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9 'M,.','Vi-w-iWw("...w- - S& MILL -TO -MAN CLOTHIERS : ' SSSSOT! reat lot TTTE MOTtNTXG OTCEfiOXTAX, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2.", 1914. (Gr .Factory nig 5V Mi 3 Greatest Offer Ever Made $100,000 Stock Sacrificed We have cut the prices on Clothing to where every man can afford a new Suit or Overcoat. We own and have on hand at this time fully $100,000 more merchandise than we should have. In order to distribute this surplus stock quickly, we are allowing our customers their pick and choice without reserve, any Suit or Overcoat in either of our two stores for $15 Our Pants Factory Closed Down Pants Must Walk Out at Duringthis great sale Boys' All Wool Suits They Are Regular $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00' Pants in both our Portland Stores we are giving the pick and choice without reserve any SUIT or OVERCOAT for only Pair $3 Men's All Wool Pants, Regular $4, $5 and $6 Pants Now Our Pants Factory is closed down, leaving over seven thousand paira of Pants on our hands. "We must turn them into money in the quickest possible time, that is why we are now selling each day several hundred paira of $4, $5 and $6 Pants at 3 the pair. Think for a moment and Bee if you have a coat and vest on hand that could be made to do good service if you had them brightened up with a new pair of pants. Come to either of our two Portland stores and make your own selec tions, you can pick them out and just pay the salesman S3 and no more. The regular price at which we have been selling the same Suits and Overcoats is $15, $20, $25 and $30. Were $4.50, $5, $5.50 and $6, Now .... If you have a boy, who is hard on clothing, bring or send him here, where a good suit can be bought for only S3. 85. 1 "We understand the needs of boys ; it has been our hobby to take good care of them, as we realize that the boy soon grows to be a man, and we want to retain his trade and friendship. During this Factory Sale, we have set aside a splendid lot of suits, and the pick and choice can be had for only S3. 85. Tailored Suits to Order, Only "We have made a very large investment in our tailor shops and now have on hand a stock of about $30,000 worth of fine woolens and tailor trimmings. To boost this part of our business and help work up this big stock, we have selected fifty very choice styles, and from any of these we will make a suit to your measure, with try-on and first-class work, for only $20.00. Suits made complete in two days if required. $20 Brownsville Woolen Mill Store, Third and Morrison Streets and Jo owman & Co., Third and Stark Streets L3l'Ftom ihe Sheep's Back to Your Back and No Cotton Added in the Making' 'W fH p n ROSEATE HUE SEEN! President of -Western Union Company Optimist. AGENTS MEET CHIEF HERE Kewcomb Carlton and Party on Tour of Inspection, Pass Several Honrs In Portland and Leave for San Francisco at Night. Bringing prophecies of general pros perity with him. Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Tele graph Company, arrived in Portland yesterday morning, held a conference with Oregon agents of the company in the afternoon and left for the south last night. . - ..r, With him were several other officials of the company, on a tour of the coun try to inspect the company's various offices and "gret acquainted with the em ployes," as Mr. Carlton expressed it. A conference at the Benson Motel was the most important happening in con nection with the officials' visit. Oregon agents met with the general officers for the purpose of discussing local condi tions in the telegraph business. Mr. Carlton's optimistic smile changed the conference into a boosters' meet ing, and everyone left the session de claring that business was increasing rapidly in Oregon and that a wave of great prosperity was due to strike this state in the near future. President Carlton told them of bus! ness conditions in the East. He said the company had made a personal can vass of the Nation in an effort to ascer tain true business conditions. -These reports, he explained, indicated that depression struck the entire country soon after the European war broUe out. , Raw Products Bring More. "But now," Mr. Carlton said, "every thing is working to get the Nation out of the hands of the pessimists. Th-s prices for raw products lose because of the war, war orders lor the Dig lac torles, the return of confidence, and the Federal reserve banks are doing much to restore prosperity. "At first our reports showed that prosperity yas cropping out in spots in different parts of the East. South and mid-West, and of late on the Pacific Coast. This wave of prosperity is spreading gradually throughout the Kast and ought to include the Coast in the near