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Hardwoods - F"n"y Woods

California Pines

Redwood - Douglas Fir

Panels (Fir and Redwood)

Hardwood Trim-K. D. Fir Trim (Stock and Special Detail)

Wallboard - Roofing - Nails

Cornrgated lron-Hard Boards

Insulite t'Super Cedar" Closet Lining

Remodel Olfiice Interior

The Barr Lumber Company recently completed the remodeling of the office interior at their Santa Ana yard. They have reversed the positions of their paint and builders' hardware store with the Santa Ana yard office putting the merchandise and display in front and moving the office to the rear.

This gives a splendid store space at the front of the office and attracts more attention of persons who enter, and it also puts the Santa Ana office a good many paces

Federal Writers' Projects Collecting Data on Lumber Industry

Los Angeles' industries connected with lumber will be dealt with at some length in the American Guide now being prepared by the Federal Writers' Projects rvith offices at 751 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles.

The Guide will be published in five voiumes and will include reference to the scenic, historical, cultural, recreational, commercial and industrial resources of the country, containing information of value to businessmen, students, research workers, educators, authors, and others.

The subjects for articles which have already been prepared are "Water 'Iransportation of I-umber," "Box Shook Industry," "lIardwoods," "Redwood Lumber and Shingles," "Douglas Fir, Hemlock and Spruce," "Plywood," "Pressed Board Products," "Ready Cut Houses," "Redwood Bark Fibre As An Insulator," and "Wrecking: Business in Early Times."

Articles now under preparation include "Lumbermen's Associations," "Red Cedar Shingles," "Ponderosa Pine," "Millwork Operations," and "Wood Button Industry."

Its editors invite the attention of those interested in any phase of the lumber and forest products businesses in Los Angeles, and are asking for suggestions and data so they can cover this field thoroughly.

nearer the yard and mill. The changes also accomplish the complete segregation of the general office from the Santa Ana yard office. The above photograph shows the paint and builders' hardware display with the Santa Ana yard office in the rear.

O. H. Barr, president of the company, says they are very much pleased with the new arrang'ement. The Barr Lumber Company operate yards at Santa Ana, Whittier, Norwalk, Artesia, Orange and Pico. .Fnr"*tBlinn$mtereo.

Mrs. Minnie Swanson

Mrs. Minnie Swanson of Pasadena, mother of Emil Swanson, owner of the Eagle Rock Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, passed away at the Monte Sano Hospital, Los Angeles, April 2l. She was 81 years of age, and had been a resident of Pasadena for twenty-three years. Funeral services were held at Pasadena on April 23.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Swanson; four sons, Edward of Minneapolis, Minn; George and Paul of Sykston, North Dakota, and Emil; and a daughter, Lottie Swanson of Pasadena.

Mrs. Ellen B. Cornwall

Mrs. Ellen B. Cornwall passed away in her sleep, at the home of her daughter in Berkeley, April 17.

Mrs. Cornwall was a native of Oregon, and was the wife of George M. Cornwall, editor and publisher of The Timberman, and the mother of George F. Cornwall, managing editor of The Timberman, and editorial director of the Pacific Retail Lumberman. She is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Wallace L. Kadderly, and two grandchildren, Lois Elaine and George Mackie Cornwall.

House And Garden Exhibit Opens

The opening of the California House and Garden Exhibit at 590O Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, took place on Friday evening, April 17. Six modern homes, each of a different type and completely furnished, comprise the exhibit. Miss M. L. Schmidt will manage the exhibit as a permanent project.

Seth Butler With Dant & Russell

Seth L. Butler, well known San Francisco lumberman, is now representative for Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Ore., in the San Francisco Bay district, Peninsula and Coast Counties territory, with office in the Tilden Sales Building, 7 Front Street, San Francisco, telephone SUtter 8854.

He will specialize in the sale of Port Orford Cedar from the mill of Port Orford Cedar Products Co., Marshfield, Ore., for which concern Dant & Russell, Inc., are exclusive sales agents; Douglas Fir cargo from Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co. and other Columbia River mills, and rail shipments from Oregon mills.

Ife returned to San Francisco April 17 from spending a week visiting mills in the Willamette Valley with H. E. Officer of Dant & Russell, Inc. He also spent some time at the plant of Port Orford Cedar Products Co. at Marshfield.

Mr. Butler started his career in the lumber business, in which he has had 25 years' experience, as manager of the Pacific Coast Lumber Surveyors' Association for a period of more than 10 years before the World War, resigning to enter the Army. On his return from France he became a salesman for the Union f,umber Company, and after some years left the Redwood business to go into the retail lumber business in San Francisco, where he was associated for many years with the Spring Valley Lumber Yard and Mission Lumber Yard.

He is prominent in local military circles, being Captain of the well known independent military organization, the California Grays, and has many friends in all branches of the lumber industry who will wish him success in his new connection.

L.. A. Buildins Ordinance Amended

An amendment to Section 106 of the City of Los Angeles building ordinance permitting the use of lumber treated with chromated zinc chloride for protection against termites and fungus in underpinning and substructures of buildings, which has been passed by the city council and approved by the mayor, will become effective on May 27. The amendment'also provides for allowing other preservative treatments of lumber on approval by the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners.

BRYSON-BELDEN

R. J. "Bob" Bryson was married to Miss Ruth Belden of Ross, Calif., in Reno, April 11.

Mr. Bryson is in the sales department of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco. The trip to Reno and return was made by plane.

TAKES AIR ROUTE TlO PORTLAND

Hugh M. Handley, sales manag'er, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently made a round trip journey by United Air Lines planes to Portland.

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Good And Bad Times

Bad times are good times for the of new ideas, improved methods and new When things are slack, opportunity is afforded of the brain, and the laboratory in the laboratory search department is put on its factory and the reBad times are also of everything per- good times to take a mental ta:.ning to one's business, to the lesson that experience should have taught, to take a look into the future as far as our too-limited W. R. Angell. intelligence will permit.but it dies in around campfires. It results from conditions strip off sqcial veneer and bring people together plane of elementary humanity.-Marjorie Barsto bir.

Sure He Was

Lawyer: "Before I take this case, Rastus, I want to know are you guilty or not guilty?"

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A flea and a fy in a flue

Were imprisoned; now what could they do?

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OF. SPRING

I know not whence the motif cameWho patterned plum bough, o'r the white, Frail valley bells; I only know They tell the highways of delight.

The throb of purple by the fence, The steely blur of iris bluesOh, feet of clay be proud to walk God's brave, enchanted avenues.

-Flossie Faith Sawings in Verse Craft.

Strephon kissed me Robin in the fall, the spring, But Colin only And kissed me all. in jest, Strephon's kiss was Rob,in's lost in , But the kiss in Haunts me n s eye and day.

-Sara Teasdale. to see what lies dimly/at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

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