SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Woman's Section
Special Features
VOL.. XXXVI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1917.
NO.
CURRY COUNTY VIRTUALLY IS PARADISE FOR
LOVERS OF GREAT SPORT OF BEAR HUNTING
Thousands Bagged by Jake Fry, King of Trailers of Bruin, While Others Also Hold Records Running in High
Figures Bloodhounds and Beagle Hounds Best Dogs for Chase. -
Powers 50th Anniversary Sale
Provides the Greatest Furniture Bargains of the Year
Hundreds of High Quality Furniture Pieces
Reduced in Price and SOLD ON -CREDIT
$ 50.00 Worth of Furniture $ 5.00 Cash $1.00 Week
$100.00 Worth' of Furniture $10.00 Cash $2.00 Week
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$200.00 Worth of Furniture $20.00 Cash $3.00 Week
$45.00 and $50.00 Seamless Axminster
and Wilton 9x12 Rugs'
$36.85
Here is your opportunity to secure hiph-quality ruprs at a special price and on
very low terms of credit. A clearance of tsome thirty 9x12 room-size rues in
both the Wilton and Seamless Axminster grades. These ruus are of long-wear-Jnp
quality, and are shown in a Kreat variety of colors and designs. Excellent
run that are suitable for most any room in the home. Choose while the assort
ment is at its best. This fiftieth Anniversary Clearance Price has greatly
lessened the cost to you.
$5.00 Cash, $1.00 Week
High-Grade Fiber Reed Pieces, Covered in
Tapestry or Velour, Greatly Reduced
Beautiful Karpen Upholstered Chairs and Rockers in fiber reed, finished
frosted brown, with upholstered spring1 seats and covered backs.
Brass Beds, Enameled Chamber
Furniture at Bargain Prices
317.85 Tapestry Uphols
tered Rocker, loose-
cushion seat
$39.85 Frosted Brown
Arm Chair, covered in
bilk velour
$41.65 Tapestry-Upholstered
Ro c k e r, loose- i
cushion spring seat
$39.85 Frosted Brown
Rock er, loose-cushion
spring seat, tapestry i
covered, at
$44.85 Frosted BrtAn
Arm Chair, covered in l
silk velour
$45.65 Silk Velour Up
holstered Rocker, Kar- i
pen construction
$17.85 Sewing Rocker,,
with low arm, covered i
in tapestry . . .
$39. &5 K a r p en Uphols
tered Silk Velour Rock
er, loose-cushion spring
seat, at 1
;.90
$27.75 High- End Con- 4
tinuous-Post Brass Bed..
$17.50 Stub- Post Ten- t
Filler Brass Bed
$34.50 Continuous - Post
Bed. heavy one - Inch
filler, at
$28.50 F o u r t een-Filler
Brass Bed, heavy post
mounts, at
$13.00 Oval - Top White
Enamel Table '
$28.75 Adam design Tri-pllcate-Mlrror
Dress-
ing Table
.95
.85
$28.50 Ivory Storage 4
Chest, with trays.
$51.00 Ivory Dresser,
oirdseye maple top
$27.50 Colo nlal Chiffo-
nler, enameled in white, '
$26.50 Three- Quarter
Wood Bed. heavy slat (
effect, at
$25.75 White Enamel
Bed. with 8 p o o 1 turn- i
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$47.50 Large Size Adam
Chiffonier in ivory en- i
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Massive Four-Piece Living
Room Outfit Very Special . .
This outfit consists of Square Table, Arm Chair. Rocker and 52-inch
Settee. The frames ure of selected oak. and the auto-spring seats, uphols
tered, in extra Quality chase leather. A complete and comfortable living
room outfit at a very special price.
