The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1914, Page 8

z a goods will be absolutely unobtainable. Just now, than ordinary price “Why not keep the goods till later, yourselves?” ported goods you want at the earliest possible moment. Monday, | abor Day, this Store will be closed all day. Why, with Toy and Doll prices soaring skyward—here now—how season Trunks and Go-Carts, too, we re- duced for the day—and reduced in such a way that I am going to have a Christmas week crowd on the Fourth Floor all day Friday. 95c Tennis Racket 79c | | GOING FISHING? 1 will give Free, a Wing- Split Bamboo aod ged Way ttield Tennis Rall, with « ht and Batt Hods, s! dSe._Rainier Tennis ped, nickel reel anak at Tec, Friday. They cork handle, 61.50 to . made with polished fram value 1 25 and strung with good, Orien- at sat . tal gut | i $2.75 to $3.50 Split Bamboo Reds for fly and bait fish- offering these imported lines for less money than before the war. And you've got a wonderful chance to get your Christmas gifts wonderful you will realize much more fully later on in the T Now Is the Time to Think and Act Some of the greatest battles the world has ever seen are being waged right where some of the world’s greatest factories stood but a week or two ago, Do you know what this means? It means that when the imported goods in this country are once sold, there will be no replenishing of stocks—such while the Bon Marche Department Buyers are holding their annual sale, there is an abundance of European merchandise on sale for less Take our advice and secure what Imported lines you want at once, you say, “and make the extra profit No, that’s not the Bon Marche way, at all—the Bon Marche way is to play square with the people every time—and so we say to you again—buy what im- I Ought to Have This Entire 3-Column Advertisement For My Toy and Trunk Bargains— And even then I wouldn't be able to tell you half of the good things. I am | | $1. 50 Dolls $1.29 Ea. jointed Del ry ali, with biaq he ughing mout dressed in chemise, shoes and stockings $1.50 Dolls SL. 29 Ea. $1. 49 Hammocks $1 am_ gotng to close out pee $1.49 Canvas Ham- mocks at $1.00. They are of 10-ounce white canvas with fancy valance. $1.35 Swings $1.00 Doorway Baby Swings that are easily adjusted. Made with nice seat and hang In the doorway. Special $1.00. $1.50 Dolls 75c Ea. tow wrapped in black and red on velvet and flannel forma al hatr, papter mache body and crooked lems $1.65 Skates $1.15 Skates for boys and girie: adjustable to any sine, $1.15 pair, arth 94.25 to $4.50 Casting Hodes and fly rode of finest qual- Calcutta bam some Musical Dolls, 16 inches | se Spill Roa, tall, with character heads lengths from 4 to 9 feet, on and dreseed nicely. Haye | forms and in mat musical chimes. Special TSc. | cases; spectal ......096 Look at the Way I’m Cutting Trunk and Go-Cart Prices I Will Sell This $7.50 Fulton Go-Cart at Seis | $1 95 @ good idea of what kind of bargains I am os Friday. It is made on strong steel Gash, $4.50 Suit Cases $3.69 Ea. Fiber Suit Cases, look iike with reclining back and adjustable leather, with sewed on handles, gna two leather straps around: n fons. 7% Inches “esp: at . $3.50 Go-Carts $2.95 Ea. | $20 Trunks $14.95 Each Genuine Cowhide or Walrus eo el ga geek f —-4 Br a ance Fiber oe. ear ‘Traveling Bags, Oxford styles, on oor rive steel rame ant “ply throughout; made “ with maple reclining back | of 3-ply LL with extr Teather lined: sizes 18, 17 and 18 | gna 10-inch whesla with 3-8-ineh | dress tray, sizes 16, 28 wnd 40, with leather handles. | rubber tires. —Fourth Floor. Dress Goods and Silk Buyer J. J. Shea Shoots Another Bargain Broadside forFriday 50c and 65c Fancy Silks, Special $1.50 and $2.00 Dress Goods at —29c Yd.— —95c Yd.— I have for you Friday lustrous drese and waist I have a sample line of Dress Goods and Sult- Silke, 24 and 36 inches wide, at 29¢ a yard instead | ings for you at $5c a yard. You will find serges, | 50c and 65c. Tussah silk, brocades, foulards, | whipcords, eponges, alligator crepes, checked and crepes and others. mixed sultings. $1.00 and $1.25 Fancy Silks $3.50 Novelty Coatings, Special —50c Yd.— —$2.45 Yd.— 36-inch plain and fancy Silks, including messa- These Novelty Coatings I offer at $2.46 are lines, louisines, foulards and pongee, in stripes, | $3.50 value. They are multi-color plaids, checks, checks, dots, amall Dresden designs. 