Milestones, Mar. 26, 1934

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the lumber, used for sheds, he did. He formed a lumber company which became the largest in the world operating under one ownership (present total assets: $90,385,000). To Longview (pop.: 10,652) he gave a $150,000 library, a $650,000 high school, $1,000,000 worth of parks and landscaping. ¶Died. Mrs. Richard Robert Donnelley, 88, relict of the founder of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), of old age; after long illness; in Chicago.

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