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Some at One-Half, Some at One -Third and Some at OneFourth off Rular Prices.
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Our Great Annual Summer Clearance Sale commences to-day. The balance of all our stocks of summer goods has been marked down to good-by prices. You
know that pur policy has always been to carry no goods over from ne season to another. We do this for three reasons. First: It keeps our stock free from old an
shopworn goods, Second: , It gives us ready cash td buy more goods with. Third: It pleases our customers to get such great bargains as our ''Annual Clearance Sales
always put within their grasp. A pleased customer is a merchant's best advertisement. Do you want some hints as to what to expect when the doors of our establish
ment open at 8 o'clock this morning? . Her? are a few: - j... !".'
Lien's Suito i
A high class line in up-to-date Styles
and the latest patterns. '
$25.00 Suits 1 $16.50
20.00 " : .'. 13.50
17.00 " t 11.50
15.00 " 10.00
, 13.50 u : 8.50
12.50 " .: 8.00
11.00 " 7.50
. Men's Pants .
, This sale combines our entire stock
bought by us far below cost and sold in
the same proportion, as follows: :.
$i.50 Pants:...... $3.35
4.00 Pants.... 2.95
3.50 Pants 2.55
3.00 Pants 2.15
2.75 Pants ; 2.05
2.50 Pants ; 1.65
2.00 Pants . 1.45
Hats
No need to pay more than our prices,
and the assortments are unmatched.
$4.00 Hats ; $3.00
3.00 Hats : 2.25
2.50 Hats..'. :. .'. 1.75
2.00 Hats .....: 1.45
1.75 Hats........: . 95
Men's, Sweaters
The kind that keeps you warm.
$5.00 Sweaters $3.50
3.00 Sweaters 2.40
2.50 Sweaters 2.00
2.00 Sweaters ; 1.50
1.25 Sweaters 75
Special men's heavy Black, Blue
and Oxford $2.50 Sweaters 1.35
Cravanette Bain Coats
The up-to-date and stylish kind.
$20.00 for $14.50
15.00 for : 11.C3
Rubber Boots
. A big discount in this department.
$6.00 Boots for........:.'. $5.00
4.50 .:. 3.75
3.75 M 3.15
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Men's Overcoats
Here's an assortment whicb will
please you. Just a hint or two.
$20.00 Overcoats ......$14.50
17.50 " 13.00
15.00 " : 11.00
12.50 " 7.50
10.00
6.50
Hen's Undemcar
$3.00 Suits.
2.50 " .
2.00 " ..
1.00 -
.$2.25
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lien's Sox
Men's 25c Casimere Sox for 15c per
pair, 7 pairs .......................J.:...... $1.C0
Oil Coats
$3.00 Coats for ......: :...$2.35
2.25 " .." 2.CO
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Black Oil Coats
$2.50 Coats for.,.! $2.10
2.25 " 1.85
lO to 20 PER CENT OFF ON EVERY SHOE IN THE HOUSE
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Chas. Larson Proprietor.
WORKINGMBN'S STORE
518 BOND STREET
Formerly 557 Commercial Street
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Do not fee commonplace in the
1 selection of wall paper. Go where
you can find the latest patterns
' combined with up-to-date ideas
in decorating.
i Allen Wall Paper & Paint Co.
Corner 11th and Bond Streets.
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First National Bank of, Astoria, Ore
STANDARD
PHONES
Bell Company Inaugurates New
Business Methods.
SELUTELEPHONES HEREAFTER
' t ESTAULISUED 1880.,
Capital 0100,000
YRANK PATTON, Cwoler.
a a A. BOWLBY. Pwildtnt.
O. t PETERSON, Vlo.PmldMit J. GARNER, A-!itant CmWm,
; C Astoria .Savings Bank .
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' n.itai Paid in 1100.000. 8urplui Ui4 OnfllvWad Front 180,000 .
FOUR PER CENT PEB AKNUM '
tamrtth and Dun itreett.
ASTORIA, 0KEG0H
H. B. PARKER,,
Proprietor. , !
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Pint Claw la very Respect
Free Coach to the House.
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bood Sample Room on . Ground Floor
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Intend to do Business on Two Lines, One
to Sell the Apparatus and the Other
to Continue to Sell the Service West
ern Electric One Largest inthe World
BOSTON, Oct 17. The financial and
industrial world is just awakening to
the importance of a little announcement
that was put out early this month. The
telephone has aptly been termed "the
most Indispensable of modern utilities."
A change in the conditions under which
the best known type 'of apparatus for
long distance'. talking may be disposed
of U certain to affect the telephone sit
uation in every part of the country. By
offering for the first time in its history
to nell telephone instruments and ap
paratus In the open markets the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph Company the
parent company of the Bell system, takes
a step that is said to hare been con
sidered for a long time, but "which has
heretofore been deemed impracticable on
account of the very rapid growth of the
Bell companies which have absorbed Bell
instruments as fast as they could be
produced. , . ) .
Henceforth, it appears that the man
agement 6f, the, Bell system is going to
moke a sharp distinction between two
departments of its activities. On the
one side it is going to sell telephonio ap
paratus to all comersj on the other side
it will deal in telephone service, includ
ing, where that is desired,'' the rental
and maintenance of instrunients.' .Any
body, V'ho has the price, can get Bell
telephones now and in any number. If
a householder wants to secure two tele
phones and the appropriate apparatus
with which to connect house and stable
he will be supplied with what has be
come recognized as a great improvement
on the speaking tube. - If an independent
organization wants to purchase a million
telephone, with all the allied apparatus
they, caa secure just the same plant as
the companies of the Bell system possess.
Whether these , telephones will or will
not be connected with the Bell companies
makes no difference so far as sale of
appliances goes. Already the '''Western
Electric Co., the manufacturing as
sociate of the Bell companies of the
United States, has for some years sup
plied telephones to other countries and
some forms of telephonio apparatus, out
side of transmitter and receiver, to priv
ate interest in this country.
The difficulty up to this time with
making this broad policy general has
been that the Western Electric Company
has needed more plant. Its full energies
have been required to supply the de
mands of the Bell companies alone. The
record of growth in the number of in
strument, in the hands of licensees and
sub-licenses suggests the great efforts
that have had to be made to keep up
with the ever increasing demand for
Bell service. At the- e nd of 189(5 there
were 772,027 instruments, transmitters
and receivers being counted separately,
in the hands of licensees. The number
at the end of 1800 had grown to 1.D52,-
412. On December 31, 1903, it stood at
3,779,517., By the end of 1905 it had
reached 6,098,258, while the latest report
of the American Telephone &' Telegraph
Company shows that at the beginning of
the current year . 7,107,830 instruments
were interconnected in the Bell svstem,
each one subject to maintenance and to J
replacement wnen worn out.
To prepare for future demands and to
execute the new policy certain very large
additions to the Chicago factory of the
Western Electric Company have been
made, so that it is now, in a position to
attend ' to the normal increase of the
needs of the Bell companies and at the
same time to take care of outside orders.
President Theodore N. Vail of the Amer
ican Telephone & Telegraph Company
has said that no considerable direct in
crease 'of income Is expetted from' this
project, but that a great indirect ad
vantage Is foreseen from improved rela
tion, between the public and all the as-1
sociated Bell companies, since there has J
been prevalent an erroneous idea that '
the charges of these companies for their
services have been based on a monopoly j
of telephone instruments, whereas in i
Fisher Bros. Company
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, Sole Agents for
Barbour's and Finlayson's
Salmon Twine
and Netting' a
Hardware, Iron, Steel and Ship chand
lery.!. Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paints, Oils, Glass & Hardwood
A Complete Line of Fishing, Gannery
Logger and Mill Supplies
t ; , 54&550.Bond Street
Astorlo -.;- Oregon
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JOHN POX, Pres. ' F. IBISH0P, Sec. ' ASTORIA SAVTNCS BANK, Tress!
NELSON TROYER, Vice-Pres. and Supt ' .
ASTORIA. IRON WORKS
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS . '"'
OF THE LATEST IMPROVED
Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers
(Continued on Page 6.)
COMPLETE CANNERY . OUTFITS FURNISHED.
j Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fourth Street.