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wn.yr-iuir, irotit li , en ivi* rAM hirvr florarr» 102». STATE PRESS URGES HOME INDUSTRY AID phi'iniiiHiliiiiiiii I YOUR OWN HOME Means Freedom of Mind Owning a home of your own means freoloiii and contentment of mind. You eliminate the never ending quest of house-hunting, high rents ami there is the assurance that money you formerly paid into rents is living saved. SEE THESE BARGAINS l-r<»om house, modertf .................. l-room house, modern.................. — K-room house, modern ... 18800 $2700 $8500 Acreage at Attractive Price« and Terms E. L. Galbraith 521 H St. Tuffs Bldg. What the World Is Doing As Seen by Popular Mechanics Magazine) Fishing in thr Ocean with Horse and Wagon One of the most unusual methods of ealrhma ocean list la mu<l to have Ix-en developed in New England. While the use of huge nets s few pules from shore is eotnruun, this particular trap is different lecause of the fact that all the convey ins of workmen and catch is done by horse and wagon—and the trap is more thau two miles out at sea. Along thia strip of Cape Cod ahore the tides completely cover the ocean bottom but, on receding, the water is not more than a few feet deep for several nnlee out As a result, the fishermen can start out With horse and wagon after the tide starts to ebb, gatlier m the fish and re turn to ahore before the water is deep. see One-Man Jazz Band Giv s Effects of Fourteen Instruments Shaped like a guitar with double acta of strings, an instrument with which it is claimed that oue num can produce the effect of a fourteen-picce orchestra has been invented Various hom, cymbal ami flute attachments -re provided with in easy reach of the player's hr nds and lips so that -everai combinations of sounds may be obtained at the same time. Solo parts can also be played if desired. Mirror Lens on Tail Lamp Gdards Auto if Light Is Out With pyramid-shaped prisma on its in side surfaoe, a lens for the automobile tail signa) has been invented to give greater brilliancy to the light and to afford protection for the car even if the l»m[m should go out. The prisma an* so designed that light from approaching can illuminates them a bright red at a distance of 250 feet or more. The lens is inserted with the flat surface out and fits any standard lamp. • • • Waste Auto Oil to Help Solve Heating Problem Heating houses with waste oil periodi cally drawn from automobile crank caws may soon be a means of helping solve the fuel question, in the opinion of ex- perta. Already gnnige owners in an east ern city are mixing thia worn-out lubri cant with fuel oil and burning it to heat their establishments. Experiments are now under way to determine the possi bility of using this refuse in oil burner» for dwellings. In one state alone, it is estimated fifteen million quarts of this sulistance, equivalent to 15,000 tons of coal, are thrown away yearly. Gaso line itself once was a left-over product, hut with the coming of the auto its con sumption increased until in 1922 more tlian sixty billion gallons were used in the United States alone. There were Just two things that Tom Kendall could do well. One was to shave his father on Sunday mornings and holidays; the other to press the old man’s trousers once a month. Tom’s father, John, was a back woodsman in the hills out side of Lynchburg, Va. His mother and sister had been burned to death In a forest fire. Ho was scarred and partially crippled In tho same flames. In 1904 when Tom.was 15, his father was killed. Tom made his way on foot to Richmond where he secured employment as a talley boy In the freight yards of the Southern Railway. He was paid $5 a week and was allowed to sleep in the rear of a locomotive shop. Two years later with (i»tl he had saved from his scanty earn ings he laid in a stock of candy, cigars, magazines, fans and gum and was permitted to sell them on passenger trains. Trainmen taught him to read and write and by the time ho was twenty-one he had educated himself, equivalent to the first year in high school. Inci- dcnnlly he had saved (1,425. With this money he went to New York. He opened a small tailor shop on Broadway. In one year he built up a trade that encouraged him to open a larger shop. Just before the world war he moved to Montreal where he opened a still larger tailor shop. On tho New Sport with "Walking Stick” Stilts and the “pogo” slick are com bined in the devier shown in the drawing to provide a new s|K>rt for the children. The user mounts the footboard and tips the stick toward the left and right alter nately with body movements, turning the handle st the same time so that the action of the device closely resemble« walking. The stejw are of good length ami the operation is not tin-some. The construction of the device is shown in the insert. The legs are made from a length of %-in. flat iron about 1*4 in. wide, bent to the shnpe indicated. A -rum brace of the same ynalenal is riveted to the li-gn alxiut halfway betwveu the bot tom and top. To this