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good and that he would have the money for us in just a ferv days.

We did not see anything of this party for several weeks, and when we drove out to his place, we found that he had threshed and was hauling his grain. We talked to him several times, and he would make most any kind of a promise. Then he began dodging us, and we were unable to get to talk to him at all.

One day we managed to get an interview with him, and we talked to him pretty stiff, since the note was sixty days past due at that time. He got mad, and told us to go to the hottest place we have ever heard of, and he

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Manufacturers of White and Sugar Pine, and Douglas Fir.

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Our oftccr ami locatd at 330 Chaprnan Building' Lo Anscles Phonc VAndkc 4912 mentioned if we could get the money sooner than he wanted to pay it we could just try our hand.

We told hirir frankly that we had an attorney that looked after this kind of case, for us, and that we would turn the matter over to him. We stopped at this attorney's office just for a little chat over some other matters, but never mentioned this case, as we did not have the paper with us.

Some thirty or forty minutes later, when we returned to our yard, our bookkeeper was all smiles and advised us that he had collected this certain note, and that the party had paid with the long green. We are sure that' having a note was the only .reason we collected this bill. We do not know, but believe that this attorney had something on this party, and the party thought that we had turned the note over.

Here is another little matter that does not belong to this subject entirely, but is worth remembering. When sending out'statements, the first of the month, or any other time, make a pencil notation on the ledger page of the same, and then you will know how many statements you have sent the party. Or in case a customer comes in and promises to pay at some given date, a fey days or weeks ihead, while he is there, write his promise on the edge of the ledger so that he will know that you are keep ing a record of his promises.