Kebnmry 10. 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Boner-Mills Lumber Company, Inc. 



The Boiicr-Mills I.innher Company, Inc., mauuluotiirci' and wholesaler 

 of hardwood lumber, located at Asheville, N. (_'., advises IIaudwood Kecord 

 of tlie purpose and personnel of that recently established institution. 



The company Is composed of C. H. Boner, secretary and treasurer, and 

 W. J. Mills, president. Mr. Boner has for two years been in charge of the 

 sales of the Case-Fowler Lumber Company, Macon, Ga., while Mr. Mills 

 was vice-president of the same company. 



It is the Intention of the firm to manufacture in a small way and to 

 whoteale hardwoods. Already several good mill connections have been 

 established in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, and aside 

 from these connections, a general wholesale lumber business will be worked 

 up. Later it is expected that the company will operate a mill of its own. 



Mr. Boner was closely identified with the New York market for about 

 ten years, and will look after the sales and the office end of the business. 

 Mr. Mills will take care of the operating and buy the lumber. 



Southern Company to Erect Planing Mill 



The Sunny Houth Lumber Company, Brocikliavcn, Miss., has found that 

 owing to increased business it is compelled to erect a new planing mill in 

 connection with this operation. To this end provision has been made tor 

 the purchase of up-to-date machinery whicli will replace old machinery 

 throughout the entire plant. 



Bay City Firms Elect Officers 



The annual meetings of the Kneebind lli^elow Company, Knceland- 

 Lunden & Blgelow Company and the Kneeland Cooper Company were held 

 on Thursday, February 3, at Bay City, Mich. Important changes In the 

 officials of all three companies were necessary on account of the recent 

 death of D. M. Kneeland. who was president of the first two companies 

 and largely Interested In all three. 



The officers elected for the first two companies were : Charles A. Blge- 

 low, president ; Herman Lunden and Pierson Kneeland, vice-presidents, 

 and Walter N. Wrape. secretary and treasurer. The directors of these two 

 companies were the first three named men. 



The officers of the Bigelow-Cooper Company are Charles A. Blgelow, 

 president ; Herman Lunden, vice-president ; .Tames Cooper, secretary and 

 treasurer. Directors are : James Cooper, R. S. Cooper, Herman Lunden, 

 Pierson Kneeland and Charles A. Blgelow. 



The annual statement showed all three companies to be In a most pros- 

 perous condition. 



One Man Sells Lamb-Fish Hardwoods All Over the Country 



IL\itDwt>ou Record is phrased to have the privilege of presenting here- 

 with a portrait of Morris H. Welsh with the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 Charleston, Miss. Mr. Welsh is the only man that the Lamb-Fish Lumber 

 Company employs regularly as a traveling representative. Working from 

 the Charleston office, he covers ten or twelve of the central and western 

 states. Mr. Welsh is familiar with eastern lumber markets as well as 

 southern sawmills, as he had made his home in Memphis for two years 

 prior to the connection with the Lamb-I<'ish Lumber Company. 



Mr. Welsh is a nephew of the Wall brothers of th« Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. In fact, he started In the lumber business 

 with his uncles and operated there for ten years. He was with his two 

 brothers in the Welsh Lumber Company, Memphis, for two years previous 

 to taking up the sales work for the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. 



Evansville Veneer Company Plant Partially Destroyed by Fire 



The main part of the factory of tlie Evansville Veneer Company, Ken- 

 tucky avenue and Division street, Evansville, Ind., comprising the sawed 

 veneer department and the drying department, was destroyed by fire 

 Saturday night, February 5, and the fire department had a hard time 

 saving the balance of the plant. The warehouse with the company's large 

 stock was saved. The loss is placed at about .$40,000, partially covered 

 by insurance. The burned building will be rebuilt as soon as possible. 

 The fire is believed to have started from a drawing machine. -V fire 

 starting early in the evening was put out, but started again in the night. 

 The damage from the first blaze early In the evening was only $100. Nine 

 men were at work in the building at the time the second fire broke out 

 and so quickly did the fiames envelop the entire place that the men 

 barely escaped being overcome by the smoke and flames. 



The Evansville Veneer Company passed into new hands less than a year 

 ago and the company is now managed by George O. Worland, .secretary 

 and treasurer of the company. The president, Charles W. Talge, with his 

 wife, has been spending the winter in the West. Mr. Worland says the 

 (ire hits the company especially hard at this time, as the factory was 

 being worked full time and in addition to this the company was taking 

 the output of several other veneer factories in the United States. The 

 factory of the local company was one of the largest in the Middle \yest 

 and contained the latest and most modern machinery. The company has 

 been e.^tremely busy during the past two months and indications pointed 

 to a fine trade throughout the year. 



Change in Medford Veneer Company 

 It is announced that J. T. Edwards, who has been prominently con- 

 nected with the Medford Veneer Company, Medford, Wis., for years, has 

 severed his connection with that company, selling out his interest to L. .\. 

 Maier of Mcllen, and that Mr. Maier has been elected secretary and 

 treasurer of the company. Otto Grlesser has been re-elected president of 

 the company. 



A. H. Gladden 

 .V. H. Gladden of Indianapolis, lud., died at his home, 1421 Park avenue, 

 on February 1. Mr. Gladden was one of the old school and had a multi- 

 tude of friends in the lumber business. He was president of the Gladden 

 Lumber Company, Indianapolis, large dealers of Indiana and southern 

 hardwoods, but retired from active life about sl,\ years ago. He hail not 

 been in good health for the past five yeai-s, and among his close associates 

 his death was not unexpected. 



He is survived by a widow, Martha J. Gladden ; a daughter, Mrs. C. E. 

 Welshaus, and three sons, C. S. Gladden, in the hardwood business at 

 Memphis, Tenn. ; O. W. Gladden, Alexandria, La., and Oscar Gladden of 

 Manitowoc, Wis. 



Re-Elected Head of West Virginia Property 



George E. Greece, mayor of Cliarleston, W. Va.. was recently re-elected 

 president and general manager of the West Virginia Timber Company, 

 Charleston, at a meeting of the stockholders held in Cleveland, 0. The 

 other officers are : Abney G. Webb of Cleveland, vice-president ; J. Henry, 

 Cleveland, secretary and treasurer, and J. W. James, Charleston, assistant 

 secretary. 



M. H. WELSH, WHO COVERS MANY STATES 



FOR LAMB-FISH LUMBER CIMPANY, 



CHARLESTON, MISS. 



GEO. E. BREECE, MAYOR OP CHARLESTON, 



W. VA., RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT 



WEST VIRGINL4. TIMBER 



COMPANY. 



THE L.iTE A. H. GLADDEN, WELL KNOWN 



IN HARDWOOD CIRCLES IN THE 



MIDDLE WEST. 



