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<iniipjm.v allegofl in its suit the sliipyjird (;ouipaii>- was in doht to it inori' 

 thiin $26,000 and the answer says the l)ill is paid. 



Tlie organization of the Reel-Blue Lumber Company of Viiieennes. lud.. 

 has been perfected, with a capital stock of $100,000. The company will 

 specialize. in hardwoods. The directors are Ellis C. Reel, T. G. Blue and 

 Charles E. Travis. 



Indianapolis made a new high record in the amount of luiilding opera- 

 tions in 19'J0. The valuation of the new building.s was nearly $2, .500. 000 

 greater than in lOlfl. the highest previous year. .\ total of 7.040 building 

 permits were issued for construction, amounting to .$15,284,119. 



The G. W. Ritchie Manufacturing Company has been formed in Indian- 

 apolis for the purpose of manufacturing crates. The company has a cap- 

 ital stock of $50,000 and the directors are G. W. Ritchie, .1 I>. Ritchie and 

 D. Ritchie. 



Oscar Lewelley has been named receiver for J. Victor Pinnell. owner of 

 the Home Lumber Company at Kokomo, Ind. A receiver was named fol- 

 lowing a request by the Peoples Tru.st & Savings Bank. 



Wilfred Sellers, president of the G. I. Sellers Kitchen Cabinet Com- 

 pany at Elwood. Ind.. was a victim of a poor joke recently when his 

 $6,000 automobile was stolen at Miami. Pla. He had crated and shipped 

 the machine so it would be awaiting his arrival. The garage to which 

 the machine was consigned delivered the car at the station, hut then it 

 disappeared. 



The Reel-Osterhage Lumber Company of Vincennes, Ind., has filed papers 

 with the secretary of the state here showing an increase in capital stock 

 from $100,000 to $200,000. 



The Imperial Desk Company of Evansville, Ind., has filed papers show- 

 ing an increase of capital stock from $200,000 to $500,000. 



The cooperage plant owned by George Schinnerer. Columbus. Ind., has 

 lii'en purchased by George Hitz & Company, of Indianapolis, and will he 

 jiut in operation as soon as a barrel making machine can be put in opera- 

 tion. The plant will have a capacity of 1,000 barrels daily. 



Two Brazil. Ind.. lumber companies were the victims of burglars 

 recently. .\t the J. N. Halstead Lumber Company the safe was blown open 

 and a small amount of money taken. At the E. D. Wilder Lumber Com- 

 pany the combination of the safe was blown oflT, but the safe was not 

 opened. 



EVANSVILLE 



The new saw mill that is being erected on the Ohio river front between 

 Evan.sville and Howell by the Helfrich Lumber & Manufacturing Company 



is al)out roniph'Icd anil will Ite started in operation by the last of .Tanuary 

 or the lirst week in February. The mill has been built on the site of the 

 rdd mill that was destroyed by flre in November. 1915. Slnee that time 

 the Helfrich company has not operated a mill here. The new mill is 

 modern in every respect and is said to be one of the best equipped saw 

 mills in this part of the country. During the past few weeks the company 

 has been receiving a good many logs preparatory to starting tip the new 

 mill. Michael D. Helfrich. head of the company, has purchased a number 

 of large timber tracts during the past few years in Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, and it is figured that he will have ample logs for his local mills 

 for a number of years to come. He figured that it was cheaper to bring 

 the logs here to be sawed up and to have erected mills on the various tim- 

 ber tracts that he now owns in two states. 



Operations have been resumed at the plant of the Grayville Mill & 

 Lumber Company at Grayville, 111., a few miles west of here. The plant 

 was closed down during the holidays. .\ slight reduction In the wage scale 

 has gone into effect at the mill. 



The Evansville Press Club will hold its annual election of officers in 

 February, and it is expected that Claude Wertz of the Maley & Wertz 

 Lumber Company will be reelected secretary and treasurer of the club, 

 which position he has held for a number of years. Mr. Wertz is not a 

 newspaper man, but he has many friends among the local writers and has 

 been a member of the Press Club for a number of years. 



Suit for $50,000 damages on an alleged breach of contract was filed 

 a few days ago in the Vanderburg county circuit court here against the 

 Hercules Buggy Company of this city. The plaintiffs are the Racine 

 Wagon & Carriage Works of Chicago. The complaint sets out that the 

 Hercules company failed to provide carload lots of bodies for motor trucks 

 after the Racine company had advertised them for sale. It alleges twelve 

 contracts were made with Chicago agents to sell the trucks, none of 

 which could be filled because the Hercules company did not supply the 

 bodie.s. Eight different body styles were to have been made, according 

 to the complaint. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company and president of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club has returned from a business trip through 

 the south and while gone inspected the stave mills of his company in the 

 state of Tennessee. 



George O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, has 

 been suffering from a slight attack of the grippe for the pa.st few days. 



Two threatening black hand letters were received a few days ago by 

 .V. F. Karges, president of the Karges Furniture Company of this place 

 and a wealthy b.inker. Both letters were sent by special delivery and 



