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gresational church at Cadillac. Mrs. Diggins was liorn In Croton, Mich., 

 on September 211, 1SG6. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Donald 

 B. McMullen and Miss Uoroth.v Diggins. 



Grand Rapids Veneer Works Places Eciuipment in Flooring 

 Factories 



H.\RDWOOD Recokd has received information to the effect that the 

 Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., has made rapid prog- 

 ress of late in installing its dry-kiln equipment m flooring plants. The 

 most receut installations are in the mills of the Mowbray & Robinson 

 Company, Quicksand, Ky. : National Interior Finish Company, Huntington, 

 W. Va. ; Hewitt & Boden Compa.iy, Athens, O., and the Federal Parquetry 

 Flooring Company, Lexington, Ky. The Grand Rapids firm writes that its 

 business for the year has been all that has been anticipated and that it 

 believes hardwood manufacturers are keenly alive to the necessity for 

 having better dried stock. 



J. H. O'Melia Buys Partner's Interest 



J. H. O'Melia of Ithinelander, Wis., lias purchased the interests of 

 his former partner, Chas. A. Conro. and is now operating as a mannfac- 

 turer and wholesaler of lath, pine, hemlock, spruce and hardwood lumber, 

 and other special items. The new firm style is the J. II. O'Melia Lumber 

 Company. 



Mr. O'Melia has been associated with the lumber business ever since 

 he started working. The Conro Lumber Company started business in 

 1908, but in the last few years Mr. Conro's time has been talten up with 

 outside duties. Mr. O'Melia has, as a consequence, been handling the 

 business of the organization. Realizing that he would not be abb; to 

 give any time to the lumber business in the next 

 few years, Mr. Conro decided to withdraw from 

 the partnership and his interests were taken over 

 by Mr. O'Melia. This includes all business, 

 stocks, etc. 



Mr. O'Melia is twenty-nine years of age and 

 has never followed any other line than lumber. 

 His father was woods superintendent of the 

 Yawkey Lumber Company and later the Yaw- 

 be.v-Bissell Lumber Company at Hazelhurst and 

 .\rbor Vitae, Wis., during the entire time these 

 firms were in business, which w-as for some 

 twenty-two years prior to 191 Li. When attending 

 school the younger O'Melia's summers were spent 

 in the lumber yards at Hazelhurst, Wis., and 

 after finishing his course at the University of 

 Wisconsin in 19I1G he entered the employ of 

 lumber firms in that section working in the yard 

 and ofBce until he formed the partnership with 

 Mr. Conro. 



Mr. O'Melia has sent Hardwood Record notice 

 of the stock which represents the character of 

 lumber ordinarily carried. This includes hemlock 

 in all ^ades : 1", 2" and 3" and timbers ; all 

 grades white pine including thicknesses of 1", 

 5/4", 6/4" and 2" ; tamarack in all grades 1" 

 and 2", 1" spruce and Wisconsin hardwoods 

 running principally to birch, basswood and maple 

 with a little elm and ash. Mr. O'Melia writes 

 he is in position to have any of bis lumber 

 milled any way, including resawing, and states 

 that while most of the softwoods are for 

 the retail yard trade, still he has good 

 supplies of crating lumber and factory white 



pine. He also expects to market the hardwoods direct to the factones. 

 He also has the largest lath stock in the North and makes a specialty of 

 lath shipments in car lots. 



Eilletter-Nagle 

 Jlr. and Mrs. William Henry Nagle. Philadelphia, Pa., announce the 

 marriage of their daughter Lillian Beckman to Hugh William Billetter 

 on Wednesda.v, November 4. 



Otis-Scoggin 



Mrs. William Hamilton Scoggin announces the marria.go of her daugh- 

 ter Elizabeth Lee to .Joseph S. Otis on November 4. The ceremony took 

 place in the Napoleon Avenue Presbyterian church of New Orleans. 



Mr. Otis, as is widely known, is of the Otis Manu'acturiug Company. 

 New Orleans, which concern operates the largest mahogany sawmill in 

 the world. 



The couple will be at home after December 15 at 1021 .Audubon 

 street. New Orleans. 



Edwards Lumber Company in Receiver's Hands 



Suit was filed .about a week ago by E. L. Edwards against the Kdwards 

 Lumber Company, Dayton, O., asking for appointment of a receiver. 

 E. A. Deem, president of the Miami Lumber & Veneer Company, was 

 appointed in this capacity, and his bond fixed at $10,000. 



