February 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



55 



he again became associated with the club and since then has been one of its 

 most prominent members. 



William S. Partington, traffic manager of the Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Company, is back from a business trip to Indianapolis and the central 

 part of the state. 



Francis Joseph Eeitz, who was one of the pioneer hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of Evansville and who for many years was at the head 

 of the John A. Reitz & Sons Company, has been re-elected president of 

 the City National Bank of thLs city, which position he has held for the 

 past twenty-five years. 



LOUISVILLE 



Charles W. Inman. of the Inman Company, operating the luman Veneer 

 & Panel Co., and Inman Furniture Company, who has been interested in 

 numerous ice compaules, has recently chartered another ice company, as 

 the Ridley Ice & Coal Co., capital $40,000. 



A report from English. Ind.. on Feb. 3. stated that Samuel M. Mattox. 

 who with his son Charles Mattox operates a sawmill at English, died at 

 the age of fifty years. The body has been taken to his former homo at 

 Hardinsburg for interment. .V widow and four sons survive. 



John L. Dawson, of the Dawson Lumber Company, Louisville, was mar- 

 ried on January 29. to Mrs. Omega O'Brien, of Louisville, formerly Miss 

 Omega Pitzhugh. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson are spending a honeymoon in 

 New York. 



W. H. Day. of the Wood-Mosaic Company, reports better business and 

 better prospects, reporting that the house had secured several nice orders 

 of late, and had several about to close. Mr. Day has gone East to look 

 after some business. He reported before leaving that while quartered 

 oak was a little dull there had been a very fair demand for plain oak. 

 walnut and poplar, principally in common and better grades. 



Arrangements have been made for holding the annual meeting of the 

 Louisville division of the Southern Hardwood TraflSc Association at the 

 Pendennis Club on Feb. 8, at 7 o'clock. There will be the usual dinner, 

 reports of officers, and a talk by General Counsel J. Van Norman. About 

 forty members are expected to be present. 



J. S. Thompson, of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, has 

 returned from Macon. Ga., where he spent several days last week looking 

 after some traffic matters. 



News was received in Louisville on Jan. 20, of the tragic death of 

 Allan D. Campbell. 23 years of age, Yale graduate, and former artillery 

 officer, who has found badly mangled alongside of the Pennsylvania U. R. 

 tracks in the East. He was killed while on a trip to New York to visit 

 his family. After leaving the army he became connected with the Mengel 

 Company. Louisville, as assistant to Vice-President Arthur D. Allen. 



Norris W. Embry. Jr., son of Norris W. Embry of the Erabry Lumber 

 Company and Embry Box Company, arrived in Louisville on January 15. 

 He was a fine eight-pounder. 



R. R. May of the R. R. May Hardwood Company, Louisville, i-eports 

 better business, he having secured several nice orders in the past two 

 weeks. He is rather optimistic concerning the future. 



ST. LOUIS 



B. T. Browning, a railroad tie dealer, and the North Missouri Central 

 Railway Company filed a stipulation in the Circuit Court compromising 

 litigation ten years old, by which Browning gets $29,000. He alleged the 

 company failed to live up to a contract to buy 166,000 ties from him and 

 he sued for damages. 



F. W. Stockmar, district manager of the Railway Audit & Inspection 

 Company, Inc., predicted today that nearly all industries would be run- 

 ning full blast by March 1. 



Inspection and auditing of industries, especially railways, is the busi- 

 ness of Stockmar's company and his district includes Indiana, Illinois, 

 Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. 



"Men who since last October have been earnestly considering and dis- 

 cussing the situation now are generally optimistic. Manufacturers and 

 retailers have agreed to co-operate in readjusting business. In many lines, 

 especially in household articles, furniture, etc., retail price reductions 

 have been made this week," he said. 



A report circulated here that the furniture factories were to resume full 

 operation late in January wa.s characterized as a mere "shot In the air" 

 by the secretary of the Associated Furniture Manufacturers. He said at 

 present there were hardly any of them working full time ; that the fur- 

 niture factories have had practically no orders for three months. 



Regarding a report that furniture manufacturers were thinking of 

 putting out red gum in place of mahogany furniture, he said this had been 

 done in a few sets of bedroom furniture and had been tried with dining 

 room furniture, but Is not being generally used. 



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