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22 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920 Boy Scout Anniversary Week "Do a Good Turn Daily." Ask a Boy Scout He Kn o us. ii w. IE 31 2o February- 1920 Sun. Hon. Tut W,t Tfcu. rrl Sat. ' & & & JZ JO 43 13 4 3 16 17 15 l 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 23 The- Q.UALITV Store of Portland ntlv .Sixth, Morriwxy Alder Sta TENTH DAY OF OUR TREMENDOUS FEBRUARY DRIVE THESE NEW VALUES ARE BROUGHT FORWARD TODAY I -'5 8 -8 Girls' Underclothes Offered Away Below Usual Girls' Store is hurrying out pretty nighties, princess slips, combinations and drawers. Broken sizes but nearly all sizes in some one or another style. KNICKERBOCKERS Now 29d to $1.89 Were 35c to $2.23 Soft white cambric with good embroidery or lace. Some have straight edges at the knee. Sizes 2 to 18 years. . NIGHTGOWNS S1.98 Were $2.50 to $4.50 Excellent nainsook and cam bric. High neck and slip-on styles. Trimmed with tucking, embroid ery and ribbon. Ever so pretty. Sizes 6 to 16 years. PRINCESS SLIPS . S1.95 Were $2.50 to $2.98 $2.95 Were $3.98 to $5.95 Good batiste and nainsook with lacesj .embroidery, tucking and beading with ribbon. Sizes 6 to 16 years. COMBINATIONS 39d Were 75c Madras waists with attached drawers, complete with straps and buttons for hose supporters and other garments. Sizes 1 and 2 j years. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) 700 Pairs of Curtains $3.95, $4.55, $5.80 Going on, the 'February sale of curtains. Good luck for those whose windows need softening dra peries. These special curtains are of extra good voile and mar quisette with lace edges or in sertions. White, cream and ecru. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. (.Mail Orders Filled.) $8 Copper Wash Boiler $5.99 Heavy copper. 22 inches long, 12 inches wide and 13 inches high. Stationary wood handles and hook-on cover. Wood clothes tongs special at Meier & Frank's: Basement. (Mail Orders Filled.) Needlework Specials Our Second Floor Art Needlework Section makes a special featuring today of the following: Embroidered Models Vi . $1.50 to $20 values 75 to $10 Scarfs, centers, pillows, under garments, children's dresses, rompers, etc Sweater Models Vi $6.50 to $22.50 values $3.25 to $11.2o. Sweater models in several dif ferent styles. Some are soiled. Stamped Needlework 9 Many a great deal less than HALF. Odds and ends, including pin cushions, centers, pillow tops, etc. Stamped Needlework 39 Regular values to $1. A table of stamped billow tops, centers, scarfs, children's dresses, guest towels and bags. Dresser Scarfs 59 Regular 75c values. Dresser scarfs stamped in at tractive conventional designs on white art cloth. Luncheon Sets 89 Regular $1.25 values. A 1 1 r a c tive 13-piece luncheon sets stamped for embroidery in a simple French knot design. Stamped Dresses 9S Regular $1.25 to $3 values. Children's dresses stamped on pique and poplin crepe, sizes 4 to 8 years. Also rompers and boys' suits in sizes 1 to 4 years. Fringe and Lace 19 Regular values to 65c. Suitable , for scarf ends and centers. White and cream. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Progressing The following important sales are going forward in their respective departments. Here we can give only the briefest summary any one of them would deserve an entire page for proper presentation. Sale of Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes 17,500 pairs at average present wholesale cost. Six specials for women from $2.35 to $15.85. . Five specials for men from $3.95 to $9.95. Eight specials for children from $1.19 to $3.98. Six specials for boys from $2.35 to $5.65. Third Floor. Spring Sale of Notions and Dressmakers' Supplies This annual sale, which began yesterday and continues until Saturday evening, is the most important event of the spring dressmaking season. Now is the time to fill up work baskets, sewing tables and machine drawers with dependable sewing needs. Threads, needles, pins, hooks and eyes, braids, bindings, beltings and miscellaneous needfuls in infinite array are offered at lowest