MY FAVORITE STORIE,S

By Jack Dionne

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

No Indeed, He Wasn't Too Proud

He was a little, old Texas nigger who operated a small cotton plantation of leased land, and there was something about theway he walked into the general store in the nearby town that spelled anything but enthusiasm and progperity. The white man who ran the store knew him well, and came to greet him with a cheery grin.

"'Well, Uncle Mose", he said, "how are things with you?" "Dey ain't so good Mistah John", replied the colored man, and he shook his head rather despondently.

W. B. WICKERSHAM ON NORTH\VESTER{N TRIP

W. B. Wickersham, Los Angeles, manager of the industrial department for the Southern California District of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., left on Jaly D for the Northwest on his annual vacation. He plans to visit the company's creosoting plant and mill at St. Helens and also visit the company's mills at Port Gamble ahd Port Ludlow. He is making the trip north by- machine but will returnbytrain, shipping his machine south on one of the company's steamers. He is accompanied by Mrs. Wickersham and their young son on the trip. He will return to his desk on August 15.

"What's the trouble?" asked the storekeeper.

'Well, Mistah John, you know yeah befo last de droutlr got Mah cotton, an Ah didn't git ha'dly no crop. Las yeah Ah made plenty cotton, but Ahdidn'tgit no money fo it, de price was so low. Ah sure am pore, Mistah John, and if things don't begin breakin mah way mighty soon, Ah'm goin'to have to sta't preachin'. Ah done it befo, an Ah' ain't a bit too good to do it again".

National Retail Convention Delegatds Will Visit Longview

Four special trains of delegates to the National Retail Lumbermen's Association convention. to be held in Tacoma the week of August 22, will stop in Longview to view the world's largest luntber millsin operation there.

The Northwest Lumbermen's Association group from St. Paul and Minneapolis will arrive August 20. The Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers' Association and Northeastern Lumbermen's Association groups will arrive Augast 22, and the 'New Jersey delegates will visit Longview on August 27, after the convention.