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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1917)
.THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TnURSDAT, J-AXT7AIIX 18, 1917. KMANY GOOD UNADVERTISED SPECIALS ALL OVER THE STORE LOOK FOR THE SALE CARDS " Spring Quarterly of Butterick patterns, 25c, and any 10c or 15c pattern FREE. This Fashion Magazine is brimful of splendid sugges tions for your Spring wardrobe. Let our experts help you plan it. Second Floor. Needlework Classes- now being held. Knitting and crochet ing class under Mme. Chundelah, 10-12 and 2-5; filet lace making under Miss Bode, 10-12 and, 1-6; lamp shade making Miss Pearson 10-12 and 1-6. Second Floor Boys' Norfolk Suits, Special at $4.85 Every Portland mother should take advantage of this timely sale I There are sizes for boys from 6 to 18 years. Excellent materials suits that are well made and in the very best models for boys "Pinch Back" style, with 3-piece belt and patch pockets ; and regulation Norfolk styles. The colors are gray, brown and tan in good cassimere, cheviot and other suitings. Not many suits in the small sizes so early shopping is advisable. . Boys' Clothing Shop, Third Floor Tut Quality' Store? or- Portland Buying Continues Brisker Than Ever in Our Annual Sale Remnants and Odds &Ends 3 MEN ! On Sale Today at 9 A. M. ! $ 1 .00 and $ 1 .50 SHIRT S for 79c ! 20 m - B7 Women's Fancy $3.00 to $3.50 Satin Slippers ' $ 1 .09 Broken lines of women's colored satin slippers the best $3.00 and $3.50 grades. These are made with hand-turned soles, instep strap and covered wood Cuban heels. All sizes in the lot but not all sizes in every style. Special today at, pair $1.09. ' Quantity Limited Better Come Early. Shoe Shop, Third Floor. Our Entire Stock of EARRINGS PRICE WERE 50c-$10 NOW 25 TO $5 Your choice of any pair of beau tiful earrings in our entire stock today at exactly HALF PRICE! All shapes, sizes, styles and various stones are included all in distinc tive and many exclusive effects. Long drop earrings, tiny screws and large pearl and fancy stone settings in styles that are becoming to every type every desirable kind of earring is to be had here today at exactly half the regular selling prices ! Jewelry Shop, Main Floor Over 1000 Shirts Taken From Regular Stocks HERE is an announcement of the kind that never. fails to meet with enthusiastic response. "A MEIER & FRANK SHIRT SALE !" No need to talk of the trade conditions affect ing this merchandise no need to comment on the infrequency of such sales as this. Everything considered, it is one of the best things we have done and we have done some mighty big things in our time. Yours to profit in good season and lay in a generous supply. Included are such well-known shirts as NoFade and Anderson Scotch Madras. Soft and laundered-cuff styles in high-grade materials that embrace repps, crepe cloths, plain and corded madras, soisettes, Oxfords and crystal cloths. Neat plain and novelty striped patterns, also plain white Oxford cloths. in laundered-cuff style. All sizes in the lot, but not all sizes in every pattern. . Men, and women who buy for men, can attend this sale with all confidence of securing such values as will well repay them for the little effort involved. For this is a typically great Meier & Frank event the kind for which our Men's Furnishings Shop is famous. We suggest that those who can shop in the forenoon. BUT come here some time today and share in these golden values. SALE BEGINS THIS MORNING AT 9 O'CLOCK EXTRA SALESMEN TO INSURE THAT YOU ARE WAITED ON PROMPTLY EXTRA SELLING SPACE FOR THIS EVENT SEE MORRISON STREET WINDOW DISPLAY Men's Furnishings Shop, Main Floor. w Special tcttiuiici y u. Extra special! 50 sheets paper and 50 envelopes m box. 50c Children's Auto- r q graph Albums oC 10c DennisonV Fancy yt Paper Napkins, dozen. .xC 25c Red Rubber i r Bands, box . . J, JZtC 35c Dennison's Glue r and Paste, can A 57 C Score Cards and Place q Cards, odds, ends, doz. OC 7oc Dennison s Paper Flower Outfits for 29c Address Books, Engagement and Memo Books y A Larire Assortment Reduced to ' & Stationery'Shop. Main Floor. 100 Afternoon & Evening Frocks $12.45 Regardless of Former Prices All of these frocks have sold at a far higher figure all of them are smart, new and very service able, and any one is a splendid bar gain at the low. price placed on them for immediate clearaway ! There are afternoon frocks of serge, satin, taffeta and poplin in popular shades of blue, brown, green and black. There are charming little evening frocks in all the delicate, becoming shades. While there are about 100 dresses in the lot, early shopping is advisable, as in many instances there will be but one of a kind. Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor 31 C8D0L I The White Sale of 1917 Progresses With New Attractions and Savings as Pronounced as Ever 35c-85cLacesYd.25c Shadow lace in widths from 12 to 24 inches. Floral de signs and some filet effects White only. Special, yd. 25c $1.00-$1.23 CHIFFON 79i 40-inch printed chiffon on white and dark grounds. Pretty Dresden and Persian effects special at, yard 790. 25c-40c LACES, YD. 19 Piatt VaL lace edgings and insertions, 14 to 4 inches wide. For wash blouses and undermus lins. Lace Shop. Main Floor. "Extra Size" Gowns SPECIAL SALE A sale in which the woman usually hard to fit can profit. Good cambric and nainsook gowns, prettily trimmed in lace, embroidery,- tucks and rib bons. In kimono or high neck, long sleeve styles. $1.59 Gowns, $1.29 $2.00 Gowns, $1.69 $2.50 Gowns, $1.98 $3.00 Gowns, $2.67 $3.50 Gowns, $2.89 Muslin Drawers jf cambric and nainsook, prettily made and trimmed. 59c Drawers, 47 $1.25 Drawers, $1.09 $1.50-$1.75 Drawers, $1.27 $2.00 Drawers, $1.67 $2.50 Drawers, $1.98 Undermuslin Shop. Third Floor. "Old" Prices Still on Our Oriental Rugs We wish to call your attention to the fact that all our magnificent Oriental Rugs are still marked at the prices which prevailed before the war. We have maintained "Old" prices on our rugs, despite the fact that many of the largest American importers have advanced their prices from 100 to 150. Note these splendid values: ABOUT 123 RUGS AT "OLD" PRICES BERGAMO RUGS Ranging in size from 2-2x4-7 to 3-2x 6-3. Priced ?21.50 to $45.00. SERABEND and FEREGHAN RUGS Sizes 3-3x4-10 to 4-1x6-9. Priced $55.00 to $75.00. V KERMANSHAH RUGS Sizes 4-4x6-6 (average): Priced $65.00 to $125.00. SAROUK RUGS Sizes 3-3x4-10 to 4-1x6-9. Priced $37.50 to $125. Rug Shop, Seventh Floor Newest "Wehvorth" Blouses $2.00 New models in the always desirable Wel worth blouses have just arrived and go on sale' today for the first time. As always $2. Here ex clusively in Portland. Blouse Shop. Fourth Floor. 4-4a Curtains s2 Novelty curtains with unusual patterns in the bor ders and centers woven into Colonial stripes. These excellent $4-$4.50 lace curtains today, pair $2.95. $2.50 FANCY MESH LACE CURTAINS $1.39 Beautify your windows with these splendid lace curtains fancy mesh weaves with good edges attached. - 25c CURVED END EXTENSION RODS 12c Strong, neat extension rods especially arranged to sell with the two cur tain specials'. Curtain Shop, Seventh Floor. OUR GUARANTEE GOES WITH EVERY SIMPLEX UNIVERSAL COMBINATION RANGE 1 Burns coal or wood and gas sep arately or together. No shifting of parts required by turning off the gas change is at once made to wood or coal. The Simplex has twenty other big features that we will be glad to show you. Above all it is SIMPLE. It will save you money and trouble and give splendid cooking and baking satisfaction. Come in today you will be under no obligation to purchase. Easy payments if desired.' Sixth Floor. Fifth Street ICKSBSl j SIMPLEX UNIVERSAL Grocery Specials Co-operating with the Parent-Teacher Associa tion, we offer: Yellow CornmeaL 9-lb. sack 32. ' Head Rice, 5-lb., pkg. 35c, 2-lb. pkg. 15. Cocoa, strictly pure, 2 lb. pkg. 42c, 1-lb. pkg. 22. Sago, 5-lb. pkg. 35c, 2 lb. pkg. 15f. Salt, g o o d quality, will not cake, ,10-lb. sack Peeled Peaches, no phone orders, while any re main, lb. 10. Evaporated Apricots, good quality, no phone orders, lb. 10. Prunes, new California, small size, 5-lb. pkg. , 30c, 2-lb. pkg. 13f . Boiled Cider, Knight's, quart bottle 25c, pint 150. Prunes, Richardson & Robbin's French Proc ess, 2-lb. jars 50c, 1-lb. Bacon, C u d a h y's Dia mond C, one of the best Eastern sugar cured, whole or half strips, lb. 32. Ninth Floor, Fifth Street. $2.25 Combination Cooking Set $1.37 Just 50 of these splendid brown and white enamel combina tion cooking sets, con sisting of one 5-quart Berlin kettle, one 2 quart pudding pan and one 2-quart colander. Basement. Fifth Street. A. AMBROSE IS DROWNED WAVES FROM STEAMER SWAMP ' ROW-BOAT LADEN WITH IRON. Three companions Rescued by Crew of . Steamer Wttwi Body of Victim ' Recovered in Short Time. - Five minutes after the harbor patrol boat arrived at the scene of his drowning-, the body of Anthony Ambrose, 30 years old. had been recovered from the Wllliainette River yesterday forenoon by Municipal Grappler Hush Brady and Patrol Engineer Carl Prehn. It lay In 4i feet of water. 15 feet off the O. W. K. & N. dock. With three companions. Ambrose was rowing a boatload of old iron to the Albina ferry slip. The others were Peter jWiland. of 500 Ambrose street. Harry Lolllck. 209 North Sixteenth street, and Karl Brock, of 461 East Flanders street. The steamer Jessie Ilarkins passed them, headed up stream. According to the survivors the wash from the steamer swamped their heavily laden boat. The crew of the steamer v eown, which followed the Harkins upriver. witnessed the swamping of the row- boat, and rescued the three shivering youths from the piles to which they clung. Ambrose lived with his mother, whom he supported, at 105 Revere street. He was a boiler-maker, but had not been employed for some time. With the three others he had been to the ruins of the old Oceania dock, de stroyed by fire in 1914, and had picked up the scrap-iron to selL He is sur vived also by a brother, who lives at 500 Albina street. - The body was taken to the public morgue . by Deputy Coroner Smith. Funeral arrangements will be made today. .. Damascus Lecture to Wait. DAMASCUS, Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) The stereoptlcon lecture which was to have been given by County School Superintendent J. E. Calavan and In dustrial Field Agent M. N. Maris, of the Oregon Agricultural College ex tension department, at the Damascus Schoolhouse last sight, has been post poned indefinitely on account of the latter having been unexpectedly called to Salem on important business. CONFERENCE DATE SET LATMEX'S MISSIONARY MEETING TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 14-15. Details of Two-Day Assembly to Be Discussed by Ministers and Lajr n at Y. M. C. A. Today. Dates for the Portland conference of the laymen's missionary movement were set yesterday for February 14-15 at a meeting of the executive commit tee with E. Guy Talbot. Pacific Coast secretary of the movement, in the office of E.L. Thompson. Today at noon laymen and ministers of all the churches of the city will meet at the Y. M. C A. to work out details of the conference. An Interdenomina tional dinner will be held February 14, while on the following day several Na tional leaders will speak. It was announced yesterday that Herbert S. Johnson, secretary of the Baptist missionary board; W. K Doughty, educational secretary of the laymen's movement and an author, and Fred W. Agar, ex-medical missionary to Africa and now field secretary of the Baptist home missionary board, will be speakers. "America and the World Crisis," "The Cost of World Conquest" and "Mobilizing Christian Forces" will be topics of the conference. The conference will celebrate the first anniversary of the laymen's mis sionary movement In Portland and the 10th anniversary of its organization in New York. GARDEN PLAN APPROVED City to Assist la Making Vacant Property More Attractive. The City Council approved yesterday Commissioner Baker's ordinance pro viding a system for the city to act as agent In leasing free of charge vacant lots to persons wishing to make gar dens. The ordinance providing for the system was passed by unanimous vote. The system has been worked up by Commissioner Baker and City Auditor Barbur and is expected to result in many former weed patches becoming gardens next Summer. Persons having vacant property are re-quested to re port to Auditor Bar-bur. Persons wish ing garden ground ' are requested to follow the same course. The city also will take the initiative In getting the use of vacant lots. PROTEST IS REFERRED District Attorney Asked for Opinion ; on Bridge Approach. The protest of the Albina Business Men's Association against the aband onment of the Vancouver-avenue ap proach to the interstate bridge on the completion of the Union-avenue ap proach, was referfed to the District Attorney's office yesterday by the County Commissioners, for an opinion of legal questions involved. One point raised by the petitioners was that if the approach were vacated by the county, the rights to the land would revert to private property-owners in this section. Pasco Masons Install. PASCO. Wash., Jan. 17. (Special.) Installation of officers In the Masonic lodge was conducted under. C. 5imon- sen, installing officer, and Ray B. Lee. ( marshal, as follows: J. W. Blanton, worshipful master: E. L. Collins, senior warden; Robert Hanson, junior war den: F. L. Perry, treasurer; E. D. Shef field, secretary: Georare H. Hazzard, senior deacon; I D. Conrad. Junior deacon; C. F. Stinson. senior steward: Chris Lund, junior steward: Dan Dress ier, tyler. A grand ball concluded the entertainment of the evening. The First National Bank of Portland, Oregon In our new building every need and conven ience of our customers have been considered ' and you can transact business with us under the most favorable conditions.