2nd RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE ¿MAY 20th to 27th. Ladies !—New Coats. Butterick Patterns. The increasing sale of these famous patterns convinces us that the women of this county are appreciating the superiority Butterick Patterns enjoy over all other paper patterns. The New Spring fashions and patterns are here, the latter priced at 10c.—15c. —20c. —25c, —30c. By Mail 2c. extra. HUSBAND GONE—SONS GONE HOME AND ___________ RELATIVES GONE 4^tôm’s TILLAMOOK, ORE. A very Special consignment of new stvles in Ladies’ Coats arrived this week. The most popular shades in Blues and Tans as well as the ever desirable tweed mixtures are repre sented in styles that are both authentic and becoming. Come to the store to day and view these lovely Coats at your leisure. The Store that Sells for Cash Only'-And Selling for Cash Sells for Less. Commencing Saturday ¿May 11th and Continuing for One Week Only? Exceptional Display and Sale of New Silk Taffettas ‘A Fact Story Telling Just What the Red Cross Did for Mme. Pellier. Novelty Designs and Plain Colors in The Loveliest Shades for • & r By an Eye Witness MAUDE RADFORD WARREN Street Wear, Party Dresses, ♦ This Is the picture I saw last Janu Ing Into Switzerland and then Into ary In France,—and you have merci Haute-Savoie. From there they went to Lorraine. Mme. Pelller hoped that, even though her village had been bom barded, her home might have escaped. She found nothing except her bars fields. You changed that picture, you Ainer- leans, who can never be bombarded, who can never lose through war five out of the seven dearest to you. It was not your husband and children who died; not your wife who was widowed: not your little ones who came back, bony and tubercular, to a home that had vanished. Not yours, but only the grace of accident saved you; not yours, but It might have been and so you changed the picture. You could not build up with your own hands that heap of stones into a home, nor till the fields, nor bring Mme. Pel ller back to hope and the children back to health. But through the Red Cross you saved the remnants of that family that bad suffered as you might have suffered. ^Afternoon Dresses. fully changed It I Color enough there was—above, the eternal blue; in the background, fields of living green, which the German shells could not prevent from creeping back; in the middle foreground, a long village 1 •treet so battered and burned that it was merely a canyon of cream-col ored ruins. In front of one little broken house were four figures in black— an old woman, poking among the fallen stones in a vain search for something that could be used; a younger woman, seated on what had once been a doorstep, with her face bidden in her arms; and a little boy and girl, who stared, half frightened, half curious, at the desolation about them. The little boy held in his thin hand a Red Cross flag. All four were pale and gaunt; the faces and bodies Of the children showed none of the round curves that make the beauty of a child. This is their history: When the Things the Red Cross Did. war broke out, Mme. Pelller,- her You took the mother of Mme. Pel mother and her four younger children ller to a Red Cross hospital to be treat were visiting her husband's mother in the north of France. Her husband ed for anaemia. You took the little and two elder sons were at home in girl, who was In the first stages of Lorraine taking care of the summer tuberculosis, to a Red Cross sani crops. Then the war! The mother tarium. You found a place which In-law of Mme. Pelller was ill and could be made habitable for Mme. Pel could not be left Her old mother ller near her fields which she wax was afraid to travel to Lorraine with anxious to till. You gave her clothes the full care of the four children. Be and furniture; you got her seeds; you fore they could all start together the Germans Invaded. Bad news Is allow lent her implements. You sent a vis ed to come into northern France, and iting doctor to watch over her health so as the months passed Mme. Pelller and that of her little boy. You sent learned that her village home had been nurses, who achieved the mighty vic bombarded and that her husband and tory of making her and the child take two sons had been killed. Except for baths. Later you persuaded her to let the Belgian Relief Commission, which him go to a refuge not far away where operates In northern France also, she he might attend school and