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addresstrs will be an address on '"Traffic Serviro." by B. <I. iJahlberg, St. 

 Paul, Minn. : "The National Lumber Manufacturers' Inter-Insurance Ex- 

 change." by Chas. F. iSlmouson. Chicago ; "Compensation Insurance and Its 

 Cost L'nder the Wisconsin I>aw," by Chas. II. Crowuhart. Mudisou, Wis. ; 

 "The .Assessment of Tlmherlands In Wisconsin," by W. A. Molt, Oconto, 

 Wis. : "The Forest Products Federation, " by K. S. Kellogg ; "Camp Mis- 

 sionary Work," by Matt Daly, Dulutb, Minn.; "Manufacturing Lumber to 

 Fit the Needs of Consuming Factories," by W. W. Brown, Two Rivers, 

 Wis. ; "Manufacturing Birch for Interior F'Inlsh," by Enos Colburn, 

 Green Bay, Wis. ; "Timber I'tillzatlon." by O. T. Swan. Washington, D. C. ; 

 "The Effect of Carrying Charges Ipon Timber and Lumber Values," by 

 C. H. Worcester, Chicago. In addition there will be a discussion of 

 "Uealization Values in Lumbering." 



New officers will be elected for 1!)!.". In the evening of Tuesday, 

 January 20, there will be a dinner at the Hotel Pflster and theater party 

 at the Majestic for members, their wives and guests. This will be fol- 

 lowed by a smolter at the Schlltz for the men. 



Association Secretary Changes 



Two Important changes in lumber association secretaryships occurred on 

 the first of the year. John E. Rhodes resigned as secretary of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association to take a similar position with the 

 recently-formed Southern Pine Association, and R. S. Ivellogg succeeded Mr. 

 Rhodes In the national body, and at once tendered his resignation as secre- 

 tary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood .Manufacturers' Association. 



Both of these men bring ab-jndance of experience to their new positions. 

 Each is in the prime of life, at the age of forty. Mr. Rhodes Is a native 

 of Ohio, Mr. Kellogg of New York, but both left these states In early lite. 



Mr. Rhodes was edu- 

 cated at the University 

 of Minnesota and began 

 bis business life as a 

 stenographer In the 

 service of the Northern 

 Pacific Railway, and 

 soon after accepted a 

 position in the office of 

 the Great Northern 

 Railway at St. Paul. 

 At his next move 

 he became purchasing 

 agent for the Minnesota 

 Logging Company. Soon 

 after that period he 

 tried his hand at news- 

 paper work by becom- 

 ing a reporter on the 

 Minneapolis Tribune. In 

 1898 he became asso- 

 ciated with the Missi- 

 sippi Valley Lumber- 

 men's Association, and 

 the next year he was 

 appointed secretary of 

 that association, and 

 remained in that posi- 

 tion until the consoli- 

 dation of that organi- 

 zation with the Wiscon- 

 sin Valley Lumbermen's 

 Association, under the 

 name of the Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association. He became the 

 secretary of the new organization, and served also as secretary of the 

 Northwestern Hemlock Manufacturers' Association. He did efficient work 

 at Washington during the fight for tariff on lumber In 1909. 



He was again in newspaper work, connected with the Tribune, and 

 served also at St. Paul as secretary to Frederick Weyerhaeuser. In 1912 

 he was appointed secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation, with headquarters in Chicago, and held the position until the 

 beginning of the present year. 



Mr. Rhodes married Miss Louise Robinson, of Minneapolis, in 1898. When 

 he assumes his new duties at the headquarters of the Southern Pine Associ- 

 ation, he will make his home In New Orleans. 



Royal S. Kellogg became a resident of Kansas when eight years old and 

 began facing the realities of life as a cowboy on the plains. After complet- 

 ing the course of the public schools, be entered the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College at Manhattan, from which be graduated in 189C. Three years 

 later he took a post-graduate degree at the same Institution. He spent one 

 year as a district school teacher In Kansas, and early in 1901 he entered 

 the United States Forest Service and during the next nine years he did 

 excellent work for the service. A number of valuable reports published 

 during that period were largely the i-esult of his planning and labor. One 

 of these was the series of yearly reports of the country's lumber output. 

 He made studies of tree planting and forest conditions in a number of local- 

 ities in the West. Later he visited Alaska and wrote a report on forests 

 la that northern country. 



