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Mace Tobin, sales manag'er, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Oregon, has returned from a two weeks' bttsiness trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
L. D. Gilbert, former Healdsburg, returned to almost two months in broken ankles.
owner of Healdsburg Lumber Co., his home October 6 after sPending a hospital recovering from two
Lu Green of Gamerston & Green is the new editor of the Hoo-Hoo publication "Meow." Lu, who has tic experience, 'rvill do a good job.
Lumber Co., Oakland, Club No. 39 mPnthlY had previous journalis- sales manager, \Mest was a recent visitor Oregon Lumber at the company's
Harry Hood, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Joe Stervart, general superintendent of the company's mill at Eureka, were back on the job October Z2 after spending an enjoyable rveek on the Klamath River fishing for steelhead.
E. A. (Alex) Gordon of Gordon-MacBeath Hardu'ood Co., Berkeley, has returned from 10 weeks' trip to the hardwood sawmills in southern, eastern and middle western states.
Bill Chantland, manager, and Ray Klots, sales representative of the Los Angeles offrce, and Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office, Scl-rafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., will attend the annual sales meeting at the head office in Aberdeen, Wash., the week of November 5. Earl Sanborne and M. R. Gill of the Reedsport and Eugene, Oregon, of6ces, r.r'ill also attend.
Huntly A. Wark, Modern Cabinet Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a three and one-half months' trip to the Pacific Northwest and Canada. He called on lumbermen in the Portland, Seattle and Spokane districts, and also visited his mother who resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada' His wife and daughter accompanied him. Huntly says it is nice to get back to Southern California.
Herbert Fischborn, sales manager' Jansen-Edmonds Lumber Co., Ashland, Oregon, recently spent a week in San Francisco on business.
Walter Watkins of W. S. Watkins & Son, manufacturers of mouldings, Reno, Nevada, was in San Francisco recently for a few days on business for his firm.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penberthy, Penberthy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, are on a business trip to the Northwest.
Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, made a business trip to Salt Lake City around the middle of October'
Althea Colburn, office manager for Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division, at Los Angeles, r'etired on October 1. She was with the firm for a number of years, and was well known in Los Angeles lumber circles. Her home is in Pasadena.
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Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser was born in Rock Island, Illinois, November 4, 1872, the youngest of seven children of Frederick and Elizabeth Bloedel Weyerhaeuser. He attended public schools in Rock Island, and rvas graduated from Phillips .Academy, Andover, in 7892, and from Yale University with a B. A. degree in 1896, where he received the Phi Beta Kappa award. He has been a resident of Saint paul, Minnesota, since 1891 in which year his father, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, who was the founder of the family business, moved the headquarters of his operations from Rock Island to Saint paul.
After graduating from college he became associated with his father in the latter's office in Saint paul, which was then and still is the headquarters for the Weyerhaeuser family. Upon his father's death in 1914, he became head of the family office which position he occupied continuously until the date of his death.
He was one of the founders of the Southern Lumber Company at Warren, Arkansas. He was also the prime mover in the founding of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company in 1916 and has been an executive ofificer of many lumber companies of the Weyerhaeuser group and their affiliated concerns.

At the time of his death he was president of the Weyer_ haeuser Timber Company, the largest company of the pres_ ent Weyerhaeuser group. In addition to his lumber activi_ ties he was a director of the Great Northern Railway Com_ pany, First National Bank of Saint paul, and was formerly a director of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago
He had a great interest in various educational, charitable and religious organizations to which he has during his life_ time given liberally. He was head of the Saint paul Com_ munity Chest in 1922 and for 24 years had 'served on the Board of Directors of the Saint paul y.M.C.A. At the time of his death he was an elder in the House of Hope presby_ terian Church and president of the Union Gospel Mission. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and Bones at Yale, and belonged to the following local clubs: IJniversity, Minnesota, Somerset, and White Bear yacht.
He is survived by his wife, Harriette Davis Weyerhaeus_ er, and two sons, Frederick, a resident of Saint paul, and Charles Davis, a resident of Tacoma, Washington, and five grandchildren. A daughter, Virginia, died in 1922. He is also survived by one brother, Rudolph M. of Saint paul, and two sisters, Mrs. William Bancroft Hill of poughkeep_ sie, New York, and Mrs. Samuel Sharpe Davis of Rock Island, Illinois. Two brothers, John p. of Tacoma, and Charles A. of Saint Paul, and a sister, Mrs. J. Richard Jewett of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are now deceased.
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