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T HE SEATTLE STAR —AN EXCITING FRIDAY IN THE SILK AISLE— | With Remnants of 50e and 75¢ Plain) A YARD and Fancy Silks at —2,500 YARDS IN ALL—LENGTHS FROM 1 TO 10 YARDS— In Handsome Printed Silk Crepes, 27 Inches Wide; Fancy Tassah Silks—36-Inch Pongee Poplins and Foulards—24-Inch Crepes. we're going to sell at 25c a yard Friday. Many a good waist and dress length in the 2,500-odd yards, and, of course, hosts of shorter pieces—handy for trimming or fancy work. There'll be some rare old bar- gain picking here. 20c Sateens at 8c a Yard Extra fancy Sateen Remnants, very lustrous, and shown fn colors and black. The 20 value; | In stripes, prints and checks. % $1.25 Novelty Silks 68c Yard All the: beat colors 2,500 yards of beautiful plain and fancy Silks, | 2,000 yards tn the lot, tn lengths from 1 to 8 yards, special at So a yard. 50c Novelty Dress Goods 19 | 25 pieces of pretty, yaniwide Dress Goods {n neat patterns, suitable for dresses or sults, Also | Almost every color and pattern you can think of in this big lot of Silk Remnants | are represented, Most all 36 inches wide, but a fow 24 inches wide, at 680, $1.75 and $2 Dress Goods 95c Elegant Wool Suttings, 60 pieces tn all, in plain and fancy checks, whipcords, cheviots and serges. Diack and white checks, at 19¢ a yan? Fri- . The kinds that usually sell at 500. A fine line of colors and weights, 64 inches wide; worth $ FRIDAY ECONOMIES IN LINENS 89c Pure Linen Table Damask, | 70 Inches in Width, a Yard..... can use any more now or soon, better buy from this lot. Medium weight, close, even weave, with dots, stripes and floral designs, full 70 inches wide, at 69c a yard. Se Unbleached Honeycomb Towels 3c Each | 12 1-2c All White Linen Crash 9c a Yd. Unbleached Honeycomb Towels, size 14x32 All white, pure Linen Crash, 16 inches wide, inches; good, heavy quality, neatly fringed. Not | good weight with fast selvedges. Very absorbent over 1 dozen to a customer, No telephone orders. | and excellent wearing quality, at 90 a yard. Ste Bleached Table Damask 39c Yard 25¢ Bleached Bath Towels 17¢ Each 64-inch full bleached mercerized Cotton Dam- 100 dozen bleached Turkish Towels, size 21x42 ask, good weight, smooth, fine weave, with neat | inches, neatly hemmed, but slightly Imperfect, to floral designs. 50c quality, special at 390 a yard. | go at 170 each; worth 25¢ —Lower Main Floor. Summer Hats Reduced to $2.50 That Formerly Sold at $5.00 and $7.50 The waning season brings waning prices on Millinery— and the p: Summer Hats that sold swiftly at $5.00 and 50 a few short weeks ago are all put on the $2.50 table Friday. Most of them sailors, with a few novelties, in white and | colors. Nicely trimmed with small wings, fancy feathers or pretty silks and flowers. Children’s $1.95 to $2.95 Hats 95¢ About 100 of these Children's Hats left, worth $1.95 to $2.95, that It be sold at 95c. Pretty drooping brim style, made of fine quality straw, trimmed with flowers, silk and ribbons. Assorted colors. —Second Floor. . FROM 11 A. M.TO 2 P. M. FRIDAY Special Lancheon in the Cate 30c CONEY ISLAND CLAM CHOWDER BAKED HALIBUT WITH PARSLEY SAUCE SUCCOTASH AND POTATOES From 9 a. m. till 12. No telephone orders. WATERMELON TEA, COFFEE OR MILK—30c Sixth Floor} From ® a. m. till 12 Friday you can get Dressing Friday Bargain ia Stationery Bacques at 15c each. Cotton challies, percales and 35e_ VELVET POUND 47Q| sin or tntnt. Second Fon WRITING PAPER, SPECIAL LB. 1/€ We have 500 pounds of good quality velvet $1.00 Marquisette 45e 30¢ Ollcloth 20c finisty Writing Paper to offer you at l7c a Sogo 100 sheets to the pound. 