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VIRGINIA LUMBER MANUFACTURING
COMPANY

The Virginia Lumber Manufacturing Company was
organized in December, 1906. Robert H. Angell is
President; John H. Yost, Vice President and General
Manager; R. E. L. Abbitt, Secretary and Treasurer;
E. D. Myers, Mill Superintendent, and James T.
Baker, Yard Superintendent. All of these men are
known for their excellent business qualifications, and
they have been actively engaged in the upbuilding of
Roanoke. Located near the center of the business
district, the office and mill being at the corner of Roanoke
Street and Salem Avenue, for the past five years,
the firm has taken front rank in the advancement of

the city. It has been the intention of the firm to handle
everything in the building line, except hardware.

The mill work of this firm is high grade in every
particular and quite a reputation has been established
in the manufacture of mantels, office furniture, store
fronts, store fixtures in hardwoods, such as mahogany,
maple, oak, birch, ash, poplar, and other material,
such as yellow pine, long leaf, and short leaf pine. A
specialty has been made of all kinds of furniture and
fixtures in short leaf Alabama pine, and t