Browning Changes Company

H. A. Browning, Los Angeles wholesaler and distributor of all kinds of forest products has changed the name of his operations to the H. A. Browning Lumber Company.

He is now located in the nerv offices at 107 East Washington Street, where they have added considerably to their force.

Mr. Browning heads the organization, with Harry Giles, Frank Long, A. W. Danielson, O. H. Ball and Miss Smith assisting him in their operations.

The H. A. Browning Lumber Company specializes in all kinds of hardwoods, domestic and imported, and they claim the ability to obtain stocks of the seldom used varieties of foreign woods that are not usually carried on. hand. In addition, they handle fir, redwood,'shook, creosoted poles and piling, and shingles.

DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR LUMBER YARD?

Will buy in good town in Southern California or Central California. Address Box "S", care California Lumber Merchant.

TYNAN LUMBER COMPANY TO OPEN OAKLAND YARD

The Tynan Lumber Company of Salinas will establish offices and yards on East Fourteenth Street Oakland. The announcement has been made by L. M. Tvnan, manager of the Salinas yard.

R. F. HAMILTON RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

,.owN youR HoME" EXPOSITTON SUCCESSFUL AT NEW YORK

Crowded to the last hour, the Sixth Annual ..Own your Home" Expositi_on .19..-d on April Z6th in the 69th Regi_ men_t Armory, New York City, with a record breakine it_ tendance in spite of three days of extremely bad weaTher.

. Curiously, the Chicag_o_ Anlual ,.One your Home" Expo- sition that precedes the New York Show by a month, suffer_ ed continuous rain, sleet and snorv throughout the week and yet attracted more people than had ever ciowded the Colise_ um during the history of the building. In New york City, al, tlgugl definite figu_res on the attendance are not yet avail_ able, the total number of visitors will far exceed those re_ ported for any previous Exposition and on Wednesday night rvhen the pe.a.[ was reiched this year, veteran foilowers. of Armory Shorvs estimated that over 15,000 people Dacked the aisles.

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R. F. Hamilton, Western Sales Manager of the pacific Lurnber Company, San Francisco, has returned from a month's business tripto the Atlantic Coast. While in the east, Mr. Hamilton made a survey of lumber conditions in the eastern markets and was also a visitor at the comDanv's Chicago and Nerv York offices.

REA SHAW NOYy\/ A PROUD DADDY catfish, which into the boat. know am dis:

Rea Shaw, of Chas. R. McCormick & Co., San Francisco. is the recipient of many congratulations from his lumbermen friends due to the arrival of a fine seven pound baby b-oy 1t the St. Francis Hospital on May 24. -He reportl that both Mrs. Show and baby are doing nicely.

4 g.g..o went fishing. He hooked a big pulled him overboard. As he crawled bacl he said, philosophically: "What Ah wants to am dis niggah fishin' or dat fish niggerin'?"