where she and her little ones would have starved conld often visit him. Through the outright At the best they were un help of your Red Cross hope and cour dernourished. Then the great push age and ambition have come back to began, and hopes for France grew that woman, and she is rebuilding her high. But as the French soldiers ad family life. The biggest thing one hu vanced they had to bombard the north man being can do for another you, if ern towns. Mme. Pelller begged the you are a helper of the Red Cross, Germans to let her go away with her have done for that mother. Red Crossl I saw its work every, Children—even into Germany. This was refused. She tried to seek safety where In France—in fields and In in some cellar whenever there was a blasted villages; In hospitals and bombardment Nevertheless a shell schools and clinics; In refuges and vestiaries for widows and orphans and Rilled two of her children. for the sick children of soldiers fight Found Her Home Gone. ing to keep you safe from the enemy. Home gone; husband gone; brave This symbol of help has a double soldier sons gone; little, tender boys meaning now for Americans, who have torn Into shreds I That woman's face always taken for granted the blessing Would have shown you what she had of safety. It stands for your willing Suffered—her face against the batter ness to pay the price of exemption, of ed ruins the Germans had made. At pity, of sympathy. A bitter, black last she and her mother and her two road this road of war, but across It, ■emalnlng children were repatriated. like a beacon of hope, you have flung They knew the infinite relief of cross- the Red Cross. TITHOUT a doubt the finest, most varied and most extensive showing and Sale of Silk 3 affetas our Silk Dept, has ever had the pleasure of announcing. And this in spite of the most unprecedented difficulties facing retailers of silks all over the country. Only through persistent effort and our exceptional buying facilities could this showing and Sale be consumated and we urge every woman in this county who loves pretty silks to come to the store, view the window display and then step into the Silk Dept, and revel in the most beautiful display and Sale of Silks we have ever invited you to attend. The Sale will last one week only and will commence on Saturday, May 11th. Come early and you will get the largest choice, but whenever you come be assured you will se cure a wonderful quality at a wonderful bar gain price. Vety Special Values And Vety Special Showing of Black Silks Chiffon Taffetas—Peau de Soie. Duchess Satins—Chiffon Faille. Silk Messalines-Georgette Crepes and Crepes de Chine. $1.83—$1.98—$2.19 $2.25 and $2.75. A most extensive showing of 36 and 39 inch wide Silks of suberb quality and tone. We take great pride in announcing this very special showing of beautiful Black Silks for the se lection offered is unsurpassed for value and modesty of prices asked. $3.49 1 One of the ways to say that a man wretchedly poor and disheartened Is good hearted Is to descend to ex mother had been jammed In with the stopping ten minutes for refreshments at a Red Cross Canteen. Think of a big cup of hot coffee and a wealth of man-sised ham sand wiches served by the Red Cross—wo men with the joy of service In tbetr eyes. Think of ten minutes for re What Tea Minutes for Re freshments within sound of the guns—• such refreshments served by such wo freshments Means ■ men. Did ever a weary lad have such refreshments T Did over a eup of coC- Modern War. fee and a sandwich taste so good? It Is service like this, the supplying of “food that's got a homey taste" at e time when a man's spirits are likely to be at lowest ebb, that moved a Com manding Geoaral of the Americas Forces to write on December 80: TU* extent of the work of tbs Red Cross io only limited by the number of ben it has and the amount of available Chiffon Taffetas Very Specialty Priced Very Specially Priced. $1.93 Y"d- Every piece of Silk Taffeta in this lot sells for a much higher price in the regular way and every piece is perfect in weave and color. Choose from such shades as Navy, Ciel, Niagara and Peacock Blues, Russian Green, Plum, Havanne, Old Rose, Wine, White, Pearl Grey, Shell Pink and Silver Grey. Whether you need a street, afternoon or party dress, this Sale affords you an opportunity of securing it at an appreciable saving. nd ! LOT 1.—Specially LOT 2.— Specially LOT 3.—Specially LOT 4.