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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1929)
IPJTOE TEN CHARLES R. RAY REALTOR Representing Coast State Underwriters of The Hartford I'iro In3. Co. New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company The Travelers Life, Health and Accident Insurance 203 Medford Bldg. Phone 302 STANDARD PRODUCTS, INC We now make WELL CURBINGS to line well.; cheaper than brick or (tone; ever-lasting; easy to curb; strong and desirable for Septic Tanks Vi the price of other curbing. We still carry the cheapest brick in town in Class "A" Garden Benches Jardinieres EVERYTHING IN CEMENT! If not in stock we'll make It for you. ALSO FIREPROOF BUILDING MATERIALS AND ROOFING t "We Meet Our Customers With a Smile". Cor. Fir & 10th Street Phone 1077 SAFE STORAGE For your Furniture and Household Goods , ' . . . .... Modern warehouses reasonable rates DAVIS TRANSFER & STORAGE 29 S. Grape Phone 644 The Roof over your head! A MOST important part of , your house the roof over your head. It should be durable, fire-resistant, water proof, and colorful, is yours? We can give you all these desirable qualities in a roof of Johns-Manville Shingles cither the permanent asbestos shingles or the durable asphalt. There are colors and styles practically custom made for your new house or for re roofing right over your old shingles. Let us tell you how little a good roof really costs. Trowbridge Lumber Yard See Trowbridge Cabinet Works for Windows, Doors, Screens Everything in Woodwork J L BROWN & WHITE AGENCY, Inc. J. C. Collins Mgr. All Form of Fire Automobile Surety Livestock Health & Accident Insurance Holland Hotel Block Phono 130 This Is fire Prevention Week! PROCLAMATION Slate of Oregon, Kxecutivo Department, ' September 27, 1929. . Till? annual loss of llfo and proporty by fire In the stnto and nation is enormous. Jjist year the nation's fire loss amounted to Four Hundred Seventy-two Million Dollars, and that or t ho state of Oregon to Six Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars. Up to Septembor first of the present year, Oregon's loss by firo amounted to approximately Three Million Dollars, not Including the tremendous devastation visited upon our great forest wealth. Fully Eighty per cent of this loss Is attributed to thoughtlessness and carelessness. Each year, as a means of awakening the peoplo to tho enor mous extent or this waste and the necessity for more deter mined resistance of this annual economic loss, a week is set aside for Bpecial observance of tho causes or fire hazard and of means of their prevention.- This year by Presidential pro nouncement, the week of October G to 12, inclusive, has been designated as Fire Prevention Week. x Believing that every effort now exerted In behalf of precau tion against fire will yield abundant future returns In the con servation of precious human lives and valuable properties, Now, therefore, I. I. 1 Patterson, Governor of the State of Oregon, by virtue of the authority In me vested, and in con formance to the proclamation of the President of the United States, do hereby proclaim tho week of October C to 12 as Fire Prevention Week, and I sincerely urge all people of Oregon, all industrial, commercial, civic and fraternal organizations, anil the press and pulpit of the state to unite in Uiis annual season of observance of precautionary measures to the end that I ho scourge of fire may be abated. In tesdmony whei oof, I have hereunto set my band and caused Iho seal of the State-of Oregon to bo nflixed hereto on this 27th day of September, A. 1). 1929. (Seal) . I. U PATTERSON-, Clovornor. Ily tho Coventor: HAL 13. 110SS, Secretary of Slate. r Mayor Pipes Proclaims Week In tho Interest of fire pre vention throughout this part of the country Muyor A. W. Pipes Issued the following proclamation: By proclamation, the Presi dent of the United Statos has designated the week of Octo ber 6 to 12. Inclusive, as Firo Prevention Week. llellevlng that ovory effort possible in five prevention should be put forth by our peo ple, and reulizlng the import ance of co-operation upon our part with the leadership of our President, for tho conservation of life and property, . 1 I, A. W. Pipes, mayor of the City of Medford, proclaim tho week of October 0 to 12 an Fire Prevention Week, and call upon the rm)Io of Medford and scenic Southern Oregon to unite in observance of this sea son, to the end that tho fire scourgo may bo lessened in the succeeding years. A. W. PIPES, Mayor of .Medford. Statement By Roy Elliott J Every week In the year should be "Fire Prevention" week, but it Is well that tho full extent of the fire menace be brought to our attention more forcefully now and then. This Is the purpose of Fire Pre vention week which we offici ally observe at this timo. Tho schools, by educating tho children In the Importance of being careful with fire nt home or in the woods, can do a great deal in cutting down the annual loss by fire in the fill uro. At the close of a summer, wbon the fire hazard has been particularly bad, we should all co-operoto in changing the situation in 19H0. ' ' IlOY EU.IOTT, Firo Chief. PAHol mes INSURANCE WjENGY SMC (909 You Will Be Surprised At How Much You Can Save By Consulting Us. MEDFORD INVESTMENT CO. GENERAL INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS Telephone 1224 When You Contemplate Buying Make Every Weelc INSURANCE Kre Prevention Week " DC A f rcT A Tr ant Protect yourself against-Financial Loss Or KLAL tb I A 1 L by INSURING in Oregon's oldest Fire In surance Company Counsel tho "Tengwald" Office Oregon Fire Relief Association Hotel Holland T rrrr a ' ' . . M C. L. GOFF, Agent Phone 993 44N.Kiverside Charles A. Wing BEEBE & SIMS Agency, Inc. REAL ESTATE , Every Form of j - INSURANCE INSURANCE In Old and Tried Companies 18 N. Front, Medford Phone 895 S' Bartletfc ' I n r EADS Transfer and Storage Co. Store Here and be sure of Protection from FIRE 111 N. Fir Phone 315 J L Carefulness can remove the danger of fire from your property. . Cultivate the habit of carefulness not only with fire and everything that pro duces fire, but by correcting conditions on your premises that will prevent the . spread of fire. You can then be doubly sure of your safety by obtaining adequate insurance measured to the present value of your property. We can help you. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, OCTOBER 6 to 12 First Insurance Agency Phono 105 A. L. Hill 30 N. Central HOur Insurance Service Is Yours for the Asking! A metal bin for rags here, a slight change in a heating pipe there, an automatic fire ffAAM hAtmAnH I. A.... . L ' J .1 . wuu. wmccu mean iwo sections 01 uie Duiiaing In half a day's work our insurance engineer saved the West Vicos Canning Co. $390 per year in insurance premiums alone and accomplished much more in affording ad ditional fire safety to their plant. - This same service is yours for the asking. McCURDY- DANIELS INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. Medford National Bank Building - . .., ...... ,,. . .. Telenhono 123