SECTION THREE
Paes 1 to 12
EDITORIAL, MUSIC
AND SOCIETY
VOL. XXXI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1912.
NO. 17.
Merchandise Purchased on Credit Tomorrow and Remainder of This Month Will Go on Your Bill Payable June First Take Advantage of This Offer
Agents for Royal Worcester and Bon Ton Corsets-Mme. Mariette, Helene, Marquise, Nemo and Rengo Belt Corsets Sahlin Waists Expert Fitters
Our New Pacific States Phone
No. Is Marshall 4800
"Home" Phone No. A 6231
"Whenever you find it inconvenient to come to
the store telephone your want. Prompt and
A satisfactory service is assured. We have branch
lines in the store connecting all departments.
Wednesday Witt Be "Straw Hat Day
EVERY MAN SHOULD WEAR ONE, RAIN OR SHINE WE'RE READY TO SUPPLY YOU
Wednesday, May 1, will usher in the Straw Hat season for 1912. rrom the founda
tion of the world down to the present day, Nature has set an example which every
man should follow. In the month of May Nature puts on her gay colors; there
Mill be days of sunshine and days of shower; man can best enjoy the sunshiny
days, and can make the cloudy days seem brighter by dressing and thinking of the
season of pleasure. We have a large line of Straw Hats for your early inspection.
Split Braids and Sennets at $2 $3 and $4
Splendid lines of new split braids and sennets with fancy inside trimmings. The
Yacht styles, that will always be popular with men who dress quietly Jyf ff
and in good taste. We have them in all sizes, for $2.00, $3.00 and to IDtUU
Milans for $3, $4 and $5
Those comfortable soft brim Milan Ifats
Yacht styles, with fancy inside trim
ming; they come in all sizes (T rt
priced reasonably, $3, $4, eJ)0,vJL
Split Braid Hats at $1.50
The most popular "Yacht Styles," with
fancy inside trimmings. All sizes in the
split braids. You should buy (? J? O
one now for the low price of Ct) X 0 vl
Carter's Underw'r
For Women and Children
We heartily commend "Carter Underwear." Knit
in fine, invisible ribs, daintily trimmed. It is deli
cate, durable, hygienically clean, soft and elastic,
moderate in cost. Swan white, "Carter" bleach
Union Suits, Vests and Tights for women and chil
dren. We are sole agents for Portland. See them.
Beautiful New Waists $6.75 to $22.50
Made of Dainty Chiffon Materials Neatly Trimmed
On Sale in the Garment Store Second Floor, Southwest.
Tomorrow we will show for the first time an attractive lot of dainty Chiffon
Waists, the very newest models shown in New York; selected by our Miss
Bernard, who will arrive home today; they are made up to please the most dis
criminating buyer. Chiffon over lace, trimmed with bands of accordion plaited
chiffon, bands of velvet and messaline or satin-covered buttons ; the color range
comprises combinations of black and wnite, Jang s Dlue and gray, rose and
gray, navy and white, green and brown, styled with high tfQO CA I
necks and short sleeves; sizes 3i to 44; prices range $6.75 to ulZiDU
$5.00 PETTICOATS AT $3.49
New' Silk Petticoats in messaline and taffeta silk. Plain colore,
strip36, plaids and floral effects, in shades of emerald, American
Beauty Rose, Alice blue, reseda, tan, blue, gray, king's blue, wis
taria, navy, black and white, etc. The best line we fcO A Q
have ever shown. Our regular $5.00 values, at only PJ"
"KLOSFIT" PETTICOATS
"Klosfit" Petticoats of soft chiffon taffeta, messaline, sateen
and heatherblooms, made with stockinette gussets in the band,
which insures perfect fit and elasticity. Styled with deep flounces,
neatly trimmed; they come in black and all the wanted QiC A C
shades. Specialized in this sale at prices from $1.49 to P""J
Sale of Women's Coats
$20 Values for $12.95
Garment Store Second Floor.
Tomorrow will ad,d another day for the choos- '
in? of these splendid Coats. This lot was se
lected with unusual care; we have set aside
many of the season's best numbers from our
regular stock for this disposal. Coats for wo
men, misses and juniors. Dressy Coats of
pongee, taffeta and cream serge. Tailored
coats of mixed materials; some have large col
lars, also serge Coats in navy or black, plain
or trimmed, values to $20.00 J1 O QC
on sale at this time for only tj) X aWvO
Women's $30.00 Coats
For $17.95
Garment Department Second Floor.
