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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1018 





STERNER 



Hardwoods 



^©ERVICE ^"^ 



WE MANUFACTURE bandtawe*, ulaln and quarter aawad 



WHITE AND RED OAI AND YELLOW POPLAR 



W* mkk« a speciilty of Oak aad Hickory 



m«nt. Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the roufh. 



ARLmcfoN LUMBER 'coyAilk^Mj^Btucky 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



R«al Estat* Trust Bulliling 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straickt 



=-< COLUMBUS >= 



The Govigh Lumber Company, Akron, has been incorporate!] with a 

 capital of $100,000 to manufacture ami deal in lumber. The incorpora- 

 tors are C. V. Gough, J. B. lluber, Francis Seiberling, Fred W. Sweet and 

 E. Marguerite Collins. 



The Union Wholesale Lumber Company, Toungstown, is now represented 

 by J. M. Andrews, formerly of Columbus and W. J. Glanti of Cleveland. 

 Both taen were formerly associated with the Krauss Brothers Lumber 

 Company of New Orleans. 



Col. John L. Vance, Sr.. of Columbus, president of the Ohio Valley 

 Improvement Association, is authority for the statement that the Ohio 

 river from Cairo to Pittsburgh would be canalized within a few years at 

 least. Col. Vance recently conferred with W. C. Culltins, secretary of 

 the association at Cincinnati. The object of the association is to secure 

 a nine-foot stage the year around for the Ohio river from Pittsburgh to 

 Its mouth at Cairo. 



The M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, Cincinnati, announces that it will 

 soon give employment to women in various branches of its business in 

 order to release men for military service. The company has sent a request 

 to the state employment bureau for women to do men's work. They are 

 to receive the same wages as men and will wear overalls. 



Word has lircn rc.civc.i that Scrseant Lorenz O. Kilmer of Oak Harbor, 



son of II. A. Kil 1. SI. i,tiir> c,r the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber 



Dealers, has l.crn t iMii^ln r..l finm Camp Sheridan at Montgomery, Ala., 

 to the offlicTs' tiaiTiiiif; rami! nt .lai'ksonville, Fla. 



Quite a few lumbermen In Ohio have responded to the call of their 

 country and have entered the armed forces of the United States. In the 

 list are Corporal Joseph R. Bohn and Henry S. Wingard, stationed at 

 Jefferson Barracks, Mo., both with the Swan Lumber & Supply Company, 

 Toledo ; Harold Graves of the Brown-Vincent Company, Akron, now at 

 Camp Mead, Ga., F. N. Stanforth, who enlisted with the Quartermaster's 

 Department at Camp Johnson, Fla., formerly with the M. B. Farrin Lum- 

 ber Company, Cincinnati, and Lieutenant Frank Lehman, formerly Ohio 

 representative of the Louisiana Red Cypress Company, now with the 

 Spruce Production Division at Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 



E. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods, both from factories and retailers. The factory 

 demand is the best feature of the trade at this time. Congestion on rail- 

 roads and embargoes are holding up shipments to a large degree. Prices 

 are firm all along the list. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good trade in 

 West Virginia hardwoods with prices ruling )5rm in every respect. 



=< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Robert A. Innis, a well-known furniture manufacturer of Rushville, Ind., 

 has retired from the active management of the Rushville Furniture Com- 

 pany, the active management of the business having been assumed by 

 Manly Pierce. Mr. Innis has been known for years as a very successful 

 manufacturer and has a wide acquaintance among the furniture men of 

 Indiana. For the present he Intends to devote his time to other business 

 interests. 



Richard Rinehart, Seymour, Ind., who has been connected with the 

 Seymour Manufacturing Company as a timber buyer for many years, died 

 recently on a train while enroute from Cairo, 111., to his home. He was 

 sixty-five years old, and had been in bad health for about three months. 

 It was believed that his condition was greatly improved when he attempted 

 to make the trip to his home. 



The Seymour Furniture Company of Seymour, Ind., has received an 

 order for $8,000 worth of furniture from a firm in Glasgow, Scotland. 

 This is the largest export order the company has ever received. 



