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HARDWOOD RECORD 



gage is given to secure a bond issue' of $975,000. 

 Tliere are to be 1,636 bonds, the first six for 

 $5,000 each, numbers 7 to 875 for $1,000 

 each and from 875 to 1,636 for $100 each, all 

 bonds being dated July 15, 1907, and payable 

 &ve years after date, with interest at the rate 

 of 6 per cent, which is payable every four 

 months. The mortgage covers all the real es- 

 tate and personal property belonging to the 

 company which is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Sheffield, Ala., Wardsville, La., Lumber City, 

 Ga., Pikeville, Tenn., Clarefleld, Tenn., Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., and Irvine, Ky. 



R. E. Gilbert of the .1. W. Darling Lumber 

 Company, who assumes charge of the affairs of 

 the company while Mr. Darling is away, has 

 just returned from his summer vacation, which 

 he spent at various places. He returned to the 

 offices of the company in the Union Trust 

 building looking hale and hearty and ready to 

 do another eleven months' good work. 



T. H. Smith, southern representative of the 

 .1. W. Darling Lumber Company, was in town 

 recently and spent several days here visiting 

 Cincinnati and its suburbs. He seemed very 

 much impressed with the Queen City and stayed 

 two days longer than he intended. Business 

 with him in the South is very good, he said, 

 and he looks for a booming fall trade. 



B. F. Dulweber of John Dulweber & Co. has 

 returned from a trip to the mountains, where 

 he went to regain his health. He is now the 

 picture of health and has again taken up active 

 work. 



John P. Hanna of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 pany of North Fairmount has returned from 

 a business trip through the South and South- 

 west. He considers the situation in the South 

 highly satisfactory and anticipates a good fall 

 trade, both in the South and in Cincinnati. 



George Littleford of the Littleford Lumber 

 Company has returned from his summer vaca- 

 tion to the lakes, where he said he had a de- 

 lightful time. He has regained his strength 

 and does not feel as though be had ever been ill. 

 During his absence from the local offices Joseph 

 Wehry was in charge. Incidentally Mr. Wehry 

 is the proud father of a son that arrived some 

 time ago. 



W. C. Bell of W. C. Bell & Co. o£ Columbus, 

 Miss., was here last week in search for desira- 

 ble hardwoods, which were supplied him by the 

 various dealers. 



G. E. Williamson of the Iron Mountain Lum- 

 lier Company of Baltimore, Md., was in town 

 recently to get ideas on what is doing in the 

 hardwood lines. He says that his mills are all 

 liusy and that he finds the lumber trade gener- 

 ally satisfactory. 



William A. Sessoms of Bonifay, Fla., general 

 manager of the Sessoms-Whitted Company, 

 spent a few days in Cincinnati last week re- 

 viewing the hardwood situation. He returned 

 to his place of business filled with good news 

 from this point. 



J. D. Farley of the Louisiana Red Cypress 

 Company of New Orleans, whose home is in 

 Dayton, Ky., has just returned from a vacation 

 trip which he spent in Indiana, his birthplace. 

 James Cowen of Schultz Brothers & Cowen 

 of Chicago visited Cincinnati recently en route 

 on a business trip through the South. 



Thomas J. Moffett. president of the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned from his three weeks' vacation trip to 

 his old home in Indiana. Mr. Moffett is filled 

 with good fish stories and is exploding one or 

 more every day on his fellow comrades. One of 

 his strongest stories is that he himself caught 

 a big mud eat that weighed over 22 pounds. 

 He said it was the largest one pulled out in 

 the last two years — going some. 



The next monthly meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club will not be held until the 

 first Monday in October. This will allow all 

 the members time enough to straighten up mat- 

 ters and incidentally gather enough subjects to 

 make the first fall meeting a hummer. 



The month of August, as indicated by the 

 figures of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 

 show that the lumber trade has improved over 

 the same month last year. This year's receipts 

 during that month numbered 8,480 cars, while 

 the shipments also show a good gain, being 

 5,873 cars, as compared with the receipts of 

 7,249 cars last year and the shipment of 5,330 

 cars. 



William A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte. 

 Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Lumber Company and J. Watt Graham 

 of the Graham Lumber Company were the prin- 

 cipal factors in the annual field day of the 

 Newsboys' Protective Association. The trio did 

 yeoman service to entertain the little merchants 

 and their efforts were well appreciated by every- 

 one. 



William A. Bennett, president of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, while standing around the sales 

 book of the grain department, asserted : "Gee, 

 you grain men are certainly making enough 

 money ; look at those high prices on corn, hay 

 and oats." With that William McQuillan, in 

 a joking way, said : "Put down four cars of 

 rough lumber at 40 cents a foot." Bennett 

 amusingly looked around and asked what the 

 joke was. McQuillan said that it was a true 

 sale, and then asked Bennett who was making 

 the most money, the lumber merchants or the 

 grain dealers. Bennett said the grain mer- 

 chants, but McQuillan did not agree with him. 

