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Celebrating the Unconventional: A Brief History of Women in Hoo-Hoo
Posted in Peeling Back the Bark, Forest History Society Blog The September 1911 issue of The Bulletin, the old monthly journal of the International Concatenated Order of the Hoo-Hoo, had this to say: "Not a great many of our members realize that the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo has one member who would not take offense if referred to as no gentleman. In the early days of the organization, and before there was incorporated into the constitution the provision that membership be confined strictly to men over twenty-one, there occurred a lumber convention and a concatenation at Memphis, Tennessee, on which occasion, the ceremonies being somewhat modified, a lady was duly initiated. The fact that there is a woman member in the great Order of Hoo-Hoo is not so much a matter of wonder and speculation, as was the early life of this woman Hoo-Hoo, entering as she did into the business world at a time when woman and commercialism were but strangers." Read the whole story here |
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January 21, 1892: Hoo-Hoo International, Not Your Father’s Skull and Bones
Posted in Peeling Back the Bark, Forest History Society Blog There are few things I desire more in this world than to unmask secret societies and to find derivations of “concatenate” in unexpected places. Imagine my delight when I learned that FHS holds a small collection of records for the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. On this day in 1892, the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, a fraternal society for men in the lumber industry, was founded in Gurdon, Arkansas. The Order owes its birth in large part to a train delay. As the story goes, Bolling Arthur Johnson, a journalist for Chicago’s Timberman trade newspaper; George K. Smith, secretary for the Southern Lumber Manufacturers Association in St. Louis; and three others arrived in Gurdon as a connection point. Journeying from the meeting of the Arkansas Yellow Pine Manufacturer’s Association held in Camden, the five men anticipated a short stop in Gurdon and then transit to other destinations. They learned the train would be delayed for seven hours and the men looked for ways to fill time. Read the whole story here |
Picture taken 1954
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History and Culture of the International Order of Hoo-Hoo
Compiled by Colin Mason, 88205, Club Historian, Auckland Timber Industry Club 248
The concept of the Hoo-Hoo Fraternal Order of Lumbermaen was dreamed up by Bolling Arthur Johnson, an American trade journalist, when he, with a number of others were stranded by a delayed train at Gurdon, Arkansas, USA, returning home from a Lumbermen's conference. Mr Johnson took the opportunity of a captive audience due to the train delay to outline his great dream of a nationwide Lumberman's association. They met in the lobby of the Hotel Hall, Gurdon, Arkansas, 6 men:- Bolling Arthur Johnson, a lumber trade journalist; George Kimball Smith, Secretary of the Southern Pine Association; William Eddy Barnes, a lumber trade journalist; George Washington Schwartz, a railroader; William Starr Mitchell, a daily newspaperman; and Ludolph Adalbert Strauss, a Gurdon lumberman.
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Compiled by Colin Mason, 88205, Club Historian, Auckland Timber Industry Club 248
The concept of the Hoo-Hoo Fraternal Order of Lumbermaen was dreamed up by Bolling Arthur Johnson, an American trade journalist, when he, with a number of others were stranded by a delayed train at Gurdon, Arkansas, USA, returning home from a Lumbermen's conference. Mr Johnson took the opportunity of a captive audience due to the train delay to outline his great dream of a nationwide Lumberman's association. They met in the lobby of the Hotel Hall, Gurdon, Arkansas, 6 men:- Bolling Arthur Johnson, a lumber trade journalist; George Kimball Smith, Secretary of the Southern Pine Association; William Eddy Barnes, a lumber trade journalist; George Washington Schwartz, a railroader; William Starr Mitchell, a daily newspaperman; and Ludolph Adalbert Strauss, a Gurdon lumberman.
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A History of Hoo-Hoo International
Compiled by Rameses 67 David Marteney L-65075
January 21, 1892, in Gurdon, Arkansas, was much like any other Arkansas winter day - cool and brisk. The citizens of Gurdon went about their daily activities. The merchants conducted business, the children laughed and played in the streets, and the horses tied to the hitching posts stepped lightly in a circle to keep warm. The whine of the nearby sawmills was overcome only by the piercing scream of the train whistles and the shrill screech of the locomotives trying desperately to gain momentum from a dead stop. Travelers awaiting a coming train gathered around the potbellied stove in the depot and made small talk while frequently checking their pocket watch for the correct time.
Other visitors in Gurdon on this day gathered in the lobby of the Hotel Hall just across Front Street from the railroad track. Among the visitors of this particular day were five men who had traveled to Gurdon to catch a train to their next destination. The group had attended a meeting of the Arkansas Yellow Pine Manufacturer's Association in Camden some 50 miles south of Gurdon, and, being business travelers of the well-seasoned sort, their itineraries required they board a train in Gurdon bound for yet another convention in yet another city.
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Compiled by Rameses 67 David Marteney L-65075
January 21, 1892, in Gurdon, Arkansas, was much like any other Arkansas winter day - cool and brisk. The citizens of Gurdon went about their daily activities. The merchants conducted business, the children laughed and played in the streets, and the horses tied to the hitching posts stepped lightly in a circle to keep warm. The whine of the nearby sawmills was overcome only by the piercing scream of the train whistles and the shrill screech of the locomotives trying desperately to gain momentum from a dead stop. Travelers awaiting a coming train gathered around the potbellied stove in the depot and made small talk while frequently checking their pocket watch for the correct time.
Other visitors in Gurdon on this day gathered in the lobby of the Hotel Hall just across Front Street from the railroad track. Among the visitors of this particular day were five men who had traveled to Gurdon to catch a train to their next destination. The group had attended a meeting of the Arkansas Yellow Pine Manufacturer's Association in Camden some 50 miles south of Gurdon, and, being business travelers of the well-seasoned sort, their itineraries required they board a train in Gurdon bound for yet another convention in yet another city.
Read the whole story here