ggmmmmKmaamtmmmmmmmmmmtimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - EXCLUSIVE Designs in New Fall Novelties That wo are displaying la drawing immense crowds of ladies to our store. For instance a few of the many attractions are: Handkerchiefs and FOR THE STATE FI ' A BUSINESS BLOCKADED. Beautiful new pa-tern suite. Latest Fabrics, newest designs. Exclusive, Elegant styles in Jackets and 'Wraps. Children's Jackets a specialty. Braids of all kinds for braid suite. Feather Boas, neck nichs. Hosiery, Laces, etc., in great profusion. Handkerchief Linens, Valenciennes Laces, Footings, Honitons, etc. Every department full to overflowing. Cash prices prevail. Only the best quality kept. Entries Are Days Beginning Ahead. Six , CASH STORE HOLVERSON'S CASH STORE A New Idea. Made to order CAFES, JACKETS AND SKIRTS. We have jut received :i large line of simple of materials, Fashion Plates Measurement blanks etc , from Mefrs. Jo-epli Hflfeld & Co., Chi cago's leading Cloak-makers. Ir jo a want a Cape. Jacket or Skirt made to your liking, un like any you've seen, step In iind look at them. All the latest mixtures, nobbiest stylps. and price to suit. The line of Misses and Children's Jackets Is very extensive. J, J, Dalr ymple Co, Osburn's Racket Store BRASS HANDS Are all right In their place, but they are an expensive luxury for a store. We prefer to keep expenses dim n and giveourcustomers the benellt of low prices. We are selling men's underwear for 2o to 50 cents per suit, cheaper than tho who employ a band to draw a crowd. You should tee our underwear before buying your winter supply It will pay you. MEN'S HATS Wc have just re ceived three times as many hats as we ever bought before, and we are go inir to cell them at our usual low prices. Don't forget when you want a Hat that we will sell you the latest bhupe at the prices asked by others for last year's styles. SHOES. Our shoe stock Is com plete and our prices as usu-al are the lowest. Osburn's Racket Store, 249 Com mercial Street. Salem.Oregon. Wbathkk Fouecast. The state weather forecast for Friday and Sat urday Is fair and warmer. ORRGON PERSONALS. County Superintendent G. W. Jones is In Port lam. J. F. G iode hid business in the me tropolis today. Mrs J. II. llrooks visiting Hubbard friends today. Rev. W. Steele went to Portland this afternoon. Hon. O. F. Paxton returned to Portland today. Mrs. M. N. Chapman is visiting friends In Albany. Mrs. Chas. Gray was a passenger to Portland this morning. Hon. Virgil Conn of Klamath county was in town today. Editor J. II. Fletcher, of the Inde pendent, was In Portland today. State Superintendent G. M. Irwin went to Portland this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Sherman, of Roseburg, went to Porland today. Attorney J. A. Carson had profes sional business In Hubbard today. Mrs. Lee Stelner and Miss Alice Stclncr arc ylsltlng Portland friends. Rev. II. A. Denton went to Eugene today and will return Saturday morning. Mis Esther Collins Is visiting Ore gon Is visiting Oregon City and Port land friends. with his brother J. M. Wallace in this city. Secretary of State II. R. Klncaid went to Portland today, enroute to his home at Eugene for an over-Sunday visit. Mrs. D. W. Eberlen and children left this morning for Spokane, where they will join Mr. Eberlen who Is now located there. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Duncan, of San Francisco, who have been visiting old friends here, left today for Portland on their way home. Supt. T. W.Potter, of theChcmawa Indian school, accompanied by Col. Jas. J. Anderson.supervlsor of Indian schooln.was In the city this afternoon. Mrs. L.Jacol, of San Francisco, who has been visiting her daughter, Mn, S. M. Stock, went to Portland today for a short visit with friends there. