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TWENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, September 15, 1937

Bill Hamilton, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles, with Mrs. Hamilton and their two daughters, are en route to New York by way of the Panama Canal. They shipped their autorrobile on the boat and on the 'i'eturn trip wtll motor to California.

Rollins Brown, well-known lumber and flooring salesman of Los Angeles, is slowly recovering from the effects of an injury to his shoulder received in a street cat aceident. Mr. Brown, a one-legged man, had his shoulder so badly hurt he could not use his crutches to walk with. so has been confined to his home for a year.

Boy E. Hills, of Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, who has been on a European trip with Mrs, Hills and their son, returned to San Francisco, August 28.

Leonard Hammond, of San Francisco, president of the Hammond Lumber Company, spent several days visiting his organization in Southern California last month.

Lew Blinn, of the Pacific Lumber Company, and Mrs. Blinn, are on a three weeks' vacation trip to Banfr and Lake Louise. They drove to Vancouver and traveled by train frorn there.

Walter Harris, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, is on a trip to Colorado. He will be back at his desk the latter part of September.

AI Kelley and Charies Cross of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned September 13 after spending two weeks in the Northwest calling on the firm's sawmill connections.

"Dave" Davis has joined the sales staff of the Union Lumber Company, working out of their Los Angeles office. "Dave" has covered the Southern California territory for the past several years and has a wide acquaintance with the retail lumber trade.

J. W. \Milliams, secretary of the California Redwood Association, is back from spending his vacation in Los Angeles.

The six week's tieup of the plasterers, lathers and hod carriers in Alameda County ended September 10 when employers granted a 10 cent an hour increase to workers in each of the unions involved.

Under the terms of the agteement plasterers will receive $1.60 an hour; hod carriers, $1.45 an hour and lathers, $1.60 an hour.

Phil Farnsworth, advertising manager of the California Redwood Association, has returned from a vacation at Lake Tahoe. While on the trip Phil did some good promotion work on the Picket PaBk.

Phil Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and his family, have returned from a vacation trip to the Northwest.

J. Stanley Quinn, salesman for the Chas. R, McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, acted as racing secretary and starter for the horse races at San Diego County Fair held at Del Mar.

Walter C. Ball, sales manager, J. R. Hanify Co., San Francisco, spent his vacation at Yosemite. He took time out to motor over Feather Canyon Road and traveled as far north as Eureka.