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About The Twice-a week guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1910-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1911)
, - THE TWICE-A WEEK GUAR”', MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1011 IkW QUR AIM of moving the goods out is being rapidly accomplished. Stocks have been greatly diminished dur ing the previous days of this great sale, and now deeper cuts are being made to inspire still quicker sell ing. In another week we move to our new home on Sixth street. By that time stocks promise to reach the de sired extent of reduction and the object of the sale will then be accomplished. Until the last hours of the sale, we guarantee generous assortments and still greater values; in fact, greater values are not known than these. Youth’s Long-Pant Suits at One-Half Price Here Here’s a lot of excellent values for the last days of the sales, chiefly be Things You Will Need Now or Later At Half and Less Than Half Price cause we want to save moving them. $16.00 Ladies' Suits, removal sale price only , They’re good values and worth twice $25.00 Ladies’ Suits on now at what we’re asking Sixes 32 to 34; worth 6 to $15 for sale them now. $3.00 $7i50 $2.95 to One lot of boys' Knee-Pant Suits at $30.00 I.'adies' Suits on sate now at $40.00 Ladies’ Suits on sale now at $8.00 $12.50 $15.00 $20.00 25c HQ Q3C Have been selling at $4.50 to $6.00. 50c and 75c Corset Waists for the Misses, now ................................... ............. THE REGULAR STOCKS OF BOYS’ CLOTHING AT ONE-THIRD OFF. 95c White Waist* now selling at only Boys’ Knee-Pant Sults, formerly selling at $4.50 and $6.00, now DRESS GOODS AND SILKS FAR BELOW REGULAR Our entire ilne of stock—a splendid assortment, and at bigger savings than ever before—all because we want to clear thqm out 50c Dress 60c Dress 75c Dress $1.50 Silk Goods, now 40c Goods, now 48c Goods, now 60c or Satin S1 .20 SI.00 SI.25 $1.50 SI.25 Dress Goods now 80c Dress Goods now 85c Dress Goods.. SI.20 Silks going at S1.00 DOMESTICS AT SAVINGS THAT ARE WORTH WHILE TO YOU 36-inch Bleached Muslin 7c Hope Muslin, per yard.. .8c Apron Ginghams......... 6c 12’/ic Outings, the yard 10(3 All Calicoes, per yard.. 5c 1911 Ginghams......... lie Blankets at Removal Sale Prices t WHERE $1.00 values. .80c SI.50 values S1.20 I CASH BEATS i>l.25 values SI.00 $2.50 values S2.00 I CREDIT $2.95 25c $1.50 25c 75c 10c Ways Mufflers, always 50 cents, but now only ...........:......................... ....... $3.00 Fur Scarfs now selling at the low price of .... ........... ............. 50-cent Corset Covers now selling at the low price of .................... Children’s Dresses, formerly sold at $1.50, now ................................................. ; Lad:. Wool Skirt-: worth $ to AT r A I $1 . for quick removal, $2 >0 to Af |QU 12 l-'-’e to 15c Embroidsriss now bs U 1 at at ti.c i".» prisa of Ml) t C $1.25 to $2.50 Wash Waists now selling for .. .............. $2.00 to $2.50 Waah Wat »ta now A4 nr selling for Q | i/Q 50c fleece-lined Vest*; »mall sixes; nr each ZvC Chlldren’H 50-cent Bearcloth Hoods qr BOW ZOC Coats for the Ladies Now $M 00 l.adlvH* Coats now on »alo at $15.00 Coats, for the Inst days, at $20. Op Coat», quickly, at tu mo»» $25.00 Coats on sal* no« at only $14.00 $15.00 Ladies' Rubberized Rain Coats Now Cut to Just One Half Price YOUTHS’ LONG-PANT SUITS HERE MEN’S CLOTHING AT ONE-THIRD LESS HERE Children’s Coats, north to *6.50, now going at ....................................... The last day» of (he »ale go on w llh a rtl»h. I* there Ing llart, Schaffner & Murx Sult» at one-thlr.l l<» often in Eugene: but the stock* uniat I The time la abort only one week more, Moral you among the very few who have not ah of tnla event. S> I. < t you.- today. Mt just $2.00 Silk-Spun at the low price $3.50 Children' nqw going at adeloth Coats Lot of Dress Trimmings. 2Oc to 30c values, per yard . REMNANTS OF ALL KINDS NOW SELL ING AT HALF PRICE AT THIS SALE. 75c Final Selling Prices on $2.00 $1.00 $1.88 $2.25 (J uni One Lot of Embroideries Now Sell ing at Just Half Price for Thia Sale. $13.50 $15.00 $17.00 QIU.UU || «*«•’ " Men’s Furnishing?» for Less Here LK.IXE HAMPTONS number <•< onorale* rd leu». SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE GROVE I The Havings <>n everythin liberal. Shirt». Underw I Gloves, etc all fur le» 1 u tua rant are very Tro r». Hosiery, (bau the uaual price». mg the commission form of government. The Guard has been ers become city officials and must perform their duties, holding SHERMAN ENDS TIE inclined to favor the plan because of its simplicity and the fact meetings at least once a week until they have completed a ON SHIP SUBSIDY that individual responsibility is fixed, but we fail to find, in ex charter providing for the commission form of government. Af CHARLES U. USHER. Editor and Publlsncr amining the matter, that the plan has been an unqualified suc ter this is done and their report is filed with the council that Power Exercised for the First AN INDEPENDENT PAPER body is legally bound to call an election for the adoption or re Time in History Watson's $1.50 cess in the cities where it has been adopted. öubs< i. pilon 1 Absence Saves Bill Galveston, Texas, had much rebuilding to do, and a great jection of the charter by the voters. The personnel of the pro Agents for The Guard rhe following are authorized to take and receipt for suoscriptlon» or