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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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With the Trade 



Klostermann Veneer Company 



Notice was publislied In Hardwood Record recently regarding tlie iu- 

 oorporation of the Klosterruann Veneer Company at Cape Girardeau. Mo., 

 staling It was the successor to the Cape Girardeau Box and Veneer Com- 

 pany of that place. The Klostermann Veneer Company was Incorporated 

 under the laws of the state of Missouri, July 24, 1914, with a capital 

 stock of .$40,000, divided into 4C0 shares of $100 each. The company 

 takes over the plant formerly operated by the Cape Girardeau Box and 

 Veneei' Company and is engaged in the manufacture of rotary cut veneers, 

 principally for the box manufacturers. The plant is on the St. Louis- 

 Memphis line of the Frisco and Is so situated that raw material can be 

 secured witliout trouble. 



The officers are J. L. Stout, president : L. K. Juden, vice-president : 

 R, W. Mattcson, secretary: Mrs. M. Klostermann, treasurer. 



Eichardson-Young 



Roy S. Richardson, secretary and treasur<-r of the Richardson Lumber 

 Company and manager of the company's interests at Bay City and Rogers 

 City, Mich., is to be married on Wednesday evening, November 25, to 

 Miss Florence Ambrose Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dickson 

 Young of Bay City. Both the bride and groom are well-known in lumber 

 circles as well as among a wide circle of social friends outside of the 

 lumber business. Miss Y'oung is the daughter of the head of W. D. 

 Young & Co. of Bay 

 City, which firm surely 

 needs no introduction 

 to the trade. 



The ceremony and 

 reception will take 

 place at the Y'oung 

 home, Bide-a-Wee, Bay 

 City, the ceremony 

 being at 7 o'clock and 

 the reception at s 

 o'clock. 



Miss Young is a 

 social leader in Bay 

 City and is well- 

 known in the social 

 set of many other 

 cities. Mr. Richard- 

 son is the youngest 

 man representing any 

 mill in the North. He 

 comes from "lumber 

 stock" and inherits 

 his knowledge of and 

 keen interest in lum- 

 ber affairs. However, 

 he has gained his ex- 

 perience through close 

 application and has 

 thoroughly mastered 

 svery branch of the 

 business. His prac- 

 tical experience, combined with a natural aptitude and liking for the work, 

 has made him one of the most competent lunil)ernien in charge of northern 

 operations. 



Mr. Richardson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1909 

 and went to work for the Rust-Owen Lumber C^onipany at Drumntoud, 

 Wis. He went through the entire operation at Drummond, where he 

 worked three years, and from the(;e went to Bay City, assuming the 

 position of manager of the Bay City and Rogers City mills of the Richard- 

 son Lumber Company, of which he was made secretary and treasurer. 



The couple leave immediately after the reception for an extended trip 

 through the South and Cuba and will return to Bay City some time after 

 the first of the year, taking up their residence in that place. 



Receiver for Big Southern Companies 



Judge James E. Boyd recently named W. J. Grandin, president of the 

 Grandin Lumber Company of Grandin, N. C, as receiver for the Grandin 

 Lumber Company and the Watauga and Y'adkin River Railway Company. 

 Mr. Grandin has already assumed charge of the business as receiver. 

 The railway company is a subsidiary of the lumber company. The total 

 assets of the two companies arc placed at $7,000,000, and the liabilities, 

 secured and unsecured, at $1,950,000. 



Date of Sale of Philippine Concessions Changed 



The Bureau of Insular .\ITairs of the War Department, Washington, 

 D. C, has received a cablegram from Manila, Philippine Islands, advising 

 that the date for the opening of bids at the Bureau of Forestry in Manila 

 for a concession covering the large forest known as the Tayabas-Camarines 

 tract has been ciiangcd from November 14, 1014, to January 14, 1915. 



ROY S. RlCH.\RriSON, BAY CITY, MICH. 



