THE SUNDAY ORKGONIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 15, . 1912.
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We wish to emphasize this statement for the purpose of showing a REASON for the enormous reductions we have
made on ALL GOODS IN STOCK. The prices we are-now making are in almost every instance less than we
would have to pay to replenish our stock. Then why would we make these prices if we were going to continue
in business? . However, the public are not so much interested in whether or not we are going to continue in busi-
ness as they are in knowing . what they will have to pay. for the goods . - -
For Christmas Presents Make $1 Buy Three Times as Many Presents
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Shaving Cabinets
Beautiful Quartered Golden Oak. French Plate
Mirror. Always sold at $12.00. Going at $5.95
Comb. Bookcase and Writing Desk
In Golden Oak, Fumed Oak, Early English and
Mahogany: -
Those usually sold for not less than $27.50
now $17.25
" Those usually sold for not less than $32.00,
now ....$19.25
Those usually, sold for not less than $38.50,
now $22.75
Dining Tables
. Solid Quartered Oak.
Regularly sold for $24.00. Reduced to $12.00
Regularly sold for $40.00. Reduced to $24.00
Regularly sold for $80.00. Reduced to $40.00
; ALL ODD CHIFFONIERS AT one-half the regular
price. All others reduced from 25 to 40 per cent. .
Carpets and Rugs
Park 'Mills Velvet Carpet in large
variety of colors and patterns.
Regular $1.50 quality ; sewed,
lined and laid, for yard.. . '. .. .$1.10
Saxony Axminster Carpet $1.50
quality; well padded and laid,
' for . $1-10
Dobson Velvet Carpet Sold at
$1.35; laid; reduced, per yard $1.00
"Wilton Velvet Carpet of the $2.00
quality; laid; per yard $1.50
COUCH COVERS An excellent assort
ment; also Portieres; including leather
ones ; sroinc; at half price.
WOOL BLANKETS Extra wide; usually sold at $12.50; for
$10.50 Wool Blankets for
$ 6.50 Wool Blankets for
PILLOWS AND COMFORTERS All "kinds and quality ; greatly
RUGS All sizes, quality, colors and designs. Axminster, 9x12,
$25.00, reduced to
Axminster, 9x12, $28.50, reduced to
Axminster, 9x12. $32.50, reduced to...
Wiltons, 9x12, $40.00, reduced to
.Wiltons, 9x12, $50.00, reduced to.
Morris Chairs
' Luxury, Automatic and the Royal Push
Button patterns. Every one solid quartered
oak. All imitation leather, guaranteed - by
the manufacturer for five years. Some have
foot-rests attached. '
Regular priced "ones $16.00, for" $11.25
Regular priced ones $15.00, for $ 9.75
Regular priced . ones $22.50, for $16.25
Regular- priced ones $18.50, ' for $13.75
Regular priced ones $24.00, for $17.25
Regular priced -ones $35.00, for $19.75
Regular priced ones $47.50, for $29.75
Children's High Chairs, Rockers
at less than half the price originally asked for
them. A Mission Rocker for SJ51.0O. .
The regular priced ones $2.50,. for. ....... .
The regular priced ones $1 .00, for ............
The regular priced ones $1.35, for ...... .". '. . .
A $7.00 Leather Seat, one for
...$1.60
70tf
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...$3.50
.$7.95
.$7.25
.$4.25
reduced.
$14.75
$18.75
$22.75
$26.75
$28.75
China, Austrian and Bavarian
Gold Band, 88-piece set. reduced from $34.00 to.:....- .'...$19.25
125-piece set from $32.95 to : .$18.75
Open stock pieces at 25 per cent reduction. Hand-painted China at
half price.
Turkish . Leather Rockers
In numerous styles and qualities all genuine leather.
$27.00 ones for .$17.75 $42.50 ones for. .$28.75
$35.00 ones for ....... . ... .$24.75 $62.50 ones for . .$42.50
TELEPHONE STANDS With folding seat attached; in golden
oak or early English. Closing out , for. . ". .. 1". . .$5.75
They could not be purchased from the manufacturer for this price.
In addition to above we have six floors filled with a large and complete
stock of everything conceivable for the house furnishings, and only ask
that you come in and compare our prices with-any other house in the city.
Ladies Desks
Great, variety in finish and design.
Golden Oak. Regular price
$8.00. Closing out price $ 5.75
Golden Oak. Regular price
$10.00. Closing out price.. $ 7.25
Waxed and Fumed. Regular
' price $14. Closing out price $ 9.75
Fumed. Regular price $15.00.
