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Dvo'mbrr SA. lOi: 





Havinfr stood the riirid 



test cii lime and been pro- 

 r.' iir.crl ideal. 



Perkins 



Vegetable 



Glue 



now Kains still further dis- 

 tinction by being pro- 

 nounced by United States 

 District Court "meritori- 

 ous and valuable, nnd a 

 distinct advance in the art." 



The Perkins patents were 

 sustained in a decision by 

 the court. 



The Perkins Glue Com- 

 pany is the only company 

 that has made of vege- 

 table glue a perfect prod- 

 uct. 



Competition Stimulates Quality 



A buyer's market invariably results in quality com- 

 petition in manufactured g-oods — for obvious reasons. 



«,}uality competition williout added quality to back it is disastrous — 

 requiring more rif^id j^uarantce of Roods it means tliat the man not 

 able to improve his product here atid there to approach perfection is 

 merely betting with himself on wiiether he will or will not have to 

 make eo"d on stock which, to get tiic order, he guaranteed. 



Perkins Vegetable Veneer Glue 



In All Panel Work 



allows you to rnake any reasonable guaranlec with impunity. It does away 

 entirely with blistered work, and can be shipped to any climate without fear 

 — thus vastly increasing the sales field. 



Perkins Vegetable Glue 



is guaranteed to be uniform, requires no hot, obnoxious glue room, will not 

 sour, costs 20 per cent less than hide plue. 



Ute Perkini Clue and make your guarantee safe for you 



J. M. S. Building 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 

 SOUTH BEND, IND. 



Originator* and Patentees 



call for elm nnd maple from the automobile roaDUfncturcrs. Prices arc 

 sbowing a little ndded strongth. 



This Is a slack time for the column business and the Booth Column 

 Company is operating Its factory at about half capacity on an clgbt-bour 

 scbednlc. Prospects are good for a One trade next season. 



'The Gotsball Manufacturing Company Is busy getting out timber and 

 reports orders coming in well. 



"Trade Is rhonlng a little more life." is the report of the Skinner 

 Bending Company. The wagon trade has picked up remarkably within 

 the past few weeks and auto rims arc etlll in heavy demand. 



Toledo is to have a permanent building exposition, to be located lo the 

 new business block at 210-10 Erie street. Leroy W. McAuley will be the 

 manager. .\n effort Is being made to have the exposition opened early 

 next week. The space has been divided into 70 booths, n large proportion 

 of which have been taken. An attendant will always be present to show 

 and explain the displays. 



A new million dollar business block Is to be erected on Adams street. 

 Th« new structure will have an Adams street frontage of 250 feet. E. H. 

 Close, E. D. Llbbey and other wealthy Toledoans are interested. Con- 

 siderable hardwood will be used In the new structure. 



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.V Arc at Lawrenccburg, Ind., Ijeccmber i;;, caused a loss of about 

 $1S.000 to the plant of the Bauer Cooperage Company when a dry house 

 containing more than 150.000 dried staves was destroyed. Insurance 

 in the sum of $16,000 was carried. OIBcers of the company announced 

 that the plant was not inconvenienced seriously as the company owned 

 eight other dry bouses that were fairly well stocked. The origin of 

 the Arc is unknown. 



John C. Deprez. seventy-one years old, a veteran furniture manufac- 

 turer of Shelb.vvllle, Ind., died at an Indianapolis hospital last week, 

 where he had gone for on operaUon for cancer. He wos one of the first 

 men to engage in the furniture manufacturing business in Shclbyville 

 Mr. DePrez had been a Mason since 1868. Be is survived by a widow 

 and three sons, all of whom live in Shelbyvllle. 



Several local retailers in summing up the extent of their business for 

 the current year decUred a few days ago that business has maintained 

 a standard like that of the last two years. Despite the fact that build- 

 in? operations suffored a slump of obout Sl.OOO.Oon. demands from manu- 

 facturers have been such that most of the dealers report sales as large 

 as during 1913 and 1914. The demand for building materials has been 

 heavier during the last four months and it was predicted last week 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



that the value of building operations will he 100 per cent greater than 

 they were for the corresponding period of last year. The gain for 

 November was about $175,000 over November, 1014. Predictions are 

 being made generolly that building will be corrled out on a larger scale 

 next year. 



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George O. Worland of the Evansvlllc Veneer Company, reports trade 

 active, with the plant being operated on full time. He regards the out- 

 look for the new year very good. 



The Guentber Furniture Company of this city, with a capital stock of 

 ?10,000, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. 

 The incorporators arc: Louis A. and Benjamin F.' Guentber and Albert 

 Schlazenbecker. 



Tie men report the outlook for buslncas during 1916 as good. During 

 the past few years Evansvllle has become one of the greatest tic markets 

 in the West. Boats bring In thousands of ties every month from points 

 along Green, Barren and Pond rivers in western Kentucky and from 

 here the tics are shipped by rail to all parts of the United States. 



A permit for $430,000 for the building of the new Hotel McCurdy 

 at the corner of Upper First and Locust streets here was issued a few 

 days ago. By the issuing of this permit the present year will exceed 

 1911 in building permits by over $170,000. Building records were bro- 

 ken in 1911. The total building permits for this year amounted to 

 about $2,177,305 as compared to $2,005,135 in 1911. Architects and 

 contractors say o great deol of building is in sight for 1910 and they 

 are looking for a good yeor. 



The International Iron and Construction Company here, whose planing 

 mill was recently destroyed by fire at a loss of about $50,000, will re- 

 build tbe mill at once and make other improvements that will cost in 

 the nnlglihorbood of $75,000 



Paul W. Lnhring of the Wolflln-Luhrlng Lumber Compony. vicegerent 

 snark for the Order of Hoo-Hoo of the southern Indiana district, Is try- 

 ing to get up a concatenation for Evansvllle some time early next year. 

 He says there arc several prospective kittens In this "neck of the 

 woods." 



The Hartlg-Becker Plow Company of Evansvllle has petitioned the 

 secretary of state at Indianapolis to have its name changed to the 

 William F. Ilartig Plow Company. 



The Chard-lAthe Company at Newcastle, Ind., recently purchased three 

 motors which have a capacity of twenty-five, thirty and fifty horsepower, 



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