In bis petition, E. L. Edwards alleges that he is a surety for the 

 company for a large amount, and that the indebtedness is due. He says 

 the company, is engaged principally in the export business, and sells the 

 larger part of its product in England, Europe, South America. South 

 Africa, Auslralia and New Zealand, and that owing to the European 



war now existing foreign banking and exchange have become so demor- 

 alized that there is no basis or medium of exchange established as yet 

 for I he interchange of business, and further, owing to the unsettled 

 business conditions now existing in this country, the company has been 

 unable to sell its product in the usual channels. He states the company 

 has letters of credit and drafts for large amounts against customers in 

 Europe and other foreign countries, which it is unable to negotiate. 



He further maintains that with numerous valuable orders on hand tor 

 foreign shipment, in addition to the uncertainty of the medium of ex- 

 change, ocean freight rates have advanced twenty-five to fifty per cent, 

 also all shipments must carry war risk insurance amounting to two and 

 one-half up to ten per cent. He says that the company is solvent, but 

 is unable to obtain extensions of credit or realize on its assets. He also 

 says that creditors are pressing them for payment of their claims and 

 suits have been filed against the company, and in order that its assets 

 might not be sacrificed and its property depreciated a receiver was 

 asked for. 



Forest Service Notes 

 Henry S. Graves, forester and chief of the Forest Service, will return 

 to Washington next week from his western trip. Mr. Graves has com- 

 municated informally some of his impressions to members of his staff 

 in the capital. One of them is understood to be that the government 

 should begin a more active campaign to secure the development of na- 

 tional forests. Settlers have been found to be restless and Mr. Graves 

 probably will recommend advances by the government for road building 

 and the construction of other public utilities that must be had before 

 settlers in an.v number can be induced to move into the forest sections. 

 While forest fires have been very few this fall,- 

 it is pointed out at the Forest Service at Wash- 

 ington that conditions have been very similar 

 to those of the autumn of 1910, when losses to- 

 taled over .f20.000,000. Winds have been very 

 high and there have been many small lires. Im- 

 proved and systematic methods have proven their 

 worth over and over during recent weeks, it is 

 stated. Automobiles and telephones are reported 

 to have been of greater aid than any two other 

 agencies. Of course the building of roads and. 

 trails has been a necessary antecedent of the use 

 of motor cars. 



All sawmill operators are being called upon by 

 the Forest Service to furnish information as to 

 character of output, whether it is building lum- 

 ber dimension stock or vehicle, handle or agri- 

 cultural implement material. This is being com- 

 piled so that when government departments have 

 to apply for bids of any kind of stock the re- 

 quest can be sent only to those in a position to- 

 furnish the grade of material wanted. 



The Forest Service field party, which has 

 been doing work in a number of southern states, 

 has returned to Washington and the work of 

 compiling the data has been started. The party 

 was in charge of W. D. Brush. 



R. E. Simmons, who has been designated by 

 the Bureau of B'oreign & Domestic Commerce to- 

 study lumber conditions in South America, 

 sailed November 7 from New York to take up his 

 work. For a week before leaving Mr. Simmons 

 called upon lumber exporters in New York and 

 was able to get an exact idea of what shippers 

 want to know. This item has previously been referred to in a more 

 detailed manner in other issues. 



Franklin II. Smith, who is going to the Orient on a similar mission 

 has stopped in Hawaii for an investigation of lumber conditions there. 

 On concluding this he will take up his investigation in Japan and China 

 at once. 



A representative of the Italian state railways has arrived in this 

 country and is looking into the cross tie situation here. 



O. i. Swan of the office of Industrial Investigations of the Forest 

 Service, will return to Washington November 113, after a personal in- 

 vestigation of the questions of Douglas fir grading. On his way to the 

 Pacific coast he conferred with representatives of furniture factories 

 in ri'gard to several important matters, which are expected to lead to- 

 iinportiint investigations. 



.J. B. Knapp of Portland, Ore., secretary of the Northwestern Associa- 

 tion of Box Manufacturers, is in the East studying the possibilities of 

 the niarUct tor the product of his association. The opening of the 

 Panama canal has given the northwestern manufacturers their long 

 wished for chance to have an opportunity to compete lor the eastern 

 market and in order that their campaign may be laid along intelligent 

 lines, Mr. Knapp is looking carefully into all matters affecting the 



situation. 



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Mississippi Mills Begin Operating 

 The two latest additions to the active operating trade of the state of 

 Mississippi arc the hardwood and pine mill of W. P. Goolsby, Lafayette 

 Springs, and the hardwood dimension mill of C. B. Ford of West Point. 



H. O'MELIA, OF THE J. H. O'MELI.V LUM- 

 BER COMPANY, ItHINELANDER, WIS. 



