Lumber Merger Made in Sacramento

The largest merger of lumber yards ever attempted on 'the Pacific Coast has been consumrnated at Sacramento with the organization of a $2,000,000 concern, headed by California and eastern capitalists, to take over the Sacramento l,umber company, pioneer local lumber dealers, and the Kewin lumber yards of Modesto.

Formal announcement of the gigantic lumber merger has been made by J. W. S. Butler, diiector of the corpolation, who stated plans of the company call for the amalgamatio_n of a large number of Pacific Coast lumber yards.

Headquarters of the new company, which will be known :as the United Lumber Yards, Incorporated, u,ill be located in Sacramento.

Start With Nine Yards

Included in the gigantic merger are the eight ,yar{s of 'the Kewin Lumber company of Modesto, located through'out the San Joaquin Valley, and the Sacramento Lumber companl, giving the new organization a, nucleus of nine yards to start rvith.

No change in the personnel of the local organization is planned, according to Mr. Butler. Lawrence Chapman, manager and part owner of the Sacramento Lumber company, w_ill rgmain as executive of the concern. J. C. Butler, son.of J. W. S. Butler will be assistant manager.

The company was recently organized undei the laws of Delaware and copies of the articles of incorporation have ,been filed with Frank C. Iordan. secretarv of state.

Directors of the new oiganization are:'J. W. S. Butler,

Sacramento; E. C. Peck, vice president of the United Bank and Trust. Co-mpany, Sacramento; George H. Thompson, Yinneapolis, fo-rmer prominent lumber iran of that City j E. H. Kewin of Modesto, organizer of the Kewin Lumblr yards, and C. B. Hagge, Fullerton.

Burlingame Building Permits For 1925 Pass Million Mark

O_n T.hursday, May-21, the issuance of building permits in Burlingame for 1925 passed the mark of .$1,000,000, according to the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce. This is ?l^Tgst _40 per cent of the total for the same period in 1924. This speaks rvell for the rate of growth in Burlingame,-for th-e building permits during the year l9Z4 totaled only $2,500,000. All-p-eninsula citiei are growing propor- tionally, but Burlingame leads with the highestlotal. A table of figures follows:

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His Mark

The Chinese as a race is not given to flattery. A gentleman called at a Chinese laundry for his clothes. On receiving the package he noticed some Chinese marks upon the bundle. Pointing to them he said to the Chinaman:

"My name, I suppose, in Chinese?" ', "No name. Scliption," replied the Chinaman; "say 'Lil ol' man, closs-eyed, no teet'."

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Couldn't Notice It

The faddist, with the boundless enthusiasm of his kind, was haranguing the crowd on the benefits to be derived from a certain system of eating and dieting.

"Friends" he cried, swelling visibly and clapping his chest, "two years ago I was a walking skeleton, a haggard, miserable wreck. What do you suppose brought about this great change in me?"

He paused to see the effect of his words. Then a voice arose from the crowd:

"Wot change?"

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The Man Who Didn't Succeed

They sing of the men who build the mills, And girdle the earth with steel; Who fill the hour, and wield the power, That molds the public weal. Honor to them that in honor do The work the world must need. And yet in chief, I hold a brief, For the man who didn't succeed.

His house is small, his table light, His family must endure, The snubs and sneers of the buccaneers, Whose debts fall on the poor. Yet his is a home, and no hotel, His wife, is a wife indeed, There's nothing above, his children's love, To the man who didh't succeed.

Admitting it's true that he did not make The most of his talents ten, He won no pelf nor raised himself, At the cost of his fellow men. His hands are clean, his heart is white. His honor has been his creedNow who are we to say that he Is the man who didn't succeed?

-James Reed.

Pure Food?

Dr. Wiley, when he was making his famous campaign for pure food laws, used to tell the following story:

"Four flies, which had forced their entrance into a pantry, were bent on having a feast.

"One few to the flour barrel and ate heartily, but soon died, for the four was. loaded with plaster of Paris.

"The second perched himself on the sugar can; but he fared no better for the sugar was tinctured with white lead.

"The third decided to sample the syrup, which stood temptingly near; but his legs were soon raised toward the ceiling, for the syrup was colored with aniline dyes.

"The fourth and only surviving one. had been hovering around different receptacles, unable to decided which to choose. But when he saw his three friends lying dead, he was so overcome with grief that he deliberately few to the fly poison, and drank deeply, for he wanted to die. But he is living yet, for the poison was also adulterated."

Unanswered Prayer

"Grandma," said little Olive, "every night before I go to bed I pray to God to make brother Fred a good boy."

"That's fine" said Grandmother.

"But ffe ain't done it yet," remarked Olive. ***

Tree Conundrums

What tree its old age sadly cries? Elder. And from what tall one comes low sighs? Pine. Which bears the mark of a smouldering fire? Ash. And which to chastise yoh takes your sire? Birch. Which one do you carry about in your hand? Palm. And which one tall and slim doth stand? Poplar. Which one bears fruit so golden and round? Orange, And which one hears the sea's deep sound? Beech. Come, tell me, which is a stale joke? Chestnut. And which from a stale acorn awoke? Oak. Which tree is cloth and fuel in one? Cottonwood. And from which does sweet fluid run? Maple.