THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1915.
INAtl
OF NORTHWEST WILL
: BE BUYERS' WEEK AIM
Dealers Realize That Inter
ests of Portland and. Theirs
Are Inseparable,
FUN AND WORK TO MIX
Xy Will Be Spent With Manufac
turers but All Cares Thrown
Aside at rrig-ht.
The correct synonym for Buyers'
$yeek should be ' team work."
prescription for getting together and
When the great Influx of up-state.
,. down-state and neighboring-state mer- .
chants beirins to arrive in Portland to- j
morrow morning it means another step j
toward combining the northwest for j
the northwest, and particularly In the I
With tho i1 i-a n lairf-s of transDorta-
tlon by rail and water enjoyed by mer-
chants , in the basins of the Columbia
and Willamette rivers, when they buy
lllCir B L W H O til A t HI 'I ' I, v . i V .uv.w. w
are rapidly coming to a realization that '
the interests of Portland are insepar
ably combined with those of eastern
Oregon, eastern Washington, Montana,
Idaho and the series of great valleys
between the Columbia and the Cali
fornia, line.
Portland Behind DTiapznt.
And while the first purpose of Buy
Wcnk l tr afford the interior mer
chant opportunity to become familiar
with the grea.t stocks of merchandise
handled by the jobbers and manufac
turers of Portland, the event is this
year staged under the direction of
Portland's Chamber of Commerce with
the object of giving visiting merchants
intimate knowledge of the fact that
the "Portland hog" has long since been
cut up and disappeared, and that the
Chamber of Commerce this week and
all weeks of the future, stands solidly
behind trie industrial development 01
the great trade territory of which
Portland is the logical center.
Headquarter to Open Early.
During the week Portland merchants
will make every effort to become fa-
, miliar with the conditions of agricul
ture In -every section of the northwest.
They expect visiting, nierenants to give
up this information so that the Cham- -
. ber of Commerce may later be advised .
of the practical things to be done. It j
is hoped to make such a success of i
i. Buyers" Week that every repetition of J
that event In the future will have the j
3 unanimous support of merchants, the
press and the consumer throughout the
entire district.
Tomorrow morning the headquarters
at the Chamber of Commerce will bag
open along about daylight, and as mer-'
chants and their families arrive a force
of clerks will be waiting to properly
; register them and supply the creden- (
tlals, whicli are a necessity in order to-'
:-aiir iia!tnf-fX All rtf th rmirtrms n t.
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itentions planned for the weelt
, Evenings Devoted to Pun.
.'' Visitors will spend the day with
beir wholesalers and manufacturing
'irienus, anu aioug aoout s o ciock in
Jthe evening they will be expected to
assemble at the blue room of the
Chance to Inspect
Goods Main Benefit
To Country Dealer
Hr "Oroville, Wash., Aug. 7.
M. E. Smead, Buyers' Week
secretary:
$if- "In my estimation the great
i(h est benefit to retail merchants
)($ from Buyers' Week is the
4t opportunity to personally in
. lkt srect stock of goods. This
brings him into direct con
ifc tact with the wholesale
$ dealer, giving both the ad
Vantage of the personal element
& in business. The meeting in
convention gives retail mer
chants an enlarged view of ad-
Mf- vertlsing in his business, and
the benefit of the exchange of
ideas with other retail mer
chants. "H. W. BRAGG."
The above telegram Is one
of many expressions of similar
nature that have befn received
Jfr from out-of-town 'merchants,
who look forward to the bene-
C- fits of Buyers' Week, which
will be observed in Pdrtlan3
from August 9 to 14. Hun
dreds of merchants, from the
twns and cities in Oregon,
jjf Washington, Idaho and Mon-
-Jfr tana are expected to be here.
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Cigar
Dealers
. Let your headquarters
during
BUYERS' WEEK
be at the home of the
APEX
LA ELOTA
SAM SLOAN
and
EL SIDELO
CIGARS
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MENMEWIS
Distributors .
corner rront and Uavis
SOLID
COMB
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ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
FOR BUYERS' WEEK
Monday ETeninr, Ang-oat 9.
