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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1921 



Address, "The Lumber Retailer," John E. Lloyd, president National 

 Betail Lumber Dealers' Association. 



Address, Magnus W. Alexander, director of National Industrial Confer- 

 ence Board. 



Address, Hon. K. M. Barton, chairman United States Railroad Labor 

 Board. 



Afternoon Session, 2 O'clock 

 Presiding, John Henry Kirby, President 



Disi'ussion of problems of federal taxation of direct interest to lumber- 

 men, under auspices Advisory Taxation Committee, Robert B. Goodman, 

 chairman. 



.■Vddress, L. C. Boyle, counsel. 



Address, ".Some Questions Involved in Income Tax Litigation," James 

 Andrews, member Advisory Tax Committee. 



With the Trade 



Proposed Uniform Order Blank 



The committee on terms of sale and trade ethics of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association has completed the preparation of a 

 uniform order blank, which will be submitted for the approval of the 

 members of the association at the annual meeting in Chicago at the Drake 

 Hotel, March 29 and 30. .Announcing the completion of the labors of the 

 committee, F. S. Underbill, chairman, declared that the order blank origi- 

 nally adopted by the Ohio .Association of Retail Lumber Dealers was used 

 as a basis and that three conferences had subsequently resulted in the draft 

 DOW ready for submission to the annual convention. "Unquestionably the 

 blank as proposed can be improved upon to meet varying circumstances and 

 conditions," said Mr. Underbill, "but the enclosed is the result of careful 

 consideration by various association representatives who attended the 

 conferences. We. therefore, request that you study this form carefully 

 and be prepared to discuss its merits or faults at our annual...." A 

 reduced copy of the blank follows : 



BKCOND TZNTATIVI DKATT 09 riOPOaKD UNIVKBXAL OUtn BLANK 



ORDER 



John Doe Lumber Company 



No. . Strett (or Bldg.) 



CINCINNATt. OHIO 



Buyer's Order No^ _ 



Seller's Order No... 



Date , 192.- 



To _ Address -.... 



Ship to At 



For ^ „.„ ^ B. B. Delivery... 



Send Invoice to _- „ At 



SHIP THE FOLLOWING 



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INSERT HEBE ANY CHANGES. OB ADDITIONS, IN THIS OBDER: 



Thli OnW Ir Uket) ■nbjeci u> accepUnce or rejection by Seller's home 



?**'>''' <l»ya 'rom daU hereof, to be forthwith confirmed lo 



ACCEPTED; For 



By 



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Thejohn DoeLumber 

 Company 



Baltimore Exports Recede 



The quiet prevailing in the foreign business is plainly reflected in the 

 statement of exports for January, which was issued two weeks ago and 

 which shows a decline in the declared value of the shipments from $337,615 

 for January, 1920, to $226,328 for the first month of the current year. 

 The biggest drop was in oak boards, which declines from 1,497,000 feet, 

 of a declared value of $135,123 for January, 1920, to 425,000 feet, of a 

 declared value of $53,977 for last January. There was also a heavy reces- 

 sion in the shipments of poplar boards, which amounted to 620,000 feet, 

 of a declared value of $53,769 for January, 1920, against only 85,000 feet, 

 of a declared value of $11,616 for Januar.v, 1921. The shipments of 

 implement handles dropped from $62,001 in January, 1920, to $16,189 for 

 the same month of the present year. There were also some gains, to be 

 sure, these being mainl.v in hardwood boards, with an increase from 

 158,000 feet, of a declared value of $16,789 for January, 1920, to 452,000 

 feet, of a declared value of $53,809 for last January, while staves Jumped 

 from 8,260, worth $3,717, in January, 1920, to 270,382, of a declared value 

 of $32,569, and in "other manufactures of wood, for which the figures are 

 respectively $9,345 and $28,554. 



Burr Joins Chicago Mill & Lumber Co. 



W. D. Burr, secretary of the National Association of Box Manufacturers, 

 has resigned from that position to accept a position as assistant to Vice- 

 President Yegge of the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company at Chicago. Mr. 

 Burr's resignation became operative March 7 and his position has been 

 assumed by H. L. Pease, assistant secretary of the association, whose head- 

 quarters have been in Boston. 



The Chicago Mil! & Lumber Company also announces that W. A. Jackson, 

 recently export trafHc manager of the Certainteed Products Corporation, 

 has .I'oined the sales force of the Chicago concern. 



Tustin Marries Cincinnati Girl 



Cincinnati papers of March 17 announced the marriage on that date of 

 Clyde E. Tustin, 35 years old, president of the Tustin Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of Memphis, and Miss Louise Meldaht. 27 years old. The couple 

 was married by the Rev. Jesse Halsey, pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian 

 church, and witnessed by several Cincinnati luml^ermen, friends of Mr. 

 Tustin. 



Peavy-Moore May Build Mill 



While no definite announcement has been made, it is currently reported 

 that the Peavy-Moore Lumber Company will begin at an early date the 

 erection of a 200,000 foot hardwood mill at Jasper, Texas, which will be 

 the largest in the hardwood belt. For some time the company has been 

 buying up hardwood stumpage in that district, and now controls over 

 two leagues. More than a year ago the compan.v bought the timber 

 holdings of the Sabine Tram Company and this gave it a big hardwood 

 stumpage. 



Chipman Goes Abroad 



L. L. Chipman, manager of the export department of the Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company with headquarters in Beaumont, will sail March 22 

 from New York for Europe to gain first hand information of conditions 

 on the other side. 



Painter Will Assist Long-Bell Ad Manager 



The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo., announces that 

 Leonard Painter, who has been connected with the company's advertising 

 department about a year and a half, has been appointed to the newly 

 created position of assistant advertising manager. 



Mr. Painter has also been made editor of The Log of Long-Bell, the 

 company's monthly house organ, the copy for which, as assistant editor, 

 he has prepared since he joined the department. 



Prior to his association with the Long-Bell Lumber Compan.v, Mr. 

 Painter spent seven years in various capacities in the newspaper business. 

 He was editor of a country daily, a member of the editorial staff of the 

 Kansas City Star and left his post as an Associated Press editor to joiu 

 this company. 



R. E. Brown Forms Company 



R. E. Brown, who for eleven years directed the purchase and utilization 

 of lumber for the Fisher Body Corporation, wishes to announce that he 

 has formed the R. E. Brown Lumber Company and has opened an otRce at 

 820 Book building, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Brown will conduct a wholesale 

 business in which the highest class lumber from the best mills will be 

 handled, and personal attention will be given to its manufacture in order 

 to render the maximum of quality and service to the firm's customers. 

 Northern, southern and West Virginia hardwoods will be handled. 



Kelly Made Hardwood Manager 



The hardwood department of the L. N. Lafferty Lumber Company, 704 

 Franklin Trust building, Philadelphia, has been placed under the manage- 

 ment of A. G. Kelly, who for the past eight years has been connected with 

 the Hutchinson Lumber Company, Huntington, W. Va. 



The selection of Mr. Kelly for this position is another Indication of his 

 ability to continually advance. He began his lumber career in the woods 

 and has steadily climbed through all the successive stages of the business. 

 This has made him thoroughly familiar with every phase of the hardwood 

 industry from production to merchandising. He is widely known among 

 the trade and expects to expand and increase his acquaintance and stand- 

 ing through his latest connection. 



