MY FAVORITE STORIES

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 20 years-Some less

The best ignorant scholar story of the season comes from, a school teacher in Coolidge Redwood Park in Northern California.

On the day school opened a little fellow started school for the first time. When asked his name, he stated that his first narne was Gooey. He didn't know how to spell it. So Gooey he remained for several weeks. Then, one day, the school teacher met the mother of this little boy, and when opportunity arose she said:

"'What an unusual name you gave your little boy. Is

A. R. MOYLAN AND EARL GALBRAITH CALL ON NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DEALERS

A. R. Moylan, general manager, and Earl Galbraith, sales manager, of the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles, have returned from a trip through Northern California where they called on the retail lumber trade. Mr. Galbraith reports that the fruit and grain crops in that section are in excellent shape, and due to the good crops. the lumber trade is optimistic towards future business.

SECOND T932 TRI-ANNUAL MEETING

The second 1932 tri-annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers will be held at the Sir Fran,cis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, -on June 23 and 24, 1932. At the last general meeting of.'t!e Pacific Coast Division it was decided to hold the meeting. on these dates at Los Angeles but the Executive Comrnittee'has recently announ,ced that the rneeting place has been ,changed to San Francisco. All rvooden box manufacturers are urged to attend the meeting.

Gooey really his name?"

"Yes, trnam," said the mother. "Yoq see I was reading a qovel a short time before he was born, and that wis the name of the hero of the story, and I liked it so much I gave that name to my baby."

"\Mhat !" exclaimed the school teacher. "The hero of the book was named Gooey?"

"Sure!" said the mother.

"How was it spelled?" asked the teacher.

"G-If-Y", answered the backwoods mother.

W. E. COOPER VISITS CALIFORNIA

W. E. Cooper, Caddo River Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo., is a California visitor and calling on his lumbermen friends in the Los Angeles and San Francisco districts. The Caddo River Lumber Co. operate mills at Rosboro, Glenwood and Forester, Arkansas.

WILLIAM L. RICHARDSON

William L. Richardson, well known Southern California lumberman, died at San Diego on May 7, 1932. He was born June 14, 1865. He had been co.nnected with the lumber business in San Diego for over thirty years, twenty years of which he was with the Chas. R. M'cCormick Lumber Co. yard there. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.

H. P. PLUMMER VISITS LOS ANGELES

H. P. Plummer, San Francisco, general sales manager of the Union Lumber Company, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days calling on the trade. He made his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.