8:00 p. ra. Informal reception at Portland Chamber of Commerce to
visiting buyers and their families. Participating Jobbers and manufac
turers, or representatives and their ladies, are urged to bo present.
Tuesday, Aug-ust 10.
8:00 p. m. Smoker at Portland Chamber of Commerce to visiting mer
chants, tnen only. Participating Jobbers and manufacturers invited.
8:10 p. m. Theatre parties U visiting ladies.
Wednesday, August 11.
12:00 m. Luncheon, Portland Ad club. Hotel Multnomah. K. A. Spen
cer, chairman of the "day. Two minute competitive talks by visiting mer
chants boosting home'-communitles. Address, "Price Cutting," by C. C.
Chapman. Selections by Ad Club quartet.
7:30 p. m. sharp Empress theatre, Broadway and Stark.
9:00 p. m. shan? Pantages theatre, Broadway and Alder. Portland
jobbers and manufacturers and representatives are urged to accompany
party. Seats will be reserved. ,
, Thursday, August 12.
12:80 p. m. Luncheon to visiting merchants aitd families by Log Cabin
Baking company, Vancouver avenue and Fremont street. Take auto
mobiles at 12 m. at headquarters. Commercial Club building. One repre
sentative of each local participating firm is invited t'o be present.
7:30 p." m. Oaks jollification. Take cars at First and Alder streets
promptly at 7:30 p. m. Participating jobbers and manufacturers and rep
resentatives urged to accompany.
7:45 p. m. 11:30 p. rn. Oaks concessions and dance at pavilion.
Prlday, Aufust 13.
6:30 p. m. Informal banquet to registered buyers and ladles. Address
of welcome by C. C. Colt, toastmaster. "Shipping Bill." W. D. Wheelwright.
"The Lumber Industry of the Pacific Coast and Its Direct Bearing on
the State of Oregon," George M. Cornwall; "Some of Our Problems and
Some of Our Needs," Edward Cooklngham. Response by visiting mer
chants. . Local participants must make reservations on or before Thursday noon,
August 12.
Saturday, Angnst 14.
12:00 p. nr. Automobile ride about city and adjacent points of interest.
Cars leave headquarters at Commercial Club building, 2 p. m. Participating
merchants are urged to have cars present and accompany so as to give
Information about points visited.
NOTE Visiting buyers and guests will register at headquarters. Com
mercial Club building, and be provided with identification badge and
coupon ticket good for all entertainment and courtesies. If buyers pre
sent themselves without having first registered, merchants are requested
to urge their immediate registration.
Chamber of Commerce "for the purpose
of getting acquainted with each other
and those Portlanders who will flock
around the building. The reception is
to be Informal. The only rule of con
duct laid down by the committee is
that "everybody shall speak to every
person present, help the other fellow
have a good time and keep it up ail
the week."
A women's reception committee, with
Mrs. C. C. Chapman as general chair
man for the week, will be appointed by
the Chamber of Commerce and will be
asked to assume the duty of escorting
visitors of the fair sex to all enter
tainments. The reception committee
plans to begin its week by calling at
the hotels of the out-of-town guests
and making their acquaintance person
ally. A plan will be arranged whereby
the ladies from out of town will be as
sembled at various times, meet the re
ception committee and attend . the
events in a body.
Swiss Oppose German Airmen.
London, Aug. 7. -The Swiss govern
ment has protested tQ Germany against
recent violations of that country's neu
trality by German airmen, according
to a dispatch from Berne.
ATTENTION
Mr. Visiting Merchant!
Do you want the best in shoes, honestly, substan
tially and, reliably made, the best in quality the market
affords for the price?
We make them. You owe it to yourself while in
Portland to visit us. We will convince yo,u.
Our famous makes "Barker Brand," "Master
Made" and "Safety First'' (for men), "Sincerity" (for
women), and "Golden Day" (school) meet and beat
competition.
We mean it !
Furthermore, we want, while you are in Portland,
an opportunity to meet you personally and get ac
quainted. Don't forget to call on us.
You will be cordially welcomed.
Fithian - Barker Shoe Co.
