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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1913)
13 Visit the Green Trading Stamp Premium Parlors on the Fourth Floor and View the Thousands of Beautiful Gifts to Be Given Away Free for jjC Trading Stamps Special 25c Lunch Served Daily in the Basement Vp-to-D ate Shoe Shining Parlors in the Basement Neapolitan Brick Ice Cream on Sale at Soda Fountain in Basement 35c Silk Lisle Hose 1 9c Pr. Children s Hose 10c Pair 1 5c, 25c Wash Belts at 5c Olds, Wortman & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods 35c Fancy Ribbons 19c Yard Basement Women's fine Silk Lisle Hose in black, white and tan. Extra good quality and fast colors. Reg Basement Children's lxl ribbed School Hosiery; dou ble heel and toes and seam less feet; colors black and tan. All sizes, 5 to t fg Basement Great one -day clean-up of 'women's white Basement 5-inch all pure Silk Ribbons iu scores of patterns. Rich new colors and excellent 35c -truality. On sale Wednes- Tj Q day, the yard, only f Wash Belts; neat embroid ered styles with large fancy pearl buckles; rezri- C?f lar 13c and 25c Belts -' ular 35c grade, on T Ck cnpcial sale, a rair -- if gtere Hoars 8 iSO to SiSO Dally, Except Saturday. Saturday Hoora SiSO A. M. to ti30 P. M. 10. The pair, only AWV l 4 Double Hd?9 Trading Stamps Today With All Basement Cash Purchases THE MOIiXIXG OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, . 1913. 1 HI IjjJ Women's $5, $7. 50 WashDresses $2.98 One Style, Like Illustration In the Basement By taking all the manufacturer had of these at tractive dresses we secured them at an extraordinarily low price, and we pass them along to our customers at like savings. Every dress in this immense lot strictly new; fresh, clean and stylish in every particular. Fancy Voiles, Batistes, Foulards, Crepes, Ra tine, Lawns, Dimities, etc., in scores of attractive styles some with fancy yokes of net, others trimmed with buttons, pipings, embroid ery, etc Handsome dresses for street or house wear. A great many different styles, patterns and colors, and all sizes for J? 9 CiQ women and misses. $5.00, $6.00 and $7.50 Dresses $12.50, $15 Dresses at $7.98 Full Line of All Sizes In the Basement Charming one-piece dresses for street wear a special purchase of just 110 of them on sale tomorrow at about half regular prices. Stylish, well-made garments of silks and French serges in plain tailored or fancy effects. Splendid range of colorings for early Fall wear. Great many attractive styles from which to choose, and there are all sizes for both women and misses. Dresses selling ordinarily at $12.50 to $15.00 each, Jjy QO In one big lot for quick cleanup. Your choice at P 'O $8.50 Long Linen Coats $1.98 Up to $15 Cloth Coats $3.98 Basement Women's and Misses' long Linen Coats,, serviceable styles for motoring and general buting wear. Full-length mod els of heavy linen crash in nat ural color. Neat-fitting. Sev eral styles. Grades CP "I QP worth to $8.50 at pXaCTO Women's $2.75 Wool Sweaters $1.98 Long Kimonos, Special, 98c Basement 25 dozen Women's I Long Kimonos in this special of j fering. Made from splendid washable materials in attractive Basement Odd lines women 's Fabric Coats at a phenomenally low price today. Fancy tweed mixtures and serges ; also some in pongee Silks; medium weight Coats for present wear, selling formerly CJO QQ up to $15; choice Basement Special sale of Wom en's Warm Wool Sweaters heavyweight Cardigan ribbed in Byron collar style ; finished with pockets and large pearl buttons. Colors gray, white, cardinal and navy. All sizes. X 7 QQ $2.75 grades, only V -'- patterns and colorings. Grades selling usually at $1.50. In all for s. Offered special CkQg Wednesday at only-' Ol Hat Shapes at 25c Basement-Grades selling for merly up to $2.50. A final wind-up of the season. Sev eral hundred nntrim'd shapes in hemps and fancy straws. Medium and large styles in black and colors, only 25 50c Union Suits 33c Basement Women's fine lisle finish Union Suits at a rare bargain. Low neck, sleeve less style, with lace-trimmed umbrella knee; medium Sum mer weight and all sizes; 50o quality, offered at only 33 $2 Corsets, Sizes 