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feet of lumber a month. Mr. \Villey, also re- 

 cently installed considerable new machinery in 

 the veneer department at Memphis, so that he 

 can now manufacture and dry a car of veneers 

 a day. It is his intention to malte a specialty 

 of thin plain and quartered oak from 1, 12- 

 inch to :^4-inch thicli. Mr. Willey, through his 

 Chicago and Memphis plants, is in position to 

 furnish anything in domestic hardwoods and as 

 wide a line of fancy imported woods and veneers 

 as any concern in the country. 



Jesse W. Thompson, the irrepressible head of 

 the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company. Memphis. 

 Tcnn., was a recent Chicago visitor. 



T. J. Christian, sales manager for Maley & 

 Wertz, with offices at Indianapolis, Ind.. spent 

 a lew days in Chicago the middle of last 

 month. 



W. E. Stark of Memphis, Tenn., prominent in 

 hardwood circles in the South, was a recent 

 Chicago visitor. 



Fred J. Schroeder of the John Schroeder Lum- 

 ber Company, Milwaukee, Wis., is the proud 

 father of a baby girl, which arrived at his 

 home November 13. 



J. W. Slayton of the Jlears-Slayton Lumber 

 Company, 1237 Belmont avenue, this city, with 

 a branch yard in South Evanston. is at pres- 

 ent making a business trip through the South. 



Another prominent Chicago visitor during the 

 past few days was Rudolph Sondheimer of the 

 E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, Tenn. 



Reports of good business in his section were 

 given by Charles R. Ransom of the Gayoso Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, Tenn.. who recently 

 visited the Chicago trade. Mr. Ransom is quite 

 optimistic in regard to the spring trade and 

 believes that business will show continual im- 

 provement until that time. , 



A. R. Vinnedge of the A. R. Vinnedge Lumber 

 Company has spent considerable time of late 

 visiting Wisconsin hardwood points. 



George W. Stoneman of the Stoueman-Zearing 

 Lumber Company, Devall's Bluff, Ark., called 

 on a number of his old friends among the 

 Chicago hardwood trade the last of the month. 



W. K. Smith, head of the sales department of 

 the Stearns Company, with headquarters in the 

 Murray building. Grand Rapids, Mich., was a 

 recent Chicago visitor. 



E. E. Skeele, the popular member of the 

 Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company left a few 

 days ago for a business trip to Boston and other 

 New England cities. Mr. Skeele will be gone 

 about a week, and while away will spend a few 

 days with his mother at her home at Green- 

 bush, Mass. 



W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland. 

 O., was in town November 26. Mr. Cool came 

 especially to see his representative here, Ralph 

 Ely, who had been ill for about two weeks 

 at" the Great Northern hotel. Mr. Ely is much 

 better, and left some days ago for his home 

 in Columbus, O. 



All the cak timber on the lai^ owned by the 

 Wachsmuth Lumber Company and the Kayfleld 

 Jim Company in Baytield County, Wis., has 

 been purchased by the Wisconsin Veneer Com- 

 pany of Rhinelander. This company will ship 

 the timber to Bayfield for sawing. It is esti- 

 mated that upward of 100,000,000 feet will be 

 cut from the timber. 



C. L. Cross, the Chicago representative of the 

 Louisiana Red Cypress Company, New Orleans. 

 La., has returned after a month's stay at 

 the' Crescent city. Mr. Cross brings reports 

 of a satisfactory number of orders being received 

 at the southern mills, and says that manufac- 

 turers are generally quite confident of a good 

 business next year. 



John D. Spalding. Lumber buyer for the Paine 

 Lumber Company, Ltd., of Oshkosh. Wis., was in 

 Chicago recently on his way South to visit vari- 

 ous sawmill operations. Mr. Spalding returned 

 from his wedding journey to the Pacific coast 

 November 10, having spent six weeks in that 

 territory. He speaks very enthusiastically of the 

 Pacific coast. 



