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LA QRAxDE EVENING OBSERVE&
SDAY, JUNE 5, 1917.
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVEN IN
U.JIlJi.l'llJ!
SALE STARTS TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH
Be the first to take advantage of these great
, bargains
LADIES' V j : 'x-: ATS N0W
. REDUCTIONS
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onderful Announcement
Of Ladies' Coats and Suits, Silk and Wool Dresses, Skirts and
Misses' Coat and Dresses
25
OFF
These Suits for Women are in the season's most jaunty and ef
fective styles. Positively every suit "in our stock reduced. Al though
this is exclusive apparel it must be sacrificed, as it is
our rule not to carry over merchandise from one season to another.
- everything must be up-to-the-hour in style. Therefore, one
may select any dress, suit or coat NOW at a saving of one
fourth former prices. " ,
Ladies' and Young Ladies' Suits, Formerly at $20.00 to $55.00
NOW $15.00 to $41.25
25
OFF
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Ladies' and Misses'
Coats .
Reduced 25 per cent!
Your very best opportunity
some of the season's most at
tractive styles have found their
way into this great reduction
sale, which will prove "one big
chance" for the women who un
derstand quality and are anx
ious to save in acquiring1 it.
This sale is one now, so don't
delay to. come early and realize
the tremendous opportunity in
these coat bargains.
Ladies' and Misses' Coats that
formerly sold at $12.50 to $42.50
Now $9.50 to $31.50
All Skirts 'Reduced
20 per cent
All theso skirts were bought this spring, and are made of
stylish materials in tho newest and most popular styleo.
They are the most attractive skirts that can be secured for
travel, outing wear or for business and shopping, during the
spring and 'summer. y:-m-
You who have put off buying will find unusually strong
inducements here at these 16w prices. Skirts that formerly
sold at $6.00 to $30.00 are Now (.''.'-. $4.50 to $31.50
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Dress Bargains
Extraordinary Every Dress Silk and Wool
25 per cent
You will find it very easy to dress on little money if you see
these great bargains we are offering in Ladies" Dresses.
These bargains are wonderful, not from an economic stand
point alone, but to the dresses as well, for they are a gentle
women's clothes. IThey were all bought this spring in the
latest colors and fashions; are some of the season's most
favored frocks.
You may find a dress here for any occasion at a price one
fourth the regular value. . ,
$13.50 to $45.00 Dresses, now reduced, to ....$9.00 to $33.75
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WHAT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HAS AC
COMPLISHED IN EUROPEAN WAR RELIEF.
A Statement to the Public.
There is work ahead of a nature that will tax every re
source we can muster. Large operations, such as the
Syi-ian and Serbian relief opportunities to help in the care
of tuberculous and convalescent prisoners in Switzerland
loom large in the near future. .The almost daily calls of
tlh'e great Red Cross societies, private organizations, and
individuals who turn to us to help them bear their steadily
increasing burdens, are a challenge to the generosity of the
American people. -
The changing tides of war must determine whither, the
work or relief will turn. We must deal with situations as
they arise. ,
Without your contribution, we cannot deal with them at
all: the bitter pleas of a real .and actual need that come
to us and through us to you must go unanswered.
WM. nOWARD TAFT, Chairman.
ELIOT WADSWORTn, Acting Chairman
Subscribe for suffering humanity.
Should vou designate your gift for the Allied Powers or
the Central Powers, for any one nation or purpose it will
go m lull as you direct.
Subscription undesignated will go in full where the
American Red Cross, in its judgment, can accomplish the
greatest good.
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Monev is just as essential as man in the successful prose
cution of anv war. Subscribe for a Liberty Bond TODAY.
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RED CROSS IN GREAT NEED OF SURGICAL
SUPPLIES
New York, May 25. Owing to the tremendous press
ure on military hospitals in France to care for the thous
ands of soldiers wounded in the violent fighting now in
progress around Arras and in Champaigne, all available
surgical dressing supplies that can be spared are being
sent to Prance from the workrooms of the New York
County Chapter of ttie American Red Cross.
While this special need lasts, and perhaps for the entire
war, the departments of foreign and American military
relief of the large workroom maintained by the Chapter
at 411 Fifth Avenue have been merged. Thus the output
of the 1,200 and more workers there, amounting to more
than 45,000 dressings a week, will be pooled for distribu
tion at the discretion of the Central Committee of the Red
Cross. Where gifts for designated countries are received
th'ese will continue to be applied as before.
How serious the situation '.abroad is, is' shown by this,
bulletin that has just been received bv the American Red
Cross: '
"For lack of sufficient dressings the wounds of soldiers
on the battlefields of France are now being stopped in
many cases with newspapers. Rather than bleed to death
on the hattlefifiln mm run tlin r.-m.;vi -a
i Ii . . . c i-cxiiujc usii or gangrene
and other infection."
Twenty-two tons of supplies for French and Belgian
hospitals are included in a Red Cross shipment that left art
n Prt aew ays aS- deluded in this shipment
are 69 000 cans of condensed milk being sent for the relief
at nilI mnnmict1- li II ,1 i .
vm. huulhhcu cimuiL-ii m me devastated regions or
trance. .
Another Red Cross shipment soon to go forward is an
entire ambulance unit given by the American Cotton
VY aste Exchange of Boston. This unit consists of twenty
three automobile ambulances, kitchen trailer-wagons that
can be attached to the cars, and the necessary supply
trucks. The entire unit will be manned by Americans now
abroad.
"To our task we dedicate nnv li
President W llson.
"Let us make 'the bondholders' and 'the people'-interchangeable
terms." Theodore Roosevelt.
"Every man nnd womnn in flm n.iv... i. i i. -i
T , T ,, t wuu"j must get Deiiina.
the Liberty Loan. "Secretary McAdoo.
"America is privileged tn
for the principles that gave her birth and happiness, and
the peace she has treasured." President Wilson.
10,000 Visitors Expected.
Seattle, Wash., June 5. Ten thou-
sand visitors are expected here June
19, 20 and 21 when the 35th annual
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republics, department of Wash
ington and Seattle. Four other or
ganizations of the Civil and Spanish
American wars, including the Worn.
nn Relief corps are expected to briner
many more.