18 to 30, Sped, $1.29 50c Embroidery Corset Covers 37c ill Basement j; ive splendid new models for average -figures; of high-grade coutil with six hose supporters. Regu- JJ t Q lar $2 Corsets for Basement Allover Embroidery Corset Covers in many beautiful patterns; regular 50c values; in all sizes; offered spe- ' f. eial for this sale, only- Women's 50c Brassieres, Spec', 29c Women's 25c Aprons at 15c Basement Women's heavy grade Brassieres, well boned, re inforced under arm, and nicely trimmed. Regular 50c 9Q Brassieres, special at Basement C h e c k ed Gingham and white Lawn Aprons in long, full styles. Our best regular 25o grades. Offered spe- EZf cial Wednesday at only An Unparalleled Silk Offering! Grades Selling at 50c and S5c Now OQ, Basement Many odd lines and small lots high' grade g lrr Silks grouped for quick clean-up. Silks suitable for dresses, waists, kimonos, petticoats, trimmings, fancy work, etc. Fiain taffetas, poplins, surahs, satins and other desirable weaves in good selection of, colors and excellent; qualities. . Double .VS& H.V.Stamps with Basement cash purchases today. 50c to 85o Silks at 29$ 54-Inch Suitings , Special, 59c A Standard $1.00.Quality In the Easement For one-piece Dresses, Tailored Suits and Skirts. Splendid medium-weight fabric in popular shades of gray. Full 54 inches wide, and makes up beautifully. On sale today ETQp only at this low price. Regular $1.00 Suitings at, the yard-''' 2000 Remnants Now Price Dress Goods and Sitks In the Basement Remnants and short lengths of Dress Goods and Silks in plain or fancy weaves. Ends of this season's best-selling materials. Good, useful lengths, for various pur- Aj Jtfif poses. You may choose any remnant today at Notion Specials Basement 10c Shopping Bags 5c Good strong bags of brown twine; light and convenient to carry. Extra quality. 35c Jewelery at 15c Hundreds of pieces fancy Jewelry, pins, brooches and novelties of various kinds. 25c Hat Pins 3c Fancy Hat Pins priced sensationally low. Black and colors; scores of attractive designs. 5c Spool Silk 2V2C Good quality Spool Silk in black and popular colors, for hand or machine use. 20c Sheet Pictures 5c Beautiful Sheet Pictures in a great variety of subjects. lOc, 15c to 25o qualities. 60c Shell Goods 10c Barrettes, Back and Side Combs in plain and fancy settings. Large assortment. 36-in. Cotton Challies 9c In the Easement Special purchase and sale 5000 yards fine French Cotton Challies for kimonos, house dresses, children's wear, etc Full 36 inches wide, and great assortment Oriental patterns and rich Qu colors. Double stamps with cash purchases. Challies, a yard'' 27 -Inch White Dimities, Special,Yd. 8c 18-Inch Bleached Crash 5c Yard Basement 27-inch White Dimity a fine 6heer quality for chil dren's' dresses, waists, Qf aprons, etc. Special, yard Ol Basement 100 pieces of splendid quality bleached Crash Toweling. Very absorbent and heavy. EZf. 18 inches wide; yard, only J 72x90 Bleached Sheets, Special, 38c Huck Towels, Special, 95c Dozen Basement Bleached Sheets at a nick-selling price for Wednesday. 72x90 size, neatly hem'd, O Of ready for use. Now only OL Basement Huck Towels of good heavy quality; size 16x32 inches, with colored borders and Q T - hemmed ends. Dozen at''1' Cotton Camping Blankets 69c In the Easement Store Going hop-picking T Or to the mountains f This special in heavy fleeced Cotton blankets will be of interest to you. Come in shades of tan and gray with fancy colored border at 2Ck We'll sell hundreds of pairs at this special low price V-' ends. 15c Curtain Materials 7V2C Yd. 36x72 in. Window Shades at 33c Basement Mill ends Curtain ma terials madras, in attractive fig ured effects and other materials; standard 12Vo to 15e rJl'r grades, special, a yard Basement 100 dozen Window Shades of extra quality; full opaque, green; size 36x72 inches. For a special Wednesday sale buy them for only 33c Drapery Remnants at l2 In the Basement Short lengths of high-grade Drapery materials at just half what they sold for in the piece. Good, useful lengths for all purposes. A great variety of patterns and weaves J . JO-t f from which to choose. Buy them Wednesday at just ' fl 32-in.Kr inkle