$4.50 Cash, $1.00 Week
d?JO OC Whistler Four-Piece Ivory fc1 AO
$0.OJ Chamber Suite Special. J1V7.C?1
The most popular low-priced Chamber Suite we've ever offered for your
inspection. Four splendidly finished pieces with beaded frames and cane
inserts. Not only do they exactly match, but they are built In excellent
proportions. .These four pieces at this very special price and on lowest
credit terms. '
$11.00 Cash, $2J00 Week
80c Printed Linoleum on
Your Floor
66c
$1.00 Heavy Printed Lin
oleum on Your Floor
75c
$1.50 Inlaid Linoleum on
Your Floor
$1.17
Strong Values in Good
Dining Tables
$27.50 48 Inch P 1 a n'k- fc 1 Q 1C
Top Table at 5 lO. 1U
$45.50 Oak 48-inch Group 4OQ OC
Pedestal Table at DI7.0
Quartered-Oak Effect Q QC
Table, pedestal base, at 5 ZJ .0J
$75.00 Jacobean Six-Leg GA A Qrt
64-inch Table at.'. OHHr.UU
$21.00 Plank-Top Round-! Qfv
Base Table at. J AI.I7vf
$27.75 Jacobean Eiten- (1 c Q IS
sion Table, 45-inch top..wlOJtJ
$19.50 Fumed Oak Ped
estal Extension Table, 4fc-,4 Af!
45 Inch, at D1.J
$24.50 Heavy-BnedjIC Qf
Fumed Extension Table.. J A JmiJ J
$55.00 Fumed Oak F.x-
tenston Table, Craft de- OQ tZ
sign, at. J03tJU
$32.50 Flush-Rim 48- J?0-4 A(
inch Table now at J.I.'xi
This Pretty Four-Piece Suite
in White Enamel for
$35.85
Low in price, yet correct in detail and finish. A substantial Wood Bed
with shit panels, a roomy Iresser, a Side Chair with Koeker to match
complete the suite. These pieces will almost completely furnish the
averaee chamber. They are dainty in appearance and substantial in
construction.
$3.50 Cashf $1.00 Week
Sewing Machines
Reduced in Price
. $42.50 Stan dard Cleve
land Sewing Machine, 41? O "3 Ofl
fully guaranteed, at. ... wOOtU
$46.00 Sewing Mac hine.
Par agon pattern, swift
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teed, at
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$41.35
$57.50 Standard Cabinet
Machine, highest
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$65.00 Standard Rotary
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every particular, cut to.. wHOt lu
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BY ALFRED POWERS.
BEAR hunters, bear dogs and bears
this is a natural trinity down
in Curry County, Oregon, like
faith, hope and charity. ,
Tou have played with Teddy bears, 1
you have seen bears dance at the com
mand of some Neapolitan gentleman,
you have perhaps developed the "wil
lies" by watching some polar bear
swing his head in a perpetual affirma
tive in. a cage. You have read "Johnny
Bear" and how Charles Dudley Warner
executed a bear, and "How AVe Killed
a Bear Betsy and I." In toyland. in
cages or chains, in literature you have
come into an across-the-fence contact
with Bruin, but did you ever meet him
face to face in. a huckleberry thicket
or a skunk cabbage patch?
You have met him more than once
if you ever lived in Curry County. This
is his home. There are about the same
number of real bears in Curry County
as there are Teddy bears in Portland.
Jake Fry, Frank Fry. Walter Fry.
Will lAke, Delniar Colgrove and Elmer
TWO BIG NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE SHOWS ARE
CENTERS OF INTEREST FOR OUT-OF-TOWN CROWDS
Society Turns Out in Force to See Exhibition of Cars at Hotel Astor Average Price of Machines Is $5000 and Some
Novel Models Are Shown Roadsters Are Now for Four Passengers.
BY GETTA R. WASSERMAX.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (Special.)
The two big automobile shows
are on and the out-of-town
crowd which was a feature of the old
time horse show, but which has now,
partially at least, transferred allegiance
to the newer sport, is assembled in
force. No reservations for rooms have
been accepted by any of the prominent
hotels for the lat two weeks and many
of them are taking care of the overflow
of their customary clientele in private
houses in their vicinity, and one of
them, the Vanderbilt, has- engaged ac
commodations for a number of their
patrons in hotels in Brooklyn.
Society, as usual, turned out in force
for the 13th annual International Auto
mobile Show at the Hotel Astor. This
year, owing to the great number of
entries, it was necessary to use the
boxes as well as the hall proper for
the display of cars. The average price
of the cars is about J5000 and there are
about 100 machines on exhibit, with a
total valuation of more than $500,000.
The coach work has a tendency to
ward low-suspended bodies; in fact the
leading requisites for the smart car
seem to be low, compact lines of the
body of the machine and long sweep
ing lines of the hood and cowl, with the
upholstery and painting in soft, neu
tral colors. 1
One rather novel car is called the
Dolphin. It is a three-passenger car,
of low and very Taklsh outline, built
on a sort of nautical plan, which idea
is emphasized in the two-toned gray
color scheme. There are two forward
seats, with an aisle between leading
to the rear seat.
