.21 U I One of More Than Three Pages Devoted to Meier & Frank's Unparalleled Sale News in This Paper Today See Other Pages in This Section. With Cotton Lowest in Many Years-Meier & Frank' s See Sixth Street Window Displays The following de partment!, recently located In Yeon Building an our Temporary Annex No. 2. Te y a, Uwlle, WIm-tI Coeda. prl Ins- (immIn. now lo cated In Temporary Annex No. 1. Fifth and Alder streets, southwest corner. 9 ' II Mi THE SUXDAY OREGOMAy. PORTXAJTO. JANUARY 3. 1915. I l U MOVED I M Brings Huge Assortments of New Undermuslins! Hundreds of Thousands of Yards Beautiful New Embroideries and White Goods for Every Purpose at PRICES UNPRECEDENTED FOR LOWNESS! the lack of facilities in the lowest prices to of The unusually large crop of Cotton this past year and transport millions of bales to foreign ports has resulted Cotton known for many years. . This extreme condition has resulted in very low prices on all Cotton Fabrics and the result is reflected in the unprecedented lowness of prices we announce for our Annual January White Sale, beginning tomorrow morning. Thousands upon thousands of beautiful new Undermuslin novelties await the women of Portland here tomorrow and the numberless styles we show exclusively will cause wonderment and admiration. Buy Undergarment needs for entire Spring season now choosing from the . greatest assortments ever shown in Portland, tomorrow at Meier & Frank's. NEW GOWNS al jsale prices TE $4.00 NOVELTY GOWNS A magnificent collection many copies of $6 and $7.50 models. Entirely new styles, effectively trimmed. January White Sale Price $2.98. NEW COMBINATIONS at White Sale Prices COMBINATIONS Made of very good grade muslin. Embroidery yokes edged with lace, lace beading, ribbon run. Lace edge on drawers. January Unite bale fnce ZV. $1 Combinations Of nainsook and crepe. Many styles, including knickerbocker. Trimmings of em broidery in many designs and lace. Perfectly made, correctly shaped. January Clearance Price 79. $1.50 Combinations Made of fine nainsook. Attractively trim'd with organdie medallions combined with lace insertion others with dainty embroidery edgings. Jan nary Clearance Price 9S?. NEW CORSET COVERS $2.50 and $3 Combinations Of fine nainsook. Princess or waist line styles, knickerbocker or regu lar shape drawers. Trimmings of wide embroidery beading with rib bon run through drawers edgings of fine lace around top. January Clearance Price $1.9S. $4 Combinations Of batiste and nainsook. Bodice tops of lace front and back. Fine embroidery motifs in covers and narrow-leg drawers. Princess and waist-line stvles. Jan- f uary White Sale Price $2.98. 39c White Corset Covers Cam bria and nainsook materials. Are trimmed with good quality torchon lace and embroidery edging, ribbon and beading. January White Sale Price 25f. 59c White Corset Covers Fine nainsook, in 20 different styles. All attractively trimmed with fine em broideries, Swiss motifs and lace insertion. January. White Sale Price 39. $1.00 GOWNS Nainsook, white and figured crepe. 20 . styles' to select from. Trimmed with pretty laces and em broideries. Empire style, round, square and high necks. January White Sale Price 69. $1.50 GOWNS Made of fine nainsook, in simple or" elaborate effects. Some all-lace sleeves. Fine tucks, lace and embroidery trimmed. High and semi-high necks. Jan uary White Sale Price 9S. $2.00 GOWNS Fine cambric, with turnover collar and cuffs of pink and blue hand-loom embroidery. January Clearance Price $1.19. $2.60 GOWNS Lace-top Gowns, made of fine nainsook. Entire top, back and front, of dainty lace extending to sleeves. Finished with beading, ribbon run. January White Sale Price $1.59. $3.00 GOWNS Fine nainsook in a variety of attrac tive styles. Included are dainty bolero Gowns 'trimmed with filet lace others with lace and embroidery motifs combined with ribbon bows. January Clearance Price only $1.98. , . : . . - - - , $6 TO $18 GOWNS Of sheer batiste and fine nainsook. Trimmed with imported laces and embroideries. Beautifully made and modeled. Clearance Prices $3.98 to $10.50. WHITE PETTICOATS at White Sale Prices Great Heaps of New Embroideries. Laces For January White Sale . All at Wonderful Price Reductions! White Petticoats Of nainsook, some made with double panel. Edg ing of embroidery and pleated lace flounces, all sizes. January White Sale Price 59. $2.50 and $3.00 Petticoats Made of soft nainsook. Especially adapt ed to dancing, having soft flounces of pleated lace, motifs and ribbon run. Others with embroidery flounces. January White Sale $1.50 Petticoats Of fine nain sook and "sateen with double panel and scalloped edges. Handloom and pleated lace flounces, finished with beading and " ribbon. January White Sale Price 98. $1 Petticoats Of nainsook in a variety of styles. Ruffles of em broidery insertion and edging, oth ers with wide lace and embroidery flounces, January White. Sale Price 69. Price $1.98. WHITE PETTICOATS A wonderful assortment. Many signs. Priced for January White Sale $2.29 to $10.75. NEW DRAWERS new de- $1 DRAWERS Of cambrio and nainsook, fine handloom embroidery and pretty laces, now 69. 