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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1929)
GARDEN TIME SOON NOW You'll have to do the work but well furnish tools. We also have a complete stock .of builders' hardware SALEM HARDWARE CO. j I I . The Winchester Store? ; ' -. Phone 172 ' - 120 N.' Commercial SL' Mortgage Loans Whether it is for building, or on im proved real estate, we are prepared to negotiate mortgage loans in any arrfount, at short notice Ample funds and a very broad experience permit us to act promptly and advantageously. Hawkins & Roberts Inc. -LOANS 205 Oregon Bldg. j INVESTMENTS INSURANCE Are your rooms Spanish, English, Colonial? Let us lay a floor to match! We have them all period floors in Arm strong's Linoleum to harmonize with any color scheme. Imagine a red floor of vari-hued tiles, ac tually embossed, in your entrance-hall. Think of a beautiful rich black marble in your liv 'iaffrToom. And in your kitchen a floor of atriking Arabesque . . . bright, colorful ' .-. jnct mrrprisingry inexpensive. Armstrong's Floors last a lifetime. And they're so restful to the feet. No wonder. Our expert layers , cement them down over builders' deadening felt. We do it all in a jiffy No fuss, no bother. In a few hours you have permanent floors. No more scrub bing, refinishing. Just brush them off on cleaning days. t x , We'd like to have you. come in and seerar handsome assortment, or just phone 29 and our representative will gladly call. ZiO COURT ST. out otnuy IF! HOTEL 15 PLAN An. expenditure of f 2 5 0.0 00 in south Salem la assured this year If plans all materialize as are now contemplated by the High way Communities. ..Inc.. of Los ngeles, an organisation . which Friday purchased a 250x440 foot tract, from Mrs. V. W. Ohmart. owner of the property. - - - - it, The first step in -this outlay of money came":wlth the payment of approximately 17.00 for "the tract. . 1 ;T This will be followed by the erection of a high Richfield beacon, on' which will be placed three large Neon signs and an 800,000 candle, power beacon light. Near this tdwer. a super service station will be erected. Plans of the company-call for putting the hotel and -store prop erties in a wide semi-circle facing the beacon light. The hotel de signs call for a long one-story structure with finish in Spanish stucco. The Jiotel will not be a cheaj) one" for auto campers use but rather one of appealing to the class of trade which washes the best in accomodations. 1 1 ; : t The Highway Communities ' or-i ganisation, is said to be incorpor ated at $10,000,000 with fire large Los Angeles corporations holding all the stock of the com pany. Plans of the organization call for hotels to be erected up nd down the coasts with a Rich field beacon at each one and with service stations and small stores made a part of the building pro gram. M P Hint HOT PUB UUUIMLn I ir iuji aunt. OF HIS H TEH Charming Yet Not in the Least Radical i it -i . - n 1 li8 Vl vc"-.-- ----- i itiigX.-ri : Office Addition for Water Company is Soon To Be Done -Completion, of a new office build ing 22x37 feet in size as an an nex to the present office building of the Oregon-Washington Water Co.; is expected within the next three weeks. When done the building will house th engineer The tenant for the Walter F Buckner commercial building on South Commercial street has not yet been determined. Mr, Buck ner stated Saturday. Three pos sible lessors have been dealing for the property. A new front, a new roof ana a rebuilt floor are being placed in the building which has a frontage of about 25 feet on the wet sid of. the street. Prior to the renova tion, the structure was occupied for 40 years bya creamery com pany. LaFollett Goes Home; Burglars Enter His Home called to his home In Hlllsbero Saturday when he received the news that his home had been robbed. He said that from the -nformatioo that he was able to get the . robbers had taken Just iboat all his possessions. The representative from Wash IngtoA county left soon fter he received the bad news of the rob bery. He left for his h.om town say ins. that he would be back as soon as he could. BUILDING GETS AWARD Tha annual. architectural awards of the rifth - Avenue aseoclation for 1928 were announced Monday The New .York Life Insurance company building, erected on the site .of" the Old Madison Square Garden, Is selected as the best commercial building erected in the Fifth Avenue section during the last year, and the Dorothy Gray building, at S3 Fifth are aa the second best. Redwfaqg Hatchery Mr. Mattsoa. who conducts a hatchery on. North Front -street. , Salem,. also conducts tine Red Wing hatchery at his poultry rfarot on Rente 1, Salem. He also j snakes specialty or Reds, .Rooks. Black . Mlaoreas, Aneonaa and Whit Leghorns-, of high "grade stock. His basin i has beam aon atantly growing -sine be estab UsImnI a paltry plant east of Salem a few years ae on a. very small CaSt tor opj mt the T2eatifal Pbibs Itook, est yeeur awst trtp owatowa, ye will Cad tt seefl FRUITL AND NURSERY offering Big Reductions on FRUIT TREES Mazxard cherries, seedlings . He ud Up each Sales Yard East side -- of Armory - Office at gas station. Will rade fruit trees - for wood . - a. j. iiatuis ; uver zo yeans ta a Phone 330 or 177511 -e-M- litfTniioMi . 1 i I i'i i i rl TavT-TlOal. 1I2L' "' I MfLAaKO-04 3 5, ?omwnt 3 a lavatory and shower on thVuooer fiSf iTTTy rcmtectnrf lu to ts favor the fad that construction costs are lower than most other types, and the style of this charming house will f flways. Further information sbcHw pUn msfa 'BXVB PLiH TO STUDY COSTS III BUIH Building Time Here Again And Outlook Good; Month Past Shows Large Increase In Sugene, and probably extend to Maxshfleld. Cottage Grove, Rosaburg, Albany and Corvallis. The study will be modeled on the methodst of the cost students baaed, by the Howard Bureau of Business Research. Dean F.vUle Latated. ' Similar studies have al ready been made , la the haildtng- materlal trades, automotive sup plies business, hardware, and oth er wholesale and retail lines. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Feb. 28. A state-wide study of costs in the plumbln bus iness is to be carried on by the research bureau of the buslneu administration school here, under the direction of David H. Faville, dean of the school. It has been an nounced. J The research was requested by the Master Plumbers association of Sugene at e meeting of the as- sociatloa in the Osburn iiotel Mon day evening. A. L. Williamson, former may or of Eugene, who Is prominetit in the local association was the or iginator of the idea and requested Dean Faville to attend the meet ing and to address the plumbers. It was decided that the associa tion turn the work of research tion. The research will be started 3"ttU.; a warBnf"g a Building time Is here. Despite half a month of inclement wea ther in February, permit totals for the month more than doubled those of January, and the activity increased rapidly as the month drew to a close. . t An even greater Bhowlng would have been made, builders believe, except for the change in adminis tration .of building permits inci dent to the Inauguration of the new building department, whereby the building inspector looks over plans for the larger structures be fore issuing permits. At the end of the month he had several sets of plans in his possession. 22 Permits Issued As It was. the month saw 22 permits issued for values totaling 156,092. These estimates are pro bably more conaerflatire than those made In taking out building permits in past years, far the rea son that a graduated scale of per mit fees now obtains, so that a builder Is constrained to hold bis estimate to the minimum and avoid paying a' higher fee; Indications that the Increase In activity will continue Into the present month Is ' furnished not only by favorable weather, but by' the fact that three permits were issued on the first day of the month. One of these was for re pair of the Hollywood theatre building. Important permits is sued lata la February included one for a service station to be erected by Nelson Bros. At Capitol street and Fairgrounds road at a cost store building costing Sgooo on Front street, for Mrs. Emma Mar. Lphy Brown. The building Inspector is con fident that 19 2d will be a good year in construction, for reasons which he is not in all cases at liberty to tell, as builders discuss with him beforehand in manv in stances the buildings which they have in view and this information he cannot give out. Already there is enough construction under way starting and reaching completion to keep the inspector busy along with the necessity for organizing his office and work. The inspector will move early this week Into another office on the same floor of the First Nation al Bank building as the one he has occupied. The present office is room 1103: the new location will be room 1102. New Shaft Begun In Oregon Block; Van Patten 'Boss' 0 In the Salem district is. located one of the lacgeet pheasan tries oe the Pacific coast,-conducted on e private scale. The Benson. Pheas ant Farm la located between Sa lem end Silvettoa, and here thous ands' of young pheasants, arc hatched and brooded and are ship ped to many states of the union for restocking game preserves and parks and for breeding, stock for private and state 7 pbeasaa tries. Several' varieties of pheasants art bred by Mr. Benson, who Is a specialist In this work. He has a wonderful plant and equipment,. In 1 which , labor is re duced to .- i minimum through methods and equipment forbesed ing and rearing pheasants on a large scale. V That interest in dairy herd im provement is on . the increase la Oregon Is shown by the varlout expansions under way la different parts of the abate. Coquille valley Is planning to have two assicia tions for this .purpose and th Crook-Deschutes association L planning: aa expansion, and dairy men of Lane county are consider ing the organisation of an associa: tion. Qao grqup reports that mor herd owners -wish to Join that eaa bo accommodated. This, work Is carried uador the direction of '.he dairy department of the Ore gon Stata Agricultural college. BE TABLET PUT ram brick home The first hreose tablet, certifi mtioa by the Pacific Northwest JrIck and Tile association as to Ul-maaottry walls of aaproved con. "traction was put In place recently y the hand of A. L. Barbur, com missioner of public works. Port land, at an official .gathering .at tended by of fleers, and members 7f the association, the bailders of the home and other Interesting lartios. The bonse receiving the associa tion's official certification a handsome brick residence of med ium slse and recent construction, located at 16S1 E. Thirty-first Ureet. built by the National Con struction company, and recently raid to its present 'owner. : Mr. Bar bur was requested to officiate at the bronse-lsying cer- mony and compiled with the re. quest, expressing Interest in this phase of standardisation la brick construction. A new elevator shaft and new stairs to accompany It Is beta" built In the Oregon building pre paratory to remodeling the larger part of th first " floor when the Oregon, theatre lease expiree ang the new Metropolitan stores he? cin tbelrj occupancy. Cnyler Van Pattern has the contract f the remodeling which began thi? week. Offices on .the north side o the front facing State street arr temporarily discomoded by thr reconstruction work, the new shaft coing through the front rooms.' Notices are being sent out by Williams Lai ox, building, inspector, to all plumbers in the city, call ing attention to section 2S of the plumbing code which requires plumbers to be licensed by the city. GJD - -' Novelty Lanterns : . Useful: f: and -Decorative Does your home look as,at tractive on the outside aa it does on the inside? lag -department of tba company. H. G. 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