prices. Main Floor. Toilet Articles and Drugs are the subject of a special six days' featuring designed to show the unequaled extensiveness of the MEIER & FRANK stocks of standard qualities drugs and toilet articles and the uniformly low MEIER & FRANK prices. ' Main Floor. Axminster, Wilton, Velvet and Other Rugs in splendid variety including tapestry Brussels, body Brussels and grass rugs are offered in a large assortment of patterns, colors and sizes at greatly reduced prices. Seventh Floor. New Flannelette Nightgowns $2.29 Very prettiest we have ever seen. They look exactly like the old famous French flannel. Striped in artistic combina tions and delicate colors such as rose and blue on a creamy back ground. Some bound with beautiful brocaded 1-inch ribbon. Oth ers carefully hemstitched. Either mannish or feminine styles. Exceptional at the price. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor, Sixth Street. Thousands of Yards Remnants of Outing 29c 29c yard for 1200 yards of outing suitable for nightgowns, pajamas, etc. Narrow striped effects of pink, blue and tan. 27 inches wide. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Fancy Silks Captured at SI .98 JL yd. A manufacturer with a stock he wished to turn into imme diate cash even at a financial loss ... a MEIER & FRANK representative quick to procure the advantage for our Tort land clientele . . . raw silk today at seventeen dollars a pound and still going up That is the story of this sale in a nutshell. For greater convenience we shall place the silks on a center aisle table, Main Floor. Included are taffeta and messaline in plaids and stripes. Dark and light colors. 36 inches wide. Smart for dresses and skirts. Good to use either plain or pleated. Home dressmakers can create fashionable frocks at very little cost if they share in this sale. Meier & Frank's: Center Altde, Main Flour. GOOD Furniture Repriced Furniture makers are united in a great effort to manufacture the furniture demanded by the whole country. Odds are against them. Lumber is scarce and high priced. Labor is scarce and costly. Plate glass is being gobbled up by automobile makers at any price whether perfect or otherwise leaving little for furniture mir rors. Things such as nails, screws, paint, glue, drawer pulls, are immensely increased in price. During the war thousands of homes stopped buying furniture and now they demand it all together at once. But: Good news for Portland today: Bedroom and Dining Room Suites Reduced Enameled Bedroom Suites Less i buy them separately or by the suite. The six pieces are illustrated. Taken directly from our own regular stocks and specially priced. Dresser, ivory enameled, complete with 24x30 inch mirror, was $69.50,' special $49.50. Bed, ivory enameled, twin or full size, was $59.50, special $44.75. Chiffonier, ivory enameled, without mirror, was $39, special $29.75. . Chair to match, was $13, special $8.75. Rocker to match, was $14, special $9.65. Desk, ivory enameled, was $32.50, special $26. . $298 Bedroom Suite Reduced to $215 Mahogany finished. Twin beds, dresser, chif fonier without mirror and night stand in Adam design. One only. $390 Dining Suite Reduced to $298 It might have come across the seas and have been made of old English oak, this fine Crom wellian furniture. Nine pieces in the suite, a 60-inch buffet with mirror, a china cabinet, a 54 inch round table extending to eight feet, 5 side chairs, 1 arm chair. Save almost a hundred dollars in this sale. $495 Dining Suite Reduced to $389 ' 10-piece combination mahogany suite iri Chip pendale style consists of 54-inch round table, buf fet, china pabinet, serving table, one arm chair and five side chairs with leather covered seats. One-of-a-Kind Furniture at New Low Prices Dresser of American walnut, made by Berkey & Gay, was $195, special $124.50. Dining table, oak, William and Mary style, 54 inch quarter-sawed top, 6 ft. extension, was $99.50, special $79.75. Dressing table, ivory enamel, three mirrors, was $79, special $49.50. ' Chiffonette with mirror, ivory enamel, was $61, special $49.83. Dining table, oak, 6 