Morning Oregonian., December 26, 1912, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY. PECE3IBEK 26. 1913
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Double "Gold Bond" Stamps in All Departments Thursday
Purchases Made Today and Balance of Month Go on January Acct.
, .. , r i MANY AND
wnite oaie
on
Third Floor
TODAY
Undermnslins
Prices All REDUCED
Various Sales
Holiday Goods
at l2 Price
TODAY
$100,000 Clearance Sale
ol Women's Suits, Coats
Skirts,. Waists and Furs
Our entire tock of women' high-class, ready-to-wear garments is included in this sale.
Every garment in the house is absolutely new and up-to-date. This present season s styles.
The materials and workmanship are unsurpassed at our regular marked prices. In order to
7Tff,ct a prompt clearance, these have been emphatically reduced and you are invited to
take advantage of the greatest garment bargain in Portland. Look, criticise, compare. We
know you'll buy here. Please note the price reductions quoted below ana tatce advantage.
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Clearance Sale
Prices on Suits
$17.50 Suits, special price, $11.95
$20.00 Suits, special price, $14.95
$27.50 Suits, special price, $19.95
$35.00 Suits, special price, $28.75
$45.00 Suits, special price, $34.95
Clearance Sale
Prices on Coats
$15.00 Coats; big bargain at $9.95
$18.75 Coats;
$25.00 Coats;
$32.50 Coats;
$45.00 Coats;
big bargain at $13.95
big bargain at Jl.y5
big bargain at $25.95
big bargain at $34.95
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Clearance Sale
Prices on Dresses
$12.50
$15.00
$17.50
$22.75
$27.50
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
on
on
on
on
sale ' at
sale at
sale at
sale at
$9.95
$11.95
$14.95
$18.75
Dresses on sale at $20.00
Clearance Sale
Prices on Furs
$7.50 Furs offered at only $5.95
$12.50 Furs offered at only $9.95
$17.50 Furs offered at only $12.95
$25.00 Furs offered at only $19.95
$35.00 Furs offered at only $28.95
$50.00 Furs offered at only $38.95
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Clearance Sale
Prices oh Waists
$3.48 Waists; great saving at $2.95
$4.98 Waists; great saving at $4.29
$6.75 Waists; great saving at $5.95
$7.50 Waists; great saving at $6.95
$12.50 Waists; great saving, $10.95
I Clearance Sale
Prices on Skirts
$5.98 Skirts, specially priced $4.98
$7.50 Skirts, specially priced S4.9S
$8.98 Skirts, specially priced $7.48
$10.75 Skirts, specially priced $8.98
FARMER HOLDS KEY
Expert Says Cost of Living
Depends on Crops.
SOIL MUST YIELD MORE
More People Xeeded on Land II
Even Present Population Is to
Be Fed Proportion of TU1-
ers Growing Smaller.
"WASHINGTON, Ceo. 26. The lever
that will break the backbone of high
prices of foodstufs is more Intensive
farming, cultivation of unoccupied
lands near the large cities and more In
telligent methods of agriculture. In the
opinion expressed by Professor Milton
Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils,
of the Department of Agriculture. Dr.
Whitney is a leading authority on soils
and their uses and bis many publica
tions on soils and their adaptation to
crop production and their relation to
food consumption have attracted world
wide attention.
Dr. Whitney is preparing a bulletin
on soils of the country and their re
lation to the Nation's future food
supply. He draws special attention
to the vast amount of uncultivated
areas of land, the decline .in the cul
tivated areas compared with the rapid
Increase of the country's population.
"The country Is advancing in every
line." said Dr. Whitney. "People are
living better than ever before. As a
result we are stronger physically and
mentallv. We are consuming more
foodstuffs per capita than the popula
tion of the European countries and I
would not for a moment attempt to
discourage less food consumption. It
Is plain that unMl we set a larger sup
ply of foodstuffs and if the period of
high salaries continues we can expect
the present high cost of living to con
tinue. "So let us touch the producing side
Of the Ojueyt,lqn, , For . Instance, , the
states north of the Potomac and east
of the Ohio liver have a total area of
112,322,880 acres. The area under cul
vatlon In this territory is estimated
at a little over 40,000,000 acres. Added
to this is 27,000,000 acres used for
forestry. So we have 'over 42,000,000
acres of idle land in the territory lying
in the states.
''During the past 30 years the amount
of land In use has steadily decreased
until it is now about 20 per cent less
than in 1S80, while the country as a
whole has been growing at a phenom
enal rate.
"The number of persons engaged In
agricultural pursuits In the states
above mentioned has - also decreased
during the past 30 years, while the
total population has largely increased.
