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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
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MONDAY. JUNE 23. 1913.. r ; j
Here They Are! The Lower Reductions For This Week at
im Sale
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0
West's
Remodel
Watch the Ads
and Windows
Every, day sees some line
placed on sale at a special
redaction and soon closed
ont.
COST OR FORMER SELLING PRICE IS NO OBJECT NOW.' WE MUST MAKE ROOM AND
LOW PRICES MUST DO THE WORK. THE CONTRACTORS WILL SOON FINISH THE BASE
MENT AND START TEARING DOWN AND REBUTLDDTG THE MAIN BUILDING INSIDE AND
OUT. OPPORUNITIES TO SAVE ON HIGH GRADE MERCHANDISE WERE NEVER GREAT-
E THAN NOW. ' ' , ' :
Come Today
Tomorrow may be too late
to get exactly what you
have been wanting. Don't
wait and take , chances
for the first come first
served.
Still Greater Reductions in Many Lines in Our
Men's Department
Broken line Men's Hats, $1.50 to $4.00
values, now ' ; '"
One lot Straw Hats up to 75c values,
for .
19c, ; ,
150 Dress Shirts in $2.00 -.and ..$3.00
grades for
4 ,
98c Each
106' Dress Shirts in $1.25 .to $1.75
grades for '.
49c Each
Boys ' and Men's'Caps reduced V
; ,. 20 Per Cent
All newest Straw Hats reduced
20 Per Cent
200 pairs 50c Silk Hose all shades
" and sizes L-L. -!J23c pair
50 Boys' Suits
Both. Knickerbocker and Knee Pants
Styles values up
to $7.00 per
Suit
emu. ivxicc x aiiia
$2.39
50 Women's Tailored Suits in $25.00 values, dC A A
Reduced this week to only - vii - - T"
ENTD2fi LINE OF NEWEST BUTTS AND COATS FOR WOMEN AND
WBEDacED , Wholesale and Below
.Summer Parasols Half
is . - . .
Price
Children Muslin Pants and ctti-
Si'iL. 9c and 19c
Save 1-4 to 1-2 Price on a New Suit
Our entire new line of high grade "ready to wear" Suits for Men and
Boys at a Great Sacrifice in prices '
400 newest style Suits in "Benjamin"
"Society"
"Fidelity" and Hirsh-Wickwire"
makes all reduced 25 per cent. :
$30.00 Suits now .. .$22.50
$25.00 Suits now ....... $18.75
$20.00 Suits now'- ... $15.00
$15.00 Suits now $11.25
125 Men's and Young Men's High
Grade Suits reduced exactly Half
Price.' '
$12.50 to $25.00 Suits for '
$6.25 to $12.50
Boys'. Xtragood Suits in newest
spring and summer styles reduced
25 Per Cent.
Pattern Hats AllReduccdto Half Price
I ' ' . ' ' I '
STAPLE DRY GOODS AND
NOVELTIES-At Sacrifice Prices
75c to $1.00 pure linen bath towels 48c
60c to 75c Dress Silks now ..... .....45c
3pc Scallop Embroidered Pillow
:r Cases ;...:...2......:..:';.:..:.:i:...22 i-2c
15c Misses Tan Hosiery now 7c
20c Turkish Bath Towels ...15c
Curtain Scrims up to 25c now ..' 5c
12 l-2c yard-wide Percales, now 8c
10c Dress Ginghams reduced to 7c
Fancy Lawns up to 25c for 12 l-2c
White "Waistings to 35c for 17c yd.
Great Savings on All
New Footwear
Every pair of Shoes and Oxfords
in our high grade line at a reduction.
None reserved. 'Only the best makes
such as ' ' Pingree " " Utz & Dunn"
"Educator", "Romper", for Women
and Children and "J. E. Tilts" Men's
Shoes, found in our stock.
BROKEN LINES AT HALT TE
COST PRICE AND LESS.
Absolutely Every Article in the Entire Stock at Forced Sacrifice Prices
Merchandise of Merit
Otily
If 3'ou are looking for cheap goods you needn't
come here; we don't carry it. But if you want the
best merchandise at low prices, this is the pake.
Trail (gftgayEh? $t
Shop Early
and save the inconvenience and delay during the
afternoon, when .the store is crowded with hun
dreds of eager purchasers. We will use every ef
fort to wait on you.
THE OBSERVER
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HONESTY OF WOMEN
There is unusual food for reflection
in the report from New York of the
arrest of a woman bookkeeper on the
charge of grand larceny of $2,000.
with the prospect of investigation
showing defalcations amounting to
$50,000.
Reports of this sort are exceedingly
rare.
This is the exception which empha
sizes the generally acknowledged fact
that women are seldom found want
ing in the honest adminitsrntion of
similar trusts.
The business integrity of women in
independent enterprises is also gen
erally acknowledged to be almost uni
versal, but of course in this domain
experience has not been so ample as
in that of salaried employment
There was a "get-rich-quick"
scheme of pseudo-banking started by
some women in Boston many years
ago, to which many hundreds of per
sons fell easy victims, and doubtless
plenty of women adventurers could
be cited in seeming contradiction to
the general fact
But such cases are pot relevant
for it is not the question of outright
swindling schemes, but of shakines
in persons who start out with pood
intentions, that is of general inter
est.
The number of women now em
ployed in business and confidential
positions which offer opportunities
to dishonesty is very great, but it is
rarely that any embezzlement, defal
tailed the history of the Kallikak fa ibilities of parenthood. Recent invti.
ily. Naturally this is not the right gations show family histories that are
name, but for obvious reasons it has Just as forcible examples of the in
been used, i exorable law that the sins of the fath
ers snau oe vested upon the children
At the beginning of the Revolution
ary war Nichael Kallikak had a son rati0n
everf unto the third and fourth gene-
cation or breach of trust is commit-1 by a nameless, feeble-minded girl.i jn -n mlp .
From this son have descended in a di- now
This is perhaps to be explained ' red line 480 individuals. Of these 143 attention
rgely by the absence among women ore known to have been f eeble-mmde
of many of the temptations to which and only forty-six are known to hav
ever, it is strange that such slight
the house or feeds them himself. And
m the same way only more so I
hate the man who keeps books and
doesn't use them. Your horse must
turn his head to you when he hears
youi step; and you dog rush at you
and fight you when you have been an
hour away from him and your
books, your books, must gleam back
. .. - i J wm u"vno(
largely by the absence anion; women I are known to have been feeble-minded i. . . i at yu wIlel you glance at them, and
a- x , j i : , . , , " . nun suites ior
men so often lay themselves open
and also in great measure by that
sensitiveness as to reputation which
is more acute among women than
among men.
Whatever the cause, the fact is not
to be disputed that occurrences of
this nature are very rare among wo-
mnnincr the movmn m. ai r . -
been normal. The .rest are unknown . .I.eeDie", i that one set your blood drum-
or doubtful. Thirty-six have been il- ta;.
...muru r 01 uiose atnicted with cer- :na. Bnrl r and
ui uuuuuui. tniriy-six nave oeen u- t:n rficpnooa p, v, , , .. ; ""-"i "- j"" -
legitimate,- thirty-three, mostJy fe-' TLJZl V ?J to what in life-A'
males, immoral, three epileptic and .,' .. 1 '"'0" . - Hutchinson
eight kept houses of ill-fame. Eighty-! 't
io aiea in iniancy.
"After the war Kallikak married a'
The trouble with altogether too
woman of sterling stock.
manv is that as
T.- . " .. .
"',a.old evil in a new licht rlipv ,-mm;.
stitons of trust.
men employes wno are placed in po-, ".arr.age nave come iorty-six Descend- ately want to , ":,. u
ants in a direct line. Of these only whPren. if tw. , . " "
l. f., v-: -i 'i11' d the suited the stat-
.nns vuuicu vui unuti, inu uciiik wtw- nfji Kvnlro that m:U&' j
t. , . . , i , ule ooos, iney might find in them
hohc and one immoral. The normal i0. .,, .u , , .
mi. nuu,u ut-vjuit!iy cover the
THE SlftXS flF TITP PiTHrRC
- - - - . . . . . . i,.,, . . . . , .
cnuaren oi mis legitimate union nave
been lawyers, doctors, iudsres. edu-
Dcan Vaughan of the University of cators, traders, landholders, etc.
Michigan's medical department cited' This is a case, often described be
a striking illustration for the eugeni- fore, which Dr. Vaughan took from
cal position when, in an address be- j Goddard's text book on the subject
fore the American Association for the ' merely for purposes of illustration. It
Study of the Feeble-Minded, he de-( affords a graphic view of the respons-
situation if they were enforced.
I hate the man who keeps fat car
riage horses in his stable and doesn't
even Know their names. I hate the
man who keeps a dog or two about
I believe, as I believe in nothing
t"'se in the average integrity aoJ
the average intelligence of the Amer
ican people, and I do not bel;- " that
the intelligence -f America can be
Tut into commission anywhere I do
not believe that "here is an group
nf iren of any kin.1 to whom we can
r-i' -d to give that kind of trustee
o:iip. President Woodrow W.).-.on.
Many men consider tennis a wo
man's game because the ball isnt
.... ..u RWps a oog or two about hard enough to black an eve or break
the place and never takes them into a finger