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A' Fair Proposition

An old Southern gentleman had an old colored servitor, and they were very much attached to each other, and often sat at the side of the farm house under a Post-oak tree, and talked endlessly about many things. One dajr they got to talking about death, and the life to comg and both expressed the deepest ouriosity as to what they might expect on the other side of the Last River. Finally the old gentleman said:

Club Makes Annual Sierra Trip I

That group of lumbermen known as the Soracity Club V around the San Francisco Bay district re,cently made their annual trip to the High Sierra. Leaving at noon on September 4 the party spent the first night at Aspen Valley Lodge, and early Saturday morning they packed in {rom Harden Lake into the Tuolomne Gorge, where they spent three days. If any lumberman wants to know about the Rainbow trout fishing he can find out from C. I. Gilbert.

From there the party went to Rogers Lake, Neal Lake, and other lakes in the High Sierras, betrveen 11,000 and 12,000 feet up, spending three days there. All report having a splendid time, and pr,omise to keep up their 100 per cent attendance record next year. Tihey arrived home September 12.

Member's of the group are: Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; Jerry Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & I,umber Co., Oakland; Larue Woodson, Wheeler-Osgo,od Sales Corp., San Francisco; Eddie Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Fran,cisco, and Earle Tohnson. Watsonville.

"IJncle Mose, let's you and I make a deal, and promise to keep it. If I die first, I promise that I'll come back and tell you what's on the other side, and if you die first you promise to come back and tell me. What do you say?"

"Suits me fine, Boss," the old gray-haired servitor said. "Hit suits me fine. But lemme ax you jus' one favah, will you, Massa? What Ah wants to ax you is dis! If'n you happens to die fust, WOULD YOU MIND COMIN' BACK IN DE DAY TIME?''

Form California Division

Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, who recently spent a week in Portland conferring with Mark D. Campbell and Frank Moore, prin,cipals of Campbell-M,oore Lumber Co., announces the formation of a California Division of the company, of which he is manager and J. H. "Jerry" Stutz is secretary.

The office of the Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., California Division, is at 112 Market Street, San Francisco.

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TRANSFER,RED TO LOS ANGELES

t C. B. McElroy, comptroller of E. K. Wood Lumber Company, has been transferred from the San Francis,co office to the Los Angeles office.

Mr. McElroy has been with the company for about 25 years. He is a licensed attorney-at-1aw.

Spend Vacation At Tahoe

Floyd Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Fran,cis'co, and his family recentlv spent a week at Lake Tahoe.

The Sampson Company Enjoying \Tonderful Business Season

Right in the midst of the early part of the depression "Bill" Sampson left Hipolito Company, went over to Pasadena and rented a vacant factory building and started manufacturing screell doors and lvindows. He orrly needed a small corner of the room he rented.

Today he has between thirty and forty men working at high speed turning out Sampson products, and his business today is growing so continually that in spite of the fact that they have taken advantage of every inch of floor space of the big building they occupy, they have had to build an adjoining plant for one of their products-ironing boards. Just goes to show that some folks can climb the hill in spite of conditions.

Today their plant is working at top speed to filI orders, with little time for running stock stuff. The plant is equipped with the most modern machinery, even to,a nailing machine which obiviates the danger of hammer marks on their products, and their products are quality products in every sense of the word. They use only Sugar Pine for their doors and windows, use only brass tacks and nails, and when "Bill" Sampson says "Sampson Quality"-fig means something. They make a specialty of Sivon Ironing Boards that work on a swivel. as well as a line of standard ironing boards. And his list of wonderful Southern California homes in which Sampson products have been installed reads like a roster of the rich and great in this part of the world.

State Retailers to Meet October 22-23

The annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Hotel Del Monte on the Monterey Peninsula, October 22 and 23, 1936. J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, is chairman of the Convention Committee.

Back From Business Trip

Fred Johnsen, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from a business trip to the Northwest. He leports that W. P. Fuller & Co. are now distributors in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland for their well known Hollvwood combination screen door.

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