A very marked change seems to have
takes place in the roadsters, most ot
which are now four-passenger cars,
with the seats closely coupled. Then
there is a very fascinating" new coupe
arrangement, a bit on the style of a
clover leaf. But above all one notices
that each succeeding year the cars
grow more comfortable and luxurious.
Six thousand persons, unmindful of
the intense cold, or perhaps reminded
more- forcibly by it of the intense suf
fering of those in the trenches, joined
in a big open-air peace meeting here,
under the auspices of the American
Neutral Conference Committee, just
after the beginning of the new year.
It was one of a number held in various
cities across the continent. Among
those most active on the committee of
arrangements were George Foster Pea
body. Dr. Si.ecU.en. & Wiae. r.ev, John
Miller are all well-known Curry Coutv-,
ty bear hunters.
lOO Bear DoK, Owned.
Jake Fry has probably killed more
bears than any- other man in Oregon.
He has been hunting bears for 50 years,
since he was 11 years old. In that
time he has owned 100 bear dogs. He
has kept four on band steadily for
half a century. Eight years is the or
dinary life of a bear dog. In eight
years, often before, he goes to the Val
halla of brave bear dogs. Mr. Fry re
members the heroic services of dogs
dead these 40 years. During retro
spective evenings the ghosts of those
100 dogs that he has owned come back
to him. eager for the hunt, nimble of
foot, musical of voice, with Spartan
courage, no yellow streak in the whole
100. Bloodhound and beagle hound are
standard breeds. Bloodhounds, mastiff
and shepherd are a poor cross, says
Mr. Fry.
The bears that Jake Fry has killed
run up into the thousands. He has
killed as many as 10 in a day. A low
average would be 23 a year. That would
make 1250. Hut he has killed more
than that. He now has oiw of the
finest farms on the whole Rogue River.
Everybody, no matter who he is, is wel
come at his big house near Illaine post-,
office. Killing bears, with this man.
has surely been a "pious pastime." for
he is constructive in every other way
If bear hunting and bear killing pro
duces such citizens, we all would do
well to turn bear hunters.
All Are Vetera Hanters.
Frank Fry has hunted beara in Curry
County for 33 years, averaging 25 a
year. Dclmar Colgrove has hunted for
20 years. Will Lake, Elmer Miller and
Walter Fry are also "veteran hunters.
Iurlng the Summer the bears travel
along the river, in the Fall they eat
huckleberries and -acorns, with suclt;
miscellany as they can find In the way
of food, and in the Spring clover, skunk;,
cabbage and grass are the principal
features of their menu.
Almost every day you can read iiv
the papers of the killing of a bear;
somewhere in Oregon; annually-they-kick
the beam by hundreds; but for.
many years to come there will be bear
hunters, bear dogs and bears in Curry
County.
Haynes Holmes, Mrs. John Fels and
Miss Lillian Wald.
Those of us who live in cities where
gardens or at least bits of green are
the rule instead of the exception can
appreciate the noval way In which Mr.
and Mrs. Edward VI. Browning,
wealthy New Yorkers, have secured a
like privilege for themselves in thia
city of stone. They have installed a
ffower garden on the roof of the apart
ment-house, which they own and in
which they make their home, consist
ing of 30 flower beds containing 10.000
plants, besides which they have Summer-houses,
arbors and a real lake,
with a boat in Summer, and in the
Winter it automatically becomes an
ice rink.
Right Rev. William Lawrence, bishop
of Massachusetts, reports that 14,000.
000 of the to. 000,000 Episcipal Church
pension fund has already been raised.
This large sum, however, has been
pledged only on the condition that the
other $1,000,000 be subscribed before
March 1, of this year. Those in charge
of the campaign are very hopeful of
the final accomplishment and little
doubt is expressed that the system,
with all its attendant benefit.", will soon
be in full and complete working order.
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Three .more women of Hew. York's
smart set have joined the rapidly in
creasing number of their sex entering
th': business World. These three are
Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch Potter, wife
of I"r. Nathanlal B. Totter, of No. .191
Park avenue, yho is related by mar
riage to Mrs. Vhilip Uydig and to Mrs.
oi-.n Hoot: Mrs. Elsie Cobb Wilson.
who is a sister-in-law of Cornelius N.