In the spring of 1910 Mr. Kellogg resigned from the Forest Service to 

 accept the seeretarjshlp of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufac- 



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E. RHODES, SPXRETAKY OF THE NEWLY 

 ORGANIZED SOUTHERN PINE 

 ASSOCIATION. 



turcrs' Association, with headquarters at Wausau, Wis., and held that 

 position until his recent resignation. The best commentary on bis associ- 

 ation work Is contained In the fact that he has been called to a larger and 

 more Important Held. 



lu 1901 Mr. Kellogg married Miss Clara Fry, of Bentonville, Ark., and 

 their two children, Ernest and Gifford, arc aged eleven and three respec- 

 tively. Mr. Kellogg's successor as secretary of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' .Association has not yet been announced. 



Interest in Manufacturers' Convention Increasing 

 Every indication is that the anuual convention of tlie Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers .Association, which is to be held at tbe Hotel Sinton, Cincinnati, 

 January 28 and 29, will be a record-breaker In attendance. Secretary 

 Weller of the association states that in his travels he finds an unusual 

 Interest In the meeting this year, due to a strong desire on the part of all 

 lumbermen and consumers to get together and talk things over. 



In view of this, the program makes provision for a general discussion of 

 business conditions In which all those on the floor of the convention will 

 participate. There will be no resolution passed or concerted action taken, 

 Ihe idea being entirely to develop a free and open discussion of the situa- 

 tion to bring out individual views. 



.Another subji^ct that will be discussed on a scientific basis but In lan- 

 guage easily understood liy the lumbermen will be that of cost accounting, 

 by L. V, Estes of Chicago. Mr. Estes is widely known In sawmill circles 

 and has specialized on this subject for years. 



.Another subject of prime importance will be handled by H. S. Graves, 

 I-nited States forester, who will speak on present day forest problems. Mr. 

 Graves will Incorporate in his address a vast amount of useful information 



that he has gathered in 

 his work as government 

 forester. 



The one vacant place 

 remaining on the pro- 

 gram is an address ex- 

 plaining the new bank- 

 ing law and its effect 

 on general business. 

 The name of the 

 speaker will be an- 

 nounced later, and he 

 will be one of national 

 prominence and amply 

 able to discoss the new 

 currency law from the 

 foundation to the many 

 Intricate technical de- 

 tails that arise in its 

 application. 



Important Conference 



.A special meeting of 

 the executive commit- 

 tee of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation was held 

 Tuesday, January 5, at 

 the association head- 

 quarters, in response to 

 a request from the Fed- 

 eration of Furniture 

 and Fixture Manufac- 

 turers which is composed of over five hundred of the largest hardwood 

 lumber buyers in the United States. 



The conference occupied most of the day and Secretary Fish states that 

 there will be further meetings duritg the present month, and that the 

 object of these conferences is to bring about a better understanding and 

 closer co-operation between the National Hardwood Lumber Association and 

 the Federation of Furniture and Fixture Manufacturers. 

 St. Louis Exchange Elects Officers 

 The election of the officers of tlie Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, 

 held in the rooms of the exchange on January 4, resulted as follows : 



PRf:siDEXT — Charles E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Vice-President — E. II. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. Luebrmann Hard- 

 wood Lumber Corapanv. 



DiUECTORs — F. H. "Smith. Smith-Suehme Lumber Company; William 

 Lothman. Jr.. Lothman *'ypress Company ; Henry Boeckeler of" the Boeck- 

 eler Lumber Company: Thomas E. I'owe. Powe Lumber Company; W. W. 

 -Milne. Milne Lumber Company ; Franz Waldstein. Waldstein Lumber Com- 

 pany : F. C. Moore. Moore-Jurden Lumber Ccmipanv. 



Arbitration Committee — T. J. Noser, Noser-Eppler Lumber Company, 

 chairman ; J. L. Benas. Waldstein Lumber Company; C. E. Hascall, Pickrcl 

 Walnut Company; Tenuis Krug, Krug Lumber Company; Alcee Stewart, 

 -Alcee Stewart {c Co. 



On Tuesday, ,Tanuary 12, the new board of directors will hold a meeting 

 to elect a secretary and appoint a treasurer. The present secretary, Walter 

 D. Dodd, who has made one of the best secretaries the exchange has ever 

 had, will be re-elected and the present treasurer, W. W. Milne, will be 

 named as the treasurer. It is a custom to name one of the board of 

 directors to act as treasurer and as Mr. Milne Is again on the board, he 

 will be named to succeed himself. 



n. S. KELLOGG. SECRETARY NATIONAL 

 LUMBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



