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lrvin Cobb's Best Story

Of all the Irvin Cobb stories I ever heard or read, the following has always been my favorite:

It was just about the middle of a hot summer day in a Southern city, and a tall, lazy-looking negro was sitting in the shade of a postoak tree on the corner. He was broke but unworried.

Just then the noon whistles burst forth with their screeching noises, and the street came suddenly alive. Out

Clif Roberts, general manager of Ilenson l-umber Company, San Diego, and Mrs. Roberts spent last u'eek end visiting friends in the San Fernando \ralle,v. San Gabriel and Arcadia.

Charlie Kendall, Kendall returned last u'eek from a bara way.

\\rholesale l-umber Compan-r', short vacation up Santa Bar- of stores, and offices, and factories peoplc came hurrying to wherever they were going for the noon hour. Evcrywhere there were sign of human activity, and bustle, and rush.

Our hero, sitting in the shade, watched all this as he chewed on a straw, and then reflected aloud:

"To mos' foits that means dinnah-time; but it jus' means twelve o'clock to me !"

Harry White and Sterling Wolfe, Harr_v H. \\'hite \\rholesale Lumber distributors. returned the first of the month from -\rcata and San Francisco s'here thev had been on an extended business trip.

Lloyd Webb is presentlv managing the Softrroods Department for F-. J. Stanton & Son. He formerll' handled procuremelrt at the mills for the same organization.