Walter N. Kelly of the Kelly Lumber Com- 

 pany, Traverse City, Mich., spent several days 

 in Chicago during the latter part of November. 

 Mr. Kelly reported satisfactory conditions in 

 the hardwood market of his section, although he 

 stated that there is still a much stronger de- 

 mand for the better grades of hardwoods than 

 for the lower. However, he is inclined to think 

 that low-grade lumber will make a better show- 

 ing next year. 



George C. Wilce, vice-president of the T. Wilce 

 Company, large manufacturer of hardwood floor- 

 ing in this city, made a trip to the company's 

 mill at Empire, ilich.. recently. The company's 

 Chicago plant at Twenty-second and Throop 

 streets is running all its machines ten hours 

 a day, and E. Harvey Wilce, president of the 

 concern, says that it has an abundance of orders 

 for both oak and maple flooring in all grades, 

 and that the situation at present is rosy. 



W. E. Hoshall of Hoshall & JlcDonald Bros., 

 manufacturers of hardwood lumber, with head- 

 quarters at New Orleans, La., spent several days 

 in Chicago last month. Mr. Hoshall stated that 

 business has shown a substantial gain within the 

 past sixty days, although just at present there 

 is a little slackening, undoubtedly due to the 

 approach of the new year, buyers seemingly 

 not being anxious to put in much stock before 

 closing up their books for this year. Mr. Ho- 

 shall also referred to the car shortage, which, 

 he says, is quite a disturbing element at pres- 

 ent. The company's mill at Eola. La., was shut 

 down permanently last month, as the timber 

 supply tributary to it has been exhausted. The 

 company will undoubtedly tind a new location 

 shortly and move the mill. 



The Executive Committee of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association held a meeting in 

 the association rooms in the Rector building, 

 Chicago, on Thursday, November 18. Reports 

 received from the inspection service showed 

 that this branch of the association's work is 

 giving very good satisfaction. Most of the meet- 

 ing was given up to routine matters, and ar- 

 rangements for the next annual meeting of the 

 association were gone over, with a view to 

 mapping out in a general way a line of action 

 for this occasion. Those present were : O. O. 

 Agler, president of the association, Chicago ; 

 F. A. Diggins, Cadillac, Mich. ; G. A. I^andeck. 

 Milwaukee, Wis. ; Gardner I. Jones, Boston, 

 Mass. ; Charles H. Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind., 

 and Earl Palmer, Paducah, Ky. 



The American Trust & Savings Bank has 

 been appointed receiver for the Corwin Lumber 

 Company of this city, bankrupt. Miss Grace 

 Corwin is manager of the concern, which has 

 been in business here for about two years, 

 succeeding the Noble-Corwin Lumber Company 

 of Milwaukee. Miss Corwin is a very capable 

 young woman and a large number of her friends 

 in the trade will regret to learn of this trouble. 

 The assets are placed at about .SL.'JOO and the 

 liabilities between $8,000 and ?9,000. 



An unusually artistic little booklet has been 

 received by tlie Recouu from the Ivory Handle 

 Company of Hope, Ark., setting forth the various 

 sizes and styles of the bandies it makes, together 

 with current prices on the goods. The little 

 pamphlet is appropriately bound in rough ivory- 

 colored stock, with attractive embossed letter- 

 ing in pale buffi. It is profusely illustrated with 

 cuts, showing the different styles of handles 

 the company makes, and most effectively conveys 

 the idea of a high-grade line of goods. 



The Frank Spangler Company of Toledo, O.. 

 m.inufacturer of porch columns, advises that its 

 ofiices have been removed to rooms 6 and 7 the 

 Smith & Baker building, corner Superior and 

 Adams streets, Toledo. This company special- 

 izes in bay poplar porch column work and 

 in bevel siding, drop siding, finish, wagon box 

 boards and moldings of this same wood. 



John C. Rodahaffer, representing George W. 

 Hartzell, manufacturer of black walnut lumber 

 and veneers at Dayton, O., visited the Chicago 

 trade November 20. 