Seersucker,Spec. llcYd. Cotton Foulards, Special 12c a Yard Basement Mill end3 of Krinkle II Basement Beautiful silk -finish Seersucker; good heavy quality, Foulards for Summer dresses and excellent colors. Attract- 1 1 waists. Small neat pat- 1 J- tt torus. Rneeial nt. a vard -I.W". ive stripe patterns. Yd. Women's $3.50, $4 Sweaters Main Floor Center Circle 0 ?Ch Splendid heavyribbed Sweater Coats for Worn- ?7aW JJ en and Misses. Two styles "Kuffneck" or "Byron collar." . Good, heavy Cardigan ribbed, with close-fitting cuffs, side pockets and pearl buttons. Every Sweater made in stand ard, full sizes long and roomy. Excellent $3.50 and $4 qualities. In gray, tan, white and cardinal, and all sizes from 36 to 44. See these! Long Lisle Gloves 33c Pair Basement-30 dozen pairs Wom en 's Long Lisle Gloves at a bar gain price ; full 16-button length, with two clasps at wrist. Colors black, white, tan, gray and bis cuit: All sizes. Special OO, in this sale, a pair, only-''' Reg. 50c Flouncings 19c Yard Basement Beautiful sheer Swiss Embroidery Flouncings in daintiest of patterns. Full 27 inches wide with strong, well worked edges. Regular 35c to 50c qualities, on sale to- f Q- day at, the yard, only--'' Great Sale Men's $3, $4 Shoes IK If llli i L-;ii'.'J.':il nmm, All Sizes and Widths Basement 1000 pairs Men's Shoes in patent, gunmetal and vici kid; button or lace styles; mostly all Goodyear welt soles. All sizes. 4 T QQ $3 and $4 Shoes at, pair P -f Women's $5 Footwear $1.98 In the Basement Store Women's and Misses' high-grade Shoes in popular styles. New, stylish lasts not narrow widths but all are wide. A 1 1. 1 A T- . . . i-atents, gunmetal, suedes, tans, O? 7 Q O J -M. m s t7 a fi vara u n1 mi nit comfortable toe velvet, vici kids. All sizes. Grades worth to $5 pair Wednesday Cleanup Trimmed Millinery 0c Choice of 125 Trimmed Hats, Selling Regularly Up to $5 In the Basement TJnderpnce Store Here's a millinery offering that will be a crowd bringer. This season 's smartest styles, handsomely trimmed and in a good assortment of colors. Small or large shapes. Hats selling formerly up to $5.00, offered in this phenomenal sale at 50c. No phone orders ; none sent C. 0. D.; no exchanges made. Boys' $5.00 and $6.00 Suits $3.65 400 of these handsome Suits in this great one-day sale. Every parent in Portland should take advantage of this remarkable offering. Smart, neat patterns and good, serviceable colors. Many suits in this lot have two pairs of pants. Stylish, .well-made Suits faultlessly tailored . and perfect-ntting. Extra value crowded into every one of these splendid Suits. Formerly selling at $5 and $6, ZJO ZCS in thi3 Basement Special at or.ly V- v-' Boys' $1 Knickerbockers at 75c Ages 5 to 16 Years Basement Buy the Boy's School Pants here today and save money! High-grade Cordu roys and tweed effects in good, serviceable colors. Ages from 5 to 16 years. Best EZ( regular $1.00 Pants, special for only l Boys' $1 Blouses at 35c Ages 7 to 15 Years Basement Boys' Blouses and Shirts in great many styles. Some are a little soiled and mussed, but at this price a great bargain. Ex cellent materials and patterns. Grades O CZ selling to $1. Wednesday special,. pr. 0JI Men's 75c Union Suits at 45c Men's High Grade Collars 3c Each Men's Summer-weight Mesh and II 100 dozen Men's Collars, "B. & Balbriggan Union Suits, clean-up W." and other good makes. Good of many odd lines but all A EZ. assortment of styles, and sizes. Regular 75c grades'"'' nearly all sizes. . Special at -Ol Illll ISP .fir Notion Day' Main Fir. Bargain Circle 200-yard Spool Cotton, black, white, at 4 200-yard Spool Cotton, by the dozen. . .45 100-yard Spool Silk, black and colors . .5C 500 yard Basting Cotton, white, spool 4 SO0 yard Basting Cotton, by the dozen 45 45 yard Darning Cotton. 2Hc grade. ...1 60c Naiad Bolero Dress Shields 35 65c Lace-Trimmed Shield at 48c 35c Naiad Separable Shields, all sizes.. 1U 5c Removable Collar Stays at 2V4 5c Safety Pins. 12 on a card, for 214 12 yards White Twilled Tape, all sizes, 5 5c I.lnen Tape, all sizes, white ;-3 6c Wire Hair Pins, all lengths 2 Vi 10c Mother's Ironinp Wax tor G" 10c Bias Folds, white, asst. widths.... 