future. Mr. Carlson declared that there would fe no change in the western union policy. "There never has been any change in the Western Union policy.' he declared. The Western Union party arrived in two special cars yesterday morning. , Those in the party were: Mr. Carlton W. C. Merly. his secretary; J. C. Well- over, commercial general agent; E. Y, Gallagher, controller; W. N. Fashbaugh, general superintendent of traffic; CJ. M. Yorke, general superintendent of plants I j. M. Kisick, assistant to the president C. H. Gaunt, general manager of the Pacific division, of San Francisco: H. F. Dodge, assistant general manager; C A. Rhodes, division auditor; II. C. Chace, traffic superintendent; J. L. Ord. dlvis Ion plant superintendent; R. L. Calkins, secretary; E. Boening, district commer. cial superintendent; G. D. Hood, dis trict traffic superintendent, and E. L. Ritter, district plant superintendent. Agents Attend Conference. Those who conferred with the higher officials yesterday are: C. B. Winn, Al bany; E. C. Austin, Astoria; W. E. New combe, Ashland; A. E. Tunnlr.iiffe, Baker; E. A. Miller, Corvallls; J. A. McKevitt. Eugene: W. C. Sprinkei, La Grande; J. M. Watklns. Medford; G. H. Dalrymple. Pendleton; II. it. Lang, Salem; S. L. Hayes, Portland; W. A. Robb, Portland; H. M. Carr, Vancouver, and B. R. Ness, Oregon City. Mr. Carlton left on the 8:30 train last night for Medford, where he will visit for a few hours witn his brother, E. W. Carlton, who owns a large fruit ranch near that city. He will rejoin bis party at San Francisco. After touring the Coast the party will go to Dallas, Tex., and return direct to New York. Salt 1 ( ' 4 H I-j - it - " 1 i ' i I y ; t t " . 5 .o I Newcomb Carlton, President of f Western Union Telegraph Com- . T put, Who Waa in Portland I 4 .... . ... 4 Yesterday. Lake City, Boise, Butte, Spokane, Seat tle and Portland havo been visited. HIGH JINKS ALL SET! dances, and at least three surprises will be sprung on the Press Club assemblage. Press Club to Break Vaude ville Records Tonight. SEVERAL -SURPRISES DUE WATER RATE ISSUE NOW Opposition to Mr. Daly's $3 Charge for Coolers Is Extensive. Whether or not waterusers having cooling closets are to be forced either to pay a monthly rate of $3 in addi tion to their regular charge will be decided by the City Commission this morning. Mayor Albee has sent an ordinance to the Council repealing the cooling closet charge. He says the charge would force the people having cooling closets to put on water meters regardless of the fact that there is a referendum measure now pending in volving the meter proposition. Mayor Albee was besieged with telephone calla yesterday from per sons protesting against the $3 a month charge for the water coolers. There are 225 houses In the city now fitted with the water cooling arrange ments. It is contended by Commissioner Daly that these devices cause waste of water. Mayor Albee contends that they do not and that the Imposition of a $3 a month rate would be an injustice. In the head office of the Bee canal, at Port Sntrt. Is a model of the canal, allowing the exact position of every ship moving through it. It Is thus aulte easy to arrange by telegraph for vessels to pass one another. News Writers to Hear Best Enter tainers of Portland Theaters at Programme Fourteen Artists Are Promised. The biggest vaudeville show ever presented in Portland contained 12 acts. More than likely that record will De put in the shade, for at the Press Club Jinks tonight fully 14 artists will en tertain the newsmen and their friends. A dozen acts already are on the pro gramme and the night is sure to bring forth three or more surprises in the entertainment line. Every member of the club has been Invited to bring four non-member men friends, and. Judging from inquiries made about the Jinks, the affair tonight will be the best-attended frolic in the four years' life of the Presa Club. Every Dance Illustrated. Headline place in the Jinks is held by Miss Frances Magill. who, with Arthur Himes, will give an exhibition of all the latest dances. This act alone will entertain the newswriters for at least an hour. Miss Magill having made elaborate preparations to present a few steps of every modern dance that has reached the craze column. She will sDeclalize in the "Maxixe," the "Luiu Fado" and the "Fox Trot." For this part of the entertainment the center of the auditorium will be cleared and the dancers will glide from one room to another, that all may have view oi me stellar act of the Jinks. Fred Hildebrand. eccentric comedian, who "stops the show" every day at the Empress, will entertain with comical steps, tickling songs .and hilarious stories. Hildebrand is built on the broomstick order and is a comedian from the ground up. That