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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1921)
More Bargains Eyery .' Day - - At ; The New Store ; Worth &jGray DEPARTMENT STORE -Successor to W, W. Moore j) mi SOUND SOUND ALU Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones AROUND The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Is to Support Those You Have VICKBROS. Trade and High 177 K. Liberty St. Salem. Or. 1 Eat a WEATHERLY ICE CREAM SolJ eTerywhere BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO. P. M. Gregory, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street DRY GOODS NOTIONS WOMEN'S READY-TO-WEAR .FURS CORSETS V- 4(6 State St. Thone 877 Eyes Tested 4 Glasses Fitted tHMi soenraMly apUcat4. - Op tical rtpain canfuUy and promptly - ad . Hart man Bros. Jewelers and Opticians , Salem, Oregon , Save 1 Your Clothes . - ; ' k. Sit Work an4 Worry ' y kavtng your Una- i dry vera dons by the Salem Laundry Company 13G Liberty St Phone 25 OWPCO. Broom Handles, Slop Han dles, Paper Plugs Tent Toggles, all kinds of Hard wood Handles ,: Manufac ';. tared by the Oregon Wood Products Co. ; West Salem . Capital City Laundry Quality and Service Phone 165 Monuments' and Tombstones Made In Salem TUs Is tas only moanmtnt works la Salsa ' Big Stock on Display Capital Monumental Works ' 8310 8. Oom't OppoalM CBUry rhon 689 ' Made In Salem by experienced Swiss Cheese : - ? - maker - , ... ' Swiss Cheese 4 . Cream Brick Chccso Limberger Cheesei Order from the Xactory or from yonr, grocer Salem Cheese Factory ' - . phone 81F11 " On pared reform school road, aantheast of Salem ' plate a day Salem IE ELECTRIC m BEAUTIFUL CHEER It Gives Service Without Ostentation and Jakes Away the Drudgery -The Salem Electric Company Studies the Needs of Salem and SuppliesThem With the Conveniences and the Artistic Touches That Are Satisfying Mr. Barton Has Had Large and Varied Experience in the Line He Chose foe His Life Work and His Labor of Love. It ii estimated that the Colum bia River basin of Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and a part of British Columbia, has one-third of all the water power possibilities of the United States; approximating 20, 000,000 horse power for this one- KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY Dehydrators and Canners Oregon -Fruits and Vegetables Salem Portland The Dalles : Oregon Wiring Fixtures Mazdas . Electrical Appliances Salem Electric Company "It It's electric, come to us.M Masonic Temple. Phone 1200 Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the development of tie fruit and berry industries of this , , ... valley 1 OREGON-PACKING COMPANY A Licensed Lady Embalmer to care for .women and children Is a necessity In all funeral homes. We are the only ones famishing such service. Terwilliger Funeral Home 770 Chemeketa St Phone 724 SALEM. OREGON We carry the following lines of PAINTS, 8herwln Williams Co. and Bass Hueter Co. ; .Also ' Ererythlng In Ball ding Material Falls City-Salem Lumber Company A. B. Kelsay, Msr 349 S. 12th St. Phone 813 Ws An Out Afur Tws MJUloni W sr low f.jint r thr ' quartan ef nlllioa klUrs a yaar ' m th dairymaa f this aaetioa for , milk.'- ... ., -. - "Marion Butter" . la th Bart Sattar , llorf eowt sat Setter eowt it the erriaf need MABJON CREAMERY PRODUCE CG , 8alem, Ore. Phone 248S This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by die advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men-men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. HOUSEHOLD IS THE I DREAMS. OF T M , THE SUBTLE (WENT third, within one-thirteenth of the total national area. What a marvelous foundation for Industry and comfort! A short generation ago, no such thing was known as the long-distance transmission of power. Man- Mmbr Marlon County, Inter Sta ta and Vattoaal Balty AuocUtloas L A. HAYF0RD REALTOR 305 State St. SALEM. OREGON DIXIE BREAD Ask Your Grocer SALEM BAKING CO. G. SATTERLEE AUCTIONEER Phones: Residence, 1211 . Office, 1177 SALEM :: OREGON BETTER YET BREAD ! It Satisfies Made By MISTLAND BAKERY 12 th and Chemeketa Order from your grocer OF T Qfactnrinar and Industrial cUiea were built up around the river where water power could be de Teloped, or at or near the coal mines that furnished cheap power fuel; except where shipping or other overshadowing advantages more than overbalanced the cost of shipping coal, there are almost no Industrial cities away from the sources of ihe pewer tha ran them. But now, electricity is carried by wire, 200 miles and more from the source of its rroduction, w Un cut prohibitive loss In its effici ency at the point o delivery. The development of 'higher voltages, larger cable installations that re duce losses, and I he transmission in larger quantities that stlli fur ther increase the efficiency of de livery, shorten the miles and in crease the range until transmis sion lines of 500 miles may easily be. achieved. "Made" for Electricity This immediate section of Ore gon, with its healthful and en joyable climate, with its verdnre that captivates the eye, with Its soil and Its timber and its many lesources, was "made" for elec tricity. Indeed, almost' every Inch of the great Columbia watershed can be reached and served, even at the presenc stage of develop