29-31 NORTH FIFTH STREET
Dry Goods, Notions and Furnishing Goods
f " Ladies' Ready -to -Wear Apparel
MANUFACTURERS OF i-V
MT. HOOD Brand SHIRTS and OVERALLS
To Visiting Merchants:
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Badges Will Flutter
Freely During Week
Bayers' Week Committees In Charge
of Entertainment Features; Visitors
Will Bean Distinguishing Marks.
With, a separate and distinct badge
for every committee that will have
' charge of entertainment features or
other services to be performed in con
nection with Buyers' Week, and a spe
cial badge for all the visiting mer
chants, fluttering badges will be seen
everywhere during the next seven
days, when enterprising merchants
will be here from all over the north
Meet. These badges will be useful as well
as ornamental. The badge of tasty
design, which is to be supplied the
I visiting merchants, will serve as an
i introduction to the wholesalers and
i retailers of Portland. Its wearers
j will be shown every courtesy that in
genious Portlanders can think of.
Whenever the wearer of a visitor's
badge is discovered it will be perfect
ly good form to step up to him and
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
ir OMITS
We invite you to make our store your headquarters. Have , your mail
stenographers will be at your service to
suggest a glass of ice cream soda or
a nut sundae. '
And it will be perfectly proper for a
visitor to take any merchant out of
Ms store to return the compliment at
any hour of the day. The badge, of
the visiting merchants will have right
of way this week. i
When the- Buyers'! Week badge is
worn by a woman visitor, it implies a
different procedure, if the Portlander
is not acquainted with her, but it gives
assurance of chivalrous protection. In
many ways that willi become apparent
to Portland merchants, they will see
that the wives and daughters of mer
chants, from the interior will be given
a pleasant impression of the city that
is endeavoring to build on good will
and cooperation as much as it is on Its
advantages of location, rail and water
rates, and the tremendous lines of
merchandise carried here.
Buyers Will Get
' A Big Reception
Chamber of Commerce Will Entertain
Visiting Merchants; lecture Will
Be a Feature.
Entertainment features for Buyers'
Week will get away ;to a flying start
on Monday night, when the Chamber
of Commerce gives its big reception for
visiting merchants and their families
at the Commercial Club building.
Aside from the fact that special effort
will be made to begin the business of
th week by making every visitor ac
quainted witl each other, and as many
members of the Chamber of Com
merce as can be crowded into the big
reception room, a delightful lecture
will be given by Miss Fannie Harley.
' Old Mexico" will be the title, a sub
ject which the lady is competent to
handle, because of a long stay. In the
country of continuous wars. The lec
ture will be profusely illustrated with
stereopticon pictures, and will deal
with Mexico from the time of its most
ancient civilization to date, the habits
nd manner- of life of its people 'and
its history and traditions.
Miss . Harley was in Mexico during
some of the fighting, and is able to
speak of the condition that war has
forced upon the people. Just at this
time, when intervention on the part of
the United States seems to be in the
air. and may become a reality, this
lecture will undoubtedly attract much
attention.
While Mexico lies so close to the
1-nited States, it is undoubtedly true
that the average American citizen
knows next to nothing of the country.
It, is known in a general way that it
is- a country of vastmlneral wealth,
that its hills graze the finest of cat
tle when the warring factions do not
slaughter the animals, that its fields
produce splendid crops, and that some
Americans have grown wealthy from
concessions for various purposes.
National
demand
for Oregon City Woolen
Mills products from Bos
ton ? to Sah Diego, from
Dallas to Duluth.
Better Quality has done
it nothing else! The re
sult of 51 years of "know
ing how."
Visit our great mills
Out-of-town merchants, don't
miss this treat. As you see
the many stages of manufac
ture from raw wool to the
finished, tailored garment -you'll
not wonder why Oregon
City was awarded the highest
decree of merit Grand Prize
and 3 gold medals at Pan
amaiPacific Exposition, San
Francisco.
Take Oregon City' Electric Cars at
SECOND AND ALDER STREET DEPOT
Competent Guides to Take You Over the Mill
Oregon City Woolen Mills
OREGON CITY, U. S. A.