3 pounds ENVELOPES TO MATCH PAPER, 24c BOX VALUE 50c A BOX—5 PACKAGES TO BOX —Upper Main Floor, Fine black Marquisettes, 5 pleces in the lot, worth $1.00 a yard, at 45 a yard. Full 40 inches tn width On sale till 12 Friday. Upper Main Floor. Only 20¢ a yard for Table Oilcloth, 1% inches in width. Come in all the best designs and color- ings; worth 30¢. On sale till 12 Friday. Third Floor, 1A GRAND OLD BARGAIN RALLY IN DOMESTICS —Remnants, Mill Ends and Full Bolts, Too—at Cut Prices— 39¢ Printed Seco Silks, | 5 27 Inches in Width, Yd, | 49C So pretty, soft and clinging are these Seco Silks we are offering at 25c a yard instead of 39c; 27 inches wide, white grounds with printed Dolly Varden patterns. —Lower Main Floor. die Outing Flannel 10¢ 10¢ Cretonnes at 5¢ a Yd. Only half price for 2,000 yards of Cretonnes, tn wide, heavy, double-faced twilled material, in mill | mill ends, lengths from 1 to § yards, 27 Inches wide, ends from 1 to # yards, at 100 a yard. 39¢ Cotton Voiles 19¢ Yd.. | 10¢ and 15¢ Wash Goods Se Lawns, Crepes, Ginghams, Percales, Foulards and and tinted grounds with neat floral patterns; full | other wash goods, 27 and 26 inch ide; bew . 36 inches wid t 19c a yard Friday, ors, at So @ yard. Lower Main Floor, ————SPECIAL BARGAINS ON WASH-DAY NEEDS $1.75 Wash Boilers $1.39 85¢ Washtubs 67¢ Each $2.50 Electric Iron $1.98 : ili gp Drags mse Gasvunised iron Wathtabe; with “Ideal Heat” Electric Sad Iron, rom s copper bot- guaranteed for 10 years. Fu toms. Heve stationary handles | "tT", wide handles, largest size, | Fiat piated. Special at $1 oe re special at 67c Instend of 850 each. by and “fit-in” covers. $5.00 Wringers $3.95 | 15 Clothes Lines tc Ea, | $1.75 Ironing Board $1.37 50 feet of good Hemp Clothes ; Raed * eon Bhd! jndd] up compactly when ran! lor 3 years. [As ates! ecial at $1.37 o Fen bearings and enclosed cog | Line, strong and durable, and eh ancl aay Driced at 11c each, instead of 150, a o=-|m. VERNON MILK, 3 CANS 20¢ —Lower Main Floor. Minced Clams, tall size, best quality; , no phone ‘e ; ai, oT ae toto HOM Condensed Milk, priced Wriday at § cans | No, 1 10 rected ar tole peienne © © customer, Wo phone orders | oan. ,...,.,.., Cc K 4 Salmon, finest | Alaska Codfish, extra fine | Canned Salmon, No. freshly roasted; 3 | 7usllty Columbia River | white Alaska Cod- 1 tall size cans; Mpegs #40. finn: fresh shipment re- | Nani 'No. s oricks,..2@ | pink fishes pound .. c nara Oe. 9c pound ... —Fourth Floor. can FOR SCHOOL BOYS—“IRONWEAR” 6GHOES AT $295 A PAIR soaMARCH Union 8t., Second Ave., Pike St. Telephone Main 6825, 75 and $2.00 @ yard.—Upper Main Floor. | '69e: Here’s a mighty good offer in Table Damask, so if you | | | Two years ago, four King county legislators who had pledged themselves to vote for the recall of Judges did so at the morning #em| sion and failed to #tick to their votes at the afternoon session. The noon lunch evidently disagreed with them. But this treacherous conduct is not deterring the joint legislative committee, representing the farmers’ granges and the labor federation, } from again submitting pledges to the candidates for the legislature | This work is being conduoted through the executive secretary, Mise | | Lucy R. Cane, of Seattle, and the first pledge asked of the legislators | 1s to support the bill to submit to the people an amendment allowing the people to faltiate constitutional amendments directly The pledge ts asked for the identical bill which falled by three or four votes of receiving the required two-thirds in the 1918 pession, (ff D, ©, Brown, candidate for constable, is the only civil war veteran running on the republican ticket, from United States senator down Brown {# familiar with the duties of constable, having been for nine years baliff in Judge Albertson's court. | | Hefore that, he was conductor for 11 years on what is now known ; Aa the Seattle, Renton & Southern Ratlway Co. Brown, after serving} nearly two years in the war, was wounded. Twenty-three years ago, he butlt himself @ tte home in Columbia City, He has lived there |] | since, | | | | | ‘The referendum vote being takén by State Chairman Herbaman || indicates a majority of the counties to be in favor of holding & state |} progressive convention shortly after the