McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 2 Wednesday, April 14, 1920 Page: 1 of 4
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McCurtain Gazette
VOLUME 14
idabel, mccurtain county, oklahoma, Wednesday^ april u,
RENTS ARE HIGH
FIVE YEARS MORE
U. S. HOUSING HEAD SAYS THE
COUNTRY IS SHORT MORE
THAN MILLION DWELLINGS
1920
NUMBER 16
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
We are experienced, and know hf>w
to give service to the owners of Ford cars.
\\ e have the same methods, machinery
and skill that they have in the Ford fac-
tory, and we use the same Parts made by
the Ford Motor Company. Ford owners
are doubly guaranteed by us as to the re-
liability of our service on Ford cars. Don't
try to do it yourself, bring your car here.
Incidentally we are getting a few Ford
cars rind are able to make fairly good de-
liveries.
W. A
Idabel, Okla.
MY MASTER.
(From Baptist Informer)
I had walked life's path with an easy
tread,
Had followed where comfort and
pleasure led,
And then by chance, in a quiet place
I met my Master, face to face.
BY RALPH F. COUCH
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, March 31—High rents
and high building costs have come to
1 stf,y tor years. President LeRoy K
j Sherman of the U. S. Housing Cor
1 poration, predicted today.
i There is no reliable indication of
1 a drop," he said.
"The housing shortage now is just
| as acute as a year ago. It is con-
servatively estimated that the coun
I try is now short about 1,000,000
! dwellings.
j "In myt opinion it will take at least
\ five years to catch up and get back
( to normal."
Sherman, as president of the hous-
' ing corporation, has built 6,000 homes
j in big cities in all sections of the
I country. Experts working under him
! kept elaborate cosUsheets in every
conceivable angle %f the building
j business.
Sherman has figures showing most
j minute details of building ranging
| from the cost per cubic yard to the
j cost per square yard of roofing, wall
j building, brick, laying, plastering
1 and so on.
Furthermore, the housing copora-
Ition head has tried to keep in close
My thought is now for the souls of1 touch wi,h the building situation in
men. j every big town and city in the coun-
I have lost my life to find it again;
E'er since done in that holy place
My Master and I stood, face to face
• LOFTIN .
Rear First Nt'l Bank
Phone 199.
"TOO LATE."
With station, and rank, and wealth
for a goal,
try. Here is his verdict:
"Only in Washington does there
seem to be even the beginning of re-
lief from the tremendous pressure of
the shortage of dwellings that grew
up during the war period," he said.
| "In Chicago, New York and other
big cities the shortage of dwellings
m
Dcbbelbilt
T~\UBBELBILT Clothes are built to stand the roughest
handling. They wear hn[tr because they are rein-
forced at all wear points.
This added wear is so certain that it is backed by the
famous Dubbelbilt guarantee—Six months' wear, without
rip, hole, tear; or suit will bf repaired free.
Style is taken care of, too. Dubbelbilt Clothes have vig-
orous, American-boy style that all boys like. All the stand-
ard colors and mixtures.
?14.75 ?16. / 5 218.75—220.75—and upwards to 236.75.
(From Baptist Informer)
There are no more melancholy ^msXtT, '""T " *
J seems just as acute as ever.
words In the language than these. "The cost of labor and1 building ma-i
• To° 'ate! I have heard them utter- j terial holds little promise of going
Much thought for the body, but none ed by a brother, as he hurried home <lown' The ^""al cost of building
to see a dying father, he arrived on- h.US lncreasei1 from 65 to 70 per cent «,,300 s, ,„f
since 1913. according tn 1«.00—i$143.00
Boys' _
I Guaranteed for 6 Months Service
Stevens-Lambeth Company
| ; and n0t 600n sha 1 the Their figures hale been Zed by °°' time The tr7n V 7! * h°-
I had built my castles, and reared I aK°nyth*y then expressed. Too late! careful application to the construc- Contractors profit and overhead, 15 deep, keeping watch on deck beneath f • h deslre and
them high, ,1 have known them uttered by a skill- tion of dwellings of almost every va- $,|39-85—*"39.59. the star-lit sky, and telling him of ♦ ^,ck<ed are declared in
'heir "ad pierced the blue ful surgeon, when he was summoned ^ ' ArchtfectWee-plus plans and su- days of rest and peace at horn" to ^thiTh W'th°Ut God and
°f the .ky; L .1 "Many people who have mon.„ Jpervlslon' 6 P" cent. S202.33-$340.- the shipwrecked seaman on hU «ft T U " 0,6 °th<!r hand-
bidding him not r„_ . DeIlever n°t only desires to rest
T , . , | to the bedside of a dying man, and I' i, PeOP'e who have mone? to
I had sworn to rule with an iron mace , . build houses now are holding off be :
When I met my Master, face to face. ,*Ve ,marke<1 th<\ Badncss which cause they hope prices will drop ThU
hey have given birth. Too late; I |,as a tendency, 0f course £
I met Him. and knew Him, and blush- jou^crowd as^heT^ i* anX"iprices To get the nation's hous- SIN
ed to see I"T Cr°*d' a,8,.they 3;ood Kazln* "W situation back to normal we must
That His eyes were full of sorrow' failure of thos^whn"* ^ T™ the buil<1 at a rate calculates to keep (From Baptist Informer)
were fixed on me; ; ° "°'c wh° to save abreast of the normal increase in dc Have you ever marked that strik-
And I faltered and fell at His feet iat„i i hnv„ k ^st'ucton- ®° niand for dwellings plus an addition- fact. the connection of the succes- 's more than expectation.
