State Association Directors Entertain San Francisco Retail Dealers

Directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held a breakfast meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 16.

Directors present were: Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; Earl E. White, Little River Redwood Co., Madera; Elmer Ellis, Palo Alto Lumber Co., Palo Alto; E. T. Robie, vice-president of .Northern District, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; Chas. Curran, Curran Bros., Inc., Pomona; Walter S. Spicer, Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana; F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; M. A. Harfis, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco; Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico; Jo Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; C. H. Griffin, Jr., Ilomer T. Eiayward Lumber Co., Santa Cruz; A. J. Stoner, Sitwtelle Lumber Co., Sawtelle, Vice-president Southern District; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., President, and Dee Essley, Field Manager.

Also present were Frank Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Co., Inc., Anaheim; Robert Cameron, manager, Marin County Lumber Dealers' Association; Paul E. Overend, field representative, Northern District; M. D. Bishop, secretary, Coast Counties Lumbermen's Association; E. Steffenson, Secretary, Orange County Lumber Club; Ed Larson, _p9"{u- tary,-San Joie Lurnb6rmen's Association, and Ed Galpin, Secretary, Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Palo Alto.

At noon the directors were hosts to the retail lumber dealers of San Francisco. President Harry Lake presided at both breakfast and noon meetings.

O. E. CHASE ON VACATION

O. E. Chase, Chase's Lumber Yard, Pacific Grove, is spending two weeks' vacation in Oakland.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, told of the desire on the part of lumber manufacturers to cooperate with the retail lumber dealer in the promotion of the use of lumber, and spoke on the trend towards better merchandising methods in the lumber industry.

Harry A. Lake talked on the benefits to be obtained by retail lumbermen through cooperation, and told some of the tllings that had been accomplished by the State Association, referring to the rapid increase in' membership which has taken place since the first of the year.

Those who attended the noon meeting in addition to the directors and others already mentioned were as follows:

L. A. Brown, Cfrristenson Lumber Co.; C. W. Brennan, Northwestern Miltual Fire Association; A. C. Horner, National Lbr. Mnfrs. Association, J. H. Kruse; E. R. Sudden, Sudden Lumber Co.; Ed. T. Peterson, Sudden Lumber Co.; H. S. Thomson; D. P. Munthe, Pope & Talbot; H. A. Howes, Howes Lumber Co.; H.. O. Getchell, San Francisco Lumber Co.; Reginald Smith, Smith Lumber Co. of San Francisco; Henry W. Bode, Spring Valley Lumber Yard; E. D. Swift and E,. L. Swift, Swift & Co.; H. H. Smith, Daly City; J. S. Goldstein, Greater City Lumber Co. ; A. L. Stockton, A. L. Stockton Lumber Co.; William Chatham, Loop Lumber Co.; W. B. Jefferson, Greater City Lumber Co.; J. H. McCallum, and F. Dettman, Pope & Talbot. all of San Francisco.

Ernest Doe, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; Geo. M. Cornwall, The Timberman, Portland, and C. L. Mullen, Pacific Logging Congress, Sausalito.

Oscar Miller Visits Bay

Oscar Miller, of the Knox Lumber Company, Sacramento. was a recent business visitor to the San Francisco Bay district.