means he is "some comedian, as he is six feet tail. Arthur Whitlaw, one of the prime favorites at Pantages, will entertain with Irish stories. Wbitlaw has the Pantages audiences laughing so heartily they almost reach the bromidic stage of rolling out of the Beats. Miss Ida Lyon to Sing. Miss Ida Lyon, a handsome Portland girl. Just back from the East, will sing several solos. Miss Lyon studied under Mrs. Frederick Snyder, of St. Paul, Minn,, a renowned vocalist, under whom several members of the Chicago Grand Opera Company received their training. Miss Lyon will sing "Rose of My Heart" and "Ting-a-Ling" from "High Jinks." Another pretty girl to shine in the Press Club Jinks will be Miss Villa Rena, violinist, now appearing at the National Theater, who has been lent to the Press Club through the courtesy of Mr. Winstock. Although only16 years old. Miss Rena is a remarkable lnstru men tali st. Fred Harris, a baritone singer, will sing several popular songs. Mr. Har ris becomes an entertainer in the Jinks through the kindness of Mr. Anson, of the Songshop. There will be other singers, other CUPID BLOCKED BY RULES Dr. Marcellns Called On to Help Restaurant Man Out. Should the enforcement of the city's sanitary ordinances prevent a man from getting married? This Is a question which City Health Officer Marcellus has been asked to decide. - Grace Bransford, a restaurant in spector, notified a restaurant proprie tor some time ago that he must make certain changes in his place. Later she went back and found the place in the same condition. She was informed by the proprietor that he has been sav ing all his money so he could get married. "Would you stop the marriage, by making me spend all my money for repairs In my place of . business? " he asked. So Mrs. Bransford has asked Dr. Marcellus. ARMY HORSES SOON READY Deal Involving About 1200 Head for French Now Being Closed. The extensive purchases of Eastern Oregon range horses by agents of the French government are being financed in this city. The deal involves about $150,000 and the negotiations are now being closed with a local bank. The contract, which was placed with a number of horse buyers in the eastern part of the state, calls for 100 to 1200 head of horses suitable for the artil lery, and . cavalry branches of the French army. The average prices be ing paid are $125 to-150, according to the character of the animals. Buyers also have been through the Willamette Valley, but it is believed no purchases were made west of the Cascades. 250 LADS TO MEETl Y. M. C. A. to Hold State Older Boys' Conference Friday. 60 FROM PORTLAND TO GO MEMORIAL SERVICES - SET Portland Lodge of Elks Completes Arrangements to Honor Dead. Arrangements havo been completed by the Portland Lodge of Elks for their annual memorial day exercises on Sun day, December 6. Services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church. Twelfth and Al der streets, at 2 P. M.. and will be open to the public. Officers of the Portland lodge will have charge. The memorial address will be deliv ered by W. C. Bristol and the eulogy for those members of the lodge who have died since the last services weie held will be pronounced by Ralph E. Moody. Mr. Bristol and Mr. Moody are memners oi tne Portland lodge. BENEFIT EVENT ARRANGED Y. M. C. A. Entertainment to Bring In Belgian Relief Funds. An entertainment ' from which It is expected a considerable sum of money will be raised for the relief of the Bel gian refugees will be given at the Y. M. C. A. next Tuesday night, Decem ber 1. Judge Corliss will head the pro gramme and will read "Macbeth." Stuart McGulre and J. William' Belcher will assist in the programme. The entertainment is only a part of the general plan of Portland residents to aid the Belgians. The elKht-hour movement la the United States bexan in lsoa. Three-Day Conclave to Assemble at McMtnnville Many Prominent Churchmen to . Speak All Oregon Represented. Two hundred and fifty boys fropi a large district of the state will gather for the State Older Boys' Conference at McMInnvllle Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sixty delegates to the state convention will leave from Portland clubs. The conference is held under the auspices of the State Young Men's Christian Association and the Oregon Sunday School Association. Delegates will be sent from the boys clubs of the Y. M. C. A., Sunday schools. Boy Scout organizations and high schocls. I. B. Rhodes, state Y. M. C. A. secre tary; J. W. Palmer, boys' work di rector, Portland Y. M. C. A.; J. C. Meehan, assistant boys' work director. Portland; Tracy Strong, director of the boys' work at Seattle; C. A. Phipps. state secretary Oregon Sunday School Association; Rev. Henry Marcotte, pas tor Westminster Presbyterian' Church, Portland, and President C. J. Bushnell, of the Pacific University, are on the programme to address the boys. C. C. Michener, president of the Food Products Company of . Portland, will speak before a men's mass meeting at S o clock Sunday afternoon on "Mc Mlnnville's Greatest Need." Following is the programme of the conference, which will draw boys from as far south as Roseburg, east to Hepp- ner and west to Astoria: Friday 124 P. M. Registration of deal ers at Commercial Club rooms. Assignment of delegates to homes. 4:il0 P. M. Opening; session of confer ence Vernon . Farnham, retiring secretary, presiding. Sons service: organization: ad dress of welcome. Mayor Tilbury, McMInn vllle; . response, Vernon arnham, Portland. 7:30 P. M. Sons; service: address. "Re- tainlne; the Best, ' Rev. Henry Marcotte, Portland, t Satjrday 9 A. M. Song- service, I. B. Knoaes. leader. 9:30 A. AI. Business session. 10:::o A. M. Conference; "The Best Ideals," J. C. Meehan. presiding. 1 M. Noon recesB. 1:30 P. M. Sons; service; devotional period, I. B. Rhodes, leader. 2 P.M. Discussion . groups (1) For high scnooi aeiegates. tiuy n,. iseoonam, leader; "The School Student Christian Movement:" (2 for Y. M. C. A. delegates. J. W. Palmer. leader. "The Relation of the Boy to the Boys' Division:" f3) for Sunday school dele gates, c. A. pniDDs. leader, "The Older Boy and the Sunday School." 8:80 P. M. Report of groups to body as a wnoie. 4 P. M. Recreation, directed by O. B. Gingrich, nhvslcal director Salem T. M. C. A. 6:30 p. M. .Banquet at tne Armory, O. B, Gingrich, toastmaster. 8 p. M. Address. "The Best Book," Tracy atrong. beanie, w aaiu Sunday 9 A. M. Song service, I. B. Rhodes, leader. 3 P. M. Mass meeting for older boys; aaaress. - uouu. ueiier, xest, - -i racy strong;, Seattle. Wash.: mass meeting for men, address. C. C. Michener. Hlllsboro. 7:30 P. M. Union meeting of churnhefi: address. "Enlistment for Christ," President u. J. isusnneii. -oresi urove. 8:30 P. M. Farewell service, Guy E. Keedbam. state boys' secretary, presiding. Branch Pierces Boy's Abdomen. WAPATO, Wash., Nov. 24. (Special.) Arthur, the 16-year-old stepson of P. J. Herke. a rancher at Donald, was Injured seriously Saturday afternoon when a short branch of a tree he had climbed to recover a saw pierced his abdomen for about eight inches. He was removed to the North Yakima Hospital, where. It is said, he has a chance to recover. $40,000 WILL CONTESTED Grandson of J. M. Partlovr Wants Share Property Worth $200,000. Making the charge that James M. Partlow's transfer of his property prior to his death In 1905 was null prima facie, his grandson, James F. Partlow, filed a petition yesterday asking for the appointment of an administrator of tho estate. At the time of his death Mr. Partlow's property is said to have been of the value of $40,000; now it is said to amount to no' less than $200,000. Before his deathoMiiM Partlow is said to have disregarded -is family In his will and left his property to others. His grandson and granddaughter, Be atrice M. Doeltx, both of whom recent ly have arrived at legal age. filed the petition for an administrator in the effort to secure what they maintain is their share of the property. grounds of cruel and Inhuman treat ment. They were married in Portland March 16. 1912. Mrs. J. A. Reynolds Asks Divorce. OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 24. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Jessie A. Reynolds, of Port land, has brought a suit in the Clack amas County Circuit Court for a di vorce from Henry H. Reynolds on the Dr. PAUL C YATES I INK KK Oil tiONKST DEJT T1STK.V IN PUIITLA.VD. ' A We Have Cut Prices We will save you 50 cents on every dollar on the best dental work made by human hands and without pain. Our offer Is for you to go to any dental office and get prices, then come to us and we will show you how yon save a dollar and we make a dollar on your dental work. Gold Crown 4.00 Bridge-work Sit 4.00 Fillings l.OO Plates &10.00 All Work Guaranteed 13 Years- Paul C Yates dkxtist fifth and Morrison, Opposite Post-office. Low Fares for Th anksgiving Visits FREQ.UENT TRAINS ni i . m tm m The Fast, Comfortable, Convenient Way. Round Trip Fares Between Valley Points Wednesday, Nov. 25 and Thursday Nov. 26. GOOD FOR RETURN UNTIL NOVEMBER 30 Portland and 5nlem Portland and AVoodbnrn., Portland and EoRene, . Portland and Corvallls.., Portland and Albany...., BETWEEN . ...92.00 fl Salem and Engene S2.SO , ...9l.ua Portland and (2. Independ- . ...S4.80 ce ...S2.30 . . .3..-0 Portland and F. Grove l.OO ...13.10 0 Portland and Donald. 91.10 Hates to Other Points in Proportion. OREGON ELECTRIC TICKET OFFICES Jefferson-St. Depot 5th and Stark '10th and Stark 10th and Morrison North Bank Station