Short Ne*s of Interest

COBERLY'S NEW CLOVIS YARD

L. M. Coberly is opening a new lumber yard on Clovis Avenue in Clovis, California. The buildings are now being erected.

New Nevada City Yard

The Tahoe Sugar Pine Company, which operates a Pine sawmill near Graniteville, is opening the retail yard formerly operated by the Builders Supply Company, in Nevada City, California. H. S. Foreman will be in charge.

Hobart Lumber Company Yards In Nevada

It is announced that the five lumber yards at Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, Lovelock, and Minden, Nevada, which have in the past been operated by the Hobart Estate Company, will in future be operated by a company which has been incorporated for that purpose, the Hobart Lumber Company. G. D. Oliver, who has been general manager of the Hobart Estate Companv, is president of the new company, and C. M. Oliver is general manager. The Hobart Estate continues ownership.

NEv/ YARD IN TURLOCK

Home Lumber Yard, Inc. has opened a retail yard at Turlock.

J. H. Ward, Jr. is president, and R. B. (Burt) Gartin is secretary and general manager.

New Yard In Stockton

Frank Fisher, formerly of Fisher Bros. Mill & Lumber Co., Stockton, completed construction of his new yard, Frank Fisher Lumber Co.. at 3330 Main Street, Stockton, early in August.

Lumberman Makes Fair A Success

Walter S. Found, general lnanager of Merced Lumber Company, Merced. is receiving many compliments on the srlccess of the first Merced-1\{ariposa County Fair, held at Merced, August 6,7 and 8.

Mr. F-ound did a lot of the preliminary organization work and was mallager of the F'air.

Ed Adams In Retail Business

Ed F. Adams is norv owner and operator of the Economy Lumber Yard at 2040 Seminary Avenue, Oakland.

For a number of years before going into the retail business three months ago he was a well known commission lumber salesman with headquarters in Oakland.

Attends International Convention

A. D. McKinnon, of McKinnon's Lumber Yard, Hollister, has returned from attending the International Rotary Convention in France.

Mr. Ward was formerly with the Union Oil Co. at Turlock, and Mr. Gartin iras been manager for the past several C. years of the Modesto Lumber Company's branch at Tur- ing a lock.

\MM. KILLEN

Wm. Killen, of the Foxu'orth-Killen Lumber Company, Tucson, Arizona, underrvent a minor operation in Los Angeles recently, and is norv back home on the job.

Blessed Event

Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Beers are rejoicing over the arrival of a son, Norman Roger Beers, born August 16 in San Francisco.

Mr. Beers is with The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco.

Back

n'Iarc de Bruin, of the Francisco, general sales Lumber Company, Port after spending a u'eek at

From Mill

Gorman Lrrmber Company, San representatives of Trans-Pacific Orford. Ore.. is back at his desk the mill.

LOOKS OVER SO. CALIF. TERRITORY

E. L. Green, vice-president in charge of sales, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back August 23 from a two weeks' business trip to Southern California.

C. C. BARR IN NEBRASKA

C. Barr, Barr Lurnber Company, Whittier, is enjoyvisit back in his old home in Nebraska.

McELROY MAKES AIR TRIP

J. H. McElroy, of the McElroy Lumber Company, Palo Alto, returned home August 19 from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. He traveled both wavs by air.

Back From Mountains

Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, back on the job from a vacation spent at Dardanelle, the High Sierra.

WITH MacDONALD & HARRINGTON

M. E. Lopes is now' in charge of tl,e box shook department of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco.

L. K. LEISHMAN RETURNS FROM EUROPE

L. K. Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Company, Pasadena, has returned from two months' trip to Europe.

Calls On Mills

J. H. "Jerry" Stutz, of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, recently returned from the Northwest where he spent two weeks calling on the mills.