A splendid assortment of women's Coats for
general "street" wear" and driving. The ma
terials employed are homespuns, Scotch 'mix
tures, serges and novelty striped and checked
materials; some are plain tailored and silk
lined throughout; others, are loose, jaunty
styles with backs belted in. One very smart
coat is trimmed in broadcloth, with reversible
collar and low side front cutaway effect. There
is not an undesirable Coat in this entire col
lection. Regular values ' djl 7 QC
$30.00, specialized at, each, 2) X cat 3
$4.00 Hand Bags $2.98
$10 Hand Bags $6.98
In the leather goods department, main floor, we specialize for tomorrow two
exceptional values in women's Handbags in an extensive variety of all the new
es.t chapes and styles, suitable for all occasions; all leather-lined, QO
with various types of frames and handles; $4 grades $2.98; $10 vaL PU0
35c Satin Ribbon for 17c
$1.50 Embroideries Yd. 79c
A clean-up of odds and ends in satin
Taffel& Ribbon iu widths to 5 inches.
Comprising most every wanted shade
in the regular 25e and 35e values. We
offer them in this sale at the "I 7
special low price of only, yard
Two lots of crisp, new Embroideries
in the swiss, nainsook and cambric
materials, in edges, bands, galloons,
corset cover embroideries and 27-inch
flouncinps; also allovers; u"e r7Q
grades 37c, $L50 grades for
$17.45
Some Astounding Bargains
In Women's Tailored Suits
$28.50 Val. $17.45
Garment Salon 2d Floor, Southwest.
We say "astounding" because there is no other word that will de
scribe this most astonishing offer. The collection is composed of very
serviceable Suits, all"year-round Suits, made of such good materials
as whipcords, diagonals, small checked suitings, striped Bedford
cords, satins, mixtures and the ever-popular navy blue serges. The
coats are plain semi-fitted, front or side fastenings or slightly trimmed
box styles for misses aud juniors. The choice of the lot is a hard-
finished blue serge four-button front, lined with gray
Skinner's satin; full range of sizes, values to $28.50 for
$32.50 Suits at $21.95
Garment Department, Second Floor.
This lot comprises many of the season's best and most popular styles
in Tailored Suits. Made of such splendid materials as diagonals, chev
iots, whipcords, navy and black serges, pin-stripe serges, novelty
suitings and satins, in plain tailored or fancy trimmed styles. Many
of the coats have long revcrs. The skirts have the tunic effects, panel
.iront and back. Some have small plaits. Manv Nor-- ? r far-
folks in this lot ; values to $32.50; grouped for this sale tC X
$40.00 Suits at $29.95
Garment Section, Second Floor.
Picture in your mind a group of very beautiful Suits as attractive, as
practical and individual as could be brought together by taking just
the best from each good maker's lines. The materials are serges,
whipcords, diagonals, cheviots, satins, etamines and mannish materials.
Soine are plain tailored; others are fancy with lace net and Persian
collars. The coats come in short or long cutaway effects with two or
three buttons, or straight effects with three or four buttons. Skirts are
fashioned according to the popular vogue; values to CjOf fC
$40.00. Included in lot is a good assortment of stouts u?aW7t3
Group of Assorted High Grade Suits
$48.50 Grades $36.38--$98.50 Grades $73.88
Hundreds of our very best and most attractive Suits are assembled in this big lot for speedy sell
ing. The very best garments made by the very best and most reliable manufacturers. So many
different style cloths and so many different colors that practically every taste may be satisfied.
Grocery
Specials
$1.45 Sack Flour $1.35
$5.60 BbL Flour $5.35
"Excellence" brand. Despite the
fact that floor has gone up 70c a
barrel, we sell it as above quoted.
Jersey Queen Milk, dozen, for 80c
Golden Wax String Beans, on spe
cial sale at low price of 2 cans 25?
Peas "Apex," two cans, only 23c
Corn, "Iowa," three cans for 25
Pure Lard. Xo. 5 pail, at nlv 65
Pure Lard, No. 10 Pail, for $1.30
' Strinsr Beans, "Pala" brand, special
at $1-10 a dozen, or, a can, only 10c
Table Apricota, special, 3 cans, 50
Table Peaches, 3 cans for only 50
Table Pears, special, can, only 20c
Table Cherries, special, a can, 20c
3.1e large jar Preserves, only 2oC
Semsbell Macaroni, special, lb.. IOC
Pink Beans, special price, a lb.. 5
25c can Hotel Mushrooms, only 19
Bouillon Cubes Anker's. Demon
stration on fourth floor. Box, 2oC
Onion Salt, the bottle, for only 15c
Demonstration on the fourth floor.
