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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25, 1921 



Bannister Made President of Long-Bell 



The cliTtiiin of K. A. Long, for twcnt.v-slx years president of the Long- 

 Bell Lumber Company, as chairman of the board of directors, and the nam- 

 ing of F. J. Bannister as president of the company, was announced recently, 

 followins the apnual meeting of the board of directors in Kansas City, Mo. 



In assuming the chairmanship of the board, Mr. Long will continue the 

 same active participation in the affairs of the company which has marked 

 his connection with Long-Bell interests since the original E. A. Long & Co. 

 was fonneil at Columbus, Kan., in 1S75. 



.loining the Long-Bell organization in 1SS2 as bookkeeper, Mr. Bannister 

 was made assistant secretary in 1900. The next year he became secretary 

 and in 1903 secretary -treasurer. In 1912 he became vice-president of the 

 associated companies, and in 1914 was elected vice-president of the Long- 

 Bell Lumber Company and president of the associated companies. He held 

 the latter position at the time of his election as president. He will con- 

 tinue to be president of the associated companies. 



Mr. Bannister was born in Watcrtown, X. Y., in 1S69. and with his 

 parents moved to Olathe, Kan., in 1877. Mr. Bannister now lives at Hick- 

 man Mills, near Kansas City, on LaCima farm and is a Jersey cattle 

 enthusiast. He is a director of the Commerce Trust Company of Kansas 

 City, member of a number of clubs and is well known in all business and 

 civic circles. 



Changes in organization at this time also include the election of M. B. 

 Nelson, general sales manager, as first vice-president. Mr. Nelson joined 

 the Long-Bell organization in 1898. ,T. 11. Foresman, manager of the 

 retail department, who has been with the company since 1889, was elected 

 second vice-president. J. D. Tennant, manager of the manufacturing 

 department, was elected third vice-presidi-nt. Mr. Tennant liccame a mem- 

 ber of the organization in 1898. 



Snark of the Universe Well Again 



Laurent M. Tully of the L. M. Tully Lunilier Company, St. Louis. Mo., 

 and Snark of the Universe of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, 

 operated on lately at St. John's Hospital, has fully recovered and is back 

 at his otfice. 



American Overseas Company Expands 



The American Overseas Forwarding Company iumounces that It took 

 over the Buckeye Forwarding Compan.v, Columbus, O., effective Feb. 14, 

 and that Theo Davis, now district manager of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic .\ssociation, with headquarters at Cincinnati, who was formerly 

 connected with the absorbed company, will have charge of all the business 

 of the American Overseas Forwarding Company in central and eastern 

 territory as general agent. 



Absorption of the Buckeye Forwarding Company represents the first 

 notable expansion made by the American Overseas Company since it was 

 organized less than two years ago. The company now has offices at Mem- 

 phis. New Orleans, Helena, .\rk., Louisville and Cincinnati. 



Tustin Company Increases Capital 



The Tustin Hardwood Lumber Company has recently filed application 

 tor an amendment to its charter whereby it seeks to increase its capital 

 stock from .flS.OOO to $125,000. by way of converting its surplus into work- 

 ing capital. Reorganization of the company is contemplated and under 

 the reorganization two employes that have been with the firm for some 

 years are taken in as stockholders. They are J. F. Mingea, who is to be 

 secretar.v, and F. A. Peltier, who is to become a member of the directorate. 

 Jos. A. Peters, another new stockholder, will head the accounting depart- 

 ment. J. L. Mcree is to be general counsel. 



This company operates a large hardwood mill at Ruleville, Miss., main- 

 tains extensive yards in Memphis and has sales offices at Detroit, Mich., 

 in charge of H. E. JlcClure. 



Strong Organization Enters Wholesale Lumber Field 



A most important addition to the Chicago wholesale lumber gi'oup has 

 been made with the launching of the National Lumber & Timber Company 

 by Edward L. Thornton, former president of the Thornton-Claney Lumber 

 Company ; W. B. Vanlandingham, formerly manager of the southern pine 

 department and purchasing agent of the Edward Hines Lumber Company, 

 and Bert E. Cook, Illinois sales representative of the Missouri Lumber & 

 Land Exchange Company of Kansas City, until his resignation Feb. 1 to 

 join his present associates in the formation of the new company. Mr. 

 Thornton is president of the company, Mr. Vanlandingham the vice-presi- 

 dent-secretary and Mr. Cook the treasurer, .\11 three of the organizers of 

 the company have behind them years of successful endeavor in the lumber 

 Industry and give to their new concern an accumulation of most valuable 

 experience and prestige. 



The new company has been incorporated and offices opened at 705 Tower 

 building, 6 North Michigan avenue. The company is incorporated for a 

 large figure and will handle both hard and soft woods, wholesaling their 

 lumber wherever a proper trade can be made in this country or abroad. 



