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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1915)
5 Winter la Beit Time to Paint Interior of Home HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION' THE greater part of the Interior work on village and country hornet should be done during the Winter months. It Is Invariably post poned until April or May, and tbe patron must wait (lays, sometimes weeks lor the painter, and when he finally arrives the time is bo limited that he cannot turn out a first-class Job. If It Is paper to hang, he can not take time to study out new ideas; If It Is wall paint, he cannot put up the decorations he likes and knows look well. He canuot look after the details as he should because he knows he must be at Brown's the next day or lose a job and a good cus tomer as well. Wall paper of all kinds can be hung as well In the Winter as Sum mer. The paper hanging season should begin January 1. Woodwork can be finished better in February than in July because there Is no dust, or flies, or exceedingly hot weather to contend with. This applies to varnishing, staining, waxing and painting. Cold weather would not interfere with outside painting if it were not for freezing the painter. As long as the surface Is dry, and no frost flying, cold weather has no effect on good house painting. Pure linseed oil, turpentine and white lead cannot freeze. The writer painted buildings five and slit years ago when the thermometer was hovering around zero and they are in a number one condition today. These are not theories but facts and It will not pay anyone to let a new house or barn aland until Spring and get soaked with rain. Get two good coats of paint on it now and finish with the third coat in May or June. Another reason for not having In terior work done iu the Winter months is that people think that everything must be moved out of the rooms while the work is being done, and that it would get soiled before Spring. This is not necessary. How much time does it take to move pic tures, curtains, a few chairs, and a table, or maybe a bed? The average painter would do it In 15 minutes. Then he can throw his canvas over the floor, leaving the rug or carpet down, and bring in his tools and do the work. When through, he rolls up his canvas and takes out the waste paper and dirt, leaving the room clean and bright. When Spring comes take the vacuum cleaner and run over the rug, or take It out and give It a good dusting, scrub the floor and wipe off the woodwork and housecleaning is about over. As for the walls getting dirty, there is nothing to it unless a very cheap grade of paper is used. A good qual ity of paper should last from five to 15 rears, and oatmeal patterns should last even longer providing the walls are good. The writer has seen water color jobs put up by a decorator that have stood for 22 years in a dining room and hallway and were looking fine even after that length of serv ice. - , Give the painter a chance. When he has time to do the work, let him do it regardless of weather or time of the year. Get his ideas. They are nearly always good and are the re sult of years of experience. Follow the advice of the painter and the work will be done better and the owner will always have good work men at his command. ' Good Wood and Feed. Two fundamental factors enter Into the making of a good farm ani malblood and plenty of good, Ju diciously given feed. To go Into the Winter with a nice culf and feed and manage the youngster so that it will weigh very little if any more than at weaning time is false enonomy. Starving a young animal Is a practice very much in keeping with that of a heavy money lender. Ho said he al ways took his notes up about the 20th of September each year for the days were so short during the Wln Mint his notes did not draw enough Interest to pay him to give them his serious auenuuu. ' Cholera Serum. The practice of inoculating 'pigs with cholera serum Is now extensive In Hungary. In the fivo years pre- .oinir Anrll. 1914. government re- nnrta Bhnw thnt more than 1,000,000 animals have been operated on. Pigs intanofl for fattenlnir are generally treated with the serum shortly after being put Into tne rattening sues, and losses are thus avoided. The total citrus shipments from Florida for 1913-14 were 7,665,014 boxes. The Road to Tire Content Join the 400,000 Who Take It ThU spring we urge you, (or your own sake, to End out the advantage o( Goodyear Fortified Tires. You know they must hare an advantage. They have long outsold any other tire. Last year about one-fourth of all tires sold for pleasure cars were Goodyears. Yet we have a hundred rivals. You know that a tire which dominates like that must be a super-tire, In five Wy Goodyear Fortified Tires con spicuously excel. On these five features each exclusive to Goodyear we spend millions of dol lars. And we do it for your protection. One way combats rim-cutting. It has prob ably saved the ruin of a million tires. One saves needless blowouts. That one fea tureour "On-Air" cure- costs us $450,000 yearly. One, by a patent method, combats loose treads. One makes the tire secure. And one is our All -Weather tread. That is tough and double-thick, to resist both wear and puncture. And the sharp-edged grips give tbe