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VOL. XXXV.
PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER"" 3, 1916.
NO. 49.
Buy Practical Gifts
is Christmas Pay for Them Next Year
KARPEN
Guaranteed Upholstered Furniture
For Gift Giving
No better upholstered furniture is produced today than the "Karpen"
guaranteed kind.- It is ideaj for grift giving- The quality is guaranteed
and will give the user years of service. The Powers Store is the only
Portland store showing Karpen furniture. This showing of chairs,
rockers, settees and davenports is now complete the most desirable dis
play of upholstered furniture ever made ready for gift giving. '
Worcester Axminster Rugs
One Dollar Down One Dollar Weekly
$2475
The Worcester Axminster Rug is the best rug we
have ever been able to procure to sell at a price
of this kind. The nap is long, thick and closely
woven insuring years of long service. This
rug comes in a S-by-1 2-room size, and is the equal
of anv $35.00 rug offered for sale today. The
special credit terms make it easy for gift giving.
GIFT PIECES for the Kiddies
Furniture in White Enam
el Chairs, Dressers,
Beds, Chiffoniers, Etc.
Just the best assortment of Children's
Furniture we have ever sampled. Dajjo
rated Dressers and Chiffoniers little
Tables and Chairs to match; dining-room
pieces that will make a wonderful impres
sion with the little ones; little Roll-Top
Desks and Chairs to match in fact. Juven
ile furniture of every description is now
ready for your inspection. Shop here -before
you buy.
The Most Desirable
Showing of Juvenile 'Fur
niture You Will Find
A Big New Toy Store
That Supplies Your
Every Want
Tomorrow j-ou will find the showing
complete vou will find almost every
wanted kind of toy you have in mind.
The big. new store caters more to your
wants than ever.
21-inch Dolls for $1.49
31-inch Dolls for $1.99
Shoo Flys, extra size, $1.99
No. 1 Velocipede for $2.49
Full Line of Erector Sets
priced up from $1.00
Red Cedar Chests
For Her Gift
Cedar Chests, 3S Inches wide. IS
inches deep, 15 inches high, spe-C I I M
cial at I I Ai
Cedar Chests. 42 tncnes wide. 18
inches deep, 19 inches high, brass I 7 Ofl
bound, at . . I I 0U
Cedar Chests, with tray. 46
inches wide, 20 inches deep, 17 COO QC
inches high, brass bound VfciOU
Brass-Bound Cedar Chests, width
38 inches, depth 20 inches, height COO Cfl
IS inches, with tray OiOiDU
Extra Larce Cedar Chest, with
tray, 54 inches wide, 22 inches C Qfl OC
deep. 21 inches high $0Ui03
Buy Her Cedar Chest
Now Pay Next Year
price named above. Have one
This Gate-Leg Table
Very Special Val. at
$15.95
A Gate-Leg Table . of large size, of the
Jacobean design, finished in mahogany. A.
table of good proportions, splendidly fin
ished and of first-class construction. Or
dinarily a table of this character would
sell for $25.00. This special allotment,
while they last, are offered at the special
aid aside for Christmas.
CASH NOT NECESSARY,
BUY GIFTS ON CREDIT
At this season of the year when there are so manv
drams on the purse-string when ' there are so
many presents to buy. this store offer credit terms
on gift pieces that will help much to solve the gift
problem. Select any item in our stock furniture,
carpets, stoves, a carriage for the babv or, perhaps
a trunk, pay us a little at the time of "purchase and
then a little each week. You will find that vour
gift money will go much farther bv trading at
Powers. '1'fce real gttt Ja a lasting; rlft buy furniture.
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Our Special
Library Table
$23.85
A 4S-inch Plank - Top. Kull
Quartered library Table with
palT-1 ends and low wide shelf.
A library table the eciual of
any $32.50 pattern shown anywhere.
W o nd e r f ul
Desk at $13.40
Indeed a splendid gift piece
and at a price far below regu
lar. Just as illustrated, in
quartered oak finished either
golden oak or fumed. The
large lower shelf serves as a.
book rack. The interior ar
rangement provides space for
all wanted- articles.
