HARDWOOD RECORD 



We Are Prepared to Furnish 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



on 



OAK TIMBERS 



Cut to 



SPECIAL SIZES 



Up to 16-Foot Lengths 



JAMES E. STARK & CO., Inc. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



BASD MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBURG, TENN. 



VENEER MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



hi'lil up on jobs under way. lind dcciilod to use "what men arc available," 

 which was nothing more than employing those who were willing to work, 

 union or non-union. 



The principal outlet for hardwoods in building purposes here this year 

 probably will be in factory work, as It pertains to the government's need 

 for war munitions, and a lot of mlllwork is already under way or being 

 contracted for. Much heavy oak will be required for this purpose. In 

 spite of the most optimistic predictions, however, figures compiled by 

 J. V. O'Brien, secretary of the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers, now 

 show that forty per cent of 1917 building may be done here this year, 

 and of course the hardwood trade will receive just that much business in 

 proportion. Earlier surveys Indicated there might be sixty per cent of the 

 building this year against that of 1917, but the year is halt over already 

 and the best building season with it. 



Iteganllng the new freight rate situation, it is the belief of F. T. Peltch, 

 head of the F. T. Peltch Company, hardwood dealer, that this will have 

 to be borne as usual by the consumer. For the present It is the opinion 

 of leading lumber interests this will work a hardship on the trade gener- 

 ally, because some one must go down Into the pocket first to pay the bill. 

 Significance of this. In hardwood circles, is that a great deal of this busi- 

 ness In a commercial as well as f.ictory way, with Cleveland Interests, is 

 with out of-town trade right now. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



A miniature model house, which is clevely designed and unusually 

 attractive, has been built by the Lewis-Forbes Lumber Company, the O. D. 

 Haskell Lumber Company, the Comer-Cearce Company, the K. S. Foster 

 Lumber Company, the Capitol Lumber Company, the Brannum-Kcene Lum- 

 ber Company and the William F. Johnson Lumber Company for use in 

 the campaign which has been started here to increase Interest in home 

 building. Each company provides a motor truck one day of each week 

 to haul the house about the city and to factories where speaking programs 

 are held In the Interest of the campaign. 



The Indiana Lumber & Manufacturing Company of South Bend last week 

 Issued Sion.ono in preferred stock. Officers of the company announce 

 that the concern expects to expand its business policies. 



Ezekiel C. Pierce, ninety-three years old, one of the best-known of the 

 pioneer lumbermen of Indiana, died recently while sitting in a chair at his 

 home In Lafayette, Ind. Because of his age Mr. Pierce has been confined 

 to his home most of the time for the past two years. He had enjoyed 

 comparatively good health up until the time of his death. He was born 

 December 20. 1S24. near Dresden, Ohio, and came to Indiana with his 

 parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce In 1S29. lie forded tlie Wabash river 



on his waj 



Lafayette. 



government land 



=■< EVANSVILLE >-= 



Owners of sawmills and many wood consuming factories in Kvaiisville 

 and other cities and towns in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and 

 northern Kentucky report that the labor shortage problem is worrying 

 them more than ever now and they expect the condition to get worse 

 instead of better. The draft during the past year has taken away In the 

 neighborhood of 3,000 able-bodied men from Evansville and Vanderburg 

 county, and more men will be sent to the various training camps until 

 the European war comes to a close. Coupled with this fact, the factories 

 are losing men who are leaving for points in the South and Southeast to 

 work for the government. Several weeks ago the United States govern- 

 ment opened an employment bureau in this city in charge of William E. 

 Tleman and since that time several skilled and unskilled workmen have 

 been sent awny to the detriment of local industries. Many of the men 

 have been sent to Lee Hall, Va.. and Old Hickory, Tenn., to work on 

 government plants and wliere good wages and tine working conditions 



tlsements were unlawful and that people responsible for them might bi 

 fined and imprisoned. While the local government employment bureau 

 has placed some workers among local factories this number has been more 

 than offset by the large numbers that he has sent away. The situation 

 is the most acute that local manufacturers have ever faced. The manu- 

 facturers are pointing out to their men that they will be better off in the 

 long rim by rriiiaiiiiiiL,' Inri-, as many of them own their own homes and 



their : ■• •■ 1-. 



(I Schelosky Table Company, has been 



api . ubdlvision of the Cincinnati regional 



dlsti ..rnment contracts to various indus- 



tries. 'I'b.r.- are i liiriy .JLiir . ouiities in southern In<l; -in 



and northern Kentucky in the Evansville subdivisioi iv 



meeting of representatives from these various counti' - '■■■■-; 



war contracts for manufacturing plants in this secti. i 1. 



Under the new plan the contracts for war work will uo longer be let 

 through brokerage firms, but by the chairmen of these subdlTlsions. It 

 is expected that local Industries under this plan will fare better in the 

 future than they have in the past. A few weeks ago Elmer D. Luhrin- 



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