ment of electricity, by current from some feasible power plant within its 280,000-square-mile ba sin. Why, most of the territory would be within tie 500-mile ra dius from any on great central plant, like the ultimate 1,000,000 h. p. plant at Celilo Falls, of the series on the Deschutes river. Two million, ten million horse power, right at our doors! I Pioneers Did Not Se It The Orgeon pioneers visualized some of the wonders of the land they reclaimed from the wilder ness; but one thing they did not see, even dimly its electricity. They believed then the current hearsay that there never could be mills or other pioneer indus tries, anywhere away from the streams where the water wheel could work face to fare with th beginning and the end of factory process. OreKOn City, with fhe init falls of the Willamette, seemed to them like the capital of a new industrial world, because of it power. The woolen mill at Brownsville, and all the early flouring mills built on the streams where they could secure a fall of water, followed this be lief. Even as late as 1891, when the Kay woolen mill was built at Kingston, it was located far from railroad or water transportation, from adequate labor supply, from erery social advantage that makes indastry permanent, be cause there was no way to trans port the river power to a more satisfactory locality. But now, Salem, with only the little power secured from Mill creek for the Kay mill,, the water works and the paper mill, an ag gregate of only about a little more than 300 h. p. so far devel oped, is hooked up with a series of powerplants already aggregat ing 100.000 horse power, on the 300-mlle circuit of the Portland Railway, Light & Power com Seamless Hot Water i j Bottles and Combination Syringes Guaranteed Not To Leak Prices from $1 up I . 1 - . :. Brewer Drug Co. 405 Court St Phone 184 1 mm m f ra pany. If one breaks down, any or all of the others are instantly available for the whole circuit: like an attacking party of soldiers, if one is shot down there is a second, and a third, and with a good reserve army even a tenth, to spring to fill the front ranks on demand. Always with an adequate reserve, like money in the bank, like sol diers In the field, like food in th pantry or like fat on the ribs, tho whole series awaits the sternest call, saying "Try Me! I'll volun teer! I'm willing and strong let ME serve!" A lifetime Investment That is. what makes the buying of electrical equipment, for the home, for the shop, for the store, a splendid lifetime investment; as good in Salem which Is nearly 40 miles from the nearest big gen erating station, as if one lived but a stone's throw from the giant turbines and the titanic, whirring generator. The Electric Household. There is hardly a house in Sa lem that is not wired for electric lights. There is not one but should have more pretentious elec tric., service; washing machines, irons, sweepers, sewing machine motors, radiator heaters for auxil iary use, bath heaters for all-the-jear service, breakfast grills, and a host of other specialized appli ances. An electric blanket, for Instance, and an .electric water bottle for sickness, are sickroom boons almost like ether or radium. The electrical household is the home of comfort, of beautiful dreams, of light and laughter and good cheer for the subtle cur rent brings efficiency without dirt, relief without effort, service with out ostentation, and takes away the drudgery leaving only joyful realisation of things well done. 'l'he Salem Electric Company. No Salem firm, perhaps, has been morp prominent in the devel opment of the local electrical field, than the Salem Electric com pany. It does not manufacture or develop electricity, or transmit it from the hydraulic plants to the user. The business of producing and marketing power, and that of cultivating and supplying the ap pliances for its utilization, do not follow the same lines. The Salem Electric takes up the service at the customer's door, after the power company has installed its lines that far; and then it is a per sonal matter with owner and the installing workers. Dreaming of Service. "We've thought and dreamed electrical home service," says Mr. F. S. Barton. "It is an obsession, perhaps, trut a mighty helpful one. "The people today have better eyes, rather than poorer, because of the electrical lights. The wo men are coming to have1 better figures, better health, better col or, better spirits, because of the electrical aids in their homes. The business man wastes infinitely less time in chasing all over his store, where he can install a buzzer sys tem for signals that speak plainer t' ui . . c t I I 1 - ' - : "THE HOME ELECTRICAL" The Barton home, 901 North Capitol, is a realization of practically every convenience that modern electrical science had - ' offered for home comfort and convenience. It is "A Dream" of efficient service f ' ' ' ' l; r'-.iM f-ir-vv ! : " V v if- ML"- ' . . - - v. k - 8 ' s y "'" "i ' "'' ' j ' , j f . 