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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1920)
THE MORNING OREGONIAX, TUESDAY. MAY .23, 1020 SWARM WEATHER HINT: HAVE US PUT YOUR FURS IN OUR DRY COLD-AIR SAFETY- VAULTS PHONE AND OUR MOTOR WILL CALL FOURTH FLOOR! 45 ':--.-. . - Tm& Qjual it V" Sto re. of- Portland ' Stxtij "ch 3r in utrtlnd WK, afadUvTiM limy M. a Mk. William Howard Taf t Lectures at the Municipal Auditorium next Thurs day evening, 8:15 P. M., on "The League of Nations Up to Date" auspices Ellison-White Lyceum bureau. Tickets for the lecture are now on sale at a special booth on our main floor. Sixth and Alder street side, at J1.50, $1, 75c (war tax extra). Important Note - , Afe closing time yesterday (Monday) re-' ports from some sections of the store indi cated that, owing to the tremendous demand, selections might be missing or incomplete, in the case of a few of the items advertised here. But by far the great majority of the . values will be available in good selections today and there will be many new lots out for the first time. I Extra Special Coats $15, $22.50, $29.50 Spring sports coats for women and misses. Wool jersey, tweed, serge and polo cloth. Partly lined and unlined. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Spring Dresses V2 Price Tricotine, Jersey, Serge Now $22.50 to $49.25, were $45 to $98.50 delightful wool dresses in navy blue or sports colors. Short sleeves, plain and ac cordion pleated skirts and many other charming fashion notes. Usually only one of a kind. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Model Hats l2 Price A Large Variety Now $9 to $25, were $18 to $50 more than a hundred different hats in black and almost any color. Tailored and dress styles for every occasion. Many come from the finest milliners in America. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Suinmer Furs Specially Priced Chokers and animal scarfs to wear with the new dresses and spring suits. All at a considerable saving. Chokers of gray squir rel, fitch, mink, kolinsky, Hudson Bay sable and stone marten. Animal scarfs of fox and wolf in black and other colors. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Summer Blouses Dimity, Batiste, Organdie Limited quantity of washable blouses slightly soiled from handling. Only a few of a kind. Now $1.25 to $5.50, were $2.50 to $11. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Gloves 49c, $2.19 "A Remnant Sale" All sorts of odds and ends of different lines sold down to a few of a kind. Kid, Euede, doeskin and lambskin at $2.19. Silk and chamoisette gloves at 49c. None on approval, none C. O. D. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. HouseDressAprons$1.79 Regularly $2.50 to $3 Sale started Monday with 1200 crisp new house dress aprons samples some sub standards. Percale in pretty colors. Short and long sleeves. Exceptionally attractive. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Great Sale of Silks .Woolens Cottons Laces Embroideries So for $6 to $10 polo coating, 54 inches wide. S4.90 for $10 sport tricolette, 40 inches wide. 40d for 60c lyk-linen, 39 inches wide. 65d for $1 gabardine all white, some slightly imperfect, yard wide. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. SI. 79 for $2.50 and $3 georg ette crepe, 39 kiches wide. SI. 79 for $2.50 to $3.50 printed georgette crepe, 39 inches wide. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Hoover Sweepers on Free Trial A whole week's free trial in your home is a feature of this factory dem onstration of the Hoover suction sweeper. Phone or write and we will deliver the Hoover to your home. Keep for seven days from time of de li very. At the end of that time if the "Hoover meets your requirements as it has met the needs of countless homes you will want to keep it in your home permanently. There is no obligation to purchase a sweeper within the time limit of this special offer. Your own terms in reason. -. " Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor . Basement Balcony. Last Week of Portland's Greatest Each of the five days that remain we shall endeavor, to excel our own . best, efforts td date. It will not be our fault if every man, woman and child in Portland shall' not have plenty of wanted things at the lowest prices for which such qualities can be sold. . -- . . i . . . w Here Is a Simplified List of Anniversary Values for Today All the items listed in our six full-page ads of Sunday will be on sale today at the extraordinary prices quoted, pro vided quantities remain. Many new lots on sale today scores of unadvertised values all over the store. " f Hand Bags $1.95 Satin Striped Poplin and Moire Fashionable silky bags, prettily lined and some with imitation shell frames. Majority fitted with coin purse and mirror. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Art Needlework Y2 Stamped Pieces, Yarn 63c to $4.00 for regular $1.25 to- $8.00 stamped art needlework, including center pieces, pillow tops, library scarfs, doilies, bedspreads, curtains, children's clothes. 50c hank for Oregon wool in rainbow shade. Meier & Faank's: Second Floor. Petticoats $5.95 to $9.95 Made of Good Silk Jersey silk at $5.95, taffeta and heavier jersey silk a $7.95 and heavy lustrous mes saline or silk jersey, sometimes with 'satin flounces,' at $9.95. All of them will wear welk Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Corsets $2.47 to $7.95 f Fine Models Low Priced Pink satin or brocade dancing corsets at $3.75. American Lady front lace corsets $2.47. Madame Irene sample. corsets $5.95 and $7.95. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Pretty Underclothes Save on All of Them Extra special envelope chemise 98c to $2.95. Night gowns $1.95 to $4.95. White petticoats $3.59. Boudoir caps 69c to $1.00. Made of better than usual materials and at tractively trimmed with embroidery or lace. Meier &. Frank's: Third Floor. Union Suits $1.95 Lisle With Silk Tops Munsingwear in regular sizes for women at $1.95; extra sizes $2.25. Pink, or white with band or bodice tops. Low neck, sleeve less, knee length. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Silk Stockings $1.93 N Full-Fa shioned for Women Pure thread silk in black, white and vari ous colors. Some from our regular stocks, others specially purchased. One of the best silk stocking sales in many a day. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. 1 S1.98 and S2.69 for $2.25 to $3.50 hand-made laces filet, cluny, Irish crochet, 1 to 3 inches wide. SI. 39 and $2.98 for $2.25 and $3.75 metal run laces 8-inch bands and 36-inch flouncing. SI. 69 for $2.50 metal flouncing for evening dresses. S1.98 for $2.50 and $2.75 net flouncing for graduation dresses. S1.98 for $2.50 voile flouncing with floss embroidery. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Take Notice! TODAY Silk Hosiery Sale $3 to $4 SILK STOCKINGS... $3.00 SILK STOCKINGS $1.80 SILK STOCKINGS $1.50-$1.75 STOCKINGS ONE of the biggest and best silk stocking sales that Portland has known in a long time. Thousands of pairs- of standard silk stock ings for- women. Priced away below regular MEIER & FRANK prices today. The savings noted here are the ACTUAL savings between last week's prices and the new rates made especially for this Anniversary Sale of women's stockings. So extremely good are the values offered that we especially call the attention of our regular customers to the following details in order that they the economies. $3 to $4 Silk 1000 pairs of pure thread silk garter welt and reinforced soles. beaver, navy, African brown, chestnut. $3.00 Silk Stockings $1.59 Pure thread silk hose, full fashioned orwith mock seams. Those that are full fashioned have reinforced lisle tops and soles and come in black, champagne and brown. Mock seam stockings are all silk to the top, of extra fine quality and pure dye; durably reinforced; either white or black. Both qualities are regular $3 grades, now $1.59. "Special" $1.80 Silk Stockings Now $1.20 A third less than the "special stockings made of pure dye silk heels and toes. Mock seams. Black, tional at $1.80 and a real "find" at $1.50 and $1.75 Japanese pure dye silk stockings toes and mock seams,, also fiber-and-slk and all-fiber stockings with elastic ribbed lisle teps.' Field mouse, Piping Rock and brown. 1080 pairs are offered at the extraordinary price of $1. "Gordon" Brand Silk Stockings $1.85 Limited quantity of black Gordon silk stockings, full fashioned, heavy weight with mercerized lisle tops and soles. Extremely durable. Please come earlv for these. $1.95 $1.59 $1.20 $1.00 may be sure to avail themselves of Stockings $1.95 stockings, full fashioned with double Black, white, gray, champagne, pink, purchase" price of women's good silk with stop-run lisle tops. Reinforced white and cordovan. Very excep $1.20. Stockings $1 with mercerized lisle tops, heels and Meier & Frank's: Hosiery Shop, Main Floor. Anniversary Sales Every one of the store's 80 odd departments has been enlisted in this last great Anniversary Drive. . Every section has wholeheartedly re sponded to our Anniversary "call for "Better Values." Let Portland look to its needs now and supply them in good measure. Handkerchiefs EJpr Men and Women 65c' for standard $1.00 to $1.75 Madeira linen handkerchiefs for women.'-;1 t. :,'il9c for women's standard 3 for $1.00 Shamrock lawn handkerchiefs. 2 for 25c men's regular 20c lawn hand kerchiefs. 11c for women's regular 20c colored nov elty handkerchiefs. 11c or-6 for 60c,( for men's regular 20c and 25c colored bordered handkerchiefs. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Gift Stationery Many Kinds Quarter Off One-of-a-kind boxes of beautiful station ery each box perfectly fresh and giveable. Regularly 75c to $16.00, now 57c to $12.00. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. For Baby Early Summer Opportunities All sorts of specially priced articles, in cluding bath tubs, sox, blankets, silk coats, quilts, machine and hand-made petticoats and dresses, flannelette garments. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. " Neck Fixings ' Important Sale 50c for dainty collars, collar and cuff sets and silk Windsor ties.- $1.00 for standard $1.50 and $2.00 collar and cuff sets, modesty vests and separate collars; some with frills and bibs. $1.95 for standard $2.50 to $5.00 vestees of organdie, net, dimity; also fine collars. ;. i.- 69c for standard 95c to $1.25 tabbing. - $10.95 for standard $14.50 verimole scarfs to .be used in place of furs. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. MEN'S WEEK Given over to a special series of demonstrations of the mer chandising mastery of The Store for Men. Silk Shirts $8.75 The sale started with 1800. . Fine crepe de chine, satin striped, broadcloth, pussy willow, radium, plain and fancy jersey and imported white habutai. Beautiful patterns and colors. Finely made. Regu lar $13.50 to $16.50 silk shirts. Men's Street, Driving Gloves $1.75 Washable cape gloves in tan, brown, gray and lighter shades, together with a large quantity of the famous Dent's gloves. Sizes IV to 8H. Some $3.50 grades' in the lot. All much finer than rusual at the price. . Nf... ' t - Good Shirts $1.95 Percale, corded madras, woven madras, fancy madras. "Shirts of 'splendid serv ice. Regular $2.50 to $4 kinds. Night Shirts $1.50 Durable muslin night shirts of tlje kind regularly $2. - ' Fine Hats $7 High-grade fur felt hats of the regu lar $10 kind: Seal brown, green, Belgian and black. Silk lined. Narrow and semi narrow bands. Leather sweat bands. Sizes 6 to IVi. Ties 65c, $1.85, $2.75 65c ties in almost endless variety ' regular 85c to $1 kinds. . . . ..- . . $1.85 ties in popular narrow cut styles . of extra heavy silks regular $2 to $2.50 kinds. $2.75 ties are English hand-frame ilk knit ties in beautiful heather mixtures - and cross striped effects slightly im perfect qualities regular $4.50 to $5.50 kinds. " The Family Shoes 5000 Pairs Reduced A shoe sale made up of the shoes for which our customers are asking today at regular prices, but at these new savings. $8.45 for women's pumps and oxfords from J. & T. Cousins and other dependable makers. Patent, black kid, tan calfskin and black calfskin in the lot. $10.85 for women's one .eyelet ties and black kid oxfords; also tongue pumps in black kid, patent and brown leather. $3.3o, $3.85 and $4.35 for children's shoes, according to size the well known "Nature Shape" for growing feet. Scuf fers or dress shoes. Sizes hVt to 2 in the lot. $J.45 for men's shoes for business and dress occasions. English and medium toe lasts. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Hartmann Trunks 20 Off Fine Hartmann Wardrobes Hartmann cushion top wardrobes are everywhere recognized as the best. . For a limited time we offer all our stocks " of Hartmann wardrobes at these new prices: Standard $125 trunks are $100. Standard $110 trunks are $88. Standard $80 trunks now $64. Standard $79.50 trunks now $03.00. Steamer Wardrobes Standard $65 trunks now $52. OO. Standard $45 trunks - now $36.00. Cowhide Bags Men's and women's fitted and unfitted traveling bags that were $25.00 to $90.00 are now $20.00 to $72.00. Meier & Frank's: Sixth Floor. J Fine Shirts $3.75 Extraordinary lot of soft cuff shirts made of crepe madras, woven, corded and Russian corded madras, plain colored pongee silk and plain colored mercerized poplin. Regular $4.50 to $6.50 kinds. Fine Mercerized Sox4 5c Sale started with 6000 pairs. All re markably good values. Standard 75c kind. Fine gauge sox" fully mercerized in black, white, cordovan, navy and gray. Reinforced double heels and toes; elastic garter tops. These sox will wear satis factorily. Silk Shirts $6.95 Silk and silk mixed shirts in crepe. Shantung pongee ahd silk mixed mate rials with fancy stripes. Regular $8.50 to $11 kinds. . .. Underwear $1.15 to $1.95 $1.15 for men's "Excelsior" and "Uncle Sam" athletic style union suits of good nainsook regular $1.75 kinds. ' $1.25 for "Chalmers Inrox" shirts and drawers in white and ecru regular $1.75 kinds. $1.65 for medium light weight Chal mers balbriggan i union suits, short sleeves, knee or ankle length regular $2 kinds. ; $1.85 for "Excelsior" athletic style union suits of genuine soisettenearly half the regular price. ' $1.85 for men's "Richmond," "Otis" and "Corwith" union suits regular $2.50 to $3 kinds. " - Suspenders 39c Good web elastic suspenders guaran teed to give excellent service. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor.