TIIE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 21, 1919.
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A Cold Home Is A
Cheerless Home
The sensible housewife looks to the proper heating of the house
on chilly days. She knows that, aside from discomfort, a cold
room may cause serious illness.
Powers offers, a splendid assortment of strongly constructed
heaters in sizes to fit all heating requirements. Either wood or
coal, as you prefer. Bought on easy credit terms. Select yours
while there is still a good choice.
No. 20 Combination "Carbon"
Heater
$24.75
$1 Cash-$1 Weekly
An extremely good heater for the
average sized room. Built with extra
heavy steel body; cast lined; cast fire
bowl; duplex grate. Burns either wood
or coal. Is a good looking heater that
will give lasting satisfaction.
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PAVING FRAME IIP CHARGED
PIERCE COUNTY ACTION" MAY
CAUSE STATE FIGHT.
Effort Alleged Made to Eliminate All
Contractors Except Warren
Construction Company.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 20. (Spe
cial.) Pierce county's action toward
selection of hard-surfacing material
may precipitate a fight extending all
over the state and cause widespread
dissensions in politics. The recent ac
tion by Pierce county commissioners
in planning to let a $2,500,000 road con
tract covering a period- of three years
eliminates all contractors except -the
Warren Construction company, say
those interested in road affairs.
The same forces are engineering the
deal by which Pierce county will place
bids for a certain kind of paving on
October 10 as fought the Carlyon bill
in the legislature at Olympia last win
ter, it is said. The commissioners re
jected all bids for separate road Jobs
on the ground that they were too high.
Then someone suggested that the bid
ehould be let as a unit to one con
tractor. Such an action would elimi
nate practically all state contractors,
it is said, for it would involve the ty
ing up of $125,000 for three years as
well as a bond for $600,000..
Furthermore, the contractors are
loathe to take chances on the labor
situation six months, a year or two
years hence. The Warren Construc
tion company, they say, is safeguarded
because it can exact a royalty of 25
cents a yard on Warrenite on any con
tract let before May 1. 1920. Then the
patent runs out and Warrenite can be
laid without paying a royalty.
Tacoma party members say that
Governor Hart was urged to call a spe
cial session a short time ago presuma
bly to ratify the woman's suffrage
amendment. He consented and the sit
uation remained as it was until
the good roads convention was
held at Takima. Then friends of
the Carlyon bill reached the gov
ernor and told him. it is asserted,
that the real purpose of the session
would be to amend the Carlyon bill, so
that hard-surface roads might be built
of material other than concrete. Carl
yon, being one of his staunch support
ers, the governor called the extra ses
eion off, it is said.
way to sound business in dealings with
the Germans. It will be remembered
that during the war a referendum vote
of chamber of commerce members fa
vored a commercial boycott of Ger
many after the war. This has been
forgotten here and German firms,
which are conceded to have the firmest
hold on the hardware business in the
republic, are buying practically all of
their supplies from American dealers.
Japanese competition is negligible."
A strenuous effort is being made to
stabilize transportation conditions
which present the most serious obsta
cles to trading. Congestion of freight
at Nuevo Laredo for transmission to
Mexico City still exists, but within the
past few weeks arrangements have
been made by three concerns here for
the operation of "special freights" be
tween the two points. A new steam
ship line between Vera Cruz and New
Orleans will also open for business
next month.
MINERS NOT SATISFIED
Strikers In Yorkshire Coal Field
Feel Iioss or Wages Keenly.
LEEDS, England, Sept. 20. Some of
the Yorkshire miners who went on
strike in the great cna.1 fleirt ihi.
when 250,000 men quit work in July
i.u protest against tne government
award for piece work seem hardly
satisfied with the result in view of the
fact that two. months will be required
to restore some of the mines to opera
tion. The Yorkshire Post quotes one of the
miners as saying:
"Fancy grown-up men like us quar
reling about the price of a packet of
cigarettes more or less a week. It's
enough to make a cat laugh or a man
cry, if he has children to feed. Princi
ple is all right when it doesn't mean
loss of pay. I wish our leaders felt
it the same way, but their wages go
on all the same with extras for at
tending all meetings. 'Fine woMs
butter no parsnips," and we can't fill
our youngsters' stomachs with principles."
U. 5. TRADE SOUTH GROWS
EXPANSION IN BUSINESS IN MEX
ICO REPORTED.
End of War Has Brought Sharp
Competition and Sentiment Is
Fast Giving Way to Sense.
MEXICO CITT, Sept. 1. (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
Despite conditions popularly regarded
in the United States as uninviting to
American trade expansion here, busi
ness between that country and Mexico
shows a decided upward trend. Dur
ing the fiscal year just closed imports
and exports between the two republics
amounted to more than 531.000,000
pesos, according to figures given the
Associated Press by W. F. Saunders,
secretary of the American chamber of
commerce in Mexico City.