Closing out price. $10.25
Mahogany. Regular price
$12.50. Closing out price ... $ 8.25
Waxed Oak. Regular price
$22.50. Closing out price. . .$14.75
Birdseye Maple. Regular price
$26.00. Closing out price. . .$18.75
Circassian Walnut. Reg. price
$22.00. Closing out price... $14.25
Grand Ave. and East Stark St. Open Evenings
Music Cabinets
In Quartered Oak and Mahogany.
Golden Oak. Regular price
$11.50. Closing out price.. $ 7.75
Golden Oak. Regular price
$14.00. Closing out price. . .$ 9.75
Golden Oak. Regular price
$15.00. Closing out price. . .$ 7.50
Golden Oak. Regular price
. $17.50. Closing out price. ; .$11,75
Golden Oak. Regular price
$32.50. Closing out price. ..$19.75
Mahogany. R e g u 1 a r price
$14.00. Closing out price. . .$ 9.75
Mahogany. Regular price
$17.50. Closing out price. 7. $14.25
TWahntranv. Regular Drice
$22.50. Closing out price... $14.25
The Celebrated Line of BUCK Stoves,
Ranges and Heating Stoves for Wood,
Coal and Gas. Large Selection and All
Reduced Very Materially.
Heating Stoves
Reduced from $21.50 to $14.00
Reduced from $19.00 to. ............ I .$13.50
Reduced from $16.50 to. .......... . .'. .$ 8.25
Reduced from $15.00 to. .$ 7.50
- The Stoves and Ranges have, enameled lining, ventilated ovens, wide,
shallow fire-'boxes. asbestos-lined walls, either on legs or closed bases. ' Re
duced from 25 to 40 per cerit.
FARM EXPERTS WORK
Agricultural Department of 0.
W. R. & N. Aids Prospects.
C. L. SMITH HEADS BUREAU
. E. Clark. "Raised In the Saddle,
J- J- Principal Livestock Man.
r I. S. Smith and Floyd TV.
Z. Rader Complete Staff.
With four men constantly at work In
Various parts of the Northwest, the
O.-W. R. & Company is aiding materi
ally In the agricultural development of
be territory served by its lines.
Although n. B. Miller, traffic man
ager for the company, ton? has been a
persistent aovocate 01 mcr. men vn mo
farms. It was not until--about a year
that a systematized attempt was
made to induce city people to bo on
"t'n land and to help those already on
It to success.
- Then It was an agricultural, depart
ment was started, with C. U. Smith, a
practical farmer of many years' ex
parlcnce. at l head. "A short while
later r. E. Clark, a livestock expert,
was placed In charge of the. animal
husbandry division of thl. department.
The Innovation proved such a success
that lr. Smith's son. U S. Smith, was
nade Ma assistant. A few months aso,
with the co-operation of the Federal
Tpartment of Aarriculture. f'loyd V.
Jtader. a yonnar man of much technical
and practical experience, was place! In
charge of plant Industries on the lines
f the company in Orejron. These four
man now are worklnsc In harmony to
in end that all kinds of agriculture,
horticulture and stock raisin In Ore
aron. "Washington and Idaho will. be. de
veloped alon substantial and profit
able lines, thus adding to the comfort
and happiness of the farmers, to the
prosperity and advancement of the en
tire Northwest, and to the revenues of
the railroad that has undertaken this
moveme-nt.
Parly TLeaaoaa Practical.
C L. Smith Is a native of Ohio, where
"ne was born nearly S years a-o. When
a. mere boy his family setlted In the
wilderness in Mtchltcan. where he ob
tained his first lessons In farming
Later he worked In an Indiana nursery.
He served In the Kleventh Michigan In
fantry durlnr the Civil War, partici
pating In th campaigns in Kentucky,
Tennessee and Georgia, and fighting in
such battles as Stone River, Tullahoma,
Chlckamauga. Lookout Mountain, Mis
slonary Ridge and In Sherman's Atlanta
campaign.
At the close of the war he settled in
Minnesota, engaging in farming and
gardening. Owing to ill health, a re
sult of the war, he could not do manual
labor for a while, and this period or in
activity gave him a chance to study
agriculture and horticulture on a
scientific basis. He was instrumental
In organizing the Minnesota State Hor
ticultural Society, the State Agricul
tural Society and the Grange. He gave
the first lecture In the first Farmers'
Institute ever held In the State of
Minnesota. His address was an argu
ment In favor of diversified farming,
which doctrine he has. continued to
preach ever sine.
Farmer's View la ee.
