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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 



BAND MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBl)RG, TENN. 



VENEER MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



npany, Columlm: 

 lip Taylor, Loui; 



Paul C. Sisson, secretary of the Western Liiin 

 lias resigned to enter the officers training camp 

 vine. 



The W. L. Whltacre Lumber Company, Columbus, has purchased a mill 

 at Reform, Ala., from the Reform Milling Company. -Associated with Mr. 

 Whltacre In the deal Is F. H. Marshall. The deal includes the mill 

 proper, and extensive real estate holdings. The concern will be operated 

 under the name of the Marshall Lumber & Mill Company. Mr. Marshall 

 has been general sales manager for the Cotton State Lumber Company 

 at Mehan Junction, Miss. 



C. W. Hagcmeycr, formerly with the Tennessee Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, has been commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Signal 



R. W. Ilorton of the W. M. Rltter Lumber Company, reports a rather 

 quiet hardwood trade. The bulk of the orders booked at present conies 

 from manufacturing plants. Retail orders are not heavy. • Prices are 

 firm all along the line. 



Major Quilty, quartermaster in the war department, in charge of the 

 construction of the immense army storage depot, Just east of Columbus, 

 Ohio, has received Instructions from Washington to erect two additional 

 structures, each of which is to be 1,571 feet long and 169 feet wide. The 

 estimated cost of the additional buildings is $800,000. 



Beginning about the middle of September, there will be activity around 

 the Columbus Lumbermen's Club, which Is housed In excellent club rooms 

 at Chestnut and High streets. Regular meetings will be held from that 

 time. These meetings were called off during the heated period of the 



=-< CLEVELAND >. 



I'.ecause lumber must have national niinscntation nt Washington to get 

 results during the present war times, campaign for 100 per cent member- 

 ship in the National Retail Lumber Dealers" Association by local hard- 

 wood Interests is now under way here. Already more than half the mem- 

 bers of the trade in Cleveland are members of the national organization, 

 and it will be the aim of this half to get those not already in as members 

 during the next month. The movement is the outcome of a urgent appeal 

 from Secretary C. A. Bowen, of the national body, at a meeting of the 

 Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers, at which practically the entire trade 

 was represented. He said that there Is so much work to be done at 

 Washington now that petitions and appeals from local or state organlza 

 tlons will receive scant consideration, while a national body, with full 

 power to represent the entire tradf, will be h.nnl. 



All Three of U. Will Be Benefited if 



Another comprehensive move Is under way here this week, uniler tlie 

 direction of the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers. Many firms are 

 overstocked on certain materials. These firms will list their surplus stocks 

 at the board, and these will go to concerns not so well supplied in these 

 materials. It is probable the stocks will be allowed to go at concessions. 

 In this way those at present oversupplied with material will turn the 

 stocks into cash, and those purchasing them will have some price benefit. 



Early awarding of contracts to automobile and truck firms here for the 

 several million dollars war trucks and trailers is expected. This will 

 mean a big consumption of hardwoods. Mostly oak will be used, as other 

 materials are considered too high. About six firms in Cleveland will re- 

 ceive the contracts, and some of these are so large, they will be sublet in 

 jiart to I5ulTalo and Detroit Interests. 



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Klre cif iiudetermineil i.rljjiii clcstrnyiMl tlir main l)uiUling of the Hunt- 

 ington Lumber Company of Huntington, Ind.. last Sunday, causing a los- 

 estimated at approximately $100,000, covered by insurance. 



Edward Showers, president of the Showers Bros. Furniture Company. 

 Bloomlngton. Ind., last week was elected president of the Bloomington 

 Chamber of Commerce. 



The Woodruff-Powell Lumber Company of South Bend, Ind., has been 

 incorporated with a capitalization of $20,000. Directors of the company 

 are Charles G. Powell, Vee 0. Woodruff and H. J. Aldworth. 



Fire last week destroyed the plant of the William Beamer Saw Mill 

 Company of Bowling Green, Ind. No estimate has been made on the loss. 

 .Mr. Beamer lost a mill in a fire on the same site two years ago. 



Contracts which will exceed $600,000 when completed have been award. . 

 I)y the war department to four Indiana firms, the war contract depart 

 ment of the Chamber of Commerce announced. The bid of the Conner^ 

 vllle Furniture Company on 100,000 ammunition boxes for Browniii- 

 inachiDC guns wag accepted. The Caswell-Runyan Company of Huntln;; 

 ton and the McDougal Company at Frankfort received woodworking cmi 

 tracts. The Delta Electro Company received a $150,000 contract for hit; 

 power projector lights, for motor trucks. More requests for bids ..t! 

 ammunition boxes are expected soon, it was announced. 



=■< EVANSVILLE >■= 



statement recently published, the Evansville Furniture 

 Association pointed out that the Iiirtiiture industry is an 

 lial one. contrary to the belief of some people in all sections nf the C( 

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