primaries | | New registration and change In residence can be made until Sept | | 7, one day before the primary election. Those who have registered for the city election thi and have not changed residence since, do) | not have to register again, | eke Bea ake | TO ADOPT WASHINGTON LABEL | | On account of insufficient apace, the Home Consumers’ league ts} not represented at the industrial fair, as was its Intention, but has obtained the co-operation of the Commercial Club and the Ad club tp ite campaign for a “Made-tn-Washington” label, and will, in the pear) future, call a convention to adopt such a label for the entire state, | Members of the league in large numbers are participating In the gro-| cers’ pienio today, It ts’planned to visit the Seattle Brewing & Malt ing Co. August 28, FAIR TO SIVE $1,000 IN PRIZES Prizes amounting to $1,000 will be offered tomorrow night at the |} industrial fair at the Armory. The method of alloting the prizes has | if not yet been announced, but every one who visits the fair tomorrow | will be given an equal chance, yl Today is Merchants’ day at the fatr, and the i are turned over to the 600 delegates attending t chants’ convention. ALL BUT BABY SURVIVE WRECK The only life lost in the wreck of the Grand Trunk Pacific steamer |} Prince Albert, which went on the Butterworth rocks, near Gouth Dun-| ff das island, in Brown's passage, Sunday night, was a baby boy, son |i of J. Deraedt, of Graham island | Two boats were lowered immediately after the vessel struck. One capsized near the shore. Everybody but the baby waded ashore, In|] the panic he was forgotten. He perished in the breakers | The Prince John, sister steamship, took the passengers and crew to Prince Rupert. Tho Prince Albert fs rapidly breaking up. MEBBE INK WASN'T RIGHT COLOR OLYMPIA, Aug. 20—That Secretary of Sims Howell threw out about 500 names on each of the ven ere” initiative i petition on his mere whim, and without a particle of proof the i signatures were Invalid, the contention made in the argu- i ment by Govner Teats of Tacoma, who, with E. C. Mille and Mal- qf colm Dougias of Seattle, represented the sponsors of the In- | itlative measures in the trial before Judges Claypool and Mitchell. The arguments will be conciuded today. PROBE BUSY AT PORTLAND IRTLAND, Ang. 20-—~The federal commission on industrial rela- tions, which Is probing industrial conditions, began sessions today that will conclude Saturday, The investigation will center around the ef- fect of industrial welfare legisiation in Oregon tp its application tof women wage earners and the methods used in Oregon in dealing with | the unemployed situation. | INNES FIGHTS EXTRADITION PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 20-—A strong fight against extradition |} will be made by, Victor EB. Innes and his wife, charged with murder |i ip connection with the disappearance of Mrs, Floise Nelms Dennis and |} | her sister, Miss Beatrice Nelms, according to Jobn McCourt, attorney | for Innes. | McCourt sald Innes dented any connection with the alleged crime for which he Is being held at Bugene, and had instrocted him to take the necessary steps to prevent him and his wife from being removed to Texas, (MUST LIKE NAME OF “PEKIN’’ En route from Pekin, Ind., to Pekin, China, Prof. Chester A. Plerle, | f | head of the chemistry department tn the university at Pekin, estab shed with the indemnity money returned by the United States to China after the Boxer uprising, called on United States District At- torney Clay Allen yesterday to say he hadn't a passport or any way by which a German could tell him from an Englishman tn the event \a German warship should capture the Empress of India, on which he | sails tonight from Vancouver. He wanted a letter of some sort from the district attorney. gave him one. The university at Pekin bas 500 Chinese boys. Chinese West Point. GLENN’S A BEAR WITH AUTO * Galesmen were the chief actors in