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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 25. 1920 



Hunt, Washington & Smith 



MANUFACTURERS 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



TENNESSEE RED CEDAR— RED CYPRESS 



EXECUTIVE OFFICES 



«*JfrS,l^!I5D''?fvVR* NASHVILLE, TENN. 



FARRIS HARDWOOD LUMBER CO. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



Manufacturers of Southern Hardwoods 



Our Specialties: 



QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR AND WALNUT 



MILLS AT NASHVILLE AND MONTEREY, TENNESSEE 



SEND US YOVR INQUIRIES 



WARREN ROSS LUMBER GO. 



BAND JULL AND YARD. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



We are running our mill continually, manufacturing all kinds 

 of Hardwoods, and maintain a complete stock here. We 

 ship direct from the mills all kinds of Northern & Southern 

 Hardwoods, also Mahogany. 



Dry enormous amount of veneer perfectly flat and 



pliable at minimum cost, without checks or splits 



PROCTOR AND SCHWARTZ, inc. Philadelphia, Pa. 



visitor at the Cincinnati branch last week. He expressed the opinion 

 that the bottom in prices had about been reached. 



Under the .system instituted at the Cincinnati Coffin Company employes 

 are permitted to elect representatives, who form a house of representa- 

 tives. Foremen and department heads form the senate. The plan has 

 been in operation for six months, and, according to John Leitch of New 

 York, who inaugurated the "industrial democracy," the scheme has created 

 a better friendship between employer and employe and has eliminated 

 labor difficulties. 



J. C. West of the J. C. West Lumber Company has been in Chicago the 

 last week. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Yeggmen recently forced the safe in the office of the Seymour Cabinet 

 Company, at Seymour, Ind., and escaped with securities valued at $11,500 

 and $100 in money and other valuable documents. 



For the first time since the strike of furniture workers at the Shelby- 

 ville plants last Ma.v. disorder was reported Iiec. 1.'5. Pickets arrived in 

 a mob at the factories previous to quitting time and some disorder oc- 

 curred. No property damage resulted. 



The Hanger Wheel Company of Terre Haute, has purchased a factory 

 in Toledo, O., formerly used by the Consolidated Manufacturing Company 

 of that place and will begin operations there. 



A complaint based on an alleged conspiracy in the organization of the 

 .4merican Pine and Cypress Company, formed to cut timber in Florida, 

 has been filed in Noblesville, Ind.. just north of here, by Fernando C. 

 Eller, a farmer of Hamilton county. He alleges he lost approximately 

 $25,000 in the tran.saction and some prominent men, formerly officials in 

 banks, are named as the defendants. 



Damage amounting to approximately $15,000 to the plant and stock 

 of the Shelbyville Desk Company was caused recently from spontaneous 

 combustion. Most of the damage was done by water. The watchman 

 did not properly understand the water system at the plant and when 

 the sprinkler system automatically began to play on the small blaze 

 which Ktarted, he did not know how to shut it off. 



The home of A. Dale HoufT. a prominent lumberman of Vigo county, 

 was burglarized recently, money and clothing forming the most of the 

 loot. 



John S. Benham. of Benham. Ind.. congressman from the Fourth 

 Indiana Congressional District, and a lumberman of that place, was mar- 

 ried recently to Miss Bertha C. Oreeman, at Batesville, Ind. 

 Frank M. Talbot, president of the Indianapolis Basket Company, has 



received word that four bonds, totalling SI. 300, which comprised part of 

 the $15,000 in bonds stolen from a safe in the office the first of last year, 

 had been recovered in Cincinnati. O. 



Building* permits in Indianapolis showed increase of approximately 

 half a million dollars in new construction during November 1920 over 

 the same month the year previous. 



A hearing of condemnation proceedings brought by the state board of 

 conservation against the Iloosier Veneer Company, of this city, will be 

 held shortly in Rockville, Ind. The suit is to recover land wanted for a 

 state park. 



A bill is being prepared by Charles Deam, state forester, to be pre- 

 sented to the' next general assembly asking that forest tracts be exempt 

 from taxation in order to stimulate the planting of new forest tracts in 

 the state. 



