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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1902)
10 Olds, Wofttman & King Fifth and Washington Streets Olds, Wortman & King Santa Claus Activities All Ove -Otof Stoe ONLY three more days till Christmas. Three short days in which to complete the joyous. preparations that go to make Christmas the most glorious day of the year. How many little hearts are counting the time clear up to the last minute till the wonderful Christmas stocking can be explored. There are Santa Claus activities all over our store. Every department is offering so many choice things that people are sure to find just what they want, so the stockings can be well supplied here, no matter how fastidious the owner. Our prices and the great variety of our goods, offer extra attractions. Our entire force, our accommodation desk and our many delivery wagons make buying and the delivery of your goods easy. For the busy-people who cannot con veniently come in the day time, our store will be open evenings until Christmas. It is well worth while, however, to come in the morning. The crowds are not so dense then and much better opportunity is offered for making selections. But bear in mind, you are missing half of Christmas if you fail to see our display. 1 THE SUNDAY OREQONLto, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 3fK)2. ' : : : j ; . : Silk Hose Choice Christmas Presents No nicer present for a lady than a pair of our pure Hose. We ate selling some Beauties in Mack, blue, pink, also lavender, drop-stitch style, for, per pair . Ladies' fine pure thread Silk Hose with embroidered stripe, black with blue or pink embroidery, price, per pair Ladies fine, pure-thread- silk with lace boot and em broidery of pink or blue, price, per pair Ladies' fine,, pure-thread silk hose with elaborately embroidered front, assorted shades, price per pair. . Ladies' fine, pure-thread silk hose, with colors pink, red and favender, with black lace front boots, price Ladies extra fine all pure-thread silk white hose, with hand-made black lace net front, price per pair thread Silk and vertical $4.50 $4.00 $5.00 $7.50 Aft Department Exceptional Sale Sofa Cushions All our hand-embroidered pat terns of sofa cushions in a large variety of conventional and floral designs, values to $10.00, this week jjj tyj Drawn Work Dinner Sets, Doilies and Scarfs Princely Presents The finest Spanish and Mexi can product, marvelously fine and lovely work, and some thing a woman always delights "in. Pieces from 4-inch doilies to 90xf40-inch dinner cloths. Prices, 50c to $00.00. Satur day brought us some beautiful new things in this line. " Out Swiss Baskets Make Dainty Christmas Presents "Work baskets, waste baskets, fancy baskets satin lined, bon bon baskets and many other kinds in new, novel shapes, at prices from JOc to $15.00. Leather Goods Burned Leather and Leather Applique Rich whole-skin wall hangings, with skillfully painted portraits of famous Indian chiefs and other notables in Oregon's early history j original designs in leather applique and burnt work in scarfs, table , covers, mats of all sizes, and doilies at reasonable prices. Prices of Battenfcerg Work Down Our line of Battenberg pieces is. large and pre-eminently hand some. Prices on all pieces are reduced this week. Baby Sets In Christmas Packages Dress, skirt and drawers to match, very daintily made, for children from i to 4 years, put up in special Christmas gift boxes, at prices from $20 to $8.50. Christmas Aprons Elaborately made and dainty tea and afternoon aprons f ull and heavy nurses' and waitresses aprons at prices Q f( from 20c to 3Q.UU Ladies' Fine Lingerie Lovely Christmas Presents French made, of fine sheer silk and other materials beauti fully trimmed. Silk in white, black and colors. Christmas Decorations For the Tree and the House "Christmas greens and everything that goes to make a Christmas tree re splendent and glorious tinsel moss and tinsel strings, Yl yds. long, bright balls in all colors, sizes and shapes, bright bordered im ages, glistening snow can dles in all colors and candle-holders All at small prices. Christmas Slippers A present that will add great comfort to the cozy evenings at home this winter. Ours are the very nicest kinds and in styles enough to suit all tastes. Women's Slippers Soft warm felt, with high fur-trimmed tops, colors brown, black and red, prices $.2o to $2.00. All worthy special mention. - . . Men's Sliooers Our kid nullifier style and our new Cavalier cut are great favorites and then we have lots of other kinds in kid and cloth. Come and see them. ' For Boys and Girls Many pretty kinds, and the best for the price. Ladies' Christmas Shoes You cannot give any woman who takes oride in a shaoelv shoe. anything prettier than a pair of the Laird, Shober & Co. shoes. They are the best made, and the most shapely. We have them in all styles. Another Rousing Doll Special $1.65 Beauties for 99c - Nothing could delight a little girl morethan to find one of these little beauties waiting for her on Christmas morning. Not a loyelier doll can be found, and we are selling them this week at way below anything dreamed of. They are all sleeping dolls, with full full jointed, best French shaped bodies, feet cutely dressed in stockings and slippers,, bisque heads, lovely, soft, real curls and smiling, dimpled faces. Our prices on them all along has been $1.65, this week we are making a special Santa Claus QQc bargain on them of but Toy Ranges Just in, a large shipment of toy stoves and ranges that was delayed en -route. Tnere are beautiful new styles of "really" ranges with copper and teel , finish, just the kind to lay the foundation for a practical housekeeper in days to come. Prices 50c to $3.75 each, i Printing Presses The Boy's Joy One of these presses will keep him busy for days, it will awaken his ingenuity and lead him into many instruc tive and profitable ventures. We have five of the best styles here. Prices with supply of materials, 1.25 to $5.75 each. Doll Baggies Apd Carts No little girl is contented until she is able to take her doll family for an airing in her own buggy. Here is a full assortment of yey cunning ones in reed, wood . and steel bodies, with fouje wheels,' at special prices : $&00 kind, for. $3.98 $4.00 kind for $2.95 $3.00 kind for $2.50 Good Presents C r o k i n p 1 e and combination, boards, prices 50c to $6.00 each. Checker and Chess' games, drawing and painting slates, blocks for spelling and building, iron trains, carts, wagons and automobiles, fold ing tables, desks and blackboards. Toy Typewriters Cute little machines that will amuse and also be very help ful to a child in learning to spell, punctuate and develop ing the art of orderly compo sition. , Musical Toys No end of fun in them and a vast deal of real good. They will develop tune and time in the ear of a child, and lay the way for higher musical devel opment in later years. Our toy pianos have from f 2 to 38 keys. "We also have trom bones, horns, harps, metalla phones, violins, banjos and drums Table Silverware An'unusuallyJarge and choice assortment to make your Christmas choice frpm. Tea sets, sugars and creamers, cake .and fruit baskets, nut and salad bowk, baking dishes, five o'clock teas and chafing dishes, i 847 Rogers Bros, knives, forks and "spoons ; berry, ' salad, and 'nut sets. . All at very lowest prices. Remember your family on Christmas day with a pretty dinner set. It will be a, source of pleasure to you three times a day for years. You can make your selection in our crockery department from 50 different open stock patterns. Choose just such pieces as you repienisn it at any time witn penectiy matcning pieces. Silk Shawls for Holiday Presents Elegant qualities in rich colors. Prices : $Z50, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.50 A Silt Petticoat Christmas Special Handsome silks in black and colors, $12.50 and $ J 5.00 values for $9.98 Theater Coats at Half Very handsome, chic and dressy, as welcome a present as you can make, this week they are half-price. Some Extra Specials In Novelties of the Prettiest Kind Choice things that you can get for a trifle, all good, and bearing the stamp of artistic work manship. Ink Wells and Stands In fancy decorated' porcelain. Extra values to 30c, very special, each Ash Receivers - Paper weights, enamel top, salve jars, 4 values to 45c, special, each Cigar Holders 9c 1 9c Statuettes, match holders, ash trays, enamel-top puff jars, values to 95c, spec Imported Novelties Bronze, Onyx base statuettes, cigar holders, match holders, tobacco jars, ash o r receivers, values to $ J. 75, special each. .C Silk Dress Patterns In dress or waist lengths make most welcome and useful gifts. We will be glad to help you do your choosing, and out of our WIDE AND CHOICE SELECTION- OF RARE SILKS you cannot fail to find just what you want in kind, quality, in color and in price. Swell Presents In excellent taste and invariably welcome. Silk Umbrellas For Ladies' and Men The very newest things, with pearl, scorched ivory and natural wood handles, handsomely mounted in "gold or silver and covered with best silk. Prices from $20 AA down to 3OoUU Kid Gloves You are sure of getting the shapeliest glove there is when you get the Monarch. It is made of the finest selected kid, sewed and fin ished in the very latest style. Comes in the latest street and evening shades, AA and the price is only . wJ Elegant Ostrich ones, all fine, full, rare goods, specially selected by us. We have them in both black and novelty colors. Prices $20.00 to '$50.00. Ladies' Fine Neckwear We have everything from the fine new hand some ribbons for crush collars, to the latest fads in neck ruffs and collars, all in endless variety of style and color. Books It Is a Privilege to Possess And Gotten Up in a Style Way Beyond Their Price New Copyright Titles. Publisher's Price $.50, Ocrs 60c All of