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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1928)
. A Thousand Real Birthday Cakes and a Thousand Credit Checks for a Dollar Apeace are to be Presented to All Who Attend jS Imported Dinner Sets 1495 Windifi.lP nbpcS&y ,OuaS Complete ..... to - J Js ii.jtw ill i Not to Make Money But to Make Friends The purpose of the "Birthday Party" which opens today at the Burnett Jewelry Store Is not to make money but to make new friends and to bind old ones a little closer. KTery reader of this newspaper is entitled to feel that this Is a personal Invi tation as personal as though you received an engraved card with "R.S.V.P." In the lower left hand corner! 'obody will tease yon to buy anything (this Isn't that kind of a store, you know). You will be presented with a check for a dollar and a good sized "Birthday Cake." And If there's anything here you'd like to own or to give to somebody dear to yon you may take it along and pay us as you are paid. The check will be accepted as a first payment on anything in the store marked ten dollars or more. And the balance may be paid in the Bur nett way, a dollar or so a week. Work at wall and look fin at those we all regularly at double the money. Created by on of the fore most maker in the world. While they lait the price ia to be $17.50. Till j centa down and a dollar a week -ft Rogers Tea spoons 95caxSt S53 W. Rogers' Teaspoons Guaranteed for lifeline of service theae. Roger tea spoons are pro tested for the Birtdsy Party at aa astonishing price Instead of $1.75 a act the price ia to be 83c for a is. Please be content with half a doses ao that other may aharo Men's Strap Watches $24.75 Along with a nationally advertised lino wo ehall tell Btrap Watches for men, with 15 Jewlo& movement, values up to $87.60 for $24.75. Pay a dollar dawn and a dollar a week CRUMB SWEEPERS 95c Apiece They are sliver plated with Ebo oid handle and take ap the crumbs from the table much aa a carpet sweeper workt. Originally they were made to aell at two dollar bat for the, Birthdav Party they ; are to go at Ninety-Fire rente apiece. Jnet one to a boyer pltaae. We have brought to Salem a hundred of these magnificent dinner sets to sell dur ing the Birthday party at this astonish ing price the lowest so fine a set has ever sold for. The china is from one of the foremost potteries in Europe and the designs are in the French manner a Grecian vase of gaily colored flowers with flower sprays in the border and gold edges. Such sets sell in most stores for about $5 and $20. Here, today you may get complete service for eight persons for $14.95. The sets contain eight of everything eight dinner plates eight soup plates eight fruit or oatmeal dishes eight salad plates eight cups and saucers an open vegetable dish a sugar and cream pitcher and a large platter. Fifty-five pieces all told the finest china anybody could wish for. Offered under-price so as to make a hundred new friends. We prefer not to sell them for cash. Pay half a dollar and take a set along Pay the balance $1.00 per week. Take a Year To Pay Never before hare we been enabled to tell inch watchet at thete for let than five and twenty dollar. White fold-filled rate with Jeweled move ment guaranteed time keeper in the ttyle tketrhed for $17.50. Pay fifty centa down and a dollar a week Marking Twenty-ninth Milestone Bracelet Watch with Flexible Bracelet In the ttyla sketched white rold filled with bracelet to match the ideal gift for the "Sweet Otr! Grad uate." Featured In the Birthday Party at $19.50. Pay fifty cent down and a dollar a week The Burnett Jewelry Business was born In Chehalls, Washing ton, twenty-nine years ago to day. The parent store Is still there and the town still looks to the big clock for the time o'day. Since that day, however, the business has grown 'til it reaches from Port Angeles on the north to Hollywood on the south; thirteen stores in three States all operated on the same broad plan trusting everybody save the foolish few who have shown that they are not to be trusted at all. Be lieving everybody seeing "Sermons In stoueav -books In the running brooks and good in everything." We invite tbe readers of the "Statesman" to the Birthday Party today feel free to take a cake with our compliments and good wishes. Welcome! "'TIs not in mortals to CX)M JIAXD Success bat we'll do MORE Deserve It! Elgin Dress Watch The ideal gift a reward that will be prized through life. The faaaoua Klein at a remarkably low price. White or green gold-filled cases, $14.95. Pay fifty cent down and dollar a week STERLING SILVER ON THE BUDGET PLAN . Too may now parchaio Sterling Sil ver Flatware in any of the ataadard ' pattern at tko Burnett - Jewelry Store and- oa tho Burnett Budget Plaa. Twenty-ala- piece 'acta may be kad' tor little at 178.00 Delivered for a Dollar Paid fer $1.60 a Wtek NOVELTIES FOR - GIFTS , - Compact. Vanitiee, Petri Bearv Baga " ' and boat of beautiful gift ertielea : ara offered at tko lowett caak price, tat typical Barnett termt. Pay as as yea ara paid. Electric Percolator Sets All Reduced For tho Birthday Party the entire ehowing of Electric Percolator acta it offered at aharply reduced price Beat of all Tea may take any aet for a dollar payment and "pay tko -balance at yea are paid a dollar a week will do. Diamond Rings $39.50 Featured for tho Birthday Party ta a group of Diamond aet engagement ring at tki low price saving at leatt a third. The mounting ere. of white gold the diamonds bine-white the values -matchless. ' Pay a dollar dews and a dollar a week . Diamond Rings $69.50 Here'e another group ef Diamond ring offered at a lowered price in order to make the Birthday Party a memorial affair. Band engraved moontiage of the finest white fold Diamonds of surpassing loveli ness Valuee that are not to be matched. Choice at $60.60. ray ra and $1.80 a week Rings for Men $98.50 ' A Diamond tet ring that will spell' firotperity for any man who weara t. Massive mounting of flnett gold tet with one magnificent Diamond and pre tented at a price far lower than you'd expect Kinety Eight Fifty. Fay a dollar down and tay two dollars a week LADIES' SPORT WATCHES 124.75 inn i-rnfel-i.aenjinnAtC'11 Long, "racy looking" (port wstohes ia white gold, with 15 jeweled movement watchea- that at fine and dependable aa the cott lleat yon can pick featured in the Birthday Tarty at $24.75. Fay a dollar down and a dollar a week WATER SETS for 95c At sketched a tall pitcher and tlx gtattea to match, for long, cooling drink. Choice of roee and orange Vd green. Imported to tell at two liity a tet. One to a buyer at 85c. Imported Tea: Sets 4.95 Choice of a number of sttractire'doccTsttons la this chins tea tett Each set sontaiaa-Six Cope. end Sancers, Sis Plates, a Tea Pot, Sugar Bowl - and Cream Pitcher. ' They were made to aell at half as much again but for the Store Birthday Party Choice at S4.95 and oa terms to boot. . Pay fifty cents' down and a dollar a week . .r -.v EIGHT DAY CLOCK For $7.95 V In the atyle sketched. -,fijfe,aM' ' Mahogany finished,: 30 inches along . the baae and 10 inches high. Goee strikee all tke hears en a toft-tone for eight days with one winding and gong. Sold usually at twelve-fifty. ; Here for the Birthday Party at t7.$5. Pay fifty easts down and a-dollar a week for EXTRA!! Table Tumblers Six for' a Quarter Tkfn blown etched glass table tumblers generally sold for ten cent apiece Bit It s bnyer Jnat to get -' ear friends a-shop-ping . early at U for twenty-five rents..- Yo telepbens orders and - a daUverlee please I 1 . a BANJO CLOCKS The revival of the "Etariy Americas" styles nan brought about a great de mand tor tho eld taahtonod Banjo Clocks. They are in all tho modern home today , and now every body aney have one for We offer these aplen&d clocks In all color with hand painted decorations or in mahogany inlay at about half the price yoa'd expect to pay. In the style sketched Twenty-two inchee long. Right day ' movement Guaranteed timekeeper - of course For the Birthdaj Party at $13.50. Pay fifty centa down and a dollar a weak Rogers "Pieces of Eight" on a Tray for $14. thirty-four piece an told Here's another 'Rogers' maker of ailver-plate who has prodnced a aet of Eight to aell during the Store's Birthday Party at this amatlng flforo. Eight Knives, Eight roma, jagns nut apooaa, Elgbt Tea spoons, n Sugar Shell and ay-Batter KaUe Made ana guaranteed for a lifetime' of daily service by 8. H. It. HogersJ and each piece stamped. While they ltt $14.05 a set. Pay a dollar Down and a Dollar a Week DIAMOND SET WATCHES $39.50 SilWIIIll 2D lllll"af oi 7 Taken front the $50 and $75 linesv these are one of the great prises of the "Party." Solid white gold aet with diamonds and. aapphirea. all with 15 Jeweled movement and all guaranteed timekeepers. While they latt, choose at $89.50 and pay -A dollar down and a dollar a week DIAMONDS SPECIAL $140.50 At thia figure we offer the finest blue white Diamonda of matchlota bril liancy and quality. Each ia mounted in a moisting of tho finest white gold. Styles for men and for women are both included. Delivered for a Dollar, r ' Paid for $3.00 a Week! THE CAND JAR for 95c Vsde in the "Wedgewood" manner white figures oa a colored ground and artistic! They'd sell in the art stores for a eouple of dollar, no doubt. Here today for $3e. CIGARETTE LIGHTERS 85c Apiece . Extra! Salts and Peppers Silver plated Sal to aad ' Peppers that were made to sell at two fifty a pair While they latt . . . sTiaety rtve Ooata a Pair . They took like the ones we need to eell for a five-dotUr bill and by gravy they work Just aa well. - One. to a bayer, to that all the good fei t lews anay karo one at 5e.