The leading manufacturers of woodworking, 

 machinery of the country spent several days 

 in Chicago last week in a general consultation. 

 Henry Ballon, superintendent of the big lum- 

 ber and maple flooring institution of Cobbs &- 

 Mitchell, Inc., Cadillac, Mich., accompanied by 

 his wife, spent the last few days of November 

 in Chicago on a visit of pleasure and Christmas 

 sbopping. 



J. W. Taylor, president of the Domestic Lum- 

 ber Company, Columbus, O., was among Record 

 callers on November 20. Mr. Taylor reports a 

 big improvement in hardwood demand in the 

 territory covered by his concern. 



Some changes are reported in the locaition of 

 the sales staff of the W. M. Kitter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, O. R. L. Gilliam, who 

 has been located at the Columbus oflJce in 

 charge of sales of the central district, has been 

 transferred to the Philadelphia office, and H. H. 

 Collins, formerly in charge of the eastern olfice 

 at Philadelphia goes to Columbus in charge of 

 the central district. 



J. D. Bolton of the Hayden & Westcott Lum- 

 ber Company, returned to his desk Monday of 

 last week, after a severe attack of lumbago 

 that confined him to his home for more Ihaa 

 a week. 



R. Usher of the Paine Lumber Company of 

 Oshkosh, Wis., formerly secretary of the Chicago 

 Hardwood Lumber Exchange, is in the South for 

 his company. 



W. L. DeWitt of the Estabrook-Skeele Lum- 

 ber Company left last week for Manistee and 

 other Michigan points, to be gone several weeks. 

 C. G. McLaughlin of the McLaughlin-Hoffman 

 Lumber Company, Columbus, O., visited Chicago- 

 last week. 



Irvine McCauley of the McCauley-Sauders Lum- 

 ber Company, also Chicago manager for the John 

 Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 visited the mills of the latter for a period of 

 thirty days, returning to Chicago last week. 



A. G. Fritchey of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany, Mempliis, came to Chicago last week and 

 slipped out again without many knowing it. 



A. W. Wylie, the famous gum man of the 

 Fisher building, will leave this week for the 

 South on an extended visit. 



H. H. McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Lumber 

 Company has left for a visit to the company'.? 

 mills at Dumas, Ark. 



Leland Arthur, the genial and popular sales 

 manager for Payson-Smith Lumber Company, 

 with oflices in the Old Colony building, left this 

 week for Hough, Mo., to look over the mills 

 a bit. 



William E. Trainer of the Trainer Bros. Lum- 

 ber Company is visiting Memphis and other 

 southern points. 



Among the visitors to the offices of Schultz 

 Bros. & Cowen, Old Colony building, last week, 

 were J. P. Hynes, a p'rominent lumberman of 

 Anna, 111. : W. P. Andrews of Gideon & An- 

 drews, Gideon, Mo., and J. W. Taylor of the 

 Demerlie Lumber Company, of Columbus, O. 



H. C. Miller, secretary of the Hardwood Mills 

 Lumber Company, with offices in the Monadnock 

 block, and one of the best fishers and most genial 

 fellows in these parts, returned last week from 

 Merrill, Wis., where he used the gun a bit, be- 

 sides loading out some birch. Mr. Miller wrote 

 the boys in the office that he got his "quota" 

 of deer, but he did not state whether it was 

 his or the law's quota, there being a decided dif- 

 ference between the two. The opinion was, ac- 

 cording to his associates, that he got about two 

 deer, his quota, of course. 



J. D. Attley of J. M. Attley & Co. reports 

 the last ship in from Michigan last week, which 

 caused a broad smile, for he feared the opposite 

 at this season of the year. 



The Hardwood Mills Lumber Company is dis- 

 tributing its new 1910 calendar, which is a 

 decidedly fine piece of calendar work, with 

 a woman head-piece done in colors. The cal- 

 end.nr is large and most attractive. 



Jacob Fink. Jr.. the two-year-old son of 