yesterday's list of auto * to the Armory | Northwest mer-| | Allen |} | ps. i sides the one In which Sexton C. Anderson, a salesman, Hi) steered his machine against a light pole near the Georgetown | brewery early yesterday morning, was an accident In the after noon on Broadway, when an auto driven by A. R. Glenn, 808 Broadway, knocked down and ran over Mrs. L. V. Cutts, 122 17th av. N. She wasn't badly Injured. | Glenn salesman. Like Anderson, he was charged with | reckless driving. | Later in the day Glenn had a rear-end collision with an auto truck at Fourth and & \. | | (16 KILLED IN RACE WAR } GLOBE, Ariz, Aug. 20.—Scores of citizens of Ray, a min — | | Ing town rr here, have n deputized In an effort to put an end to a race war between America ind Mexicans, which } has caused the death of four Americans and 12 Mexicans, } The trouble ited when Deputy Sheriff Finn Brown and | | two Mexican horsethieves were shot and killed when Brown | | and a posse attempted to arrest the Mexicans, Last night American residents, infuriated by the deaths of their friends, invaded the Mexican section of the town, driving the Mexicans | to the hills. | ‘MINERS’ STRIKE CALLED OFF | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 20.—At a mass meeting last night at | Nanaimo, it was decided to call off the strike of coal miners which had been on since May, 1913. Relief money was stopped six weeks | ago. Many of the strikers’ places are filled, and the men will have! difficulty finding work. | EFFECT OF SHIPPING BILL xe kk xe ew APROBLEM FOR SEATTLE MEN | The effect of the emergency shipping bill on the Pacific Coast will | ] I be invalnable, according to some Seattle men, and disastrous, accord- ing to others, 7 Steamship men, operating vessels in the conastwise trade, seem generally pleased with the bill; : speaking about It. Coastwise steamship men argue many American bottoms have been lying idle for a year and more, and any legislation admitting foreign | bottoms to coastwise trade would be poor business. In this, they think the bill fair, Iambermen think it is legislation against them, inasmuch as it continues to make it impossible for them to compete with British Co- lumbia Inmbermen, who are able to ship in cheaply-operated British tramps, thus cutting in on the American lumberman’s home trade, jumbermen swear fervently when 4 These Are School Outfitting Days OUNG 8ceattle’s footsteps will soon be turning schoolward, after a Summer’s happy vacationing in country and on Sound, so outfitting for school now becomes a matter for immediate and careful consideration. Parents will find the store better pre- or girl) and the young ho 1s to enter ¢ pared this season than ever to meet ts ‘abeensbl ‘hase’ ieblee Mntand demands in this direction, with broad- ting efforts have been directed toward ened stocks that contemplate fully the securing the utmost in and services needs of the tiny kindergarten toddler, the grade and high-school student (boy The Boys’ Clothing Section, Second Floor is ready to meet School requirements in Suits, Overcoats and Furnishings for B giving qualities, in garments to sell at moderate prices of all ages, from the little fellow first entering sc hool to the young man who will graduate into high-school with his first long-trouser suit The wide price range in all lines meets many different notions of expenditure. This Season We Introduce The Dreadnaught Suit at $5.00 Built Especially for Frederick & Nelson Built to Stand Wear and Tear Every Suit With Two Pairs of Knickerbockers 4 HE Dreadnaught Suit is built of all-wool fabrics in brown or gray mixtures, espe- cially selected for wearing qualities, thor- oughly shrunk and fast color. Every detail in the making—the heavy, double-warp linings, the rein- forced seams and the securely-fastened buttons—has been considered with the idea of giving utmost resistance to wear and tear. Other lines of Boys’ Suits, $5.00 to $15.00, including “High