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SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Woman's Section
Special Features
VOL. XXXIV.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1915.
NO. 43.
Trade in Your Old
Heater and
Get a New
P owers'
"Mission"
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See Special Demonstration of the
"Mission" Heater
at Manufacturers' and Land Prod
ucts Show The Armory, October
25 to November 13. -
eater in the Store $M?
And the Kind of Heater YOU Want All Are
Guaranteed and Built for Service and Economy
Weeklv
Can You Remember of Any Firm
Making a Similar Offer?
In all your experience as a reader of newspaper advertising-, has
any firm, to your knowledge, ever made an offer that could possibly
approach this in credit giving? You are able to come to this store,
select any heater that pleases you and every one is guaranteed and
pay for it on the easiest terms Imaginable. If you "have an old
heater we will allow you all it is worth on the purchase of a new
one and the new ones are the very best you will find anywhere.
Every Heater We Sell
Is Doubly Guaranteed.
When you buy a heater here, you not only have our guarantee, but
the guarantee of the maker as well. This is perfect heater Insur
ance. You take no risk whatever. Our aim is to furnish you always
with the very best that can be produced at the price. No matter
what price you pay you are absolutely assured of getting the very
best value for your money.
"Quality First" Is Our Motto.
No matter what price you pay for a heater at Powers, you are
always sure of highest quality at that price. No goods of doubtful
quality ever enter this store. It is our aim to supply the very best
the price will afford. Even the lowest-priced heater on show is
greatly superior to those you will find in most places at an equal
price.
The New "Mission" Heater Is
Made in 12 Different Styles .
Is beautifully nickeled, has a large duplex grate and an extra size
feed door to admit of large chunks of wood. The body, base and
top are made of castlron, which will retain the heat hours after fuel
has been consumed. It has a swing top. a fireplace front and high
sanitary base. It Is the most economical heater we have ever offered
at any price.
Trade in Your Old Heater
and Get a "Mission."
It you have an old heater which has been unsatisfactory, we will
take It in and allow you all it la worth on the purchase of a new
one. We have so many sizes and styles on display that you are eure
to find the very one you have in mind. Discard the old heater buy
a new "Mission," you will find your fuel bill will be greatly reduced.
You Practice Real Economy
when you place in your home a Powers heater.' The saving does
not only pply on the purchase price, but on the cost of operation
as well. You save on your fuel, give less attention to you- heater and
have the satisfaction of knowing that the one you own is absolutely
the best. . ;
CALORIC Fireless Cookers
A Complete Showing
A full line of these widely known Fireless
Cookers are now on display providing the
size you want the kind you want at the
price you want to pay. The Caloric bakes,
roasts, frys, stews and boils bread, pastry,
meats and vegetables.
LINOLEUMS
Printed and
Inlaid s 1
at a
Distinctive
Saving
nOc PRINT LINOLEUM A choice.
new variety to choose from in pat
terns that are entirely pleasing1.
Special, per yard, laid on your floor
9I.OO PRINT LINOLEUMS Four
eplendld patterns of extra heavy
Printed Linoleum for use in bath
or kitchen, superior designs, laid
on your floor, the yard ............
If. BO INLAID LINOLEUM Parquet
effects, checks and general de
signs in high quality Inlaid Lin
oleum that will wear for years.
SpeciaJ, the yard, on your floor....
60c
75c
$111
The "STANDARD" Rotary
Sit Straight Sewing Machine
Whenever you compare the quality of
this new Standard Rotary Sewing Ma
chine with any other, the price will be
second in your mind. Quality stands
longer than price, but Standard Rotary
quality stands forever.
You Pay Only $1.00 Weekly
for any sewing machine in our enlarged
sewing machine department There are
machines at every price, every ona guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction. Your
sewing machine wants can be filled here
at greatly reduced cost to you.
$25 Sterling Drop-
Head Sewing
Machines, Special
$17.50
$3.75 Feather-Weight Fold
ing Card Tables . . $Q A C
An unusually low price for M
these Close-Folding-. Feather-er-Weight
Card Tables. They come in either
felt or enamel cloth top and are nicely finished.
Have You a "Model"?
The Perfect Dress Form
Sent to You for
$1 Down, 50c Week
$12.50
Automatic, collapsible and
adjustable dress forms usually
have been sold from $17.50 to
$25, and this is the only article '
of its kind ever offered at this
low price, $12.50. J
It makes perfect dressmaking
feasible at home, as forms can 1
be adjusted to every size, form
and height. When collapsed it
takes up little space.
Sealy Mattresses
The Kind That Are Guaranteed for 25 Tears.
Sold Only at Powers
These $17-50 Luxurious
Chase Leather Rockers
Soft Spring Construction
$9.95
Exactly as pictured.
Large, c o m f o r table
arm rockers uphols
tered in Spanish
Chase leather, full
spring xeats, roll arms
and high back, un
usual value at the
Fpecific price named
above.
20 Handsome Sectional
Bookcases Big Savings!
