TWENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant January 15, 1929

The first annual meeting of the California Edition of the Society of American Foresters was held in San Francisco late in December, with 145 foresters, some from Oregon, in attendance.

James Danaher, Jr., head of the Michigan-California I-umber Company, Canrino, California, died there on December 14 from a heart attack. He was 63. He was buried in Placerville.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association supplied 175 Douglas Fir plywood panels, suitably inscribed, for the annual dinner of the Societ.v of American Foresters held in New Yorlt City December 29. They were used as menu and place cards.

Joe Tardy was Phoenix, Arizona, tion.

elected president at the Christmas of the Hoo-Hoo meeting of the Club of organiza-

The McCloucl River has opened a sales Securities Building,

Lurnber Company, McCloud, California, ofifice in Los Angeles, in the Petroleurr with L. S. Turnbull as manager.

The E,. K. Wood l-urnber Company, I-os chase<l the retail lumber yards of the Rlack located at Indio ancl Then.nal. California. manager.

Angeles, has purLumber Cor.npany A. B. Chapman is

The Urnpqrra Nlill & Timber Company, with mills at Reedsport, Oregon, has opened sales offices in the Chamber of Comrnerce l3uilding, l-os Angeles, with Roy Fobes in charge.

Paul R. Smith, NI. R. Seattle, has been elected Shingle Association.

Smith Lurr-rber & Shingle Company, president of the Washington-Oregon

Kirchrnann Hardwood Company, Sar-r chased the San F-rancisco plant of the Co., and will operate same.

Francisco, has purCaclwallader-Gibson

Nlax E. Cook, of San Francisco, farrrstead engineer for the California Redr.r'ood Association, has returned from a two weel<s trip through Louisiana and Texas, where he made sor.ne speeches aud did other promotion work in favor of California Redwood.