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A man traveling through the mountains of Tennessee Btopped at a cabin to ask for a drink of water.

' An old woman brought it to him and, after drinking, he had quite a talk with her, and she made a most interested listener.

Your hardwood lumber yard!

we mointqin_Properly seo_ soned ond stored-the lorgest voriety ond volume of hordwoods west of Chicogo. Coll us for prompi delivery of ony quontity.

HARIIW00DS . S0fflT00ltS Plywoods . Kiln-Drying . Wholanlc Only

He told of his travels over much of the earth. of the wonders he had seen, the places he had been.

Finally he stopped his bragging and waited to see what effect his story had had on the old mountain woman.

She was quiet and thoughtful for a minute, then she took the pipe from her mouth and said:

"Stranger, if I knowed as much as you do, I'd go somewhere and start a little grocery store."

Jerty lopin qnd Bob King Srort

Mercury Hqrdwood lumber Gompony

Two young men, formerly on the sales staff of Atlas Lumber Co., Los Angeles, have established their own wholesale lumber concern and opened offices at 4645 East Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 22. According to present plans, Mercury Hardwood Lumber-the name of the new firmwill engage in LCL, as well as direct shipments of imported and domestic hardwoods, dimension lumber and softwoods on a wholesale basis. Yard delivery will be made from Fern in Montebello for the time being until company facilities are ready within the next six to nine months, it was said.

Jerry Lapin and Bob King, the two pioneers, both received their basic lumber sales training at Atlas Lumber, one of the pioneer wholesale hardwood and softwood concerns in Southern California.