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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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another visitor. We have not heard what Bis particular business 

 was, but he was sick when he arriveil. However, after strolling 

 over the golf course and indulgin;; in other pastimes, taking the 

 full quota of plufo and buttermilk, lie was fixed up all right. 



Kalph Jurden, accompanied by Mrs. Jurden, also met friends in 

 French Lick for a week or ten days. He made the golf game pretty 

 strong for the other visiting lumbermen — he can play golf — not 

 saying but that once in a while Walter puts up some good stuff. 

 We imagine they also spent the evenings after the dance and Red 

 Cross meetings with Brown. It is a natural thing for lumbermen 

 to gather where the other fellows make headquarters. Many a 

 trade has been made at placed of this kiml and the exchange of 

 ideas on cost of various materials nowadays makes it a good spot 

 to figure it out, as there is plenty of time at French Lick to look 

 over your whole business, notwithstanding the attractions there. 



Tom Taggart treats the guests pretty well. Of course, there 

 are a lot of friends of mine from Jerusalem who engage passage 

 down there nine months in advance, while others — us common folks 

 — often have to move from hill to hill in order to have a place to 

 sleep. 



Col. Schnaufcr of the Turkey Foot Lumber Company of Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., spent some time at the springs to rejuvenate the bad leg 

 caused bv a railroad wreck. 



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SOME PKOMINENT KX I.UMBERME.V NOW SEKVINC IN FR.\XCE 



C. R. Mengel of Louisville spent a few days with Senator Tag- 

 gart. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mengel, but left for the Far 

 East last week. 



The "Darby" 



Another one of the playgrounds of the lumberjacks is darby day 

 at Louisville, which happened this year on the 11th of May. 

 Thirty thousand folks were there, including the lumberjacks. 

 When I looked up in the grand stand and saw Ben Lord of the 

 Chicago Veneer Company I said, "It's all off," and I understand 

 that Ben did have the winner at the short end of the price. But 

 he wasn't in it with Ginger Brown of Louisville. Ginger goes to 

 the races about twice a year, although he lives in Louisville, and 

 he is generally smart enough to get one of those thirty-to-one shots, 

 which pays the expenses of the whole bunch. 



Part of the lumber delegation had a very good dinner the night 

 after Lewis Doster was Mark Brown's commissioner, and neither 

 Lewis nor Brown could have gotten to town if Brown didn't happen 

 to have his machine. There were others in the same fix, however, 

 among them Walter Burke of Charleston, Miss., and Ralph Jurden 

 of Memphis, who might have depended on the ladies to furnish 

 car fare, but that wasn't necessary under the circumstances, aa the 

 Brown boys were the hosts. 



W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber Company, who has 

 been following the races lately, was down, but notwithstanding 

 that he was deputized by Frank Fish to be his betting commis- 

 sioner, with the admonition that he knew a lot about horses, but? — 



ho admitted he believed he knew more about the races. DeLaney 

 wanted to change his title after the races were over. 



Tom Toomey, who handles northern pine in Chicago, came down 

 accompanied by a real judge, who was to furnish the tips. I don 't 

 believe Toomey carried much back. 



John Ransom of Nashville blew in for a few hours. 



Young Kinney of Alabama, who has charge of Brown Brothers' 

 mills down there, drove up. 



Chester F. Koru of Cincinnati was supposed to be there, but the 

 downpour prevented his getting any farther than Georgetown. 



In this department I am charmed to jirint a picture of several 

 of our boys of the :ilith Forestry Engineers, Company C, 5th Bat- 

 talion. Marion R. Welford on the right is the son of WalTicr L. 

 Welford of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company, Memphis, and one 

 of my boys. I have known him since he was a kid and his chopping- 

 wood ability is interesting. It reminds one that the American boys 

 do not care what they do, so they can win the war. That is why 

 they go "over the top" wherever they try. W. C. Kattcrhcnry, 

 a brother of Ben Katterhenry of the Stimson mills at Helena and 

 Memphis, who had charge of the South Memphis mill of the Stimson 

 interests before being called in the service for Uncle Sam in France, 

 stands next to him, and the other gentleman standing is Howard 

 Green. In the center of the lower row is Harry Love of Memphis. 

 He is the son of our old pal Abe Love, who is the head of the old 

 Darnell-Love company at Leland, Miss. The boy was born a saw- 

 mill man, so if the 20th Engineers is made of that character of 

 boys, it is all over with the kaiser. These chaps we know, and we 

 appreciate them all. Katterhenry was brought up under the well- 

 known sawmill tutorship of J. V. Stimson of Huntingburg, Ind., 

 who makes sawmill men out of all of his boys. If all the boys that 

 go to France have had the same training, no wonder the 20th 

 Engineers can get $100,000 from one meeting of the lumbermen. It 

 is because they are our own kids at the front. These boys work 

 from sun up to sun down, and don't you forget it. They are will- 

 ing and capable of doing everything that is to be done. 



Then there is young Carl Defebaugh, who is right behind the lines, 

 passing out munitions and gas to the other boys on the firing line. 

 He says, "Each day is much like the other. Lots of work in the 

 daytime and the Y. M. C. A. in the neighboring towns in the even- 

 ing." In speaking of the camp and the Tommies, Carl says, "The 

 Tommies are guarding them, believe me, but they are even more 

 interesting than the Germans. They are wonderfully companion- 

 able chaps, and one could sit for hours listening to their queer 

 expressions. I never heard so many blooming, bally buggers in my 

 life before. I am enjoying old France. It is beautiful even in war 

 time." 



So the boys are doing their bit — are we doing ours? 



E. H. D. 



Wood Beds Are Here 



Walk through a high-class furniture store and note the large 

 number of wood beds. 



Inquire of the salesmen, and you will find that practically all 

 of the demand from the better trade is for wood beds. 



Mahogany, walnut and ivory are the prevailing modes, and four- 

 poster and paneled effects are in great demand. 



The brass bed seems to have been pushed entirely out of the 

 limelight, though the installment houses are still selUng a good 

 many to that part of the trade that has not yet waked up to the 

 fact that wood beds have come back. 



The bed trade is a field for lumber sales that is sure to show 

 even greater development in the next few years. 



A man may operate a hardwood sawmill successfully without 

 resorting to kilns or other artificial drying, but a man who under- 

 takes the operation of a veneer plant without a drier has a hard 

 proposition before him and it generally knocks into him the realiza- 

 tion that a drier is one of the essenfials of a veneer plant. 



