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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1924)
on. urrà SATVTIIIAY, WAY 10, 1031. fams daily conur.'B PAOF. ttttift . Spanish Type of Home That ** Is Gaining Wide Popularity r Houses, iike folks, need new clothes! Does your liouie need new clothes this spring? Or is it already all that it should be neat and trim and self-respecting— a house worthy of the children who live within—a beautiful home that the whole neighborhood frankly admires. Thousands of home lovers now know that the use of Acme Quality Paints and Varnishes affords the most economical and the most satis factory method of creating and protecting home beauty. For forty years, the paint and varnish products bearing this name have been recognized as the standard of the industry. We sell Acme Quality because our experience and the experience of our customers indicates that it is the best paint that can be made. ~ ACME QUALITY Paints, Enamels, Stains, Varnishes ROGUE RIVER HARDWARE CO. Grants Pans, Oregon extending beyond your porch line, cuf fing off your air and light. It means that your savings invested in your home will be protected against neigh borhood nuisances and artificial de preciation.” Improvements Aid Town Says It Is Necessary to Satisfy Home Owner If you love to play a game with cer tain well-defined rules to follow to win; if you love to plan and dream and then work hard for the fulfillment; If you love to dare and venture; if you love action; then tyke 1.000 or 2,000 acres of agricultural land and make It a new town with thousands of peo ple residing therein, says B. E. Taylor, member of the Detroit real estate board. If you are partial to drastic, violent activity, plan and build the new town in 24 months. Where only half a dozen homes are built on a single subdivision the pur chaser of a home often has a long, tedious wait for these advantages. Floor Plan. The American Is In high speed and planned that the bed may be placed he wants and demands things quickly Cv WILLIAM A. RADFORD M- William A. tladford will answer to Insure ample ventilation of the and the new town with Its quick, big qw-.tlwna xn<l <r» advtrS- I-'KKK OF rooms without placing the sleepers In growth enables him to secure them ■ T on all subjects pertalilns to th» The convenience of the clos rapidly. • -I of bu 11 (11 n a. for th» readers of » drafts. Another Important element Is the this : ar%r On account of his wMe ets shown in the floor plan tell their »XI»- r»»nc» as Editor. Author r.nd own story. The bath room may be social life of the community. A com- Man»itactur»r, h» is. without doubt, reached readily from either of the mun"y hall should b< among the first th» highest authority on all th»’» sub- buildings erected. jtets. Addrass all Inquiries to William rooms. An Improvement association should The house is designed with a stucco A Radford, No. 1S27 I’ralrla avenue riiie.i««. III., and only Inclose two-cent exterior which may be npplled with be formed whose members are com • tarnt» for reply. i satisfaction over several types of posed of all the men and women living •‘Home keeping hearts are the hap i base, frame construction with wire In the new community. This associa piest hearts," gome one 1ms s.ahl with lath or wood lath as a basis for the tion ¡»erfomis valuable service in the great aptness, knowing well that the stucco; hollow tile or concrete blocks. civic and social betterment of the com statement Is proved by the longing Cost of this home can be learned munity. for home-owning, which is embedded best from your local architect, con Making the home owner completely In utmost every human heart. tra.'tor or dealer In building material. satisfied goes far toward building up Ami particularly are home keeping Cost of material, because of freight the new town. A town .inhabited by hetuts happy when the home Is de- rates, «nd of labor vary so much In happy, enthusiastic, satisfied boosters slgtnxl with due consideration for the the l ifted States thnt It is Impracti is a wonderful sales force. wants of the family group which Is cal to give an estimate which would be Tn building a new town, be sure to to occupy It. Now, as never before, approximately accurate for all sec make the home owner satisfied. expert attention Is being devoted to tions of the cotinlry. the design and construct'on of homes for families of moderate size, homes which sacrifice nothing In beauty and Sufficient Grate Area It Isn’t Your Town—It’s You . onvenlenee heenuse they sre meant Necessary to Efficiency *4*-:-*4444-:>4>4>44>4-44»*+4-t-4>+*4»* for the modest household. The chief characteristics of a good Such a house Is the one shown In want to have the kind of home furnace are sufficient grate area to If you town the ntvompanylng Illustration. With support the fuel necessary to give out Like the kind of a town you like. the undoubted advantage, particularly ! the required heat when burning, and You needn't slip your clothes in a grip to the housewife, of having all of the And start on a long, long hike. rooms on one floor. Is combined a re j the grate must have the necessary You'll only find what you left behind, , openings In It to allow the proper For there's nothing that's really new. markably beautiful nnd studied sim