HARDWOOD RECORD 



45 



< CHICAGO y 



Poplar Bluff, Mo., was in 



Max Ij. Pease of the Gallow:i.\ !■ - ■ 

 Chicago a couple of days this \\ . 



W. H. Wellei-, seci'etary of ii hii . i Manufacturers' Association, 

 Cincinnati. Ohio, was among ili^- \i ii^ i, in ( iiir.iyo trade this week. 



The tournament committee of the I^umb'imiu's Club of Chicago an- 

 nounces the fall tournament and handicap pocket and three-cushion billiard, 

 which will open September 28. The entry fee is one dollar and the entries 

 will close on September 26. 



.T. C, Rodahaffer, sales manager for George W. Hartzell, manufacturer 

 of walnut and rough aud finished hickory wagon woods, Piqua, Ohio, has 

 been spending snvml flnvF. in rhicajo rturinc; the last week. Mr. Roda- 

 haffer reporls I . ! I .1 1 i'li I I'li I'll inoss in the latter line, in 



which he w.i ■ i i i : • He also states that his 



company is ■_ ■, ' i !.■ quanlity of this stock 



and a lar^'r -. : . in iHiii nid iii.ii:Liia hickory which will be 



cut this win 1(1-. 



Walter N. Ivelley, Detroit, Mich., was in Cliioago a week ago. 



Hugh Jlcl-ean of Buffalo spent several days in Chicago a week ago on a 

 business trip and in attendance at the meeting of the executive board of 



memo 



•V Mills, I>oui.svllle, Ky., spent several 

 I ss trip. Mr. Ivline also attended the 

 the National Veneer & Panel Manu- 



B. \V. Lord, pnshlent of the Chicago Veneer Company, Danville, K.v., 

 and also prcskbnt of the National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, was in Chica^'o for a few days last week. 



Lawrence l''ord of the Goodlander-Robertson Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., attended the recent meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation's officers at Chicago. 



O. C. Lenukr oi' iIh' rn.lirwciod Veneer Company, Wausau, Wis., was in 

 the city duriu'^ n ]i;iii ^r ihis week. 



.\. E. Gorhain ni il'.rhain liroihers Company, Mt. Pleasant. Mich., at- 

 tended the nirinin,' of the ntlicers of the National Veneer & Panel Manu- 

 facturers' .\ssoc1ation in this cily last week, as did M. C. Dow of the 

 Goshen Veneer Company, Goshen. Ind. 



Berry Norman of th^ Norman Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky., who is 

 in charge of tli- li r'lv r:ul_-.\ La., operations of this concern, was in 

 Chicago for a I .. ' ; ' 1; .afjo. 



F. W. Haul' \ ■ : i w : i rnson-Kuny Mill & Lumber Company, Mound 

 'I i II Chicago and vicinity a few days ago. 



li • Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, Luding- 



I - ' II ajio a week ago, stopping off for a few days 



City, 111., 



N. Mich., president of the Von Platen Lumber 

 h., was one of the prominent northern visitors 



ton, Mich.. pa~- i i i 

 for a business i ■ 'n i i 



G. Von PI.iiiii, ci II 

 Company, Iron Moiinla 

 to the Chicago market. 



Oscar Babcock, vice-president of the Babcock Lumber Company, Pitts- 

 burgh, Fa., was in Chicago recently conferring with J. H. P. Smith, in 

 charge of the Chicago office of the Babcock interests. 



O. T. Swan of the Forest Service, Washington, D. C, passed through 

 Chicago a few days .ago on his way to the Pacific coast. 



=■< NEW YORK y- 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company. Baltimore 

 York market with permanent headquarters in • 

 local office is at 1 JIadison aVL^nue. Mr. Mant 

 in New York for nearly ten years and know 



has again entered the New 

 harge of O. J. Mann. The 



has been a frequent caller 

 I the trade and its wants 



thoroughly. He came recently from Baltimore where he was temporarily 

 in charge of the sales department of the Wood business. He will make a 

 specialty of hardwoods manufactured at the R. E. Wood mills in West 

 Virginia and Tennessee, and some white pine and hemlock. 



It looks like real good times when we find a hardwood flooring man 

 extending his warehouse in order to better meet his customers' demands. 

 But this is what W. D. Magovern is doing. Mr. Magovern is building this 

 new addition to his large warehouse on Eleventh avenue at Fifty-eighth 

 street and expects it to be ready for occupancy by October 1. It will 

 enable him to carry half a million feet more than formerly. He handles 

 Thomas Forman oak and maple and Jackson Lumber Company rift yellow 

 pine. 



^•< BUFFALO >■ = 



Scatcherd & Son's office has been moved to the tenth floor of the 

 Ellicott Square building. Mr. Scatcherd is finding business from the 

 Southwest very quiet. The three big passenger railroad stations in the 

 city, on which J. N. Scatcherd has worked very hard for some years, 

 are making slow progress, being held up by injunctions on the part of 

 small propert.v owners, who seem to be pleased to injure the city as 

 much as possible, without much prospect of gain to themselves. 



The BuBF.''.lo Automobile Club, of which the lumbermen are active mem- 

 bers, is to hold its annual gymkhana on the 2Gth, with a program of 

 much interest, including several novel features. Besides the diftCrent 

 races and contests, there will be a musie.».l program and numerous enter- 

 tainment features. The chairman of the entertainment committee is 

 I. N. Stewart, who has associated with him the following lumbermen : 

 O. E. Yeager, J. B. Wall, C. W. Betts, J. A. Murphy, G. W. Jennings 



Hooton Hardwood Co. 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOOD LUMBER, 

 LOGS AND TIMBER 



CHOICE WHITE OAK 



Even color— soft texture 



7 cars — 4-4 Ists and 2nds Plain 

 12 cars— 4-4 No. 1 Com. Plain 

 5 cars — 4-4 No. 2 Com. Plain 



Good widths and lengths — Dry 



Also large stock all grades and 

 thicknesses plain Red Oak 



Terre Haute, Indiana 



Revived Inland Navigation 



Our cargo of 350,000 feet of Oak and 

 Gum from our Jeffris, La., mill on its 

 way up the Mississippi River on the 

 new Gas Producing, Self Propelled 

 Steel Barge. 



This cargo was unloaded at St. Louis, Mo., 

 and Alton, 111., on August 1st and 2nd 



WE HAVE MORE IN STOCK 



D. K. Jeffris & Co. 



CHICAGO 



CONCORDIA 



TELI.OW PIXE 



MANCHESTER SAW Jl 



Manchester, Ala. 