7-'. v v . -?v - - -j'-' '"'' " . s ' F. S. than words. The houses are bet ter swept because of the electrical vacuum cleaners; tuberculosis is dropping out of the list of fatal diseases, because so much less dust is being stirred up to poison the lungs in sweeping. There is hardly a line of home or business life that electricity does not touch,; to beautify, to enricht to adorn. A Wonderful, Helpful Future. There was some of this feeling in our adoption of this business. It offers such a wonderful, help ful future. One never needs to feel that he'd made a mistake and prescribed the wrong medicine for everything is good in electric ity. It all helps! "Years of experience, however, have taught us some of the thing that -are best of all, some that are not quite as effective as others. Electricity Is still new enough, that there is much , experimenta tion, much that is cutland-fit. One gets to sense the weak points in equipment, and then leave the less desirable things to be tried out by others. One might guess wrong, and pass up something of merit; but there is no other guide half so good as experience, in hand ling things electrical. The Comfort of. It "It is astonishing, how much comfort can be had from a small m? . -J" - " i ! J ? fM it . . i - MM Why Znttu Wltk Sunset TroabU wUu BARTON investment either in original cost or in maintenance,' of electrical things in the home. Over in south ern Idaho, where they have the great water plants for Irrigation pumping during the summer time, they have the rjpwer, otherwise unusable, for greater household service. They heat their houses with the current; there are scores, hundreds of houses built there with never a chimney only the wire from the plant many miles away. We have not yet developed plants that will supply full heat ing current at a serviceable price; for all our current is easily sala ble on an all-the-year basis, in manufacturing industry of various kinds, and there is as yet no sur plus for cheaper winter heating. It may be a long time before we can afford to heat by wire. "But we do all tue rest. The use of the current is growing, so that almost every home has at leapt one or two, and up to a doz en electrical appliances. Every one means a cleaner, happier home, a brighter smile, a better gown, and almost certainly a more delightful family. Work is a boon to mon kind. but the curse of mankind is unnecessary, wasteful work. Elec tricity takes up so many of the needless, nagging things, and doe3 them without a whimper, while i the housekeeper or the Business . Cfciropraetis Win Eev tin Cams Your Health Begins Wben You Phone 87 for an appointment DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C Chiropractor Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. man spends the time In the things that can't be done electrically. The Pleasure- of It. - t "It is a genuine pleasure to- sell electrical stuff, and to Install it. It is some of the pleasure of the artist, of the skilled mechanic, of the explorer, who does something worth while - in a workmanlike way. The business is growing steadily, year by year, and the , Masonic building has never had as . well-pleased a tenant as the Salem -Electric company." The Electrical House The new Barton home, at SOI North Capitol, was laid out with, the especial idea of demonstrat ing Just how : comfortable, con venient, economical an "electrical home" can be. It is much more elaborately wired than most homes, with the idea of savin household labor. At every door there is a ligM switch, and an ap pliance connection, for vacuum sweeper or any kind of light pow er service. These connections are up high enough that one need never stoop to insert the appliance plug. ; The kitchen range, like all good electrical ranges, is automatic, so that the heat is shut off by ther mostatic control when is reaches above & suitable heat for the qual ity of baking required. An electric range costs somewhere from $3 to $4 a month for the average fam ily. It uses comparatively littie ; current, for the reason that most of the cooking Is done in a hermet- ically sealed oven where the in-: sulated walls retain the heat aud make it all effective like a fire less cooker; and the automata ehut-off stops all current use uir til the oven cools again. Electric Bath Heater, I , An electrical bath heater, sues as used in the Barton home, costi 12.65 a month on a flat rate for Salem, for the average . famlly The heat is on all the time, and there Is enough water for bath, for laundry, for every possible do mestic nee. In the basement is an electrical lanndry. with mangle, water heat er and washer. In the dining room there is an electrical sideboard, with glassed-in compartments for all the dozen little table conveni ences grill, toaster, percolator, teapot, egg-boiler, etc. with plug connections for four appliances at one time. One can sit there at the table and cook a whole meal with out ever rising from the chair. A Wonderful Servant ' Mr. and Mrs. Barton take pleas ure In showing their home to in terested guests or patrons, to demonstrate Just what a conveni ence it is to have such a wonder ful servant in the house. Both of them are engaged at the Salem Electric store, and their time is valuable, so they have secured tho services of a valet and butler and maid and cook - all in one, that does not strike, or go out of eve nings when needed at homer, or break the finest ' china, or burn the roast or soil the table linen or steel the eggs when they are high est in price the Electric Servant (Continued on page 2) 1 ; - 11 . ! - , S r 9 ir. ' I v X-i