Really Should Have One

The baseball season is on again, and baseball stories are in the air.

The game had been a stormy one with many close decisions and much bickering among the players and. razzing on the part of the fans.

As the umpire was leaving the ball park an irate fan approached him and demanded:

GEO. GERLINGER VISITS CALIFORNIA

George T. Gerlinger, president of the Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., was a recent visitor to California. Mr. Gerlinger was a caller at the office of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco. He made the trip by automobile, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Swindells, of Dallas, Ore., and drove to Southern California to visit another daughter.

Calls On Southern California Trade

Walter C. Ball, J. R. Hanify Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor during the latter part of April. Accompanied by Wendell M. Brown, of Los Angeles, the company's Southern California representative, they spent several days calling on the retail trade.

Recovers From Operation

L. C. Hammond, vice president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, underrvent an operation in the University of California Hospital April 10. Mr. Hammond has made satisfactory progress, and when this issue went to press expected to be moved to his home within a few days.

"Where's your dog?"

"Where's whose dog?" asked the umpire.

"Where's YOUR dog?" persisted the fan.

"f haven't any dog," replied the umpire, disgustedly.

"The Hell you haven't," said the fan. ..Then you're the first blind rnan I've ever seen that hadn't a dog."

E. D. KINGSLEY

VISITS S. F.

E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., and C. H. Ditewig, sales manag'er, were recent visitors to San Francisco. While there they made their headquarters at the offices of Wendling-Nathan Co., their California sales agents.

Andy Donovan Returns From North

A. W. Donovan, Los Angeles representative of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently spent a few days in San Francisco, and left fc-,r his southern headquarters Aoril 14.

S. A. BISHOP VISITING ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES

S. A. Bishop, of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, is making a six weeks' business trip in the Rocky Mountain States territory.

RALPH MOORE VISITS S. F.

Ralph T. Moore, vice president and general manager of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., recently spent a week at the company's San Francisco office.