George \(/. LaPointe, Jr. Will Attend State Retailers' Annual Convention

George W. LaPointe, Jr., of Menomonie, Wisconsin, president of the National Lumber Dealers Assoc;ation and a retail lumberman of national prominence, will address the annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association to be held at Del Monte on October 22-23. He is connected with the O & N Lumber Company of Menomonie, which operates 50 retail lumber yards in that section. He is a former president of the Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association, and was a director of the old National Retail Lumber Dealers Association for four or five years before its reorganization.

Mr. LaPointe comes from a lumber family, his father and grandfather before him were lumber manufacturers in Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Cornell University where he studied law but has never practiced that profession. Upon graduating from college, lumber manufacturing was about at an end in that section of Wisconsin but he had a hand in winding up his father's operations at Wilson, Wis., after which he was engaged for several years in running small mills in Northern Wisconsin.

In 1911, he went into the retail lumber business acquiring a yard at Menomonie. In 1916, he joined with some of his college friends who were then lumber manufacturers, in organizing the present concern, O & N Lumber Company. He was then operating four yards which went into the formation of the new company.

O & N Lumber Company now operates 36 retail yards. In addition they are also operating a line of 14 lumber yards, Kellogg Brothers Lumber Co., making a total of 50. Headquarters for both corporations are at Menomonie.

Mr. La Pointe says he enjoys the acquaintanceship and friendship of a lot of big shots like F. Dean Prescott of Fresno, California, "Million Dollar" Blackstock of Seattle, "Letter-Writing" Lewin of Cincinnati, "Commodore" Baldwin of "Joisey" City, and others. He is very proud of his Iarge acquaintanceship with lumbermen all over the United States.

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