THE -MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, ATRir, 21. 1920
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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 .
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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.
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9ieme Foiled by Presence in
j Courc or Officers Familiar Wllh
of Accused.
Appearance
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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.
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