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JAMES E. STARK & CO., Inc. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



BA\D MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBURG, TENN. 



J L.\EER MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



Kht M. Mahaff.T.v, 

 (ir rompany, at M 

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nnorly iiianaKor of the Morral Lumber & 

 1, O.. Is ill tiaiuiiig to become one of Uncle 

 i is 4tli Cadet St|uadron, Camp Dlx, Dallas, 



=< EVANSVILLE >. 



It Is announced that C. W. Sprinkle will conduct a lumber business 

 uniler his own name In the Union Trust bulldjng. Cincinnati. Mr. 

 ."Sprinkle and K. M. Bonner have taken over the business of the Atlas 

 Lumber Company, since J. C. West has withdrawn to enter war work. 

 .Mr. Sprinkle will look after both concerns. 



E. Griffith has recently opened a business in South Charleston, O., dealing 

 in hardwoods as well as yellow pine. He was formerly a traveling lumber 

 salesman, covering territory from Detroit east through Canada and the 

 eastern states. 



.1. W. Flalg. a son of J. A. Flnlg. a lumberman of New Madison, O., has 

 entered the navy after completing a three years' course at the Ohio State 

 Univer.sity. 



Lorenzo O. Kilmer, a son of 11. A. Kilmer of Oak Harbor, O., treasurer 

 of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, has been commissioned 

 a flrst lieutenant in the army. 



Lumber Company is having a good demand 



Prices are firm in every particular. 

 connected with the W. L. Whltacrc Lumber 

 cd in the navy and is In the sixth regiment 

 'at Lak»*s training school. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial 

 for West Virginia hardwoods. 



(!t<ir,Ke 11. Harlow, formerly 

 riimpaiiy, CoUiiiibus, has enlist 

 i.r yfoiii.'ii stationed at the llr 



-< INDIANAPOLIS >- 



(). 1>. IlaslvOtt, president of th.' c i. I). Ilaskptt Lumber Company, said 

 -t week that government demands for lumber are rapidly consuming 

 I' production of the mills in this territory. The government demand 



ilready so heavy, Mr. Haskett said, that if the ordinary retail demands 



ic up to normal the trade would be unable to supply the demand. 



\ stock of hardwood lumber valued at several thousand dollars was 



-troyed by fire last week when the plant of the Bedell Manufacturing 

 ' wporation of Marion was burned. The total loss was $50,000. 



fallen timber within a slx-mlle radius of Indianapolis is expected to be 

 used by tlie Federal Fuel .Administrator of Marion county during the 

 winter to relieve coal shortages. It is estimated that 50,000 cords of 

 fallen timber can be obtained within a radius of six miles of this city. 



The factory of the Whitmore Handle Company of Mount Vernon, Ind., 

 was destroyed by Arc last week, causing a loss of $18,000. The factory 

 .was engaged in manufacturing' handles to be sent to the Hog Island Navy 



llild the 



.1. C. <;ieor of (he 3. C. Greer Lumlier Company reports the demand 

 for hardwood lumber strong, while yellow pine has been a little off for 

 some time. He says his company's sawmills in Mississippi had been 

 handicapped for several weeks because of the shortage of labor, but that 

 situation has been relieved some of late. The company's four large stave 

 mills In Tennessee are being operated on good time. The demand for 

 staves Is strong. The cotton crop in the southern states is promising and 

 general trade conditions are good. 



The West Side Lumber Company has filed a notice with the secretary of 

 state changing Its name to the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company. 

 Charles A. WoKlIn is the manager of the company. The name of the 

 Wollliu & Luhring Lumber Company has been changed to the Luhring 

 Lumber Company and the manager is Klmer U. Luhring. 



Knge .\nderson has been appointed manager of the Simpson Lumi)er 

 Company at Poseyville, Ind., taking the place of Burgc Tilton, who 

 resigneil to go to Camp Zachary Taylor at Louisville, Ky. 



The Luhring Lumber Company, the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company, 

 the I'ioneer Pole and Shaft Company and the Schnutc-Iloltman Lumber 

 Comi>any are among the new members of the Evansville Manufacturers' 

 Association that held its final meeting of the summer a few nights ago. 

 The next meeting will be held in September. E. H. Hyman, the secretary 

 of the association, announced that the manufacturers had found a way 

 to combat the drain on the local labor market. He said that many of 

 tli<> niaiiufacturlng plants have installed women and girls to take the 

 pla( c of the men who have gone to war and that in most Instances the 

 work of the women had proved to be satisfactory. 



.V large poplar tree, said to be the largest in the state and standing on 

 the farm of Carey Morris, near Salem, Ind., was sold a few days ago to 

 the Hassett Lumber Company at Orleans, Ind.. for a price reported to have 

 been more than $700. The tree is 120 feet high and is thirty feet In cir- 

 cumference at the ground. It is estimated that the tree will yield from 

 12,(100 to 13,000 feet of lumber. 



Fire recently completely destroyed the plant of the Whitmore Handle 

 Company at Mt. Vernon, Ind., the loss being about $18,000, with part 

 insuiance. The origin of the Are Is not known. The com|)any had been 

 working on large war orders and had enough of these orders to keep the 

 factory busy for several months. It Is expected the plant wUl be rebuilt 

 in a short time. The factory was one of the largest of its kind in this 



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