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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1921 



Paxton Company Opening Branch Offices 



The raxton I.uml«T Corpnmtlon of .SavaniKili, Ga., is extending its 

 selling organization in Georgia. On March 13 a branch office was opened 

 In Macon and on April 1 or 15 the company expects to open another branch 

 In Atlanta. Both of these branches will handle southern hardwoods. 

 yellow pine and cypress and will be in charge of men thoroughly 

 experienced in all these lumbers and equipped to give the trade the same 

 high quality of service and same fair treatment that characterize the 

 dealings of the Paxton Lumber Corporation. Lee Bennett will manage 

 the Macon office and P. A. Brewer will l>e the manager of the Atlanta 

 branch. 



Personnel of Baird & Rees Company 



Baird & Kees Lumber Company. :i IMttsburgli corporation, capitalized at 

 $50,000.00, with offices in the Bessemer building, Pittsburgh, Pa., have 

 recently engaged in the general wholesale lumber business. 



C. T. Baird, .Tr.. president, was formerly .sales manager of The Germain 

 Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Mr. Baird's entire business career has been devoted to the lumber 

 Industr.v. He is a native of Louisiana and received his early schooling at 

 the mills in Louisiana and Texas, later catering the commission business 

 at EI Paso, where he remained until we entered the war, then enlisted in 

 the army, serving a major portion of the time as a first lieutenant with 

 . th 2nd Reg. Inf. U. S. Regular .^rmy. After the war, he established a 

 Pittsburgh office for the W. R. Piclterlng Lumber Company of Kansas City, 

 Mo., leaving them to accept the position of sales manager for The Germain 

 Company. 



James Rees, vice president, is one of the old residents of Dover, Ohio, 

 and is in the retail lumber business, being president of the Union Lumber 

 Company, Dover and New Philadelphia, Ohio. 



A. L. Rees, secretary and treasurer, has been brought up in the lumber 

 business, his first experience being in the employ of the Union Lumber. 

 Ml'. Rees comes from a lineage of lumber people, the Rees' having been 

 engaged in the lumber industry for the past four generations. Mr. Rees 

 served in the army throughout the period of the war and after receiving 

 his discharge accepted a position in Pittsburgh with Krauss Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company, New Orleans. 



New Helfrich Mill Is Operating 



The new saw mill of the Helfrich Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 on tlxe Ohio river between Evansville and Howell, a suburli. was started in 

 operation a few days ago and is now being operated steadily and the com- 

 pany has an ample supply of logs on hand. The Helfrich company's old 

 mil! on the same site where the new mill was erected, was destroyed by 

 fire six years ago and since then the company has been disposing of a 

 large amount of lumber that it had on hand following the fire. The new 

 mill Is modern in every particular and is one of the best equipped plants 

 in this section. Michael D. Helfrich. the president of the company, who 

 Is one of the wealthiest men in Evansville, during the past several years 

 has bought up large tracts of timber lands in Kentucky and Tennessee 

 and as a result he will have plenty of logs to run his mill here for years 

 to come. Mr. Helfrich figured that it would be cheaper to bring the logs 

 here and saw them up than to erect mills on the various timber tracts. 

 For many years past the Helfrich Company has been one of the best 

 known in this region. For a long time the company got the bulk of its 

 lumber supply from along Green river in western Kentucky. 



Strong Joins Peytona Company 



Edwin C. Strong, manager of the Philadelphia, Pa., office of the Forest 

 Lumber Company, resigned that position March 1,'» to become sales man- 

 ager of the Peytona Lumber Company, Huntington. W. Va. He will direct 

 the distribution of this large company's product from the headquarters in 

 Huntington. This company operates two large band mills in West Virginia, 

 producing high grade hardwoods in addition to liandling other stocks of 

 the same high character from close connections. Mr. Strong's connection 

 with the Forest Lumber Company extended over a period of five years, 

 during which he handled the sales and directed the business of the company 

 in the Eastern territory. Prior to that experience he spent some time on 

 the road and before that was employed by the Fenwick Lumber Company 

 of Fenwick. W. Va., at its West Virginia operation, for several years. His 

 experience in the hardwood business totals thirteen years, which has made 

 him unusually thorough. For the past few years he has been actively 

 identified with the Eastern Lumber Salesmen's Association, and is now a 

 director and vice-president of that organization. 



Lyons Hopes to Come Back 



The Lyons Lumber Company, of Middlesboro, Ky., recently went into 

 bankruptcy, and is in the hands of receiver J. A. Sanders, of Knoxville, 

 appointed by the Federal Court at Maysville. O. S. Lyons, president of 

 the company, was in Ix)uisville a few days ago, in an eiTort to secure a 

 big order for plow handles and l>eams. amounting to about $60,000, which 

 would enable him to work up material on hand and pull out. It is reported 

 that liabilities are only about $15,000. and assets close to .$33,000. 



Mowbray Recuperates in Arkansas 

 F. W. Mowbray, president of the Mowbray & Robinson Lumber Company, 

 who has been at I'hoenix, .\rizona. for several months for his health, is now 

 at Hot Springs, Ark., where he will remain for several weeks before 

 returning to Cincinnati. E. O. Robinson, vice-president of the company, 

 has returned from a month's hunting and fishing trip in Florida. 