He has an interesting and original
way of expressing himself a way that
appeals to the farmers and he has never
been without offers to appear on the
lecture platform before bodies of farm
ers and scientists Interested In agri
cultural development. H attributes
his success to the fact that his point of
view always has been from the farmer's
side and that he has a habit of saying
thinsts In such a way as to arrest the
attention and arouse the Interest of the
farmers. He alwava has maintained
and operated his own farm, where he
could conduct personal exVerimenta on
sublects that came under his observa
tion on bis lecture tours. In spite of
the fart that he has devoted most of
his time on his own farm to -experimental
work he neer has failed to
make it pay.
Mr. Smith came to Oregon in 1S99 to
ive some lectures on dairying. He
liked the country so well that he decid
ed to stay. He bought a farm In Spo
kane County. Washington, where hie
family now resides. Although his wife
died when the children were small,' he
has kept the family together, his five
children and IS grandchildren living
with fclm on the farm.
Hopa Give Attention."
D. E. Clark is a native' of Cheyenne,
W.VO- a typical livestock city. He was
"raised In the saddle" and learned from
nature even before he started to learn
from books. He early expressed a
fondness for cattle and other stock
and naturally learned all he could about
them. He attended the common schools
and the Wyoming State Vnlversity,
graduating as a veterinarian. He served
two years as state veterinary surgeon
for Wyoming and later conducted a vet.
erir.ary hospital at Cheyenne. He also
engaged in stock raising on his own
place near Cheyenne, operating with
success.
Since coming to Oregon he has been
out In the field most of the time, giving
the farmers and stockmen valuable as
sistance in their work and helping them
In marketing their cattle, hogs, and
sheep. Because the Northwest has neg
lected the hogralslng Industry for so
many' years he Is giving particular at
tention to this line of work.
Ivdwntlim la Practical.
U S. Smith la 34 years old. a) native
of Minnesota, a graduate of the Min
neapolis city schcols and of the Minne
sota State Agricultural School where he
specialized in. dairy work. -On leaving
school he took the position of butter
maker' 1n ' the Le 'Se'ur' bfeamery and
later operated a creamery at Lexington,
Minn. In 1S9D he took up a homestead
O.-W. R. & N. COMPANY'S STAFF OF PRACTICAL MEN WHO ARE
ASSISTING FARMERS AND STOCKGROWERS OF NORTHWEST.
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later operated the Milton Co-operative
Creamery at Milton. Minn., coming to
Spokane three years later, since which
time he has devoted most of his time to
horticultural work.
. .He has, been .active In grange work,
being a lecturer for two years for the
Spokane County Pomona Grange. He
is -a ready talker and a student of in
dustrial and economic conditions, is
familiar with the best-known methods
of scientific, and practical farm work,
and, as a matter of fact, has done the
real work on the farm, in the orchard.
in the dairy and in the creamery, and
can show the novice how to milk a
cow, feed a calf, make butter, harness
a horse, hold a plow or run any kind
of farm machinery. He not only can
tell how to do it, but can go in and
do it. , , .
- Floyd Rader Native Product.
- Floyd W. Rader Is a native of the
Northwest. He was born on a large
dairy and irrigated farm In the heart
of the Kittitas Valley. After finish
ing the public school course, he at
tended the Washington State Normal
School for two years, then took a four
year course .in agriculture at the
Washington State College, from which
Institution he was graduated In 1908.
For one year he vm assistant agron
omist at the West Washington ex
periment station at Puyallup. For
three years then, he was agriculturist
at the Washington State Training
School at Chehalis. He had complete
charge of all departments and an In
dication of his success is the fact that
the- Income from the farm ' wag in
creased under his direction from $3000
a year to $13,000 a ear. In his pres
ent position he is employed by both
Government and the O.-W. R. & N. Co.
As Mr. Miller believes in putting
practical men In charge of this work
he has employed none other. As the
department continues to grow he will
maintain that policy.
BIG ESTATE iS CUIID
SEATTLE TVOMAS IS . SISTER OF
XETV YORK RECLiVSE.
Aged Spinster Found Dead In Poor
Quarters In Gotham Ieaves Prop
erty Worth Million.
County- Commissioner Assaulted..
CHEHALIS, Wash- Dec. 14. (Spe
cial.) T. J. Long. County. Commissioner-elect,
had occasion to go into
court yesterday with his butter maker.
R. E. Miller, whom he had discharged
in tha morning. When Miller was told
that there was a new man there to
take his place, he struck his employer
and made further threats. According
to the testimony of Mr. Long at the
hearing before Justice of the Peace
Westover. Mr. Long swore out a war
rant and Miller, who pleaded guilty,
was fined $10 and costs.
Mrs. Anna Guenter Sought.
- SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 14. Mrs.
Anna Guenter, who with, her two
young daughters and a son left
Calgary. Alberta, December iO for this
city, have been reported to the police
I here as mysteriously missing by the
Hcv. P. tl. Liss, a local clergyman.
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 14. Mrs.
Amelle Frederick Chittenden, a resi
dent of this city, has come forward
as a claimant for the half interest in
the $1,000,000 estate- of Miss Octavla
Frederick, an eccentric recluse, who
was found dead recently in New York,
the only other occupants of the rooms
being a dozen half-starved cats, .pets
of the dead woma.n.
The aged woman, who had cheap
lodgings above a barber shop, appar
ently had been suffocated by the over
turning of a stove on which she was
cooking her Thanksgiving - turkey.
After her death the barber, Antony
Oreickento. came forward with a will
bequeathing Miss Frederick's estate,
consisting of valuable New York real
estate, to him. but Mrs. Chittendrn as
serts that Miss Fredericks, who was
her sister, had no right to dispose of
the property.
Mrs. Chittenden claims the estate for
herself and her brother, Alfonse Fred
erick, of Los Angeles, on the ground
that the property was left by their
parents with the elder sister in trust
for the three children. Mrs. Chitten
den left today for New York to confer
with attorneys there.
The latest Information received here
concerning the case was that the bar
ber had been held by the District At
torney In New York pending an inves
tigation of the death of Miss Frederick.
Mrs. Chittenden is 72 years old and her
sister was 74.
- Miss Octavla Frederick was an ec
centric for many years. From the prop
erty left by her parents, which at one
time had been, a great fortune, but
Ahich had diminished through unfor-
'inate Investments, she derived an in
come of several hundred dollars a
month and for 25 years she subsisted
upon a pittance in a condition of al
most abject poverty. Many efforts
were made by her brother and sister
to reclaim the woman from her strange
habits, but without success.
Meanwhile the Income derived from
the Frederick estate the eccentric wo
man invested in real estate with good
judgment, and the property, which at
the time of her parents' death had
greatly diminished, had grown again
to a value estimated at more than a
million.
water, recognised as the equal of any
in the West, to be one of the city's
biggest assets, is evidenced by a res
olution forwarded today to members
of Congress asking that body to per
manently set aside the township of
timber forming the watershed from
which the water is secured, j There
are several million feet of merchant
able fir timber on the land and the
resolution was passed for the purpose
of preventing the timber from being
logged, resulting In contamination of
the water.
Town TVouId Save Water Supply.
' COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Dec 14.
ROSEBURG SHOW SUCCESS
Second Annual Poultry Exhibit of
- Douglas County Closes.
: ROSEBURG. Or., Dec. 14. (Special.)
After the most successful event in
the history of the association, the sec
ond annual exhibition of the Douglas
County Poultry and Pet Stock Associa
tion reached a close here - late last
nighfe - j
G. Wi Speight, of Hubbard, won the
handsome. $100 cup donated by Drs.
Seely, Sether and Stewart for the high
est scoring pen of Black Mlnorcas. Mr.
Speight also won the Douglas National
Bank cup for the best pen of Black
Minorcas, the New York Store cup for
the best pen of Barred Rocks, and also
the association' cup for the largest and
best display on points. Mrs. J. S. North
rop, of Lebanon, won the Harding Land
iCompany cup for the highest scoring
pen of birds in the show. Mrs. E. 1
Farrens. of Edenbower. won the beau
tiful silver trophy shield donated by
Hlmes & Oliver for the highest scoring
hen. E. J. McClanalian, of Eugene, won
the association's Brown Leghorn cup.
E. E. Hardesty, of Eugene, won the
association's cup for Rhode Island
Reds.
V.'. E. Kruse. of Roseburg. was
awarded the1 incubator donated by Mr.
Clanahan. of Eugene, for the best nd
largest display. C. W. Bradford, of
Roseburg. won the White Wyandotte
association cup. while Franklin Baker
was the winner of the association's
Silver-Laced Wyandotte cup. The Casa
Granda Poultry Company, of Roseburg. -won
the handsome challenge cup of
fered by themselves for anyone having
a higher-scoring pen of Crystal White
Orpingtons.
In addition to the apove awards mod
ern sanitary drinking fountains were
awarded to each of the high school'
hnvs who exhibited at the show. Ern-
' Hamum. Earl Burr. Fred Peterson
And John Young won there prizes.
Officers of the Douglas county -oui-
trv Association were elected for the
ensuing year as follows: E. A. Miller.
president: E. A- Jtruse, vice-presiueni;
E. E. Wtmberly. secretary: If. B.
Church, superintendent; Ernest Bar
num, assistant superintendent; H, M.
Bullwinkle. chairman; H. E. Gurney, Dr.
J. C- Fisk. C- W. Bradford, T. A. Raf
ferty, Seth Hamilton and Clayton Neg
ley, directors.