a knock at yourself when you plicity of design. The well-worked- j quantity of air through for cotnbus- It’s knock your town; out balance of the predominating i tion. The nrea of tjiese openings will It isn ’t the town—it’s you. | vary with the kind of coal being straight lines Is modified pleasingly j burned. You wouldn't expect, if you mined your by the arches of the entrance and soil, It must have a good-sized fire pot, porch. The Insertion of colored Bumper crops that you used to get; Inrge enough to hold sufficient coni plaques In the stucco adds a delightful Nor aught but runts from feeding stunts; touch, while the roof offers pleasing to keep the house comfortably warm for nt least twelve hours, when filled Nor payments without a debt. possibilities In the way of colored One gets returns from what he earns, to the level of the furnace door. roofing material. must first be due. It should have a large coinbustion If Something The design Is of Spanish type, your town doesn't pay, look at it this way, which originated on the Pacific coast space above the tiro In order that the It isn’t the town—it's you. and rapidly Is growing In popularity In volatile hydrocarbon gases which dis all parts of the United States. Its til from the coni will have time to Real towns are not made by men typical bungalow construction allows burn before going out through the afraid That others will get ahead. It to be built with proper safeguards chimney. W hen every one works and nobody There should be a Inrge heating sur to Insure coolness In summer and shirks. face exposed»to the hot gas on one warmth In winter. You can raise a town from the dead. «Ide ami water or tdr on the other And if, while you make your personal The front doer opens directly Into stake. the living room of pleasant proper In order to allow time for the trans Your neighbors can make one, too. Hons, dominated by the tireplace at fer of the heat to the heating medium Your town will be what you want it one end, which forms a natural center nnd the reduction of the temperature to be; It isn’t the town—it’s you. for the grouping of the furniture for of the hot gases going to the chimney. —Thurston (la.) Civic Pep. the room. The length anil locution of the windows Insure adequate lighting Method of Renewing for this room. What Zoning Means Colors of Rugs Given The dining room, with the wide Zoning is the last word in city beau Grass nnd fiber rugs thnt have be opening off the living-room, opens at once to the guest entering the home come dull and color-worn may be tification, as it is understood in the progressive vocabulary of the first a vista which magnifies even the nat greatly Improved by an application ural spaciousness of the two com of oil color. There Is really no end quarter of the Twentieth century. bined rooms, tine of the moat pleas to the number of shades which may We had to get down to the last letter of the alphabet before we got to It. ing features of this room Is that It he obtained nnd the results repay one Formerly city beautlfi-atlon meant opens directly on the porch to the ninny times for the small expenditure. Materials: Colors ground In oil. little more than providing the city with side of the house, suggesting cool sum parks, planting trees on some streets mer dinners. This porch Is available One-half pound for light shades, one pound for deeper shades. Two quarts and here and there a good bit of archi also from the living room. tecture. The arrangement of the kitchen, gasoline or turpentine. But zoning regulates and determines Method of treatment: Take a ha- with Its separated entryway and the where nnd what that architecture Is sln out of doors. I ’ our Into It two convenient arrangement of the tnldo, Adil to be. sink, Imllt-ln cabinet, range, and other quarts gasoline or turpentine. Av a Philadelphia paper aptly says: color sufficient Io get the features, will appeal to the cook, par oil ‘•Stripped of technicalities, zoning Let It dissolve thor ticularly to those who have struggled shade desired. Apply the mixture with s means thnt If you live in a home In a kitchen either too large or too oughly. scrub brush or whisk broom. Be neighborhood no one can build a pub small for comfort. lic garage next door or put a soap sure to use it outside, never Inside the The sleeping room quarters are at tractively arranged, with both bed house. Allow the rttg to dry well be factory beside your back yard. It means that no one can buy a comer rooms having cross ventilation and so fore taking Into the house. property and build n fancy »tore front .o - MANY F/.MOUS VEN STUPID IN SCHOOL WhenYouMOuikIWell Napoleon, Clue’:«* and Dar win Slow Scholars. Ileldellierg. — German Idsturlans driving lnt<i the distant punt lune com piled it lint nf of the "Pi*ck*s Bud Boys'* nnd the '*'¡*0111 S iiwjii ’.