=^ EVANSVILLE ' >.= 



Evansville building permits for May amounted to about one-third of 

 the permits of May of last year. Some time ago Mayor Benjamin Bosse 

 announced that there would be no public work in this city for the balance 

 of the year and perhaps not until the close of the war. This has had a 

 rather depressing effect upon building lines in Evansville and street work 

 is now at a standstill. Contracts that were let before Mayor Bosse issued 

 the order will be finished. Contractors and architects say some work is 

 going on in Evansville now, but that it does not begin to compare to 

 former years. Sash and door men say that their out of town trade is 

 fair. Planing mills report a fair trade only. Retail dealers say that 

 they are satisfied to go along and drift with the tide until conditions have 

 once more become normal. 



The war chest fund campaign in Evansville and Vanderburg county to 

 raise money to defray all war expenses in this city for the next year, 

 including the Red Cross, has come to a close. Something like a half 

 million dollars were raised and many of the local lumbermen were active 

 in the campaign. 



The Peters Lumber Company, a South Dakota corporation, has qualified 

 to do business in Indiana. The company handles building materials and 

 E. R. Gates of Gary has been appointed its agent in the state. 



The Mercer Lumber Company, Hartford City, has increased its capital 

 stock from $25,000 to $50,000. 



While the Evansville Lumbermen's Club at its last meeting decided not 

 to pull off an outing on the Ohio river this summer because of the scarcity 

 of steamboats, it Is expected that some kind of a picnic will be arranged 

 later in the season. William S. Partington, head of the entertainment 

 committee, recently stated that several of the members are inclined to 

 an old fashioned basket dinner in some grove on a traction line entering 

 the city and it is possible that one will be arranged. The wives and 

 sweethearts of the club members will be asked to arrange for the luncheon. 



A letter signed by George O. Worland, president and William S. Parting- 

 ton, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Lumbermcu's Club, has been 

 sent to members of Congress in the Indiana delegation at Washington 

 asking them to vote against the House Bill No. 11,599 known as the 

 McArthur bill which seeks to make an eight-hour law in plants that 

 manufacture lumber and lumber products. The letter points out that 

 the bill is too much on the order of the I. W. W. propaganda and that its 

 passage would work a hardship on lumber manufacturers just at this 

 time when thfre is a great scarcity of logs and when it is hard to get 

 labor to carry on the industries of the country. The Indiana members 

 iu Congress are urged to work and vote against the measure. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >- 



J. Van Norman and R. R. May of Louisville, representing the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association ; Adkinson Brothers Company, CarroUton 

 Furniture Manufacturing Company, and Scott Brothers Company of Car- 

 roUton, Ky., complainants, have filed formal complaint before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, naming the CarroUton & Worthville Rail- 

 road Company, and thirteen other railroads. The complaint alleges that 

 rates on lumber and articles taking lumber rates from south and south- 

 western points over lines named to CarroUton, are unjust and discrimina- 

 tory in favor of other points. Through routes and joint rates are asked. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company has purchased a new Pierce 

 Arrow truck, which has been sent South to aid in handling shipments of 

 hardwood between the mills and yards to sidings for shipments to Louis- 

 ville and other points. Teams are very scarce in the South, as is also 

 labor, and the company believes that it can do its own trucking at con- 

 siderable advantage. 



W. A. McLean, president, and H. H. Barclay, secretary-treasurer, of the 

 Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., have gone East, where they will 

 spend about ten days. The company is adding some more dry kilns, and 

 will have a total of fourteen when these are completed. 



The Holly Ridge Lumber Company, Louisville, has taken over the sec- 

 ond floor of the Chess & Wymond office building, 421 Avery street, and is 

 remodeling it. The stairway leading to the office will be of quartered 

 white oak, while all office fixtures, furniture, etc., will be of quartered 

 red gum. 



.Vicording to recent announcement at Hickman, Ky., the Mengel Box 

 Company will shortly employ a number of women to aid in handling 

 operations at its lumber plant at that point. It is stated that the com- 

 pany is now employing over 200 girls in its Louisville plant. Lockers, 

 etc., are being installed at the Hickman plant, and arrangements have 

 been made to furnish the girls with regulation bloomeralls. 



The cost department of a local veneer concern in figuring out increased 

 costs of production discovered that its labor today is costing forty-two 

 per cent more than it did on October 1, 1917, while general costs of 

 liroduction have advanced thirty-five per cent over production cost on that 

 date. 



The Columbia spoke mills, Columbia, Ky., owned by E. G. Wethlngton, 



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