Portland Salesroom, Sherlock Building
attend to your correspondence, :
Dealer Points Out
The Advantages of
Buyers' Week'Plan
Further Indorsement of
Buyers' Week in Portland is
given in the following tele-
try am -which is tvDlcal of other
4. telegrams and letters received:
"Klamath Falls. Or.. Aug. 7.
M- By Smead, secretary Buy-
ers' Week Buyers' Week as
conducted in Portland is of
vast interest to retaU dealers
in all lines of merchandise. In
tio .frttt nine.' no dealer. Dar-
ticnlarlv in the smaller towns -J
! and trading points, can keep
abreast of the times unless ne
occasionally visits the " larger &
cities and looks through the -3(f
stores and stocks of goods car-
rled and the arrangement .of
same. Second, he should meet
the wholesalers personally and
particularly those with whom
rirtea most of his business.
The meeting with his fellow
dealers from all sections of the
trade territory and exchange
jfc- of ideas I consider worth the
expense of the trip. The Job-
4 bers can not all come to see
4 you but you can all well af- &
ford to go at least once a year
to see them.
"GEO. T. BALDWIN."
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Rose Garden Chief
To Arrive August 23
Robert Pyle of West Grove. Pa., vice
president of the American Rose soci
ety, who has charge of the creating of
the national rose gardens at Arlington,
opposite the city of Washington, will
be in Portland during the week begin-
nln Aniniat ! TTa will be CCOmi)-
nled by E. G. Hill of Richmond. Ind
recognized as one of the leading rose
culturtutS or the united states, ana
creator of the famous Richmond rose,
says A message received by J. A. Cur
rv -or1K lr n own Portland rose cultur-
lst During their stay they will visit
Father Schoener, the plant wizard of
Brooks, or.
With the internal affairs of the unfor
tunate country in their present de
plorable condition, and with the pos
sibility of the United States taking a
hand In the game, it Is believed that
the lecture will prove a popular fea
ture of the week. 1
Miss Harley dresses in a costume
of her own invention, abandoning
skirts for a garment that resembles
addressed, in our care.
trousers. She has been asked to wear
j.lt Monday night.- -
When in Portland During
"Buyers' Week
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August 9 to 14
Don't Fail to See the New
Fall Line of . ' -
"Famous
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Doernbecher
Furniture"!
completely displayed at our
showrooms at East 28th and
Sandy road. -.
PHONE EAST; 900
and the auto will call, and
bring you to our factory.
DoernbecherMfg.Co.
w
E ARE the largest
manufacturers and
keep the largest
supply of Trunks, Suti"
eases and Traveling Bags
in the Northwest. Can fill
your orders prompt I y.
Auto Trunks and special
work of all kinds.
Multnomah Trunk &
Bag Co.
82 E. Water St., Cor. East
Stark, Portland, Or.
WELCOME, BUYERS
Colonial Steel Ranges
Perfect Steel Ranges
Opal Steel Ranges
Opal Heaters
Park Oak R eater
Carboa Heaters
llissioa Combination Heaters
The Portland Stove Works
JOKK KOHTitt, Prop.
Manufacturers of
AI.X. KHrSB OP SIOTBS. RAROES,
PRTTXT AHD HOP DRYERS AHD
STOVE REPAIRS
Phone aSals 7819
626 HOOD ST.. FOBTLaXD. OR.
Visiting Merchants
We extend, you a cordial invita
tion to visit us- during "Buyers
Week." We want you to make our
store your headquarters. We want
an opportunity to show you our
SHOES. We can prove to you that
we can save you money. Place
your orders with us. Our prices
are lower and we give a better dis
count than any Wholesale Shoe
firm in the city.
Seeing is believing.
KRAUSSE BROS.
32-84 Fifth St. N.
Wholesale Snoes.
Buyers! Attention!
MILLER, SIMINGTON,
CALHOUN CO.
Importers and Jobbers
Notions, Fancy Goods
and Specialties
.Broadway 263
Fifth and Couch Streets,
Portland, Oregon
"The House of Personal Serrlce"
The J. K. Gill Co.
BOOZSELLSBS-STATIOSrEM
ooKPun: oppxCE otnrprrTERS
Office Desks and Chlr riling Deriree
and Sectional Boofccatos Architects' and
Engineer' Supplies.
Third and Alder Sts., Portland, Or.
Canning Machinery-
Pumps, Oasollne Engines and Con
crete Machinery
HENNINGER & AYES MFG. CO.
47 1st Bt, Bet. Ash and Pin
WELCOME!
Closset & Devers t
Teas. Coffees, Spices. Extracts,
Baking Powder, Etc.
1-3-5-7-9-11 W. rront, Portland,' Or.
Seattle, Wash.
G
BURLAP, TWINE
Noon Bag Co.
34 BT. Plrst St. Broadway H
Knight Packing Co.
Pickles, Vinegar, Etc.
East Rlnth and East AUr
7 Phones East 68, B-1868 '
Sole Leather.
Pure Eastern oak tannage, tanned
by loner-time process by ourselves.
Jumbos, strips, bend and bacjts.,?
Ths Qratton ft Knight VUg. Co.,
'. 61 Plrst, Portland, Or.
m tip lis
I 111 mm ill
r 'f ;ft-4liM
(guar TIP j'- "i.A-;;
B
layers'
Tools. Cutlery
Sporting Goods
Saddlery
Heavy Hardware
All Out-bf-Town
ants
are invitecf to inspect our
line of Automobiles.
Cole Reo
Chevrelet
during; ;
BUTTERS' WEEK,
AWO. S-14, . ,
Also line of slirhtlr vsed oars to
select from.
NortHwest
Auto Co.
Tl .W.' TOOXJ5S y PrssidMt.
Broadway, at Couch St.
'In the heart of
Portland's' newer
business zone, a
Drug Emporium
Ten Selling
Floors. F"i t y
years of active,
progressing 'work
in' our vocation.
To you, our guest,
...... -. ... v:: .
we extend a cor
dial welcome and
courteous atten-
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tion.
Clarke, Woodward Drug Co.
Wood-Lark Building
ALDER AT WEST PARK
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We extend to members of Buyers' Week a special
invitation to make headquarters at our store.
Dictate your correspondence to the Dictaphone
Free Stenographic Service to All Members
Free Daily Concert on the New 1916
Model Graf onola
Columbia Graphophoiie Co.
429-431 Washington St.
WHOLESALE RETAIL
BUYERS, Make Our Establishment Your Headquarters
Builders' Hardware
Electric and
Auto Supplies
Paints
STOVES, RANGES AND HOUSEFURNISH
INGS . MILL AND MINE SUPPLIES
Marshall Wells Hardware Co.
AT VF'S Corner Fifth and Pine Streets
Res. Mgr.
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AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES
' Of Every Description
MA8TKR CARBURETORS. BUN tKN OA.RAGT5 GREASE OTJNS,
SPLITDORF-APELCO FORD BTAKTEK8. flPLTTlORK,' HKMT,
EISEMANK ANX OTHER MAGNETOS. AIR COMPRESSORS. OAS.
OT.INE STORAGE SYSTEMS, A PEIXX AND HKNDilTX GENER
ATORS. STEWART 5.00 HAND HORNS AND A COMPLETE
LINE OF FORD ACCESSORIES. .
OTT1CIXX, DISTRIBUTORS DIAMOSTO TXRSS
ARCHER AND WIGGINS
OAK STREET, O ORITUR SXXTR
The Geo.
Lawrence Co.
80 - 8S FIRST STREET,
PORTLAND, OR.
Cordially invites the in
spection of their stock of
Harness, Saddles, Sad
dlery Hardware, Shoe
Findings and Shoe Store
Supplies by the visiting
merchants during Buyers'
Week.
w. Telephone Main 809, A-3313
PORTLAND FURNITURE KFG.'CO.
Manufacturers Conches, Ioqekm,
Upholstered rnrnitare. Mattresses
and Pillows
1349-1339 MACADAM ROAD
Take Fulton far at 21 and Morrison