Wheeler Osgood Have Display at Show

At the recent "Home Beautiful Show", conducted at Los Angeles, the Wheeler Osgood Company had a very attractive booth,' installed under the direction of Mr' Robt' S' Osgood, Vice President and Treasurer of the Company, ".tJ -".tager of their Sottthern California operations'

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As the main attraction of their exhibit they had on display a tank containing one of their famous "Laminex" boo.., completely covdred with water, and immersed for the entire length of the show, 233 hours.

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New Victoria Shingle Mill To Start December 1

The McMaster-Horton Cedar Manufactuling Company's new shingle mill at Victoria, B. C., will start operation December 1, according to present plans. The mill will run one shift, and will have a capacity of 300,000 shingles in eight hours.

PLAY "FIELDERS WILD"

Six Outfi6lderS of Hob-Hoo Team Ignore Umpire's Ruling

The Cleveland Hoo-Hoo Club, lumbermen's organization, was engaged in a hectic and somewhat unorthodo=x basebali game at the country place of Willrram Haag near Brecksville.

The umpire discovered there were six outfielders doing business on the defending side.

"Hey ! That's against the rules," he shouted.

"That's all right," said the captain of the side in the field. "We're playing fielders wild."-Cleveland Daily.

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This test had been made repeatedly at various industrial exhibits and lumber conventions and never failed to win the applause of interested parties- The illustration shows the door before being placed in the tank, autoqraphed by two officials at the Olympic Auditorium. " Mr. K. -M. Scoville, manager of the "Home Beautiful Show", wrote to Mr. Osgood, after the exhibition, praising the test, and saying that, in his opinion, it was one of the most drastic and unusual tests ever given a piece of mill work.

The door was placed in the tank of water at 4 p. m' October 23rd. and was not touched until 9 a. m. Novembet 2nd.

A critical inspection failed to disclose any indication of warping or twisting of the stiles and rails, n-o separation of joinis, -blistering of panels or swelling. Mr. Scoville atiests that, e*cep1 forl slight raising of the grai!, the door was in the sam-e condition at the completion of the test, as before it was placed in the tank'

Mr. Osgood-announced recently that his company.had completed arrangements to install a permanent exhibit of "Laminex" doors at the Metropolitan Exhibit, Fifth and Broadway, Los Angeles, and that this soaking test would frequently be made in connection with this booth.

Southern California lumbermen were shocked to learn of the death, on November 15th, of James Alexander Knudson, well known and universally loved lumberman of Los Angeles.

- He passed away at the family home in Beverly Hills, following a three weeks' illness.

Funlral services were held at the Forest Lawn Cemetery on the lSth.