TWENTY-FIVE YEARS As Reported in The California Lumber AGO Merchanf, TO July 15, DAY 1934

Schafer Salesman Chas. T. Gartin made an auto trip to the Montesano mill accompanied by his wife and father, James U. Gartin, president of the Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, and returned on the company steamer ... Bill Chantland, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., vacationed in Idaho and the Northwest and visited the company mills at Grays Harbor E. C. Parker of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned from a 2week trip to Chicago and visit to the World's Fair Robert H. Taylor, former manager of the Central Lumber Co., Compton, is now managing the Clearwater Lumber Co. yard there , W. W. Woodbridge was re-elected manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at the annual meeting in Seattle, June 28 C. C. Campbell, manager of the Van Nuys Lumber Co. for many years, died at his old home in New Brunswick where he had gone after a breakdown at the age ol 57. The dealer went to Van Nuys when the town was founded in 1911 The Hammond Lumber Company advertisement in this issue plugs the new Redwood Stave Septic Tank.

Fire of unknown origin swePt the Stockton Lumber Co. there, July 1, and destroyed $100,000 in lumber stocks plus valuable machinery and equipment. The fire covered two and onehalf blocks with $300,000 total damages The Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Distributors of Northern California passed a resolution, June 6, approving direct sales of hardwood lumber for school construction jobs The California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, operated by Kenneth J. Shipp and Arthur D. Williamson, is the subject of a page writeup in this issue .

F. J. Dunbar of The Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco, attended a meeting of the directors of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Assn. in Los Angeles, July 6 . Judge Otis of the Federal Court in Kansas City on July 5 sanctioned the request of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. for a reorg'anization.

Elmore King of the King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, reported on his recent two weeks with the Executive committee in Washington on the NcjCal Code Authority at a meeting in San Francisco, July 6, presided over by Ralph Duncan of the Merced Lumber Co., chairman George Burnett of the Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, Presided at the meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council in the Palace

Philips of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and his family are vacationing in the High Sierra . . Among the interesting "l0 Years Ago" (July 15, 1924) items in the column of this issue are the report on the Shoup Lumber Co. at Phoenix. a storv on the start of production of trademarked Douglas fir lumber by Long-Bell at

Longview, an item on the start of construction of a modern warehouse by California Panel & Veneer Co. in Loi Angeles, a writeup of the Shasta Lumber Company's retail yard at Marysville, and a note that Mrs. A. C. Penberthy read Peter B. Kyne's story, "The Go-Getter," at a luncheon of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo on July 3.