1 offer | tans, browns, navy and new color combinations. them at 60c a yard. Upper Main Floor. “Better Values Than Ever in Untrimmeds” Says Miss L. M. Coffman, Millinery Buyer Will Sell Smart New $2) racsnmnedtlat Sherer $1 AD5 I can assure you of full value when you buy one of these smart, new Sailor Shapes at $1.45 instead of $2.00. Also rolling brim styles of plush, felt and velvet, in black, navy, taupe, brown and purple. New Hat Shapes $1.95 Ea. | Latest Black Shapes $2.95 $7.50 Suit Cases $4.50 Ea. Genuine Cowhide Suit Cases with heavy brass lock and bolts, wewed on handles, cloth lined, With shirt pocket; 24-inch size. $5.95 Traveling Bags $4.75 & Clever, new styles in Hat I know you will like these new Shapes—eailors in a number of | shapes, the season's latest blocks, sizes, also smal! size, close-fitting | in sailor shape, rolling brim atyle turbans. I can show you velvet | with and plush in black and navy blue | turba: at $1.95. our 4 High-grade shapes of velvet and plush, Includin, ors in many sizes and # amart, rolling brim styler, bans and many novelty shapes, at $2.05. Second FI eh flare and close-fitting of velvet, plush and vel- nord, “Let Me Save You Money on Your Grocery Supplies” Says Grocery Buyer G. F. Hastings—and He Can, Too Peanut Butter, guaranteed fresh | Ki special, 2} Columb 2 pound Sc | Salmon, finest W4e river fis! 22:¢ mn Style Coffes, two coffees, "gee blended and freshly 12:¢ ronated; & lhe. 81.005 Ib the beat ound White Alaska Codfish, best quality, No. 2 bricks pounds .... deli mentaut a; large | Canned Salmon, No, 1 tall P * ean 92.00; imeaiuen 8 Bion a || fo) seme: Prete 6 sm OG | Besser Berringyatt reser 19¢c small cans... | Eagle Suger P. new pack, | Fresh Ronated Coffee, best QA. Whole Pickling Seieek; 25s | g 4, a dozen ¢ {tc quality Rio coffee; pound vue priced for Friday, pound SE | 1.25) ‘can ‘—Vourth’ F The Men's Hat Buyer—Says His $3.00 Hats for Autumn Are the Best Yet. Bue MARCHE Union St, Second Ave., Pike St. Telephone Main 6825. ENO Met, Ome NN DR A I Stunning Shapes at $3.95 black wall- HE SEATTLE ST HAPPY JACK ECKERT IS GIVEN GOLD MEDAL AS FATTEST MAN Wappy Jack” Echert CIRCLEVILLE, Ohto, Sept. 3 Happy Jack ts 34. He weighed |19 pounds when he was bora. Ten Happy Jack Eckert today wai | given the gold medal for being the | 72m ako he welghed 630 pounds fattest man in all America, Happy Jack weighs 739 pounds! He's 84 Inches around the chest, |8 feet 7 inches around the watt, | 48 inches around the thigh and wears a 24-tnch collar So, who can doubt that he's en- titled to the medal? “I told you I'd win,” chuckled | Eckert when A representative of mother, four brothers and one the Newspaper Enterprise associa ter put together. tion called on bim and presented! He hae a wife and two children, him with the medal. Eckert was | David, 8, arid Catherine, 5. iced profuse in his thanks for the|his chief joys. honor. He cate twice dally, but he} “I heard once you were on the | drinks nothing but water, coffee, trall of a fellow down south who! land milk, could put me on the high end of | A seomnw, but I doubted It,” he|made to order. said. “I'm so dog-goned fat I could| He ts a member of the Loyal Or | put on an elephant’s hide and get|der of Moose, Lodge #61, Alexan by as Jumbo's brother,” ___ la. HONEST! ONE SISTER GETS ON | | OLYMPIA, Sept. 3.—' ler of wond I believe,” | Mra. Jack. Happy Jnck 1s the sald his Eckert travels wife, today with Happy chief attrac: |tion with a carnival company, here this week | truck. He came to town on a He can't get into a closed All of his wearing apparel is One of the “Seven Sisters” Initiative bitle contested by the Btop-Look-Listeners is actually going to get a place on Novem ber’s ballot. Judge Mitchell ruled the “firet aid” bill has 12 sig- natures above the required number, Secretary Howell had found 14 more signatures than enough. Thus, the wonder of wonders Increases. While other measures were killed judicially, ” even though Secretary of Sime Howell certified them as suff! * clent, the “first aid” bill, with the narrowest margin of them all, le rescued. Gioryi CONSUMERS TO VISIT MINES Arrangements have been made by the Home Consumers’ league for the trip to the mines and briquette plant of the Pacific Coast Coal Co. Friday, leaving over the Columbia & Puget Sound at 10 a.m. Three hundred members have registered for the trip. Arrangements also have been made for a visit to the Smith butid- ing, the Pacific Knitting mills and Art Hardware Manufacturing Co. September 11, on which date the monthly lunchean with the manufac. | | turers will be held. ‘TO