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It contains a carefully prepared list of the buyert af lum- 

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bureau of the Unitod States Lumber Commission, of whicli John H. Kirby 

 is chairman, has also leased from the Kast Beaumont Townsite Company 

 the Star bayou property. It is estimated that this natural loading point 

 will enable the company to assemble 20,000.000 feet of timber at one time. 

 The assembling harbor is located down stream from the unloading station 

 and will enable the company to handle Its timber at a minimum expense. 

 By securing the city water front it gets connections with all the roads lead- 

 ing into the Texas and Louisiana timber districts. 



Claud Simpson Hanby, lyceum lecturer, and Fred W. Boyd of the Fourth 

 Canadian Rifles have been touring the timber districts of Texas and 

 Louisiana to arouse enthusiasm among the lumberjacks and speed up the 

 production of timber required by the government. They are visiting all the 

 sawmills and logging camps and impressing upon the men that if the 

 government is not supplied with timber for the ships, railroad cars, gun- 

 stocks, airplane propellers and the maintenance of railroads, the Stars and 

 Stripes would disappear in Europe, would disappear from the seas and we 

 would have to battle the Germans on American soil. They have also 

 aroused a great deal of enthusiasm among the men over the purchase of 

 government securities and the sales in that district are daily becoming more 

 s;itisfactory. 



The Beaumont Chamber of Commerce has formed a foreign trade bureau, 

 which will have for its object the building up of closer trade relations 

 with Mexico. They have raised a fund of $12,000 to send a man to the 

 gulf ports with nothing to sell, but to devote his entire time to courting 

 better business relations and straightening out any misunderstandings 

 which may come up between the Beaumont shippers and the Mexican mer- 

 chants. The Gulf Export & Transportation Company expects to double its 

 tonnage between Beaumont and Tampico. Progreso. Tuxpam and Vera Cruz. 

 The "business ambassador" will find out the wants of the business men 

 in these ports and undertake to secure the merchandise at a satisfactory 

 price. It is believed that the fact that he will represent no one concern 

 and not be interested in a financial way in the profits will give Mm a more 

 corilial reception by the Mexican people than the average salesman would 

 receive. The lumbermen are backing the proposition heavily and were rep- 

 resented at the meeting by Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont 

 Lumber Company and also president of the Chamber of Commerce ; J. Frank 

 Keith, president of the Keith Lumber Company : C. E. Walden. vice-presi- 

 dent of the Sabine Tram Company. They are all manufacturers and dealers 

 in hardwood. 



=-< BUFFALO >.= 



George E. Chapman, a member of the Chapman Lumber Company, Syra- 

 cuse, dietl at his home on June 9. aged fifty-four years. For the past 

 twelve years he was unable to attend regularly to business, having at that 

 time suffered a stroke. The business was conducted by his brother and 

 son. It was organized by his father in 1S70 and a planing-mill was estab- 

 lished in addition to the yard, the company having a large business in 

 its vicinity. Mr. Chapman is survived by his wife and two sons, besides 

 a brother and a sister. 



No wrecking of freight cars has been done in Buffalo in eight months, 

 according to a prominent hardwood lumberman, who has been investigating. 

 He made the discovery also that very little wrecking of buildings is going 

 on and that the market is almost bare of second-hand lumber and plumb- 

 ing. He happened to be in search of plumbing and visited every house- 

 ^Nreokint: concern here without being successful. He finds as the result 

 . I his search that conservation of building materials and of old buildings 

 Tliemselves is going on and that there is not much difficulty in reasoning 

 out why it is that all low-grade lumber is shooting up so fast. 



A patriotic celebration with the raising of a large flag to the top of a 

 high flag-staff above the mill was the feature of Flag Day at the estab- 

 lishment of G. Ellas & Bro.. and the announcement of the handsomely- 

 ;>rinted programme that "all are welcome" was taken in good part, for 

 the neighborhood assisted the several hundred employes in carrying out a 

 tine demonstration of patriotism. Music was furnished by one of the city 

 '.au.ls and the crowd sang patriotic songs and joined In saying the 

 •Americans Creed." Addresses were made by A. J. Ellas and Henry C. 

 Frioo. a local attorney, and the celebration ended with three cheers for the 

 president of the Tnited States. 



The Buffalo Automobile Club entertained the Rochester .\utomobile Club 

 at the Clarence clubhouse on June S. An athletic programme was car- 

 ried out. including a baseball game and pitching of quoits. C. Walter 

 Betts was chairman of the entertainment committee. The quoit-pltchlng 

 o..ntest was in charge of J. B. Wall, whose team numbered M. M. Wall, 

 II E. Teager and I. X. Stewart. The pitching of these champions was done 

 with so much experience and energy that the Rochester quoit-pitchers 

 were outclassed. O. E. Teager, as president of the club, distributed the 

 prizes. Xow the Rochester automobllists are to return the compliment 

 as hosts, and incidentally show their athletic prowess at an outing to be 

 - ven at Manitou Beach. 



=^ PITTSBURGH >-= 



. VTooUett. president of the Aher.leen 

 ■d from a two weeks' trip from the Sou 

 cks of gum and Cottonwood especially. 

 (lore Ahlers. agetl forty-six, senior n 

 ny. died at his home at 510 Madison : 

 le of the best-known retailers in west 



er of the Abler Lumber 

 ue. X. S., last week. He 

 Pennsylvania. The busi- 



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