This Progressive Store Says:
No Interest on Gift Purchases
Perhaps you have a place or two to brighten up
in your home, and, then, you must not forget
that a gift piece of furniture is one of the most
enduring that you can make. There is much
satisfsction In knowrng that you mav purchase
any piece in this store for gift giving without
interest charges of any kind attached. . You
spend no more than if you paid cash for vour
purchase, and you are sure of the best quality
procurable at the price you have paid.
Here Is Her Christmas
Hoosier
The Best Gift of. All
What woman would not be delighted
with a Hoosier Cabinet in her home on
Christmas morning. It Is surely the
ideal gift piece. With a Hoosier
Kitchen Cabinet in her home many
miles of steps are saved each day.
There Is a place for everything and
everything is kept in place. Hoosier
Kitchen Cabinets sell as low as $35.00,
nd there are five splendid designs to
choose from. Make hers a Hoosier
Christmas.
$1 Per Week Pays for It
Announcing Powers' Christmas
25VictrolaClub
This
Victrola
for You
5c
First
Payment
Without Question the Most
Extraordinary Terms Ever
Named
These Christmas Victrola terms are surelv most unusual, lower,, indeed, than you will be
named elsewhere. Coma In and make your selection of a $25 Victrola and pav o'nlv 5c cash.
each following payment you add 5c a week second payment 10c. third payment i5c. etc.
until the $25.00 is paid, covering a period of several months. The largest aud last pay
ment will be $1.55.
Whistler
Four - Piece Ivory
Chamber Suite
$
10912
REDUCED FROM $lnl.OO.
The one real gift for Christmas
a four-piece Ivory Chamber Suite,
with beaded frames, large mir
rors design out of the ordinary.
An Ivory suite that would ordi
narily sell for $131 for $109.50.
$11 Cash, $2 Week
A Great Offering of
'Adjusto'
Chairs
Just study the illustration, note
what comfort can be derived
from the Adjusto Chair, then
take Into consideration that it is
upholstered in Spanish chase
leather. The Adjusto Chair is
superior to all others. It is ideal,
for gift giving. It is offered this
week at a decidedly special price.
$22.50 Chase leath
er 'Adjusto' Chairs
Extra Special .
$
13M
This Splendid Colonial $ 5 Q)50
Bed Davenport Only O S
$3.00 Now,
Then $1 Week
This Full-Length Bed Davenport at many dollars under price. A splen
did appearing davenport during the day. converting into a full-size com
fortable bed at a moment's notice.' Frame is of selected quartered oak,
upnoisiermg 01 oesi apamsn cnase leather. Bed .spring entirely inde
pendent of seat spring. The best bed davenport we have been able to
offer at a like price.
Steel Doll Beds at
$
lag
Fitted with wov-en-wire
spring and
pipe rails, finished
oxidized. An ex
tra quality doll
bed underpriced.
$34.50 Mahogany
Spinet1
Desks
$23.75
The real gift fort
"her." Splendid in-
tenor arrangement,
dull rubbed finish.
A splendid desk of
quality and superi
or design.
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SIGNS OF GLORIES ARE
STILL SEEN IN DEAD TOWN
Deserted Hotel, Abandoned Streets, Idle MM and Weather-Stained Build
ings Are Monuments of Past.
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BY ALFRED POWERS.
LAKEPORT in Curry County U
dead, there is no question about
that. You can set it down with
impunity, for the town asknowledgei
the corn. It is dead as Marley, of the
firm ot Scrooge and Marley it is dead
as a doornail. It is so dead that it is
picturesaue. Being dead, it has a
charm no other town in this state has.
Half obscured by an incroaching and
tangled herbage, its populace long
since fled. Its evanescent glory faded
and gone, its buildings dark and
weather-stained, its somber and de
serted streets drinking up the Winter
rain or white under the moon of Sum
mer nights it exercises a subtle ap
peal to the imagination, a soporific
fascination, a-Sleepy Hollow influence.
Its slumberous atmosphere is vaguely
remindful of noonday dreams or low
voices or an old man smoking his even
ing pipe.
In its drowsy stillness there is yet
a vague echo of its busy days before
it dropped suddenly to sleep. Its out
lines, rapidly blending with the en
girdling thickets, are reminiscent of a
town of considerable size and dignity.
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At one time Lakeport was the largest
town In Curry County larger man
either Langlois, Port Orford. Gold
Beach or Brookings. It had a popula
tion ot something like 400 and a payroll
of several .'thousand dollars a month.
Rrtlalrr Uvriadle. Rapidly.