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Burton and sons Walter and Ray accompanied by Miss Anna Litt'e and Mrs. Fenner, left last night Tor San Jose, Cal., where they will locate. Mrs. F. B. Southwick went to Al bany today on a fraternal visit to the local lodge of the Pad He Circle that has.only recently,been formally recog nized as the auxiliary of the Pacific Woodmen of the World. Gov. Fletcher of the Independent will lecture to the students and teach ers at Chemawa Indian school next Wednesday evening. Special arrange ments will be made that no lly light on his cranium during the course of the lecture as It would throw him off his balance entirely. Eugene Guard; Dr. Paine has been hero looking after his prune orchard. He Informs us that he will lose his en tire crop by reason of failure to get them dried. He will return tomor row. Lane county needs more fruit dryers. In fact every five-acre or chard should have one. I A Strange Circumstance in a Salem Store. Last week reference was made to the vast crowds forcing their way into the New York Racket Store. The factjwas also stated that twelve regular clerks were necessary to wait upon them all. It seemed marvelous to the people, but during the past week this record has been entirely broken. They now have fourteen reg ular sales people, and In spite of this fact customers come and In the busi est part of the day unable to be waited upon. Whole families come in to oe Large Shipments of Poultry From fitted out, hop pickers from as far as .romana ana Vancouver, uuu uiw can save money by trading at the New York Racket. The .store Is crowded from morning until night, and more clerks arc being supplied to wait upon the multitude of happy customers. d&w ORB AT SUCCBSSi RUSH OF CATTLE AND HORSES Washington to Arrive. Having had such great success in our SP E6IAL SALE Secretary Gabrielson has been at the fair grounds nearly all day, mak ing arrangements to accommodate the larire Increase of exhibitors. The rush for cattle and horse stalls has necessitated building a number new ones. A DIG POULTRY SHOW. Supt. Geo. D. Gooahuc, of the pou" try department, says the poultry de partment of the state fair will be im mense. Evc-y thing about the building is being put in apple pie or der for the reception of the big feath ered tribe sure to be there. The coops are being lowered and remod eled and the lloor newly laid with fresh sawdust. Supt. Goodhue is kept The Fair Police. An Oregonlan epecial says: It has been brought to of the attention of the city council that It is desired that the special ponce that will be required during the state fair be not appointed to serve three or four weeks, but only during the fair, and the authority of the mayor to ap point police has been called Into ques tion. Mayor Richardson, however, has assured the council that If the council will leave it to him he will make the appointments last for only 10 days, so no policemen were elected at the last council meeting. Some 'still contend that the council cannot husv nnqwnrlni? numerous letters from Intending exhibitors and says delegate to the mayor its elective this exhibit Is sure to be the largest powers, and there is a probability that and best ever had on the Pacific jtne mauer win oe icsieu. coast. Some Idea may be glpaned re gardlng the Interest taken In the poultry exhibit by poultry breeders In the adjoining states when we make known that one breeder In the State of Washington sent down his entries of 44 birds. This Supt. Good hue says Is only a start, as there will be at least 150 birds from the State of Washington, from different Turn out tonight for Business Men's Carvinal at Reed's opera house. Hotel Arrivals. Among the guests at the Hotel Willamette today are the follewing: N. L. Cornelius, Helena; G. K. Burton and II. M. Nelson, Sau Francisco; II. II. noward, Portland; J, II. Anderson, Boise; Virgil Conn, Paisley; Thos. Colllson, Portland. The Statement That cheap things are usually bad, is especially true of cigars. In purchasing that article this should be kept In mind. The merits of the 10 cent La Corona cigar commend it to all Judicious smokers. Not Ashamed. Wc are not ashamed of the quality of our grocer ies. Gradually the people of Salem and vicinity are learning by expert encc thatourgrocerics are of a quality that defy competion. Branson fc Co. Discharged. After a iury trial Thursday afternoon before Justice Johnson, Sophia Diekman, charged with assault and battery on one Chas. Meier, was declared not guilty and was promptly discharged. A. N. Gilbert and daughter Agnes and Mrs. R. I). Gilbert returmd fiom Portland. Justice and Mrs. R. S. Bean children returned today from an tended outing at Mapleton. An Oasis. Strong s restaurant is tan oasis In the desert of high prices where the choicest meals are served for real values. The meals served there are not equalled elsewhere. Miss have Removal. 