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Izatlon held In Milwaukee were present at the lecture, as well as members 

 of the Milwaukee Mill Workers' Bureau and the Wisconsin Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association. Arthur Koehler, a govcrnnient forest expert now 

 connected with the federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Is in 

 charge of the course. As an added feature at the first lecture, J. J. Lunim 

 of Duluth showed three reels of moving pictures depicting logging opera- 

 tions in the lougleaf pine district of the South. In his lecture Mr. Koehler 

 laid particular stress on the structure and identification of wood. 



The Green Bay Barker Company of Green Bay, Wis., has completed 

 plans for the manufacture of a new line of drum barkers and is preparing 

 to erect an addition to its plant. Arrangements will be made to also have 

 the new barker manufactured at the Canadian plant of the company. 



A study of structural timbers, their quality and strength, intended 

 especially for engineering students, will be given by the government 

 Forest Products Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin under the 

 direction of .lohn A. Newlin, lecturer in the forestry courses. More than 

 twenty-five students have enrolled In the course, which will be given during 

 the second semester at the university. The education of the engineer in 

 the knowledge of woods has been much neglected as compared with his 

 study of metals and cement, according to Howard F. Weiss, director of 

 the Forest Products Laboratory. He purposes through this new course 

 to fit the engineers to identify the various kinds of structural timber on 

 the market, to recognize serious defects, to grade wood and bad structural 

 timber and to know market prices. 



The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago has petitioned the 

 federal court in Milwaukee to be released from all liability caused by the 

 drowning of a number of men when three vessels went down during 

 the gale which swept Lake Michigan on November 18, 1914. On that 

 date the steamer C. F. Curtis, towing two barges, the Sendom E. Marvin 

 and the Annie M. Peterson, left Baraga, Mich., for North Tonawanda. 

 N. Y. The three boats went down and every one on board was lost. On 

 November 27, Mrs. Lorinda J. Noll, widow of Julius W. Noll, assistant 

 engineer of the steamer, filed a $20,000 suit in the Milwaukee circuit court 

 for damages for the death of her husband. 



The Racine Stool Manufacturing Company of Racine, Wis., against 

 which an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed some time ago, has 

 filed its schedule in the federal court in Milwaukee. Liabilities are 

 placed at $207,730.13, of which $67,094.12 are secured and $136,117.4.5 

 are unsecured. Assets total $238,587.55, consisting in part of the follow- 

 ing : Stock, $61,000; real estate, $128,986.04; machinery, $34.546. in, 

 and debts due on open accounts, $11,208.51. The first meeting of the 

 creditors of the concern was scheduled to have been held in Racine on 

 December 22. The failure of the Commercial and Savings Bank of Racine, 

 whose collapse pulled down many Kacine concerns, crippled the stool 

 company. 



The will of David M. Kneeland, well-known Wisconsin lumberman who 

 died suddenly at Phillips. Wis., on December 8, filed for probate in Mil- 

 waukee last week, disposes of personal property of $1,000,000 and real 

 estate valued at $300,000. The beneficiaries are the widow, Mrs. Cor- 

 nelia B. Kneeland, the son. Pierson Kneeland, and the daughter, Mrs. 

 Frances Kneeland Andrews. The will recommends that Charles Bigelow, 

 Bay City, Mich., be made manager of the Kneeland-Bigelow Company 

 and also of the Knceland-Lunden-Bigelow Company, both of Bay City 

 Percy S. McLurg will be manager of the Kneeland-McLurg Company of 

 Phillips. The executors of the estate are the Wisconsin Trust Company, 

 Mrs. Cornelia Kneeland and Charles Bigelow. The will was made Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1914. 



The Hardwood Market 



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The Chicago situation is showing but slight inclination to mark time 

 on account of the inventory season, but this feature will not have its 

 usual bearing on account of the indisposition of the woodworkers to lose 

 any advantage from better prospects for their own goods. The building 

 situation in spite of early cold days is going along swimmingly and in 

 fact about every line of trade which consumes lumber is doing well. 

 There has not as yet been any wide talk of better prices, but all the local 

 men are much encouraged over the stabilizing of values, which is general. 

 The holiday season this year will be marked locally by better feeling in 

 all directions because of many favorable causes that have been evident for 



long time. 



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The market is full of interest and from all reports not a discordant 

 note is heard, .\fter a long period of quiet the demand for lumber has 

 taken on a sprint which some say will continue for many weeks. Whole- 

 salers are having no trouble in disposing of stock and retailers and 

 manufacturers are quite ready to take large blocks at advanced prices. 

 These firms are now reaping the rewards of sound business principles. 

 The entire list is up in price and the tendency is still upward. Leaders 

 in the market look for a banner year in 1916 and some men expect the 

 activity to run over a period of longer duration. 



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