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Curtis \(/orkers Enioy River Excursion

For 75 years Curtis Woodwork has been made on the banks of the Mississippi River, at Clinton, fowa, so it was only to be expected that "Ol' Man River" would play a part in one of the events scheduled by the Company to help employees commemorate the 75th year of the founding of the Curtis business.

One of the river's largest and finest excursion boatsthe steamer "Capitol"-1vas chartered by Curtis Companies Incorporated for afternoon and evening trips on June t?. Each ride was a four-hour trip on the picturesque Mississippi. Nearly 2000 persons enjoyed the boat rides. The afternoon trip was for women and children, and was also enjoyed by some of the pensioners of the Cornpany. The evening trip was for men, wives, and sweethearts, and few could resist the "hot" music of the steamer's colored orchestra, one of the best on the river.

Curtis is now employing the largest force in their history. Of the present Clinton organization, more than 300 employees have been with the firm 20 years or more and of this number 43 men have been in the organization over 40 years.

Curtis has turned out a large number of defense orders and more are in production. But woodwork and war were completely forgotten to enjoy this 75th Anniversary boat ride on the river that played a large part in the founding of the Curtis institution, in 1866. Then the Mississippi rvas one of the country's main arteries of transportation and Clinton, Iowa was widely known for its many large saw mills-logs being floated down the river from the timber districts. It was this availability of lumber which led the original Curtis Brothers, founders of the business, to start a rvoodwork business-then known as a "sash and door" house. Today Curtis Woodwork is sold throughout the United States and in Canada and Alaska.

Called On The Mills

Henry \Minfree, of Modesto, Calif., Valley representative for Seth L. Butler of Dant & Russell, Inc., recently made a trip to the Portland office and spent a week calling on the mills.