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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1919)
THE ONTARIO ARGUS, ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 19.19 fc a Ontario's Greatest Sale Allen Shoe Co. to Quit Business Entire Stock Goes At Public Sale To dose Out I II ITl 1 I m a fTlic announcement that the Allen Shoe Company's I AAlf Il.Qt3l 51111 lltfeiitiroBtocko3ieu,sfWomoii'8niKlCliiliU'en'sSlM)e8, I-UUIIllCClll OllCJ I TOll llirf y, etc is to go on public sale and be closed out completely, means that one of the largest, highest grade, best-selected stock of Shoes in this vicinity is to be sacrificed at the most sensational prices ever known in the history of Ontario. Many people will be surprised at the startling announcement that Mr. Allen has decided to quit business for good, but other interests demand attention which compels the clos ing out of this entire stock at once. It means a smashing blow to Old High Cost of Living and an opportu nity no person or family can afford to miss. STOP AND THINK WHAT THIS SALE MEANS TO YOU, coining as it does, right in the-face of the news spread broadcast that shoes are. going higher and higher in price every day, and it is common talk that shoes will be from $2 to 8 higher in the next few months, so you should appreciate the great importance of this sale' and buy shoes for the whole family, not only-Tor present use, nit for months or even years to come. It will be. the best investment you ever made. If ever in your life you were given an opportunity to economize and save on the very things you need every day in the year, THATTLMEIS NOW. When we tell you we will actually sell the kind of shoes superior in quality to anything on the market today at prices less than present wholesale cost, you should appreciate the marvelous savings and buy as you never did before. THINK IT OVEH ! Will you buy now while prices are comparatively low, or wait until you have to pav one hundred per cent more for shoos? OUR ADVICE IS TO BUY NOW, and buy all you can, not only fo.r present but future us.c. REMEMBER ! This sale continues daily until every article is sold, and no reasonable offer will be refused for any part or all of this stock or fixtures at any time. CLOSING OUT Store Closed Arranging stock and marking down prices for R&pid Selling. ALE Extra Sales people wanted. Apply at once to the Manager Opens Saturday, 9 a. m., August 30th Never Before Such Bargains in Shoes. Womens I7.S0 Two-Tono Slioos, Hlack Vlcl Vamps and Whlto Silk Crnvonotto (ops, , to go on salo at 4.69 Womens $9,60 Pntt Shoos, famous J. & K. mako, with gray cloth tops, 6,95 Mens 19.00 Dress Shoes.worth today 112.60, to go on salo t 6.45 Hoys 3.75 Elkskln Shoes, sizes to 6, to closo out at 2.95 One lot Chlldrens Shoes, lace and button, values to $2.00, to bo on salo at 1,19 One lot Womens Dress Shoes, values up to $7. 60, to close out at..., 2.95 Hoys $4.50 Heavy Shoes, to go on sale at 339 $25.00 in Cash to be Given Away FREE: To the first 100 people (children uudor 14 noUlncludod) that enter our storo Saturday morning, oponlng day of salo, wo will glvo 100 envelopes and each ono of theso envelopes will contain silver or cur rency from 5c to $6.00. NO DLANK8I Every onvelopo contain money to bo given away- absolutely froo. Mens Oxfords, black and tan, laco and button, values to $7.50, to closo out at 3,69 Doys $5,00 heavy School Shoes, sizes up to 6, to close out at 3,95 Womona $9.00 White Nubuck Shoes, French Heels; to go at 5.95 Ono lot Chlldrens Slippers, black and tan, values up to $3,00, to go on sale at Qgc Doys $3.00 Tan ventilated Oxfords, to closo out at JQg Womens $1,50 Olue Silk Hose to go on salo at 1,19 Mens Easy Plain too, Vlcl Shoos, values up to $7.50, to go at 4.4. Mlsoos $6.00 School Shoes, English last, low heels, to go on salo at 395 Ono lot Doys Mulo Skin Shoes, worth $3.00, to closo out at 1.98 One lot Chlldrens Shoes, val ues up to $2.25, to go on sale 1.45 Mens $4.00 Elkskln Shoes to so t 2.95 Womens 85c Fibre Silk Hose, to go at 59c Ono lot Mens Dress Shoos, glazed Kangaroo and Russian Calf, values to $12.50, at 7.95 Womens $11.00 Whlto Kid Shoes, French Heels, to go on at 7,85 Womens White Canvas Shoes Pumps, Oxfords; , valuos to, $4.00, to go on salo at . J, 93 Mem) $12.50 Hltop Shoes, wing tips, to go on sale at 9.35 Ono lot Womens Oxfords, Pumps arid Slippers, values to $4.00, to closo out at 1,00 Womens $7.50 Dress Shoes, brown Vlcl, Cravenette tops, to go on sale, at 4.45 Wonions $1.50 Fancy Silk Hose, to go on sale at ggc Shoes For Less Than Wholesale Cost Today Come. : ALLEN SHOE CO. g A STRANGE STORY By MADQE WEST. I ltulh, My Dear: 1 nm going to spend this June nftcrnoon In writing you of the strangest love story Hint I nm sure you ever heard nnd the lovo story Is 11y own. Are you not very much sur prised? It