HARDWOOD RECORD 



lowans Sawing Wood 



Cross-fUt saws, buck saws and axes are making sounrls like victory for 

 the United States in its war against Germany throughout Iowa. They 

 are being wielded by' men who are putting wood into shape to be used 

 as fuel this winter. Their employment is a part of a plan inaugurated 

 by Charles Webster, federal fuel administrator for the state, to conserve 

 coal during the coming winter months. Three million cords of fuel wood 

 is the mark set by the state administration to be reached by November 1. 

 lowans generally are co-operating and it is expected there will be no 



cult. 



Plan Memorial Trees 



Shade trees as memorials to Milwaukee soldiers and sailors who lost 

 their lives in the war is the plan which is under consideration by the 

 parks and parkways committee of the civic commission. A tree for each 

 man would be planted «ind each would bear the name of the man whom it 

 commemorates, and other information about him. The committee is con- 

 sidering two places for the trees. One plan provides for co-operation with 

 other localities to have all such trees planted along the Lincoln highway. 

 The other plan is to make the project purely local, and place the trees 

 along a route connecting the city parks. The trees would be of various 

 kinds. They would be planted in groups, at points where it was desirable 

 til gain the view of the passerby. 



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Hardwood News Notes 



< MISCELLANEOUS > 



.\ tornado which swept through parts of Louisiana in .\ugust. damaged 

 property belonging to the following concerns : The J. A. Bel Lumber Com- 

 pany, Calcasieu Long Leaf Lumber Company, Lake Charles Cooperage 

 Company, the Powell Lumber Company and the Stout Lumber Company, 

 all of Lake Charles ; to the American Lumber Company, and the SherriU 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, both o£ Merryville, and the Krause & Maua- 

 gan Lumber Company at Westlake. 



The Rensselaer Manufacturing Company has succeeded the Columbia 

 Furniture Company, Rensselaer, Ind. 



Recent incorporations are : The Liberty Box & Lumber Company, Bay 

 City, Mich.: tlir .Millor.l l.iiiiili.r Mniinfii. luring Company, Pontlac, Mich., 

 capital $5,111111; tin' MoMIi' w i rr,Hhhi~ riimpany, Mobile, Ala., capitali- 

 zation .f.S.'i.imti ; 111. S:iii(l 1 ] r. K l.iiiui'.i Company, Buhl, Ala., under 

 same nanir ivilli ;i .:i|hI;iI ct $i;5,UUU ; llic York Furniture Company, York, 

 Pa.. $20, IK npil;il; llii' Laurel Fork Lumber & Coal Company, Chat- 

 tanooga. 'L'riiu., :iihI ilir Dimension Lumber Company, Fredericksburg, Va. 



Ouy T. .Mill Willi I.amont have retired from the M. Lamont Sons 



11,, \i>. I , . , 1,. liirtory, St. Louis, has increased its capital from 



.«,-,, 1 1,, .._ , I , ilio Rotary Washing Machine Company of the 



sanir riiv, li:,- o-ni -I its Capital from $125,000 to $50,000. 



Richard L. Duuu of the Olympia Door Company, Olympia, Wash., died 

 recently. 



The L. E. Schwerke Lumber Company has started business in whole- 

 sale hardwood, hemlock and pine lumbering at Wausau, Wis. 



The Hamilton Lumber Company, Cynthiana, Ky.. has been dissolved, 

 J. T. Kenton continuing under the same name. 



The New England Cooperage & Lumber Company has been incorporated 

 at Portland, Me., with a $500,000 capital stock. 



The capital stock of the Marquette Box & Lumber Company, Marquette, 

 Mich., has been Increased to $100,000. 



The Muirhead Shingle Company, Weldon, Ark., has surrendered its 

 charter. 



The business formerly conducted under the title of the Stevens Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, Tex., is now known as the Stevens Furniture & Lumber 

 Company. 



At Moultrie, Ga., the Colquitt Furniture Company has incorporated at 

 $10,000. 



The Marshall Lumber & Mill Company, Inc., has succivdcd the Reform 

 Milling Company, Reform, Ala. 



New incorporations : The Mack Lumber Company. Jackson, Ala., cap- 

 ital $10,000 ; the Logan-Maphet Lumber Company, Knoxville, Tenn. ; the 

 Woodruff-Powell Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., $20,000 capitaliza- 

 tion ; the Piave Mill Company, Gulfport, Miss., $250,000. 



G. Tenant and Jacob A. Wolf have been appointed receivers for the 

 Ebbecke Furniture Company, Hoboken, N. J. 



Receiver has Ijeen applied for the Orange Maritime Corporation, 

 Orange, Tex. 



Richey, Halsted & Quick Company, Cincinnati, has increased its capital 

 to $250,000. 



D'Arcy & Sons Company, Boston, Mass., have filed an involuntary peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy. 



The Marquette Box & Lumber Company, Marquette, Mich., has increased 

 its capital to $100,000. 



The Schultz-Weis Company, Milwaukee, Wis., has sustalni'd a fire loss. 



