The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-01-17
EMMETT SCHOOL BOY
WINS PRIZE
Fred Goodwin Submits Winning
Essay in Lumber Dealers
Contest


he Citizens Lumber company. fol
essays ca ~Nhy Every Family Should
Oxn It's Oxn Home came 70 clos.
Monday. TIE winners are: Fred Good
man. first; Dwight Shaw, second; An.
nabeile Anderson. third Tie prizes
were S., s. and 81 in cash. Ths
judges were. Miss Josephine WsyHan
Miss Brewer and Mrs. 6. B. Mains.
The prize winning paper Is as fol
lows:
There are 50 many reasons why
every family should own It's oRn home
that ! scarcely know how TO write
them IN q limited number Of words 50
that the most important reasons may
be given preference. ! shall attempt
IN the following 70 give those which
] consider the chief reasons:
Il is q paying investment give
the statements as facts from the ex-
perience Of our own family. We have
moved a great number Of times, rent
ing houses year after year and finally
owning Cur own home for several
years. and upon leaving the eommun-
ity selling il again, making some
money on the deal.
] viii take for ar example a small
modern cottage that rents for SIS
month One can own the same proper
IS, and the interest on money invested,
together with taxes and insurance,
vii not exceed 81 per month.
A man who owns MS own home viii
improve il year after year instead Of
allowing II 70 run down like rented
property and il soon will b worth
great deal more with very little ex-
peDoiture, except the work put on It
by different members Of the family al
odd minutes when not engaged in
other work
A man who buys his home on the in
stailment plan viii save his money
which otherwise would all be spent
in one way or another, and he will
soon find himself the proud owner Of
home.
Owning ones home eliminates all
the expenses Of moving year after
year, together with the cost Of buying
new window fixtures, blinds and cur
tsins which will never be the right
length and number in the next house,
and the difficulty Of placing carpets,
Iinoleums and rugs where they will
not st. Then there are good pieces Of
furniture which you find will not e1-
sctly ft in the new house and they
must be relegated to the attic or base
ment.
Il pays IN the satisfaction Of hav-
Ing just what you most need and want.
two families needs are the
same
II insures better health for the fam
Ily. Houses that rent may have been
previously occupied by people who
have contagious diseases such as scar
ei fever. diphtheria or the dreaded
Germs Of these diseases
Nil sometimes live a year or more on
he floor Or walls Of rooms unless
thoroughly fumigated under direction
4 a good physician. Diseases are Of
en- contracted in this way, the people |,
title knowing the source. Then, too,
ave ! seen my mother in great dis
nay upon moving into Il house 70 find
/ already inhabited. This | think
as been her greatest horror Of rent
ng houses.
There Is a great educational value
h a permanent home in the develop
" Of the artistic sense and finer emo /
'ons IN love for the beautiful home. e
Il cultiyates thrift. The children a
y learn 10 work and be industrious Ii
] beautifyinY the grounds, caring for /
he family garden, milking the COW /
I'D taking care Of the chickens which Z,
ID furnish 80 many good things for r,
ie table AT small cost. Even few Al
igs may be kept 10 furnish meat al
nd fats during these war time high ?,
fices. a man having very small e
come may live well and have good d;
food II he owns his own "
lme. A renter cannot have these m
lingr about him, FOR he never knows n,
~ when he may have % move. Sew
al times have We just gotten nicely
titled in rented house when the
gHcr would notify us that he had sh
id the property and We would have da
move. ~
People who own their own houses ~
ay cultivate a circle Of choice friends wi
bile renters moving IN and out Of Sc
immunity seldom get acquainted with 81
cir nearest neighbors. NJ
The man who owns his own home -
axes a better citizen lie will be la
terested in everything that il pro- ~
essiye In the community, such as ni'
tier schools, churches, libraries, pc
reefs, roads and and all public inn gr
oyemepts, for here are his home gr
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