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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1921 



Results from Experience 



Our well selected logs, our careful manufacture and th» 

 grading of our stock, demonstrate a service built on expe- 

 rience that should bring you Into our family fold for fu- 

 ture business. We make Hardwood Lumber that brings a 

 follow-up order. Keep In touch with us when In need of 

 future supply. Dry stock Is scarce now. A careful con- 

 suming manufacturer, however, looka to the future for sup- 

 plies that give satisfaction. 



We desire to get In communication with you so we may 

 know what your needs are and maybe by and by we can 

 help you. The erection of new mills and because of our 

 having a constant eye cast about for Increasing our timber 

 holdings, should put us at the head of the list of mills 

 when you want to buy Pine and Hardwoods. 



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The estimated cost of structures for which permits were issued in 

 January by the building inspector of Baltimore is about $1,700,000, against 

 $1,200,000 more during the corresponding month of last year, showing 

 extent to which construction work has lagged, with detriment to the hard- 

 wood trade. 



COLUMBUS 



The report of the Columbus building department for the month of 

 January shows that a total of 142 permits, having a valuation of $454,695. 

 as compared with 101 permits and a valuation of $954,975 for January 

 of 1920. 



A suit has been filed in the Columbus federal courts by the Osborn 

 Griffln Grocery Company of Mobile, Ala., asking that the Brasher Lumber 

 Company of Columbus be declared a bankrupt. The company was placed 

 in the hands of Harry B. Stafford as receiver several months ago. It 

 operates a mill near Mobile. , 



The capital of the Slagle Lumber Company of Lima, O., has been 

 increased from $15,000 to $300,000. 



The Beloit Woodworking Company of Beloit has been chartered with a 

 capital of .$15,000 by L. E. Allen, H. H. Parsons, A. J. Stanley, A. D. 

 McKenzie and H. P. Lozier. 



Frank B. Pryor, sales manager of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 has purchased the residence of the late George F. Burba at 1708 Franklin 

 avenue, which he will make his future home. 



The capital of the George N. Comfort Lumber Company of Cleveland 

 has been increased from $50,000 to $250,000. 



At the recent meeting of the Union Association of Lumber, Sash and 

 Door Salesmen held in Columbus it was announced that E. C. Callanan, 

 Jr.. of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, won the first prize and C. C. 

 Berry of the Ashland Hardwood Company of Ashland, Ky., the second 

 prize in the membership contest. The prizes were presented by W. D. 

 Magruden the chairman of the membership committee. 



A meeting of the stockholders of the Mathews Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Columbus was held Feb. 7 for the purpose of increasing the 

 authorized capital of the company from $25,000 to $50,000. 



E. C. Callanan, Jr., in the sales department of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, has been elected president of the Gyro Club, a local 

 branch of the International Gyro Club. Frank H. Lurabert, Jr., another 

 lumberman, was elected vice-president. 



J. M. Andrews, who has been manager of the lumber department of the 

 Central West Coal & Lumber Company of Columbus, has resigned to start 

 a wholesale lumber business under the name of the Andrew Lumber Com- 



pany. Offices will be located in the James building. He will deal in 

 hardwoods and southern pine. 



E. M. Stark of the American Column & Lumber Company reports con- 

 ditions about the same as during the month of January. There appears to 

 be plenty of confidence, but buying has not increased materially. He is of 

 the opinion that things are now headed the other way and that business 

 will gradually improve. 



W. M. Ritter, head of the company bearing his name, has returned from 

 a hunting trip in Florida. 



H. R. Allen, head of the H. R. Allen Lumber Company, has returned 

 from a buying trip in the south. 



CINCINNATI 



The Cincinnati delegation that attended the convention of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association at Indianapolis was headed by 

 J. C. West, president of the J. C. West Lumlier Company ; Herbert Bau- 

 man, a wholesaler, and W. S. Sterritt, lumber exporter. 



Retention of John A. Morris as chairman of the Cincinnati operating 

 committee, which handles the interchange of freight in this locality, was 

 decided on at a meeting of the Cincinnati Traffic Club at the Chamber of 

 Commerce last week. Mr. Morris has been terminal manager three years 

 under federal operation and was later made chairman of 'the operating 

 committee. He was complimented on his keeping the local terminal free 

 of congestion by Newell Hargrave, president of the Lumbermen's Club. 



J. H. Townshend of Memphis, secretary-manager of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association, was a visitor in Cincinnati last week, leaving 

 the Queen City to go to Louisville. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Smiths' Company, which is composed of Earl V. Smith, Byron 

 Smith and Harry E. Smith, has purchased land near the Grand Trunk 

 railroad at Valparaiso, Ind., and will construct buildings for a planing 

 mill, a retail coal business and a lumber yard. The company will begin 

 operations immedlatel7. 



During the past three weeks building permits issued show a total of 

 about three times the average value of an average week at the city 

 inspector's office. The large number of permits and the large volume of 

 proposed construction has been instrumental in giving the local situation 

 a much more healthy aspect. 



Plans are being made here for a meeting, within the next two months 

 of all lumbermen, retail and jobbing, and men interested in the lumber 

 Industry, at which time an attempt will be made to weld all the men into 

 a big lumbermen's club. R. S. Poster and O. D. Haskett of this city are 

 in.strumental in arranging for the meeting. 



EVANSVILLE 



Daniel Wertz and Gus Bauman of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Companv, 

 and George H. Foote, president of the Evansville Band Mill Company, 

 have returned from a business trip to Indianapolis. 



J. C. Greer will leave in a short time for a trip through the southern 

 states, and while gone he will inspect the stave plants of the company 

 located in the state of Tennessee. 



D. B. MacLaren, lumber dealer of Indianapolis, who formerly was engaged 

 in business in this city, was in Evansville a few days ago calling upon the 

 local trade and reported that he found things rather dull, but he believes 

 that the lumber business will pick up some before the first of April. 



The Bass Lumber Company is the name ot a new company that has 

 recently started in business at White Plains, Ky., a few miles south of 

 here. The company reports it has found business quite good. 



During the past few weeks a good many logs have been rafted down 

 the Wabash river for the Grayville Mill & Lumber Company at Gray- 

 ville. III., a few miles west of here. The logs were cut from a tract of 

 land near Cowling, Wabash county, 111., and the logs are said to be 

 unusually fine in quality. The plant of the Grayville Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany is now being operated on full time and a good many log.s are being 

 sawed up. 



Elmer D. Luhring of the Luhring Lumber Company and M. K. Lukens of 

 the M. and I. Lumber Company have been selected as directors of the 

 Mercantile-Commercial bank of this city to serve the ensuing year. 



Paul W. Luhring of the Luhring Lumber Company and a number of 

 other lumbermen of this section are interested in a proposition to hold a 

 Hoo-lloo concatenation here some time in the spring. 



The Martin County Hardwood Lumber Company began business at 

 Shoals. Ind., recently and is said to be doing a nice business. 



The Ruby Lumber Company, T. E. Ruby, president, at Madisonville, Ky., 

 has filed notice with the secretary of state that it will cease doing busi- 

 ness as a corporation and in the future will do business as a partnership. 



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

 referred to as the "Daddy of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club" in a 

 special article in the Evansville Courier on Sunday, Feb. 6. The article 

 gave a history of the local club, showing that it was upon the sugges- 

 tion of Mr. Worland fourteen years ago that the club was organized. Mr. 

 Worland was the first secretary of the club and remained in this posi- 

 tion until after his removal to Memphis, and upon his return to Evanfviile 



