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T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant November 1, 1928 the meeting of the San held October 13th, in Hills, was the speaker president of the Orange County annual meeting and ladies night, Hacienda Country Club. A. C. was in charge of the business

Westwood Hoo-Hoo Club No. 38 has been awarded the first pize-a loving cup-for having the best attendance record of all California Clubs for the past Hoo-Hoo year. Jack Dionne, of the CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, was judge of the contest.

Guy Cuzner, of the firm of Kerckhoff-Cuzner ber Company, Los Angeles, was toastmaster meeting of the Lumber Dealers Association of held at the Elite Cafe, on October 23rd.

President Dean Prescott presided at Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, Fresno. Frank Burnaby, of Beverly of the occasion.

Announcernent is made of the outright purchase of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, at Coos Bay, Oregon, by Pierce, Fair & Company, investment bankers. The sale covers over six billion feet of timber and the biggest single sawmill unit in the world. Price, $6,375,700.

Mill & Lum- The McCloud River Lurnber Company announces that it at the dinner will open a sales ^ffice iu Los Angeles at once, to be nranaged Los Angeles, by Mr. L. S. Turnbull.

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold its annual meeting in San Francisco, Nov. 15, 16, and 17.

H. A. Lake was elected Lumbermen's Club at the held October 26th at the Bowers, retiring president, session.

The fifth annual meeting California will be held in San of the Millwork Institute of Francisco, Nov. 22 and 23.