Curtis Me:rryntan

Passe s

A wire from his sons informed The California Lumber Merchant of the death on Saturday, August 17th, of A. C. "Curtis" Merryman, Jr., of Altadena, California, Secretary and Advertising Manager for this journal since its in'ception. His death took place at his old home and the home of his mother in Marinette, Wisconsin. His mother visited him in Altadena last spring, and when she returned to her home he accompanied her. There he was taken suddenly ill, and died six weeks later. His wife, his children, his mother, and other members of his family were at his bedside. Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California Lumber Merchant and a life long friend of Mr. Merryman made a trip to Marinette and spent a week with him there just before his passing

Curtis Merryman was 56 years old. He was born in' Marinette. Twenty-seven years ago he married Miss Perlita Penberthy, of Menominee, Michigan. Mrs. Merryman is a sister of Art and Paul Penberthy, both well known Los Angeles lumbermen. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have' three children, Mrs. H. R. Rayner, of Long Beach, and twin sons Andrew and Frank Merryman, of Altadena, as well as one grandchild.

Mr. Merryman came from one of the oldest lumber families in America. His father, the late A. C. Merryman, was a member of the famous Hamilton & Merryman Lumber Company, of Marinette, which manufactured lumber on the Menominee River for two generations, was a nationally known.concern, and amassed a great.fortune for its owners. His mother, the present Mrs. A. C. Merryman, Sr., came from an old New England lumber family, her father and grandfather before her having operated sawmills in the New England states. The old family home where Curtis Merryman died is one of the most beautiful estates in Wisconsin, the grand big house ,centering a lovely plot of ground fronting on the Menominee River down which his father brought his logs for many years. It is worthy of note that his father, who lived in Marinette, died in California many years ago while on a visit to this state. The elder Merryman was a great believer in California, and invested a large fortune in this state in Redwood timber, and in Orange orchards. These properties have since been sold by the Merryman heirs. Curtis Merryman moved his home from Marinette to Pasadena seventeen years ago, and has been assgciated with Jack Dionne and J. E. Martin in The California Lumber Merchant since its in,ception in 1922.

Those who knew him will always remember the gentle, kindly, lovable character that was Curtis Merryman. Yet with all his gentleness he was as stout-hearted a man as ever lived. and he faced the call to cross the Last River with the same smiling courage with which he faced all the problems of life. The writer of this article knew him from earliest boyhood, and rejoices in the fact that so fine, so fair, and so lovable a man as Curtis Merryman knew him and called him friend through all those years. He was noble in living, and nobler in his dying, and he leaves to those who knew him the legacy of a heart that knew no guile, a nature that knew no bitterness, and a soul that was always helpful.

Well might California's poet George Sterling have been thinking of Curtis, when tre wrote:

A voi'ce is mute that had no word of hate, And one gone forth who will not come againA comrade true, a friend compassionate; Tender and brave. a soul without a stain.

Chain Store Tax Petition Filed

San Francisco, Aug. 14.-The first petition for a referendum on the State ,chain'store tax was filed today with C. C. Collins, Registrar of Voters for the city and county of San Francisco.

The petition, filed by J. Robinson, bore signatures of 33,000 San Francis,cans. To call the referendum, 116,487 signatures are necessary, foes of the measure said.

Paciftc Logging Congress

The twenty-sixth Pacific Logging Congress will be held at Vancouver, B. C., from October 23 to 26 inclusive. The annual banquet will be held on Friday evening, October 25, and a golf tournament is scheduled for Saturday, October 26.

FHA Loans in Southern California Continue to Incraase

30,000 modernization loans totaling $11,400,000 under Title I of the Federal Housing Act have been made in Southern California according to a report dated August 17 by the FHA offices at Los Angeles. The total modernization work done amounts to $57,000,000 estimated on a basis of $4.00 being spent for each $1.@ borrowed. The average loan was $370.

Under Title II of the Act, the report states applications received for new construction totaled $5,496,526, applications for existing construction amounted to $7,382,847, making a grand total of fiI2,879,373. Total commitments issued totaled fi9,453,547. The average loan under Title II was $4,122.

Enlarge Offices-lssue New Catalogue

California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, r'ecently issued a new ,catalogue to the trade showing illustrations of doors, cabinets and building specialties, and containing price lists. The new publication, attractively bound in leather, will be found very convenient by the dealers. The company has recently made alterations to their plant to accomrnodate a complete stock of plywood and wallboard. They have also enlarged and remodeled their offices, which are completely finished in Douglas Fir plywood.

California Builders Supply Company are distributors for

Timber-plywood and wallboard.

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Going Bond fior Contractors

In a recent Association bulletin, Kenneth Smith, Secretary of Lumber and Allied Products Institute, T,os Angeles, in discussing the question of "Going Bond For Contractors", says:

"This question has been raised a number of times lately, and we wish to call your attention to the fact that members are prohibited from going on bonds for ,contractors by Rule 5 on Page 1. We are surprised that this question keeps bobbing up because we thought that long since lumber dealers had learned that a quick way to go broke is to go on bonds for contractors. As a matter of fact, in these situations where any question has ariscn lately and we have made inquiry, we have ascertained that the real reason for the contractor asking the dealer to go on his bond or offering to give him the business if he would go on his bond, was that the bonding ,company would not rvrite him for the usual premium. Since the bonding companies are in that business, it seems rather sure that a lumber company would be paying a lot more for an order than it is worth to take a risk for the profit of one order that the bonding companies would not take for cash monev."

