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dlrrctur o( Ibr NalloDal ltar<lwiXMl I.unilM-r AikocIbIIoii, niiil wlii> r. fiiu <l 

 lo bo a "dark borsr" candldato for Ibo prculdi-nry iif ibc orKiiiiliatlun 

 at tbo r«Trnt convcnilon In ItulTnlu. U r>-Biir<li'tl by bin frlriidii bk Ibf 

 proper man for tbe cblvf offlo- In tbo nisoctnlloo ni-xt ya-ar. Mr. Ilruwu 

 l< a ulrooi; orcanltailoo man. and during (bf pnut four yrani tbnt bv 

 ban brm dln-ctor of «bc National, be ba« done iipli-ndid work for the 

 rarluuii adnilnlmralloaa. lie aUo mandH blsh In tbp National Whole- 



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We Have Nothing But Flat Dried Stock 

 EDINBURGH, INDIANA 



Kentucky Veneer Works 



HIGH-GRADE— WELL-MANUFACTURED 



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IN SAWED AND SLICED QUARTERED 

 WHITE OAK AND QUARTERED RED GUM. 

 OUR ROTARY CUT GUM AND POPLAR 

 CROSSBANDING VENEERS ARE EXCEP- 

 TIONALLY GOOD. 



Louisville Kentucky 



SINGLE PLY ROTARY CUT 



Thin Lumber and Veneers. Poplar, Gum, 

 Oak, Yellow Pine and Cypress 



The best that choice logs, 1914 Equip- 

 ment, and long experience can produce. 



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Old Dominion Veneer Company 



NORTH EMPORIA, VIRGINIA 



lo orKonlti' the lx>ulivllle Hardwood Club In l»OH. and waa prraldrnt 

 of the club for two yrara. Mr. Brown Ik one of tbe young men In tbr 

 lumber buaineu wbo arc doing big tblnga. 



The aawmlll of Kred Wilburn. lx>ndon. Ky.. waa recently burned. At 

 tbe Kome time 300,000 fwt of lumlH-r of l>. C. l->lwarda, Umdon, won 

 demroyed. The mill waa without Iniiurance. 



I'aducah, Ky.. lumbermen arc Jubilant over Ibc fact that reduced ratea 

 nil lumber have been put Into effect. They became elfectlTe July 1. 

 I he cbanKe In the ratcH waa made followInK an order of the Intentate 

 ' '.nimerce CommlHslon on the complaint of the I'aducab Hoard of Trade. 



The Commonwealth Coal & Timber Compuny, I^xlnicton, Ky., baa been 

 ni.orporaled with »:0,000 capital «lock. Snmuel M. Wllaon. Clinton 

 llnrblaon and otbers arc the lncur|inrni<rrN. 



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June receipts of lumber by roll luto .St. ]a>\i\i>, a* reported by the 

 Merchants' ICxcbaniic, were in.4KS earn. In June, Ull.'t, tbe receipt* were 

 17,810 cnrg, Bbowlng a loss In June, 1014, of 1,328 carK. Bblpmenta of 

 lumber by rail In June, 101-1, were 12,317 com. In June, 1013, tbe 

 shipments were 13,180 cars, a falling off of 833 cara. 



Tbe first six mouths of the present yeor Just ended show a faWlnic 

 off In shipments of lumber of 0,088 cars onil In the recelpta of lumber 

 of 12,102 cars, according to the following statistics furnished by the 

 exchange : 



Shipments — Cars. 



January . 

 Kebruary 

 March 



1013. 



t<>.: 

 II. 



Receipts — Cars. 

 11114. 

 14.480 



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10 



10,137 

 10,137 

 18,200 

 16,72.'. 

 20.320 

 17,810 



14.378 

 10,7:{5 

 1S,770 

 1.1.418 

 10,488 



Total 76.059 66.991 10.'..431 03.209 



Geo. W. Petrlc has recently been appointed tbe local representative of 

 the Byrne-Ronfro Lumber Company, for the sale In the St. Louis market of 

 I heir cypress output. 



E. W. Blumer. sales manager of the Lolhman Cypress Company, who 

 has been In tbe East for two or three weeks on a selling trip, returned 

 home a few days ago. lie says business In the East Is rather quiet and 

 f>\v orders for cypress ore being placed. Mr. Blumer. as he usually does. 

 KOt his share of business. Ho says crops look fine and tbe outlook for 

 business this fall Is unusually good. 



Mrs. Adelaide M. Rolfes, mother of Henry G. Rolfes. the well-known 

 lumberman and former president of the Lumbermen's Club of St. Ix)uls. 

 Vllcd recently at tbe age of seventy-four. She bad been an Invalid for 

 several months. 



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The Cornell Woods rrodn.ls Company of Corni'll. Chippewa county, 

 has filed papers of Incorporation with the secretary of state. Tbe capi- 

 tal Is ?3,500.000, of which $1,500,000 Is first preferred. JL.IOO.OOO second 

 preferred and $500,000 common stock. The Incorporators are Rufua B. 

 Smith. W. R. Curkeet and U. M. Stroud, all Madison attorneys acting 

 for other parties. 



The Gllman Manufacturing Company suffered a loss of $12,000 June 26 

 when Arc destroyed the heading mill and two dry kilns at Gllman. The 

 lire department of Stanley, seventeen miles south, sent help and saved 

 the stock of logs and the stave mill. The loss Is covered by Insurance 

 of $7,000. 



The hub mill of the Andrew J. Kaul Company at Merrill has been 

 closed down and will not be operated until some future date not yet 

 decided upon. According to Manager George T. Harding, the mill will 

 not be abandoned but will remain Idle until market conditions Improve. 



The rates on hardwood logs from Van Husklrk to Superior have been 

 ordered reduced to 4.5 cents per hundredweight with a minimum load 

 of 50.000 pounds, by the Public Utilities Commission. Tbe order affects 

 the Chicago & North-Western and the Northern Pacific railways. 



The Sturgeon Bay Krult Package Company Is a new wood product 

 concern Incorporated at Sturgeon Bay by R. C. Totzke. H. C. Scofleld 

 ;ind F. \. Shlmmei. The capital stock is placed at $3,000. 



The J. G. Lockhart Lumber Company of Sheboygan has removed Its 

 offlce to the new Prange office building on New York avenue. 



Because tbe Menasha-N'eenah Lumber Company at Neenah bas lumber 

 .sheds within fifty feet from the armory, which is in violation of a 

 local ordinance prohibiting lumber or similar material within that distance 

 of a public meeting place, tbe lumber company proposed to erect an 

 tight-Inch fire wall It tbe council will amend tbe ordinance to permit this. 



John D. Hollowell, manager of the Moline Wagon Company of Molinc, 

 III., has been appointed general manager of the Mitchell Wagon Company 

 of Racine, which bas recently been taken over from tbe Mitchell-Lewis 

 Motor Company by an eastern syndicate. 



Efforts are being made to establish in Grand Rapids a plant for the 

 manufacture of an automatic diner by tbe Automatic Diner Machine 

 Company of Milwaukee. It Is contemplated to merge the Kaudy factory 

 with the diner plant, the former doing tbe wood work for the latter. 

 The machine Is an Invention brought over from Sweden. 



C. 11. Werden. formerly general manager of the Brooks & Ross Lumber 

 Company at Schofleid. who has of late been general manager of the 