$1.25 dozen pints Napa Soda Sl.OO
J.2." do, qts. Napa Soda, $l.t5
Marhma!Iows, special. 3 cans 25C
2 can Pure de Fois Gras; at 20c
Vanduzer's Extracts
" bottle of Lemon for only 20c
35e bottle of Vanilla at only 25c
,'iOe jar Rot Leaves, special at -IOC
30c Br-1-I)ue Jelly, red and whit
eurrant, offered special at only 25c
$43.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $36.38
$-"50.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $37.50
$52.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $39.37
$55.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $41.25
$57.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $-13.12
$58.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $43. 83
$62.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $46.88
$65.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $48.77
Sale of Beautiful Art Furniture
$1125.00 Dining Room Set $790.00
$693.50 Bed Room Set $540.00
Art Furniture Department Third Floor.
A sale which will appeal to those who love high-class Period Furniture. . A Din
ing-room Set and a Bedroom Set in the Thomas Sheraton type the master of
Knglish furniture makers in the period of the Eighteenth Century. " The beauty of
the Sheraton furniture lies in the grace of outline and the soft contrast between the
rich color tones of the mahogany and th delicate inlay of cream Satin wood. Mr.
Frost, the designer of these sets, has caught the spirit of the original Sheraton in
the masterly execution of these few pieces so rare so hard to get. See them.
Reductions in Millinery
Women's $10 Hats $5.95
$127.50 Hats for $67.50
- Millinery Store Second Floor.
Remember this is not a special lot, set aside; it comprises our entire
stock of high-grade trimmed pattern Hats and trimmed 6treet Hats
except Knox Hats. Remember, too, that it offers an opportunity
to choose from the very best stock of millinery productions in all
Portland. Study the prices then come and study the styles we have.
$10.00
$13.50
$16.50
$22.50
$25.00
$27.50
$30.00
$35.00
$37.50
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Trimmed
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
Hats
for $5.95
for $7.95
for $9.95
at $12.95
at $17.50
at $18.00
at $20.00
at $25.00
at $27.50
$40.00 Trimmed Hats at $2S.50
$42.50 Trimmed Hats at $30.00
$50.00 Trimmed Hats at $35.00
$57.50 Trimmed Hats at $37.50
$60.00 Trimmed Hats at $40.00
$67.50 Trimmed Hats at $45.00
$72.50' Trimmed Hats at $47.50
$S7.50 Trimmed Hats at $50.00
$127.50 Trimmed Hats $67-50
25c Laces for 12c
. 10c Laces for 5c
In the lace section, main floor, a sale of 150 dozen
Wash Laces in the shadow patterns; the favorite
lace for Summer dresses of dainty sheer materi
als. Edges and insertions to match. 10
Widths to 4 inches; values to 25c, special AwC
Wash Laces Thousands of yards of dainty Mal
tese and Cluny designs, in Torchon Laces, linen
edges and insertions to match in an immense se
lection of patterns'; regular 10c grades for Q
5c, and our regular 20c grades, specialized at
75c Chemisettes 48c
Saturday's express brought us 50 dozen more of
these special Chemisettes in white, cream, ecru
and black, in many dainty shadow lace effects,
on lawn bodies, with elastic band at the A
waist; regular 75c sellers, special at only "O
$5 Robe Patterns $3.37
$1.50 Fancy Neckwear 98c
150 demi-made Robe Patterns of fine
batiste,' richly embroidered patterns,
in white, blue, pink and lilac, with ex
tra bands and plain material to finish
np garment; regular $5.00 tO 0 7
value, special, complete at P -
Dining-Room Set comprises Table, 6
Chairs, one Carving Chair. 1 Sideboard,
2 Cabinets, 2 Urns for silver, 1 Wine
Cabinet. 1 Champagne Cooler; a 15-
piece $1125.00 Set,
priced for this sale
$7.00 Rockers $3.75
A splendid, well-made Rocker of birch
in the mahogany finish; a good Chair
for living-room ; a regular n q 7C?
iiy DJ. t iJ li
$790.00
Bedroom Set, comprising 2 Beds
"Twins." 1 Dresser, 1 Rocker, 1 Chair,
1 Night Stand, 1 Chiffonier, 1 Table, an
8-piece Set; a bargain at $693.00. Spe
eially priced for
this sale at only
Summer Cushions
Matting Cushions, most sanitary, . good
filling, neat designs; the regular 39c
grades for 29c and the regular - q
29c grades specially priced at X 7C
$540.00
$7.00 value, special onl
WILLOW FURNITURE The new lines are in Chairs and Rockers, suitable
for porches, living-rooms and bedrooms. The prices range from $6.00 up to $19.00.