* of Eu. rope who became not Id figures In achievements nf various kinds nnd es pecially nn the battlefield. X’npidisin stnml» first. nut thnt lie was a particularly bud buy. but be cause of his campaigns anti iicctun- pll'hnnnts which brought him ever lasting fame. Nupolcon. It is recorded, was ulwnys a constant source of an noyance to Ills teachers, and when lie win n military academy »laden: he wns known ns one of the most stupid young men In Ills or any of the other du ages. One of Napoleon's opponents in war In Inter years, the duke of Wellington, wns known as ii Inz.v youngster, mid In his school days Ills thoughts al ways appeared to be preoccupied with matters other than books or study. General Blucher wns another who, ac cording to German custom, wns known as n “lust place” pupil, one of the class relegated to the rear seats In the schoolroom because of their unwilling ness to learn. Charles Darwin never eared much for his schoolroom tusks, ‘'but always np|tenred more Interested In birds and animals nnd things In the grant out doors, nnd wns known among I he other youngsters ns having n weak ness for chasing every cat or dog In sight.” Isaac Newton wns another "last place** pupil. Nelson, the British naval hero, while not exactly n bud boy In school, Is listed ns having no talents at nil, nnd even below the average In his clnsses. It is a pure waste of money to poorly construct a home or any other building. Only the best construc tion can stand the test of time, and return a profit on your investment. In order to build well, you must have the best ma terials and the best tools. Experienced builders’ al- • ways buy their equipment at our store and specify- Master Builders Tools Fully Guaranteed by the Manufacturer and by us to Give the Longest Service Valley Hardware W. I). Fry Cedar Posts WIDE FIR, PINE AND CEDAR a************************* I .ook at Our Stock 3 t New Method Used to Heal Severe Burns T T ■ i I»ndon.—Disllgurcment from $ Injuries by burns Is prevented ■ by n new way of treating bums Just tried at the London hos- I : pltai. The patient Is left without dressings or bandages of any de scription, the places affected be ing simply washed with bornclc acid, mid atearat%ot tine Is ap Jt plied. I • Little medical attention Is re- qulretl afterward, the burns bo- Ing allowed to heal on their own. II Before von buy. Valley Lumber Co. West F Street I ************************** The improvement bodies propose to apply the same idea to the smaller things tlmt need to be done in the city; to a street that ought to be ex tended ; a park that ought to be estab lished; an unsightly object that ought to be removed from a boulevard. un<!| to the thousand and one odd thingi-l that need attention In every big clty.l The modern city Is judged by the at-| tention given these details, some of them apparently of little consequence when considered alone, but all of them together making up the difference be tween a neat and attractive city and a city thut Is neglected, run-down and devoid of an alert community spirit. Problems of the Garden Tuberose bulbs should be treated the same as other summer flowering bulbs, like the dahlias, cannas or gladioli, by digging them up in the fall and storing them in a frostproof place, where they will be free of heat and moisture. The behavior of your Illium auratuui Is quite common with that variety. They will frequently grow quite well and set flower buds, but the buds, when about to open, will turn yellow, drop off and the plant will lose Its foliage. Experts have been us yet unable to accurately. determine .the cquse. TOTAL U. S. WEALTH IS $320,000,000,COO Shows 72.2 Per Cent In crease in Ten Years. Washington.—The American nation, reputed to be the richest In the world, is worth «320,803.862.000, the Depart ment of Commerce reported recently. In ten years, between December 31. 1912, and December 31, 1922, when the last survey was made, the national wealth Increased 72.2 per cent. On December 31. 1912, It was placed at «189,299.1164.000. Per capita wealth Increased from $1.950 in 1912 to $2.918 In 1922. nn In crease of 49.6 per cent. The huge Increase In the money value of the nation's wealth, the de partment said. Is due principally to the rise In prires In recent years, and not entirely to a corresponding In crease in- the quantity of wealth, as economists figure It. All classes of property, except live stock, Increas.'d In value In the ten- year period, the department reported. The estimated vnlue of taxed real property nnd improvements Increased from $96.92.1,406.000 to «155,903,025,- 000, or 60.9 per cent. Exempt real property, exclusive of national parks and monuments, rose from «12,313.520,000 to «20,505.819,000. or 66.5 per cent. Stocks of goods, vehicles other than motor, furniture nnd clothing rose from $34.334.291.000 to »75,983,007.000, or 121.3 per cent. Railroads and their equipment rose from 816.148,522,000 to »19,950,800.-1 000. or 28.5 per cent. I Privately owned telephone nn<l| transmission enterprises, other than railroads. Increased from «9,572.855.- 000 to »13.607.570,000, or 42.1 per cent. Manufacturing machinery, tools nnd Implements rose from «6.091,451.000 to «15.753,260,000, or 159.1 per cent, nn Indication of the Industrial expansion of the country. Farm implement machinery In creased from «1.368.225.000 to «2.004,- 038,000, or 90.4 per cent. Live stock values slumped from »6,- 238.389,000 to »5.307.104.000, or 6.9 ¡>er cent. Other Increases reported follow: Privately owned water works from »290,000,000 to $360,885,000, or 24.4 per cent; gold and silver coin nnd bul lion from »2.616.643.000 to «4,278.155,- 000 or 03.5 per cent, nnd the United States navy from «402,352,000 to »1,- 445,992,000, or 250.4 per cent.