School” Long Trouser Dreadnaught sizes range from 6 to 17 years. Mothers desirous of obtaining fullest measure of value in School Suits at a popular price will appreciate the “Dreadnaught” at $5.00. Suits in plain and fancy weave The Basement Salesroom Offers Attractive Values in Girls’ and Misses’ School Garments at Popular Prices GIRLS’ TAILORED COATS, $4.50, $5.00, $7.50. Of fancy zibeline, boucle, chinchilla and navy-blue, brown, gray, green and two- novelty coatings, in tone plaids and mixtures, carefully cut and tailored. Plain, flare-bottom and belted styles, with set-in or raglan sleeves. Excellent values, $4.50, $5.00, $7.50. Children’s School Shoes (Basement Salesroom.) EW arrivals in Children’s School Shoes of Patent Colt and Gunmetal Calf with Goodyear welt soles. Of good stock and workmanship throughout, and made over a footform last that gives ample room for the toes. Sizes 6 to 8, $1.75 pair; 8% to 11, $2.00 pair; 11% to 2, $2.35 pair; 2% to 6, $3.00 pair. “SPARTAN” HIGH-CUT SHOES— Just received, a line of Spartan High- cut Shoes for school wear, in patent leather and gunmetal calf, with broad toe and heavy sole. Sizes 6 to 8, $2.00; 8% to 11, $2.35; 11% to 2, $3.00 pair. Basement Salesroom. Children’s Knit Underwear Carefully Selected Qualities in Suitable Styles and Weights for Autumn and Winter Wear Girlie’ Cotton Union Suits, high neck, long . sleeves, ankle length, medium weight, 50c, 65c and 75¢, according to size, Giris’ Merino Union Sults, white and natural color, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, 85e, $1.00 and $1.25, according to size, Girls’ Wool-and-cotton Union Suits, white and natural color, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00, according to size, Boys’ Heavy Balbriggan Cotton Union Sults, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, $1.00; youths’ sizes, $1.25. Boys’ Wool-and-cotton Union Suits, natural color, steam-shrunk, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, $1.50; youths’ sizes, $1.75, iret Floor. $12.50 and $15.00. —Becend Flee. MISSES’ SCHOOL COATS, $5.75 to $17.50. Short, medium-length and full- length Coats in plain and fancy coat- ings. The short Sport Coats are de- signed to be worn in place of @ sweater. The three-quarter and fulk length models are in new Cape and belted styles, also plain-tailored effects. Attractive values at $5.75, $10.00, $12.50 and $17.50, —Sesement Salsereom, All-Wool Granite Cloth Special 58c Yd. FIFTY-INCH All-wool material in a desirable weight for children’s school dress¢s, at a specially-low price for Friday. Colors include light and dark nayy-blue, Copenhagen-blue, Alice- blue, thyrtle, tango, wine and brown. Special, 58¢ yard. PLAID DRESS MATERIALS, 58¢ YARD— New, 39-inch Plaid Serges and Gran- ite Cloth, patterns highly desirable for school wear, in blue, brown, green and red combinations, in ombre and tartan effects. Price 58c¢ yard. Also at 58c¢ yard, new Roman-stripe Granite Cloth in colorings that com- bine beautifully with plain woolens, and Scotch clan plaids in honeycomb weave. 42-INCH ALL-WOOL SERGE, 75¢ YARD— A quality that may be depended upon to give satisfaction. All-wool Serge, 42 inches wide, in navy-blue, myrtle, taupe, brown, wine, cardinal, tango, Copenhagen-blue and black. Price, 75¢ yard. —Basement Salesroom. Hosiery C HILDREN’S Heavy Ribbed Cotton Hostery with reinforced heel, sole and toe, 256 patr. it ten nen Cashmere Hosiery, heavy rib and medium weight, with toe, 85¢ pair. = eye mae Children’s Fine-ribbed Cashmere Hostery in black and white, with retnforced hee?, sole and toe, 50c pair. Children’s Ribbed Lisle Stockings in medium weight, very serviceable, 35¢ patr, f-Firat Floor. Men’s Blanket Robes| Special $2.85 Regulation Bath Robes of serviceable blanket cloth, with cord and pockets, in an assortment of colorings, Large, medium and small sizes, An opportunity to buy at a saving for the young man about to go away to school. Special, $2, r