WORK IN GLASS HOUSE his new office on the outer end of the Canadian Pacific pier, for the of- | fice ts to be entirely inclosed tn glass, It will be on the balcony of the pier. The warden's office was formerly on the Grand Trunk pter. Since | that structure burned down, !t has been housed at the foot of Washing- | ton st. ‘DELAY MEANS MORE EXPENSE If the city waits until water ts turned into the Lake Washington | canal before building the north pler of the Montlake bridge, a coffer- | dam will have to be built. The additional work and material will mean an additional $13,000 of cost, So says City Engineer Dimock, who urges re city or county to appropriate the money with which to go ahead jer will be turned into part of the canal next November. ‘To DEDICATE NEW LIBRARY With Wagner's band, a flag Nef Corps, G. A. R., and address by Vice President Efaw of the Mbrary | board and Miss Gertrude Andrus, head of the children's department at | the Seattle public library, the new Yesler branch library, at Yesler and 23rd, will be dedicated the eveutag. of Sapte of September 15, REFUSE AID FOR COUNTY FAIR Because the county faire have been running behind even with county ald, the commissioners this year refuse to make any appropriations, id therefore there will be no county fair. Last year the county ¢ falr association $25,000, but the fair ran $6,000 behind at th t FAMILY HAS NARROW ESCAPE Blinded and nearly suffocated by smoke, A. F, Thillend, 6540 Ravenna av.; his mother, two daughters and son barely | escaped with their lives yesterday, when the home caught fire | and burned, Firemen partially saved the dwelling and also | valuable jewelry. The Gamage totale totals $6,500, | | |WOMAN LURED MURDER VICTIM LOS ANGEL’ Sept. ~That a woman as well as a man helped | lure Mrs. Maude nnedy from her home Monday night, when she was | | murdered and her body thrown {nto a clump of bushes on a vacant lot, | is the belief of detectives working on the case, | Louls Asotey!, known as “Cyclone Thompson,” was arrested yes- | terday. He admitted telephoning Mrs. Kennedy on the night she was killed and making an engagement, er He Is held as a witness, REGISTRATION TO CLOSE Registration books will close Saturday at midnight. Those who have already registered this year need not register again, | unless they have changed their res! ce. “NEW DEAL IN POLITICS” At the first of the public meetings called by the progressives for | discussion of the platform to be offered at the coming convention, non- partisan elections were favored for state and county offices. | This subject aroused the keenest interest. Representative Thomas F. Mur- phine presided and the audience consisted of people of all parties. The | next meeting will be held Saturday night, at the Good Hats cafeteria, and will take up industrial topics, Emil J, Brandt will be chairman. | Everybody is invited to participate in this! new deal in politics,” as the ‘Lp haieodiee call St ‘SOFT FOR LINCOLN STUDENTS Pretty soft for the Lincoln high students, Until Septemberf 8 the school day will be three and a half hours, as the morning and the remainder in the afternoon ® getting fatter right along, | | The port warden won't dast throw any etones after he gets into! but denied having seen her that! with the work without further delay, The government announces wat- |} ising ceremony by the Woman's Re- | q ; 3 ] Mail Ladies’ | Home | t IN aay jsru FREDERICK ON | ess Patterns a if Be ( we PES e The Special Selling of Notions ‘ A . . Continues Friday and Saturday ANY women will welcome this seasonable opportunity to stock the sewing-room with needed requisites at a saving, in anticipation of the se ason’s needs. Look through the list for the items you have in mind, and note the very attractive prices: . First Fioor “Kumpackt” Dress Forms of Adjustable Skirt and Coat papler mache, covered with ‘Hangers, spectal be. Jersey cloth. Fitted with rod Wood Coat Hangers, special base and wire skirt. Special 9 gor ge ae Folding Wire Coat Hangers, Adjustable “Acme” Dress — gieeial 6c ae Forms, special $12.00. “$4n-1" Machine Ol, special ry 9 Omo Brassieres with dress “Bristol” Spring Tempered Brass Pins, special be. “American Maid” Solid-head Pina, 360 pins in paper, spectal, 8 papers for 10c Twine Shopping Bags, 19x15 inches, with drawstring or wire frame, special 15¢ and 86e. 0. N. T. Darning Cotton in black, white and colors, special 3 for Be. Celluloid Hatr-pins in shell and amber finish, spectal bo, Papler Mache Bust Forms, covered