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lai'gei- quartors. suite m'J-14i;0. This change 

 was' made imperative by reason of the necessity 

 of increase in clerical force which required more 

 room. 



■ Currie & Campbell 



One of the flourishing young iirms of Phila- 

 delphia is that of Currie & Campbell, wholesale 

 lumber. Commonwealth Trust building. It was 

 formed in December, 1909, and its progress 

 toward the front rank has been steady. 



Ben C. Currie is one of the best known and 

 liked lumbermen in the East. He has been asso- 

 ciated with the sales end of the lumber business 

 for many years, and has represented some of the 

 best lumber manufactviring concerns. His part- 

 ner, J. H. Campbell, is the practical member of 

 the firm and a thorough lumberman. For five 

 years he was superintendent of the Pocahontas 

 Lumber Company, Burner. W. Va., and for a 

 year or more was connected with its home office 

 at Brookville, Pa. 



Currie & Campbell handle hardwoods, spruce, 

 hemlock and yellow pine. They have excellent 

 mill connections through which they can control 

 the required lumber in volume to meet all de- 

 mands, and the transportation facilities are such 

 that prompt shipmenls c.-in be guaranteed. 



BEX C. CURRIE, CURRIE & CAMPBELL, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



Memphis Lumbermen's Club Active 



Present indications are that one of three 

 things will happen in connection with the estab- 

 lishment of a tralfic bureau here on the part of 

 lumber interests. As matters now stand, it is 

 likely that the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 the Memphis Manufacturers' Association, and the 

 Memphis Freight Bureau will join hands to estab- 

 lish a bureau which will be very strong and will 

 look after the interests of shippers of other 

 commodities besides lumber. If the Memphis 

 Freight Bureau does not care to co-operate, a 

 bureau will be established by the other two 

 organizations, and if the Lumbermen's Club and 

 the Manufacturers' Association are not able to 

 get together on satisfactory terms, it is proposed 

 to establish an independent bureau to be operated 

 solely by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. 

 The board of directors, the advisory board and 

 the river and rail committee of the club held a 

 meeting last week, at which it was decided to ap- 

 point a committee of five from the Lumbermen's 

 Club to take up the subject of the formation 

 of a joint bureau with the Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. At a meeting to be held very soon, 

 at which the subject will be further discussed, 

 it will probably be decided as to whether or 



not the co-operative plan can be put through. 

 If it is found impossible, the process of elimina- 

 tion will begin and Memphis will have an Inde- 

 pendent bureau in all likelihood to look after 

 the interests of lumber shippers. 



It was decided, upon motion of C. B. Dudley, 

 that the baseball team of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis be continued for another season un- 

 der the same management as last year. When 

 the subject first came up President Robertson 

 remarked that, if there were any members of 

 the last year's management who did not care to 

 hear what was said about the team, they might 

 retire. This was prompted by the fact that the 

 team last year lost every contest played against 

 a team from any other city. 



K. D. McKellar, representative in Congress 

 from the tenth Tennessee district, advised the 

 club that he would support its recent resolution 

 asking that corporations be allowed to make their 

 returns at the end of their fiscal year Instead of 

 as of December. 31. The returns in question are 

 to be made the basis of federal taxes. 



Michigan Timber Purchase 



Charles A. Bigelow, acting for the Kneeland- 

 Bigelow Company, of Bay City, Mich., recently 

 purchased from the David Ward estate a tract 

 of land in Otsego county, Michigan, containing 

 3,400 acres of mixed timber. The tract is esti- 

 mated to cut 70,000.000 feet of merchantable 

 lumber valued at about $230,000. The timber 

 will be transported to Bay City, and the larger 

 portion of it will be manufactured at the plant 

 of the Kneeland, Lunden & Bigelow Company. 

 This addition to the timber holdings of the 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company makes a splendid 

 provision for the future of its two concerns at 

 May City, and gives it a total of 30,000 acres 

 which are estimated to cut 40,000,000 feet of 

 l"gs for the mills annually for the coming thirty 

 yeai-s. 



