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By Jacl< Dionne

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His Eyes Looked O.K. to Her

They were fixing up the house, putting in some improvements, etc., and the lady of the house was receiving calls fro,m various people with things of that sort to offer.

The doorbell rang, and the colored cook went to answer it. Directly she came back, looking rather indignant about

NINTH ISSUE OF'HOME'' MAGAZINE ISSUED

Washington, Sept. 30.-Featuring a story on what it takes to build a house-money-HOMB magazine for October contains in addition stories on the ease of acquiring a new home, improving interiors with common boards and the value of a basement as a storage space.

The feature article describes the activities of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in its manufacture of paper money and is informative as well as entertaining. Such items as the value of burned money, the origin of the "$" sign and the law relating to new money designs are discussed in the story.

The HOME Oddities, Movie Reviews, and House Plan pages are again presented in this lumber dealer's magazine

Back From California Trip

I. P. Simpson, vice-president and general manager of Ruffelen Lumber & Mfg. Company, Tacoma, was recently on a business and vacation trip to California.

He called on the company's California representatives, Western Door & Sash Company, Oakland, and E. U. Wheelock, fnc., Los Angeles.

Mr. Simpson was accompanied by Mrs. Simpson and their <laughter, Miss Dorothy Ann Simpson.

something. "Who is it, Lillie?" asked the lady of the house. The colored one sniffed, disdainfully. "Missy," she said, "dey's a white gentman at de front do' what say he is de Venetian Blind man, but shucks, he cain't fool me, dat man ain't no mo' blind den I is."

NEvf PACKAGE FOR SHAKES

Since shakes were first manufactured they have been shipped in a certain kind of bundle, but recently the Totem Shake Corporation, of Seattle, designed a new kind of package for water shipment of their shakes and started shipping them in the new special wire-bound plywood package. As a result the Pacific Coast Lumber Carriers' Association has just named a slightly lower tarifi on Totem Brand Shakes.

Donald H. Clark, manager of this concern, who has long been identified with the shingle business, states that California remains one of the outstanding markets for shakes, and that the shake business is brisk all over the country.

Calls On Mills

W. F. Fahs, sales manager of California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, recently called on a number of the firm's mill connections in the Pacific Northwest.

SEND "MERCHANT" FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Please send The California Lumber Merchant another year to The Barr Lumber Co., Orange, Calif. Thanks for such a swell, readable magazine.

Ituss Caldrvell.

California Retailers' Annual Convention

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The Southern California committee for the convention is as follows:

General Chairman, George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles.

Manager, Kenneth Smith, Lumber & Allied Products Institute, I-os Angeles.

Finance Committee-Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, chairman; Ralph Baker, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles; John W. Fisher, Fisher-swartz Lumber Co., Santa Monica; Bert McKee, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Russell Mullin, Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank.

Entertainment Committee-Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, chairman; Lathrop Leishman, Crown City Lumber & I\{ill Co., Pasadena; Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena; Will Davies, Patten & Davies, Pasadena; Steve Hathaway, Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia.

Program Committee-Everett Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, chairman; Glenn Miner, Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego; J. B. Hall, Owens-Parks Lumber Co', Los Angeles; Asa Fickling, Fickling Lumber Co., I-ong Beach; Charles Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

"P"l"o \7ool Insulator" Maker lts Bow

As a means of bringing latest developments on the application of Palco Wool to the attention of users in various fields, The Pacific Lumber Company has published the first issue of "The Palco Wool Insulator," a leaflet crammed full of charts, illustrations and data on cold storage for fruits and vegetables.

Among the Palco Wool installations described are the 45,0@bushel apple storage plant of Salem Fruit Growers Cooperative Association, Greenford, Ohio; the vegetable storage plant of the Greenhouse Vegetable Packing Company, .Bcrea, Ohio; the flower storage plants of Berthold-Grigsby, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; Yoder Brothers, Barberton, Ohio; the William Gee apple and onion storage plant at Almont, Michigan; the pear storage plant at Placerville (Calif.) Fruit Growers Association; the fruit storage plant of R. A. Buyce, Bangor, Michigan, and the storage plant of California Walnut Growers Association, said to contain the world's largest air conditioned room.

According to Edric E. Brown, manager, Palco Wool Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, the next issue of "The Palco Wool Insulator" soon to be released, will be on the subject of cold storage lockers, a most timely subject in view of the rapid developments taking place in this field. Later issues will cover air conditioning and domestic heating problems, as well as problems relating to the cold storage and refrigeration industry.

Elmore King In East

Elmore King, King Lumber Company, Bakersfield, left for an Eastern trip October 12. He intends to pick up a new Buick at the factory and drive it back to the Pacific Coast.