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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 25, 1918 



Stock. And if he sees a little glue around the spreader 

 or cookers he sort of jumps on me and tells me that glue 

 costs around 38 cents a pound and I must be careful. 

 Its a lucky thing he was not round early the mon after 

 1 went to Chi the first time. That was blue mon right. 

 The guy that named blue mon must a had his trubels, 

 but I bet he never was the first to step into a glue room 

 like ours was that day. If hed been the one to let the 

 first whif of air out of our place that mon morn hed 

 never named anything caws at first 

 breath hed put his fist to his mouth 

 and nose in vane effort to stop his 

 insides from iurning over. 



A glue room has no vialet smell 

 any time, but that morn it wood 

 put a cespool sent to rout in jig 

 time. Bill Edwards has to look 

 after cleaning out the spreader and 

 heaters, but I guess he must a been 

 in a hurry to get some place that 

 sat p. m. becaws he forgot to clean 

 up. Sat nite was warm and sun 

 was warmer and the glue room was 

 tight closed. Now glue that is left 

 standing is supposed to lose its 

 strength, and it does so far as stick- 

 ing is concerned, but if that glue 

 we had was left standing another 

 24 hours it woodent a stood at all. 

 the spreader and cookers and gone on a parade. Strong 

 is no name for it and a feller has to go through the 

 xperence to understand it. 



I never said a word to Bill for his short mind. The 

 rest of the crew rode him plenty and sides I saw him 

 make a couple a rushes to the wash room. So 1 figured 

 hed likely not forget agin. After Bill got the old glue 

 cleaned out and mixed with the fresh batch the night 

 watchman had put to soak the night before the air weak- 

 ened a little and we got the stuff we glued up sat off the 



)d a picked up 



presses and by 1 was filling them up agin. Things 

 went along as usual the rest of the day but it was cussed 

 hot and we made a quick get away at night. But next 

 day the gang kidded Bill worse than ever, caws Mike 

 Gibbons who lives next door to Bill saw Bill's missus 

 chase him to the woodshed to change his clothes before 

 she let him have his supper. 



Then everything went fine till the next mon. Thats 

 the bum day. They shot a lot of stuff from the machine 

 and cabinet rooms becaws of blis- 

 ters and loose veneers, and if you 

 dug under the edges of the face 

 much the whole veneer cood be 

 peeled off. The supt fussed round 

 like a wet hen. 1 checked up the 

 work and found it was the stuff we 

 had made up with the mixture of 

 that glue we left standing over sun 

 and fresh glue and wisht we had 

 dumped that decayed stuff in the 

 sewer. Becaws 1 knew that stuff 

 made all the trubel. But we glue 

 fellers have to stick together so 1 

 sed nothing, but blamed poor glue 

 generally and said wed have to mix 

 with less water. Well we repaired 

 is'-iiViv ' ' '" '^^ mess and let it go. 



Well Jim, theres a lot of more I 

 cood write, but this has to do this time caws I gotta 

 write Sue a letter and cuss the weather and see if I can't 

 date her up for next sat nite. Give my regards to Min. 

 Hope the kids and she is well. Yourself to. 

 Your old frend. 



Hen Flasch. 



Some thought the furniture trad 

 account of the war and the veneer 



of trade being unu: 



irould go to the dogs 

 de suffer in consequen 



ication now of its being the other way e 



lly good all fall and winter. 



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