. Mowbray 

 & Robinson report a dull market, but expectations of a better trend in 

 the near future. 



The trade as a whole will be interested to learn that S. W. Mowbray of 

 the Mowbray & Robinson Company, Inc., who some time ago went to 

 Arizona in an effort to regain hi.'* tailing health, has reported that the 

 atmosphere of the land of the burning sun is helping him physically. 



The Johnston Doppler Lumber Company has joined the Cincinnati 

 Chamber of Commerce. Officials of the company have always been active 

 in civic work in Cincinnati. 



.-Vlex. Schmidt of the Kosse Shoe & Schleyer Company has returned to 

 the home office after a trip in the interests of his firm through Pennsyl- 

 vania. He reports that a large number of factories in the East are either 

 shut down or running half time. Mr. Schmidt says that an upturn is due 

 soon and that the first of February will witness a general return to 

 normal. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



A permit for the construction of a sawmill and woodworking plant has 

 been asked of the city council of Bedford, Ind., by the Minor Lumber and 

 Wood Working Company, which has plants at various places in the north- 

 ern part of Indiana. 



George Nagle, one of the officials of the Clinton City Lumber Company 

 of Clinton, Ind., and Miss Lulu Mitchell, also of Clinton, were married 

 recently. The couple will live in Clinton. Mr. Nagle is a former service 

 man. 



Officials of the Shelby Lumber Company of Shelbyville, Ind., reported 

 on a recent visit to Indianapolis that during the past two weeks they had 

 received a phenomenal trade for hog houses. Bargain prices have been 

 placed which are attracting the farmers. 



Word has been received here to the effect that the Jeffersonville. Ind., 

 plant of the American Car & Foundry Company will begin work immedi- 

 ately on 500 wooden gondola cars for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad 

 Company. The work was transferred from the Terre Haute plant, where 

 it was said they were not equipped to take care of the order. 



Frank J. Lee, a member of the lumber firm, of Carter & Lee, lost control 

 of his automobile near Greencastle, Ind., recently and crashed into a tree, 

 causing the injury of Mrs. Lee. No one else was injured. 



One tone giant sycamore tree overlooking the Wabash river bottoms in 

 Gibson county has caused the state conservation commission, citizens of 

 the county and others to make a strenuous attempt to save it from heinir 

 cut down. It is in the road of a new levee construction. 



After a short illness, August H. Meyer, sixty-six years old, lumber and 

 mill owner of Lebanon. Ind.. died recently. He is survived by the widow 

 and three children. 



EVANSVILLE 



The Hercules Corporation of this city has filed articles of incorporation 

 with the secretary of state at Indianapolis and the county recorder of this 

 county. The corporation is a merger of the Hercules Buggy Company, the 

 Hercules Wheel Company, the Hercules Body Manufacturing Company, the 

 Hercules Gas Engine Company and the Indiana Color and Varnish Com- 

 pany. The new corporation was formed as a result of a merger of these 

 various industries in order to cut down the expense of administration and 

 to extend their trade. The capital stock is $8,000,000 and of this amount 

 $G, 600.000 in stock will be issued at once. The articles of incorporation 

 were signed by William H. McCurdy, John D. Craft and Charles G. Talbott. 

 These three men, together with Lynn H. McCurdy of this city and Albert 

 H. Loeb of Chicago have been named as the board of directors for the first 

 year. The corporate age of the corporation will be fifty years. The 

 Hercules company has been one of the largest manufacturers of buggies in 

 the Ignited States during the past several years. The various plants of 

 the Hercnles Corporation now are working on part time, with the excep- 

 tion of the Gas Engine Works, which have been closed down during the 

 past few weeks, but it is expected the ]>lant will resume operations about 

 the first of the coming year. 



Incorporation papers for the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, a successor 

 of Maley and Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers of this city, have 

 been filed with the secretary of state at Indianapolis and the county 

 recorder here. The capital stock of the new company is $500,000 and 

 the following officers have been selected ; President, Daniel Wertz ; vice- 

 president, Susie Wertz ; secretary-treasurer, Claude Maley. The incorpo- 

 ration was necessary, as it was desired to change the business from a 

 partnership to a corporation. 



One of the largest consignments of logs received in Evansville in sev 

 i?ral yeans has been brought tu the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company here 

 from points along Green river in Western Kentucky. In the yards of the 

 company here are piles almost mountain-high and more logs are still due 

 to come from the Green river section of the country. Several logging 

 camps along the Green river valley have been engaged for the past several 



Receivers' Sale 



of stock of 



Kittinger Lumber Yard 



at 



Winamac, Indiana 

 January 4th, 1921 



W. S. HUDDLESTON, Receiver 



? LOOKING FOR ? 



DRY HARDWOODS 



Here are a few items of year old 

 stock that we want to ship quick: 



All Regular Widths and Lengths 



ASH — WlBconsIn Brown 



No. 1 & Btr, 5/4 8 mos. dry 



No. 2 & Btr, 6/4 8 mo9. dry 



BIRCH 

 No. 1 & Btr. 4/4. 10 mos. dry (good widths and lensths) 



No. 1 & Btr. 5/4, 8 mo3. dry I car 



No. 1 & Btr. 6/4, 8 mo3. dry 1 car 



No. 1 & Btr. 8/4. 8 mos. dry 1 car 



No. 1 & Btr. 10/4. 7 mos. dry 2 cars 



BASS WOOD 

 No, 1 & Btr. 6/4. 10 mos. dry 2 care 



Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Co. 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



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