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COOS BAY LUMBER CO.
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Manufacturen of Doughr Fir and Port Orford Gdar
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Dirhibuting Plant - Bay Point
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2,OOO BUYERS TO ASSEMBLE IN LOS ANGELES
The nation's greatest buyers of lumber will be on the ground personally, in most instances, when the Eleventh Annual Convention of the National Association of Purchasing Agents opens in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel, June 9.
Billions of dollars worth of buying polver in all lines will be represent._4-"! the big convinti6n, which is expected, according to W. W. Storey, general convention chiirman, to be the greatest assemblage of buyers the commercial world has ever known.
The purchasing agents who will attend the convehtion hail from all sections of the country and represent nearly every type of purchasing power known to the commercial world. They are in the market for hearly every kind of rnerchandise.
It is estimated that nearly 2000 buyers will attend the convention. Of this number, more than 1500 will be from the East and Northeast and the remainder will be local men.
Herbert Hoover, secretary of the United States Departmeht of Commerce, and one of the most noted men in American business life, has promised to lead the list of distinguished speakers. "Informashow," a big mercantile exposition, will be conducted. in connection with the convention.
VON BOECKLIN DIES IN TACOMA
, August Von Boecklin, president of the Washingtoh Door !_o., the Washington Manufacturing Co. and the ManleyMoore Lumber Co., of Tacoma, Wash., died suddenly in that city May 8th. Mr. Von Boecklin had lived in Tacoma since 1887, and was a popular member of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club.
J. H. BAXTER & CO.
WHOI.ESAI.E LUMBER
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(QUALITY" Oak Floring
'Maratho,n" Maple Flooring
Hardwood Lumber
ROLLINS A. BROI\|N
Dircct Mill Rcpracatrtivc 6fi6 Carloc Ave. - GRanite 3642