brace a 4-ft. length of %-in. gas pipe is riveted, the Vnd of the pipe being slit with a hacksaw and bent, the ear» so formed being lient out ward. flattened and drilled for the rivets. A footboard, with a bole drilled to fit on the pipe loosely, is slipped over the pipe and rests on a large metal washer placed over the top of the legs. A %-in. rod is driven through a hole drilled near the top of the pipe to serve as a handle. The fuottHiard is loose so that the user can operate the device without moving Ins feet but by giving the handle a twisting motion tnd swaymg the body from side to side. • • • ([The world spends (200,000.000 a year for matches, seven for each person being the average ilaily consumption. day war was declared he sold his business for (11,000 and enlisted iti a Canadian regiment. Ha was gassed in the Argonne and wounded in a later engagement. At the close of the war he returned to Montreal, drew out his money and bought a prise chicken farm in Ottawa Today he is married, has a palatial home, two growing boys and is called wealthy. He says he will eventually quit, return to Lynchburg, buy a home and enjoy the life of a country gentleman. r i er wrr lime of Isolation when a farmer or'e ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦! HOLLYWOOD GOHHIP 4 country resident sent to a mail or- ♦ der house in the big cities for his re ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦! quirements is past.” Ily Boti Quick Pine Valley dlerald: "I would Gems valued at (HO.000 were < as soon send a dollar out of town as il; ed for the filming of Dorothy Dal to give It to yon to lock up and ton’s latest picture. “The Moral Sin-! hoard away until you can move else ner.” The guarding of this Jewelry furnished a weighty problem for the where to spend it." Arlington Bulletin: “People of property man in charge. It was Oregon huve been taught by their finally decided to store them away newspapers to prefer Oregon Made each night in an old safe used in Goods which in general have earned one of the thief scenes. This was a reputation of being superior in Jone and fortunately no suspecting thief happened around. Of course quality and to be fairly priced.” Sutherlin Sun: "When represen heavy Insurance was carried on these tatives of foreign products offer you precious gems, (but what a haul for their wares tell them you are living some enterprising hurgler! The Oregon «tale Editorial A mo elation at its annual convention had an unusual feature of Interest In the form of an exhibit <»t 12.'» editorials and articles printed In Oregon papers within the past six months upon the topic of ‘‘Benefits to Town and Country of Patronizing Oregon In dustries and Home Town Mer chants.’ A cash' prlxn ot (10 was put up for the best editorial or article along among peoplq -who patronize you and constructive lines und especially your duty is to them." Born in ttiicago. with regard to originality, logic of Silverton lAppeal: "Housewives, Dorothy Dalton was born in Chi uppeal, und practical Illustrations A I because they constitute a greater cago. III. She started her career on large committee of Judges spent con part of the buying public, khould be tbe stage with a stock company and siderable time reading the articles come conversant with the quality ot later in vaudeville in an act of her submitted. When the decision of superior Oregon made goods and own. Her first screen experience liie judges was referred to the edi made aware of the negligent part was with Thomas H. Ince in "The torial convention the prize money they are enacting by not insisting ' Disciple.” Her versatility and per was voted to the Medford Clarion, upon these goods." sonal charm have won her a place ■ William E. Phipps, editor, and the : < Port Orford Tribune: "Every dol high among the leading picture 1 Bend Bulletin, Robert W. Sawyer, lar rung up on the cash register of stars. | editor, on a -fifty-fifty basis. a local 'business house is a bet that The four leading articles upon the confidence reposed by the merch.vnt James Rennie. topic suggested mentioned in the of in his townsmens dvis pride is not Perhaps some readers will be in ficial report were the Clarions "Keep misplaced—every dollar spent for terested to know that James Rennie. the Money at Home",, the Bulletin’s .home products backs the merit of Dorothy Dalton's leading man in “Insure Yourself", the Ashland Tid- the article purchased.’ “The Moral Sinner," is the husband Ing's "With Ashland Trade In Ash of Dorothy Gish, famous for years land Made“ and the Sutherlin Sun's as one of D. W. Griffiths' proteges. "The Home Merchant and Oregon Products". Patsy Itutli Miller Dreamed and Following are paragraphs from a Played Being an Actress. number ot the articles In the sym Patsy Ruth Miller gained her first posium: experience in the worlds moat diffi Radio has turned politics upside cult theatre. At the age of 14 she Bend Bulletin: “Buying al Home is a sort of Insurance of which you down. In the "good old days" a po created roles for herself and played should take full advantage. It safe litical orator could tell a string of them in* real life. guards the quality of the merchan funny stories, make a flamboyant ■Dreaming of a theatrical career dise you buy since it gives you op stall at oratory and get away with it. from her earliest days, the charming portunity to test your purchases. The microphone is a great leveller. It young Paramount star seized every When you buy Oregon Made Goods demands short, snappy speeches. The opportunity to play various charac you are writing insurance for your radio audience wants the political ters which presented themselves to self. You are insuring employment speaker to "get down to brass tacks" her imagination. and "cut it short.” The spell-bind and payrools. It was the custom of the Miller Medford Clarion: "People of Ore er has been booted into limbo. He family to spend vacations at popu gon are asleep at the Rip Van Win has gone where the woodbine twin- lar resorts. Whenever Patsy found kle switch. What Pied Piper will eth. Another scalp for radio. herself safely away from family cir- awaken them? . . Money sent away cles in St. I-ouis. she created a new The Prince of Wales, who. as Lord character for herself and acted it it spent with local dealers, would Renfrew, sails for America on the for the benefit of new acquaintances. enaible them to carry more goods and veil for less. Larger s'oeks ot goods S. S. Berengaria (he last week in She was so successful in adding to mean an increased valuation for as- August, is expected to speak to the her age that her new acquaintances aaaamet t, thus mutually reducing radio audience from one of the Ca never doubted her stories. taxes. Prosperous merchants employ nadian stations. There is a possi more help, build better h juies r.nd bility that he may speak from Col. ••Wes" l urch.'se local products and com Green's New England station before Wesley Barry is now just 17 years he leaves far his ranch in the Cal modities. old, and for the past 10 years has gary district. ¿Ashland Tidings: The silver been a popular screen calebrity. dollars and paper bills that are con There are many complaints that; “Wes” has lost some freckles since veyed from your community to the WNYC, the station of the City of' he began to troup in pictures, but coffers of business in other cities New York, drowns out WEAF, the has developed talent which has more and in other states are reducing the station of the American Telephone than offset the disappearance of the volume ot sales . . and working and Telegraph Company. This must facial sun spots. He first worked capital ot your city and community." be a source of satisfaction to Hon. ! for Marshall Neilan who was making Sutherlin Sun: "The money spent Grover Whalen, who fought WEAF Ham and Bud comedies for Kalem. with your home merchant enables for the rigid to have a city owned Gertrude Olmstead. him to enlarge his business . . . station and won. improves prosperity and encourages "Isn’t she charming?” Gertrude new industry to locate in the city Rudolph Valentino, the Sheik of j Olmstead is just the type which and furnish employment for many the movie world, and Alfred H. ' causes such a remark from all who others.'* Grebe, the Richmond Hill Radio In come in personal contact with this The Dalles 4'hronicle: "Buy at ventor, have been making a series of pretty young screen star. Gertrude Home is the motto of every progres experiments in broadcast reception. hails from Chicago way. where her sive community and the catch word Valentino wahted a set powerful father enjoys a big dentistry busi of every state with Industries to de enough to get WEAF when he is in ness. Her entrance in the picture Spain this fall. A special set to meet world occurred in 1920 and since velop.’ -Morning Astorian. "The Boom such a requirement has been evolved. that time she has been continuously working before the camera. erang Dollars"—Astoria is building The Pacific Coast Station "KGO". a new city with a disaster-depleted capital. Let every Astorian make at Oakland. Calif., seems (,o hold the Many Spanish Prieoner« Bure that he is using boomerang dol world's distance record. Letters from Liberated by Old Secret lars and the task will be an easy one New Zealand, four thousand miles Lisbon. —So ninny political prison but it our doll*s are taken out of distant, tell of hearing the Sunday ers Imve escaped recently from the night concerts on the loud speakers. our orbit of trade hard times will fortress of St. Julien, on the Tagus soon knock at the door." river, that the place impresses a vis Harry H. Carman, of Freeport. Aurora Observer: "The home itor as being deserted. Eleven men Long Island, or technically speaking spent dollar increases your credit made u successful exit a few days ugo. and helps provide a home market for “2 EL," is called the country's best whereupon un Investigation was made known amateur radio broadcaster. to find out why tloose who thought home products." He has been heard in England. prison life Irksome