Is truo that 1 answered recently your questioning ns to any possible present lave nITiilr, assuring ynu that during my long time with Aunt Mil llccnt In Cooperstnwn, no young, old or middle-aged tunti bnd paid me the slightest attention. And 1 believe 1 further went on to sny that few men find their way to this quaint, Isolated town. So, of course, you must hnve mentally resigned mo to the fate of single blessedness, which 1, myself, hnvo long considered In n cheerful spirit. Hut nil this Is past, ntid I nm to be married tomorrow n glorious tomor row, ltulh, dear, with nil the (lowers of the garden sending forth perfume, like the emanating Joy of my heart. Coining to Coopcrstown with n girl's ycnrnlng for n continuation of youthful pleasures, I looked nbout for young society. Hut from the first hut ono person claimed my Interest. A mnn whose ability In his profession could not bo hidden even here, and who remained In the old family home of thu lonely town In order to core for n crippled elderly slsler. This sister had sacrificed muih for hint, raising the orphnned brother frilm delicate childhood to. educated manhood. Thus, he now repaid bur sacrifices and whnt It bnd cost him to renounce the wider field of opportunity In bis chosen pro fession none knew, hiivu I, as I llrst saw him. "Who Is Hint mnnr I nsktM Aunt Mllllccnt, after his bow to her and bis flashing glance In my direction. Aunt Mllllccnt closed her lips In a II rm way that I later learned to dread. "His name," she responded, "Is Philip Dare, nnd the less you know of him the better." "Ho looks," I defended, "like 11 man to bo admired respected." "Ho Is," Aunt Mllllcent answered dryly, "especially tbo former. And many an admiring heart has he broken. '1 shall never marry,' Philip tells the foolbth girls, 'my life must bo devoted to my sister.'" Aunt Mllllcent turned upon me tdinrply: "I saw the way bo looked at you just now, Nan," she said, "remem ber, bo Is not to enmo near our house while you live with me." Hut nunt'a admonition was unneces sary j Philip Daro ciiiiio not to her house. Ills greeting was always pleasant ns wo met nt some village gathering, or I would exchange 11 smile with him In pnsslng as ho wheeled his crippled sister nbout the quiet grounds of their old, stately home, nnd always Itutli, you may laugh If you will recalling my many girlish conquests uIwiijh, I would return to Aunt MIDI cent's, content with my glimpse of the man who had never from that first meeting, been absent from my thought. When they spoke of pretty, merry girls, who daringly spent their evenings upon the wide verandas of Philip Dare's home, or picked him up upon some errand to carry him homo In their cars I still smiled In coulldent satisfaction ns I bent over my sewing. Philip, I knew, cared for not ono of them. So perhnps 11 year passed, learning nothing of his companionship, knowing him, It would seem, but In fancy. Then one evening he came abruptly to stand beforo mo where I sat beneath a tree In the garden, u havo to go out of town for a few days," ho said gently, "to bo In con sultation with other lawyers," Aunt en in a frowning toward u 1 could not even offer u friendly hand. "flood-by," I said. For n moment our eyes met, then ho was gone. Hut It wns as though wo had talked, bo and I, of the pnst that was gone, and hnd inndo promises to each other for thu future to couiu. In Ids continued aloofness and ap parent Indifference to myself aunt lost her forebodings, , "Now what," she mused, "do you sup pose brought Philip Dare In here? A passing notion, likely," she Immediate ly answered herself. "He was always that way." When Philip returned from his trip bo bowed, passing the house, and I waved my hand In response. My heart had been with him throughout his Jour ney, nnd I strangely felt that he knew, You remember, Itulli, dur, when I visited you how dlsuppolnted you were p my lack of Interest for those things I used to enjoy my thoughts were with Philip Daro; I was wondering anxiously alt the time if (lie sick sls tor grew more exacting; If that now weariness still shadowed his dear pa tient eyes. The sister died one month ago. I.nst night as I sut In the garden alone, Philip Dure came to me. As he sank down on the seat at my side, heclnsped my hand. Wan," be asked quietly, "how soon will you marry me, dear?" So that Is tbo end of my strange story, Itutli. Three sentences, erhnps, In as many years between my true love and me. Not one eventful episode to mark those days of perfect trust and silent un derstanding, and tomorrow our wed ding day. Your best wishes come to me, 1 know, my dear, but not all the good wishes In the world can add to the full happiness of your friend. NAN, (CopyrlsM, ll, W.t.rn Nw.pipr Union) HAPPY SOLUTION By FREDERICK CLARK. Ellen Martin trudged nlong the un familiar village street, her rusty