5 Hair Nets, with or without elastic, price special Wednesday five (or JO 10c H&ir-Pin Cabinets, large size S Pearl Button, 12 on card, special 5 10c Cube Pins, black, white and colors.. 7 Sonomore Snap Fasteners, a dozen 3 66c Wash Trimmings, asstd. widths.. 18 60c Sanitary Aprons, with belt. at.... 39 35c Sterling Skirt Markers now 21 Shoe Laces, asntd. lengths, three pairs.. 5 85c Machine Stocking Darners 1Q lie Wooden Trouser Hangers now 10 15c Child's Hose Supp'rters, bl'k, white 10 35c Twine Shopping Bags, special. .. .19 15c Gold-filled Brooch Pins, special 5 Full pound Parowax, special JO 35c Dressmakers' Pins, H-lb. boxes.. ..25 15c Shirtwaist Belts, white, special .... 10 35c Women's Hose Supporters, white, black 15 10,c Office Pins, assorted lengths, for.. 7 Bone Collar Buttons. 12 on a card 1 Sale of Gray Enameled Ware Basement Underpriced Store 2-qt. Benin Coy. Sauce Pans ZoC 8-qt. Berlin Cov. Sauce Pans 50J 2-quart Preserving Kettles, 15 50-Piece German China Dinner 12-inch Lawn Mowers at $2.3S 14-inch Lawn Mowers at $2.55 7-inch Semi-Porcelain Vegetable Dishes, special Wednesday, at 8 1-quart Enameled Boilers at 45J Gray Enam. Sink Strainers, 15 4-qt. Enameled Sauce Pans, 25 Set, floral decoration, set, S6.00 8- inch Semi-Porcelain White Veg etable Dishes, special, only 11 9- inch Semi-Porcelain White Veg table Dishes, special, onlv 17 Adjustable Window Screens, in assorted sizes, at ONE-HALF PRICE Number of slightly damaged Wash Boilers on sale ONE-HALF PRICE All Garden Hose and Screen Doors offered at special reduced prices. a M , J " J II H ' j GROCERY BILL IS HEAVY TOADS OP FOOD STTFP NEEDED FOB REVGLrXG'S C1RCTS. Purchases Will Be Made In. Portland Today and Consumed In Xext Two Days. Taking with him a strong box filled with currency and an eipht-horse team. Commissariat Webb will make his rounds aong the Portland merchants today and do his marketing for the Rlngllng Brothers' circus family. That which he will select will constitute the menu which, at breakfast, lunch and dinner, win on Thursday and Friday satisfy the appetites of 1308 people. 30 elephants, 40 camels and a thousand or more wild animals. He will also stop at the feedman's to order hay and grain for 680 horses. The circus trains will begin arriv ing from Centralia over the lines of the Northern Paciflo Railroad early tomorrow. A hot breakfast must be ready for the performers and working men when they reach their destination. Here Is what Steward Webb will buy in i-ortland today: 13.500 pounds of fresh beef, 900 doxen eggs, 2400 pounds oreaa. 4oo pounds of butter, 7S bushels cf potatoes. 150 pounds of tea, 450 pounds of coffee, 1200 pounds of sugar, 150 pounds of crackers. 30 cases of canned goods, three barrels of flour.. 240 gallons of milk. 90 gallons of pie fruits, 150 packages of breakfast food, 60 crates of vegetables, 150 pounds' of lard and all the sundries incidental to the preparation of these food stuffs. This supply will be consumed during the two days the show will pas shere. DOUBLE TRACKS ARE LAID Streetcar Company to Continue- East Forty-First-Strect Improvement. In the development of the new sys tem of hard-surface Improvements in Ivanhoe and Woodstock the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company has relald its line with heavy steel double tracks on East Forty-first street be tween Woodstock avenue and Mann Station preparatory to the bard-surface soon to be laid there. The street rail way company will continue its double tracks northward to Gladstone avenue on East. Forty-first and East Forty second streets, thus making the Wood stock line a double track line. At the Intersection of East Forty-first and Holgate street East Forty-second merges Into East Forty-first street, and the Woodstock Improvement Club has taken up the matter of the city taking over the irregularly shape lot at this intersection and connecting the two streets through it and erecting a fountain on the remainder of the lot. J. R. Gilstrap. of the club, Teports the City Commissioners are favorable to acquiring this lot Recent corrections in maps of Greenland have added about 150,000 square miles tu its area. MM PROTESTS MADE COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE VP DOCK QCESTIOX THURSDAY. Residents of East Side to Present Figures Snowing Cost of Recrea tion Piers ot Excessive. Mayor Albee and the four City Com missioners are being besieged by citi zens who appear in person or use the mails to protest against the announce ment of the Dock Commission that pro viding for recreation on the roofs of the proposed public docks would be inadvisable because of the expense. Particularly strong are the expressions of protest from the East Side, where the Business Men's Club started the de mand for space on the docks for play. The definite statement made by the dock board at its conference with the City Commission Monday, that in order to chang the plans and construct the two docks of fireproof material that would permit of dances, band concerts and other forms of amusement on the plera would cost $130,000 additional. Is met with derision by scores of oltiiens, and the East Side Club is preparing to present to the conference an avalanche of figures to disprove the assertion when the Dock Commissioners and the City Commissioners meet in the City Hall tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. President Lepper. .of the East Side Club, is marshalling his forces to set- as many of the East Side taxpayers at tomorrow's meeting aa possible. Thus far the City Commissioners have re mained neutral, except to say that the suggestion of dances and band con certs on top of the docks is attractive to them. Commissioners Brewster, Blgelow, Dleck and Daly agree with Mayor Albee on this. Stella W. Durham, of Portland, as sistant secretary of the Playgrounds and Recreation Association of America, who is an ardent champion of the recreation plan, has collected data rela tive to the use in other cities of docks for pleasure purposes. In Baltimore, she says, work was begun in July on a commercial and recreation pier at the foot of Broad way. It is to be two stories high, built of stone, concrete and reinforced con crete, with a' dancing pavilion on the upper story. It will cost-about 1400. 000 and an equal amount has been paid tor the site. It is 500 feet long and 150 feet, wide, and is supported on 11 concrete piles. The pier will be com pleted in 250 working days. The cost cited does not Include dredging, nor unforeseen incidentals. Robert C. Ull rich is the architect and Harbor Engi neer Lackey is the authority in charge. In New York recreation piers have been built in Manhattan at a cost of from $135,000 to 3225.000. There are Ave on the Hudson River and five on the East River. In Philadelphia there are Ave recrea tion piers in use. two being about 650 by 80 feet, with the usual lower deck for commercial uses, while the other three are small and are utilized only for seats. The costs have been from 1131.000 to (162,000. In Minneapolis the pier at Tflf Sar- riet will be enlarged to Beat nearly 5000 persons, while several thousand more will listen to concerts from canoes or the shore. A float with sounding board will be built for the band. . CHURCH UNION COMES UP Branches of Evangelica) Organiza tlons to Consider Merger Anew. Rev. C. C Poling, D. D., of the First United Evangelical Church, has ascer tained that the general assemblies of the Evangelical Association and United Evangelical Churches -will meet - in Cleveland, O.. Sepember 2, to adopt a plan for the organic union of the two branches of the Evangelical families. The two Oregon conferences of these branches are already. in close federa tion and are only waiting the official sanction of the general assemblies to merge. Dr. Poltng ' said that he has high hones that the sub-commissioners will act finally at this meeting and adopt articles of organic union that will bring together these two branches of the Evangelical family. Dr. Poling is a commissioner from the United Evange lical Church and has done as much, if not more, than any other man to merge the two branches into one family. SIX TONS HIAWATHA FREE! by guessing weight of Edlefsen's large block coal at Meier & Frank's. The graphite depoilta of Madagascar ar La eac slotted by Franau. oomfanya PHONE FOR A CASE TODAY lUETWUADIYG ff COLUMBIA Beverage n jSrS V Pleases HvW Jl C mm