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a proposition as you could find and lie wants you to };ivo liim your wliole 

 banlf roll before he comes to terms witli you." 



Ed (looking angrily at the new speaker) : -Wliadyaniean, give my 

 whole bank roll? Do you think I am arranging an across-the-ocean match 

 with some count or other? Besides, who are you to call my flancee a 

 lemon ?" 



Then the secret was out. It seems that Ed had told the people back in 

 the office, in order that the trip would not cost him anything personally, 

 that it was a little business tour ; that he was very au.\ious Jo see a pros- 

 pective buyer back in Omaha. As a matter ot fact he had just about 

 completed arrangements with a certain young lady in tliat thriving city 

 for their marriage in February. That is. the arrausemouts were com- 

 pleted with the exception of getting the consent of the prosiK'ctive father- 

 in-law, which ordeal Ed had been postponing from month to month for 

 two or three years back. He finally decided, however, that as long as he 

 had the task to perform he might as well face it now as any time and 

 hence chose Thanksgiving day as the proper time for such an undertaking. 

 He reasoned that were he successful in convincing his prospective father- 

 in-law against the evidence to the contrary that he is an entirely desirable 

 husband tor that gentleman's daughter, it would be a proper occasion for 

 thanksgiving, but that if he failed in Ibis undertaking the churches at 

 least would be open and he could apply there for consolation. 



However, the reassuring smile which he carried all the way back with 

 him and which we judge he still wears, told the story. Our only regret 

 is that we did not have a court stenographer in attendance on this occa- 

 sion, as we really believe Ed's appeal would be considered a valuable 

 addition to the classic literature of this century. We tried to worm the 

 gist of the conversation out ot him. but he disclaimed absolutely any 

 recollection of what he said or what answer he got. All he remembered, 

 he says, is that when he entered the room where Mr. Prospective Father- 

 in-Law was waiting he opened the conversation by saying: "Mr. Frantz, 

 I have something to say to you." .\nyway, he came out of the room alive, 

 which to him is sufficient proof that his offer of his services as future 

 son-in-law had been accepted. 



The future Mrs. Vestal is the daughter of Robert Frantz of Omaha. 

 The family originally came from Virginia and Mr. Frantz went West years 

 ago at the request of his brother, ex-Governor Frantz of Oklahoma, who 

 had settled in the West previously. He has lived out in that part of 

 the country ever since. His daughter's name is Dorothy, and while no one 

 connected with Hardwood Kecord has ever had the pleasure of meeting 

 her, we know that Ed is a mighty discriminating individual and have 

 drawn our own conclusions. 



The wedding will take place in February, we believe, and the couple will 

 reside at Knoxville in a fine new house which Ed has just about com- 

 pleted. 



We almost forgot to say that he did sell some lumber in Omaha — four 

 cars of it. 



Death of Samuel H. Dyer 



Samuel H. Dyer, one of the best known men in the eastern lumber 

 field, died on December 1, at his home, Owen and Greenwood avenues. 

 Lansdowne, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Mr. Dyer started out for him- 

 self when quite a young man and learned the lumber business from the 

 stump up. For some time he was connected with the Export Lumber 

 Company of Boston, Mass., as inspector and loader of cargoes for foreign 

 shipment, and for over fifteen years was associated with the Otter Creek 

 Boom & Lumber Company as manager of sales, and was Philadelphia 

 sales agent for the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, which concerns 

 jointly occupied offices in the Witherspoon building. Philadelphia. Mr. 

 Dyer was a man of the highest integrity and greatly respected by every- 

 body with whom he came in personal contact. His many business and 

 personal friends extend their heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved family. 

 He was fifty-four years old. 



Otis Manufacturing Company Protests Mahogany Rates 



Mahogany has been the victim of discrimination more flagrant than that 

 which has been directed at any commodity which is hauled by the rail- 

 roads, according to a brief tiled last week by the Otis Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of New Orleans with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Between 

 New Orleans and Dallas and Houston. Tex., the present rate is five cents 

 over tlie Class D rates. The Otis company claims that the just rate 

 should tac five cents over the commodity rate applying on common lumber. 



The case in which this matter is brought up is that of the Otis Manu- 

 facturing Company versus the Texas & New Orleans Bailroad et al. The 

 tariff governing these shipments pla<es the rate on walnut, butternut, 

 cherry and holly lumber five cents higher than the lumber rates (except 

 cypress). This tariff names a rate of twenty-six ci-nts New Orleans to 

 Dallas on common lumber, making the rate on walnut and the other woods 

 mentioned thirty-one cents. Mahogany is not given tills rate. In the rate 

 to Dallas it takes nineteen cents over the common lumber rating, or forty- 

 15ve cents. The value of walnut is practically that of mahogany. Tbr 

 two have been given the same freight rates in other parts of the country. 



