The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 12, 1915, SECTION FIVE, Image 59

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Newspaper Page TextSECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Woman's Section Special Features VOL. XXXIV PORTLAND, OREGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1915. NO. 37. ELABORATE COUNTRY HOME GROWS FROM ONE-ROOM PIONEER SCHOOL Mrs. Alma L. Howe Still Cares For 111 and Needy as She Did in Early Days When Doctors W ere Few and Far Between and Both Reds and Whites Came for Help. Covered in Spanish or Black Chase Leather. Just as Illustrated lilar Value $35 -VrA -X j This Massive Oak Davenport AW v. V a rz v ill! - c-rx A r 6 v il'l 1 Powers' Special 1 Ill r X Terms $1 Down, $1 Week Greatest Davenport Value Ever Offered by This Store rLF -Ml i " Zt- Jx 1 f . We Are Proud to Offer This Davenport at $19.85 Our principal object in offering this Daven port at $19. 85 is not the immediate profit it. will bring far from it. In offering this Davenport at $19.85 we waive our profit en tirely. Not through any philanthropic motive, but because we want as many people as possi ble to become acquainted with this store its methods its liberal credit policy, lowness of once, etc. The Low Price Eliminates Every Reason for Your Not Owning a Davenport Surely the price at which this Daven port Is being sold Is ridiculously low. If you have ever felt that a davenport was too expensive for you to own, that feeling- must be destroyed now after looking at the Davenport as it is pic tured above and noting the price for which it will sell this week. The Low Credit Terms is Another Inducement m Many firms believe that they are going far enough when they offer merchandise at a low price, t We differ from them. We believe in not only offering merchandise at a low price, but want the family of moderate circum stances to profit by our special offers the same as the family with a large bank account, and, consequently, we offer to deliver this davenport to your home at the rate of 91 at the time of purchase, balance payable at the weekly rate of $1, which we believe everyone will con cede to be a very reasonable offer. Use Your Credit Powers "Model" Adjustable Dress Form $12.50 Automatic Collapsible and Adjustable Dress Forms usually have been sold for $17.50 to $25 and this is the only article of its kind ever off ered at this low pries Vc are Portland agents for the "Model," the new automatic, collapsible and adjustable dress form, the best atlj ,moKt practical made. It makes dressmaking feasible at home, as it can be adjusted to every size, form and height. When collapsed it takes up little space. For the woman who makes her own dress this automatic, collapsible and adjustable dress form is indispensable and worth Its weight in gold. She can adjust the form to her own form and shape and do her own fitting. Every Part of This Dress Form Is Adjustable The neck, the shoulders can be made broad or narrow, high or low the bust to any desired size, giving either the high or low-bust effect. The hips, the waist, the skirt can be made wide or narrow. Form can be collapsed and closed, thus taking up very little space. All these things can be made by easy adjustments. $1 Down SOc a Week) Use Your Credit Showing Form Collapsed Easy to Handle Extra! Extra.! Two Special Quality Dresser Styles, Made to Sell at $16.50, on Sale for $9.95 Choice Oval or Square Mirrors' One of the biggest and best Dresser values we have. offered in months. Two specially designed Dresser Pat terns with large bases, plenty of drawer room, full-paneled ends and fitted with large French plate beveled mirrors in either the oval or square design. Made in ash or quartered oak effect and nicely finished. Use Your Credit Stamps Mr Stamps so Stamps Extra to Purchas . ers of 'Standard' Rotary Sewing Machines Or 50 "S. & H." Stamps free to any woman who will fur nish us the address of a friend who will later buy a "Stand ard Rotary." $1 Down, $1 Week Six-Day Big Special Sale of the New AVIATOR sewing grt-gr.85 Macmne on Sale at 15.85 Lowered Prices on $1250 Cash $2.25 a Week Beautiful Tasty Furni ture an A'B Sanitary Gas R a n g e and Two Good Rugs Are Included This big- three-room outfit has been a surprise to everyone who has seen it. It combines better, bigger and more pieces than is ordinarily found in outfits costing many dollars more. The articles are well assorted, bein new and tasty in design. The A-B Gas Range is the very best money will buy. The rugs are of unusually choice pattern and of fine wearing quality. In fact the entire com bination of pieces is far above the average. We Charge No Interest Mill I." - W x nfw-s. t & , A ? rtlh : s : i ; J V 5 f i L --va A ' - - - S : - h :, n i T J if ""f- aywT . -. ..." xiJ tfzZsor7 r ----- '- fJ Fine Linoleums SOc F1XK PRINTED QUALITY in some very new, choice de signs. Patterns suitable for bath or kitchen, wide range of ratterns to choose from. Special price, yard, laid on your floor EICEUEXT 1M I XL A in. splendid, long-wearing Inlaid Linoleum in tue, wood floor or small effects, excellent new de signs and colorings, extra special price, the yard, laid on your floor $i.i7 i . smwy 1 j'ss" The Store THat Saves You Money t POWERS fcsX A Add a Heater to Your j Account! a Prepare for the Y Chilly Days That A A re Creeping Near (J $laWeek Is All You Pay A for anyHeater fj in the Store V The wintry days are creeping near and we will be as busy as bees '"'hf,n J,,t?ey arrlve- so l'"V your heater at Powers' now have it