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'/shares of Happiness" San Francisco Vigitors

Lumbermen of the San Francisco Bay District are again being invited by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No.'39 to subscribe to "The Good Fellowship Christmas Fund." The cost of the "Shares of Happiness" in this fund is $1.50 each. Checks are to be mailed to Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Company, 537 First Street, Oakland, chairman of the 1937 campaign committee. The fund is administered by a special committee for the benefit of anyone in the lumber industry needing help.

The campaign committee for 1937 is as follows: Jas. B. Overcast, chalirman; Clement Fraser, Henry M. Hink, L. J. Woodson, Carl R. Moore, G. W. Sechrist, C. I'. Gilbert, Ross Kinney, Gordon D. Pierce.

The administration. and disbursement committee for 19371938 consists of Henry M. Hink, president; Miland R. Grant, past president; Carl R. Moore, secretary-treasurer; C. I. Gilbert and B. E. Bryan.

BUYS CORNING LUMBER CO. YARD

Robert M. Close of Sutter City has purchased the Corning Lumber Co. The entire personnel of the yard has been retained, Newton E. Isaac, Bert Elliott and N. Roy Close.

Mr. Close is associated with his father in the lumber business in Sutter City. The Corning Lumber Company is one of the oldest established firms in Southern Tehama County.

Visit Southland

W. B. Nettleton, president of the Nettleton Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash., with his wife and daughter, spent a few days in Los Angeles around the middle of the month. They were returning from New Orleans where Mr. Nettleton attended the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Mr. Nettleton served as president of the National association last year.

Harry Aldrich and H. B. Cooper of Aldrich-Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, Northwest representatives of WendlingNathan Company, San Francisco, were in San Francisco recently on business. While there they attended the big game at Palo Alto between California and Stanford, November 20.

Louis K. Beach, of the Newton Lumber Co., Pueblo, Colorado, left for home November 29, having been a month on the Pacific Coast. He spent some time in the Northwest visiting the mills, and made a number of calls on lumbermen in the San Francisco Bay district. Mr. Beach is a football fan and was able to arrange his trip so as to see the big CaliforniaStanford game on November 20.

Charlie Miller, president of the Young's Bay Lumber Co., Warrenton, Ore., was a recent California visitor. He was accompanied by Mrs. Miller, and they spent Thanksgiving in Ojai with their son, who is in school there.

P. J. Van Oosting, of E. J. Stanton & Son, I-os Angeles, was in San Francisco and Oakland recently on business.

LeRoy H. Stanton and Henry Swafford of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, attended the California-Stanford big game at Palo Alto, Novernber 20.

Graham Griswold, Portland, was in San president of the Griswold Lumber Co., Francisco for a few days last week.

Fire Destroys Lumber

Damage estimated at $60,000 was done by a fire that burned more than half a million feet of lumber and dry sheds of the Merit Lumber Company at Massack, Calif', November 9.