Short Lengths from the Retail Yards

The Diamond Match Company has completed the modernization of lumber and building materials offices and display rooms at its Lodi yard. The walls and ceilings of the office and store are finished in Celotex of various shades, textures and patterns, giving the interior a very attractive appearance. The installation of plate glass in the store front, display counters for builders' hardware, and nail counters with removable bins are other new features.

A complete line of paints, oils, brushes, and builders' hardware has been added to the store's supplies. An invitation has been extended to the public to inspect the new office and store. P. O. Young is manager of the yard.

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The O'Matley Lumber Company, Phoenix, Ariz., will move its yard at Buckeye to a nerv location. Work on the new plant is already under way. Frank Thomas, former manager of the company's yard at Six Points, Phoenix, has been transferred to Buckeye where he will be in charge of the construction of the new buildings.

Reid & West Lumber Co. is now operating at its new location in Bellflower. 843 Artesia Blvd. Three new modern buildings have been constructed; a lumber shed 4O x 120 feet, a warehouse 20 x ffi feet, and the office 30 x CI feet. Twenty different types of lumber, finish paneling, insulation board and stucco were used in building the office interior which gives prospective home builders an idea how the various types of interior finishing look when installed. A grand opening and open-house is planned by the company in the near future. G. B. West and Tom Reid, the owners, have been operating a retail yard at Bellflower for the past five years.

The Fox-Woodsum t"lb* Jo. *,,, enlarge the lumber storage shed at its Rialto yard. K. R. Courter is yard manager'

Ernie Miller, prominently known in California architectural circles, is now affiliated with Woods Bros. Lumber Co. of Santa Cruz as manager of its home building service department. Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of California School of Architecture, and for three years was connected with the office of George Kelham, San Francisco architect, who designed the Russ, Shell and Standard Oil buildings. Later he was associated with Ed Eames of San Francisco who specialized in residential architecture, and recently was affiliated with the Al Larsen firm of San Francisco. Before taking over his new duties, he spent a week in Los Angeles where he was gathering ideas for the design of modern no-"..

Grey M. Skidmore, president of the Skidmore Lumber Company, Downey, has announced that Roy G. Walling is now associated with the company as vice-president and general manager. Mr. Walling was with the Los Nietos Valley Bank for the past fifteen years and was vice-president at the time this bank became a branch of the Bank of America.

Otto W. Hansen, who has been in charge of the company's offices the past several months, will take over the management of a designing an'd building project department.

Mr. Skidmore, president of the company, expects to devote much of his time to outside conta,cts. The Skidmore Lumber Company was established in L873 by the late S. S. Skidmore, father of the present company head.

W. W. Boyd of Santa Barbara has purchased the Acme Building Materials Company at Yreka from S. R. Scott of Weed. Mr. Boyd took over the yard on April 1 and has changed the name to Acme Lumber Co. He'has been connected with the lumber business in the San Joaquin Valley for many years. W. J. Whitty, who has been manager of the yard for the past year, and Hugh Cuthrie, yard man, will continue with the company under the new owner, Mr. Boyd. *'F*

F. Dean Precott, Valley Lumber Company, Fresno attended the annual meeting of the National Lumber Dealers Association at Washington, D. C., on April fu21. Mr. Prescott was elected a member of the Association's Executive Comrnittee for the coming year. Mrs. Prescott accompanied him on the trip. t+:r

C. L. Barton, Monterey Park retailer, entertained friends at a house warming of his new cabin at Big Bear Saturday evening, April 17. ***

Charles Miller has opened a yard at Vallejo which will operate as the Charles Miller Company. The company will handle lumber and building materials. Mr. Miller has been connected with the building industry in Vallejo for many years, and was formerly y"i*"; of the Perry Lumber Co.

Jack Ronayre has been appointed manager of the Turlock Lumber Company's yard at Hilmar.

Frank B. Harris, who operated the Aliso Street Lumber Dealers retail lumber yard at 74O Aliso Street, Los Angeles, for the past five years discontinued the business on April l. He has been associated with the retail lumber business in Los Angeies for the past thirty years and is widely known in Southern California lumber circles. Before taking over the Aliso Street Lumber Dealers Yard, he was with Lounsberry & Harris of Los Angeles for many years.

Mr. Harris will take an extended rest before announcing his future plans.

The Dixie Lumber C";";r,tan Diego, has remodeled the interior of its office building. Counter space has been doubled and the office quarters rearranged to better handle its business. The display room shows the various finish hardware, and built-in fixtures, such as medicine cabinets and ironing boards carried in stock. An attractive door display makes it possible for the customer to select the exact door he wants for his home.

The French colonial office building has been repainted. This building is a replica of a 14th century store bu,iiding in Paris.

Elmore King, King I-l*il.r*Co., Bakersfield, made a short business trip to Los Angeles the latter part of April.

Lumber Dealers, h"., 1..Xrrai, purchased the yard. of F. E. Graw Lumber Company, 8127 East l4th Street, Oakland.

The principals in the new firm are L. A. Robson, who was formerly assistant sales manager of the Timberland

Lumber Company, New Westminster, B. C., and A. F. Storey, formerly owner of the retail lumber firm of Fletcher-Wells Lumber a".,

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O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Company, Stockton, has gone East for two or three months' vacation, leaving the yard ,in the capable hands of his three sons.

Jesse E. Briley has purchased the Sprague Lumber Co. yard at 9530 Long Beach Blvd., Los Angeles, which he will operate as the Briley Lumber Co. Mr. Briley was formerly connected rvith Sprague Lumber Co. at their Los Angeles yard at 8700 South Western Ave. ***

A meeting of the stockholders of the Graves Company, Los Angeles, was held at the company's offices on April 6. The present board of directors were re-elected. I. W. Fuqua is president of the company.

A modern one-and-one-half-story office building is to be erected at the northeast corner of Anaheim Street and Loma Avenue, Long Beach, by the W. M. Dary Lumber Co. The building will have a TUf.oot frontage on Anaheim Street, and a l3Gfoot frontage on Loma Avenue. The general offices will be located on the mezzanine floor, and the main floor will be given over to a store carrying building materials. The lumber yard will adjoin the office building. The office and yard will be ready about June 1. Kenneth Wing is the architect. Mr. Dary has been operating in East Long Beach for the past four years.