in-, stalled before the cold weather comes. Our heaters are dependable ones, made to our order, and the kind we can recommnd and guaran tee to you. Choice of some 43 styles wood, coal or combination heaters all priced the very fairest way. POWERS SAYS USE YOUR CREDIT 5GQUT PLANS PROPOSED MASTERS TO MEET AT LIBRARY TO FORM LOCAL COUSCIL. Activities of Troop - One Related at First Gathering of Fall and Field Day la Projeeted. There will be a meeting of Scout Masters at the Library tomorrow night to perfect the organization of a local council of Boy Scouts and elect a com missioner, with a view of extending and improving the work. Dr. J. E. Corby will preside and James E. Brock way will act as secretary. At the first meeting of Troop TTo. 1, Boy Scouts of America, held Wednes day evening, almost the entire enroll ment of the troop was present, all brown and hearty after the vacation. Several new members were received and a fine spirit of enthusiasm was noticeable. During the Summer vacation several of the boys have completed the work for their second class examination and received their credentials from head quarters in New Tork. James E. Brock way, an enthusiastic worker with boys, was. present and gave a talk to the troop, and Lloyd Harrison, an Eagle Scout, -who belongs to the troop, out lined some methods used at Washing tno, D. C. Alter the business meeting an en tertainment hour was held, in which drill in semaphore signalling and first aid were rehearsed, then amusing scout games were played. Troop 1 is plan ning to work up a team to contest with other troops as soon as the local Scout Council arranges for a field day. Dr. J. T. Corby is the Scoutmaster and the troop meets in the social hall of the church at Broadway and East Twenty fourth street. Next Wednesday even ing new orlicers will be selected. P As? - r r -af f v y A R0SEBURG FACULTY PICKED Schools Will Begin Class Work on Ionday Morning. ROSEBURG. Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) The Roseburg public schools will open Monday morniner. The teaching staff for the year follows: High school F.- C Fitzpatrlck, principal; Ln Lent, Clara Wlnea, Mrs. O. C. Brown. Vera. Horner. Maybelle Wilson. Irma Mar tens. John B. Rees, Ethel G. Yates, J. Iewis Johnson. C. H. Cleaves and F. V. Powell. Hose School R. G. Hall, principal; Eliza, beth Parrott, Adaline Stewart, Hazel Jewett Elta Ditlard. Kathryn Paul. Ethel Tooze. Anna Ferguson, R. Ella Dickerson, John J. Kernan and Mrs. Fltzpatrick. Benson School H. Omar Bennett, prin cipal; Mary Aitken, Myrtle Bradford. Lowena Payne, OHv Mathls. Ruth Altkens, Anna V. Caldwell, Maud Halverson, Jennie Cook and Ora Davidson. Fnllerton School R. E. Morris, principal; Ruth Swlnney. Katherine Agee, and Waltha Watson. Riverside School Verlie E. Tracer, Jose phine Moorhead. An assistant In the com mercial department of thft hlffh school Is yet ti b ejactad. OOU TtlVER, Or.. Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) From a little frame shack, 21 by 27 feet, the buildings on the Cottage Farm of Mrs. Alma L. Howe have grown to pretentious proportions. A big country residence, the rooms fit ted for her guests, and numerous sur rounding tent-houses and cottages now rear themselves on the site of the for mer lonely little one-room home. And the Cottage Farm entertains guests from Portland, Or., and " Boston, Mass. This original small building has a history that is .interesting. It was Hood River's first echoolhouse, having been erected by the pioneer families of the west side of the Hood River Val ley, on a plot of ground set aside by Dr. W. L. Adams. Mrs. Kate Hender son, mother of Professor L. F. Hender son, of Hood River,- and John Leland Henderson, of Tillamook, . taught the community's first school there. House Sold for Wheat. As the center of population changed and the location became unsuitable for a school building, it was abandoned. Dr. Adams sold it to D. JV Parmenter. Mrs. Howe's brother-in-law, . for 20 bushels of wheat.- The structure was removed to the 40-acre place bought by Mrs. Howe, who came to the Valley from Portland in 1883. It was the nucleus around' which the buildings of today were erected, and the walls in , which were eaid the lessons of . Hood X - V? X 1 1 River's first children, are still doing duty in Mrs. Howe's home today, form ing: . her private - dining-room and kitchen. Oregon has no more remarkable wo man than Mrs. Howe. She has made a success of her business as a hotel keeper, but in addition she has always had time to take an active interest in the civil life of the Valley, and her deeds . of charity have been known since she came to Hood River, despite the fact that she has been an invalid much of her life. Many times callers have found her in bed, thinking out the problem of some neighbor in dis tress and devisinK means for relief. . She was worshiped by the Indians who lived in this region In the early days. Her visits among them were fre quent. She cocfktd nourishing- food and carried it to the sick, and she tauprht the Indian families how to better their conditions. The old aborigines of to day may often be seen at her place. Indian George, probably the oldest living redskin of the Mid-Columbia dis trict, may be seen almost weekly at her back door, receiving gifts of cloth ine and food from "Missy Howe." The Indians were wont to call her "the little "White sister." Indeed, for many years during- the early history of the Hood River Valley she was all the nurse and doctor to be had by both Cunoluiied on Page 11, Column 3.)