Twenty'Flve Tears Ago

As Reported in the March, 1939 Issue o{ the California Lumber Merchant, Est. 1922

Carl Watts, salesman for O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now making his headquarters in Sacramento.

J. E. "&ldie" Peggs, San Francisco sales representative for Northern California for Anderson & iVliddleton Lumber Co., visited the mill in Aberdeen, Wash., around the middle of the month.

Frank Heard, Jr., and Guido Motroni have leased the lumber yard of the Motroni Mill & Lumber Co., Woodland, Calif. The mill has been leased to William Phillips.

Lee H. Eubank, of L. H. Eubank & Son. Inglewood, manufacturers of Eubank ironing boards, is back from a business trip to Northern California.

Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co., Oakland, general chairman of committees for the Seventh Annual Reveille of Northern California lumberrnen, announces that the Reveille will be held in Oakland, April 21.

H. "Abe" Lincoln, Jr., president and general manag'er of H. Lincoln & Sons, with yards in Oakland and Berkeley, has announced that his fir"rn has been incorporated with capital of $250,000 and will operate in the future as Lincoln Lumber. Inc.

"Amos 'n Andy Buy a Sawmill," humorous story submitted by John L. Avery, of Frost Lumber Industries, Shreveport, La., was featured in the March 1st issue of the California Lumber Merchant. The story contained the astute observation by Andy that "if all de folks in de lumber bizness knew anything at all 'bout nothin', dey wouldntt be in the bizness. So I ain't no taxicab driver no s19'-{ is a lumber magnet. .."

W. W. (Bill) Jackson of J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, recently retur-ned from attending the annual convention of the American Wood Preservers Association in Washington, D.C.

F. A. Toste has joined the sales force of MacDonald & Har"rington, Ltd., at Los Angeles as outside salesman and is calling on the retail lumber trade.

Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co.,.Los Angeles, has returned from a vacation trip to Honolulu and New Zealand.

Carl L. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, recently spent 10 days in the Imperial Valley.

Hal Baly, Jr., Van Nuys Lumber Co., is back from a month's trip to Mexico City.

Karl Luke is now in charge of the shipping department at American Hardwood Co,, Los Angeles, succeeding Jim Chase.

President Bill Tway presided over the business meeting of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, March 2, in Anaheim.

Darl E. Le Valley of Columbia Valley Lumber Co,, Bellingham, Wash., was elected presidenf of the Wester-n Retail Lumbermen's Association at the annual convention of the group held in Portland, February 23-25.

Bert E. Bryan, president and general manager, Strable Hardwood Co,, Oakland, has been appointed Hoo-Hoo's Vicegerent snark for Northerrr California and Nevada.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. (Bill) Ream announce the arrival of a baby daughter, bor"n at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, Calif., February 18. Ream is a member of the sales staff at George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles.

L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to the Northwest where he called on mills.