utmost in anti -skids. to All these trouble-saving features belong Goodyear tires alone. Big Price Reductions On February 1st we reduced our prices for the third time in two years. The three reductions total 45 per cent. Now our mammoth output enables us to give you the greatest value ever known in tires. G OODPYEAR AKRON. OHIO Fortified Tires RinvCuU by our Ko-Rim-Cut feature. ,1 Blowoutl by our "On-Air" euro. Fwtinea I Loom Trd by many robber rivets. Anlut huweurity by 136 braided plana wires. "S I D ....... mwA SkiMi. hv nut donble- Goodyears are handy to you. We have stocks everywhere. And any dealer who hasn't stock can get them for you quickly. This season get their protection. Get their savings in trouble and upkeep. Know what tire contentment is. They can't avoid all mishaps, but they will save you many a trouble, many 1 II rPf I a dollar. 1 hey are doing that now for some 400,000 motorists. Let them do it for you. After one season with Goodyears, you will never go back to a skimped tire. And never to a tire that lacks Goodycarproiections. Be fair to yourself and prove that. Puncturet and Skidding by our double thick AU-Weatner tread THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO Makers of Goodyear "Tire Saver" Accessories; also Goodyear "Wing" Carriage Tires and Other Types Facts Concerning the Panama-Pacific Fail CELEBRATES the completion of Panama Canal. Gates opened ut 9 A. M., Saturday, February 20; close Saturday, Decem ber 4, 1015. Forty-three states and 42 foreign nations represented officially; other nations by individual exhibitors; more than hare been present at any other exposition in history. Investment represented, StO,O0O,- 000. Concentration of exhibit palaces a triumph of ground plotting. Con tains the largest frame building under one roof in the world -Mnehlnery Hall. Transportation facilities available to handle 50,000 visitors aa hour to and from the exposition gates. Hotel facilities ample for any num ber of visitors. Reasonable rates guaranteed. The only world exposition micro climatic conditions make possible mural paintings on canvas on exterior surfaces. Covers an area of two and one half miles in length by one-half a mile In width along the shore of San Francisco Bay. Tree Grows on Tower. Occasionally Nature performs a miracle seemingly for no purpose but to keep in practice. One of such feats Is the growth of a maple tree on the Courthouse tower at Greens burg, Ind. About 10 years ago the tree started from a seed that had lodged In the masonry. Nourished by the rains it grew a little each year until now It is a sturdy tree with a trunk more than two inches In di ameter and a height of about 12 feet. Greensburg claims the honor of hav ing the only tree-bearing courthouse tower In the world. On every hand is some evidence that Nature dislikes nakedness. Moss and other forms of growth are found clinging to the face of rocks. Every where there is some attempt on the part of the great designer to clothe places which would be otherwise re pulsive in their barrenness. That a tree should grow in such an unusual place as a courthouse tow er, Is of course, a novelty. It was purely accidental that the seed be came deposited. But the fact serves, nevertheless, to bring out the truth of the old law. Take as an addition al illustration a mud flat formed by a flood. All former vegetation has been covered up; too deeply buried to permit of growing up to the surface. But the water in flooding the land has brought with it seeds of many kinds. Soon the ugly appearance dis appears beneath the new grow th. The nakedness lias neen cioineu. By Number. Puzzled Diner (to restaurant waiter) What have you cot for dinner? Walter Roastbeeffricaseedchiok- enstewedlambhasubakedandlriedpota toesjampnddlngmllkandcoffee. PitMled Diner Give me the third fourth, fifth, sixth 18th and 19th syllables. A Says War Will Cause a "Back-to-Land" Movement HIGH official of the Grand Trunk system, on his way through Chicago recently, pre dicted that one of the immediate and biggest results of the European con flict to America would be an un precedented "back-to-the-land" move ment and that both the United States and Canada are on the eve of the greatest agricultural prosperity ever known on this continent. He said that the governments of the various provinces In Western Canada were making elaborate preparations for in creased farm acreage and that, with any ordinary kind of weather, Can ada is sure to have a 300,000,000 bushei wheat crop this year. He cited the fact that the home stead entries the last few months broke all records and that the Brit ish Columbia government has just made available for homesteading nearly 1,500,000 acres of land along the line of the newly-completed Grand Trunk Pacific. Hallway. This land may be had In blocks of 1G0 acres merely on the payment of a small record fee. He said that according to the an nouncement made by the British Co lumbia government a few days ago the following lands have been sur veyed and are open to homesteaders: Casslar district, 146,931 acres; Coast district, 443,000 acres, and Cariboo district, 789,752 acres. Nearly all this land Is tributary to the railway, as nearly half of the Grand Trunk Pacific line In British Columbia U in the Cariboo district.
