For 15 Days Only (O),))
For 15 Days Only
We Will Sell Goods At A Reduction
Of From 15 to 20 Per Cent
And AVe Always Did Sell Goods Cheap. Come and See Us After
On Which Date The Sale Begins
A FEW OF OUR BARGAINS
HEN'S LIST
Sockit, formerly 10c, now 3 pairs for ....25c
Heavy Woolen Sm-ks, M at 25c now go at 19c
Heavy overehirta rejrularly sold at 65c, now ....45c
Working Punta, our former price $1.25, now 1.10
Drww Pants, $1.00 and 5.00 grades, now 3.2u and 4.00
Suit that cannot be knight in the city for $15.00.
Our price now 13.50
Underwear that ordinarily wild at 1.50, 1.25 and
CV. now... 1.15. 1.00, 45c
LADIES' LIST
Ladies Underwear at prices that you cannot touch in the
city for 25 per cent more than we will sell them at
Suits and Cloaks in large variety at prices that will force
you to buy.
Shirts and Waists in the latest styles and patterns at a full
reduction of 20 per cent and even more.
Prints, Calicoes, Muslin at prices much lower than the
jobbers sell them at now. ,
Towels, Tablecloths and Napkins at a full reduction of 20 per cent
And As For Shoes. Well, We Have
SHOES FOR MEN.
SHOES FOR WOMEN.
SHOES FOR THE BOY
AND FOR THE GIRL.
Here is one of our leaders and for quality they
cannot be boat. Let us fit you at the lowest
price you ever paid for fine shoes.
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ALL GO AT FULL REDUCTIONS
Come and see them. Come and buy them. We must have the money
and will give you better values than you can get anywhere else.
Remember the time, FEBRUARY ith, and also remember the place
r. j.
BASE
EL Houlton
Gity Shoeing Shop
Central WacksmithinK. Woodwork and Rejuiir'
pair Work Promptly and Neatly Done. Pav
ing!' Cutters' Tools Made to Order. Howe
nhoeinjr a Siweinlty. All Diseases of the root
Scientitically Treated Free of Charge.
E. H. WICKS, Proprietor
First Door West of School House, ST. HELENS, ORE.
ELECTRIC
Fixtures
Columbia Electric Works
For February
My dears, do y ou know
Tlmt n hlior' time rgo
Two dear little children
Named Ted and I'incl.ot
Were stolen away
On a I rlght autuirs day,
And -ilJ lmve been dodo
Had 'IVft had his way.
Their en p'ri had planned
When they got litem in band
, To dash for the m a rest
Tall cut in the land.
And there in the treis
To desert them to frerxe
And to die o' starvation
An J grief, if yuu please.
And when they mere dead
Tha robin so red
Were to cover them np
From tlie foot to the head
With leaves of the wo-wi,
And lo ning alien tbey oul.l,
"Fool babe In the lorest.
Now will they 1 gotAV
But look (ar and a ide,
Nevr (oreat waa ied.
Nor any place left
Whew the babic might have died;
For the foreeti of yore
Tbey would never see more,
And tbey heartily wished
They had saved three or four.
Whic h orca'ion a halt.
And wild veibal assault
They openly aaid
It wan Uallmger't fault;
So tbey cussed him some more,
And they bitterly swore.
And the babes were put bark
Just as good as before.
Kut that's enough of Ballinger. or for
hira or fomlnst; ib ground))'; will
awake again upon the 2d inst. He'll
iiinch himt'.f a time or two, rollover
ou his bed, engage in calisthenics till
he is sure he isn't dead, recall the day's
significance with never-Jailing humor,
and come out to compare hi girth with
that of the consumer.
And side by aide before hit hole these
two will riminisce.and each will tell the
other what hia weight, if any, la.
They'll feel of one another's rib, tell
stories, laugh and prattle, jump up and
down to see whose bones will make the
drier tattle, and then, with standing
back to back and no flnall bit of unc
tion, they'll ascertain if they can throw
a shadow in conjunction.
Ar.d w hich the country wiil await with
trembling and misgiving, for if they
can, we'll lmve to think of how to keep
on living another SO days and nights,
frostbit and tempest-shaken, and pay
ing an admission fee to see a piece of
bacon.
But let us all be reassured
And have the heart to sing:
We don't believe a dozen such
Could bot e to show a thing;
Or forty of them half and half
In solid phalanx there,
Unless they couuted One-two-three,
And Oiled themselves with air.
Onr Mr. Taft should be ashamed to be
so fat and sleek with everything so high
we can't eat meat but once a week. He
ought to be too big a man in other ways
than his to keep so buxom when he sees
how thin the country is. A sympathetic
president in smb. a time of test would
ask for nothing but to take pot luck
with all the rest. He'd eat his hard and
simple crust, his prunes and batter
cake, and join the country in the stand
we've taken as to steak. It does seem
ike hard-heartedness for one in such a
place to feed himself on tarrapiu and set
ua such a pace. He ought to live on
hominy and grow so thin and gaunt
hat anyone with seeing him would
think he was in want. It would become
him very well to say, "I live on rice,"
and prtive it when he wrapped his coat
armit.d his body twice. We'd all stand
up and honor him, alike with us bereft,
and cheer him with what liltlu strength
the most of us have left. -
St. Valentine will open up
His moving picture show
And run a nickelodeon '
For ssveu day a or so.
He'll show us Algernon the Dude,
And Little Wit and Dunce,
And lKre us ten ibly again
With those unwitting stunts.
