November 10, 1915. 



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This shows the possibility of FIGURED QUARTERED RED GUM as used In our private 



offlce. We specialize this wood 



Importers and 

 Matiufacturers 



Mahogany 



and 



Cabinet Woods 



SAWED AND SLICED 



Qtmrtered INDIANA 

 White Oak, Red Oak, 

 Figured Red Gum, 

 American Wahiut, Etc. 



Rotary Cut Stock in 

 Poplar & Gum for Cross 

 Banding, Back Panels, 

 Drawer Bottoms & Panels. 



I The Evansville Veneer Company, Evansville, Indiana 



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The White River Lumber Company of South Bend was incorp&rattd a 

 few days ago iu tliis state to buy and sell at wholesale and retail. The 

 capital stork was $5,000 and the directors are Charles G. Powell. Kred .T. 

 Koy.s. and Vee O. Woodru£F. 



A sawmill owned by Elmer Owens of North Vernon, Ind., was burned 

 recently causing a loss of $5,000. There was no insurance. 



C. E. Wilder, head of the Wilder Lumber Company of Brazil, Ind.. died 

 late last month at his winter home in Manatee, Fla. lie was seventy-nine 

 years old, and was considered one of the best-known lumbermen in the 

 state. 



The H. F. Reis Lumber Company of St. Louis was allowed damages to 

 the extent of $5,530 in federal court here last week against the Talge 

 Mahogany Company of this city in a damage suit in which the plaiutifiE 

 soujht $10,000. The Reis company alleged that the Talge company had 

 sold it 1,000.000 feet of hard lumber in Wayne county, Missouri, and that 

 the lumber was to be hauled by the defendant to the Frisco lines before 

 August 1. 1914. On that date 600,000 feet of the lumber had not been 

 mo\ed. Before the plaintiff could move the lumber to some point from 

 whence it could be shipped, it was alleged that prices had dropped to 

 such an extent that the Reis company sustained a substantial loss. 



The Issaquena Land and Lumber Company of Terre Haute, Ind., last 

 week filed a preliminary certificate of dissolution with the secretary of 

 state. 



-< EVANSVILLE >. 



Veneer manufacturers in Evansville and vicinity report trade better now 

 than it has been at any time this year. George O. Worland, manager of 

 the Evansville Veneer Company, says his plant is being operated on full 

 time and that the outlook for future trade is most flattering. Mr. Worland 

 is an optimist and believes that business conditions the country over will 

 continue to improve. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz has returned from a business trip in the 

 northern part of Indiana and reports business conditions in that section 

 improving. 



John O. Tate of Ashland, Ky., representing the Pioneer Refrigerator Com- 

 pany, recently interviewed several furniture manufacturers here about hav- 

 ing 3,000 refrigerators made before spring, or before he can build a new- 

 factory. Mr. Tate was well pleased with Evansville as a factory site and 

 may decide to build his factory here. 



J. E. Sights, a well-known lumber dealer and planing mill owner of 

 Robard, Ky., a few miles south of here, was recently stricken with heart 

 trouble while attending the Masonic lodge and died a short time after 



being taken to his home. He was one of the best known lumber dealers in 

 western Kentucky. He is survived by his widow and five children. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 which was held at the Lottie hotel November 9, several of the local planing 

 mill owners attended. They have been asked to become members of the 

 club and it is expected that most of them will decide to join. 



The plant of the Kelsay Hame Compauy is now running on day and 

 night schedule and Newton Kelsay, president of the company, reports that 

 the outlook for the future could be no better. 



The plant of the Evansville Edge Tool Company is running on a schedule 

 of eleven hours a day with a force of 175 men. The company has recently 

 received orders for tools from England, South Africa and Russia. 



Charles W. Wittenbraker, a local attorney, a few days ago purchased the 

 assets of the New Cabinet Company here, consisting of machinery and 

 stock on hand, the price paid being $4,500. The purchase was made at 

 [rublic auction conducted by Guild C. Foster, the trustee in bankruptcy. 

 Wittenbraker announced that he was acting for local capitalists who hope 

 to reorganize the company and start the plaut operating soon. The New 

 Cabinet Company was organized about a year ago for the purpose of manu- 

 facturing kitchen cabinets. The company fiied its petition in bankruptcy 

 recently, the assets being about $28,000 and the liabilities about $62,000. 



The timber on a tract known as the John Lusk land in Parke county, 

 Indiana, and consisting of walnut, white oak, poplar and hard maple has 

 been sold by Howard Maxwell, as administrator, to Horace Heller of Rock- 

 vllle. Ind., agent for the Hoosier Veneer Company at Indianapolis. It is 

 all virgin timber and estimated at about 1,500,000 feet. The price paid 

 was $34,400. The land lies several miles east of Terre Haute, Ind. 



The river mills here have been bringing in few logs from Green and Pond 

 rivers in western Kentucky during the past month and the manufacturers 

 have contracted for few if any logs for the coming year. 



F. M. Cutsinger, well-known hardwood manufacturer, recently returned 

 from a business trip and reported a better feeling among the manufacturers 

 and retail dealers. He says the impression prevails that trade will continue 

 to improve. 



The Dixie Bee Line Association, which promises to build an improved auto- 

 mobile highway from Danville, 111., to Nashville, Tenn., held a convention 

 here November 4 at which time the oflBcial route of the road was announced. 

 Mayor Benjamin Bosse, head of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture Company, 

 is president of the association, while John C. Keller, traflic manager of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club, is secretary. 



Bert Tisserand of this city who was with the J. C. Greer Lumber Com- 

 pany here for three years and who resigned several months ago to go with 



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