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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25. 1921 



Pennsylvania Lumbermen to Meet 



Elaborate plans have heen completed for the twent.v-niuth annual con- 

 vention of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association, nhich will be held 

 at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel January 26 and 27. The first day will be 

 devoted to report of committees, meeting of directors and various trade 

 discussions. The second day will be an open meeting, when many vital 

 subjects pertinent to the industry will be discussed, which will be fol- 

 lowed by the usual luncheon. Samuel M. Vauclaiu. president of the 

 Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the Hon. John S. Fisher, state banking 

 commissioner of Pennsylvania, will address the diners. Following the 

 luncheon the election of officers for the coming year will take place. Due 

 to conditions, it is felt that considerable importance is attached to this 

 convention this year, and it is expected that a record attendance will 

 be there. 



W. W. Reilly of W. W. Reilly & Bro., hardwood specialists, with head- 

 quarters at Buffalo. N. Y.. stopped over in the city a few days this week 

 on his way south. He reports trade fair in spite of existing conditions. 

 and since the tirst of the year some good business has been booked. 



The Keystone Manufacturing Company, with headquarters at Elkins, 

 W. Va., has established sales offices at 427 Land Title building, Philadel- 

 phia, under the direction of H. W. Fry, who has been identified with the 

 company for some time. This concern has recently commenced operation 

 of a new band mill in West Virginia, and are also engaged in the manu- 

 facture of hardwood flooring, etc. 



With the Trade 



Crittenden Cut is Finished 

 The work of dismantliug the banil mill of the Crittenden Lumber Com- 

 pany and the L. H. Gage Lumber Company at Crittenden, Ark., has already 

 begun. The big establishment blew its whistle for the last time toward 

 the close of the week, Dec. 18, for the reason that there is no more tim- 

 l)er In sight in that particular territory. The motive power and the log 

 cars, as well as some other accessories, are being shipped to Bonita, La., 

 where the Bonita Lumber Company, controlled by the same personnel as 

 the L. H. Gage Lumber Company and the Crittenden Lumber Company, 

 is just completing the installation of a new band mill, with a daily 

 capacity of 45,000 feet. This company has approximately 2,000.000 feet 

 of logs ready for removal to its new plant, and the motive power and 

 equipment now being shipped from Crittenden to Bonita are to be used 

 for that purpose. It is proposed to begin operations at Bonita between 

 Jan. 15 and Feb. 1, 1921, according to F. E. Stonebraker, president of 

 the company, who came to Memphis to attend the annual election of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. The company controls about 12.000 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands in the territory tributary to Bonita. This town 

 is located on the Iron Mountain system in the first parish in Louisiana 

 south of the Arkansas state line. 



^ The mill of the Crittenden Lumber Company was in almost continuous 



operations for a period of 21 years, and Mr. Stonebraker. who has been 



: interested much of the time in operations there as general representative 



■ of the owning companies, says that It really "hurt his feeling" to see the 

 : mill cut out its timber and go out of commission. 



Norcross Visits Knoxville 

 ■ P. G. Norcross, general manager of the New River Lumber Company at 

 Norma, Tenn., and president of the Appalachian Congress, has been In 

 ' Knoxville on business, and also conferred with T. Sunderland, secretary 

 of the Congress as to its work for the year, and settling upon a permanent 

 bffice location In Knoxville, the headquarters now being In the Business 

 Men's Club, where it may possibly remain, the Lumbermen's Club desirine 



■ that it secure rooms adjoining it if possible. 



Chancery Decision Sustained in Wiggs' Suit 



The supreme court of Tennessee has affirmed the decision of the chancery 

 court of this (Shelby) county In the case of R. J. Wiggs vs. the Darnell- 

 Love Lumber Company, with headquarters at Leiand, Miss. The lower 

 court held that the plaintiff could not demand return of title to 220 shares 

 of stock in the defendant company, which had been transferred on the books 

 at the time he instituted his suit, but it held that he was entitled tt) 

 recover title to 580 shares of stock In this company which had not been 

 transferred at the time the suit was instituted. 



Chas. G, Labbe Heads New Hardwood Company 



The fJeneral Hardwood Lumber Company is the name of a new com- 

 pany organized and opened for business in Chicago at 19 South La Salle 

 street on January 1. The company will deal in southern and northei-n 

 hardwoods and on commission. 



The happy prospects of the new concern are evidenced by the fact that 

 its president Is Chas. G. Labbe. formerly Chicago manager of the Aber- 

 deen Lumber Company, who has had a wide and valuable experience in 

 the hardwood Industry from the stump to the trade. Mr. Labbe was for 

 a number of years with the Gayoso Lumber Company of Memphis, and 

 he has had considerable actual mill experience through the South. 



The company has arranged to handle the output of several mills and 

 will give its attention chiefly to southern woods from the outset. How- 

 ever, some northern w'oods will be handled. 



A. W. Ekstrand, vice-president and treasurer of the company, who was 

 formerly with the Aberdeen company in Chicago, will devote his main 

 efforts to the trade in Chicago and vicinity. 



