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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 10, 1921 



VEGETABLE GLU 



The Ficturc Sliozcs the Present Home of 



PERKMS 



0><l^ (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) 



TRADE MARK 



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ITS FIRST COST IS ITS LAST COST 



Process and Product Patents covering Perkins Glue were granted July 2nd and March 19th, 1912, and 

 have been held valid and infringed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Patents have also 

 been granted in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and other foreign countries. 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Factory and General Offices: LANSDALE, PA. Sales Office: SOUTH BEND, IND. 



Manufacturers in Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel, March 3. All 

 the members reported that they were well stocked with materials, 

 but declared their hope in the early future. 



The cost committee made an exhaustive report on present ele- 

 ments of costs, pointing out the present excessive overhead and cau- 

 tioning manufacturers to correctly compute them to avoid getting 

 into financial difficulties. 



The first annual report of M. Wulpi, commissioner, showed that 

 from an original enrollment of twenty-two manufacturers, the asso- 

 ciation had during its first year grown to forty plants with an out- 

 put of over $5,700,000 annually. Of the $7,264.15 raised to 

 finance the first year a balance of $641 was remaining, after all 

 hills had been paid. 



It was resolved to contribute to the National Advertising Fund of 

 The National Furniture Council. 



The annual election resulted as follows: President, Roy 

 Waggener, Park Furn. Co., Rushville, Ind. ; Vice-president, F. E. 

 Shearman, Jr., Maddox Table Co., Jamestown, N. Y. ; Treasurer, 

 L. C. Umphrey (re-elected), Umphrey Mfg. Co., Crawfordsville, 

 Ind. 



Executive Committee: The Officers and L. T. Hannahs, of 

 Kenosha, Wis., and R. A. Wilhelm, of Sturgip, Mich. 



Delegates to Furniture Council: R. Waggener, Geo. B. Wilson, 

 R. B. Simpson and Commissioner M. Wulpi. 



Delegates and Councillor to U. S. Chamber: President Wag- 

 gener and F. E. Shearman, alternate. 



The contract was renewed with The Central Bureau and M. 

 Wulpi re-elected Commissioner. 



Date and place for next meeting referred to officers. 



Feb. 28 and now is being operated steadily. George O. Worland, 

 the manager, hopes to keep the factory in operation. The com- 

 pany's plant at Mobile, Ala., has been closed down for the past 

 seven weeks. Mr. Worland says the veneer business will pick up 

 as the furniture trade increases and he is looking for a fairly 

 active trade during the present year. Mr. Worland says his com- 

 pany does business in practically every state in the union and 

 pointed out the other day that he has customers at Amherst, 

 Nova Scotia, on an island in the Atlantic coast and other cus- 

 tomers at the other extreme side of the North American continent 

 or at Victoria, B, C. He is also doing business in Mexico, Canada, 

 Europe and South America and during the past fevi^ months has 

 received a number of inquiries from towns and cities in Japan and 

 far-away Australia. There is not a manufacturing concern in the 

 city of Evansville that has a more extended trade area. The busi- 

 ness of the Evansville Veneer Company has increased at rapid 

 strides during the past few years under the efficient management 

 of Mr. Worland. The capital stock of the company during the 

 present year will be increased from $350,000 to $600,000. 



Evansville Veneer Co. Resumes Operations 



After being closed down for several weeks, the plant of the 

 Evansville Veneer Company at Evansville, Ind., started up on 



The plant of the Bockstege Furniture Company at Evansville, 

 Ind., which was closed down recently for a few days, has resumed 

 operations, and employment is given to about 160 men who are 

 working on an average of forty hours a week. The plant was shut 

 down for a few days because of the lack of business. Chair, desk 

 and table companies at Evansville are operating their plants at 

 reduced hours but are expecting to run on a longer schedule a 

 little later on. 



John A. Thompson, formerly a veneer manufacturer at Edinburg, 

 Ind., who died a few weeks ago in a hospital in Indianapolis, left 

 an estate that is valued at nearly $1,000,000. His son, Frank B. 

 Thompson, has been appointed as administrator of the estate. 

 There are three heirs to the estate. 



