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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10. 1918 



The Showers Furniture Company, Bloomington, has received an order 

 from the government for GOOD medicine chests of one design and SOOO of 

 another design. 



The sawmill and lumber yard of A. J. Sanders & Son at Whitaker, Ind., 

 was destroyed by fire last week, causing a loss estimated at between $20,000 

 and $25,000. Large quantities of ash and walnut lumber and logs were 

 ■destroyed. No insurance was carried. 



The Jasper Veneer Mills, Jasper, have been incorporated with a capitali- 

 zation of $24,000. The directors are : John Gramelspaeker, Joseph F. 

 Friedman and William F. Beckman. 



Indianapolis furniture manufacturers have prepared to comply with 

 the orders of the government calling for a fifty per cent cut in patterns, 

 and practically the abolition of the use of steel and other metal equipment 

 in connection with furniture construction. Representatives of prac- 

 tically all the furniture manufacturing companies of the city recently 

 held a meeting at which jdans for placing Into effect these changes were 

 ^liscussed. 



The George Krimm Cooperage Company, Lebanon, Ky., recently filed 

 a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, listing assets of $5,750, and liahlll 

 ties of $7,950.95, the latter consisting principally of material bills. 



Tic ISuckhorn Coal & Lumber Company, Buckhorn, Ky., has filed 

 ami-nd(d articles of incorporation, listing a new capital of $250,000, an 

 increase of $100,000. 



Tile E. L. Hendricks Lumber Company, Bowling Green, Ky., has filed 

 amended articles of incorporation increasing the capital stock from $35,000 

 to $.iO.O00, and changing the name to the E. L. Hendrick Company. 



Lee Smith, Sassafras, Ky., near Whitesburg, and others have closed a 

 big timber deal on about 1,000 acres of hardwood on Carrs Fork in Knott 

 County, and plan developments in 1919. 



S. K. Baird and others of Whitesburg, Ky., have purchased standint. 

 timber on Cowan Creek, near Whitesburg, and plan early developments. 



=■< EVANSVILLE 



Henry Beckman. a well-known luiiilur d.aliT and planing mill owner, 

 died at his home at Ferdinand, In.l.. recently, at the age of seventy years. 

 Several years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never 

 fully recovered. Mr. Beckman assisted in the organization of the Tri- 

 State Retail Lumber Dealers' Association a few years ago and was one 

 one of the first directors of the association. He is survived by his widow 

 and several children. 



The Evansville Manufacturers' Association has sent an invitation to 

 Williim B. Wilson, secretary of labor in President Wilson's cabinet, ask- 

 ing him to come here at some time in the near future to deliver an address 

 on labor conditions. It is expected he will accept the invitation.' New 

 standing committees for the ensuing year have been named by the Evans- 

 ville Manufacturers' Association. 



It has just been announced that a labor surplus has been discovered ii. 

 Evansville through the establishment of a card classification system to 

 further the "work or fight" plan by the local employment bureau ofiBce. 

 Although all of the Evansville manufacturing plants are in full operation. 

 It is said that many calls for work are made at the employment office, 

 which it is unable to fill. The class affected consists principally of men 

 who own their homes here and are unwilling to leave the city. Up to this 

 time I'Mi. V. 1 1 \...irk li:is I. cm .1 in Evansville and a great demand is 



l.iih ;i i; . iiin i>, irf.iil liiiiiiicr dealers and owners of wood con- 



suiiiiTiL- iii:iMi ii,.\, iiikiii :iii .irtivc and prominent part in the Fourth 

 Liberty l.cau caiii|paiKii that was launched on Saturday, September 28. The 

 iiuota to be raised by the city ot Evansville and Vanderburg county was 

 fixed at $i;.8a8.()00 and luniborincu were among the heaviest buyers of 

 bonds. In many of the other towns and cities in southern Indiana and 

 southern Illinois lumbermen took a leading part in the big drive. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club that 

 was held on Tuesday night. October 8, the lumber embargo was one of 

 the principal tbiuKs that .anie up for discussion. At the November meet- 

 ing of the dull ilic aiiiinal clectiou of oflScers will take place and it is 



expected that >'■ ;;■■ i> Wc.rland. president, and William S. Partington, 



secretary ami treasurer, will be re-elected. 



The holding company of tlie Kvaiisville sub-region of the Cincinnati 

 regional on war contracts, will lie kieiwa as the Ship Joiners' Association 

 and will maintain a regular otlii e in Washington, D. C, it was announced 

 recently. Walter H. Linsell, Hetroit, Mich., will be placed in charge of 

 the office and he will he empowered to employ a naval architect and pro- 

 duction expert to analyze work to be done on ships and to determine what 

 portion can be done in plants in the sub-region. It is expected that the 

 manufacturers of this saler, ;;i..ii will spend about one thousand dollars 

 a month to get war (cnim. i^ i,,i r,\ansville and the surrounding territory. 

 Oscar A. Klamer, iiennnM m .liaiiaian of the Evansville sub-region, and 

 president of the Scheie k) I'al.le Cniniiany, believes that with the organiza- 

 tion that ha^ Im. ,1 |,eti,. I ,| more war work will come to Evansville in the 

 future. Suae 111 III -I woodworking plants in Evansville have been 



working on w 1 1 aiii ; i.u' several months, but it is pointed out by the 

 manufacturer,, heie 1I..11 the city is not getting its full share of the war 

 work as compared to some of the cities in the East. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >. 



