December 2.''.. W2U 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Our specialty Is AMERICAN WALNUT 



Lumber and Veneers 



Our Band Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation and we 



now carry a stock of over three million feet of walnut 



lumber. 



We have also read} tor prompt shipment three million 



teet of walnut long wood veneers, half million feet of 



walnut stumpwood and one million feet of African and 



Central American mahogany veneers. 



W e A I so H a u die 



MAHOGANY 



MKXICAX I'llII.HM'IXI-: 



The Kosse, Shoe Sl Schleyer Co. 



EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Home Office: Cincinnati, Ohio 



]>ock Ho\ 18. St. Iti^riiard ICniiirh 



lire, which came up during consideration of the Senate calendar, 

 was passed while its opponents were away from the Senate cham- 

 ber. Debate would ordinarily have lasted a month or more on such 

 a controverted measure. Senator La Follette has entered a motion 

 to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. If Senator 

 Poindexter should move to lay the La Follette motion ou the table, 

 however, and should he be backed up b.y sufficient votes; the mat- 

 ter, so far as the Senate is concerned, would bo closed without 

 further debate. 



The most important measure [lassed by the house duriii" tlic si's- 

 sion so far was the immigration embargo bill. 



Washington already is filling up with the representatives of 

 American industries and business interests, who are urging the 

 speediest action possible in the passage of the forthcoming Repub- 

 lican tariff. They are discussing the situation daily at the capitol 

 with leaders, and their preliminary statements as to existing con- 

 ditions indicate that some of the basic American industries are 

 threatened at the present time. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended on December Hi 

 until April 9, 1921, the operation of the proposed cancellation of 

 commodity distance rates on logs, in carloads, between points in 

 South Carolina applicable on interstate traffic on the Atlantic Coast 

 Line railroad. 



Younger Element Secures Memphis Club Lead 



.\t the annual election of the Lumbermen's Club of 5Iemphis, held at the 

 Ilotal Gayoso Saturday evening. Dec. 18, the candidates on the "Blue" 

 ticket were carried to victory over the nominees on the "Red." 



President .7. V. Rush, as a courtesy to the "Red" ticket, announced that 



J. Clayton Joimst)n, candidate for secretary -treasiirer on both tickets, liail 

 licen elected on the "Red." 



Here is tlio roster nf new (ifficers and dinnrors tor the ensnins V'-ar : 



rresident — .7. IT. Ilines, Ilines Lnnilier CiHiipany. 



First vice-president — Joe Thompson, Thompson-Katz Luinlu'r Ccmipany. 



Si'cond vice-president — C. J. Tully, Jr., .Vnderson-Tully Company. 



Si'cri'tary-treasnrer — J. Clayton Johnson. Johnson Bins. Ilanlwuud Cmii 

 pauy. 



LMi-i-clc^ls .1. C. i;.ain.r. J. 11. ItimuiT & Sous; F. T. IJooley. F. T. 

 liocdi'V I.uniluT CoTii[(any ; C. ^L Kelloj;g. Kello^j; Lumber Company. 



ICarl rainier of the Ferguson-Palmer Company, Inc.. the leader of llii' 

 defeated ticket^ proved himself a splendid loser in his brief spei-ch. and 

 expres.se<l the view that the administration <if affaii-s by the younger 

 element would be an excellent thing for the organization. lie pledged 

 his heartiest support to the successful cantlidates anil declared that one 

 of the most gratifying features in a club of this kind is the fact that, as 

 soon as the smoke of a political campaign settles then' is n<if tlo' slightest 

 ill-will cherished by anybody connected with it. 



The other defeatcil candi<lates were : First vice-president. W. II. Dick. 

 Tallahatcliie Lumber Company ; second vice-president. "Bob" Cooper. West 

 Memphis Lumber Company ; directors, S. II. Anderson, .\nderson-l'ully 

 Company : A. X. Thompson. A. N. Thompson k Co., and Frank <J. Smith. 

 >Iossi(ian Lnndn-r Conipan.v, 



Chicago Lumber Association Prepares for Annual 



I'reparations are being made b.v Secretary Hooper for the aiinvial niocting 

 of the Chicago lumber association, wliich will take place the third Mon- 

 day in January. The organization will hold a business meeting in its 

 head(iuarters in the Lumber E.xchange luiilding at 4 o'clock in the after- 

 noon, at which time directors, a conimittci' of arbitraricm. comniittee of 

 appeal and an executive committee for each division will be elected. Offi- 

 cers for the ensuing .year will be elected on the Mtmday following the an- 

 nual meeting. The annual dinner will lie held in the Red Room at the 

 LaSalle hotel at 6 o'clock following the business session. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association Holds Next Annual 

 in Philadelphia 



The next ami twenty-fourth annual conventiim ot the Nati^mal Hard- 

 wood J.,uniber Association will be held in l*hiladelphia on June I> ami 10. 

 The meeting place was awarded to the Quaker City at a session of the 

 board of managers of the association at the headquarters in Chicago 

 on Dec. 16. 



Philadelphia had vigorous competition to overcome before sectiring the 