11. S Belle, of The Pal- ,in(j ace, is removing ins store a lew aoors ex 'south, to No. 291 Commercial slreet, a ' good location. Rev. II. F. Wallace returned to Portland today after a brief visit Come out to Reed's tonight and sec what can be done to make Jalem day at the state fall a success 1R.&3 Queen of America's Corsets. AH styles and sizes can lit any form prices 50e to $1.60. We are agents for Kalcm. Dress Goods, Cloaks, and Fine Shoes, Largest stock, newest styles, lowest prices. ijrAgunts standard patterns best and chcupett. WILLIS BROS, CO, D02 Commercial tt. The Cash Dry Goods and Bhoe Houe, A Safe Investment ! when you purchase ouo of Waterman's Fountain Pens, It makes its mark nil round the world. Shall it make your murk also? Your money back if its mark don't suit you, For sale only by Patton's Book Store! IT-' foarJo o ;2 fLJgy there. The building up of the poultry department of the Oregon state fair has been no small task, but Supt. Goodhue has been equal to the occa sion, and has made the poultry de partment of the state fair one of the leading features. This year Supt. Goodhue has added new and Increased Interest to this department by having engaged the services of W. W. Brown ing, of Ogden, Utah, to judge the fowls and award the premiums. Mr. Browning is a national judge and a member of the American Poultry As sociation, and is held In the highest esteem by the poultry fraternity throughout the country. ENTRIES ARE BEGUN. Never before in the history of the fair have exhibitors availed-themselv-es of the rule that permits entries to be made six days beforeopening. But entries of all kinds of stock are being made today. This is done at the sec retary's otllce at the Bush bank block. The regular entry clerks go to work at the secretary's office at the fair Wednesday morning. Tuesday night's freight from Port land brought twenty head of race horses that had been In attendance at the Spokane race meet and are to contest for purses here. THE ARRIVALS embraced the black pacer, ,ChehalIs, owned by Frank Frazierof Pendleton. Chehalis is by A ltamont, out of Le cora. by Cass'us M. Clay, and Is a full brother to Del Norte, 2:08, and Touchet, who as a 3-year-old made a mark of 2:15. He was bred in Oregon by Jay I3each, but purchased as a yearling for $000 bv Frank Frazier, who was then In the drug business at Pendleton, Oregon. He was given a few races as a 3-year-old, making a mark of 2:24J, but it was not until 1893, that he became noted, and while in California he took a record of 2:07i. lie was not campaigned in 1890, but at the beginning of this lyear was put in training and at Butte a few days ago paced a mile in 2:07J, which Is within one-quarter of a second of the best time oyer made on any track west of Chicago. Of.hls work at Spokane last Friday to beat the two-mile pacing record the Spokesman Review says: "After tlw fltst heat In the 2;22 trot Chehalis was sent to beat the two mile pacing record. The horse had a running mate .on the last 'mile, .but his action Is so good and ho Is so J game In response to the -urging of the driver that the services of the runner . were not needed. Frazier scored his horse up three times and, nodding for the word was sent away. The first mile the horse was not let out for fear ho would tire on the last tulle, but ho went the distance in 2:15. In the second mile Frrzler began to lot out a few links. The horse was moving beautifully undidld not appear