A. T. Osmer is secretary of the company. 



Scherer Company Reorganized 



A reorganization, necessitated by the death last yAr of Philip D. Green, 

 the principal stockholder of William C. Scherer & Co., Inc., sash and door 

 jobbers and manufacturers, with an establishment on West Baltimore 

 street near Fremont avenue, has been announced. Luther M. R. Willis 

 has been elected president, with William C. Klrkley as vice-president, 

 Richard Blanck as treasurer, William F. Smith, Jr., as secretary and 

 Robert L. Heiser making the fifth man on the board of directors. The 

 capital stock of the new corporation Is fixed at $200,000 in preferred and 

 .$100,000 in common shares. Mr. Willis is a prominent attorney, while the 

 others have all been connected with the business for years and are thor- 

 oughly familiar with the details. 



The real estate, machinery, stock and material of the Pennsylvania 

 Casket Company of West Grove, Pa., were to be sold at auction on January 

 18, according to an announcement published here. The building consists 

 of a three-story stone factory equipped with power plant, elevators and 

 other appurtenances, while the machinery was described as a modern 

 woodworking plant, all machines being driven with direct motor. In the 

 material was Included some 200,000 feet of gum. birch, walnut, nak and 

 other W4tods. 



Pierson-Dole Nuptials 



P. C. Pierson. who is associated with R. E. IloUowell of the Kel River 

 Lumber Company, Spencer, Ind., recently married Milred Dole, daughter 

 of Mv. and Mrs. John A. Walker of Rushvllle. 



Mr. and Mrs. Pierson spent their honeymoon in New Yoi'k City and are 

 now at home in Spencer. 



"How to File a Cross-Cut Saw" 



-V most valuable little treatise on "How to I-^Ie a Cross-Cut Saw" has 

 just been issued b.v the Simonds Manufacturing Company to aid the 

 inexperienced man or beginner who Is learning to file cross-cut saws. 

 It is expected that the booklet will be of benefit to many users of 

 cross-cut saws, no matter whose saws they may he using. \ copy will be 

 sent free to anyone writing the company at Pltchburg. Mass. 



Stevens & Jarvis Announcements 



The following announcements relative to its Cbicaso and Milwaukee 

 territories have been made by the Stevens & Jan'is Lumber Company, 

 Eau Claire, Wis. : "After Jan. 3, 1921, Floyd W. Long will be manager 

 of our Chicago ofliee, 519 Lumber Exchange building. Mr. Long has been 

 with us several years in the Milwaukee and eastern Wisconsin territory, 

 and is a himberman of long experience. 



"After Jan. 10. 1021, we will be represented in your territory (Mil- 

 waukee and eastern Wisconsin) by Ed H. Mullen, 212 Turner avenue, 

 Oconto, Wis. Mr. Mullen has been with us for several years and Is an 

 experienceil lumherntan." 



Now in McCormick Building 

 J. H. P. Smith, Chicago sales manager for W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, Louisville. Ky.. now has an office at 1051 McCormick building. 

 Mr. Smith's telephone numbers are Harrison 6942 and 6943. 



Woodworkers Are Helcing to Save Europe's Starving Children 



A committee of tlie lumber, box and woodworking interests of Chicago 

 is co-operating with the European Relief Council, of which Herbert 

 Hoover is chairman. In the sublime effort to save hundreds of thousands 

 of the suffeiing children of Central and Eastern Europe from starvation 

 and disease during the present winter. The woodworking committee Is 

 headed b.v Frederick Klapproth. vice-president of the Chicago Mill & 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Klapproth appeals to lumbermen, box manufac- 

 turers and all members of the local woodworking industries to send con- 

 tributions, or pledges to himself, or Charles G. Dawes, treasurer. Central 

 Trust Company. Chicago, crediting the woodworking committee. The box 

 division has already contributed its full share and Mr. Klapproth is 

 anxious that the other division make a similar response. A fund of 

 .$33,000,000 is being raised in a nation-wide campaign in order that these 

 destitute children may be re.scued from death. It is estimated that each 

 contribution of $10 will save the life of a child until the next harvest. 



On the committee with Mr. Klapproth are the following chairmen of 

 subicommittees ; H. II. Ilettler. pine yards : T. F. Scanlon. hardwood 

 .yards; A. H. Ruth, hardwood wholesalers: F. H. Burnaby. pine whole- 

 salers : C. W. Lawrence, manufacturers ; John Hansen, commission sales- 

 men : E. W. Dlerssen, millmen : W. F. Kurz, box manufacturers : W. O. 

 .Tohnson. coopers. 



Henry Wertz Killed in Accident 



Henry Wertz. brother of Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Company. Evansville, Ind.. was accidently killed on Saturday. January 

 13, in his home town. 



Mr. Wertz was associated In an Important capacit.^ with the Reynolds 

 Manufacturing Company of Rushvllle. Ind. He was driving through town 

 in his nutomobile and while crossing the railroad tracks failed to note 

 ill! aimroaching train and was evidently not warned by the watchman. 



