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Newspaper Page TextTHE -MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, ATRir, 21. 1920 TTt ' THERE are few people who do not .know the message of Opportunity Day, few who are not so particular about their expenditure as to set impor tance by its values. The items on this page comprise opportunities for everyone. It is well to read the list through, so as to be sure of missing none. Trie- QuALrrf StOke or- PonjLAKo ; . READ READ Women's Shoes $2.65 300 pairs in the lot-comprising both high and low shoes. Sizes 2,,& to 5 only. General cleanup of all odds and ends in stock. Good substantial grades, including button shoes, pumps and ox fords. Sizes for big girls and women. Priced irrespective of former selling rates, at $2.65. All sales final So approvals or exchanges. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Women's Lisle Stockings 49c 800 pairs of extra fine light weight .mercerized lisle stockings with some slight imperfections which do not im pair "their wearing qualities. Double garter tops, heels and toes.. Seamless feet. Mock seam legs. Black only. Meie'r & Frank's: Main Floor. Swiss Rib Vests 47c More than a thousand extra quality vests woven of long staple cotton. Bodice and regular styles. Second quali ties but the flaws are hard to find in most of the garments. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Kid, Lambskin Gloves $1.98 Regular $2.50, $3 and $3.50 grades. One and two-clasp gloves in white and bjack and pearl. Pique and overseam sewn. Plain and embroidered backs. Broken sizes. ' - No phone orders, C. O. D.'s or exchanges. Meier &. Frank's: Main Floor. Georgette Blouses $3.65 - Originally $5. Cleanup of about 180 georgette blouses in white, flesh and bisque. Half a dozen pretty styles. All regular sizes. While any remain, $3.65. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Handkerchiefs 10c Regular 15c and 17c grades of wom- en's and children's handkerchiefs. All sorts of small lots. Sheer lawn with embroidered corner designs and pretty styles with fancy borders. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Flannelette Yd. 25c If in full bolts this flannelette would be 50c yard. It is in mill lengths, how ever, usually 2 to 8 yards in a length. Light and dark colors with flowered effects. 36 inches wide. Good for quilts, kimonos, dressing sacques. While any of these lengths remain: 25c yard. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Net Flouncings $1.98 Regular $3.75 to $5.49 grades of net dress flouncings with ruffled and hem stitched or picot edges. Trimmed with Valenciennes or venise laces. Limited quantity. Please shop early. While any remain, $1.98 yard. Meier & Frank'e: Main Floor. Veiling Remnants i2 Now 25c to 50c a remnant, were 50c to $L Hundreds of them. Good desir able lengths. This season's colors and patterns. Plain and fancy meshes. Some with chenille dots or "scrolls. Black, brown, navy, taupe, purple. Meier & Frank'e: Main Floor. Silk Mull 25, Half price. Regular 50c grade. Just an odd lot which somebody will like to have. 27 inches wide. Gray, tan, bisque, lavender, green, dark cream, jasper, nile, taupe. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. I Crash Toweling 20c Silks, Dress Goods V2 Cleanup of desirable lengths. This season's fabrics. Plain and fancy silks. Plain and a. few fancy, dress goods. Limited quantity. Please shop early. Every remnant at half price. Center Aisle, Main Floor. Gabardine Suiting 39c Regular 50c grade. . White gabardine suiting, 36 inches wide. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. All Wool Suiting $1.49 Formerly priced here at $2.50 and worth more on today's market. Popular hair line stripes in navy or black with white. 40 to 44 inches wide. .All wool. 300 yards only.. Please shop early. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. New Embroideries 6c Regular 10c and 15c grades. 2500 yards in the lot. Swiss cambric and nainsook embroideries. Edges from 1 to 4 inches wide. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Regular 30c grade. Cotton and linen mixed crash toweling 18 inches wide. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Stamped Needlework 19c Regular 25c to 60c grades of stamped pieces for embroidery. About a thousand odds and ends. Laundry bags, centerpieces, pin cush ion tops, sofa pillow tops with backs and many others. Wonderful things at 19c. -Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Original Fiction 50c Regular 75c to $2 books. Fiction, bi ography and war books. Our book buyer was especially . fortunate in securing this limited number of copyright edi tions to offer at 50c Meier & Frank's: Fifth Floor. Gold Jewelry V2 10 and 14-karat gold lavallieres, regu larly $3.45 to $45, now $1.73 to $22.50. 