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Good Colored Philosophy

The philosophical remarks of Southern negroes are usually much funnier than the orthodox "darkey stories" we so often hear. Ilere's a good sample:

Early this year my friend Charlie Williams of the Moore Dry Kiln Company, at Jacksonville, Florida, was rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation. He got along all right, and finally the doctor told him he could go home on a certain day. When that day came the doctor changed his mind and held him over in the hospital for several

New Yard In Lynwood

A. P. Shepperson, Sr., formerly co-owner in the C & S Lumber Co., Compton, and his son, A. P. Shepperson, Jr., recently opened a new retail lumber yard at 3181 Fernwood Avenue, Lynwood, with a complete stock of lumber and other building materials and builders' hardware. The yard will be operated under the name of Apsco Lumber.

Mr. Shepperson, Sr., was in the lumber business in Texas for many years before coming to California. His son, who has been associated with him the last three years in the lumber business was for elght years previously in the' banking business in Lynwood.

FRED JOHNSEN ON SOUTHWEST TRrP

Fred Johnsen, sales representative of the West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, is on a business trip to New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, in connection with promoting sales of the company's Hollywood combination screen and metal sash door. He will be gone about 30 days and expects to be back about November 20.

more days, much to his disgust. He had a colored boy acting as "orderly" for him by this time, and the darkey heard him cornplaining about having to stay longer in the hospital bed. Whereupon the dark philosopher said to him:

"Mistuh Williams, hit's a heap mo' bettuh to lay in dis hosapital a few mo' days lookin' up at de ceilin', dan to lay in de grave-yard watchin' de grass roots grow."

He heard no more kicks from Charlie.

Jack Bennie With American Hardwood

Jack Bennie, who has had considerable experience in both the hardwood and so{trvood lumber business in San Francisco, is now calling on the trade for American Hardrvood Co., Los Angeles.

E. U. WHEELOCK IN NORTHWEST

E. U. Wheelock of E. U. Wheelock, Inc., wholesale lumller dealers, Los Angeles, in on a three weeks' business trip to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. He expects to return to Los Angeles about November 18.

Bill And John Get Limit

Bill and John Sampson of the Sampson Company, Pasaclena, returned recently from a hunting trip to Utah with their limit of deer (one buck and one doe each).

When asked to confirm this news Bill wisecracked "It'll surely be a novelty for a screen manufacturer to have meat on the table during the winter time."

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Committee Chairmen

Jas. B. Overcast, president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, Oakland, recently announced the following committee chairmen to serve for the coming year: Public Affairs, Larue Woodson; Finance, Wm. Chatham, Jr.; Membership, Arthur Williamson; Attendance, E. J. LaFranchi; Program, H. "Abe" Lincoln, Jr.; Reception, Miland R. Grant; Fraternal, Charles Lamb; Publicity, G. W. Sechrist; Sports, H. Sewall Morton; Education, Frank \M. Trorver; Reveille, Henry M. Hink; Christmas Fellowship, Don E. Coveney; Activity, Thos. T. Branson; Good Fellowship Fund, Shirley Forsey; Meetings, B. E. Bryan. Honorary members of the Club are Prof. Woodbridge Metcalf, Prof. Emanuel Fritz, Prof. W. Mulford and Geo. M. Cornwall.

Opens New Roofing Plant in Portland

Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co. has opened a new plant at Portland, Ore., and is now in operation. The building is 562 feet in length by I52 feet in width, and is equipped with the latest in m,odern machinery, loading and shipping facilities.

This gives the company seven roofing operations which are located at Detroit, Mich., Waltham, Mass., Memphis, Tenn., Chicago, I11., Kearney, N. J., Portland, Ore., and Compton, Calif. They also have four modern felt pla.nts. Harry J. Graham, manager at Compton, was a recent visitor in the Northwest where he looked over the nerv Portland factory.