Purely Personal

Gus Hoover Returns From Trip

Mr. A. L. (Gus) [Ioover, Los Angeles representative for the Wendling Nathan Company, and the Pacific Lumber Company, has returned from a pleasant tw'o weeks stay at Huntington Lake. Mr. Hoover joined his family who had been spending the summer at this resort.

J. C. O\VENS ON NORTHERN TRrP

Mt. J. C. Owens, General Manager of the Owens Parks Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, is spendirrg several weeks among the mills in Washington and Oregon.

B. \,t/. BOOKSTAVER RETURNS FROM HONEYMOON TRIP

Mr. Rushnell W. Bookstaver, Los Angeles m'anager for the McCullough Fagan Company, has returned to Los Angeles, after a months honeymoon trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Bookstaver, toured through California, Oregon and Washington, and made 'a trip irrto 'British Columbia by train.

Ted Lawrence Completes Long Motor Trip

Mr. Ted Lawrence, Los Angeles manager for the HartWood Lumber Company, h'as returned from a four thousand mile automobile trip, that consumed a month.

Accompanied by Mrs. Lawrence, the trip c-arried them through all the important lumber centers of the northwest, here Mr. Lawren'ce stopped at various point-s to make an inspection of the mills operated by the HartWood Lumber Companys connections.

They spent several days at Toledo, going through the mills of the Pacific Spruce Corporation, this company being represented in C"lifd.nt" ifjElart-Wood Company.

R. D. ATKINSON MAKES CONNECTION WITH HART-WOOD

Mr. R. D. Atkinson, youngest son'of Mr. Chas G. Atkinson, of Chas G. Atkinson & Sons, Portland, has loined the sales for'ce of the H'art-Wood Lumber Company, in Los Angeles.

BEN S. WOODHEAD VISITS CALIFORNIA

Ben S. Woodhead, of Beaumont, Texas, has been a recent visitor in 'both San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the latter city he visited for a week with his brother David Woodhead, of the Woodhead Lumber Co. Ben \Voodhead is one of the original members and a large stockholder in the Woodhead Lumber Company.

He is President and head of the Beaumont Lumber Company, of Beaumont, Texas, one of the biggesq and best known yellow pine wholesale firms in the entire South, and Ben is a character known personally to worlds of lumbermen from ocean to ocean. He w'as President of the American Wholesale Lumber Association last year, and a prime mover in wholesale lumber affairs.

Mr. Woodhead speaker, and one of famous orator, and after-dinner well worth knowing. isa those

'IM. SOWARDS VrSrrS CALIFORNTA

Mr. J. M. Sowards, general manager of The Long Bell Lumber Company's operations in Arkansas, was a recent visitor in California.

Mr. Sowards spent two weeks in Los Angeles, and was shown the sights by Mr. Clint Laughlin, L<-rs Angeles rnanager for the Long Bell Company.

wHrrMER JACKSON EXECUTTVE VrSrrS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Mr. J. C. Stutz, general superintendent of all the Whitmer Jackson plants spent a few days in Los Angeles last week, on his way north on a vacation trip.

Mr. Stutz is combining a pleasure and'business trip that will extend for some time. He was joined at Los Angeles by Mrs. Stutz who will accompany him to Seattle. -The Whitmer Jackson Company, at Albuquerque, New Mexi,co, is gathering data and information, intending to accomplish changes in their workings that will enable them to produce windows and doors, as perfect in all details as i[ is possible to manufacture.

While in Los Angeles, Mr. Stutz visited with Mr. Mark Lillard who represents the Whitmer Jackson in Southern California.