MY FAVORITE, STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

And Enjoy Doing It, Too

Pat came over to this country and landed in New York, and he wasn't long in getting a good job. His big muscles and willingness to work made him a very desirable man for a big house wrecking company, and Pat was put on the payroll regularly.

They could have saved money for a while on Pat had

CALIFORNIA RET^A,IL LUMBERMEN'SASSOCIATION CONVENTION

October 21-22-23, 1926.

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F.'W. S. Locke to Leave for East

F. W. S. Locke, well knolvn San Francisco lumberman and for the past two years and a half manager of the San Francisco office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., resigned on September 30 and plans to leave for the east in \he near futule where he u'ill locate in New York City as the representative of Pacific Coast lumber interests.

Mr. Locke has an interesting lumber career and has been associated with the lumber business on the Pacific Coast for many years, dating back to 1906. During the year 1908, ire represented a chain of Pacific Coast mills in Tngland. In 1909 he was located at Mobile, Alabama, where he spent four years in charge of the export business of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Co., and in 1913 he was back on the Coast again as manager of their Seattle office. From 1915 to 1919, he was a major in the English army during the World War. He returned to the United States in 1919, but later in the year he returned to London as the representative of the France & Kennedy S.S. Co., rvhere he spent four years looking after the foreign interests of their trading departrnent. In 1923 he returned to the Pacific Coast again and became associated rvith the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., they known his state of mind, for he wrote home to the folks on the Ould Sod and said: later opening their San l-rancisco office where he had charge of their export and fir business in California.

"Sure it's one gran' jobf'm afther havin' over here. They're payin' me four dollars a day to tear down a Protestant Church, an' if they only knew it I'd tear it down fer nothin'."

He has followed the lumber business all his life, getting his first experiences rvith his father, rvho rvas a prominent lumber importer in Ireland. FIis many Pacific Coast Iumbermen friends wish him success in his new field.

New Orleans Lumberman Visits California

Chas. Vernon, of the lumber firm of Baldinger & Vernon, New Orleans, La., has been a California business visitor for the past two weeks. Mr. Vernon is engaged in the commission lumber business in Nelv Orleans and their business is by f.ar the largest one of its kind in the state of Louisiana. A year and a half ago they took on the Redwood account of the Union Lumber Company for New Orleans territory, and have built up a very fine trade right there in the heart of the old Cypress district. While at first they sold mostly siding to replace Cypress siding in many yards and for many purposes, they now sell many other Redwood items, and feel that Redwood has come to New Orleans to stay. Mr. Vernon spent a week with the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg and San Francisco.

Will Attend New Orleans Convention

Mrs. J. Fraser, secretary of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, will leave for New Orleans around the first of November to attend the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association which rvill convene in New Orleans at the Roosevelt Hotel from November 8-12. Preceding the convention, on November 8, there will be a meeting of the Association Secretaries.