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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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because it does away with the cooking 

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PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Originators and Patentees 



805 J. M. S. Building, SOUTH BEND, IND. 



with the company for about eight years, but as yet has not fully decided 

 on future plans. He regards the outlook promising. 



Jerome O. Sheip says that the Xmas cigar business was way below 

 normal and consequently cigar boxes were less in demand. He is very 

 sanguine, however, as to prosperous times in 1915. 



Frank Rice Whiting of the Whiting Lumber Company says things are 

 & little quiet now, but he is confident the banks are on the point of relaxing 

 their grip, which will help business generally. 



Maurice J. Dukes, vice-president of I!. A. & J. J. Williams, says that his 

 company has been busy stock taking and finds on the whole that its 

 domestic business has not fallen so very far behind. Better times are 

 already appreciable. The export business, however, will be very slow to 

 improve as long as the war lasts. 



The Gill Lumber Company has moved to 639 Land Title building, where It 

 has better facilities for handling its rapidly increasing business. Benjamin 

 Thompson, who has been handling the eastern Pennsylvania trade, will 

 cover Philadelphia and George Fawcett takes over the Pennsylvania terri- 

 tory. 



On January 16 Charles M. Betts & Co. will go out of business as a firm 

 and will be succeeded by the Charles M. Betts Company. The officers are : 

 B. Franklin Betts, president; C. Walter Betts (of the Buffalo office), vice- 

 president ; William T. Betts, secretary ; Charles L. Betts, treasurer. 



Samuel il. Shearer & Son are looking forward to a considerably magnified 

 trading this year. E. S. Davison, formerly of E. B. Foss & Co., of Bay 

 City, Mich., has been engaged as salesman to cover Pennsylvania. C. L. 

 Barr, formerly of the Whiting Lumber Company, will take charge of Phila- 

 delphia and New York. The firm has secured a storage warehouse in 

 Philadelphia to carry a stock of oak flooring to be distributed in Phila- 

 delphia and surrounding territory. 



The three-master schooner Warren Adams, which sailed from Charleston, 

 S. C, for Philadelphia on December 21, was wrecked by a gale on 

 Christmas day and abandoned in a sinking condition December 27. 



Fire visited the lumber yard and stables of Frank G. Justice, Glenslde, 

 Pa., on December 25, causing a loss estimated at $80,000. 



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The Kendall Lumber Company has moved from the House building to 

 the eighteenth floor of the Oliver building, where it has eight fine offices 

 on the Smithfield street front. It has secured for city salesman John 

 Trester, Jr., who was formerly with the Babcock Lumber Company. 



The E. H. .Shreiner Lumber Company has added to its force, James C. 

 Linehan, formerly secretary of the old Linehan Lumber Company, a well- 



known hardwood concern in this city. Mr. Shreiner is in the East this 

 week. 



The Breltwicscr Lumber Company finished up a very good year In 

 hardwood and Manager A. G. Breltwieser Is optimistic about the future 

 of the lumber business in this territory. 



The Foster Lumber Company, which makes a specialty of oak ties, last 

 week secured an order for about 700,000 feet of stock for railroads. 



The Pennsylvania Stave Company, which was located at St. Marys, 

 Pa., has dismantled its plant and its employees are being sent to other 

 plants which lielong to this company. 



The West Pcnn Lumber Company has added to its force, W. C. Crow, 

 who has been of late years with the Smith Lumber Company of Cleveland, 

 and will travel trl-state territory now. 



E. E. Yohn, connected with the Pittsburgh Hardwood Door Company 

 until that concern recently sold out, will represent H. C. Bemis of Brad- 

 ford, Pa., in the Pittsburgh district this year. 



The Dailey & .Mien Lumber Company which was organized last year 

 now has a third partner in the person of S. Clyde Scott, who will be sec- 

 retary of the concern. For the past five years Mr. Scott has been with the 

 Willson Brothers Lumber Company. 



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On December 26 a disastrous fire broke out in the yard of the Pope & 

 Cottle Company at Chelsea. A damage of $12.5,000 resulted to this yard, 

 as well as the box factory of Atwood & McMauus. The loss is said to be 

 covered by insurance and the Pope & Cottle Company will be able to fill 

 all orders from stock in yards of affiliated concerns. 



The Massachusetts Builders' Finish Company of Cambridge filed on De- 

 cember 28 a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities of $14,208, and assets 

 of $2,100. A tr.niber of Boston lumber dealers are among the creditors. 



On account of the great decline in the demand for office furniture, the 

 large plant of the Derby Desk Company In Somerville has laid off about 

 seventy per cent of its men. With a very large manufactured stock, it 

 dqes not anticipate resumption with a full force before summer, but will 

 operate the factory continuously, Increasing the number of hands as con- 

 ditions may warrant. 



On December 21 a corporate charter was granted by the state to the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc. The first meeting 

 to establish the charter membership has been called by the preliminary 

 organizers for Wednesday, January at Young's hotel, Bostnn. Perma- 

 nent officers for the year were elected and the policies and plans of the 

 new association considered. 



