Retailers'Annual to be Held at Sacramento

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, held at Flotel El Tejon, at Bakersfield, Saturday, August 2lst, 1926, Sacramento, California, was selected as the place for the next Annual Convention of the Association, which will. be held October 22 and, 23 at the Senator Hotel.

Mr. Fred Shaffer, manager of the Los Angeles office of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce was present in person to present the invitation of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce to the Association to hold their convention in Sacramento; Mr. C. D. I-e Master, secretary of the Sacra_ mento Valley Lumbermen's Club also extended an invita_ tion on behalf of the Club to the Association to hold their meeting in Sacramento.

.A{ter considering ail the invitations from various sections 9t lhe state, it was finally decided to have the cbnvention in Sacramento, _with the Sacramento Valley I_"-fr"r-.rt Club as hosts. It is certain that with ,o"li u ,;t;i b";;i; of lumbermen as hosts that the Convention will'be , ,u"_ cess from a social and business standpoint.

Various committees to take charge of the convention will soon be appointed by President plnkerton.

'l'he Association will issue another Souvenir prograrn, or Year Book, which w.as s-o favorably received b; ti;; lumberrien for the first time last vear.

There will also be exhibits at tht convention by difierent manufacturers of an educational nature.

October is a beautiful month in Sacramento and it is believed that we will have a larger .on1,."tion than ever Delofe.

"Jimmie" Atkinson Assigned to San Francisco Office

J. Walter Kelly, sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, announces that ..Jimmie', Atkinson, who formerly covered the peninsulj, Coast Counties, Marin and Sonoma County territories, will be his assistant in the San Francisco office in charge of their rail department. "Jimmie" as he is best known t*o the lumlr.er trade, for the past two years has acted as representa- trve ot the concern in the above territory. He has been associated with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. for sev. eral years, during rvhich time he has worked in the sales department at the San Francisco office, and has also served some time at the company's mill at St. Helens, Oregon, and the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. yard at Sai Diego. In..his new_position, he plans to spend a part of his tiire calling on the trade in hi! old terrilorv.

Mr. Kelly states that the personnel-of their sales organ- ization will remain' as hereiofore. Floyd Elliott will -call on the retail trade of San !'rancisco ind Oakland, while George Kendrick will call on the carso trade in tire San Francisco and Peninsula territory. Hastings Garland will cover the Sacramen_to Valley trade, going-as far south as l\{odesto, a.nd_$rJ. Lucas wiil colrei h"is oid territory in the San_ Joaquin Valley territory from Modesto south io Bakersfield.

MARK CAMPBELL A SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

^.M".! Campbell, manager of the rail department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, was a recent visitor at the company's San Francisco oftce where he spent a few days on iompany business conferring witlr Chai. R. McCormick a"a sa'te.'tvtan"g"i y- w"rt.;kJlt: