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Larson's Mammoth Mid-Winter Sale is n:w on in full swing, The Word BARGAIN has ncvcrv before
obtained the significance which it has at this sale only standard goods which were part of our regular stodk arc offered.
No importation of cheap trash to pajm off as regular goods Is ever tolerated in this store. Read the marvelous reductions
below and convince yourself , v , ,
Suits
$25.00 Suits
22.50 Suits
20.00 Suits
17.50
15.00
12.50
10.00
Suits
Suits.. Suits,
Suits.
$17.50
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12.25
1 1.03
8.75
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Dress Shoes
$5.oo Dress Shoes $3.S9
4.50 Dress Shoes 3.25
4.oo Dress Shoes ..... 3.G'
3.50 Dress Shoes .
3.oo Dress Shoes .... ... ,2J
2.75 Dress Shoes..... . 2.0
Young Men's Suits
$20.oo Young mens suits... $14.03
17.50 Young mens suits..... 12.25
15.oo Young mens suits .. 10.59
12.50 Young mens suits 8,75
Overcoats
$22.50 Overcoats $15.63
20.oo Overcoats $ j 4,03
17.50 Overcoats . 1 225
15.00 Overcoats 10.50
12.50 Overcoats 8.75
TOPCOATS
$15.oo Topcoats $10.03
Loggers' Shoes
Best $8.oo Logger Shoe made - $8.75
Best 7.oo Logger Shoe made 5.40
Best 6.oo Logger Shoe made ... 4.50
Men who are in need of anything in this
line will do well to buy now.
Men's best all-wool Pants
$4.co Trousers ' $2.75
3.50 Trousers 2.50
3.oo Trousers 2.03
2.50 Trousers r .. ,75
High Top Working Shoes
$7.50 High top shoes
7.oo High top shoes
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... 4.53
These values in working shoes are posi
tively the best obtainable and will not last
long at these prices.
All-wool Sweaters
In sweaters v e are pretty well cleaned out
but we have a few in the following sizes
34-30 and SSHo at the following prices:
$3.oo Sweaters for $2.03
2.oo Sweaters for ,0Q
Dress Shirts
$2.50 Dress Shirts $J5
2.25 Dress Shirts j.59
2,oo Dress Shirts ,35
I.50 and. $1.25 Dress Shirts ... j.OQ
Boy's School Shoes
The kind they can't wear out
In sizes from 11 to 2...... $2.03
In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 225
Boys High top Waterproof Shoes
In sizes from 1 1 to 2 $250
In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.75
ll-wool Underwear
$4.oo all-wool Underwear $3.03
, 2.5o all-wool Underwear... ,75
This underwear is of the best make and
guaranteed to be all-wool.
All-wool Shirts
$35o all-wool shirts.... $2,75
3.oo alLwoo! shirts 2.25
2.75 all-wool shirts 2X3
2Joo all-wool shirts J,50
THE
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"The Bond Street Bargain Store" Next Door to Ro. Hlifrfln. i
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DUO NOTES OF
INTEREST
WASHINGTON', Dec. 26.-Repub-Iicans
in Congress have devised a plan
which they believe will result in ad
journment of the proposed extra ses
sion at the earliest possible day. It
is not entirely proper, perhaps, to say
the Republicans of the present Con
gress devised the plan. It originated
in the fertile and massive brain of the
fate Thomas B. Reed and was put in
to operation at the extra session
which passed the Dingley bill imme
diately after the inauguration of
President McKinley in 1897.
If some one other than Joseph G.
Cannon is selected Speaker of the
1 st Congress, the plan may be aban
doned. It will be put into operation
is Cannon is again Speaker. It pro
vides that immediately upon the or
ganization of the House the Speaker
shall appoint a committee on ways
ind means, and he also would appoint
some of the minor committees neces
sary to the operation of the House,
such as accounts, enrolled bills, mil
tage, etc. Appointment of the other
committees will be deferred until the
convening of the regular session next
December. Thi6 would force Congress
to confine itself to consideration and
passage of a tariff bill. Members
would be at liberty to introduce all
the bills they saw fit, but as there
would be no committees to which to
refer them they would have to lie on
the Speaker's table until the commit
tees were appointed.
Some such method is deemed neces
sary because the House organization
even should it be able to elect Can
non Speaker, does not feel that it
would be assured of always being able
to control that body. If committees
were appointed and the way opened
for other legislation, the House might
take the bits in its teeth and run awav
from control of the organization. If
it is not considered desirable by the
powers that be that any measures
other than the tariff bill shall be con
sidered at the extra session; and if
members know that the tariff bill is
all that stands between them and ad
journment they will be inclined to
expedite that measure as much as
possible.
Those volunteer assistants of Mr.
Taft's who started in immediately af
ter election to construct a cabinet for
the President-elett now have an op
portunity to reflect on the unwisdom
of haste. It now appears that not one
of those early lists which were put
out with such a show of authority
were even approximately correct.
The writer did not join the cabinet
making crew, but he does modestlv
point with pride to the fact that he
predicted that when Mr. Taft an
onunced his choice for Secretary of
State it would be a man who had not
been mentioned in connection with
the place. The name of Senator Knox
did not appear at the head of any of
the published cabinet slates and most
people had never heard his name men
tioned in connection with the premier
ship until it was authoritatively an
'nounced that he had been selected.
It is true that Frank H. Hitchcock
still has the call on being Postmaster
General, but no one can claim title as
a prophet for predicting that he would
get the place. It had been accepted
as a foregone conclusion from the day
it was announced that he was to take
charge of the Taft campaign. James
Wilson also figured in most of thi
lists as Secretary of Agriculture, but
neither did that prove that those who
compiled the lists were seers. Mr.
Taft or any other Republican elected
to succeed Roosevelt would have bee.i
gound to keep Mr. Wilson until he
had served in the new Cabinet long
enough to break Albert Galletin'j
record for continuous cabinet service.
Mr. Taft is going to retain Mr. Wil
son until he has broken that record,
which will mean about three months
service after March 4, but there is no
reason to believe the veteran head of
the agricultural department will con
tinue longer with the Taft adminis'
tration.
NORTH SIDE NEW it
Mtas L M. WUIUbuoo. ol Ilwco, U tat aecndutd rtprwcol.lirt oi fb a.tori.a tai will
takt er of all items of aeva, ard.cn for ubecrlptkxu tad all klmla of priming.
Aside from Hitchcock and Wilso::
there isn't a man whose name ap
peared on the tirst lists who is now
counted a strong cabinet possibility.
Everyone was sure James R. Garfield
would be continued in the Taft cabi
net either as Secretary of the Interior
or promoted to a higher portfolio.
But Mr. Garfield is now reckoned as
out of the running. William Loeb,
Jr., Secretary to President Roosevelt,
was another whose name was on all
the November lists, but Mr. Loeb's
cabinet chances appears to be van-
shing. No one though of making up
a slate without having George von L.
Meyer, the present Postmaster-Gen
eral, on it, and usually the Treasury
portfolio was the one assigned him.
His name has now been dropped.
Aside from the selection of Knox
to head the State Department, the
new cabinet predictions may be no
more reliable than were those of a
month ago, but it certainly is demon
strated that those of a month ago
were unreliable. All of which gets
us back to the proposition that merely
because you read in a press dispatch
that a certain man is going to be se
lected for a certain place in Mr.
Taft's cabinet is no reason why you
are bound to believe it. A pretty safe
rule for you to make would be to wait
for the official announcements before
accepting as final reports about the
men the next President will have for
his advisers.
BLIND CHILDREN MAY SEE.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 26.
Health. Commissioner Dixon hopes to
see prevented fully one-third the num
ber of cases of blindness occurring in
Pennsylvania. He declares this can be
done if an old law that has Iain prac
tically dormant on the books of the
state for a number of years and the
ILWACO
C F. Roger and wife were Astoria
visitors the first of the week.
Marion Smart arrived Tuesday from
South Bend to spend the holidays with
his parents of this city.
The wireless station at North Head,
Wash., was in communication with
Kahuku Island, Oahu, Hawaiian Isl
and, last Monday night, a distance of
2370 miles. The receiving and send
ing operator reports the signals very
distinct and interchange of signals
perfect.
Mr. Case was a business visitor to
Astoria the first of the week.
Mrs. J. B. Bablcr, accompanied by
her two children, Ancel and Avis, ar
rived a few days ago to spend Xmas
and New Year's with relatives here.
W. B. Hawkins and wife returned
home Wednesday from the Collins
Springs where Mr. Hawkins has been
spending a couple of weeks for his
health. He returned in a much im
proved condition.
J. W. Seaborg arrived Wednesday
to spend some time with his mother
and relatives of this city. '
Edgar Rogers and sister, Miss
Mabel, accompanied by Miss Mary
Dahl, arrived Thursday to spend the
Christmas with their parents.
Ernest Seaborg and wife of South
Bend are guest of Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Hawkins during the holidays.
John Kelliher arrived the latter part
of the week to spend a week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kelliher
at North Head.
Geo. Lee, of Seaview, passed thru
Ilwaco the first of the week on his
way to Portland.
The Misses Erma and Alice Yeaton
suggestions that the State Depart
ment of Health proposed are carefully
carried out. A recent report from the
Pennsylvania School for the Blind
says that in the last four years more
than one-third o'f the persons admit
ted to that institution have owed their
affliction to opthalmia heonatorma,
that is, the affection of the eyes which
occurs at the birth of the jnfant.
arrived this week to spend the holi
days ith their father, Frank Yeaton
after which Miss Erma will return to
Deep River, where she has charge of
a school and Miss Alice to Providence
Academy, Vancouver, Wash., where
she is attending school.
Miss Blanche Herrschner and Miss
Irene Scott, left Thursday, to spend
Xmas with relatives in Portland.
Mrs. C. L. De Long- left the latter
part of the week for Vancouver,
Wash., to spend a week with her tws
children who are attending the Provi
dence Academy at that place. She
was accompanied by her friend, Mln
Minnie Marks.
Air. and Mrs. Bert Sprague of
Chinook were visitors to Ilwaco the
last of the week.
The exercises held Thursday even
ing in the Methodist and the Presby
terian churches were well attended
and appreciated. The programs con
sisted of songs and recitations and the
children who rendered their assist
ance are to be highly commended
for the interest shown.
' Mr. J. Vaughn and grand-daughter,
Miss Edith Vaughn, arrived the lan
ot the week to spend the holidays
with relatives.
Wfflhdtfs
JUST OUT
The new Everybody's start
with a story about things that
come up out of the ground that
will make even an expert farm,
er sit up and take notice. .
For those who like fun there's a
story by Joseph C. Lincoln with
a lot of good laughs. Get a copy
and see if you don't like it,
L00I FOB TOE PATCBW01I COVE!
For sale by
0. W. WHITMAN and
SVENSON'S BOOK
STORE.
OUTCOME NO SURPRISE.
! LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-Rtired
Champion James J. Jeffries claimed
not to be surprised at the outcome of
the Burns-Johnson flghf,
"I thought h "wouM win- unless
they had his legs ami hands , both
tied," was hit comment. "Burns hi
no right to fight Johnson . for the
heavyweight championship. I never
looked for any other result-, but I did
not expect the fight to go so far," he
added.
Jeffries Is already stirring things for
a match between Johnson, and the
winner of the Kaufman-Barry mill,
but it is not certain yet whether either
one will cosent to meet .the black
man. Dr. Roller, "of Seattle, has
been anxious to meet the winner and
may get the chance.
ROADBUILDERS STOPPED.
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho, Dec. 26.
In Judge Vineyard's court todav
James Smith was bound over to ap
pear before the Circuit Court on a
charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. Richard Sylvester was tried
on a like charge and was diKuarged
The trouble arose over the construc
tion of a wagon road in Elk City.
Smith and Sylvester were "worklne,
on a bridge and, according to the evi
dence, Grunt Litchfield, whose land
the road was crossing, ordered them
to stop. A quarrel of a serious na
ture resulted. Guns were drawn, but
no shots were fired. The trouble hat
created two factions, one that wans
the new road nml another that does
not.
UNION CITY, Dec. 26-That the
prosecution is satisfied with the evi
dence already presented in the case
against the nightridert, was evidenced
today when after a conference be
tween the prosecuting attorney anJ
friends of the arrested men, the ttate't
attorney refused to accept the confes
sions of three of the othert under ar
rest conditioned on indictment!
against them being quashed.
Go to Whitman's
We carry the largest line of Books
and Stationery' in town. All the latest
music on hand at all times. Our line
of Post Cards and novelties cannot be
excelled in Astoria.
Whitman's Book Store
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