Xo, there is only one permanent resi
dent in the town. The sawmill which
once furnished employment for a large
number of men and which sawed the
lumber for the numerous houses of the
town, has long been rusting in waste
ful desuetude on an arm of Florea
Lake.
The hotel, which originally cost J10,
000. still Keeps most of its appoint
ments intact. The faded register tells
the story of the bursting bubble. At
the beginning the entries are thick with
urban signatures, most of the impor
tant towns of Oregon and Washington
being represented in the address col
umn. Then almost abruptly the en
tries grow thin, thinner, thinnest, un
til there is no name but in the clerk's
handwriting and spelling a laconic
phrase, like Perry's or Caesar's, but
negative instead of affirmative: "Not
a dam sole." Those four words were
the hotel's and the town's obituary.
The "Merte D' Arthur" part of this
article is done. Before the subject is
dismissed, however, something else
ought to be said. The suggestion
ought to be made that you visit Lake
port the next time you go down the
furry County Highway south from Ban
don. From the south end of Flores Creek
bridge a road turns off to the right.
This leads to Lakeport. It is a fairly
good road and the first mile of it has
recently been graded and improved.
It is only three miles till you will as
cend a low. sandy hill and look out
over what was once the metropolis of
a big county.
Xo Signs- Point Way.
Recently a sign lured the writer off
the main highway to visit a water
fall. He looked upon that liquid
descent with no special enthusiasm. The
truth is that waterfall wasn't what It
is cracked up to be. Yet thousands
of people visit that waterfall annually.
On the other hand, most of the people
that travel the main Curry County
road pass up Lakeport. For one rea
son, and the principal one, there is not
a sign. Signs with good black index
fingers or big plain arrows have a
lot of influence. And as between that
squatty waterfall and a dead town with
all the concomitants, in a young and
vigorous country where there are more
waterfalls than a mathematics pro
fessor can count, but only one dead
town well, as between them there is
no comparison.
It is true that God built the country
and man built the town, but in addi
tion to a picturesque decay of what
man has built. Nature has an exhibit
of some pretty good handiwork around
Lakeport. There is Flores Lake, for
Instance, with scarlet patches of wild
honeysuckle along its banks till late
in the Summer, with its surface usually
calm and undisheveled and with its
long arms and tulle swamps, where
lurk trout almost as big and almost
as. suicidal as those in Crater Lake
It does not have the winds or the
mosquitoes of most of the mountain
lakes.
Lakeport is at the juncture of two
distinct and separate kinds of beaches
the level sea edge that runs north
to Bandon and the sheer bluffs that
go southwest to Cape Blanco light
house. Tortuous sheep trails, just
about wide enough for your feet, lead
you through low and matted salal.
along the edge of those ever-crumbling;
cliffs that lead to the, cape. Occa
sionally a narrow clay point has caved
in and the-two ends of the interrupted
trail point horizontally out- through;
the empty atmosphere, a dizzy dis
tance from the beach below.
PIGS ARE KEPT IN HOME
Meanest Man Kcfuscs to Allow Wife
to Wear Out Broom.
COLUMBUS. O.. Nov. 27. After tes
tifying that her husband kept pigs and
chickens in their home, and that he
would not even let her sweep the house
because she would wear out the broom,
Mrs. Mary Rolison, of Licking County,
won a divorce from Alva A. Rolison.
Mrs. Rolison testified that after her
marriage on November SO last . she
went to her husband's home and found
the five rooms arranged in this man
ner: One room housing pigs, one hdusing
chickens, one for an automobile, one a
kitchen and another a bedroom. -
Mrs. Rolison testified her husband
would not permit her to use soap, "be
cause it cost money." She told the
Judge her husband would not take her
to church Sunday in the automobile
because the gasoline for the automobile
would cost too much money.
HOBO ADVISES HIS BRIDE
Woman Asking Divorce Is Told Not
to Marry Itinerant Again.
CLEVELAND. O.. Nov. 27. "I am
certainly enjoying myself In a box car
with nothing '. to do but watch the
scenery. If you ever marry again take
my advice and don't marry a hobo."
This little message, alleged to have
been written to her on a postcard by
her husband. Charles Brodnick, resi
dence unknown, is to be used by J-s.
Anna Brodnick, 261$ Erin avenue South
West, in asking a divorce.
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