Recently the city board of health in Indianapolis completed a housing 

 survey, in which it was discovered that the city is so overcrowded that 

 public health is in danger. 



The Batesville Lumber and Veneer Company, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., 

 has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $300,000. 



,C. E. Gorham, D. M. Gorham and M. C. Dow, all of Goshen, Ind.. 

 recently formed what is to be known as the Goshen Veneer Company, 

 with a capital of $35,000. 



The Butler Basket Company, of Butler, Ind., recently filed a preliminary 

 certificate of dissolution. 



The Wahasli Basket Company is planning to remodel a factory build- 

 ing iu Marion. Ind., and e.stablish its main plant and officers there, at a 

 cost probably to exceed $75,000. The reconstruction work is to be com- 

 pleted by Jan. 1, and 600 persons employed, according to the Relief of 

 officials of the concern. The company has several branches in the state. 

 Work will be given to invalided world war veterans and crippled and 

 infirm people. 



Plans have been completed for the installation of a heating system, 

 dust collecting equipment, electric wiring and other improvements to the 

 plant of the Standard Woodworking Company, of Lafayette. Ind. Work 

 will be started shortly. 



Article.s of incorporation have been filed by the Graham-Smith Lumber 

 Company, of Bargersville. Ind., with a capital stock of $20,000. 



EVANSVILLE 



Daniel Wertz and Ous Haurman of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Com- 

 pany have returned from a business trip to Memphis, Tenn. They report 

 trade in the south rather sluggish at this time, the volume of business 

 being about 20 percent normal. 



Fire a few days ago destroyed the saw mill of Daniel Wertz & Com- 

 pany at (irammer. Ind. The fire originated in the filing room and the 

 plant was completely destroyed. The loss is about .$15,000 and is partly 

 covered by insurance. It is not known at this time if the plant will be 

 rebuilt. Daniel "Wertz of this city is the head of the company. 



R. E. Clarke, formerly connected with the same company at Bridgeport. 

 111., has beeu appointed manager of the Simpson Lumber Company at 

 New Harmony. Ind.. and has assumed his new duties. .T. L. Meadows. 

 ■who formerly was the manager of the company at New Harmony, has beeu 

 transferred to Ilume, 111. 



A permit for the erection of a sawmill and woodworking plant has been 

 granted by the city council at Bedford. Ind.. to the Minor Lumber & 

 Woodworking Company, which ha.s plants in a number of the cities in the 

 northern part of the state. Work on the new mill will he started within 

 a short time and the work will be pushed. 



Claude Wertz. secretary and treasurer of the Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Company here, who also is secretary of the Evansville Press Club, an 

 organization of newspaper men, played "Santa Claus" at a Press Club 

 party given at the club on Christmas eve. 



William Elles. head of the Evansville Desk Company, returned a few 

 days ago from Chicago, where he spent several days on business. 



George O. Worland, head of the Evansville Veneer Company, has returned 

 from a business trip in the south. 



Something like 3,000 employes, many of them living outside of Wabash, 

 have been thrown out of employment through the clo.^ing of the Wabash 

 Cabinet Company's plant and the plant of the Service Motor Truck Com- 

 pany at Wabash a few days ago. It is announced that plants will he 

 closed down for an indefinite time. 



The John C. Smith Hoc & Tool Company is diverting practically the 

 entire output of its plant in this city to mine cars, and elaborate arrange- 

 ments for handling cars have been made at the plant. The finishefl cars 

 are run outside of the plant onto a truck, which leads to an incline on the 

 platform. There a derrick provides an easy way of putting the cars into 

 railroad flat cars. A few days ago a carload of finished cars was shipped 

 from the plant. The company has built up a large trade on mine cars. 



I^iterally a mountain of logs is stacke*! in the yards of the Maley & 

 Wertz Lumber Company in this city. The logs were shipped here from 

 points along Green river in western Kentucky, where a number of logging 

 crews have been operating all summer and fall. A total of twenty-six 

 cars were in the Green river shipment of logs. It is not expected the 

 logging camps in the Green river will be very active during the next few 



