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Bv Jack Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some less

Not Preachers Evidendy

Under the will that financed it originally, no clergyman was ever altrowed within the doors of Girard College. One day Horace Greeley sought to enter. The doorman looked over his serious face and his clerical garb, and decided he was a clergyman. He said:

"Sir, you can't come in here."

Greeley said, "The hell I can't."

The doorkeeper stepped back. "Come right in," he said.

It is related that at a recent luncheon of business charac-

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NOTICE .

For the beneflt of the readers of this paper, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding

HIITIJ & MORTON, Inc.

OaLland, Calif.

are the sales representatives for Northern California of Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Wendling and Springfield, Oregon

Combination Boat And Auto Trip

Frank G. Duttle, president of the Sterling Lumber Company, Oakland, r,vith his wife and two daughters sailed for Vancouver, B. C. from San Francisco, July 9, on a two weeks'vacation trip. Mr. Duttle shipped his car on the boat and will visit Victoria, Seattle, Portland and other Northwest points on the way back.

ter, the chairman missed the preacher who usually said grace, so, noticing a hatchet-faced man wearing a dark suit and a black string tie in the crowd, he addressed himself to the other and asked if he wouldn't please say grace. The preacher-looking guy saw he was being addressed, cupped his ear in his hand and apparently tried hard to understand, and then answered:

"Sorry, pal; I can see you're talking to me, but I'm so damned deaf I can't tell what the hell you're saying." So the chairman let them start eating'without a preliminary prayer.

Lumberman Flies New Plane

George W. Gorman, general manager, Trans-Pacific Lumber Co., Port Orford, Ore., and Marc de Bruin, San Francisco manager ,of Gorman Lumber Co., flew to Los Angeles and San Diego lrne D in George's new plane. They left Alameda at 8:00 a.m. and arrived at San Diego at 11:30 a.m., flying back to Los Angeles the same evening. They spent two days in Los Angeles calling on the trade with Arthur Tr.vohy of Twohy Lumber Co., representative of Gorman Lumber Co., and flew back to San Francisco on the evening of July 1, making an after dark flight and arriving at Alameda at 11 :30 p.m.

The new plane is a Stimson 4-place cabin job with a cruising speed of about 130 miles an hour.

Back From Honolulu Trip

George A. tUlett, general manager of Smith Wood-Products, In,c., Coquille,rOre., returned July 3 from a vacation trip to Honolulu. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ulett.