Ten Years Ago Today

From the Files of The California Lumbet Merchant, November 15, 1925

B. W. (Bobbie) Byrne, secretary of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, was chairman November 5, the first of the monthly "Surprise" meetings of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club. President Wickersham explained that these meetings would be held once each month, and one of the members lvould be called upon as the speaker.

L. H. (Roy) Stanton, head of E. J. Stanton & Son, has had his name added to the list in the Hall of Fame, for making a "hole-in-one" at the Wilshire Country Club on October 24. He now holds his head up with Gus Hoover and a number of other lumbermen who have ioined the Hole-in-One Club.

At the regular lloo-HoJa*o *". 9 luncheon held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on October 22, C. Harry White was elected vice president to filI the vacancy caused by the transfer of Kenneth Smith to Philadelphia, and Frank H. Harris was elected to fill the vacancy on the board of directors, to take the place of 1\Ir. White.

The Peoples Lttmber Company's display was awarded first prize in the Commercial Department at the Ventura Annual Fair held at Ventura September 23-27. A miniature reproduction of a portion of Main Street, Ventura, in 1883, was shown at one end of the booth; this was the first location of the company's first yard. From this point rvas shown the growth of the company by means of ribbons extending to a map on the wall pointing out the company's branch yards. Photographs of the booth and the company's present office and plant at Ventura illustrated the article.

Rossman Brothers have opened their nerv yard at San Pedro at Twenty-first and Mesa Streets.

An ,illustration is .urrrla ," ,n,, issue of the splendid display at the Orange County Fair by the Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana. ***

"Concerning Roofs" is an interesting article in this number, by A. E. Carlson, purchasing agent of Pioneer Paper Co.. Inc.

Far above the Golden Gate is a ribbon of RED\ilfOOD-a catwalk-strung from shore to shore-the forerunner of the mighty span to come. Perhaps you haven't any customers building bridges of such magnitude as to require catwalks. For the backyard catwalks however, that adorn almost every California home, you can sell REDWOOD-Ihe ideal outdoor lumber-and sleep nights.