American Machinery Abroad 



The Linderman Machine Company of Muskegon, 

 .Mich., recently gave a demonstration of Its new 

 jointer at Newark, England. A report of this 

 demonstration published in the Daily Consular 

 Report tells that the machine created a very 

 favorable impression. It is designed to utilize 

 otherwise wasted strips of wood by converting 

 tbem into boards of any desired width with a 

 dovetailed glue joint, so accurate as to be in- 

 discernible. 



Building New Mill 



The Forman-Earle Company at Heidelberg, 

 Ky., allied with the Thomas Forman Company, 

 the well-known flooring manufacturer at Detroit, 

 Mich., is rebuilding its sawmill destroyed by 

 fire recently, and will soon have it in running 

 order. It is building even a better type of mill 

 than the one lost by fire, which, as will be re- 

 called from the report made at the time, was 

 fully insured. The company has a full stock of 

 logs for the season. This mill will manufacture 

 thiefly the fine type of white oak growing in 

 eastern Kentucky. 



The National Lumber & Manufacturing 



Company 



The National Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of South Bend, Ind., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of .$125,000. The new con- 

 cern is rite result of the merger of the interests 

 of the J. C. Paxton Lumber Company and the 

 St. Joseph Lumber Company, which was brought 

 about because of the larger business resulting 

 from additional capital. The headquarters of the 

 company will be at the old Paxton yard on 

 South Main street, but the wholesale sash and 

 door end of the business will be handled at the 

 recently acquired plant of the St. Joseph Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company. 



The officers of the new organization are ; J. 

 W. Paxton, president ; F. Elmer McDonald, vice- 

 president and manager ; J. C, Paxton, vice-presi- 

 dent ; Chas. A. Wayne, treasurer, and Herbert 



Paxton, secretary. All of these gentlemen are 

 experienced lumbermen, having been identified 

 with the industry for some time. 



Marriage of Frank E. Schofield 



One of the most interesting and delightful 

 weddings of the Easter season was that of 

 Frank Edwin Schofield of Schofield Brothers, 

 Philadelphia, and Miss Kathryn Boswell, daugh- 

 ter of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin 

 Boswell, which took place iu Calvary Methodist 

 Episcopal Church on April 9. The maid of 

 honor was Miss Dorothy Florence Boswell, sis- 

 ter of the bride ; the best man George Elliott. 

 The bridesmaids were Miss Charlotte Hine of 

 Bay City, Mich. ; Miss Bertha Mann of Kanka- 

 kee, III, ; Miss Elizabeth Hazelhurst of Balti- 

 more. Md. ; Miss Helen Adams of Brooklyn. X. 

 Y.. and Miss Irene Shetzlone and Miss Mabel 

 Lynch of this city. Following the ceremony at 

 the church, a reception was held at the home 

 of the bride's parents, 409 South Fifty-first 

 street, which was attended by over two hun- 

 dred friends of the bride and groom. The happy 

 couple left on a honeymoon trip through the 

 southlands to Memphis and Jacksonville, Fla., 

 after w^hich Ihey will take a short sea voyage 

 and then return to Philadelphia. Prior to the 



J. C. CAMPBF.LL. CURRIE & CAMPBELL, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



wedding, and over the Easter week end, the 

 whole bridal party, under the chaperonage of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Schofield, was enter- 

 tained at Atlantic City, X. J., by the bridegroom, 

 who rented a cottage for the occasion. It need 

 not be said it was a time ot great good cheer 

 and happy merrymaking. 



New Timber Tree Book 



Hardwood Record is indebted to the publish- 

 ers for a new work pertaining to forestry and 

 timber trees entitled "The Important Timber 

 Trees of the United States," by Simon P. Elliott. 

 The book involves a manual of practical forestry 

 for the use of foresters, students and laymen in 

 forestry, lumbermen, farmers and other land- 

 owners, and all who contemplate growing trees 

 for economic purposes. The author is a member 

 of the Pennsylvania Forestry Reservation Com- 

 mission and an associate member of the Society 

 of American Foresters. 



The work is Illustrated with forty-seven half- 

 tone pictures made from photographs. It Is an 

 authoritative and practical handbook of every- 

 day forestry, and will bo a notable addition to 

 the very limited literature pertaining to forestry 

 and the timber trees ot the United States. The 