 Finally McQuillan said : "Well, we grain men 

 make money occasionally, but you lumber deal- 

 ers are continually getting big profits." The 

 last one stung, and Bennett walked away smil- 

 ing. He had a chance to get even with the 

 grain men a few minutes later, when he called 

 a meeting. All the grain men were busy at 

 their respective tables. Bennett pounded sev- 

 eral times with his gavel, but the grain dealers 

 refused to acknowledge it. Bennett then said : 

 "When you grain men are through figuring out 

 how to make more money, get ready and I 

 will hold a meeting." They all dropped their 

 work and attended the meeting. Bennett then 

 announced that he wanted every member of 

 the Chamber of Commerce, no matter what his 

 business was, to co-operate with him to make 

 the National Hay Dealers' Association conven- 

 tion, which will be held here October 2 and 3, 

 a great success. He said that he is depending 

 on every member individually and hopes that 

 they will stick by him. Bennett's good natured 

 ways and strict business methods have gained 

 him a multitude of friends, and should his 

 name be mentioned for re-election, it is doubtful 

 if the yellow ticket will put up a man against 

 him. 



The Arbenz Furniture Company of Chillicothe, 

 O., has been incorporated under the laws of 

 Ohio with a capital stock of $50,000 by F. C. 

 Arbenz, Fred A. Arbenz, Carl H. Arbenz, Emma 

 Arbenz and Robert W. Mauley. 



President E. E. Shipley of the Cincinnati 

 Business Men's Club has returned from a 

 month's vacation trip to Long Island. During 

 his stay in the East Mr. Shipley gained quite 

 a reputation as a fisherman. 



Several Cincinnati carriage and buggy manu- 

 facturers are interested in the National Associ- 

 ation of Carriage Manufacturers, just organized 

 at Indianapolis. The association takes its mem- 

 bership from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illi- 

 nois. Carriage men of Ohio and adjoining 

 states have made an advance of 10 per cent in 

 prices on all kinds of vehicles produced by 

 them. 



from Chicago to New Orleans. This will also 

 open up a wonderful field of hardwood timber, 

 and Evansville will be the natural point from 

 which this lumber will be distributed. There 

 is little question of this deal going through. 

 This will also give this line a direct route from 

 Evansville to Paducah and will give access to 

 Ihe southern part of Illinois, which it never 

 had before. 



The Henry JIaloy Lumber Company owns forty 

 acres of land on the I. C. railroad and is going 

 to build a saw, dimension and planing mill. 

 This concern does its own towing and will bring 

 logs up the river to the I. C. incline, where 

 they will be loaded onto cars and hauled about 

 three miles to the mill. 



C. P. White & Co. of Booneville, Ind.. are look- 

 ing for a location on the Southern railway for 

 the establishment of lumber yards. They will 

 use Evansville as a distributing point. 



The Fullerton-Bowersock Company has leased 

 ground on the E. & T. H. railroad. Switches 

 have been ordered laid and permits secured for 

 buildings. The company will open a distribut- 

 ing agency at ouce. 



The World Furniture Company has just com- 

 pleted its building, which joins the old Evans- 

 ville Cooperage Company's factory, making it one 

 of the largest furniture factories in Evansville. 

 The same interests that control the Kargcs 

 Furniture Company, the Bosse Furniture Com- 

 pany, the Bockstegc Furniture Company and 

 Globe Furniture Company are interested in 

 this new plant, which will employ about loO 

 people. There is no question as to the success 

 of this concern, as the parties interested are 

 thoroughly posted in the furniture business and 

 are considered the most successful operators 

 in the city. 



The Evansville Bookcase and Table Company 

 has sold $12,000 more of its stock to the pres- 

 ent stockholders and with the orders in sight 

 for the year ending June 30, 1908. this concern 

 will make a much better showing than, it has 

 in the past. The stockholders have every con- 

 fidence in the future success of the plant. 



Evansville. 



The Frisco railroad has run surveys on both 

 sides of the Ohio river from Evansville to Pa- 

 ducah, Ky., with the intention of bridging either 

 at Evansville, Ind., or Metropolis, 111. The 

 supposition is that this road will obtain control 

 of the Mobile, Kansas City & Jackson railroad 

 and will then have the shortest through line 



Chattanooga, 



Captain A. J. Gahagan of the Loomis & 

 Hart Manufacturing Company, who was married 

 to Miss Elizabeth Telford September 4, is build, 

 ing a fine veneered brick residence on Third 

 street. 



The Eamhurst Lumber Company, a recently 

 organized concern, of which F. W. Blair of this 

 city is the head, is now running at full capacity 

 at Ramhurst, Ga. The company has two port- 

 able mills there on the Central of Georgia rail- 

 way, turning out 10,000 feet of lumber a day. 



E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, of Baltimore. JId.. 

 passed through Chattanooga recently on a tour 

 of the South. 



J. M. Card of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany is on a business trip to Cincinnati. 



S. A. Williams of the Williams & Voris Lum- 

 ber Company has just returned from a trip to 

 Indianapolis, bringing with him his family, 

 who have been summering there. 



Ferd Brenner, formerly of this city but now 

 of Norfolk, Va., was in this city recently en 

 route to Louisiana to visit his mill there. He 

 has returned to Norfolk again and is making 

 preparations for an extended European tour. 



Arthur Gazlay of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company of Norfolk, Va., was a recent visitor 

 to this city. 



Edgar W. Dennison, .special agent of the Pub- 

 licity League of Cuba, recently gave out some 

 interesting facts concerning the progress of lum- 

 bering on the island. He says that capitalists 

 of the States have made extensive purchases 

 in Cuban timber land and are well satisfied with 

 the investment. He says that with the gradual 

 building of railroads timber properties will be 

 opened when the possibilities of the island to- 

 wards supplying the needs in the way of val- 

 uable hardwoods to replace those of this country. 