Of this amount 37 6,000.000 pesos rep
resents exports from Mexico and 164,
000.000 pesos represents imports. Pre
vious to the current fiscal year the
banner period of Mexican-United States
business was in 1911, when 102,000.000
pesos worth of goods were exported
from Mexico and 146,000,000 pesos
worth were imported
"Deducting amounts representing
petroleum exportations which are not
considered in the ordinary run of com
mercial business, and for increased
values of goods, these figures indicate
clearly that trade is increasing," said
Mr. Saunders. "Mexico will spend more
than $150,000,000 in the United States
during the year 1919, with imports of
hardware, machinery, drugs and dry
goods leading all others. In August
we received more than 700 letters from
firms that intimated intentions of es
tablishing branches here.
"The end of the war has brought
saarp competition for Mexican busi
ness. It is interesting to note in this
connection that -sentiment is giving
Paris' to Hold Exposition In 1922.
PARIS. Aug. 20. Paris will again
become an exposition town in 1922. The
minister of commerce has promulgated
a decree providing for the organization
of an international exposition of deco
rative arts to be held during the summer
of that year.
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$ 50.00 Worth of Furniture $ 5.00 Cash $1.5) Week
$ 75.00 Worth of Furniture $ 7.50 jCash $1.50 Week
$100.00 Worth of Furniture $10.00 Cash $2.00 Week
$125.00 Worth of Furniture$12.50" Cash $2.25 Week
$150.00 Worth of Furniture $15.00 Cash $2.50 Week
Handsome Davenport
Underpriced at $61.15
An Important Shipment of
Overstuffed Davenports
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From
$89.50$350
T' HERE is
nothing so
as a tapestry-upholstered davenport for a home that lives up to the meaning of the word.
These are substantially built, with back, seat and arms deeply cushioned, the epitome of
ease and comfort: Some upholstered in back so that they mav occupy a central position, as
before a fireplace, without sacrificing dignity or beauty. Realizing that every home is
immensely more homelike for the possession of such davenports, we have made terms
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$7.00 Cash $130 Week
A DAVENPORT, so comfortably designed that
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Quartered oak stock upholstered in Spanish lea
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VELVET RUGS
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$5 Cash,
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WILTON' RUGS
S75
Room size and very rich
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S2.25
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Superiorities
Larger air dellTeaj Imrirer
furl rapacity larger eom
buntion chamber larger
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.f the aame .lie.
"PIPING expense is elimi
nated in the installa
tion of the A-B. Clean out
door air is transformed into clean, moist heat
there is no dirt.
Its low construction adapts the A-B to prac
tically any basement in six to eight-room homes.
The A-B does not deprive you of your base
ment storeroom it remains a cool, safe place
for preserves, etc.
$18.75 Baby Crib
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A Rare Value 4-Piece
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$25 Cash and $4 Weekly
Places This Brunswick
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CONSTRUCTED entirely of hollywood, and equipped
with tone amplifier and Ultona method of repro
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Plays any disc record by a slight turn of the hand
it supplies the proper needle, correct weight and pre
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Conceded by unnumbered thousands "the one super
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This large No. 17 Brunswick is priced $223.
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GOLD BRONZE iron bed in a very refined conservative pattern,
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$2 Cash, $2 Weekly, Buys the
Electric 3-Way Washing Machine
most delicate fabrics
the heaviest pieces
tJANDLES the
safely and
efficiently.
Cleanses and Wrings by Electricity.
Wrings forward or reverse.
Washing arm may be used for rinsing
and bluing. Your washing is on the line
in much less time than in the old way
your clothes are more thoroughly laun
dered and your strength is not expended.
The cost for electricity to run this me
chanically simple machine is trifling.
Women who are using it say: "It does o
much more than just wash."
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Columbia
Bicycle
Library Table Dining Chair Dining Table immense Stocks of
Every Type of
Dependable
Luggage
S4.95&iy $28.95 SSiSfSfc jf rTT i
construction. fVt-lt dvered with five-leg base. Seats ten , rf (S'fllir 1 -. ' I
in Sparushfceatheae'ife-.'-.pf-1' when extended. First quality j H H C "
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seat chairs s "' . at the price. mi iri i n w i t
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$28.90
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Strongly built and -requires min
imum care. Light running;, capable
of sustained speed without overworking-
the rider. ' The Columbia
soon pays for itself in carfare saved.
Workers, school folk,, messengers,
etc., find it an economical means of
transit. And the highways around
Portland give the cyclist so much'
pleasure that healthful recreation is
- astonishingly inexpensive.
Beautiful quar
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'Substantially built, with
shaped panel ends and a shelf
that will be much appre
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Wardrobe trunks of splendid
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suitcases, traveling bags, str
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