these books have been prominently before the reading world, and will stand the test of more than one reading. There is .Colonel Carter of Cartersvillej by F. Hopkinson Smith, a charm ing Southern story; In the Palace of the King, and other stories, . by F. Marion Crawford; The Maid of Maiden Lane, by Amelia E. Barr; The Choir Invisible, by James Lane Allen,, a writer whose pen products are eagerly sought. The Sorrows of Satan, and other stories, by Marie Corelli; The Prisoner of Zenda, a masterpiece by Anthony Hope; BIennerhasset and many others, beautifully bound hi rep with board covers. The paper in them is fine enamel, type large and clear, and margins deep; many are beautifully illustrated. Prices, per volume, only Green Rep Series The most attractive books for the price we have ever offered. They have a striking cover of green rep with white lettering and are printed in large, clear type on extra heavy paper. This series includes the works of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bulwer Lytton, Sir "Wal ter Scott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Marie Corelli, Hall Caine, Edna Lyall, Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Oliphant, Rob ert Louis Stevenson, Ouida and many others as well known and quite as popular, or Price only XOC Webster's 20th lonary A book that will prove valua ble to students. It is in handy size, bound substantially in sheep, has clear type, good paper, double index, and mottled edges. It is perfectly reliable, encyclopedic, self-pronouncing literary and scientific It contains 'over J200 instructive illustrations and a complete gazetteer of the world up to date. Nothing in the book line for the price, or even a much larger one, will prove such a boon to busy people and students Special Boys' and Girls' Library Volumes of uniform size and all bound in linen, with board covers, clear type and good enamel .paper with deep margins. Boys' Books Publisher's Price 50c, Oars 35c. Books by our best authors and full of interest to boys. Among them are the works of Oliver Optic, Captain Mayne Reid, G. A Henty, Alfred Oldfellow, Daniel Defoe, Z. R. Bennett and others. Girls' Books Polisher's Price 50c, Oars 35c By the most popular authors of girls' books, such as Lewis Carroll, Virginia F. Townsend, Rosa Nauchette Carey, Alice Carey, Julia Gpddard, Maria S. Cummins, and others. Captain King's Works Price 35c Books always full of pretty sentiment and true military spirit. They are in full cloth binding, printed in extra clear type on enamel paper and are much under price at 35c There is: A Garrison Tangle, An Army "Wife, Noble Blood, A "Wounded Name, Found in the Philippines, Fort Frayne, Trum- or peter Fred and Warrior Gap. Each J OC Gift Pieces in Austrian China Innumerable pieces, both useful and ornamental, in pretty shapes and. handsome decorations. Spoon and olive trays, fruit saucers, salad and berry bowls, sugars and creamers, all at reduced prices. Salad and Berry Sets 7-piece sets 75c, now .... 60c 7-piece sets $2.10, now. .$1.68 7-piece sets $J.J0, now. .88c 7-piece sets $3.00, now. .$2.40 7-piece sets $4.25, now $3.40 ens Many Pleasing Items Smoking and house coats in the most comfortable, self-respecting and nobby styles and plenty of kinds to choose from. "We are offering a rarity this week, in a great variety of Qf cloths for only 4 s Men's Night Shirts Soft, fine sateens, cambrics and dimities, very fine silk-finished mercerized cheviots and a great stock of warm, comfortable flannelettes, all beautifully and appropriately trimmed. All at prices that you can easily afford. Other Men's Goods In our glove, collar, cuff, handkerchief and underwear stock, there is a fine picking and choosing. The styles are all the best and unequaled, varieties almost endless and prices to your taste. I 1 cessful elocutionary recital in the opera house. Mrs. F. P. Talklngton and daughter, Miss Cora, are home from a visit in San Francisco. Mrs. F. E. DeParcq and Miss Marie Hurlburt are In Oregon City to spend the holidays with . relatives. The Da-les. Dr. Belle C Ferguson has returned from a few days' stay In Pendleton. Miss Kathryn Sargent has returned from a visit to friends in Portland. Miss Maud Kuhn has returned from a several weeks' visit in Klickitat. Mrs. H. W. French has returned from a visit to her mother, Mrs.' A. M. Williams, in Portland. Mrs. R. W. Anderson, of Portland, Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Barnett, In this city Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Goodwin, of Ante lope, visited friends in this city early In the week. They were'en route -to their" former home in Tuscumbla, Ala., where they expect to make a three months' visit. Miss Pearl Grimes, who Is a student at St. Helen's Hall in' Portland, has come home for the holidays. Miss Gertrude Mays left here on Tuesday for an extended visit with relatives In Pendleton and Snokane. . . Mr. and Mrs Smith French, with their daughter, Dr. French, have returned from a fortnight's stay in Portland. Miss Elizabeth Bonn arrived in this city on Tuesday from Portland and will spend the holidays with her parents here. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Bonn have returned from helr wedding Journey and moved Into their new home - on West Fourth street. Mrs. J. W. Harry, of Seattle, who has been visiting her parents, Mr.- and Mrs. S. Bolton, in this city, for the past three weeks, left on Wednesday for her home. Peadletoa. Mrs. Bell-Ferguson, of The Dalle's," 1? a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ferguson. Miss Maud Jones has resigned her posi tion In Weston and returned to her home In Pendleton to remain for the Winter. Mrs. William House left Wednesday for Weston to join her husband. Dr. House, who has located there for the practice i of medicine. Mrs. House was accom panied b'y her sister. Miss Ethel Parsons, who will spend some time visiting there. Oregon City. I Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cheney and son ' returned home Monday from a six weeks' . tour in California, Colorado and Utah. ; Miss Lou Mortimer, has returned to ' Portland, after a fortnight's visit with Mrs. Harry S. Moody end Miss Anelta Gleason. The mask ball of the Papillon Club, In the Armory- next Friday night, promises to- be 3ne 'of the most successful h'dps given by the club thik Wlnler. ' H Mr, and Mrs, Chester E, Muir are spend ing a few weeks with friends in this city. After the holidays they will return to the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho. Miss Lulu Spangler, Instructor of mu sic In the JWcston Normal School, was in town Thursday visiting her sister, Mrs. Leslie L. Porter. They left on Friday morning's train for Corvallls to spend Christmas week with their parents. The Stanford Mandolin and Glee Clubs, which will appear In Shlvely's opera-house next Saturday night under the auspices of Clackamas Council, No. 2007, Royal Arca num, will have the largest audience that has been seen here for some time. Mu sical people are eagerly- looking forward to the event. RoBcburgr. ... Mrs. Thomas G. Devens and eon have gone to Chicago to spend the Winter. W. H. Drennan and family left this week, for Portland where they, will reside this' Winter. w. , Mlsees Minnie and Grace Sheridan have returned from an extended trip .through the East, stopping en route home with relatives In San Francisco; Mrs. William R. Willis has gone to Port land to visit her daughter, ' Mrs. C. W. Sherman. Mrs. W. B. Jacobs, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Georgle, left Wednesday for Puyallup, Wash., to reside. Miss Gertrude Johnson after a visit with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Wagonblast, left this week for her home in Jefferson, Or. Mrs. W. H. Jamieson and two children left Thursday for Portland to spend the holidays with Mrs. Jamlcoon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Happersett. Baker City. ' The Fraternal Tribunes gave a very pleasant social at the Modern Woodman hall Monday evening. rf .One of the leading social events of the coming week will be the Bachelor Button Club dance at Armory Hall, . Christmas evening. .. .Miss Clara Bowman, who has-been tak ing a professional course as nurse at St. Mark's Hospital, In Salt Lake City, has returned to enjoy the holidays with the folks at home. One of the pleasantest fraternal society socials of the season, so far, was the Im promptu reception given by the Queen of J tne .f orest circle ol tne ladles branch of the Woodmen of the World at their hall Tuesday evening. The marriage of Mr. Eu Phillips and Miss Susie Damon is announced for Sat urday evening of this week, at the ho'me of the bride's mother. Mr. Phillips is the popular chief clerk of the Crablll Hotel, and Miss Damon has filled the place of chief clerk of the Oregonlan Bureau In this city during the past two years. Both of the young people have a host of friends In this city and other sections of .the state who join In wishing them a Merry Christ mas and a happy lew Year. La Grande. Robert Smith left Tuesday morning for the East, whence he expects to' return about December 31 with his wife and Mlsa Fannie McKennon, who have been visiting for several months The Neighborhood Club entertained at the club parlors Tuesday afternoon. An enjoyable programme was rendered, fol lowed by refreshments. Mrs. J. c. Ardrey Mrs. F. B. Curry and Mrs. O W Williams had charge of arrangements. The ladles' clubs of La Grande have combined forces and will present the comic opera', "The Military Girl," Monday and Tuesday evenings, December 22 and 23. The play Is under the direction of Mr Miller, who recently directed the ladles of Pendleton Ifi the same opera. Antorin. Miss Laura Fox entertained the Thurs day Afternoon Club this week. Miss Emma Warren entertained Reading Club, Monday evening; The St. Agnes Guild of the Episcopal Church gave a Japanese tea arid.' sale of the