seawall to construct, after the tidal wave, and in the emergency posed charter commission is very high, and a majority of those uausuct any other business lot Ttu Dally and Weekly Guard: placed its business affairs in the hands of a commission of three named are among the leading advocates of the commission Cresweli—J. L. Clark. members, and the experiment was so successful that it was □rm of government. Coburg--George A. Drury._________________________ . prvrognth c <»f made permanent. Other cities have not been so well pleased, so The only reason which can be urged against this plan of pro- tutionul Application made for entrance at Eugene, Oregon, postoffice às se to tj t II tn ¡ar as w'e are able to secure information concerning them. In cedure is that it may require two or three months longer to cond class matter. In f , the west, Bo.se and Lewiston, Ida., towns of the Eugene class, jring about the proposed change in the form of government, if MONDAY, FEBBUABY 6, 1911. nt ione somewhat larger and the other in a class below this city, ‘be people express themselves in favor of such change at the ti> adopted the so-called DesMoines plan in modified forms, and coming regular election. And reasonable deliberation at this SOME OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES Urti, II ; the people are agitating for changes now. Tacoma later fell in- i lime might be recognized later as a wise precaution. It loll loo king td. tor» by Practically every occupation has its disadvantages militat i to line hnd from reading the papers there the conclusion is | Th., v <iy bill, both ing against the health in some particular way. The Illinois reached that conditions have not been bettered- WHAT IS HIGHER EDUCATION? In th- c whole and In The strongest argument against the commission plan is that the senate proper *to<»d 30 aye* and commission on occupational diseases had little money and less iiwh . ati<l on ndjntirnnit.nl 37 aye» Is higher education so desirable that the state should extend 13!» time for its work, but it3 report, just submitted, is an able and it tends to centralization of power. Two commissioners, a ma- and 37 now. On all three occn*loi|. jority of the board, have full legislative and executive power; _ _____ it to every young man and woman? President Selling told his the vice president voted in the affirm- enlightening document, representing faithful, earnest, well-di The legislature should order the continuance of i raa Y tev y taxes, order improvements and conduct and manage audience at Eugene that he doubted it, and all know that this I atlve. rected work. ' Another notable occurrence in public utilities, the recall being the only protection for the peo- doubt is shared by many business men. Probably a little in ¡connection with the vole on the »tih- the investigation while attending to the more definite and ripe against the poor judgment of crookedness of two men, and the quiry as to the present meaning of the term may help more peo I Hldy hill w . h the absence of the new recommendations of the commission. 1 Democratic senator from Wet Vlr- The most important feature of the report is the section of recall, as in the case of Seattle, is a somewhat unwieldy weapon ple than President Selling to an answer, remarks the Portland i Klnla, Clarence W. Watson. w ho had taken hlx »cat early In the day a» Journal, which discusses the question as follows: lead poisoning, lead being, for reasons fully set forth, “the most to handle. »ucceaaor of Elkina. Wataou wax In most of the large cities, especially those owning their Times have changed and men with them. The former plans the dangerous of the industrial poisons.’’ But there are interesting In the senate chamber only a few mo and suggestive, if tentative, chapters on gas poisoning, com atcr, light or power plants, and engaged in making extensive for higher education led to groups of students highly trained in menta, and voted on only one rollcall Walnon*» Al»aeii<c Save« Bill pressed air desease, boilermakers’ deafness, brass founders’ public improvements, a salaried board of public works has culture studies, who had spent years in storing their brains with Thia vote wax <aat on an amend ague, etc. The results of the investigations are clearly present charge of these matters, and the council retains legislative facts that their first effort after graduation was to forget, and ment offered by Shively of Indiana, regulating the aggregate expendi to establish characters based on ideals that were knocked to ture» ed, credit is given where it is due to employers who study and power. which tuny be ma<l»< under the Ward representation, too, has its defenders on the grounds splinters when they came into combat with the stern realities of term» of the bill On thia provision apply safeguards, and the need of legislation, publicity and ed the new West Virginia senator cast ucation is specifically pointed out. The suggestions of the ihat councilmen from the different sections brings the govern iife. hlH vote In the afflrmtalve. thua Indi ment closer to the people than is the case with a limited number Because of these all but universal results of college educa cating hlx oppoaltion to thu rneaxure commission are embodied in bills appended to the report. After casting hla vote he disappear Many illustrations are offered to show that the United States cf commissioners, elected at large. The ward is to the city tion, which then stood for