"There are at present, mark you,
about 1,300,000 persons engaged in agri
culture in the area under consideration
with a population of over 30,000.000
nonagrlcultural producers to be fed.
"The Bureau of Soils estimates that
the land under cultivation in the area
can be made to yield at least four times
as much as at present by more intelli
gent and intensive methods of farm
ing. Moreover, the same up-to-date
methods used on the idle lands will
have a yielding capacity of over eight
times as much as at present
"Careful investigations conducted by
the bureau prove that these lands are
well adapted to all classes of crops
from the early fruit, truck and vege
tables, to the latest storage fruits and
vegetables for Winter use. and to the
most intensive kind of dairy farming.
"The theory that decadence of agri
culture in this region was due to the
exhaustion of soils to long continued
cultivation has proved unfounded by
careful study and by officials of the
Department of Agriculture.
"The conditions in the eastern section
of the country are similar to those ex
isting In other sections. So whether
the cost of living Is to be reduced or
not, it is perfectly plain to even the
layman mind that to feed the present
and constant growing population of
the country a greater production of
foodstuffs must be raised.
"To do this more people have got to
return to the farms; it is necessary to
put more land under cultivation; more
improved methods of agriculture, and
more intensified farming must be fol
lowed. "1 expect that this .will be done at
no distant date, but until it is done
and if prosperous times continue to
prevail, I am afraid that we cannot
expect a substantial reduction in the
high cost of living."
HOUSE CMOS GALLED
CHAIRMANSHIPS TO RE CONSID
ERED JANUARY 7.
Holiday Goods of Many and Various Kinds On Sale Today at One-Half Price;
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50,000 Handkerchiefs, Used in Xmas Display, Un -Sale loday at ic nacn
Double "Gold Bond" Trading Stamps in all Departments Thursday .
Purchases Made Today and Balance of Month Charged on Your Jan. Acct
20c Lunch 3d Floor
EXTRA SSSffi 49c
Women's Gowns, of fine sheer
white nainsook, made extra
full and long, with hemmed
collar and sleeves trimmed
with rich satin ribbon. A Q
One to a customer for T-JC
Family Vegetable
Soup, v
Choice of
Baked Salmon,
Veal Fricassee,
New Peas,
Macaroni and
Cheese an Gratin,
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I Today The..-"Annual u White Sale"
Pieces of tine, 1)
Baked Fork and
Beans, or Leg of
Pork,
Apple Sauce,
Potatoes,
Vegetables,
Cabinet Pudding,
Coffee or Tea. ;
100,000
Flood Expected to Succeed Snlzer on
Foreign Affairs Ansberry for
' "Ways and Means.
WASHINGTON", Dec. Z5. Committee
assignments In the House of Repre
sentatives, . maae necessary by the
changes In membership, will be con
sidered in a Democratic caucus, which
has been called for January 7.
The chairmanship of the committee
on foreign affairs, made vacant by thi
election ol Representative Sulzer as
Governor of New York, Is one of the
Important places to be filled, and it Is
probable the place will go to Repre
sentative Flood, of Virginia, who la at
present acting: chairman of the com
mittee. To succeed ex-Representative
Hushes, of New Jersey, on the ways
and means committee, Representative
Ansberry, of Ohio, is said to nave been
selected.
Of Republican assignments, Repre
sentative Green, of Vermont, is slated
for the claims and pensions committee;
Merritt, of New York, for immigration
and naturalization and education, and
Representative Scott, of Iowa, for
coinage, weights and measures and re
forms in the civil service.
Besides these the caucus wilt award
the chairmanship of the committee on
public lands, contest for which Is be
tween Representative Ferris, of Okla
homa, and Representative Graham, of
Illinois. The outgoing chairman. Is
Governor-elect Robinson, of Arkansas,
whose Inauguration, like that of Governor-elect
Cox, of Ohio, a member of
the appropriations committee, will not
take place until later In the month.
There are several candidates for the
Cox vacancy on the appropriations com
mittee. .
CcntraHa Farmers Get Light.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 25. (Spe
cial.) At the meeting of the Centralia
City Commission yesterday, It was
voted to extend the city's light service
to Ford's Prairie, about 60 farmers of
the prairie having petitioned for lights.
The farmers will stand half of the ex
pense of installing the power line. .
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I -. AM'.. j'Mk
ainty Undermuslins
Prices 's to 'a Belov Value
On our third floor today. An immense gathering of beautiful new
Undermuslins, fresh from the makers. Corset Covers, Gowns, Skirts,
- Drawers, Chemise and Combination Garments of finest materials, beau
tifully trimmed and finished. The product of New York's leading man
ufacturers, made under most sanitary conditions. On sale beginning to
day at the lowest prices ever quoted on similar goods in Portland.