First Shipment of Hardwoods Through the Panama Canal 



What is probably the lirst shipment of hardwood lumber to move- 

 through the Panama Canal reached Mobile early in the month via the 

 New Orleans. Mobile & Chicago Railroad, coining from the Ferguson 

 & Palmer Lumber Company, New Houlka, Miss. The lumber was moved 

 in a special train of twelve cars and was given a daylight run in order 

 that the benefits arising from the opening of the canal and the advan- 

 tages of the port of Mobile in connection therewith might be made 

 apparent. Each car bore a large streamer describing the shipment. 



Big Blaze at St. Louis Plant 



On November 14 the plant of the Henry Quellmalz Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company of St. Louis was destroyed by fire. According to 

 Henry Quellmalz, president and treasurer of the company, the loss was 

 about $.'10,000 and included the storage shed, the wagon and buggy stock 

 factory and boiler house. The plant covers two and a half acres, having 

 a frontage of 300 feet and depth of GOO feet. Origin of the Are was not 

 determined. 



Harry Raymond Occupies New Quarters 

 Harry Raymond of High Point, N. C, advises IlAunwooD Record that 

 be has enlarged his facilities at Iligli Point for handling veneers and 

 lumber and lias taken larger quarters across from the Southern Car 

 Com|)any. He recently added to his veneer and lumber connections the 

 National I'rocess Company of Indianapolis, lud., and will handle that 

 linn's Atlas vegetable glue. 



A Complete Catalogue 



Lewis T. Kline of Alpena, Mich., has just issued his 1915 catalogue de- 

 scribing the extensive 

 line of excelsior and 

 wood- turning ma- 

 chines manufactured 

 at his Alpena works. 

 The excelsior ma- 

 chines include ma- 

 chines for the manu- 

 facture of excelsior, 

 and special machines 

 such as baling presses, 

 wood splitters, cut-off 

 saws, barkers, knife 

 grinders and spur 

 grinders. Under the 

 wood- turning ma- 

 chinery he has broom 

 handle machines, 

 spool machines, plug 

 machines, bolting 

 saws and splitting 

 saws. 



The Illustrations are 

 exceedingly interest- 

 ing, as they describe 

 a line of machinery 

 that is distinctly spe- 

 cial in its character. 

 The excelsior machines 

 are especially Inter- 

 esting. 



Mr. Kline has es- 

 tablished an enviable reputation for the integrity of his products. He 

 states he will be very glad to give full information to interested parties. 



A New Shrinkage Gauge and Moisture Percentage Indicator 



C. J. Maiiral, manager of the dry-kiln department of the A. II. An- 

 drews Company of Chicago, has Just issued an attractive bulletin No. 230 

 describing a Zighometer shrinkage gauge and moisture percentage indi- 

 cator. The Zighometer is a simple, practical instrument which directly 

 measures the shrinkage (across the grain) of lumber, and which also 

 indicates the per cent of moisture contained in the lumber tested, with 

 reasonable accuracy, sufficient for all commercial purposes. According to 

 claims of tile bulletin, for quick and convenient testing of air-dried lumber 

 in the yard and at the kiln. an<l for the quick and convenient testing of 

 lumber during and after kiln-drying, the determination of moisture con- 

 tent by measurement of shrinkage is easier, quicker and much more con- 

 venient and is much more reliable than any weighing process could be. 



The booklet then analyzes the subject of moisture content, maintaining 

 that wood contains two different kinds of moisture, one of which is free 

 moisture and the other fibre saturation. The free moisture is contained 

 in the cells and pores and is evaporated first, generally with air-drying. 

 The loss of this free moisture does not shrink or change the wood In 

 any way, excepting certain species not in commercial use. 



After giving up all free moisture the wood then only retains the fibre 

 moisture, which is held by capillary attraction in the fibres. As soon 

 as the fibre moisture begins to leave the fibres, shrinkage of wood begins. 

 Slow drying at high temperature will cause shrinkage. 



The booklet contains statements that a large number of carefully 

 executed tests have demonstrated : 



MRS. ROY S. RICHARDSON, BAY CITY, MICH. 