—Specially Priced at $1.93 Priced at $2.22 Priced at $2.39 Priced at $2.63 Wirthmor Waists Is Still the Same. $4.98 in the More desirable and up-to-date colorings and designs for Street or afternoon dresses or for the popular separate skirts, can not be found than the lovely Silk Taffetas now being displayed. There are plain and combina tion stripes in various widths and plaids, checks and overchecks in the newest colorings and com binations. Every piece is under priced for this event as follows : The Price of Cotton is Soaring Higher, Ever Higher—but the Price of Just Pj>eceived from the Eaat and Very Specialty Priced at How an Italian Officer Traveling on Train Helped a New Bom Baby. FULL MAN-SIZED HAM SANDWICH Chiffon Taffetas New Millinery MIE HATS shown hundreds of other frightened Italians on the same train. Hungry, tired and miserable and In a frightfully weak ened condition, she had scarcely suffi cient clothes for herself, not to speak of properly caring for a newborn bat»«. The young officer stripped himself of his shirt, and there among this fright ened, half starved, forlorn crowd the poor Italian Infant was wrapped In Its first body covering. Mother and babe were afterwards nursed back to health, clothed and looked after by the American Red Cross. And this Is only one small. Is olated Incident among thousands that come under the working of the Red Cross. Yard wide Novelty Two Sales of HE GAVE HIS SHIRT OFF HIS BACK pressive Amerlcanese slang and say “he’d give you bls shirt.” A young Italian officer did exactly that—gave the shirt off hl.i back to a baby just born. It was during a flight of the Italian refugees just after the Italian army had been tricked by the Austrians. Here's the story: An Italian officer, who bad been a volunteer worker at the station when the crush came through, walked Into the American Red Cross office at Bo logna, Italy, and told of a poor young woman who had given birth to a baby on the train In which he was riding a few night’s previously. They had been riding for over IS hours, and the Yardwide Plain Color Millinery Dept, on the Balcony at these two re markably low prices are by no means as cheap looking as the price would signify. They arrived by express from the East just in time to make this announcement and every hat in the collection is good style, well made, and up-to-date in shape and trimming, and well worth very much more than the price asked. There are a number of the popular new Bonnet shapes and small medium and large sailor shapes prettily trimmed. Come to the store today and see how be comingly you can be fitted with a new Spring Bonnet at a price that will make your purse glad. Have You One or More Boy a in the Service ? Then You Will Want to Display One of those New SERVICE FLAGS, 25c. and 50c. They are made of Red Felt, shield shaped, with a white field on which is displayed the number of stars desired. The tops are strengthened by a strip of metal and a cord attached enables you to hang the flag in either window, doorway or on the wall. 25c. Priced Each at 50c. Larger Sixes at New Cretonnes, 59c. to 89c. Per Yard. Firmaniline and Super- lizarine colored Cretonnes in the loveliest and most striking designs suitable for Draperies, Covers, hang ings, bags or the many ottier articles for which this popular fabric is suggested. The firmaniline colors are thoroughly washed before leaving the factory and are fast to subsequent and rea sonable washings. The superlizarine colors are re commended for continued exposure to light and vary ing atmospheric conditions as they are the fastest colors known to the textile trade for a fabric of this nature. Four New Modelo are Pictured As Always Just One Dollar. T IS a most unique and economical merchan dising plan that enables us to still sell these wonderful Wirthmor Waists at $1.00. The price of cotton and cotton fabrics has advanced excessively—recently reaching the highest figure since civil war days—and still the price of Wirthmor Waists remains the same. in these deservedly popular Waists the ma terials used are just has good as ever; they’ll wear as well; they’te made as finely; and the past 3re JU8t 38 genteel and Pretty as in the I Only the vast volume of Wirthmor sales, the many large economies of the Wirthmor Plan, coupled with the forehanded purchase of ma- /a j fi*ed determination on the part of k«P Price, down, counts for these truly remarkable values. Sold Here Exclusively. Ahveyo Worth More. I