ft. extension, William and Mary style, was $74.50, special $44.50. Dining table, oak', 54-inch quarter-sawed top, 6 ft extension, was $72.25, special $39.85. Bed, ivory enamel, full or twin size, was $51, special $33.50. Chiffonette, ivory enamel, was $48, special at $32.5Q. ' Dining table, oak, 48-inch top, 6 ft. extension, William and Mary style, was $47.75, now $29.50. Dining table, waxed golden oak, 42-inch top, 6 ft extension, was $27.50, special $22.5Q. . Bed, ivory enameled wood, full size, was $27, special $15. Dining chair, waxed oak, leather seat, was $9, special $7.50. Dining chair, waxed golden oak, imitation leather seat, was $7.25, special $4.95. Make Your Own Terms in Reason Eighth Floor. If ijf if Now Is the Time to Choose Silk Negligees 14.95 Models Here Until Now $18.50 to $25 and More Limited number of fluffy lacy affairs and the simpler styles of good silk effectively embroid ered and stitched. A few show marks of handling but many of them are fresh and dainty enough for brides. Crepe de chine plain or combined with georg ette, lace and ribbons, Delicious colors. Usually only one of a kind. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.)- " : j Sweaters for Small Women $3.95 No one could possibly buy the yarn and knit these interesting look ing sweaters at anything like this price. Mostly tan, blue and a few reds. Broken sizes. Miscellaneous styles. Women's Combing Jackets $1.98 Cotton crepe printed with fascinating cherry blossoms and other flowers. Made in Japan. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor, Sixth Street. "BIG"! YOU TELL 'EM r $14.85 For 500 Boys' Suits 200 New Suits With 2 Pairs Pants are in This Disposal Right at the start we wish to state that practically all of these suits at $14.85 are LESS THAN PRESENT WHOLESALE COST. Many are all wool. All are standard makes. In the suits with one pair of pants will be found Sampeck, DuBbelbilt and other brands identified with high-grade clothes for boys, but it. is about the TWO PANTS SUITS 200 of them, and all new . included for good measure that we enthuse most. , ' . . Suits for school, dress, year-round wear. Well tailored garments with all seams taped, pants fully lined and due considera tion paid to SERVICE in every detail. All shades of gray, brown and green. Sizes 7 to 18 years. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Boys, Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) 1 .3: 200 Men's and Young Men's SUITS . . . No time to waste on rhetoric here are the straight facts: We took stock in the Men's Clothing Store a little more than a week ago. Various lines were thus discovered to be "broken" or incomplete. Rather than fill in sizes at the prevailing; higher prices we've determined to make short work of the 200 garments which compose the several lots. This price will do it. Our loss in material profit will be more than offset by the liberal measure of good-will the sale is sure to bring us. Please ReM Carefully .What Follows "Half today's prices" is more truth than I of special interest to stout fellows who poetry in the case of many of these suits. All are from regular stock. Most of the suits are ALL WOOL in such - fabrics as worsteds, cheviots and tweeds and in all regular sizes 34 to 44 and there are some All-Wool Blue Serges of special interest take 40 to 46 sizes. The styles are those that are being worn now and will be popular for spring and sum mer wear. One and two-button double- breasted suits in plain or all-around belted styles are featured. And the last word is the best $29,831 Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Third Floor. (Mall Orders Filled.) $1.85 Gloves buys regular $3.00 and $3.50 wash able cape gloves in ivory, gray, brown and tan. P. K. and P. X. M. seams. All sizes to 10. Worth more today than the comparative prices quoted. $2.65 buys gray mocha gloves of excel lent heavy quality that are worth today $5.00-$6.00 pair. P. X. M. seams. Black embroidered backs. Sizes 7 Vi to 8 Vi inclusive, in this sale group. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor. (Mall Ord-rs Filled.) L