Louisville hardwood men came to bat in fine shape with the Fourth 

 Liberty Loan. A large number gave a great deal of time to active cam- 

 paign work, while the trade as a whole was in the first rank of the sub- 

 scribers. A few of the concerns known to have gone 100 per cent for every 

 employe were W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Edward L. Davis 

 Lumber Company, and the W. R. Wlllett Lumber Company. The Highland 

 Park branch of the Wood-Mosaic Company, of New Albany subscribed 

 $10,000 to the loan, the employes subscribing $6,000, while the New- 

 Albany plant subscribed for $40,000, and the plants at Huntington, Cin- 

 cinnati and other points also went to bat. 



A meeting of the Louisville Ilardwond flub was held last week, the 

 livening being given over to ili-i u>-iens .■..nccrning the embargo regula- 

 tions. T. M. Brown, Barry .\ iin.in, llaia^' Kline, Edward L, Davis and 

 K, K, May, were the prindiial -.[.eakeis. 



--<, TEXAS 



T'.ie timber holdings and plants ot the Fenton Lumber Company. Nona, 

 and the Village Mills Company of Fletcher have been taken over by the 

 Nona-Fletcher Lumber Company, a concern capitalized for $400,000 for 

 that purpose. There was no new capital involved in the deal, the stock 

 representing the assets of the two companies. J. B. Hooks of Kountze 

 became president; Oswald S. Parker, Houston, vice-president; W. J, 

 Brackin, Fletcher, general manager; C. B. Marsgall, Nona, assistant gen 

 eral manager; P. S. Wiggins, Kountze. secretary; Thos. J. Batcii. Beau- 

 mont, treasurer, together with W. D. Gordon, Beaumont, forming the 

 board of directors. The new company will control about 50,000,000 feet 

 of yellow pine and hardwood. 



For the purpose of constructing four 3500-ton barges for the government 

 the Neches Shipbuilding Company has been organized. The company is 

 capitalized at $100,000. About 30,000 feet of hardwood will be used in 

 each barge. 



Beaumont lumbermen are playing a prominent part in raising Beau 

 mont's quota ot $2,273,000 for the Fourth Liberty Loan. The majority of 

 the lumber companies purchased bonds and allow their employes to pay 

 them out on the weekly installment plan. 



D. H. Murphy, who has had charge of the hardwood department of the 

 Keith Lumber Company for some time has accepted a position as sales 

 manager of the hardwood department of the Beaumont Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Murphy has had twelve years' experience in this department. 



=•< MILWAUKEE >- 



that Frank N. Snell, for 



ited i 



one 



has 1. _ I , I I I M|i ii.i 1 1 III I. r the name of Frank Snell Saw Mill 



t'c.ini I I I 1; I I iCiii.ooo, with headquarters at Council, 



Ga., will I. I [ai^i iiLiiii lia- I II iHirchased and is now being remodeled 



and enlarged, Mr. .Snell is president and treasurer ot the company and 

 the other officers are ; Vice-president, Frank R. Pierce, Louis Werner Saw 

 Mill Company, St. Louis ; secretary, Louis R. Fendig, Jacksonville, Pla. ; 

 directors. T. B. Cook, Cookshurg, Pa. ; John Alexander, Chicago ; W. K. 

 DePass, New Orleans, and Jay E. Rice, assistant secretary and treasurer. 



The Phoenix Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis., is building an addition 

 to its plant to be used as a dry-room. 



The Leathem D. Smith Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., which recently 

 undertook government contracts for the construction of three 100-foot 

 wooden tugs, has been granted an additional contract for nine vessels of 

 the same description. This will require considerable enlargement of its 

 plant and .yards. The first keel on the original order was laid July 25 and 

 the boat will be launched October 15 or 20. 



The Manitowoc Church Furniture Company, Waukesha, Wis., is filling 

 an order tor 50,000 desks for the hospital service. This is the largest 

 government contract that the company has undertaken and will require a 

 large part of the capacity for several months, with an enlarged working 



The Birdseye Veneer Company, Escanaba, Mich., after several months 

 of effort, has been assured by the common council of that city that it will 

 make adequate provision for fire protection. A four-inch water main will 

 be laid from the nearest hydrant as soon as practicable. 



The Northwest Engineering Works. Green Bay, Wis., which is building 

 thirteen tugs for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, has taken a second 

 contract for twenty-one similar craft, the entire number to be delivered 

 before October 1, 1919. The two orders are about equally divided between 

 wooden and steel hulls. 



News comes from the upper peninsula of Michigan that the Eddy Lumber 

 Company. Lake Linden, has disposed ot 40,000,000 feet of standing timber 

 and 2,500,000 feet of logs in the Misery river district on the south shore 

 of Lake Superior, to Charles Ilebbard & Sons, Inc., Pequaming, Mich. The 

 timber consists of hardwood and hemlock. The Hebbard company will log 

 and raft the timber more than 100 miles along Lake Superior and through 

 the Portage Lake waterways and Keweenaw Bay to its mill. The Eddy 

 company still retains about £0,000,000 feet of standing hardwood and hem- 

 lock in the Bootjack district. 



The government's request for black walnut timber, logs and bolts is 

 meeting with a generous response in all parts of Wisconsin. The Associa 

 tion ot Commerce at Madison has rounded up thirty carloads among the 

 farmers of Dane county and environs, and two carloads recently were 



