T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant January 1 , 19go

The lumbermen of the Los Angeles district entertained over 200 tubercular children at the Olive View Sanitorium in San Fernando at a Christmas party on the afternoon of December 23. The lurrber group met at the offices of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber, Company, at San Fernando, and proceeded to the sanitorium. They gave the sick children subscriptions to ?O magazines, and more than 200 children's books, also refreshments, and a cash donation with which to start the construction of a new school playground. The committee of lumbermen that handled the affair rvas composed of Harry V. Hanson, Floyd Dernier, Curtis Merryman, Al Koehl, W. B. Wickersham, Cliff Estes, Ted Lawrence, Frank Curran, Gus Hoover, Herman Rosenberg, Clint Laughlin, Bobby Byrne, and Ed Martin.

Bud Reitz has joined the sales ver, Los Angeles wholesaler, and ty and nearby beach torvns.

force of A. L. "Gus" Ifoois covering Orange Coun-

The new $2,500,000 plant of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company, at St. Helens, Oregon, is nearly completed, and will start operations in the coming spring. It is the first plant of its kind on the Coast.

The San Francisco Builders Exchange announces that its members have started on a five-day rvork week.

Fifty Redwood executives and salesmen gathered at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on December 18, and spent a whole day discussing salesmanship. There were many interesting speakers, including Prof. Emanuel Fritz, Jim Farley, Max Cook, Miller Hotchkiss, and R. F. Hammatt.

B. E. Bryan has been elected Hardwood Company, of Oakland. president of the Strable

The East party at the Bay Hoo-Hoo Club Hotel Leamington, in held a swell Oakland, on Christmas Dec. 21.

legion Lumbermen to Honor 'Old Timers,

Lumbermen's Post 403 of the American Legion will hold an "Old-timers Night" January 12 at Taix's French restaurant, Los Angeles. Les Cunningham, Cunningham Roofing Co., a past commander of the post, rvill be chairman for the special evening and a grand program is being arranged to honor the old timers of the industry. Everyone who has ever been a member of the post is heartily invited to attend.