Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE TO FARM BORROWERS The Walker Township Farm Loan association will meet at the Walker Center school house the first Saturday night of each month. Anyone wishing any loans should see some of the members or be present at the regular meetings. Everybody welcome. —William Stalbaum, president; V. M. Peer, sec-retary-treasurer. 31

There is a motor vehicle in the United States for every 24 persons; in Canada the proportion is probably one to each 50; in England, one to 200; in Denmark, one to 300, and in France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Germany, about one to every 400. In 1917 it was estimated that Italy had one car to each 1,000 of population; Portugal, one to each 1,600 l Spain, one to each 1,900; Austria-Hungary, one to each 2,650, and Russia, one to each 5,000. In Australia there was one car for each 140 of population and In South America as a whole one for each 1,430. Many a minor city of the United States has more cars than the whole of China or Jaipan. A town of hollow concrete block houses, with flat roofs, steel staircases and window frames is being built mear Braintree, a suburb of London. The construction company that has the scheme in charge claims for les idea reduced cost of building, safety from fire and freedom from daimpness. Using flat roofs instead of the usual gable style is expected to save not less than |l4O on each house and having little wood' to be renewed from time to time, will, it is figured, reduce the cost of upkeep to almost nothing. .Hollow walls have long been recognized by building engineers as conducive to dryness and equable temperature, because of nonconductivity of the air-filled spaces.