T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant May 15,1928

H. N. Wheeler, Chief Lecturer of the U. S. Forest Service, was the speaker at the Stockton Rotary Club meeting on April 25. Members of the Stockton Hoo-Hoo Club were invited to attend the meeting.

The Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club held its first official meeting at the Adams Hotel Tuesday evening, May 8. N. H. (Hawk) Huey, State Counselor for Arizona, read the Constitution and By-Laws of the new Club, which was signed by the entire membership. Officers of the Club are: President, M. H. McCalla; Vice President, E. \,'. O'Malley, and Secretary-Treasurer, R. V. Baker. The Club has 42 members.

Winfield Scott, director of public relations for the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was the principal speaker on "Lumbermen's Night," April 25, at the San Francisco celebration of Better Homes Week.

The tri-annual meeting of the Pacific Coast group of the National Assoication of Wooden Box Manufacturers was helcl at the Hotel Senator, Sacramento, on April 27-28. Walter S. Johnson, chairman of the executive committee of the pacific Coast group, was chairman of the meeting.

The Crange Belt Lumbermen's Club met at the White Spot Cafe,, Riverside, for a dinner meeting on May 8. Earl E. Bowe, Los Angeles representative of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, addressed the meeting. In the afternoon, the lumbermen visited the Cresmer Mfg. Co. plant at Riverside.

More than 50 members of the building industry in and around Stockton were guests of the Stockton Lumber Co. on April 24 at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Lincoln in Stockton. Tom V. Sawyer, Celotex Company, was the speaker of the evening. Chas. G. Bird, mandger of the Stockton Lumber Co., was in charge of the arrangements. for the meeting.

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner dance at the Commercial Club, Los Angeles, on Saturday evening, April 30. Music for dancing was furnished by a five-piece orchestra, and there were several excellent-entertainment numbers presented during the evening.

O. D. Ruse and D. W. Blair opened a retail yard in Stockton, operating as the Ruse-Blair Lumber Co. Mr. Ruse and Mr. Blair were formerly associated u'ith the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. yard at Stockton.

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A. D. (Al) Bell, Jr.. of Hobbs \\rall Lumber Co., S:rn Francisco, Supreme Custocation of Hoo-Hoo, attended the Concat held in Reno, Nevada, April 18. u'hen 14 Kittens 'rvere initiated. He made the round trip b1' air.

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John H. Tyson, president Charles Nelson Company and \\'holesale Lumber Distributors, fnc. of San Francisco and Oakland, spent the last rveek of April rvith Rex Clarke, executive r-ice-president and manager of Consolidated Lumber Companl- of \\'ilmington.

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