FuUenlove Joins W. P. Brown & Sons 



Tom .T. Ii"^illenlove, former vice-president of the Churchill-Milton Com- 

 pany, who has been salesmanager for the E. V. Knight Plywooti Sales 

 Company, New Albany, handling the lumber output of the Navco Hardwood 

 Company, has gone with the sales department of W. P. Brown ,.S: Sons 

 Lumber Company. Mr. FuUenlove has been active in the hardwood trade 

 for years, having been sales manager some years ago of the Louisville 

 l*oint Lumber Company, was later owner of the Dixie Lumber Company, 

 which latter concern was absorbed by the Churchill-Milton Lumber Com- 

 pany. FuUenlove was assistant to the late Smith Milton, when the latter 

 was sales manager of the Louisville Point Lumber Co. 



Buggy Manufacturer Kills Himself 



.Tames B. Kaler, age sixty, president of the Harper Buggy Company at 

 Columbia City, Ind., which was destroyed by fire March 12, committed 

 suicide March 13. Ill health and the loss he suffered from the fire is 

 believed to have been the cause for his act. His body was found by his 

 nephew, Walpole Kaler, general manager of the buggy plant. The Harper 

 Buggy Company was established in 1890 and did business In several states. 

 Loss, estimated at $140,000, with insurance of $60,000, was suffered by 

 the company, the origin of which is unknown. 



Widow of Otto Duker Dies 



Mrs. Anna C. Duker, widow of Otto Duker, founder of the well-known 

 lumber and milling firm of Otto Duker & Company, Baltimore. Md., 

 died at her home, in the Tudor Hall Apartments, on March 10 after an 

 illness of several months from the infirmities of old age. She was 83 years 

 old. Surviving are three sons, .T. Edward Duker, Herman H. Duker and 

 Henry P. Duker, all engaged in the lumber or box making business, and 

 three daughters. 



Kelley Joins Landeck Company 



The announcement that W. A. Kelh-y. a man tif wide general experience 

 in the hardwood and other branches of the lumber industry, has joined 

 the Chicago sales force of the Landeck Lumber Company, has been made 

 iiy J. L. Pomeroy. Chicago manager of the company. Mr. Kelley was 

 formerly with the Lincoln Lumber Company of Chicago. He will assist in 

 the marketing of the wide variety of lumber handled by the Landeck com- 

 pany. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



A powerful assembly of home buililing propagauda will be presented to 

 the people of Chicago in the way of the Own Your Home Exposition, 

 which opens at the Coliseum March 26 and will continue until April 2. 

 The whole subject of home building and furnishing from the architect's 

 plans to the finished dwelling, will be visualized in a manner that promises 

 to be most alluring and effective. The keynote of the exposition will he 

 a complete modern village, with tree lined streets, terraced lawns and 

 modern homes. Detailed exhibits will demonstrate every phase of home 

 building, and in both of these the lumber industry w-ill make the proper 

 showing. A number of the lumber associations will have exhibits, among 

 which will be a complete home, which will be shown by the Chicago Lum- 

 bermen's Association. The exposition is expected to have a tremendous 

 influence in reviving activities of the building industry in Chicago. 



Chicago will be the scene of an important meeting of the committee on 

 Inter-Association Arbitration at the Drake Hotel, 10 a. m. Monday, March 

 2S. Dwight Hinckley, chairman of the committee, has requested the 

 attendance of the other members of the committee, who are: J. B. 

 Montgomery, Pittsburgh ; J. H. Burton, New York ; Edgar Cummings, 

 Cincinnati; Findley M. Torrence, Xenia, 0.; C. D. Root, Crown Point, 

 Ind. ; J. W. Mayhew. Columbus, O. The secretaries of various lumber 

 manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing associations have also been 

 Jisked to send representatives. It is hoped that the meeting will result 

 in definite progress toward the establishment of uniform arbitration 

 methods. The committee was appointed at the Trade Ethics Conference, 

 which met in Cincinnati in October, 1920. 



It is also probable that the committee on Terms of Sale and Uniform 

 Order Blank will meet in Chicago at the same time. This committee 

 comprises the following: C. V. McCreight, Pittsburgh, chairman; Warren 

 J. Dufifey, Toledo, O. ; L. P. Lewin. Cincinnati, O. ; W. G. Sweet, Elmira, 

 N. Y. ; F. S. Underhill, Philadelphia. Pa. ; Max Myers, Cleveland, O. ; 

 Chas. B. Carothcrs, Memphis, Tenn., and M. Krauss. New Orleans, La. 



F. H. Burke, Cleveland. C, representative of the H. F. Below Lumber 

 Company, has moved to Chicago to make his headquarters at the Chicago 

 oflice of the company for a time. 



Charles Dregge of the Nichols & Cox company. Grand Rapids. Mich., 

 was in Chicago the latter part of the week ending March 19. 



C. L. White of the Breece Manufacturing Company, Portsmouth, O., was 

 in Chicago March 18. 



Among the hardwood lumbermen from various sections of the country 

 visiting in Chicago last week are the following : . W. H. Day, manager of 

 the lumber department of the Wood-'Mosaic Company, Louisville, Ky, ; 