Attention is called to the defendants' claim that the rate on cimimoii 

 lumber to Texas points is greatly depressed. It is said to be subnormal, 

 due to competition from the Pacific coast, but the Otis company claim-^ 

 that this is not the case. As Texas is a large producer of lumber, the 

 business moving from other sections of the country is not of sufficient 

 volume to have this influence on rates. .Vnother argument of the carriers 



is ILal in Western Classification territory mahogany takes the third class 

 rate. This, the complaints declare, is simply an oversight in a district 

 where no mahogany lumlier moves. It is an absurdity that doubtless would 

 be corrected it tne attentiou ot the proper authorities should be called to 

 the matter. 



One of the arguments used to show that the Dallas rate is unjust is 

 that it costs seven cents a hundred more to ship mahogany to Dallas 

 than to Omaha, Neb. 



.V second brief by the Otis company asks for lower rates from New 

 Orleans to Sturgis and Grand Kaplds, Mich.; Goshen, Kendallvllle, Shelby- 

 vllle and Connersville, Ind. These rates vary from thirty to thirty-three 

 cents at present. It is claimed that they should be twenty-six cents. This 

 rate was in effect from Gulf ports other than New Orleans until recently. 



It is pointed out that a carload of sugar, which is worth more than a 

 carload of mahogany and in the handling of which greater transporta- 

 tion risk is incurred, takes a lower rate from New Orleans to Grand 

 li.npids. It is pointed out further that the carriers maintain .same rates 

 from Memphis to New Orleans and other CJulf ports on hardwood lumber. 



Marcus L. Brown Dead 



Marcus L. Brown, for forty years in the lumber trade in Indianapolis 

 and Chicago, died at his home, 00:13 Woodlawn avenue, Chicago, Sunday, 

 .N'ovember 29. Mr. Brown was a veteran of the Civil war in the Second 

 Ohio Volunteer infantry. He was boru near Moscow. O., November 27, 

 1S41. 



His widow, a daughter of Solomon Beard, a plow manufacturer of 

 liichmond, Ind., a daughter, .Mire E. Brown of Chicago, and a son, .\rthur 

 <i. Brown, survive him. 



Miles H. 'Wheeler Dead 



Miles H. Wheeler of Neenah, Wis., who has lieen extensively interested 

 in lumbering operations and who had amassed a considerable fortune In 

 that line, died at Neenah al.tout two weeks ago. 



Mr. Wheeler was born in Clarenceville, Canada. He had resided In 

 Neenah since he was twenty years old, being seventy-six years old at 

 the time of his death. He leaves two daughters and a son. 



Death of F. D. Bodeman 



On November 11, at Xaslivilb-, Tenn.. occurred the diath of F. D. Bode- 

 man, who bad been known in the hardw'ood business since 1JSS8. He 

 began at Memphis, and spent most of his active life there. He was 

 buried in Pine Crest Cemetery at Mobile, Ala., all members of his family 

 being present. He leaves a mother, Mrs. S. L. Bodeman of Mobile ; son 

 Glenn of Denver, Colo.: two brothers, E. J. Bodeman of Little Rock, Ark., 

 and E. C. Bodeman of Mobile, and one sister, Mrs. C. C. Moore of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. 



Remarkable 'Veneer Logs 



The accompanying is an illustration of the type of veneers from which, 

 the Sedro Veneer Company of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., manufactures its 

 veneer stock. This is a representative carlot of Douglas fir logs which 

 was shipiied into the Sedro plant recently. The stock is manufactured 

 into veneers and then into panels at the plant of this company. 



These trees range in age from 400 to 500 years, and the consequent 

 fine grain of the timber makes very beautiful figure. 



Death of John T, Dixon 



On Thanksgiving Day, November 2ii, 1014, John T. i>ixou. owner and 

 manager of The .lohn T. Dixon Lumber Company. Elizabethton, Tenn,. 

 died in Rochester, Minn., where he had gone tor treatment at the Mayo 

 Clinic. His death was caused by pernicious anemia from unknown cau.ses, 

 from which he had suffered for many years, 



Mr. Dixon was born in Baltimore, Md., on .lanuary .'">, 1S4S, His 

 boyhood days were spent in that city, where he began «ifork as an office 

 boy. In 1S67 at the age of nineteen he went to western Maryland to 

 take a position as weigh clerk at the mines near Lonaconing and later 

 at Piedmont. In ISTl he' wi-nt to Cumberland. Md.. and .-ntinMl the 



VENEER LOGS CL'T BY THE SEDRO VENEER COMPANY 