Bliss. Jr.. and Mrs. Frances Alexander
Wellman. who Is a niece of John Alex
ander, the well-known painter. The
new undertaking Is to conbist of In
terior decorating and the entire fur
nishing of homes.
A monthly publication, to be called
the Bulletin, has Just been launched by
the league for Business Opportunities
for Women. At present the league
numbers 310 members, from all fields
of women's business endeavor, and its
object is to help the beginners in their
first years of work and likewise to as
sist them to choose occupations and
professions, when that is necessary.
The staff of the new publication is
made up of wonren of experience: the
editor is Eva von Baur Hansl. who was
formerly editor of the woman's page
of the Evening Sun. Other active
workers are Katherine Glover. Grace
Hatheway and Gertrude Hill Springer.
A number of women who are in sym
pathy with the ideas and working
principles of Mrs. Margaret Sanger, for
which, she was placed on trial during
the week, gave a "birth control break
fast" in her honor Just before the trial
and then marched in a body to the
courtroom. The breakfast was held in
the rooms of the Women's City Club.
at the Hotel Vanderbilt, and the ar
rangements for it were made by the
Women 8 Committee or One .Hundred
of which Mrs. Amos Pinchot is chair
' Xew York's newest hotel will Jtx 2$
stories high., contain 2300 rooms, cost
315.000,000 and be owned by 150.000
leople. each subscribing to one mem
bership share of $100. The name is to
bo the "Commonwealth.'"
The "Tough Club." the most famous
social organization of Greenwich Vil
lage, which has been in existence for
40 years, held a reception for 750 chil
dren of that neighborhood recently at
the clubrooms, 243 West fourteenth
(street.
A big "Vacation" circus is to be
given in Madison Square Garden some
time in March, for the benefit of the
Vacation Association Fund. Eight hun
dred members of the society attended
the preliminary meeting on Tuesday
night. One of the features is to be a
gigantic ballet, participated in by tlie
members of the association and as
many more of their friends, all of
whom will be drilled and trained by
Arthur Riegel. ballet master of the
Metropolitan Opera.
,
Almost all the stars of the musical
firmament are scintillating in New
York just now, partially no doubt on
account of the war, and the "sharp"
and "flat" heavens are so overcrowded
that even the most ardent music fan
is bound to miss something that is
worth while. A number of Portlanders
attended the first of the series of his
torical recitals that Madame Marcelle
Sembrich is giving in this city, at
Aeolian Hall, among 'them Mrs. Kath
leen Lawlor, Miss Margery Haussman,
Mrs. May Iearborn Schwab. Miss
Bauer, Mrs. George Russell and Mrs.
Henry Metxger.
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The people of the Pacific Coast have
a rare treat in store for them in the
coming productions of the Portmanteau
Theater Company, under the superfine
direction of Stuart Walker. I have
never been so thrilled as by the per
formance of the two LfOrd Dunsany
plays. "King Argimenes and the Un
known Warrior" and "The Gods of the
Mountain," and I doubt if tjiere hes
ever been a more wonderful finale to a
play than that of the latter. The en
thralling effect of it may be judged by
the fact that the typical blase New
York audience, after sitting breath
lessly through three hours of serious
entertainment, would hardly be. satis
fied with half a dozen curtain calls. All
tase set. accompanying music, cos
tuming and acting is as nearly per
fect as could possibly be imagined.
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Maurice Samuels, the talented yourff
California playwright, is now on the
royal road to recognition. Not only is
his play. "The Wanderer." In course of
rehearsal with a marvelously selected
cast, but the author has just signed a
contract with David Belasco. whose
name in the production of a play spells
success, for a new play for Miss Frances
Starr for the coming season.
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Mifts Mary Nash, who is now playing
In "The Man Who Came Back." Jules
Eckert Goodman's very dramatic work,
has been added to the World list of
film stars and Mr. Goodman has beeui
commissioned to write the scenario for
her new film debut.
The mechanics and other employes
of the Punch and Judy Theater have
issued invitations for a performance
of "Treasure Island." which they will
give on Sunday, January 14. The regu
lar company close their remarkable
run of nearly .two years tonight.
Dorothy Shoemaker, assisted by Louis
tCuaciuded ea fage .).