And maybe this time we shall rise,
As we should do, by gum,
And put this whole infernal brand
Of hauior on the bum.
We never did know what it meant, if
anything at all, or who it was that
started if, or why we had to fall for
sat li a custom. Oftjj we think the way
that we behave most make the good St.
Yaltn'iue turn over iu his grave. It is
a shame to bleak his sleep, which else
were quite, seieno, and ke'p him spin
ning just as if there were a belt between
thai ancient and respected tomb of him
a long time diad and all the wheels
thereto in some fool picture maker's
head.
At any rate the country will by hook
or crook survive and hail the blessed
day that saw tieorge Washington arrive.
As time procof we rm...
predate his make, and wonder If buy
coming here was not a great mistake.
We can't help thinking that be was sup
posed, to go 10 Mars, or possibly to on
of the older, riper tw. , w'ho
will not tell a lie is not like one of u
and we'll bet a dullar he was billed to
go tf Uranus or somewhere, else where
one of an bud been lo them as queer
and unlike everyone as (ieorg has been
among us here.
But be it as it happily wiil,
. Ii tvn shall cnie about . i
That I )Ur y upMhelp
1 ue poor meat striker nnt
And Halley's con.ct .Will a.snrue
The aspect of a gorgon
And see what ii can do to savo .
T" all from Mr. Morgan. . , '
If that won't muke him Inote hla orl'n,
it will be time 10 wonder if Mr. Morgan,
too, la no. .i nluiiPtarv blunder, nit if l
should n ,t have been born where others
sncli as ha are and no one is to far ad
vanced In ethics yet as we are.
However, from the 17th we hall be
under Pisces, the avmhr,! f ii.o fui.
and the significance of this is that per
sons born beneath the sign, thougli tut
quite WaahiDgtona. will not be liars likw
e wie, uui onij tittle one.
Tha moon will fill the 25d, and th
last week will be oabt onions ...
suflragilteoranti-tariffiiot. The frosts'
a union men win see the month out
riht, and bef at 30 cents a pound will
win the prize for height.
And then the welcome gpring will come.
The Winter go a footing, ,
And March come in like one of what -
T. Roi isevtlt is shootjnz.
OUR FOP.TLA5D tETTEtt
Portland, Or., Feb. 1. (Special; Pre
liminary steps were taken here tha
wet-k for the lor ma two of a Westers
Fair As-ociation for the cmutry west of
the Rocky Mountains, to bear th mamm
relation to this territory as the Ameri..
Trolling Association and Natlonrt Trot-
ling Aasociauon do to the East Tfi
step was taken at the meeting of Uie
North I'aciflc Fair Association, which
appointed a committee to work on the
project and report at the next meetfrnr.
New officers for the Xnrih
Associatiau were eltctel a follows; F,
A. Welch, president, fjalem; W. 8.
Gibbons, vice-pieaident, Boise, Idaho;
John W. Pace, secretary - treasurer,
North Yakima, Wash.
Dates for the various racing meets of
the Northwest daring the coming seasoa
are as follows: Everett August 29-Sep-tember
3: Portland Seotember S-IO-
Salem September 12-17; Walla Walla
September lS-24: North Yab ma
September 2M)ctober 1; Spokane Oo-
lODcr ju-i.j.
The anneal convention of the Oregon
Retail Merchants' Association at Kuwna
dnring the past week was a triumph.
Its membership is comoosed of nrvtn-
date merchants, whese aim Is to serve
tue consumers with first-class mer
chandise at moderate prices. During
tUeUiscassion at the various sessions of
the convention they insisted on pare
food products, and the trend of th
gathering was toward tetter citizen
ship.
Modern commercial activitv is eninh.
stied by the progressive spiiit of tha
Medford Commercial Club. It ha
membership at present of 662, and when
one realises ihat there is an initiation fee
of $5 iu addition to the monthly dues,
one gets a better aenrermtinn nf tK.
reason why people hear so frequently of
me itogue Kiver city.
State-wide interest is shown in the de
velopment congress to be held at Eugene
February 11 and 12. Commercial Day,
the tiflv-nrst anniversary of the admis
sion of Oregon as a state, will becele-
Dratea on iebruary 12. Questions of
general interest, such as the conserva
tion of the state's resource, extension
of irrigation, country conditions, and
educational subjects will be taken up.
Japan, showing its friendlv feelins
toward Oregon and the Pacific Ooaat.
has sent 170 bushes of native roses to be
set out in the parks and public tquarea
of Portland on February 22. the official
rose-planting day. when the metronolia
will make a holiday and hold special ex
ercises. ..he gift is a gracious one ami
is much appreciated by Rose Festival
oitionils. A number of foreign nations .
have been heard from, each contributing
native roses to be planted hero on Wash
ington's birthday. It is expected by
rotarions that the bushes will thrive in
their adopted country as well as their
own clime,
An instance of the advance in realty
values iu Portland during the past 60
years was brought up this week when
the cor.ier of Fifth and Morrison streets
sold for f 105,000 and an additional $110,
000 Wfis pai.l for the transfer vf leases.
Peter W. Severson, who sold the prop
erty, owned it for 61 years. It was lit
erally fcrced upon him us apparently of
little value. He was then owed a week's
wages by the owner of the property, who
also banowtd Seversoti's shotgun and
lost it. The ninn who held the lot of
fered the property in lieu of tha week's
wages and the missing weapon. Sev
etsou (Kmurred but filially was forced
to accept the lot to cover the double
debt.