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Vacation Season
Harold Plummer Returns East
Harold Plummer, Vice President and Chicago Sales Representative of the Union Lumber Company, has returned to his eastern location after several weeks in California.
W. E. CLINE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
W. E. Cline, for years in charge of the sale of creosoted materials for Chas. R. McCormick and now with the Union Lumber Company, has returned to his home in San Francisco after a vacation spent in Southern California.
Hawk Huey Spends Vacation In California
Hawk Huey of Phoenix, Arizona, the well known lumber distributor of that territory, has returned home after spending several weeks' vacation on the California coast, ranging all the way from San Francisco to San Diego. Mrs. Huey accompanied him.
He reports that crop and business conditions in the whole state of Arizona are extra fine, and that they have a great fall and winter ahead, from present indications.
L. H. ELLIOTT
L. H. Elliott and family, of Lodi, spent their very happily at Tuolumne Meadows, California. liott is one of the popular managers for the Valley Company.
The Meissners At Yosemite
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Mr. and Mrs. George Meissner. of the Valley Lumber Company, Lodi, spent their summer vacation in Yosemite.
Bromley In Northwest
H. W. Bromley of the Marin Lumber & Supply Company. Sausalito, recently returned from a motor trip through the Pacific Northwest, accompanied by his family. He visited some of the big sawmill towns of the North, including Longview, Wash.
F. N. DANIELS VISITS CALIFORNIA
Frank N. Daniels, of Kansas City, Mo., President of the Dascomb-Daniels Lumber Company, was a recent summer tourist in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The DascombDaniels Lumber Company is a veteran line yard concern with retail lumber yards in Missouri and Kansas.
MR. AND MRS. GUS RUSSELL ON VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, left on one of the Dollar Line steamers on August 16th, for the farnorth for a keen vacation. They shipped their car on the boat with them, and will drive north from Vancouver into the Land of the Midnight Sun, returning in the early part of September, also by boat.
P. A. DAME OF CREO.DIPT COMPANY VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
P. A. Dame of Kansas City, Western Sales Manager for the Creo-Dipt Company, famous mbrchants of stained wooden shingles, is a visitorin Southern California at the present time. ITe came to see if more stained shingles cannot be sold in this territory, and how. Mr. Dame is a very, very live and popular shingle man.
JOSEPH BROWN CATCHES 21-rNCH RAINBOW TROUT
Joseph Brown, Vice President of the Los Angeles Paper Minufacturing Company, returned this week from a two weeks' vacation at Seattle and Edmonds, Washington; Victoria, British Columbia and the Northwest. Several days were spent fishing and bathing in the waters of Puget Sound ind tributaiy streams, where he acquired a-fine coat ofsunburn. In a'little stream 60 miles north of Seattle, near Everett, Mr. Brown pulled out a 2l-inch rainbow trbut, after a struggle of two hours with rod and reel and a severe wetting. The latter part of the vacation was spent at Catalina. Mr. Brown was accompanied by W. D. Jlcks, City Salesman of the company.
Robert Cameron Back From Europe
Robert Cameron, secretarv-manager of Marin County Lumbermen's Association, returned to San Francisco, Ausust 12, from a three months' trip toEurope. He was acdompanied by his wife and'baby on the trip, and visited his fathir and mother in London, England, also finding time to do a lot of sight-seeing on the Continent' Mr. Cameron-visited i number of retail lumber yards in England; and was very much interested in their methods of handling and selling lumber. In one large yard in Liverpool he c6unted ovei5o sqecies,_some of these-bei19 woodi he had never heard of before. Ffe estimates that 95 percent of the wood imported into Great Britain is brought in in the form of squares, and manufactured there.