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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1924)
muM.im.n. .iin.ntnitimn. , ,-,...,M. --"n ii-ttiiiiiniiiMinfiii i an i I' -mr Hsu - i - nhtiiniiiiiw ii i n iiiiilt i n " i m im-m-i mi i win i l iiiiiniinii iniiuwilil iimi.uU i' 1, I - .fiiit - ' j - -; - : il- : - r: ; - - r YOU TOO CAW BUILD AND OWN YOUR: OWN HOME Salem is one of the great home cities of America. About one half of our houses are owned by fami lies living in them, but what -about the other half? Thousands of ther families can and should know the Joys of home ownership. What about you? , : Let me help you now, to plan your own "home. For twenty years I've, been helping owners to build their homes .economically and well. I can help you too. " ' My book of house plans, at my home, contains hundreds of suggestions. Call and look them over. I will help you from the very start help you "with your plan advise you regarding the financing of 1 ai 1 j. 1 ' I I . your iioiiie give you mruugiiuuL um wuciu ui my luxij CAperieiice. Come in and talk with me or phone and I will be glad to call on you without any obligations. PHONE 1337-J 1420 N. FIFTH ST; U v : rTrge Buildings Are In the Offing - Suburban and Far m -" A J J - OI" J tTT M TTfc ' J WWTTa ' -mm -- .lying Activity m MiiJopenyrrmtnenUiiraxBiis !Out-Salem Will Be a Big Gity. i r 1 etstate firm are as follows: f Wood has purchased a lot o proadway from H. O. Buff man, ai contemplates building. R. P. has sold a lot on North p$h to Allan Beckett, a recent ral from Canada, who expects direct a home in the near future. lf Blivens has purchased' a lot the new Capital addition. In vicinity of the Parrish junior h school, and will build soon. Qon Is Building. Fine Stucco Residence . stucco residence , to cost 00 is now under construction 145 John street, in the Fair- riunt . addition, according to a laing permit Issued by City Re- cider Marten Poulsen to O. A. don. ., ; - JTIFUL WITH AGE IIUIMI I1UI iklLUHIIL OHD III Stlf M 62 Per Cent- of Homes are Owned Here 54.8 in State - and 45.2 in Nation SIGN A-500 - ie -! c& but we have just an average w i rogue.- We would like to have a S ljck home, but bow can . we affordr I- Is- often the spoken or un d ibken comment. The fact is that n Titte John Smith has probably is 3 Jit his pretentious home of brick n i pdttise oflts aristocratic appear r i ce, the tan of average means if j sat to build his home of perma- int material because that is the iiterlal be can best afford. It is m- ': ally more expensive to build or ". i Ja-permanent- construction, :tak VjHnto account the high cost of I Jntlng and repairing , the more Hforary structures. . Most homes T taid for over a period of rears. ,rJei saving in upkeep expense of ihe tfck borne during those years is ?: tre than, enough , to wipe out the j re to five hundred dollar inlilal Terence In cost between a brick C-JQB and a home of less substan- ftl construction. . j Tbe Atego has an -excellent plan fat would fit well on a forty-live! . ottlot The outside dimensions of .a house (excluding porch . and i iy) are thirty-two feet wide by " xty-three feet deep. The living r hta Is a splendid room thirty et wide by fourteen feet deep, it lots of wide windows. The . iiing room Is sixteen feet by thlr f .en feet, excellently lighted with iiple wall space. : The bay recess A 4 very attractive feature of this w om. - The two bedrooms are ap- tcpched through a ; short bail '.Jch leads tiiso to the bath room. veh bedroom has. windows on two . -is, giving cross ventilation. 1 , WIth a well developed plan, a ' roof, with wide spreading -c3 and a well designed appear lae, this simple home of brick will ;peal to jnany., . ' McUtioa, ClTUnd. Ohio, caa furalik m kiick. coaatrnetioa sent apo riMt. t ' Sixty-two per cent of the homes In Salem are owned by those liv ing in them, according to an es timate made on a conservative ba sis by the Chamber of Commerce, In a r?cent bulletin issued by . the Chamber of Commerce emphasis Is placed upon the fact, that no other 'city with a population of 22,099 can boast of . so ' many homes owned and such a small percentage of renters. In arriving at its conclusion, the Chamber of Commerce took sta tistics available for; 1920, when there were 4157 homes owned and 1901 homes rented. Due to the many hundreds of homes built in Salem since January 1. 1920, Jt is safe to say that there are no more homes rented today than there were four years ago, the bulletin says. The Chamber of Commerce also feels safe in its estimate that there are nearly, 1000 more homes in Salem .today than there were four years ago. : -f 'y ': Pride is taken by the bulletin in announcing that the United States census taken in i 9 20 states that 45.2 of all people in the United States owned their homes and that 54.8 of the people of Oregon owned their own homes. Based upon these figures. 