found it so easy Scio Tribune: "Every time a ship France. San Francisco. Santa Cata t > slip away. ping point is closed (tor lack of bus Outside of the fact thnt guards lina Island and other distant points. iness) every farm is removed as Postcards from many lands ac tiroliiibly were bribed the authorities many miles away from market as learned tlgit some years ago a pris knowledge reception of his station. the next nearest shipping point and oner escuped^by cutting n hole in a every mile means your farm has de wall and digging a tunnel to u point creased in value several dollars per «**♦♦**♦*♦**»♦♦***«******* outside the prison. The wall was tilled up by a bricklayer among the acre." prisoners. This man, possessed of 606,054 Passenger* Cottage Grove Sentinel: "Get the imnginutlon, stopped the hole with Entered U. S. Ports Oregon spirit as well as the Oregon thin boards which he covered with New York.—Figures submitted brand . . . the more industries plaster anti announced a tinlshed Job. recently by W. C. Moore, landing we help to build the more dollars Subsequently he was freed, but he * agent at Ellis Island, show 006,- i we will get from Portland down * waited until certain of his friends i 054 passengers entered this port here." were In confinement in the same for- In 1923 on 1,002 liners. Fit st Wallowa Sun: "Our task aa tress and then smuggled In a letter ela* passengers numbered 84,- telling them the secret of the thin boosters is to bring about confidence 834; second, 214,501, and third, boards, which he alone knew. and community co-operation . the 306.589. closer home we send dollars the : Vessels of the International w more likely they are to wander back. I Mercantile Marine made 194 * ♦++4+-H444+++++++++4+4++* * 'Redmond Spokesman: "Buying I s trips to New York. The Cunard * Line docked 136 vessels; the * Radio Calls Son to home products is ono form of con United States Lines, 104, and the * serving our own resources will Hi» Stricken Mother bring a higher development ot com i French Line, 77. Winsted. Conn.—Called home Vessels of the United States * munity and individual." from California by a radio mes Army transport service brought I ■Hood River Glacier: "We must sage Informing hint that Ills 824 passengers. Including 12 * mother, Mrs. William L. Par set aibout to divert that stream trips from Cristobal and one X t sons, was seriously 111, Frederick which now flows onward at every ftoni Antwerp. Parsons of Maybrook. N. Y.. a United States Lines revests X election time in a flood of idealistic conductor on the Central New- brought 45,948 passengers. destructiveness toward a channel England railroad, arrived at her that will lead toward more friend »>****»**#*•»♦*•»>#*♦##♦♦**« bedside recently. liness for new enterprises." Mr. and Mrs. Parsons were Hat Huge Opium Trade Lebvnon Criterion: "(Dollars at touring the West nnd ns their The most profitable trade In South work in the houne community create exnet whereabouts was un an unbending line of faithful ser Persia, In the last twelve months, was known news of his mother's 111 In the export of opium, via the Persian vants who bring development and tit-ss was broadcast in the West- gulf. Increased wealth to benefit every ern states. Parsons heard the message In section and resident." Covered Up California und with his wife Hood River News: "Made in Ore Unlike most other pecks, in a pec'.- ¿turfed nt once for the Eust. gon should be the first consideration of trouble the largest ones are not with the Oregon consumer. . The always at the top. RIVOLI TO NIGHT DOROTHY DALTON in “THE MORAL SINNER” From the Stage Play "LEAH KLESEIINA" A stirring no-lo-draina of Paris boulevards and lawless Apache haunts. Comedy Al St. John in “His First Car” and STATIC Fox News Betty Brown’s Hoix> Sequidilla Waltz Mat.' 25; Eve. 35; Children 10 Life of Railroad Spiker The durability of railroad spikes depends entirely on the type of truck and traffic hauled; however, heavy spikes should last about fifteen years and light spikes from twenty-one to twenty-five years. For general re pairs approximately thirty-six spikes per mile per month may be used. Perfume a la Mode “And there was an odor that lurked about her. It was rich and comforting. Once, when lie leaned toward her, he thought she smelled sweetly of new milk and fresh young onions and dean-turned sod.”—From u Story in the Saturday Evening Post. Mining location notices Courier office. at the Home Painting" book five Tells you just what you want to know when doing paint ing jobs around the place—tells all about preparation of sur faces—brushes—how much paint or var nish to buy —what to do and not to do to get satisfactory re sults. Its your paint* ing guide. ! Just tell any Fuller dealer to get one for you. He’ll have it for you within 24 hours. for any rvt.LFR prodüct consult THE NEAREST FULLER DEALER: Valley Hardware Co. W. P. FULLER * CO. 301 Miaaion Street, San Franciaco 21 Branche« la Pacifie Coaa» Citte« F uller PAI NT S £39 VARNISHES RIONCIK WHITE LEAO MM J