$28.00 Four-Piece Mahogany Mission Sec- 4f Q 7ti
tional Bookcase Stack for 3 I O
$21.70 Five-Piece Mahogany Sectional " 1 A Ofi
Bookcase Stack for. wl'tiAJ
$37.50 Five-Piece Fumed Oak Mission 00 Cft
Bookcase Stack for. P3v!
$14.85
$20.10 Five -Piece Sectional Bookcase!
Stack for
$38.50 Seven-Piece Quartered Oak Slat- COO ff
Front Sectional Case for PUU
$43.50 Six-Piece Chippendale Quartered 0O1 ff
Bookcase Stack for........ . . ffO X mJJ
$25.00 Five-Piece Quartered Oak Stack.
panel ends, for.
$42.00 Six-Piece Mahogany Mission Book- (fQI rn
case Stack for..... OOX.OU
k. $19.50
The Kind You Are Using Now
2 Worth-While
Drapery Specials
SSe CRETONNE Light - Ground Cre- f rm 1
tonne, pink, blue or yellow, in floral I
design, full 36 inches wide, the yard..
7Se SVN-FAST MADR AS Sun- Fast m n
Madras in mulberry, blue, gold, brown' 4tjC
or green, 36 inches wide, special, yard
Light Your Home at Less Cost
Guaranteed
High - Efficiency Lamps at
Special Prices
10. 15, 25 and 40- QC
Watt Lamps 3l
60-Watt LampsORn
reduced to uOu
60-Watt Nitrogen Qf
Lamps, each OUu
100-Watt Nitrogen
now at.
SI
Two Great 3 -Room Outfits s
$127 $159
Bedroom Kitchen
Dining-Room
An outfit consisting of the largest
number of pieces ever assembled at
this price. Furniture of quality In
every Instance. Including ruga for
both dining-room and chamber.
Dining-Room, Chamber,
Living-Room
Powers" outfit par-excellence.
New, up - to - the-mlnute furni
ture for these three rooms, in
cluding fine auality reversible
rugs.
Karpen
Upholstered Furniture
The kind you see advertised in all the lead
ing magazines a big new shipment just
sampled, consisting of Davenports, Chairs
and Rockers. In tapestry and denim. Extra
special . values in force during the week.
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WHITE CHILD OF ARCTIC REGIONS
SEES FIRST MOVIES AND STREETCARS
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BY FRED LOCKLET.
WILLIAM B. VAN VALIN. who for
the past four years has made
his home north of the Arctic
Circle, Is making a brief visit at the
horn of his brother, R. F. Van Valin,
of this city.
"When my wife and I went North
four years ago." he said, "Olive, my lit
tle girl, was only a year old. She is
5 now; This Is her first trip out, and
she is having her first experience with
electric lights, streetcars, jitneys, paved
streets, the movies and a hundred
other things that are familiar to other
children. I married a Pittsburg girl
in 1906. I had charge of the city rescue
mission in Pittsburg for some years.
Shortly after our marriage we came to
Northeastern Washington and took up
a homestead not far from Colville.
After proving up on our homestead my
brother, R. P. Van. Valin, who is a
member of the staff of the Young
Men's Christian Association in Port
land, myself and Albert Bean made an
evangelistic tour of Alaska.
Native Campa Visited.
"We spent the Summer and Fall of
1910 at Dawson. Fairbanks and other
cities and mining camps of Alaska. We
went down the Yukon to its mouth by
small boat, stopping en route at native
camps to hold services.
"Seeing the need of work among the
natives I asked to be sent up there.
W. T. Lopp, the chief of the Alaska di
vision of the United States Bureau of
Education, who had made the trip with
reindeer from Cape Prince of Wales to
Point Barrow, assigned me to his di
vision, with headquarters at Slnuk,
which la west of Nome. I had charge
of the Government school there for
two years and was then transferred
to the Kok River district, which Is
north of Icy Cape and about 90 miles
from Point Barrow, the most northern
postofflce In the United States.
"We ar located on Walnwright In
let, which is about 275 miles north of
the Arctic Circle and about 700 miles
by boat northeast from Nome. Our near
est white neighobs on the south are
about 400 miles distant. On the north,
however, we have comparatively near
neighbors, as they are only 90 miles
away. You can see that we have
plenty to keep our minds occupied
when I tell you that we have 45 Eski
mo children enrolled In our school and
I have supervision of the Government
reindeer herds, consisting of about 2200
reindeer. 1 have 25 Eaklmq herders
in charge of the reindeer. In adidMon
to this my wife maintains a hospital
for the sick Eskimo children and 1
look oat for the health of the adults.
Sun Long: Abaeat.
Ours Is a tundra country without
foothills or trees. On about the 19th
of November the sun tells us goodby
and we do not see it again, till about
the J2d of January. During our long
night we can not distinguish except by
our clock day from night. Our little
girl will come to us and say, "Is this
today or tomorrow?" It Is very hard
to keep regular hours. We try to get
seven or eight hours sleep out of the
2-4 but occasionally, we discover after
the break of Saturday and Sunday than,
we are starting school at 9 o'clock
Sunday night or on Monday night In
stead of at 9 o'clock Monday morning.
