MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

But She Didn't Quite

Colored folks in the South are great purchasers of insurance ofall sorts, but on account oflaxity in marriage ceremonies, failure to keep up policies, etc., it isn't always a simple thing to collect a life insurance policy, and the insurance company often has plenty of trouble trying to find out just which is the true wife and heiress of the deceased, etc.

A colored woman had been going through all sorts of trouble trying to prove that she was the rightful heir of a ,recently deceased colored gentleman, and had to go through endless red tape in her effort to collect the insurance, that she finally wrote a letter to the life insurance company, which ended as follows:

"I have been havin'so much tro'uble tryin' to collect the life insurance of my husband, that sometimes I almost wish ole Mose wuzn't daid."

Lumberman Is Irrigation Lumber Rate Fixed For April Director And May

Shingle Association Elects Officers

The following officers of the Washington & Oregon Shingle Association were re-elected at the annual meeting of the organization held at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, January 16: President, P. 11. Smith, M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Seattle; vice-president, W. C. McMaster, John McMaster Shingle Co., Seattle: secretary-manager, Miss Grace Jones.

Conference on Docket LO632 Postponed to March 19

H. G. Toll, chairman of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau, Chicago, has announced in a wire to A. Larssoh, commerce attorney and member of the Western Shippers Ways and Means Committee, San Francisco, the postponement of the hearing of the "Inside Finishing" matter covered by Docket lM32 from February 6 to March 19. Hearing will be held in room 800, 300 West Adams Street, Chicago.

This wire was in reply to a telegram from Mr. Larsson urging the resetting of the hearing date at least 30 days latir than the date originally set, and suggesting that the transcontinental lines call shippers from El Paso west to San Francisco for a preliminary hearing.

Pinchot Home to Use Large Plank Table

Gifford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsylvania, is in receipt of the largest, single plank ever shipped from Oregon, designed for use as the top of a refectory table.

The plank, which is 2O feet long, three feet wide and three inches thick, is rated as one of the finest produced in the state. It was sent to Mr. Pinchot at his Washington, D. C., home as a gift from Mrs. James B. Montgomery of Portland.

Mrs. Montgomery was dining with the Pinchot family in Washington when the former governor said they wanted a new top for their dining room table and preferred one of refectory type. She suggested at that time a plank of Oregon fir.

Returning to Oregon, Mrs. Montgomery prevailed on E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lumber Co., to take on the job of finding just the right log to produce the plank, which was milled at this company's plant.

The plank was planed on both sides, oiled and waxed. It was cured for one year, the process being done by the West Made Desk company. Upon finishing the plank it was shipped East by the Luckenbach line to the Pinchot home at Washington.

"What a superb present you sent us in that magnificent plank," Mr. Pinchot wrote in acknowledging the gift. "I have never seen a plank of Douglas fir that compares with it and I appreciate it more than I can possibly say.