Attention Drawn to Special Features of Eubank lroning Boards

The attention of dealers is drawn to the special features of Eubank Ironing Boards in a full page advertisement in this issue.

All are swivel boards, using the Eubank patented swivel bracket which gives them added strength. The cast iron swivel is so constructed that the brace slides in the swivel bracket, eliminating the usual construction of the brace sliding i,n grooves in the wood, which soon scores the wood and does not work freely.

The swivel assembly is in two pieces only, so that there is nothing that can get out of order.

There are no projecting parts, wires, cotter keys or trunions on Eubank ironing boards to catch or tear the most delicate fabrics.

Jack Ferger On Eastern Trip

. J. C. Ferger, veteran lumber dealer of Fresno, has gone East for a long vacation. Accompanied by Mrs. Ferger he left September 24 for stops in Chicago, Washington, and Nerv York, and will return late in October via the Southern route, visiting Chattanopga, Tennessee, and New Orleans. La.

All boards are well manufactured of thoroughly seasoned quality lumber, built up of two or more pieces, making a board that will not warp or split. They have a metal and asbestos iron pad on the large end on which the iron can be slipped without picking it up.

These boards are sold through dealers only and are made by L. H. Eubank & Son, Inc., manufacturers of cabinets and millwork, whose factory is at 1O1O East Hyde Park Boulevard, Inglewood, Calif.

Lee H. Eubank is president of the company. Donald St. Clair is vice-president, and George D. Eubank is secretarytreasuref.

It is interesting to note that this firm won a recent suit in Federal Court which affirms the validity of their U. S. Patent No.2174363.

Frank Yochem Visits West

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Frank N. Yochem, known in the lumber trade of Texas for the past thirty years as "Yokie," was a recent Pacific Coast visitor. He is a lumber and shingle commission man at San Antonio, Texas, selling West Coast materials. He visited Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest in a two weeks' trip.

This guy Paul Hill, whom I have known rather well for a whale of a lot of'years both on and off the lumber stage, has been telling me about what wonders they have wrought in modernizing and improving the lumber yard he has been running ever since Adam was a pup on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. So finally I went out there .the other day, and Bill Black and his camera went along. \Me went to see how near the truth Paul came in his modernization claims, fully prepared to make a liberal discount for his personal enthusiasm. And this is the story of what we saw there.

Paul Hill is a member of the firm of Lounsberry & Harris. Walter lfarris and George Lou.nsberry started in the retail lumber business in Los Angeles in 1905, coming from Colorado where their folks before them were lumber people. In 1906 Paul Hill joined the outfit and has been with them ever since. When they started the yard on Santa Monica Boulevard he took charge of it. And constantly from that time that yard has changed, grown, developed, and modernized to keep up with the times. I've visited it many, many times during the past twenty years. But this last visit, just the other day, was a revelation, for right there, on the same piece of ground on which it stood when it was a comparatively small business enterprise, is one of the very finest retail lumber plants in the entire state of California, and doing a volume of business that few can surpass.

What did they do, and how did they do it? How did they increase the storage capacity of that plot of ground on which their yard stands about three hundred per cent? And just how do they do business, and what do they sell? To answer those three questions is the job of, this story.

Two years ago the business of ihis yard had grown until physically it was in the position of the overgrown boy trying to wear his younger brother's suit. Something had to be done about it. They had to carry a lot more stock, and they had to do it efficiently. So they went out and bought an innocent enough looking piece of machinery on wheels that the Ross Carrier Company had contrived, that they call a "Hoister." A "Hoister," as shown in these pictures, is not a very large but very powerfully constructed little truck with a steel derrick on the front that slides up and down, but can take a whale of a load of lumber with it as it slides. They brought this new machine i,nto the yard and