39c White Drawers Made of cambric. Ruffles oi, fine tucks edged with pretty embroidery or lace. Perfectly made, correctly shaped. January White Sale Price 251 Attractively trimmed with January White Sale Price 69c White Drawers Of fine, nainsook. Knickerbocker or the straight-leg styles. Trimmings of dotted embroidery and dainty laces. All sizes. January White Sale Price 39. 2d Floor, 6U-St-Bids- Our annual January White Sale, which starts to morrow, offers you the most beautiful new Laces and Embroideries at a mere fraction of their real worth ! This event has been prepared for with the greatest care and you reap the benefit! New, up-to-date and wanted merchandise is offered you now at re ductions that mean REAL ECONOMY! Batiste, Organdie and Voile Flouncing St. Gall and Plauen manufacture. Heavy floral and conventional designs and Baby Irish inserts. 45 inches wide. Regularly $3 to $6.50 White Sale price, yd. SI. 98 $4 -to $5 Organdie All-Over 20 inches wide. In delicate patterns yard, $1.98. $2.50 to $3.00 Flouncing Crepe, voile and organdie, 18 inches wide, very desirable patterns, yard $1.39 $1.50 to $2.50 Bands and Edges To match most of the Flouncings, the yard $1.39. 18c to 25c CONVENT EDGES Embroidered on soft cloths large and small dqsigns, 3to 6-inch widths, yard 9. " . 20c to 25c Beadings Also bead top embroideries, yard at only 15. $1.25 to $1.75 Baby Flouncing Ruffled and hemmed edges 27 inches wide. Yard 88. 85c to $1 Swiss Flouncing Eyelet designs and Venise edges 27 inches wide, yard 59. "75c to $L25 White Net Top Lace 8 and Shadow Lace Flouncing for waists and frocks, 12 to 24-inch widths, yard 49 15c to 20c Staple Embroid eries Edges, Insertions, Flounc ings and Bands, 1 to 6-inch widths. Swiss and nainsook, yard 10. 20c to 35c Edges and Bands, 3 to 18-inch widths, yard 15 35c to 65c Edges and Bands, 3 to 18-inch widths, yard 25t 85c to $1.50 Organ Is IB 69c die Flouncing, yard. Eighteen inches wide. For Ling erie Gowns. 85c to $1.50 Ail-Over Em broideryEyelet and floral de signs for yokes and waists, 20 inches wide. Yard 59. 40c Baby Sets Fine Nain sook and Swiss, Vi, to 6-inch widths, yard 15S French and Round-Mesh VaL Laces, Real Torchon Laces, Real Cluny Laces ALL REDUCED FOR JANUARY WHITE SALE 85c White Wash Nets, 72 Inches wide, for linings, yard 49 $1.00 White Shadow Lace All-Overs, 18-inch width, yard 4J $2.00 White Shadow Lace All-Overs, 18-inch width, yard 9S $2.50 to $4 White Shadow Silk and Cotton Lace, yard $1.98 $1.25 to $2 White SSiSow Silk and Cotton Lace, yard OS All Our Long White Gloves at White Sale Prices! Marked Reductions on Perrin's, Trefousse, Val uer, Ireland's, Bacmo and Dent Makes. French Kid Glace, French Suede, Lambskin, Washable Doe skin and Chamois Gloves. Imported White Lambskin Gloves, 12 and 16-bnt. lengths, $3.50 White French Kid Gloves, 12-bntton length, the pair $4.00 Trefousse White French Kid Gloves, 16-button, pair $3.00 Dent's White Kid Gloves, 16-button length, pair All $3.50 Perrin's, Trefousse, Etc., Long White Kid Gloves All $4.00 Perrin's, Trefousse, Etc., Long, White Kid Gloves All $5.00 Perrin's, Trefousse, Etc., Long White Kid Gloves All $5.60 Perrin's, Trefousse, Etc.; Long White Kid Gloves Flrnt Floor. Slsth- $1.39 $1.98 $2.25 S2.00 82.75 $3.00 S4.00 $4.50 fit. nirfa. Beautiful French Hand-Embroidered Undermuslins at Lowest Prices Ever Offered During Our January White Sale! Every Department at Meier & Frank's I z , ' s Engaged in Vigorous Clearance Sales! MS The Drastic Underpricing Is Your Certain Gain! Buy Every Need for Self THuALiTrsS Portland and Home Now With Assurance of Most Pronounced Economy ! rWr, 3q T ' -11 ,,,,,, ,,,,',TI,,,pt.,,,;' ,,, ....xT.