In mid-Summer when the daylight is
continuous, we have the same difficulty
In keeping track of time. You can only
tell It Is bedtime by becoming tired or
by having your eyelids feel heavy. If
we don't keep watch of Clive she stays
up and drops asleep wherever she hap
pens to be.
"The year before last when Clive was
S years old, I hitched up my dog team
and started from Walnwrlght Inlet to
Icy Cape to be there during the Spring
whaling season.
Mlz-ratloa la Followed.
"When the Eskimos migrate I try to
go with them so their children can still
have their schooling. I had two or
three natives with reindeer sleds go
ahead to take supplies. My wife and
baby were comfortable as they were
wrapped up in their sealskin sleeping
bags. . The weather was Intensely cold.
It was so cold .that I could not exercise
enough to keep warm. I held to the
steering pole and mushed along back
of the sled. I got so cold I decided I
would have to stop for a few hours rest
and sleep in my sleeping-bag I had
to give it up though, on account of the
danger of Polar bears coming upon us
while we were asleep and making a
meal of us. Where I am on a trip and
the bears are not numerous I usually
put my sleeping bag in an Ice crevice,
tie my dogs to an ice. hummock and
take a Ehort nap to rest myself and
get warm.
"We found a warm welcome from the
natives when we reached Icy Cape.
The Eskimos were cordial and good
hearted and they took us in, thawed
us out and fed us. I found the main
village had moved out on the ice
about 15 miles offshore, while the whal
ing crews had gone out five miles fur
ther on the edge of the floe ice.
"Each Spring the whales migrate
from the Pacific Ocean to the district
north of Herschel Island. The Eskimos
are wonderfully daring and coura
geous. Before the day of firearms
they used .to spear the polar bears. To
attack a polar bear weighing 1800 to
3000 pounds with nothing but an ivory
headed spear takes a lot of courage.
Hospital la Started.
"My wife started hospital for the
sick babies at Icy Cape, while I went
out on the floe ice with the hunters.
They killed several polar bears and a
good many whales while I was there.
Polar bear meat is greatly appreciated,
as it makes a welcome change from
seal meat or whale blubber. The flesh
of a polar bear is red and tastes like
the meat of a Jersey cow. The bears
they killed had layers of fat two or
three inches thick under their skin.
They live largely on seal, eating only
the blubber. The foxes follow the
polar bears to eat tho seal meat.
"The seals have many enemies. Eski
mos, walrus and bears all prey on the
seals. The seal comes ashore or
rather up on the ice for a nap. Be
leaps from five to SO seconds at a
time. I never saw one that slept as
long as a minute. They, have a keen
yeoman &m
sense of smell. The way the bears
frequently . get them Is to spot one.
then swim under water to Its vicinity.
When the seal takes to the water it is
seized by the bear.
Ilurng Slenace Eskimo.
"We 1 a4l a serious time this year
both at Walnwrlght Inlet and at Icy
Cape. Storms came up while the Es
kimos were otit hunting on the ice.
The ice was broken up and an offshore
wind took the ice out to sea. The Es
kimos had to abandon their sleds and
gear and take to their open boats. For
three days they were at the mercy of
the storm. They finally landed 2b
miles trom Icy Cape. When one goes
out on the ice there is always danger
of an offshore gale breaking the ico up
and setting you adrift. You will re
member that the Karluk got caught in
the ice and drifted away while Vilhjal
mur Stefansson was ashore at Point
Barrow. The Karluk drifted to the
northwest and when the ice began to
work she was crushed and lost. Ste
fansson wrote to me to keep a sharp
lookout and to ask my natives to try
to locate Captain Bartlett, who was
on the Karluk when she went adrift.
Bartlett and an Eskimo boy took to
the ice and landed on the Siberian
coast. Peterson picked them up at
East Cape, on the Siberian shore.
"A number of our most daring Eski
mos from Walnwrlght Inlet were near
ly lost this Spring. In fact they es
caped by the skin of their teeth. They
were out when the ice broke up. They
hauled their skin boats over the
pressure ridges, young ice forming all
the time. At last they found a shore
ward lead and escaped.
Wosderfnl Curtoa Fonnd.
"I have picked up some wonderful
curios in the North. Three years ago
I gave my school children a trip to
Sledge Island. We went in a power
boat, the New Jersey, which, by the
way. was lost this season in the Arctic
with all aboard. It was caught in
slush Ice while on its way to Point
Hope and crushed. While we were on
Sledge Island one of my Eskimo boys
went to the top of the island, while
the rest of um were exploring an old
abandoned village. He noticed a shaft
of wool sticking out from under a
large, flat- rock. He could not pull
It out, but finally succeeded in prying
up the flat rock. He found the rock
covered the entrance to a cave. With
several of the other boys he explored
the cave.
"They found an old - whaling outfit
that must have been there for hundreds
of years. The outfit consisted of dos-
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