$1.50 Gowns at 69c
$2.50 Gowns $1.29
100 dozen Women's Dainty New
Nightdresses of soft,, sheer long
cloth or cambric in an immense va
riety of attractive styles in slipover
or button front effects. Besides the
plainer effects with .just tucks and
edging there are a great many elab
orate styles with solid yokes and
half sleeves of lace and em- JQ
broidery, values up to $1.50 0C
Women's Exquisite Nightdresses in
entirely new designs and combina
tions of cluny and French Val. laces,
French eyelet embroidery, etc. Ma
terials alone worth $1.50 to $2;
choice of these fine QQ
$2.50 garments at only tj) A LJ
39c Drawers at 25c
75c Drawers at 49c
50 dozen Women's Fine Cambric
Drawers, made with deep hem
stitched flounce with cluster of
tucks, finished with French band;
all sizes, best 39c values ever shown
in Portland. White Sale price,
ot over four pairs to a
customer,' special at only DC
Women's Very Fine Longcloth
Drawers in the new shape,- hand
somely trimmed with flounces of
lace and embroidery; xegu- yflQ
lar 75e value.- White Sale fK7C
$1.50 Petticoats 98c
25 dozen dainty White Petticoats,
in the new close-fitting models, 'of
sheer nainsook with deep flounce, of
blind embroidery ; regular QQ
values. White Sale JJ
$1.00 Combinations 59c
$1.50 Combinations 98c
100 dozen Women's Fine Combina
tious of best standard quality long
cloth, mrfdc with yokes and edgings
of fine Val. or cluny laces and
French eyelet embroidery. Perfect
fitting and finished with all silk
ribbons; matchless $1 values; two
garments to a person while rjjQ
they last 'at special price of 0C
25 dozen Women's Extra Fine Com
bination Suits designed after the
daintiest ' Paris - made garments,
beautifully trimmed with laces and
embroidery; actuallv madefvQ
to sell for $1.50; White Sale ZOC
Corset Covers at 19c
$1.50 Corset Covers 98c
50 dozen Women's perfect-fitting
Corset Covers with yokes and edg
ings of serviceable torchon and Vai.
laces, all sizes, for this sale, f
3 to a customer only at x lC
Women's Very Fine Corset Covers,
elaborately made of the newest lace
and embroidery combinations with
wide satin ribbons ; values r Q
up to $1.50. White Sale i70C
$3 Petticoats $1.59
A special lot of handsome White
Petticoats, exquisitely designed and
beautifully trimmed with rows and
rows of fine laces, with trimmings
of wide satin wash rib- d 1 CO
bons; values to $3 at pXOc
Our Entire Stock of Undermuslins
is of . ered at White Sale Prices
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Double "Gold Bond" Trading Stamps in All Departments Thursday!
Ask for "Gold Bond" Stamps.
f you fail to get them with your
purchase you have left
of your change on the counter
.very filled book worth $2.00
i cash or $2.50 in merchandise.
v (,Jd Bond" Stamps are tha
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jr.,; . ''-;-. J JJJS' 'ML'''. 11 Q"ly trading stamps with a caslj
ll'fSSl 'f if fr::Sh-n rlmrtion value: $2.00 ill
apart 5 J -TO , -v a1K 1 1 i . I
gj SJL3hZtrty' A U MM VT, jTlS cash, $2.50 in merchandise
VSisdatSMsi'm given for every filled book:
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Clearance Sale
Men's Suits and'Overcoats - w '
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Our entire stock of men's and boys' clothing is marked for quick
clearance, beginning today. Every garment in this stock is
entirely new and of high-grade material and workmanship. Suits
of fine cassimeres, tweeds, cheviots and worsteds. Overcoats of
chinchil a, came 'shair, kersey and cheviot, in newest patterns and
colorings. Ycu can make no m stake when you purchase from a
stock so entirely new and up-to-date. Read reductions below.
Clearance Sale Prices
Men's Overcoats
$30.00 Overcoats $18.45
$25.00 Overcoats $16.95
$20.00 Overcoats $14.45
$15 and $18 Overcoats $10.45
Men's $4 and $5 Pants $2.95
Clearance Sale Prices
On Men's Suits
Up to $25 Suits $14.00
Up to $18 Suits $10.50
Boys' Overcoats ;
Up to $10 Values $5.45
Up to $6.50 Values $3.95