=< CHICAGO y 



The Dlerks Lumber & Coal Company, Lincoln, Neb., has opened a Chicago 

 office. 



The Indiana Mill & Lumber Company recently began in the wholesale 

 lumber and tie business at 343 S. Dearborn street, Chicago. 



Charles A. Goodman, president of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation and of the Sawyer-Goodman Company, Marinette, Wis., spent 

 several days in town last week in attendance at the conference on bureau 

 matters at Washington, and with Secretary Fish of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association on National affairs. He was in a happy franie 

 of mind owing to activity in both his yards and special hardwood trade. 

 Among the visitors in attendance at the walnut conference and other 

 matters were Charles H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind., R. E. Pickrel of 

 St. Louis. Frank Purcell of Kansas City, Mo., and the greatest traveler 

 in the lumber trade, John Penrod and Sales Manager J. C. Rodahaffer of 

 Kansas City. 



James E. Stark of Memphis spent most of the month of August in 

 Chicago and returned home on the first. He was far from being pessi- 

 mistic considering some of the echoes that were floating around about 

 quotations made indiscriminately by some members of the trade. 



W. H. Dick of the Tallahatchie Lumber Company, Pbilipp, Miss., after 

 spending some weeks in Wisconsin, spent a few hours in Chicago the 

 other day and was on his way to Washington in an effort to join the 

 forces of Uncle Sam. At least Barkus is willing, and If he happens to 

 get at the right fellow down there no doubt Uncle Sam is willing also, as 

 competent business men are not so easy to get. For Uncle Sam's sake wi- 

 would like to see him adopt Dick for a time anyway. 



T. E. Jones, secretary-treasurer of the F. T. Dooley Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., spent several days in Chicago last week and evidently 

 was feeling good about the lumber business because he was perched on 

 a special seat at the last world's series game. 



Bob Lockwood of the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., spent a day in Chicago. He is doing more o£ a hardwood lumber 

 business now than ever before in the history of the company, and the 

 company i- -pending part of the time on the hardwood flooring game. 



It 111- I - i -ic"k on hand and has the facilities for furnishing quickly 



spc.i;ilM ii:inl« Is, gum, ash and oak, and Bob is turning his hand to 



enl.'ii-jiii- ill- \ :nil trade. 



.1 II -I'll! irii. Baker-Matthews Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 \i-ii..i 1 the hardwood markets and was in Chicago last week. 



II. , ;, . I ; • J- more active than most people give it credit for, not- 

 iviili-i iihiiiiL iiir vacation season with reduced output, and somewhat less 

 buying liy soiiio branches which purchase freely in other seasons of the 

 year. But with a very well assorted stock Mr. Stannard feels well satis- 

 fled that the fall will bring plenty of orders to keep his company busy. 

 M. J. Fox of the Von Platen Lumber Company, Iron Mountain, Mich., 

 came down from northern Michigan to look over business conditions. He 

 wasn't at all discouraged. 



The W. H. White Company, Boyne City, Mich., which has been in trus- 

 tees' hands for a year or two, through the Michigan Trust Company paid 

 its creditors fifty cents on the dollar recently on its first payment. The 

 trustees expect to make further payments on the liabilities. It is with a 

 real feeling of gratification that the White trustees' affair will be ended 

 satisfactorily to both creditors and the owners of the White business. 



W. R. Carney, Jr., son of W. J. Carney, for many years in the lumber 

 trade in Chicago, and himself connected with the management of the 

 Carney institutions, left early this week for the Field Artillery OflScers' 

 Training Camp, where he takes up work with Uncle Sam's fighting men. 

 He is a young man of ability, of fine character an<l we are sure he will 

 make a great soldier. 



-< ASHEVILLE >= 



Some shippers are reporting the first stages of what is expected to be a 

 troublesome car shortage. The supply of rolling stock is still moderate, 

 however, and with demand strong for most hardwoods a great deal of 

 shipping is being done. The midsummer lull is past. 



At their midsummer meeting Saturday night the Hoo-Hob appointed a 

 committee to take appropriate action in regard to the death of Lieut. Law- 

 rence B. Loughran of this city, who was killed in air battle in France, 

 July 28. Lieut. Loughran was employed by the Norwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, near Asheville, when the war first broke out. He was engaged in 

 lumber broker's business when America entered the war and enlisted April 

 7, 1917, the day after his country accepted the German challenge. 



Going into aviation he received part of his training at Mount Clemens, 

 Mich. Being sent to England he served as instructor in flying and 

 reached the British front early this summer. He was a college classmate 

 of Kifiin Rockwell, Asheville aviator, who fell in air battle before America 

 declared war. Loughran was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Loughran of 

 •Asheville. He has two brothers in the service.. 



^-< LOUISVILLE > 



Domestic orders during the latter part of August were not so active as 

 they had been, but have improved since the first of the month, and at the 

 present time the hardwood manufacturers and jobbers report that business 

 is fairly good. War orders continue active, and most of the houses have 

 a fair volume of orders on their books, and are not worrying to any 