higher education, men were justified ed. is far behind England or certain continental countries in insist what tbe precinct i? to the county, the county to the state, and in class ng it as a waste of time, and in refusing to allow their The result on th., next ballot was not ao eluxe aa to render material the sons and daughters to pass through that time-worn process. ing on prevention of or prompt attention to occupatioal disease. the state to the nation. pr. sen. e or absence of any aenator, The Guard would advise the people of Eugene to move slow- Thus, in dealing with white lead, Dr. Alice Hampton, chief of Yet the need of higher education today has spread into re and no notice waa taken of the fact Watson waa not In attendance. the staff of investigators, says: “In one English white lead fac- iy in the matter and use the utmost deliberation before changing' gions of knowledge, and enlists its thousands of students of all that After the filial result became the form of government. There is no pressing need for a change, troy employing 182 men careful medical inspection failed to dis □lasses, undreamed of but a decade past. What . more suKtreBtive k" town, the opponents of the bill. In _______________ ....... • e’O.ll.yx cover one case of lead poisoning in the 1909-10. In an Illinois since the administration has carried on large works, acquired ’ tact than that cited by President Campbell at the visit 1 Of of th. | I ' that n'", “ Watsotia «* 1,11 IHIR, ll"' abwiire *»•«'«<• ’••••. prowntf'd realized pxrialfttnro tn the Qfafa ‘ had prevented WatMon’K al»>>n<< the city water system, built a power plant, installed a filteration factory employing 142 men partial inspection revealed 25 men .egisiature to the State University—that 70 per cent of the stv-i'he <»* the bin Ho waa the ---------- • .. Democrat prea. nl at atty of the suffering from lead poisoning last year Ill another English fac system and paved and improved many miles of streets in the rlonta dents worn were wnwlrfn-. working their way — ». through the courses? _ President I only roll.nlla whose vote waa not cast past few years without a taint or suspicion of graft. Not every tory employing 90 men no case was discovered in five successive Kerr at the Agricultural College, Presdent Homan at Willam agnlnat the metiaure. The final vote came after three year?; in an Illinois factory employing 94 men 28 per cent of all body has been satisfied with the way the work has progressed, ette, and every college president in the state, will add their tes ' ' hours of determined conflict over perhaps not even the mayor and councilmen themselves, for employes have lead poisoning and 40 per cent of all employed in hmony. Hear what the Y. M. C. A. classes, the night schools, i amendments. Apparently there wax here have been xnany annoying matters connected with it from the correspondence classes, have to tell. The same tale, of a I no general appreciation of the «harp the dustier work.” which afterward developed, time to time, but on the whole, there has been little real cause Hunger and thirst after knowledge, the sense of deficiency that division Neglect of the simplest precaution, the ignorance of un and aa a body the senate was unpre for complaint. This is becoming more apparent every day. pared for tie votes. only hard and self-denying work can overcome. skilled and immigrant labor, lack of knowledge and interest, ac There is not a doubt but our form of government may be and count for the inferior conditions in the Illinois factories. The These are the students whose educataon, each for himself investigators found themselves pioneers in the field, and they should be improved, but any steps taken in that direction should or herself, is the higher education of today. For them the MEXICAN FORCES IN HARD STRAITS have explored no more than a fringe of it. They have no diffi not be the result of hasty conclusions. Legal tangles should be state is in honor bound to open the doors wide of universities avoided, if possible, and no system should be adopted that has l’realdio, Texan, .Ian. 31.“ culty, however, in showing how occupational disease and death colleges, high schools, evening classes, and the rest. To stop ♦ * Oiitgcn. rale.l Hn<l <|,.fPal,.<|, therefrom may be greatly lessened. Not only legislators, but not passed through the experimental stage. o”mtagrX«' P0”lb'e' be 10 rOb “e ,,au ♦ with a I onh of more than 100 The council has presented a plan for framing a commission ♦ aoldlera klllnd, th« federal employers, workmen and physicians, social students should give ♦ force» of General Luque are charter which provides that a commission be chosen for that »hJYhea.t.Xn.Vie“” ‘h1’ MW - ♦ divided this matter their attention. and cooped up In the purpose at the regular election. This will give a genuine test of ♦ towns of OJInga and Cuchllle ♦ sentiment, if the ordinance is adopted by the voters, while its re I’arradou. The Inaurgenta oc GO SLOW AND AVOID EXPERIMENTS ♦ cupy every road leading to jection will be taken to mean that a majority of the people does a. A L°S WOman 8ay* ,he ,hot her h««band “just for fun ” ♦ both towne, and will not per Î HE EUGENE TWICE-A-WEEK GUARO There is a wide range of opinion as to the wisdom of adopt* not endorse the commission idea. If elected these commission- She made a hit with her humor, all right. ♦ mit provlalona nor forage to ♦ be carried ______ In. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦a