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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1914)
Woman's Section Special Features SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 NO. 33. VOL. XXXIII. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1914. . I , . I II M Ill I III II H IP I I By All Means Shop Here First It Pays Swings and Settees $ 8.75 Natural oak 50-inch Swing for $5.95 $11.50 72-inch fumed Swing for $7.45 $22.50 76-inch fumed Swing, very heavy $13.90 $11.00 Double cane seat and back Settee. .$6.85 $ 7.50 Old Hickory Settee, extra heavy $4.95 $10.95 Sea Grass Settee, good design $6.95 Old Hickory Furniture $ 355 Seven-spindle Side Chair for $2.15 $ 3.75 Arm Chair, price to close $ 5.50 Arm Rocker, double seat and back $2.95 $ 9.00 Large size Arm Rocker $6.5 $13.50 Rustic Settee, large size SX'iH? $19.75 Old Hickory Couch, to close $9.9o Chinese Grass Pieces $5.75 Grass Arm Rocker, special price $5.50 Grass Table, round top $3.9j $6.75 Large Grass Rocker for $4.45 $7.00 Pocket Side Arm Chair S&'iJt $3.95 Grass Side Chair, special $2.65 $5.50 Grass Seat with high sides .$3.45 Reed and Rattan $ 3.25 Weatherproof Rattan Chair. . . . $ 5.25 Weatherproof Rattan Arm Chair.. .$3.65 $15.00 Weatherproof Rattan Arm Rocker. .$8.9o $ 5.00 Reed Arm Rocker for...- 5'?? $ 8.00 Basket Seat Reed Rocker for . .$5.1 $19.75 Large Arm Rocker for $12.9o Complete Three-Room Outfit for t,.- ni.. of furniture bears a double guarantee. Furniture Is not bought every week, every month or every year; when you buy rurmture n u i wHWor a one time. Not all furniture lasts as Jong as It should therefore a nuutu of Quality is a source of protection not to De unaer-esuniji. T"I' the makers To? this furniture for every one of the three rooms and ourselves ruantee thie pfeSJ ln the broadest way. This guarantee Is an insurance policy against dissatisfaction. It costs you nothing. $127 WE CHARGE NO INTEREST 9x12 Fine Velvet Rugs $1 OM 1U Actually Worth $22.50. On Sale One Week Only Our right to expect a record-breaking attendance at this rug sale is based gg the superiority ot this rug offer over any ever madefy this or any other firm m the t . we Doug a large quantity of them and would have purchased more had we been able to obtain tnem. in most of the desirable shades and patterns. All the New Fall Styles in Carpets and Rugs Now on Show No Blacking Required for the A-B Sanitary Gas Range You merely clean It with a damp cloth and the range will look like new. The table of the range is built at The r?ght height, and the necessity for continuous stooping is taken away. The ovens are large and roomy and non-rustable. and fitted with glass door. The oven lining is guaranteed rust-proof. The auto matic lighter, the white-enameled clean-out tray and broiler pan make it easily the most sanitary gas range made. Over 7000 in Portland Homes This Is conclusive proof that the majority of home owners consider the A-B Sanitary the superior to all other ranges. It costs no more than the ordinary kind, yet In Btyle, appearance and economy it has no equal. STAMPS CHAIRS. Jp $7.85 Test the Price No doubt you have paid from $6.00 to $6.50 for a metal couch not as good. Fifty of these to be offered at this special price for the coming week. Frame of strong est angle iron finished in- gold bronze and fitted with high quality link fabric spring. $4.00 Leather Slip Seat Dining Chair $2.85 Frame is built entirely of quartered oak, with straight In stead of taper leg. Seat is up holstered in genuine Spanish leather. Box-frame construction, panel back, golden or fumed finishes. Bronze Clocks Meat Safes $2 50 Fancy Bronze Clocks Family - size Meat Safes, c0inaistand:.spe:.$1.49 I SSi&Tfc $6.50 White and d0 QQ Gold Dinner Sets tpOoIc Well-wearing 42-niece Dinner Sets in quality semi porcelain, with whfte-and-gold decoration. The best sets ever offered at this special price. 2-Pc. Carving Set I Alarm Clocks Buys This $ 1 2.50 Coil Spring For those who demand the best this spring will meet all requirements, being high quality in every par l ticular. There are ninety-nine tempered coil wire 1 springs which rest on a steel slat base. The spring 1 is guaranteed ior twenty years. All Leather Rockers Like This (til QC Usually $19.75 This special price for 3 days only. Good 79. serviceable sets at i - $2.00 Dryad Nickeled Alarm Clocks tj 1 1 Q on sale at P $1.75 White Enamel Bath Cabinets for rrv Gold Medal Army Cots Special $2.95 Luxurious High - Grade Rock ers, with seat and back up holstered In genuine Spanish leather. A chair of quality and comfort. Choice of golden oak, wax or fumed. $E5 for $13.00 Chiffonier A very roomy Stor age Chiffonier contain ing six drawers and fitted with large bev eled French plate mir ror. It is finished in quartered oak effect and has solid panel ends. The case con struction is above the average. For This $21. SO All -Brass Bed Dozens of these were sold last week at this spe cial price. The sale will continue for four days only. A pleasing two-inch continuous-post pat tern with fillers fitted in panel effect. The finish is guaranteed; positively will never change color. ORCHARD COMMUNITY NEARLY DUE TO SEND OUT MILLIONS IN FRUIT Alvadore, Without Schools, Churches or Government, but With 20 Miles of Paved Street. Is Developing as Ideal. Made-to-Order Town of 2000 Inhabitants. i o jjlpfilpgBp ' 7 jSjjjB 5', : R ' - f ' EUGENE, Or., Aug. 15. (Special.) Without schools, churches and government, but with 20 miles of graded streets, Alvadore, on the Port land. Eugene & Eastern, 12 miles from Eugene, is to be a made-to-order town. It does have a civic center community buildinc the most modern requirement i of the ideal rural center. Fruit inter ests the world over will watch with Interest the success of this project. Building a town of 2000 people as an adjunct necessary for the establish ment of a 6000-acre fruit orchard in the Willamette Valley, is one part of a process, already under way, of con verting half a dozen of Lane County's pioneer ranches into one of the great est fruit communities in the Pacific Northwest. The orchards, which In all embrace 10,000 acres, will come into bearing next year, and are designed to support a thousand families. Planted three years ago, tney are huuuv in crease Oregon's fruit crop by a million dollars or two. Alvadore. like the mushroom town of the middle West, is suddenly rising out of the ground into existence. But un like the boom town, its real estate is not for speculation. It is there with a purpose; its population is selected. The town is a part of the orchard; it is a necessary part, for labor must be depended upon to harvest the fruit. Town Is Co-operative. So Alvadore, like the co-operative cannery, the co-operative ice plant, the co-operative chemistry laboratory and the co-operative this and co-operative that is but the nucleus of a big co-operative orchard community. Its population is increasing a thousand per cent or so monthly. This, which is perhaps the most ideal, the most unique co-operative effort ever staged in Oregon, is about to be a reality. It is not socialistic. The early Virginian Ideal colonies had lit tle in common with this. Utopia to this community is not government, but the successful production and market ing of the greatest quantity of the best fruit on a given acreage. Government will be added as needed. From an area six miles across and eight miles long, the original farmer has been cleared off. The great fields of Oregon fern have been turned under, and the cattle have been placed In the barn. Fruit growers, men who pro pose to abandon present vocations and live a rural life in an ideal community with single community Interest that of fruit raising have been gathered from all parts of the United States. They represent all professions. Each has from five to 60 acres of fruit in this great orchard. Their number Includes men of nearly all vocations, such as the following, selected at random from the list of new owners: Dr. C. C. Graham, Dcs Moines, retired physician now making a social study of agricultural chemistry and electricity; F. C. Popham. Anacortes, Wash., superintendent of schools; W. D, Toung. civil engineer, a graduate of Columbia University, and Cornell, sportsman, trout authority and maga zine writer; I. A. Backrack, Shattuck, Minn., musician: L. A. Nlppert, city health officer, Minneapolis, and mem ber of the medical staff. University of Minnesota: Thomas R. Cole, principal of the Broadway High School. Seattle: Miss Lucia L. LaQultte. superintend ent of Memorial Hospital. Worcester., and member of Massachusetts State Vice Commission; Miss Sarah Ebersole, head of social service department. Worcester. There are scores of others representing almost every calling un der the sun. Limit la Placed. These form the orchardlsts to make the fruit community of which the lit tle town is to be the center. Co-operation Is the ideal. Fern Ridge, as the district is culled, resembles the top of a loaf of bread rising out of the Willamette Valley. 40 feet above, between the Long Tom and the prairie region. It seems to have a combination of underground water and proper soil, with absence of frost. But above all It is isolated by its own physiography.. And sur rounded by a protective fcriff. as It were, it has placed a limit on its field of co-operation and proposes to live independently of the world. Production is to be diversified with each settler. He Is to raise his own garden truck, keep his own cows and chickens. The more he produces for orcharding takes only a part of the fruit grower's time In eertaln parts of the year the more Independent he Is. A co-operative dairy will handle his surplus cream. Two railroad men knew where the new railroad was about to come, and they took with them a fruit man. The three purchased 6000 acres. The fruit expert worked out the plans for their orchard on a unit basis. He determined the proper ratio of one fruit to another and to the market, and he planted the trees at the proper distance apart. He knew that the land was to be sold to hundreds of Individual owners, so the trees were planted to diversify the crop of each Individual. lndlvldusl home orchards were developed by planting varieties In one row along the rosds. Town 1 I. aid Omt. In laying out the orchard lit acres were reserved for the town site. Streetf were graded end lots were sur veyed. But none Is to be sold except to actual builders and residents. th owners decreed. Six acres were re served for a cannery building, fruit dryers. Icing plants and told storage buildings. Thirteen acres were re served for experiment gardens where a model chemistry laboretory. green houses and electrical plant will he erected for scientific research and the solving of fruit problems and loeal evils. A community civic center hss been built. In which lectures on the fruit Industry may be delivered due lng the Winter months by fruit ex perts from the colleges. And in this civic center. Incidentally Is a dance floor, a gymnasium, reading rooms and a public auditorium open to all. The railroad holds SO acres, spread out over a mile for trackage facilities. "Our product will not be measured In tons; It will run In i-arloads. In thou sands of cars annually" declared E. L. Klemer. He Is the orchardlst who has super intended the laying out c thla great community orchard; who for three years has kept a force of 10 men and 20 teams at work preparing the ground, keeping It cultivated to a degree of pulverisa tion and preparing the orchards for the new fruit growers who are about to come. Ho Is a youth. In his 30a. who is a fruit expert because he loves It. And his love for it Is contagious. "Oh. we'll build .i schoolhou whether they vote us a district or not." (Concluded on rage 7.)