10 and 14-karat gold scarf pins for men, regularly $2.50 to $25, now $1.25 to $12.50. " A few with genuine diamonds, ma jority with coral, sapphires, amethysts and topazes. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Argentala Silver Polish 16c For one day only the regular 25c - "Argentala" silver polish, 16c. Unex celled for cleaning silver, gold and glass. A soft, smooth paste guaran teed not to scratch or mar the surface. Meier & Frank'e: Main Floor. Napkin Clips 19c Regularly 35c' Substantial" silver plated clips with initial or seal designs. Probably the whole family 'would like some. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Whisk Brooms 29c Regular 50c grade. Good quality, me dium size, well made. 200 brooms in the lot. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Candy Log Rolls 49c Regularly 75c pourd. Popular, creamy confections rolled in ground nuts. Packed in pound boxes. None delivered. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Men's, Boys' 'Kerchiefs 11c Regular 20c grades. Medium and Sheer white lawns with colored printed borders. Full size. Quarter and half inch hems. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Wall Paper 75c to $3 About half price for 6 to 12-roll lots of paper for any room in the house. Fabric effects, foliage tapestry designs and many others: Sold in complete " room lots only. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. Extension Cords $1.19 Regularly $1.50. Ten-foot greenj elec tric extension cords, complete , with socket and plug. Standard grade.' Use- ful for kitchens, bedrooms, basements and particularly for automobile use. .-..etci- &. Frank's: Basement Balcony. 9x12 Feet Rugs $14.95 Regular $19.50 and $20 grades of fiber and wool and fiber mixed rugs. Desirable patterns and colors. Green, brown, blue and tan mixtures. Stand ard grades. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. Curtain Materials 29c Regular 35c to 65c yard grades. Lot consists of 2000 yards of voile, 6crim, marquisette and Swiss for summer cur . tains. Plain and fancy weaves. 36 to 40 inches wide. Mostly manufacturers' ends of 3 to 10 yards each. Many can be matched. Meier & Frankjs: Seventh Fioor. Linen Scarfs, Centers $1.89 Art needlework section offers regu lar $2 to $3.50 pure linen scarfs and center pieces at this new. price. Scarfs are 18x45 inches and 18x54 inches. Cen ter "pieces are 27 or 36 inches. 400 in the lot. While any remain $1.89. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Sugar and Cream Sets 98c - Formerly offered in a special sale at $1.69. Silver-plated frames with glass linings in attractive designs. .Limited . quantity at this cleanup price of 98c. Meier,& Frank's: Main Floor. Feather Pillows $1.98 Regular $2.25 grade of standard Em merich pillows with sanitary feathers. Blue and white flowered ticking. 21x27 inches. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. 10,000 Cakes of Soap at 3c . Regularly 5c a cake, now35c dozen or 3c a cake. Tar, oatmeal and other odors. Medium size. Over 10,000 cakes - in the lot. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. 12 Rolls Toilet Paper 89c Regular 10c size, now Bold in dozen Jots at 89c. This is Graemar toilet paper with full thousand sheet rolls of good quality tissue. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. U. S. Wool Sox 45c Wool sox made for the Government but rejected because of slight imperfec tions, less than half the regular price. Splendid for campers, hikers, woods men and shipyard workers. Meier & Frank's: Lower Price Store. Basement Balcony. Men's Silk Shirts $6.95 Subject to slight imperfections. If perfect they would be $10, $12.50, $15 and $17.50. To be sold strictly as they are. No returns. No exchanges. Made of some of the finest and most expensive silks woven. Limited quan tity only. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Men's Negligee Shirts $1.95 Regular $2.50, $3 and $3.50 quality. Made of fine percale, woven madras and Eden cloth. Fast colors, splendidly tailored. Attached soft collars. 288 in the lot only. Meier i Frank's: Main Floor. Men's Neckties 69c Regular 85c, $1 and $1.25 grades. 2000 ties in the lot all with flowing ends. New assortment of patterns. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Men's Union Suits 95c Regularly $1.50 and $1.75. Either . cross-bar nainsook or madras in athletic style union siJits. Sizes 34 to 46. Only 360 suits in the lot. Please come early if you want one at 95c Meier &. Frank's: Main Floor. Men's Trousers $5.85 About 250 pairs of regular $6.50 and $7.50 trousers. Worsted and cassimere with two side, two hip and watch pock ets. Belt loops and waist band. Can be worn with cuff or plain bottom. Light, medium and dark shades. Nar row, broad and pin stripes. 32 to 46 inch waist sizes. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Boys' Knickerbockers $2.98 About today's wholesale cost for 200 pairs of boys' corduroy knickerbockers, sizes 6 to 16. These are of heavy mole skin' back corduroy with taped seams, heavy drill pockets, belt loops. Meitr & Frank's: Third Floor. Salmon Eggs 25c Sporting Goods Store offers 250 cans of "Ketch-Em" brand salmon eggs. A perfect bait for trout and other fishing. Large size cans regularly 35c, now 25c. Meier & Frank's: Sixth Floor. Army Shell Boxes 19c 200 genuine U. S. army shell boxes made of solid leather. Suitable for fish ermen's paraphernaiia. Also good for - Boy Scout equipment. While any re main, 19c. . Meier & Frank's: Sixth Floor. Tomatoes $2.98 Case 200 cases of new pack standard to matoes offered at this special price. 24 cans to each case. Regularly 15c can. Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor. Pure Lard $1.29 Regularly $1.50, but this Opportunity Sale brings No. 5 pails of pure lard, first quality, for $1.29. Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor. . . Picnic Hams 26c lb. First quality shoulder hams, fancy stock. 4 to 8 lbs. each. Sold at the . very special rate of 26c lb. 300 hams. Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor. Silk Dresses Reduced Women's spring: and summer silk dresses of taffeta, foulard, taffeta with. printed georgette and messaline with flowered georgette. . One of those miscellaneous collections containing many of the prettiest styles of the season and all at a marked saving. Long-waisted hemstitched and corded models, high-waisted ones with a touch of gold, others with overskirts and yards of narrow f rillings. Not all sizes in every style or color. Meier & Frank's: Fashion Salons. Fourth Floor. Sale of "DIX" House Dresses 300 Garments of This Famous Make ) Seconds of $3.50 to $6.50 Grades, While any remain teday J We call these "seconds," but really so scrupulous is the DIX factory standard of inspection and so trivial the imperfections where we have been able to dis cern any that it is hardly fair to the dresses. Women will welcome this oppor tunity to secure their favorite house dresses at such a saving close to half in some instances. Voile, Swiss, .lawn, chambray, gingham and percale. One and two of a kind mostly some are samples. Variety of patterns and colorings. Practically all sizes. . . ' Meier & Fra nk's: House Dress Shop. Third Floor. f TiTrrTrAT IOC DAY IOC Silk seam binding:, odd col ors, 5',i ligne, 7-yard piece for 10. Dimity lingerie tape, "white, pink and sky, 4-yard piece for lOf. Byssine mercerized thread, black, white and colors, 2 spools lOf. Celluloid hair pins, crimped and straight, package lOf . 5c snap fasteners, black and white, 3 cards 10. 5c darning cotton,45-yard spools, 4 spools lOf . J 10c crochet hooks, all sizes, 2 hooks lOf. 15c folding nickeled steel coat hangers, 1 O. "Given Names" woven tape for marking laundry, 2 sets of 1 dozen each 10. Safety pins, assorted, 2 cards 1 Of. Steel pins, 200 to a paper, 5 papers lOf. 15c slipper trees, pair 10. Corset laces, best quality, 7 yards, lOf . --Meier & Elastic, -inch, white only, 4 yards lOr). "Aervento" for freshening pillows, set J Of. Trouser hangers, "Ideal," only 10c. Mother's ironing wax, per piece lOf. Best English brass pins, sheet lOf. Asbestos lid and iron hold ers, cretonne covered, each lOr. Button thread, linen finish, black and tan, spool !Or. Frank's: Notion Shop. Main Floor. All Our Wardrobe Trunks 1-5 Off This offer embraces our standard makes, including the celebrated Hartmaim and Oshkosli trunks all at a fifth less than standard prices. Usual sizes complete with hang ers, drawers, hat boxes, laundry bags and so on. Wonderful opportunity for those who are planning to get wardrobe trunks this summer. 20 o less for Op portunity Day only. Meier Frank's: Trunk Store, Sixth Floor. 1L ESCAPE FRUSTRATED J'RISOXER LEAVES BROTHER "'il.N BOX AXD WALKS OCT. 1: 9ieme Foiled by Presence in j Courc or Officers Familiar Wllh of Accused. Appearance H . - - pV. IJ. .Lyons, hel eld on a charge of .passing a eneck witnoux naving sui-jf-elent funds in the bank to cover it, tf-'ft hs brother, M. D. Lyons, in the i'.soner's box in his place yesterday , brning ana started to walk out. 2 rhe attempted jail break was frus Jited by Officers Ferry and Abbott tfli the auto theft bureau, who orig fdwlly arrested Lyons. He was re 5t i: ne: to the jail and his brother. JiJ D. Lyons, was arrested on a charge -y aiding and abetting a prisoner to 'ft -ape. j'l'be two brothers look -ery much SSike and the attempted escape took HE. (ace when the courtroom was full ith cases in active Lyons had just been put over for hearing until Thursday and the order -was to take him back to jail from the prisoner's box. where prisoners are held adjoining- the courtroom . awaiting: trial. Lyons" brother had been permitted to en ter the box and converse with the prisoner for a few moments. When the order came for Lyons to (fo back to jail he nonchalantly walked out of the box into the courtroom and started away, while his brother awaited the elevator which was to take him to jail instead. BOY'S HAND BLOWN OFF Injury Caused by Explosions of . Dynamite Cap. ' EUGEXE, Or.. April 20. (Special.) The explosion of a dynamite cap tore off the left hand of William Hesce. ll-yeflr-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mvnville Hejre, living between Ku prene and Sprlnpri'ieltl. Sunday. The boy had picketl up the cap near by and while playinff with it. caused it to explode. ' Attending" physicians state .that the boy's other injuries may prove fatal. He was badly lac erated on the chest and other parts of the body. He is at the Springfield hospital where he was taken soon af ter the acci ent. SHRINE FLOUTS VIEWED COMMITTEE LAUDS WORK OF GEORGE I. HCTCHIXS. Mayor Declares Productions ,Sur ' pass Former' Efforts ; Public Surprjse .Planned. When Mayor Baker took the gen eral committee of the Shrine to "the den" yesterday afternoon to show them the floats which will appear In the Shrine week parades every mem ber talked In superlatives of produc tions which George I. Hutchins is putting out. ' "Without reservation." commented Mr. Hutchins, "this will be the great est work I have ever done in the con struction of floats in this city, Pasa dena or San Francisco and though it is cost Ins us fully $30,000 to put on this feature of the big show alone, its value to Portland and Oregon Id advertising is beyond estimate.". "We are not telling everything." said Mayor Baker, who is chairman of the committee on parades. "In fact, we are telling nothing for the sport of it all will be the surprises which are in store for our visitors as well as ourselves.1 I cannot comment too favorably on the great work which Mr. Hutchins already has done and what I know he is going to do to put through so ably this parade feature." FOSSIL READY FOR DRIVE Salvation Army Quota $840 for Whole of Wheeler County. FOSSIL, Or.. April 20. (Special.) County c'latrman, I. A. Johnson, for the Salvation Army drive to be made May 1-10 In W'heeler'county. has ap pointed the following committees throughout the country. Organization Dr. R. . Jenkins, chairman for Fossil district: A. King, chairmaji for Mitchell district, and R. L. Greene, chairman for the Spray district. ..Publicity committee H. J. Simmons,'"' Fossil; A. Helms Jr., Mitchell; R. D. Price, Spray. Advance gift committee Steiver and Carpen ter bank. Fossil', Mitchell State bank, Mitchell, and D. E. Baxter, Spray. The quota for Wheeler county is $840. SHERIFF MAKES RECORD TAXES SENT TO TREASURER WITH IX 15 DAYS. Portland Railway. Lislit & Power Co. Is Delinquent and Owes County About $200,000. Sheriff Hurlburt affixed his signa ture to the largest check he has ever written yesterday. It was payable to John M. Lewis, county treasurer, for $3,005,850. being the last five days of collections in the tax department prior to delinquency of first install ments on April 6. That he was ready for a turnover to the treasurer with lng 15 days constitutes a speed record in the tax department. As far as the mail has been opened and checked, approximately Jj.iOO.OOO or 47 per cent of the total tax roll of $12,007,032. has been paid. The largest single taxpayer to fall in meeting the first installment ap pears to be the Portland Railway, Lijht & Power company, which owes the county approximately $200,000. The $3,005,850 turned over yester day will be distributed as follows: City of Portland. $1,217,850; school district No. 1. $753,800: state. $135. S00: counvy. $372,300: Port of Port land, $127,000; and roads. $99,300. TRUSTEE LOSER IN SUIT Jury Decides for Thompson Estat In Multnomah Hotel Case. Efforts of H. F. Bushong. trustee In bankruptcy for the Multnomah Ho tel company, to recover $188,000 from the R. R. Thompson estate went for naught yesterday ' when the federal court jury returned a verdict for the defendant estate. . The suit involved the value of the furnishings of the Multnomah hotel at the time it was operated by the now defunct Multnomah Hotel com pany.' When the company went into bankruptcy In January. 1916. the Thompson estate foreclosed mort gages which it held and sold th furnishings. The trustee. In his complaint, al leged this sale was made without the authority of the referee in bank; ruptcy and for that reason was il legal. ' The trial started 12 days ajo be fore Judge Wolverton. The jury de- 1 turnir.;? its v"erdict acainst th libcratcn but a short ttme before re- I tgl company. 'SVICE toTak if N.'sl. ha USf CANDY ; Cathartic r e ho- , 9 " . spectators, pijosrress. fi'he case of Pi at ; ; 3 I ,