$3.25 Lace Curtains for $2.35
$1.00 Curtain Nets 50c Yard
Nottingham Lace Curtains in the most
attractive, newest designs. All the best
known laces are reproduced in these fine
machine-made Curtains at a mere frac
tion of the cost of the originals; regular
$2.50 Curtains for $L85; fQ Qg
regular $3.25 Curtains for )aOO
In the Drapery Store, third floor, a sale
of the new Curtain Nets, full 45 inches
wide, in attractive patterns, white and
ivory; all to be sold at half price 40c
grades go for 20c and $2.00 grades go
at $1.00 a yard. Economical buy-J
ers take advantage of this saving 2
$67.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $50.63
$6S.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $51.37
$75.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $56.25
$78.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $58.87
$35.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $63.77
$87.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $65.63
$95.00 Suits are priced for this sale at $71.25
$98.50 Suits are priced for this sale at $73.88
Women's Initial Gowns 79c
Combinations 98c, $1.19
In the Undermuslin store, second floor, a sale of women's Initial
Gowns; slip-over styles, with short sleeves,, round necks, yokes
embroidered in white and blue initial, trimmed in linen 7Qk
insertion and edge. Tomorrow at the low price of only I C
Combination Corset Cover and Drawers, made of good quality
longcloth and crossbar diminty, primmed in lace inser- Q Q
tion and edge to match. Priced, special for tomorrow, at JOC
Women's Combination Corset Cover and Drawers or corset cover
and skirt of crossbar dimity, inland with fine lace : (11 1 Q
some Corset Covers of all-over embroidery. Priced D X X 7
$3.00 Corsets $1.98
$12 Corsets $6.48
In the Corset Salon, second floor, an extraordinary sale of the
famous Bon Ton Corsets, made of high-grade coutil in fine Sum
mer weight ; some regular $3 values for $1.98, some regular $4
and $5 values at $2.95, some $6 to $10 grades at AO
$3.49, seme $6 and $8 Corsets, $5.49, $10 to $12 at iDD.rO
'Howd' Front-Lace Corsets
$7.50 Grades $4.49 $25 Grades $12.50
All corsets fitted by our expert fitters are guaranteed. A clean-np sale of our entire stock
of Howd Front Lace Corsets, made of the finest quality coutil, batiste, silk broche and bro
cade silks. The models are designed and constructed to meet the exact 'requirements of the
most fastidious women. There are models to fit the tall, full figure, the short, heavy figure,
the average, the slender and the "dowager" woman. They will retain their shapes under the
most severe strain, are pliable yet durable, and are priced special for two days as follows:
$6.00 and $7.50 grades at $4.49; $10.00 and $12.00 grades at $7.98; our $13.50 values at $8.98;
our $15.00 values at $9.98, and the $18.00 up to $25.00 grades offered at ONE-HALF PEICE
In the neckwear store, on main floor,
we specialize for tomorrow two lots
of women's fancy Neckwear, compris
ing every wanted effect and every
good, daintv material; values QO
to 75c for 48c; values to $1.50
The Newest Coat Sets
Just received by Saturday's express many desirable styles and patterns in the
much-wanted Coat Sets, in white, cream and ecru; macrame, ratine and venise
materials, suitable for all occasions. Let us show you these sets 'tomorrow.
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Garden Hose
$5.25 Grades $3.95
50 feet of good grade Garden Hose,
complete with nozzle; djO' QC
our regular , $5.23 seller P
$1.00 Hose Reels, special, only 75fr
$3 Lawn Mowers, special at $2.39
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75c Long-Handle Shovels,- only 59
25c Strong Garden Trowel, at 15
25c Grass Hooks, special, only
25c Grass Shears, special for 15
Get One For Baby
Nothing delights baby more
tnan to be taken ererywnere
mother goes. With the Oriole
oo-uasKet you can
go sooppinf,
calling:, Tim-
xng on car.
train, eleva
tor taking
baby with you
and never lift
ing him out
once. Simply
pnll a cord
and the Go
Basket set
tles gently to
the ground,
where it will
stand alone
or can be
picked up
ana car
ried on
the arm
with
. case.
6 foffiaafot;
cmn lo be nsed as a High Chair, Baninet
or Baby Jumper. Most economical article
ever inrented for children. Physicians
endorse its nse.
If you are thinking; of buying; a eoacb
for baby let us talk it orer with you. I