leath er bag In her band, and her dim eyes peering anxiously beneath her bands of smooth white hair. The conductor, ns she left the train, had directed her up this snino street. "The Old Folks' Home, nt tho top of the hill," ho said, "maybe soma ono will glvo you n lift." Hut Ellen did not enre for the "lift;" sho was glad to be able to seo tho place, walking slowly along, which was to be her home. Her wrinkled cheeks grew softly pink with excitement; tho trip nnd Its outcome hnd been n plan of sacrlllclng yenrs. In her loneliness nnd continual homeliness, she had saved resolutely, pulling nsldo every penny Hint could tie spared for tho nssurnucc of this haven at the last. One thousand dol lars was the price exacted for resi dence In the Culpcr's Old Folks' Home; nnd Ellen bnd, carefully folded In n tin box In her lenthcr bag, tho thou sand dollars. Culpcr's Home was n (lno one, sho thought gratefully of the pleasant room Hint would bo hers, and tho free dom forever from tomorrow's care. Yet her Up trembled In an old, wistful longing. Atwnys, had sho desired abovo all things, a homo of her very own. Ellen from her youngest days, had never' known n rent home. There bad been tbo nrphnungo at first, and then through tho kindness of Interested ones, n course of boarding school nnd college. Later, Ellen bad taught In tbo schools until her henlth fatted, nnd old nge found her mnklng herself use ful as she could, from home to home. Hut through It nil, the $1,000 had been persistently honrded. This great "Home," would be a com fort, of course, she could- sea now Us pillars gleaming afar, but yearningly, tho llttlu otd womnn halted before a nent cottage door. It was tho roso vine about the whlto porch which first attracted her admiration, then, tho well-kept garden stretching back past the side of the cottage. Ellen's heart fluttered like the white muslin curtain Initio window; such had been her own vision of home. And ni she lingered, n second llttlo old lady came through thu oprn door nnd seated herself In a wlde-nrmcd chnlr on tho porch. "Were you looking for some ono?" she asked of Ellen, and smiled. Ellen shook her head. "It was your roses that attracted me," she answered. Her tono was philntlvu "I was on my way to tho Old Folks' Home." "To llvo?" questioned the second old Indy couipnsslonntcly. "Iletter set down an' rest a bit," alio advised. Oladly Ellen accepted n chair on tho porch, "Yes, to live," sho replied, "though I haven't put In an application or any thing like that. Thought I'd Just coins right nlong. Tho last place whero I'vo been stopping wasn't very pleasant. Nothing like your own home, la there? You must bs very comfortable hero." Sudden tears rolled down tho other woman's face. "We all hnve our troubles'," she said gently, "an' mine Is, that after all these years I've got to leave my home. I've dono tho best I could since my hus band died, hut I can't carry It on no longer. There's a mortgage, you seo; we took It on when he wns sick, an' I can't make the payments so the man who has It Is goln' to foreclose. If 'twnn't fer the payments I could get along rent well. My garden n'most keeps me, an' now an' then there's people who conies through town on' who'd rather sleep In my chintz room than In the poor hotel. They pay mo well, too, Just for the privilege. May he," she suggested, "you'd like to seo my chintz room, I fixed It up real tasty ' after Abner died." "I would llku to see It." Ellen an swered eagerly. "I should think they would like to stop here," she said. "Why this room Is Just like whut I dreamed a homo room should be, the restfulness even that rose peeping In through the win dow" "Take off your bonuet," the other woman Impulsively Invited; "I'm goln' to get you some tea." When Ellen wns alone she touched with enresslug fingers the pink dra peries, the sun shining down behind the hills flooded the room with golden light. "If I could only stay here always with her," murmured Ellen. And when she faced her hostess across a white spread table, the light of purpose shono In her faded eyes, "I've been thinking bard," sho bald, "and I've a proposition to make to you, Sirs. why I don't oven know your name. Mlnu Is Ellen Martin," "Mine Is Sarah Holden," the other answered. "Well, Sarah," Ellen went on calmly, "there's no reason why you and I can't both hnve the home wo want, If you are agreeable. My thousand dollars would pay the Interest on your place, an' the taxes, too, probably, as long as we both shall live; and there's lots of little extra things we could do to get along. Helng about so much with folks, I've learned to keep agreeable, an' so" With tears streaming down her bappy face, Sarah nolden clasped the other's hand. "Oh, Ellen, dear I" sho satd, "you go right up to the chintz room now, an' make yourself to home." (CoBfrlsht. . W.tro H.wipp.t UbUd)