MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told fot 20 years-Some less

Could Have Been Worse

The colored population all turned out to enjoy the funeral of little Rastus Jackson.

Old Mose Jackson had taken his six "chilluns" and his four "houn'dogs" and gone out coon hunting. They treed a coon, and Mose sent young Rastus, who delighted in such efforts, tip the tree to shake the coon off the limb on which it crouched. But the limb proved to be a rotten one, and when Rastus crawled out a ways and then shook it to loosen the hold of the coon, the limb broke, and down came Rastus, coon, and all, and the Rastus was killed by the fall.

CHASE YARD HAS NEW MANAGER

L. A. La Point, formerly rvith the Valley Lumber Company, Fresno, is now manager of O. E' Chase & Son's yard at Pacific Grove.

JACK CAVANAGH VTSITS BAY

Jack Cavanagh, of the Cavanagh Lumber Co., Petaluma, lvas a recent visitor to San Francisco'

When the funeral festivities were at their height, a neighbor said to the father of the departed:

"Mose, suttinly was awful, little Rastus gettin' killecl thataway."

"Sure was," replied Mose, and then added: "but it coulda bin wuss."

"How? asked the other.

"Well," replied Mose, "he could-a fell on one o' the dawgs."

\,t/. S. RUSSELL VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

W. S. Russell, of the rvell known rvholesale and exporting firm of Dant & Russell, Portland, Ore., was in San Francisco recently for a ferv days on a business trip.

/ GEORGE BURNETT BACK FROM EAST nce again we efrtend our best wishes for a aerA Merry Christmas and that the I\Ieus Year will bring Uou increased Happiness and Prosperitg

/ George Burnett, Bttrnett Lumber Co., Tulare, has returned frorn'his trip to Nerv York and other Eastern points.