-T-rrT-'T?. ' - - 1 I - FROZEN PIPES MAY GO roRTLASD lVETO HAS DEVICE TO CHKAT JACK FROST. Cbarlra M. afeaplr la Moved by Cld aa t. Create Balk Affair WkJeh J Twr a mm Wua Water. The recent cold snap suggested to a Toang Portland Inventor a device which. If It win do what its creator fcelirvee. will bring dismay to the Thumbing profession and save million f dollars every Winter for tha over burdened householder. The "automatic eleetro-therraoecopic resistance, thawer" ta the formidable exams bestowed, on tha device by its In ventor, Charles H. Shapiro. The name means that when water in a pipe to which the device is attached falls to a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which Is water's point of greatest dens ity, an electric circuit closes automat ically, starting heat in a "thawing: nip ple," which sends a current of warm water through the pipe, preventing freezing. The mechanism is all contained In a glass bulb measuring about four by three Indies. It should be placed at the lowest point of the most exposed portion of the pipeline, at which tha water would soonest reach lta "greatest density at 40 degrees. This is eight dugrees above the frees Ing point, so that with the device work ing properly the water in the pipe would- never be In dagger of freezing. Aa soon as the water affeotlng the ap paratus goes above 40 degreea In tem perature the circuit would be broken automatically. Th general principle of tha device is that of the mercury thermometer. Inside the glass bulb is a small bulb containing mercury and exposed to the water. Keating on the mercury, per pendicularly, is a small aluminum pis ton or plunger. When the mercury at tains a temperature of 40 degrees the plunger drops, making the electrical connection above that starts the "thawing nipple" In another part of the pipe. Lack of Coiwf Food Brings Warrant. A bench warrant yesterday was sworn out for the arrest of Mrs, Louise Poison for mistreatment of cows at her farm on Powell Valley road. Mrs. Pol son was in court a week ago and re leased on condition that she would give her animals, which were so weak they could scarcely stand, sufficient food. This she has failed to do, acoording to Humane Officer Lewis Fitts, and th warrant was issued. POLK TO SHOW POULTRY JTATIOJfAIi CLfBS OFFER RIBBONS FOR BEST KX HI H1T. Exfct brt "Will Be Held ia Dallas, Janu ary IS te 31 and Largo Barry List Is Expected. MONMODTH, Or., Jan, fc fBpeolat) Extensive plans have been mads by the Polk County Association for the eighth annual show which will be held in Dallas, January Is, 19, 30 and 81, Numerous cash prizes, a, number of valuable ribbons and eight silver oupa are among the prises offered. More than 500 birds were shown last rear, and exhibitors represented sev eral counties of the Willamette Valley. Breeders of Multnomah County showed a deep interest in Polk County's ex hibition by presenting a number of birds for competition shortly before the show opened. The varieties rep resented have become wider in recent years, and plans for exhibits have been extended accordingly- Many of the cups offered must be won. three times before becoming the permanent property of the exhibitor. The White Plymouth Bock Club of America has offered five ribbons on White Plymouth Rocks for best cock, hen, cockerel, pullet and pen, to Be eomneted for by club members only. The Blue Andalusian Club of America has offered four ribbons ror best col ored male and female and best-shaped male and female. Five ribbons also have been offered by the National Wyandotte Club, Cash prizes will be given on win nine exhibits of the following breeds: Barred Plymouth Books. White Ply mouth Rocks. White Wyandottes. Par tridge Wyandottes, Silver Wyandottes. Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, Sin gle Comb Brown Leghorns, Single Comb Buff Leghorns, Brown and White Leghorns, Black Minorcas, Blue Anda- lusians. Single Comb Anconas, Ban tarns, turkeys and water fowls. The breeds on which the eight silver cups will be offered are: White Or pington, Blue Andalusian. Barred Ply mouth Rock. TVhtte piymoutn .kock, Rhode Island Red. Brown Leghorn, White Leghorn and-Ancona. Theft of Car Is Charged to Boys. CEN'THAT.TA, Wash., Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) On a charge of stealing the automobile of Norman Mills, a local merchant, and abandoning it after a Joy ride. Earl Baxter, Clarence Brians and Henry Westfall, three Centralis boys, were arrested yesterday. It 1b the third time the trio have been ar rested pn a similar charge and it is probable that steps will be taken Mon day toward sending them to th reform school. BAR ' APPROACH DISLIKED Horseman Attempting; to Eater frsi loon Arrested, but 6et Free. For his attempt to ride his pony . v- . . - 1 Hil., Droncnu up iv inv wi w. . saloon. Frltx Thomo was haled before Municipal Judge Stevenson yesterday on a charge of peace disturbance. "It wasn't so terribly long ago that 1 A V. A h',,. I Par. lift, pro . ci " ,,uu.u.v . ... - . . land and the horsemen applauded for the act." commented Judge Btevenion as he released the rider. Thomo was arrested by Police Ser geant Stahl and Patrolman Hunt as n ,nl h W K rl H I ulnitn M.I Second and Morrison streets on his mount. . 4