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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 25, 1921 



Schmoe Will Build New Factory 



Plans for a proposed $30,000 furniture manufacturing concern 

 in Shelbyville, Ind., were disclosed through action taken by the 

 Shelbyville city council, at its meeting March 15, on the petition of 

 the C. F. Schmoe Furniture Company for the evacuation of a 

 blind alley in the Riverside addition of the city. An ordinance 

 providing for the evacuation of the alley was passed by the council 

 with rules suspended. 



Although it had been generally understood that the C. F. 

 Schmoe Furniture Company contemplated future activites, nothing 

 definite was known of the plans until the petition was presented 

 March 15, Mr. Schmoe stating that all arrangements for the 

 proposed factory will be completed within a few days and con- 

 struction work on the plant will be started very soon. The con- 

 cern will employ from 50 to 100 men at the beginning and will 

 be capitalized for $30,000 or more. 



The Schmoe Furniture Company was established in Shelbyville 

 about 1 7 years ago and through jts enterprise and progress has 

 been responsible for much of the building and improvement of the 

 east section of the city. The plant was sold two years ago to the 

 L. A. Young Industries Co., Inc., and operations were closed by 

 Mr. Schmoe in June, 1919. He explained to the city council that 

 he had considered himself at the retiring age when he sold the 

 plant, but after two years of retirement, he finds he has "too 

 much pep to remain idle" and now he proposes to re-enter thfe 

 activities of the city. 



Mr. Schmoe stated that there has been no definite decision on 

 the class of article which will be manufactured here although it is 

 probable that the firm will go back to the manufacture of kitchen 

 cabinets. 



in Africa and Central America. Reports reaching Louisville were 

 to the eflect that he was killed by a falling log on his own opera- 

 tions. 



Mahogany Operator Killed 



News was recently received in Louisville relative to the death at 

 Benqueviego, British Honduras, of Carlton L. Dodd, 39 years of 

 age, formerly resident of Louisville, who for the past several years 

 has been in the mahogany lumber business, having entered in 1913, 

 following several years with the C. C. Mengel & Brother Interests, 



Raab Chair Company Control Changes 



Transferral of the control of the John D. Raab Chair Company 

 to J. Hampton Hoult, Martin J. Dregge, and Edward J. Gamble, 

 all officers of the Luce Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 has just been completed for a consideration estimated at more than 

 $750,000. The purchase was made from John D. Raab, a pioneer 

 manufacturer and designer. The two industries, now placed under 

 the same direction, represent one of the largest single furniture 

 manufactories in the United States, employing more than 1,200 

 workers and having a combined output of $6,000,000 annually. 

 Permanent organization of the Raab Company is now under way. 

 it is believed capitalization will be increased to $1,000,000 and it 

 will be operated as a separate unit. 



Dregge and Hoult have long been identified w^ith the Luce Furni- 

 ture company, one of the oldest and best known concerns in the 

 business. Both men received their furniture education in the Luce 

 plant. Last year they bought the stock of Philo C. Fuller, then 

 president of the company, and secured control and practically sole 

 ownership of the concern. The Luce company does a business of 

 approximately $4,000,000 a year and employs, when running to 

 full capacity, some 800 men. 



The John D. Raab Chair company is about 1 5 years old and 

 has been producing in that time some of the finest furniture turned 

 out in Grand Rapids. Mr. Raab recently completed a fine new fac- 

 tory with the most modern equipment. This plant has a capacity 

 of about $2,000,000 and employs around 400 men. Mr. Raab, 

 about two years ago, bought the plant of Stowe & Davis, manufac- 

 turers of office and bank equipment, and promptly erected a new^ 

 and modern factory plant. Now that he has sold the John D. Raab 

 company he will devote his time and attention to the Stowe & 

 Davis plant. The purchase by Dregge and Hoult of the Raab plant 

 will give them probably the largest furniture output of any plant 

 in America at least. 



Photos Courtesy of .American Walnut Mftrs.' Ass'n 



Photograph on the reader's left shows veneer slicing machine cutting figured walnut log into standard 1 28" veneer. Sliced veneer is quarter cut and shows a 

 stripe figure and often a cross figure. 



Picture on the reader's right is of rotary veneer machine ready to cut ten-foot figured walnut log. Before it was brought to the cutting machine log was 

 steamed and peeled. The rotary machine will turn out veneer of the highest quality. 



