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\ EMiER MILLS 

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men oi i loviiauu, to ilircct traiisportatlnn worK ot tho Kod uross in 

 franc<>. lie will be coniUHtid with the Lake Division of Ihat oipinization 

 and wUl leave about the miilJle of October. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Contracts amounting to more than ?600,000 have been awarded to 

 Indiana woodworking plants according to an announcement that has Just 

 been made by the war contract department of the Indianapolis Chamber 

 of Commerce. The bid of tho Conncrsville rurnlturc Company on 100,000 

 ammunition boxes for Browning machine guns has been accepted. The 

 company has been turning out this equipment for some time In the past 

 and has large stores on hand for future deliveries. 



The Washington Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce announces that 

 more requests on bids for ammunition boxes arc expected in the near 

 future. 



The Balesville Lumlier & Veneer Company, Batesville, has clianged 

 its principal place of business to Lawrenceburg. 



The Southern Lumber Company of Indianapolis lias issued preferreil 

 stock in the sum of J18.140, making the total capitalization $33,400. 



The S. J. Peabody Lumber Company, Columbia City, is working its 

 plant to capacity manufacturing propellor blades for airplanes. The com- 

 pany has thousands of feet of American black walnut on hand from 

 which the propellor blades arc being manufactured. 



The Long-Knight Lumber Company, Indianapolis, has received from 

 I he aviation branch of the War Ilepartment a contract for 100,000 feet 

 of walnut lumber to he used in the manufacture of airplane propellor 

 lilades. 



William J. Koach. a well-known Indianapolis lumbernuin, has assumed 

 Ihe duties of director of the Indianapolis warehouse of the American Ked 

 I'ross occupying the fourth and fifth floors of the M»rrott Department 

 store building. The chief task of the warehouse director is to see that 

 led cr..K.s supplies for the men in France arc shipped properly ami 



=-< EVANSVILLE >^ 



Many lumber manufacturers, owners of planing mills, retail lumber 

 ilealers and .yard men, as well as owners of wood consuming plants at- 

 temled a meeting of the Kvansvllle sub-dlvlslon of the Cincinnati regional 

 on war contracts held in the Chamber of Commerce building, Evansville, 

 on Friday. September 13. The purpose of the meeting was to take steps 

 to organize a holding company in Evansville to take care of all the war 

 "iitiacis (bat lonie tu ibis s.-ction. Tli.- Kvansvllle sub-division em- 



western and northern Kentucky. It was decided at the meeting to tile 

 articles of incorporation tor the holding company with the secretary of 

 slate at Indianapolis within a lew days. It is expected the capital stock 

 "f the company will be place<l at Ave million dollars or more. Oscar A. 

 Klamer of the Schelosky Table Company and permanent chairman of the 

 Evansville sub-dlvislon : Daniel Wert?, of Mnley & Wertz, and B. F. 

 VonBehren of the YonBehren Manufacturing Company who went to Wash- 

 ington, D. C, recently to try to securi? more war contracts for the 

 Evansville territory made flattering reports. Mr. Wortz stated at the 

 meeting on the 13th that while Evansville had secured considerable war 

 work in the past he was of the opinion that more would be secured for 

 Evansville manufacturing plants In the near future. 



The first fall meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club held at a 

 local hotel on September 10 was largely attended. The proiwsltion of 

 forming a holding company In Evansville to take care of war contracts 

 was endorsed in a strong resolution anil telegrams were sent to IJnIted 

 States Senators Harry New and James E. Watson, and Congressman 

 (ieorge K. Denton, of this city asking for their _infiuenec to get war 

 contracts for this city. The proposition of improving the Ohio river 

 was endorsed. A resolution was passed asking the Ohio Valli'y Improve- 

 ment Association, which will hold its annual meeting In Louisville, Ky.. 

 in October, to pass a resolution asking Congress for an appropriation 

 for the building of a barge line on the Ohio river. Mr. Worland says 

 that the lumber manufacturers along the lower Ohio river badly feel the 

 loss of river transportation. I.«"ist year most of the steamboats, towboats 

 and barges along the lower Ohio river were wrecked by heavy ice gorges. 

 Herman R. Schelosky of the Schelosky Table Company and the Klamer- 

 Goebel Furniture Company, this city, and Miss Louise Ida Mauer, were 

 recently united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and 

 Mrs. P. H. Mauer. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. Schelosky de- 

 parted for Camp Grant at Kockford, III., and within a short time expects 

 to go overseas. 



state of the late Claude Maley, well known 

 Ity, whose death occurred In September oi 

 last year at a summer resort in Massachusetts, has been flxe<l at $3.72.'S.40 

 by the probate court at Evansville. The estate was divided evenly among 

 the widow, Mrs. Eva Maley and her two children, Henry and Margaret, 

 each having received a little over $83,000 In cash. The interest In the 

 firm of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers, was taken over 

 some time ago by the surviving partner, Daniel Wertz, who has kept the 

 firm's name the same. The concern Is one of the best known in the Midille 

 West and does business in all parts of the United States. 



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