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$20,000, has been Incorpornfed, the illrcitom helui; CbnrU'H Lillluii, Sluiirt 

 Alsiimn aud GeorKC B. Allen. 



Klrc recently destroyed the sawmill and lumber yards of KlHiminn & 

 Blcher, I'eru, Ind., at a loss of »20,o<Mi. The conipuny carried no Insur- 

 ance, due to the fact that rates wi-rr ti.i. hlnh, the plant helntr locateil 

 outside of tht city limits. It la not kn..wn (hut the mill will be rebuilt. 

 The compiiuy hud been ninnufucturliii; iiirnplaiie propellers and Kunslocks 

 for the federal Kovernment. 



The Interniitlonal Steel and Iron ('iinsiruetlon Company, Evansvllle. 

 opcratlui: ti plaulue mill In connectlun with the other lariie plant. Is now 

 devotUiK all Its time to the making of wiir onlers, accordlne to the 

 manager, Oscar L. Oclhuck. The nature of the work beInK done Is m^t 

 known. Several weeks ago the comiiany was norklni; on banKers for 

 aeroplanes. 



The eaiuKlty for the Davldson-Dletrloh Plow Company, this elly. has 

 been taxeil for several months and the company has tilled a great many 

 orders. U.sually the plant closes for several weeks durlni; the suiiiuht 

 season, but this year the employes will not yet a vacation. The plaiil 

 of the nartlgliecker riow Company here Is one of those that uidted 

 In the natlniuil movement to eliminate wasteful features of the plow- 

 business In order to conserve materials. 



William rartlngton. secrentry and treasurer of the Evansvllle Lum- 

 bermen's Club, has announced that the ne.\t regular meeting of the club 

 will be held on the second Tuesday In September. The membership com- 

 mittee Is at work and expects to have several new members at the Septein- 



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meeting. 



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Considerable activity is in slylit In suiiw Is. and probably some hard- 

 wood in Louisville In connection with recent announcements at Wash- 

 ington relative to a large powder plant to be constructed at Louisville, and 

 erection of an artillery cantonment at West I'oint, Ky., twenty-live miles 

 from Louisville. Trellmlnary contract work has been started at West 

 Point by the Alfred Struck Company of Louisville, and some of the local 

 Jobliers of hardwoods anil pine have already delivered lumber on the Jol>. 

 The powder plant will cost several millions of dollars, and will be erected 

 onder the supervision of the DuPont Interests. 



The demand for firewood, due to the shortage of coal and certain regu- 

 lations concerning the use of coal, has made It possible for the local hard- 

 wood concerns to sell all slabs and waste profitably. The Louisville Point 

 Firewood Company, a subsidiary of the Louisville Point Lumber Company. 

 has been incorporated by II. J. Gates and others with a capital of ?10.00o, 

 and will handle firewood. A large florist at New Albany has purchased n 

 three-ton motor truck and arranged to haul a large supply of firewood 

 from the plant of the Wood-Mosaic Company, to keep his greenhouses going 

 this winter, as the government has curtailed coal supplies to the florists 

 by fifty per cent of last season's consumption. 



Walter Myers, formerly commercial engineer of the Louisville Gas & 

 Electric Company, has been chosen manager of the Washington war order 

 bureau of the Louisville War Industries Committee, which was organlzeil 

 by the Louisville Itoard of Trade and Louisville Industrial Foundation, for 

 the purpose of securing war orders for Louisville manufacturers. Several 

 large lumber concerns are represented In the committee. 



K. Vernon Knight, president of the New Albany Veneer Company of 

 New Albany, Ind., Is being connected with reports to the effect that he Is 

 backing a new company to take over the old .leffersonvlUc Reformatory for 

 the purpose of handling war contracts. The plant was burned some time 

 ago, and the state has been figuring upon the possibility of giving up the 

 Jeffersonvllle plant and enlarging the Michigan City or other plants. 



R. R. May, secretary of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and manager of 

 the Louisville branch of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, has 

 been traveling through the South In the Interests of the Southern Hard- 

 wood TraflJc Association, Memphis office. He has been away about a month. 

 but Is expected back late In July. 



The New Albany woodworking industries contributed liberally to the 

 Knights of Columbus war work fund, among the contributors being th<' 

 Hoosler Panel Company, Indiana Veneer & Panel Company and the Amer- 

 ican Cabinet Manufacturing Company. 



Ferdinand Kahler, Sr.. president of the Kahler Manufacturing Company 

 of New Albany, Ind., has gone to Bay City, Mich., to take active charge 

 of a woodworking plant which Is manufacturing aeroplane parts, whlcl 

 are shipped to other points for assembling. His son, Ferdinand Kahler, Jr., 

 la actively in charge of the New Albany plant. 



C. R. Mengel. president of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company of Louis- 

 ville, recently attended a meeting In Washington as delegate of the Louis- 

 ville Board of Trade, called by the banking and currency committee of 

 the Senate to discuss plans for establishment of a Federal Reserve Foreign 

 bank to handle foreign banking for American concerns which are at present 

 forced to deal through New York. 



The interesting discussions of trade acceptances at the recent conven- 

 tion of the National association In Chicago. Just a few days after the 

 Xoulsville Hardwood Club went on record as favoring the use of such 

 credits, shows that this Is a movement that Is steadily gaining headway, 

 and one that will be of great advantige to the lumber Industry when It 

 gets to working smoothly. 



John T. Co.\ of Lawrencetnirg, Ky., has established a small handle plant 

 to manufacture tool and Implement handles, especially for the farm trade. 

 In a limited dUd'ict at the start. 



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