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Pi corporation recently purchased the V. J. Lidecker Lumber Yard at Akron and plan making many repairs and alterations. The firm will deal in a complete line of building materials. [The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 7, 1935] LUMBER COMPANY OPENS The Pike Lumber Company at Akron today opened a store in that city where builders’ supplies will be retailed. The company has engaged in the wholesale lumber business for a number of years at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Utter will be in charge of the store. [The News-Sentinel, Saturday, March 14, 1936] NEW BUILDINGS ADDED AT PIKE LUMBER CO. The D. A. Pike Lumber Company has opened a new saw mill in Akron during the past few days, and began work Thursday morning on a building to house another branch of their growing business. The new mill is one of the most modern sawing outfits in the middle west and is housed in a 33 by 81 foot building. At present a 100 horsepower motor is being installed and the mill will be in operation in a few days. They plan to do general mill work. The new building which was started yesterday morning will be 47 feet wide and 132 feet long and is to be located on the lot just west of the present retail department of the company. This lot, formerly owned by Ralph Shafer, has recently been purchased by the Pike company and this building will house dressed lumber, a new department. Ten car loads of finished lumber have been ordered and are now beginning to arrive, so it will be necessary to complete this building as soon as possible. The Pike company has recently purchased several lots adjoining their property for the purpose of storing lumber and for building purposes. Five trucks have recently been added to the company’s fleet. [The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 26, 1937] PIKE LUMBER COMPANY TO INSTALL DRY KILN The D. A. Pike Lumber company of Akron will install a new dry kiln at their saw mill during the next few weeks. The new kiln will be located between the two saw mills of the plant and will be one of the most modern outfits of the kind on the market today. It will include new drying equipment, fans, radiators, automatic testers, and a new 60x80 foot building to house the dried lumber. Mr. Pike has announced that the increased demand for kiln dried lumber has forced him to install this expensive machinery and to build this additional building at his mill. Work will begin next week on this new project and it will probably require six to eight weeks to complete the installation. When completed the Pike company will have one of the most modern and up to date mills in Northern Indiana. [The News-Sentinel, Saturday, October 2, 1937] PIKE RETIRES FROM LOG MANUFACTURING Akron News: D. A. Pike has retired from the saw mill business, and does not plan to rebuild his saw mill which was completely destroyed several weeks ago by fire at a loss of $30,000. He will continue in the retail lumber and coal business, however, and will also buy green lumber for drying. In this manner he will be able to supply his usual customers. A new dry kiln, with a 350,000 foot capacity, will be used to season the lumber as it is purchased.
Pi Under the new arrangement, Howard Utter will continue his saw mill, while Mr. Pike will also keep nine trucks in his employ. Complications resulting from excessive taxation was given as one of the main reasons by Mr. Pike for his retirement from the manufacture of lumber. He stated that his tax bill to the government last year amounted to $7,200. Mr. Pike came to Akron ten and a half years ago from Wabash, where he began in the lumber business on November 29, 1904. During that time he has sold 126 million feet of lumber. [The News-Sentinel, Friday, June 17, 1938] COUNTY MAN SERVES ON ADVISORY BOARD Howard M. Utter, Akron man, left Wednesday for Washington, D. C. where he will assume a position on the Lumber Advisory Committee of the WPB. Mr. Utter will represent the D. A. Pike Lumber Co. of Akron. He is one of eight members from various areas in the United States serving this capacity. He will return to Akron next week. [The News-Sentinel, Friday, December 10, 1943] Jonathan [John S.] Pike acquired a sawmill at Dora. He worked it with a team of oxen. John S. Pike acquired ownership of a water power sawmill at New Holland in 1853, and the mill, beginning with 1874, was operated by Mr. Pike’s sons, Albert and Irwin, and still later by Asa Kindley, son of the builder. In 1865 John S. Pike established a tile factory in New Holland, and its machinery was operated by horse power. This was the pioneer tile factory in Wabash <strong>County</strong>, and so far as records are obtainable it was the first in the state. Then came D. A. Pike, his grandson, a third generation lumberman, and he incorporated under Indiana laws in 1904. In 1927 when the crash came, Mr. Pike was building asphalt roads and operating pine mills in central Florida. He then moved to Akron and re-entered the sawmill business, obtaining the old Bill Bright sawmill. In 1933, his daughter, Helen, while only a sophomore at Indiana University, operated a portable sawmill at Hanna, Indiana, and became the fourth generation of Pikes in the sawmill business. Howard Utter married Helen Pike, daughter of D. A. Pike, in January, 1934. Howard had been learning the lumber business as a lumberjack “in the big north woods.” Together they operated small portable tie mills in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, while D. A. Pike continued operating D. A. Pike Lumber Co. at Akron. Both businesses were under the same name but were separate. In time D. A. phased his business out, and Howard and Helen returned to Akron where they continued to build the company. “Our company now has over 100 tree farms,” Howard said in an interview with Ann Kindig. “We plant more trees than we cut.” Howard Utter died January 10, 1995. and the business is continued by Howard and Helen (Pike) Utter’s son, Channing Utter, the fifth generation of the Pike family to be in the sawmill business. [Ann Kindig, Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 28, 1994] SHAMBAUGH’S DEATH ENDS LONG LINK TO AKRON’S PIKE LUMBER COMPANY By Ann Allen ‘Them were the good old days,” Jack Shambaugh said in 1995 when asked about his 60year association with Pike Lumber Company. It was a statement that carried his memory past sophisticated, state of the art sawmills at Akron and Carbon to crude Michigan lumber camps where he hewed ties for D. A. Pike Lumber Company, a firm Helen Pike established in 1933. As the fourth generation of her family to work in the lumber industry, Pike and a small crew operated a portable sawmill powered by a Rumley
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