to be one bit distressed, Down tho back stretch tho pace was killing, but the linrcn nnvnr fnl tnrfr1 nnrl rniltwipfl intn! Officers Elected. The Student Body, of the WlllametteJ university, held a meeting Thursday afternoon at the close of the day's recitations, when the following oilljers were breeders elected: PresIdent.A.O. Garland; Vice President, R. B. Wilkins; Treasurer and Secretary, Miss Nellie Clark. Among the other business transacted by the student body was the election of an editorial "tall for the college paper, "The Collegian." It resulted as followsiEdltor In Chief, W. J. Shep ard; Associate Editors, F. E. Brown and Miss Jessie Settlemler; Business Manager. I. II. Van Winkle. Jones' Fees. A Salem correspond ent says: County School Superintendent-Jones, of this county, remitted to State Superintendent Irwin the whole amount received as fees for ex amining applicant? for state feachers' papers at the last quarterly examina tion, falling to retaiu the customary part kept by county superintendents for the work of examining. In accord ance with a recent resolution of the state board of education, the fees have been turned Into the state treas ury to the board's credit, and County Superintendent Jones Is wondering how he is to get what he considers his part of the fees. "Ladies and gentlemen o f the Cap ital City," that Is the way the speak ers, at Reed's opera house will start off tonight. CHP s &MJ2. JMCrCBTS we will continue same balance of the week Thursday, Friday and Saturday ! JUST RECEIVED 1Rew reee oobe I In rough effects from 35c to $2 per yard. New GlovesvIn reds, greens, blues, tans and black. 257 Commercial st, Telephone 112, BORN. KOPPE. At the family home In Brooklyn addition to Salem, Thurs day, September 10, 1&97, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Koppe. a daughter. MARRIED. BYLAND WRIGHT. At the Bap tist parsonage, in Albany, Or., Sep tember 23, 1897, by Rev. Ronald Mc Killop, May Alice Byland to Perry Wright, both of Lincoln county. AGENTS WANTED,-Ten good men. Apply at 197 Commercial st youriK 24 tf K'&SVsKVBVBSKWJBS They Have Come All new. nice, up to date Rings, Chains, Broches, Ear Rings, And a lot of novelties direct from heAdquarterfl, and nt Chicago Prices. Come and see them. Watches Cleaned 75c Mainsprings 75c The People's Watchmaker, Optician and Jeweler, C. fl. HINGES. Second Door North of P. O, Books TO READ FOR 25o. AT 1 Dearborn's BOOK STORE. CI- Story .Lawrence Garth, by Ellen ney Kirk. Sonny, by Ruth Stewart. Grip, by John Strange Winters. Romance of a Jesuit Mission, by San ford. His Fortunate Grace, by Gertrude Atherton. Third Violet, by Stephen Crane. South Seas, by Robt. Stevenson. Equality, by Bellamy. Thirty Strange Stories, by Hunter G. Wells. Leonora of the Yawmish, by Francis uana. Special This Week! A Men's IH Suits. 2 11 HkMb 0 iflJI H ? utm v I Boys' and Uolango Opie Read The Underside of Bell. Things, by Lilian Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Hard ing Davis. The Martians, by Du Maurier. Sprightly Romance of Marsac, by Mol lie Elliot Sewell. Tom Crogan, by Hopkinson Smith. I 263 COMMERCIAL ST. A Silver Spoon Free With Soap, A good, tripleplated silver spoon free with every cake of aaSncid'thcvhfpVn'ffi1 famous Kifk "White Cloud" soaP. cents, only to la, SfruirASSfla'"" Produce the goods, HARRITT & LAWRENCE Old P, O, Grocery, To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druKt'lsts refund tho money If it falls to cure. 25c. Latest fall style, fashionable make material, neat assorted patterns, $7,50 A SUIT, Clothing ! $ Our boys' lines of knee pant suits, sizes 3 to 16 years, and long pants suits, sizes 14 to 20 years, include the most stylish and serviceable lines of boys' and youths' gar ments to be found in the market, and our prices are certainly the lowest legitimate profit will allow. We have them from 1.75 to $8 I Come in gand fit your boy for school, 1000 pairs knee pants from 25c to $2. We cordially invite your inspection, 1( ' I Hp3,"l JV $ ZirPo QP pffiAR ONE PRICE HATTERS &C10TI1JB