'Salem has 7.2 more homes than the av erage in Oregon and -16.8 more than the United States that are owned by the occupants., c4 j&red road one mile out of 1 juse, electric lights, bath, fire .:; city property up to 13500.00. j Tt? road and electric railroad, if iS.jSarage, good spring piped iauts with prune , fillers, well t 131. acres under cultivation, on -.11 trade for an apartment house -I :Iin, Realtor Paving Operations Obtain ' An Early Start This Year Paving operations got under way this week and will continue through . the ; summer. . Several rrwles -of . city streets are' to be hard-surfaced thi3 season,' as well as a good mileage throughout the county. Preparation work for the pav ing of North Twentieth between Chemeketa and Center was start ed Thursday under the direction of" Walter Low, street commis sioner. The curbing for this was laid last fall. Considerable work has been done on the extreme end of Lib erty street, - lying between Ferry and the 'railroad tracks. This has been rocked and . rolled by a steam roller. SteJner Slakes Trado Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner. superin tendent of the Oregon state hos pital, 'has traded : his' 81-acre farm near Macleay to Sam A. Manning., Dr. Steiner's new property is known as the Derby home and is ' located on South High, directly across from the Fry property. Suburban Tracts Attract Prospective New. Settlers Suburban tracts and diversified farms are the subject of many in quiries received by the multiple listing bureau of the Marion-Polk County Realty association, accord ing to A. C. Bohrnstedt. . i -; With, the listing bureau cooper ating with the development pro gram of the land 'settlement com mittee of the state chamber of commerce, owners of rural proper ties will have these looked : over byr hundreds of prospective set tiers. - All listings made with the multiple listing' bureau are re corded In Portland. This record, not only Includes the. price of the property, 4but , a good description. All nronrttoa nn llsteil will havO been-carefully appraised to prevent j owners from inflating values' and to prohibit them from making a price r so. high that there is no chance of the property moving. The appraisement plan also insures the newcomer of a good and fair price for his purchase.- . I 10H DWELLING PERMITS ISSUED Total for Week Ending April 2b Is $30,650 Future ; Outlook Bright Phone 1185W. AH Work Guaranteed VASBY BROTHERS PAINT CONTRACTORS Estimates Given Free Painting, Kalsomining and Decorating Paperhanging 1703 N.1 Broadway. Salem, Oregon Ten building permits and four permits covering alterations and repairs were issuued during the week I from the office of the city recorder. The " building ' permits ranged between 11200 and $4500, with the majority around $3000. Total permits issued for the week had a valuation of $3-0,650. - So far this month permits rep resenting large expenditures have not been numerous, as nearly all of the more pretentious ' buildings were begun last month. One" or two-ot the local churches are plan ning to spend large amounts in building, while the new YMCA building and the Elks' temple will have a combined -valuation oi nearly $350,000. The buildings will be begun late this fall or early , in the spring. Total permits issued so far for 1924 amount to $1,547,195, in eluding; those, issued' last week. " and 1.3 per cent ahead of Janu ary, while in March they were 3.2 per cent ahead of February, though 3.9 per cent below March a year ago. For ; three months. i they "were 7 per cent ahead ;of 1923.' : j, .... -. ?!wV '; ;:; Car loadings for the third week of March were one per cent below last year, this loss mainly in coal and certainly not in lum ber, but I for three months they were 2.5 per cent ahead of 1923, or , about i the same gain ; as was shown in v the - country's "bank clearings. : ; . . ;" 7 Pig Iron' output for March was 1.7 per cent below a year ago while the the three months total was 2 per cent below 1923; Steel output in March, however, despite all the talk of leisurely buying was little below . the ' peak point reached last May. February gross railway earnings.gained 7 per cent over February a year , ago, while net operating income was 82 .per cent larger than In February, 1923. - ' In failures, i the features . in March and the first quarter were the "dotie- approximation in num ber to the- totals rolled -up in the corresponding periods a year ago, coincident with the second largest quarterly total, of liabilities ever To Salemand - v Vicinity ' We pay transportation on houses at prices listed be low. Send for Catalog No. 3009. - Portland, Oregon UJILJi mn . 'T-riH ' rrk krMn, lakr. LirJn chn.baH. 4iMrpltia, MM witii pacli ha. din- W, aieovca, put mnm cnr inrrinrw. Mvln, rMtn. tfiln room. kUHMn. pmntrr, t bed- IIMiia, cmm. ciinaia, Dtw. Eaini-epeit MuttHiH nmt imda ntnra, mom prim. RiiftinPRR" Nnf OuitA I In tn Qtanrfaprl recoraea e"eeUnK ne "iteperioa up IU OldllUcU UJ Ust year by 70 per cent and sec- of It is significant that .Mars Is the only planet that has nerve enough to .come unusually close to earth this year. ANNOUNGMG A New Shipment of Up-to-the-Mihute 7JP RIDDLE FIXTURES If you are planning to build,1 redecorate or remodel, do not fail to get an estimate on an installation of Riddle Fixtures and above all don't fail . to , come to . our store and see ' the beautiful designs. ' Thcise . Fixtures have . been ' especially planned with reference to the needs of the apartment, . small house or bungalow where the outlay for the lighting instal lation must be kept within restricted limits. . ; The Riddle-Fixtures have an unmistakable dignity of design and can be had In two finishes, silver estofado and cold estofado. . . . , -: - ,j ... WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2 C. Trade, and industrly hardly shaped up to anticipations . in March and the early part of April, writes Frank Greene In his month ly review of business conditions In the. current number of - the Na tion's Business. . "In fact," he says, "trade tended to taper off and Industry slowed down slight ly. Mail order sales, bank clear ings returns, railway car loadings and pig iron output sagged slightly from & year ago, automobile oat- put, dropped below February, though exceeding that of March a year ago ' by a fraction, lumber buying and production slowed down and : commodity prices re peated the action of the preceding three months in seeking a newer and slightly lower level. i "Preparations for a record year In , buUding, however, went ; for ward at an unexampled rate. All the old reasons hitherto assigned ,y total ever recarded, but the pre- iur ma uuuie wi buiuq iuiu&s iu meet expectations, bad . weather. ond only to the last quarter 19071 In the latter year as In 1924, .ban k. suspensions were largely instrumental ln swelling the liabilities totals but" a cheer ful feature of,.the3Iarch liabilit ies was shrinkage indicating that the liquidation in this direc tion in the northwest 'and fother sections' had about run its course. With all the drawbacks of bad weather, bad roads, price uncer tainty, limited foreign markets for American grain and cautious buy ing, the constructive trades have continued as for several years past the wonderfully sustained course of activity that has set them in a class by themselves. Given a sen Bible course by labor as regards wage demands there is apparently ho bar to evn greater activity be ing shown this year. Buildings 1 permitted for In February , were valued at $2 1 4,- 000,000, the third largest month Flesner Electric Co. 471 Court St. ' i t i Phone 980 V bad roads, bad. politics and price uncertainties came in for mention as reasons for the slight visible ef feet of all these causes upon! the total volume of trade and indus- "WhUe on this subject it might be well to remember, that trade reports as a whole have perhaps taken, undue color from what Ls called . piacc-meal buying, the like of which in many trades and in dustries has never before been seen; Also' it may be that .the lateness of the season, with Easter three weeks later than a year ago and .winter conditions prevailing through March may have vitiated comparisons so that the usual sta tistics of, movement do not per haps give a true Idea of the real proportions of trade output and turnover. 'Indeed, the first quarter's fig ures as a wnoie mane a iar oeuer appearance than . do those or March, gains over a year ago be ing general, and it will hardly be claimed that the first quarter of 1923 was a slow period In trade or industry. "Despite the Jag-. alleged in automobile buying output for the Iflrst quarter was '1,040,000 autos and trucks (the latter con stituting about 10 per cent of the total), a gain of 18 per cent over the. first quarter of 1923 and. only 10 per cent below the output of 1,155,281 cars In the peak second quarter of last year. "The irregularity In retail buy ing has been notable this spring. Mail order sales in February were 16 per cent larger than a year ago liminary March, total at 150 cities points to a gain of 24 per cent over February and of nearly two per cent over the high record of March last year.