L. V. Gtahat

L. V. Graham, nationally known lumberman, passed away Thursday night, February 11, at Oakland, California, following several months' illness.

M. Graham was a native of Kansas and was born September 4, 1874. He started to work for the Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. at Clay Center, Kansas, in 1898, this firm was a line yard company operating many retail yards in the Middlewest with headquarters at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Graham worked his way up to become general manager of all their yards making his headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.

In I9l2 he formed the Chicago Lumber Company of Washington, a wholesale concern, with head offices in Kansas City, and offices in Seattle and San Francisco.

He moved to San Francisco in 1924, and in 1926 the Chicago Lumber Company of Washington built a large remanufacturing plant at Oakland for the purpose of making mixed car lumber shipments into the East and Middlewest territories. This firm was liquidated in the fall of 1930.

Mr. Graham then went to Kansas City as general sales manager for the Pickering Lumber Sales Co. When he left them, he returned to San Francisco where he went into business for himself wholesaling lumber into the Eastern markets.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Henrietta K. Graham, a son, Lloyd V. Graham, who operates an insurance business in Oakland, and a daughter, Mrs. William H. Ultch of Kansas Citv.

California House and Garden Exhibition

The fourth annual early spring flower show will open its doors to the public at two o'clock, Friday, March nineteenth. It is presented by the California Garden Clubs, Inc., District number two, and will be held on the grounds of the California House and Garden Exhibition, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

This year's show offers as a setting a group of actual houses and gardens, designed especially for Southern California. Also included in the exhibit will be a Japanese section devoted to typical gardens and floral designs of that nation.

Garden club members are planning the exhibition under the management of C. J. Hahn and George C. Huntington, landscape architects.

After its formal opening to the public, the garden show will remain open until 1O:00 p.m. the evening of the twentyfirst. Programs of entertainment have been arranged for the afternoons and evenings, including a concert of organ music featuring the pipe organ which is located on the exhibition grounds; and interesting lectures will be given by authorities on gardens and gardening.