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...hand at auctions is Chicago Lumberman Louis L. Meitus. Few weeks ago, when Mr. Meitus heard that the Seils & Sterling Circus was being disbanded at Sheboygan, Wis., he went shopping there for trucks and trailers. His business done, he started to go home. Just then five Shetland ponies were put on the block. Knowing that his two children pined for a pony, Mr. Meitus decided to buy all five. Once fairly in his stride, he kept on bidding, finally bought the whole circus shebang...
Married. Mrs. Emily Flamm Gilchrist, 70, who seven years ago inherited $2,000,000 from her lumberman husband, William A. Gilchrist; to Roe Wells, 50, $25,000-per-year vice president of Doughnut Corp. of America; in Valparaiso, Ind. Said he: "Mrs. Wells and I have agreed to pool our interests and carry on. We shall be very happy working together...
Having been elected Governor of Mississippi two years ago on a novel platform -to keep the late Huey Long from annexing that State to his domain-millionaire Lumberman Hugh White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...
...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...
When easy-going bushy-whiskered Lumberman George Henry Leatherbee left an $84,000 trust fund to Harvard on his death in 1911 for free lectures on finance, open to the public, it was not in anticipation of any need for education of businessmen on the labor union problem. Upon accretion of the fund to where it yielded the stipulated $3,000 income in 1920, the first lecture series was given on "Real Estate Fundamentals." It drew six students. By 1934, 376 capitalists flocked to hear Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, fresh from the U. S. Treasury, lecture on inflation possibilities...