WILL DEVOTE HIS TIME TO THE, CHICKEN BUSINESS

Roy Winter, mill superintendent of the Weber Showcase & Fixture Co., Inc., Los Angeles, has resigned and will devote his time to running his poultry business. His large chicken ranch is located at Norco.

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Free Enterprise

Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast the spell of yesterday. Men are becoming increasingly aware that the strongest instrumentality of revival and reconstruction is the existing system of free enterprise.

-Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors.

Good Neighbors

I feel quite sure that there will be no perrnanent peace in this world by any other method than by a shifting in the arena of the human heart from the desire to fight, to the desire for neighborliness. The world has not the will to peace at the present hour-and until the world is ready for peace, America had better keep her defenses.

-Dr. Charles Durden.

Goose And Gander

frss: Wfren you called up my wfie /d,told her that I VftU be detained at the office and *{dnot be home until

Steno: She said, "Can I

Perfect Patients

A medical student was advised bY an doctor to specialize in skin diseases, because:

"The patients of a skin him i the middle of the night nor do they em at their homes. They don't country club, and send s to the to the fostadium. Finally, they never get skin ailment. They are also they ne die from a patients."

Limerick

There was a young fellow named Mbnn, Who wrote limericks that never would scan, He said I'll admit, My meter don't fit, (fast) But I always try to get as many words in the last lin+

(slowly) As I can.

Quit

Nothing will place of he determination of the youngster with the pair of shin new skates. Every effort to skate ended in a hard fall. was particularly slow at price in bruises of body learning and was paying a and Pride. Sympathetic watched the struggle' and finally someone said:

"Buddy, you're getting Why don't you quit for awhile, and watch the others

"Say !" said the boy, , "I didn't buy these skates to quit with-I 'em to learn with."

Counting The Cost

To make one little golden grain, Requires the sunshine and the 9 The hoarded richness 9f the qrdAnd God.

To form and tint one fragile flower, That blooms to bless one fleeting hour, Doth need the skies, the clouds aboveAnd love.

To rnake one life that's white and good, Fit for this human Srotherhood, Demands the toil of weary yearsAnd tears.

Cheaper To Stop

A Scot applied for a raise i PAY, boss that he was thinking of getting the raise.

A few days later he met

"I suppose you've se married life by this time," said the manager.

"I'm no married," replied

"Not married," said the ager in surprise. "Why we said you were thinking of gave you a rarse getting married."

"O, ayer" said the "but I stopped thinking."

72-Cent Rail Rate on Lumber Shipments to Atfantic Coast Ellective Aug. 24

The 7Z-cent freight rate on all rail shipments of lumber from the West Coast and Inland Empire regions to destinations in the Trurrk Line, Central Freight Association and New England territories was ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on August 19 to become effe,ctiv.e August 24. The new rate applies to all points east of the Illinois-Indiana State line and north of the Ohio River where freight rates have been from 821 to 9O cents a hundred pounds. The new rate is on lumber not further advanced in manufacture than preliminary milling.

The transcontinental railroads announced that the 72cent freight rate for destinations east of Chicago would go into effect June 10 for a trial period of a year but due to the protest of lumbermen in the other lumber producing regions and railroads serving them, also from water carriers, the Commission suspended the application of the 72cent freight rate on June 8 until January 10, 1936, and a hearing on the proposed freight rate reductions was, held by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago last June. The new ruling. by the Commission supersedes the suspension order.

Miss Ann Sherrill Baird

Miss Anne Sherrill Baird died at Paducah, Kentucky on August 2, 1935. She was a sister of the late James H. Baird of Nashville, Tenn. who was the editor of The Southern Lumberman and Supreme Scrivenoter of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo for many years. Miss Baird was a gifted writer and politi,cal ,commentator, for a long period writing a popular column for the Southern Lumberman under th€ title "What's going on in the W,orld." Old-time Hoo-Hoo members will recall with keen pleasure her column in the Hoo-Hoo Bulletin headed "Wayside N,otes." She contributed to other publications and wrote many fine articles for the daily "Nashville Banner."

This charming and ,cultured lady of the S,outh hacl of late years resided at Paducah with her sister, Mrs. Luke Russell, whose husband is a veteran retail Jumberman of that city.

Talks on Redwood Shingles

jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, talked on the subject of Redwood shingles to the members of the Redwood Empire Lumberrnen's Club at Santa Rosa, August 20. Mr. Farley is chairman of the shingle committee of the California Redwood Association.

Plays in Northwest Golf Tournament

W. G. Wright of the Wright Lumber Co., Stockton, has been vacationing in the Northwest. Mr. Wright, who is one of the leading golfers in the Valley, played in the golf tournament at Seaside, Oregon, and also visited the Oregon lumber mills.