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Parson Simpkin Reunion Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Forest Lumber Co. Mill and Town

Announcement is made by Chas. G. Bird of Stockton, chairman of the Parson Simpkin Memorial Association, that the ninth annual reunion of lumbermen at the Parson Peter A. Simpkin Sequoia Memorial in Calaveras State Park will be held on Sunday, October I, at 2:ffi p.m. The gathering is sponsored this year by Central Valley HooHoo Club No. 62 of Stockton.

Dr. Tully Knoles, president of the College of Pacific, Stockton, will be speaker of the day, and special vocal and instrumental music will be provided.

On Saturday, September 30, there will be a dinner at the Big Trees llotel, adjoining the grove, at 5:3O p.m. This will be followed by a gathering at a campfire with community singing and entertainment sponsored by East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39. Jas. B. Overcast will be in charge of this meeting.

All California lumbermen, their wives. families and friends are cordially invited.

Reservations should be made with Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Company, Eldorado and Jackson Streets, Stockton. The cost is $4.00 per person, which includes room, dinner on Saturday evening and breakfast and luncheon on Sunday. Accommodations have been doubled since last year. Picnic accommodations will be furnished free for those coming on Sunday and bringing their own lunch, or they may eat at the hotel.

Destroyed by Fire

Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the torvn of Pine Ridge, Ore., 35 miles north of Klamath Falls, August 19, leaving about 600 persons homeless.

TlTe fire burned the mill of the Forest Lumber Company, the box factory, lumber sheds, planing mill and several million feet of lumber, a store, the company owned hotel, office building and homes. Altogether about 20O buildings were burned. The loss was estimated at betrveen one and two million dollars.

Raymond B. White, of Kansas City, Mo., is president of the Forest Lumber Company. This mill is represented exclusively in Southern California by W. E. Cooper, wholesale lumber dealer, Los Angeles.

Climb Mount Shasta

Roy E. Hills, Jr., son of Roy E. Hills, Sr., of WendlingNathan Co., San Francisco, and Jack Sayre, son of W. R. Sayre of the W. R. Sayre Lumber Co., San Francisco, with five other young'men climbed Mount Shasta on the afternoon of August 12.'Ihe party started in the afternoon and left the timber line at midnight, arriving at the 14,000 foot summit at 8:30 a.m.

All members of the party are working at the mill of McCloud River Lumber Company at McCloud. Roy E. Hills, Jr. is attending Stanford. This is the second vacation he has worked at McCloud.