Affiliated with the National Lumber & Timber Company, but ao entirely 

 separate organization except for Its officers. Is the Thornton-Vanlanding- 

 ham-Cook Lumber Company, which will operate a distributing yard on the 

 north side of Chicago, from which the city and territory within its ship- 

 ping zone will be served. The yard is situated on Elston avenue, between 

 North Central avenue and the main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, 

 St. Paul & Puget Sound railroad. It will carry in pile from 20,000.000 



to 30,000,000 feet of diversified lumber and timbers, and will be equipped 

 with a saw mill and planing mill. The y^ard is large enough to permit 

 ef the installation of a creosoting plant ancf box factory should the owners 

 ever decide to make these additions to their equipment. 



The Tbornton-Vanlandingham-Cook Lumber Company expects to com- 

 plete the construction of railroad tracks, saw mill and planing mill, offices, 

 sheds and all other needed buildings by May 1. But it will be in posi- 

 tion to serve its trade within the ne.xt thirty-five days. 



Hanbury Launches Wholesale Firm 



The H. L. Hanbury Lumber Company is now contesting for business in 

 the Chicago field, having been organized and incorporated by H. L. Han- 

 bury, who is president of the new concern. The compan.v has opened 

 offices at 716 Ashland Block, Chicago. It will carry on a wholesale lousi- 

 ness In all woods, with the exception of northern stock. The vice-presi- 

 dent of the company is W. W. Crissluger and the secretary-treasurer S. J. 

 Andalman. Mr. Hanbury is only thirty years old, but has had eighteen 

 years' experience in the lumber business. In point of his experience, Mr. 

 Crissinger is one of the oldest lumber salesmen in the Chicago territory, 

 having been at it thirty-five .years. Mr. Andalman is an attorney and 

 master in chancery in the circuit court of Chicago .nnd will not take an 

 active part in the business. 



Chicago Lumbermen's Association Engages New Secretary 



A uew secretar,v for the l,uml)cTiiien's .\ssociatii)n of ('liica^ti. Samuel 

 F. D. Meffley, formerly of Toledo. O., was selected by the directors <i( the 

 association at a meeting held on Wednesday, February 10. Mr. Meffley 

 immediately succeeded 

 Edwin E. Hooper, who 

 resigned the secretary- 

 ship of the association 

 at the last annual meet- 

 ing, following a service 

 of thirty-two years. 



Secretary Meffley has 

 behind him a wide and 

 useful experience in as- 

 sficiation work, which 

 is expected to he of ma- 

 terial assistance to him 

 in his work for the 

 lumbermen. He was 

 assistant secretary of | 

 the Toledo Commerce ' 

 Club for four years and 

 during tliat time served 

 as organizing ami tii- 

 rectiug secretary of a 

 multiplicity of war 

 work organizations 

 throughout northwest- 

 ern Ohio. Mr. Meffley 

 also served a year as 

 secretary-manager of 

 the Toledo Automobile 

 Club and for the past 

 eight months has been 

 manager of the Illinois 



Meffley 



\utomoblle Club, with headtiuarters in Chicago. 

 He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1913. His forte is asso- 

 ciation organization and he expects to immediately set in movement a 

 campaign to enlarge the membership of the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Chicago. 



Huge Missouri Land Transfer 



In what was doubtless the largest real estate transfer ever recorded 

 in Mississippi County, Mo., the Three States Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton, Mo., transferred to its individual members, 21,360 acres of land in 

 that county also half a section in New Madrid County. 



Suit was filed January 22 in the Circuit Court here for title by members 

 of the company. The company several years ago paid a $5,000 fine under 

 the statute prohibiting a corporation from holding undeveloped land 

 longer than five years. 



Second Victim of Auto Crash Dies 

 Edwin L. Ilalloway, aged 31, personnel manager of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, died at Grant Hospital, Columbus, recently from the 

 effects of an automobile accident Jan. 1. He was injured at the same 

 time that Harvey Derne, production manager of the company, was killed. 

 For a time he was expected to recover, but a wound received while he was 

 serving in the United States army in France reopened aud death ensued. 

 He was a member of the Twenty-seventh division during the world war. 

 coming out as a captain. He was a member of a number of clubs, includ- 

 ing the Gyro Club. The funeral took place at Columbus. 



Chas. W. Fish Sales Force Meets 



One of the meetings that go far towards making the Chas. W. Fish 

 Lumber Company one of the most efficient organizations in the North 

 was a general conference of the entire sales force of this company held 

 at Elcho. Wis., the week of February 1. Several days were put in to 

 splendid advantage by the salesmen, visiting each of the five mills of the 