.that day. Ithe noble^rew of^e h wWch wi" m k< P the short-^e stages of the soul? How sin both. There ,r. things „ f_ 0I ,,.
my castles melted and vanish- as they put out ,Q the sink; ' °f t-0"0-000 homes now existing. ian change the countenance, under- 31re ard yet do not expect, and there MARSHALL'S BARN
Total, $4,117.54—$6,833^8!
AM)
iJL^Err <hC °uiP' 80 ,ar as 1 can ! "rine'the health, produce restless
Ieyes, and "the freight" soils Uthwj J'tZZ?« ^ ^ ^ ^ e"d
bidding him not despair, for the lit- in he~t last^tTe'^Jt
, Sp0t,on the distant horizon is an never into that blessed rest
approaching sail; to be believer in his
JTS CONSEQUENCES. ;d>'inK hour, enabling him to say,
i "My flesh shall rest in hope." , Mr. and Mrs. J. Will Jones and Mr.
Hope, like faith, is a compound aIU' Mrs. A. G. Phillips spent Sunday
word. It is more than desire, and it >at Valliant.
- It includes { PHONE 267 for Service Cars and
There are things that we de- teams. Feed of all kind for sale
ed away.
I eves nnH "th* f-«•« ,♦< i i " "rmu Ul a rate fast enough iIiess: inmK y°u the grave will end
Melted and vanished, and in their her*' But oh' -non ofThp ^ ^akexcare of ^e natural increase aiI that—that by some magic change
Place cuinstances' are hal^ sn wj* 'n.,iemand' the moral being shall be buried there,
I saw naught else but my Master's as those in which the -inner who hi* ^iti n°™al conditions I mean con-:ard the soul rise so changed in every
face; <les„"°l ' ■ ' " , a' dlt'°ns s,mi]ar t0 those prevailing in that the very indentity of be-
As I cried aloud. "Oh, m ke me meet | when the terrible difceovery is mlde the ***' ^ eVery bi* "ty '"F W0U'd bc lost' anH il wouM
To follow the marks of thy wounded j that he is too late to enter heaven - 11, " KCn<"ra' exchanKe "{ ten-1 amount to the creation of a new soul ?
fcet„ W. M. ' """" * - • • -
at
(4t-pdS 24)
For Sole
New five room bungalow, bath
complete, screened bac k porch,
fireplace, one flue, lot 75x140,
house fronts East and Soilth.
Just completed, never occupied,
possession NOW.
PRICED TO SELL! For further
information see
BartonR.M'Lendon
exchange ui wu- j ~ — « >■
ants every spring. In some cities it Say >'ou that God is love? Oh, but I
;also was the custom for landlords to 1 look round this world! The aspect j
give one month's rent free to incom- j of things is stern—very stern. If j
ing tenants. Such conditions indi-'tl,ey be ruled by love, it is a love that'
cate a nearly equal balance of supply ,loes not shrink from human agony. ]
and demand. This is normal. It will rhere is a law of infinite mercy here !
be at least five years before this !,ut there is a law of boundless rigor
condition is restored, I think. ,0°- Sin. and you will suffer—that j
There is one hopeful sign that :aw reversed. The young, and j
building costs will bo reduced even- the ^entle. and the tender, are inex-
tually. Architects and contractors "rab|y subjected to it. We would,
w'orking continually
Use
everywhere are
t.vuviiiuaiiy
to devise new and short processes of
budding. They also are experiment-
•ng with new materials. Thus manv
builders recently attended a national
convention called to discuss the pro-
posal of building concrete houses
which are poured into moulds and
can be turned out much more quicklv
than the average brick or frame
house can be completed.
Another hopeful sign is the com
-hield them if we could, but there is
that which says they shall not be;
shielded. Carry that out into the
next world, and you have "wrath to!
come."
HOPE
(From Baptist Informer)
"And now abideth Hope." Oh,
who is insensible to the music of
that word! Where is the bosom that
nianv °ioca[itier*tn °h'haS "0t k'ndle'1 umler iu utterance
coleraTon ch. , ,n "H°pe is a P° «; it is an
I the money advanced" ^ ^ " ""
duction of this kind make, for econ-
omy in construction."
tion; it is a rainbow that spans the
cloudy sky of our being; it is an arch
that holds our nature still and se
Stork Brand
Fertilizer
Look the country over and the
majority of the prosperous farmers
are the ones who use fertilizers.
Housing .• nolas our natur« "i" and se-
>rked out fZT'ZlT"? h,VP CUre «mid the heaving surge, of our
—'rv« iiB*r
worked out figures showing the com-
parative cost of erecting in 1913 and
1919 a 6-room dwelling of a model
used by the corporation in many cit-
ies in 1918. The table reads:
Net coat of structure, 12,932 S6—
I4.930.S8.
Cost of land at $1,000 per acre.
tempestuous lives. In the mytholo-
gies of Greece and Rome, Hope was
represented as still lingering witfi
men when all other divinities had
forsaken the world." In some form
or other Hope comes to all—to the
sick man on his coueh of suffering,
whispering of returning health; to
Stork Brpnd Fertilizer for sale by 11
McCurtain Cotton Oil Co.
Idabel, Oklahoma •
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