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ByJackDionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

Better Than Fire

Mandy Brown, colored member of his congregation, had been complaining bitterly to Parson Brown, the leader of the local flock of colored followers of the Lord's Navy, of the way her husband had been treatingher,and the preacher had exhausted hiswits making suggestions for straightening out their matrimonial tangle. Nothing he

Wins Log-Rolling

could suggest seemed to appeal to Mandy as a sovereign cure for her tearful situation, until finally the preacher said:

"Mandy, has you tried heapin' coals of fiah on his haid?"

"Nossuh", said Mandy, thoughtfully; "nossuh, Ah ain't tried no coals of fiah, but one night when dis nigguh gits pitticklilly ha'd wid me, Ah gits mighty fine results wid a kittle of boilin' wateh".

David H. Merrill Appointed to Championship Succeed J. E. Mackie

Al Bergerson,Z4-year-old Cloquet River driver, diminurtive in stature, but very nimble, rvon the world's log-rolling lchampionship at Pinehurst Lake, Minn., on July 4.

He won the championship only after the hardest competition, taking part in nine matches and winning all but one, losing one fall in the finals to Wilbur Marx, 18 years old, Eau Claire, Wis., the mid-West champion.

David H. Merrill, formerly with the Los Angeles, building department, and until recently practicing as a consulting engineer at Los Angeles, has been appointed secretary of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, succeeding J. E. Mackie who resigned.

The new secretary started work July l. Headquarters remain as before at 1101 Heartwell Building, Long Beach.

6 Steatvt Dry Kilns

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Modern builders and industrial oDerators want their hordwoods "Just, right". Our kilns and skilled ottendonts firrnisb perfectly seasoned wood3, without hazard or variotion.

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