- The . quarterly total of -building promises to ex ceed' the hitherto, peak: second quarter of 1923 by two per cent, while ; gaining 10 per cent over the total for: the first quarter of last year. I , It will be recalled that 'snow balling of wage demands put damper on last year's building boom' in April and much work was undoubtedly postponed. The luture of the building boom, upon which-depend so many other industries, rests and apparently entirely in thehands of labor.' dfccstr w r'n 'wii.- t.wsiis4 Dotch CclonW with foil eaO. ton first mm aaeeod floora. IrxST U vinf roaoa. Iat diif in room, kiteneo, Mirco c4 doco. mwD ma elotboa SM-ol-M i A i rouaw. cwjoMi m.mmtim mum mmi am nm wmsm J i V Doteh Colonial for irido i. .... l inctdo lots or narrow cor- S3. . . 3- Mr latM. rail ilioc ; - . ' 1 oowin room, olomnd - ' . ... 1 mad iut Iron intruc. 1 . . 1 ..V. "W Aladdia eataloy eoa. i . v taina amn diner bc ifff . plana: MM wita in- etDorehas. Brad and inaideoellarer.traaeaa. S and S bodrooma. I I i I Typteml Amorigon homo wit oaad raftora,. thult4 1m ond Di-ntv of wiudow ontilaMn. Grado coilor on atotaat tnamnd lartohath. Prico isxlwdaa all lumber cut to fit: Mgbest srsds intarior woodwork, aiding, flooring, windows doors, glass. - paints, hardware, nail, lath, roof Irw.witlioonplatcinstraetioMaaddrawinr. rolgataald toyoor taton. Pannaaoat Hanw-'W PTiKTAbUC ilanr 'at Ties to choose from. Write today for FBE'E Uonoy.Bavisf Aladdia Catalog No. sooa. v ,. ;. ,..,;: ' THE ALADDIN CO., "' r, PortUad, Orecon. Contractors Rushing Work On New Junior High School Rapid progress ?3 being made on the new Parrish junior high school on North Capitol. - Preliminary work was begun before the final contracts had been signed, as the contractors are obligated to com plete the building In 100 working days from the time the contract was leu : - Fleming's Weekly Bargain While we have over 100 houses to offer,-we are selecting . occasionally one that we are abslutely sure is a specially good' bargain. Granted one qualification only, and that Is; that the property-offered Is suitable to your wants and location, irre-, specttve of the price. If It is not so, then the bargain feature . fades away. If, however, it suits ou, ; you will endorse my statement, that at is a genuine bargain. . At 290 W. Miller Street A 5-roombungalow, and with one room above, in the pink of condition, a large lot, high and dry, and good garden soil, a cellar (dry,) a cor- ' iter; a fine Polk county view (thrown in.) Price $2500, $1000 cash balance, 6 per cent. ; ! ' WM. FLEMING ' i;-:"7 . .Y:"-.;; 41 State . '-'-Z:, V V- , - HERE; MR. HOMEBUILDER I the-. BEST, SAFEST, STRONGEST, and, in the long ran, the CHEAPEST Material oat ot - which to build your borne, . . . . - . It Is BTJT.CLAY HOIXOW INQ TIIiK It Insures Heal tli ' and Comfort. Ask for Catalog and Booklet SALEM BRICK & TILE Salem, Oregon. - BTJILIx. Jk'' Fire-Safety r '- Phono Oi7 . 1 Ufra. of Burned CUy BoTtov BuHdins Tile, Brick, J ' and Drala Tllo. . ! 1 mDOWvGLASS All Sizes., i; Headquarters For SHERWBi ViTLUAlIS FRVS DRUG, STORE SSO N. Commercial St. ;v 20-ACRE BUY : With stock. 'Crop and Imple ments'. Good buildings, - on paved road not far out. Ideal suburban home. Priced right. For sale by, ' CHILDS & BECHTEI Y 540 State Street. - This splendid 8-room modern bungalow with i- two full lots, fruit; berries and nuts, only . 13500.00. '' A. C. BOHRNSTEDT 147 N. 'Com'L St.': - Salem, Ore. WHY RENT ? Close in large house, terms. 642 N. Liberty. $3330. vacant, v - - 4-room bungalow, just finished, full cement basement, fireplace, well built-in kitchen, 630 Electric avenue. ?3,300; $500 icash, balance like rent.- 4- room bungalow "one year old, plastered, good plumbing, garage. $2,150 ; $300 cash, balance like rent. 5- roont bungalow with' sleeping porch,, good plumbing, fireplace, payed street, cement walks, gas range and hot water heater, small lot, 635 North 16th street. 3,000, easy terms. r . . '. 5-room house, new plumbing, plastered, completely re finished, two. large lots. . Academy and north Front street, $2,100. 6- roqm bungalow, all on one floor, basement, good plumb ing, $3,300 ; $500 cash, balance like rent. Large, rtiodern home 1650 south High street, large living " roorrirdining room," kitchen, breakfast nook and den on first floor, also large back porch and toilet, three bed rooms with large closets and large bath room cn second floor. Full cement basement, furnace, fire . . place, garage, fine chicken house, two large lots 10 Ox 150 feet with fine assortment of berries and fruit trees. - Will sell with entire ground' space or will , divide. v ::' vi . V- " ; :" , For Rent-room strictly modern flat, -7C0 lliirfcn street; $40.00. ; - ( . .. " . ; : . , Large corner for store, or garage' Will sell or lease. 74 1 . by 92, half block south of new Elks temple. ' : : , . . . ' .? - ' , , : Realtors , - - 204-203 U. S. Eank BuiUir.-