An Open Lrettef,---

Deqr Mr. Betcril d Wholeeale Dealer:

Costs qre going up, Profits stcying down, Lcbor keeps lighting

All cround town.

One thing we're sure oI

These uncertcin dcrys, TS1ERSON Quality, is best crlwcrys.

For the best in Texlure, Grcrde, Mtiling, Senice, try cr ccrr ol Lilh dde& end trimme& Ponderogc Pine cornnon bo<r&, selectE, nouldinga or lcrctory gxcder, lron &e aewe3l crnd nrost upto-dcle nill in the f,lcrncth Soft Pine disElct Our inqecsing list ol satislied custonerd is our best reconrneadqlion"

Loolc lor tte number "33" stnmped on the end oI every bocnd, our symbol ol guclity.

Real estate foreclosures continued to decline. The following figures show the number of foreclosures and the aggregate amount of the mortgages and trust deeds foreclosed during last August and every August back to 1931 :

Curtis Takes Over Assets of Six Companies

KESTERSON II'MBER CORP.

f,lcnrcth Fqllr, Ore.

Yourg lor service cnd gctislaction, f,e:terson Lunber Corp.

Southern Cclitornic Reprerentcdve.

3ll Financicrl Center Bldg.

Kcarcth Fqlls, Ore. Los Angeles, Calif.

Telephone TBinity 9821

At the close of business

September 30, 1937, Curtis Companies, Incorporated, Clinton, Iowa, took over the assets of the following corporations: Curtis Bros. & Co., Clinton. Iowa; Curtis & Yale Co., Wausau, Wis. ; Curtis, Towle & Paine Co., Lincoln and Crawford, Neb. ,and Topeka, Kansas; Curtis Sash & Door Co., Sioux City, Iowa; Curtis Door & Sash Co., Chicago, Ill.; and Curtis-Yale-Purvis Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

Curtis Companies Incorporated will henceforth conduct the business of those companies in its own name, with Clinton, Wausau, Lincoln, Topeka, Sioux City, Chicago and Minneapolis divisions. This step has been taken to efiect operating economies and will involve no change whatever in the manag'ement as to either personnel or function. General managers of former operating companies will simply be general managers of the respective divisions of this com,pany, and the organizations of these former operating companies will continue to carry on the business of the several divisions exactly as before.

YOUNG LUMBERMAN?

I\fr. and Mrs. Henry E. Bailey are receiving congratulations on the birth of a baby boy October 1.

Mr. Bailey is resident manag'er of Hammond Redwood Company, Samoa.