. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The retail lumbermen aboard Manley Chew s tug at Midland the visitors in the spacious Sunday-school Hall of All Saints Church. There the lumbermen repaired and found a tasty and varied menu awaiting them, both for the intellectual and the inner man. The tables were laden with all the good things that could be provided and amid the exhalation of smoke from the fragrant havanas, the yard- men and their friends sat down to enjoy an hour or more of song, mus
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The retail lumbermen aboard Manley Chew s tug at Midland the visitors in the spacious Sunday-school Hall of All Saints Church. There the lumbermen repaired and found a tasty and varied menu awaiting them, both for the intellectual and the inner man. The tables were laden with all the good things that could be provided and amid the exhalation of smoke from the fragrant havanas, the yard- men and their friends sat down to enjoy an hour or more of song, music and speech. Local talent contributed materially to the enjoy- ment of the occasion and Penetang certainly has some clever artists. C. E. Wright, Mayor, welcomed the retail lumbermen on the occasion of their first visit to Penetanguishene, and said that the municipal council and the board of trade had joined together in ten- dering them the reception at which they were present and in provid- ing the repast of which they had just partaken. He assured the lum- bermen that the freedom of Penetang was theirs and that the town constable had been locked up for the night. It was, indeed, a plea- sure to greet so many representative business men and he trusted that their stay—brief though it was—would be both profitable and instructive. In the absence of Thos. Patterson, of Hamilton, president of the Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, who was on a trip to. Viewing yards and stock of lumber at Victoria Harbor the south, John B. Reid, of Toronto, vice-president of the Associa- tion, delivered one of his optimistic and breezy addresses. On behalf of the organization he thanked the Mayor and the people of Penteang for their cordial welcome. The reception was certainly something that the lumbermen had not been looking for, and it was, therefore, all the more pleasant, coming as it did in the nature of a surprise. Mr. Reid stated that the retail lumbermen were there this eveni
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