in jersey cloth, special $2.00, shields, sizes 32 to 44, special 80c Zouave, Eton and Justrite Jacket Shields, spectal Omo, Nak. Juno and Feath- er-welght Dy Shields, sizes 2, 8 and 4, special 15¢ pair. Omo Detachable Dress Shields, sizes 2, 3 and 4, special 20c. Airlite Silk Invisible Collar Stays, special 6e Hook-and-Fye Tape, in black and white, special 7¢ yard Snap Fastener Tape, in black and white, special 10c yard Barbour’s LAnen Thread, spe- elal 7c. Peet's Hooks and Invisible black and white, sizes 0 to 3, special 6c package. Goff's Angora Skirt Braid, black, white and colors, S-yard pieces, special Be. Dressmaker’s Obalk, assorted colors in box, special 3c. Shoe Trees, fit any size shoe or slipper, special be pair. Te Wide Elastic Hose Sifpport- ers, sew-on style, special 8c Silk-covered Dress Shields, special 12%c pair White Girdle Foundations, special Te. Duplex Safety Pins, nickel or black finish, all sizes, be card. Black Tubular Shoe Laces, various sizes, bunch of 12, spe- celal 10¢. Wire Hair-pin Cabinets, 100 pina, special 3c. Empire Wire Hairpin Cab- inets, special 3c. Wire Hair-pin Cabinets, 250 pins, assorted sizes, special 7c. Superior Fisheye Pearl But- tons, special 3c card, “Tango Flare” Supporters for the new-style neck wear, special 6c each. “Gladstone Flare,” also used for the new collars, special 6c. i the buliding is undergoing alterations, Half the student body attends in}]] Unusual Values in Women’s Thread Silk Hosiery Featured in a special First Floor selling, Unusual Values in Women’s Knit Union Suits Styles New Stock, in Desirable and Weights for Autumn and Winter Wear: AT 85¢ GARMENT— Women’s Autumn-weight Cotton Union Suits in fine weave and well-finished, including the following lots: AT $1.15 PAIR— Unusual values in Women’s Pure Thread Silk Stockings of high-grade French manufacture, in black and in four styles: white, with dainty drawn clockings at High neck, long Low neck, sleeve ankle in self color. Lisle garter top, sleeves, ankle length. less, ankle length. sole, heel and toe. Price $1.15. pair. Dutch neck, elbow Low neck, elbow sleeves, ankle length. sleeves, ankle length. AT 85¢ PAIR— AT $1.35 GARMENT— Unusual values in Women’s Pure Thread Silk Stockings, some with lisle top, heel and sole, others all-silk throughout. Regular and extra sizes. Black, white and costume colorings. Price 85¢e pair. | AT 65¢ PAIR— Unusual values in Women’s Pure ff Thread Silk Stockings, in black, white f and colors, with lisle top, sole, heel Women's medium-weight Wool-and- cotton Union Suits in Dutch neck style, ankle length, with elbow sleeves; also low neck, sleeveless, ankle length. AT $3.35 GARMENT— Women's Silk-and-wool Union Suits, Dutch neck style, elbow sleeves, ankle length; also low neck, sleeveless, ankle length and toe. These are subject to slight ff Silk Bloomers Reduced to $1.65 irregularities which are not of a nature if Women's Glove-siik Bloomers, in cerise, tan to impair their wearing qualities. and sky-blue only, reduced to $1.65. —Firet Floor. ice 65 ir. Table Square, First Fioor. Price 65c pa’ -——Basement Salesroom The “Gaby Boot” for. Women, $3.50 A SMART, comfortable Boot in patent and gun-metal quarter of “American Lady” Corsets Special $1.35 and $1.75 HE Corset __ pic- tured, Style 6C, has no boning across the front with the ex- the front made of Het calf, with full queen's cloth, | U th ception of Goodyear welt stay. It is figured cotton brocade, designed especially for a SD sole ‘and leath- M" heel. er Louis Sizes 2% to 7, ‘ r average : — { aie * ing widths A to D. igure, anc s lac ¢ below front stay. Dou- Price $3.50 ble-edge embroidery | pair. trimming at top. Spe- eam ANSE cial $1.75 Style 1207 is a very low bust model, with top extending 2 inches above the Aluminum Kettles | waist-line. Designed for the average S ot oi figure, and made of firm batiste, with riced fancy tape trimming. Hook below front UST fifty Tea Kettles of pure spun aluminium ,to sell at these spe- clal prices 4-quart size, spe- stay and three sets of hose supporters. Special $1.35. —Second Floor. ak clal $1.75. BOYS’ DREADNAUGHT S-quart size, spe- tal $2.00. SCHOOL SUITS aT Et this teak $5.00 —ccona rioor | ‘it! 82:85. Special $12.50 HE tional value in the well-built, solid oak Furniture Section offers an excep- Library Table here pictured. An attractive scroll-base Table, measures 26x42 inches over top, has large, roomy drawer and is carefully constructed and finished throughout. Special, $12.50. —Third Floor,