The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1914, Page 10

This Store Will Be Closed All Day Friday] 4 : a, | Ladies wtp New Year's Day ies, | FREDERICK é~NELSON Thursday—End-of-the-Month—End-of- Year }and End of the Pre-Inventory Sale, Too mata et role to _j]) { 150 Men’s Hats in a Clearance at $1.00 | So there will be bargains a-plen - dened overthe Bon Marche, and With laughter, song and stacks and stacks of things will be sold for far less than they | bag Sak bath heed ape were ever made for---Buy your New Year’s Gifts here, and HURSDAY we clean up our Men's Hat stock by the disposal of all odd and bro- ken lines at a uniform and very low price. you will have but little to pay. *(Look ft up tn the dictionary, Wo had to.) CE a Ee ey Approximately 150 H: ats, in the disposal; Miss Airdrie Kincaid, University soctety belle, and sister of the pro- 5 9 ° | en S uits OY e | largely Derbies, but a few Soft Hats included. fessor who discovered bugs, received for Christmas a mont beautiful ex Sizes broken, but a fair range in the ample of the dashy fiszer-jigger things made of colored maline and worn offering as a whole. Choice, $1.00. $12.50 and$15 Direct Action Gas Ranges Home Luckily, it arrived some days before Christmas This Kave Miss Kineaid time to take advantage of the idea and | make some just ike {t for some of her girl friends, Also to pass the idea along to some of her more intimate girl friends, who couldn't think what to give to some of their gtrl friends. So that the number of whatyou-call’emsa made by Miss Kinoald | and her girl friends, and the girl friends of thelr girl friends, so far ae known, approximates 789, at the back of the neck. The Basement Salesroom’s Outer Garment Clearanée HARP reductions have been taken on the Basement Salesroom’s regular low prices for this clearance, making an unusual opportunity to save in the purchase of ready-to-wear garments for women and misses. The clear- ance features: Having settled to a finish with wife over the vast sums she has spent for Christmas presents, let us turn to the horrors of war in Eu- rope with complacency oe eee William M. Smythe, manager of the Class A theatre, was walking | home at night.when two men poked revolvers under his nose and said Hands up Smythe put th up quickly rather than have an argument about it So why not treat your- ‘ His pockets contained $16. self to a new Suit for | Y | But he didn't love it all, He saved $6 Years day? You f . A’ | Before the robbers began to search his pockets an idea came to ; the alert Mr, Smythe will find some gs oes Til tell you what I'll do," he said. “If you take my money from | patterns on the my pockets, you will commit highway robbery, for which the law pro table—far nicer than one vides a Reavy penalty You might be caught 4 convicted, and then again you might not. There isthe risk to be considered, On the other so would expect at so low hand, I will divide my $15 with you, and you won't have to go to the a . = " trouble of robbing me.” | are quite a few The holdup men didn't want to really rob anybody {f it could be | of our well known $15.00 | avoided | Blue Serge Business Suits nS, Ne split the $18 three wayn, and everybody was satisfied,” re | ff —and several of those “ctr rg steds—tha — rn Af Rtas as trim and |SENATE CONSIDERS LITERACY TEST: always look so trim and sient. ; WASHINGTON, Dec, faa —The senate Tuesday took up the literacy Lots of the more notice- ost provision of the immigration bill without reaching any definite de- o cision. The bill waa occasion for héated debate, featured by several able kinds, too—in checks sharp verbal clashes and smart stripes. Senator O'Gorman opposed the bill in the hottest terms, declaring Take your choice of it an improper method of determining the qualifications of an Immigrant them, gentlemen, at $9.95. for American citizenship, Hltteracy, he said, does not necessarily mean B . $7.50 Overcoats for ignorance or stupidity Boys’ $10 and $12.50 Suits i An amendment exempting political or racial refagees from the teat) $5.00 Ea. Any boy will laugh at the cold with one of these at $7.90 | ) IN STATEMENT = There are New Year's festivities for both old OPTIMISM PREACHED IN STA j Ata. We have thems le slave 12 to 15 years |MADE BY SEATTLE BANK and young, and Johnny must not be without a new Suit—~so right here {s your last chance for a bar heavy and medium weight cassimeres and tweeds. | gain. They're the Norfolk Suite with box or knife Optiminm is the keynote of the digest of trade conditions just ts | Plain and lay-down collars or shaw! collars with | plaits, full peg pants, lined and taped seams. sued by the First National bank of Seattle. The falling off in exports semi-fitted or belted backs. Fancy pat-| Choose from checks, stripes and plain grays and from $246,000,000 in October, a year ago, to $26,000,000 tn November, and plain colors. this year, explained by the decline of $71,000,000 in cotton exports alone, showing that under normal conditions there would have been a COATS REDUCED TO $6.75. Misses’ and Small Women’s Coats in good quality Mackinaw plaids, fancy coatings and zibelines. Reduced for clearance to $6.75 WOMEN’S SUITS REDUCED TO $5.75, $8.85 and $10.65- Fall and Winter Suits in styles with short, three-quarter and full-length coats, in serges, crepes, gaberdines and broadcloths. Reduced to $5.75, $8.85 and $10.65. STREET AW]D PARTY DRESSES REDUCED TO $8.85 AND $10.65- Women'sand Misses’ Dresses of fine French serge and serge and satin combinations; also Reduced Party Dresses of taffeta and chiffon to $8.85 and $10.65 SILK WAISTS REDUCED TO $3.25 CHILDREN’S COATS REDUCED # Taffetas, browns, in sizes 6 to 18 years. Upper Main Floor. TO $3.75— Attractive Waists in Plaid Pre-Inventory Clearance of $1.25 Silk Hose 95c a Pr. Women’s Silk Stockings, knitted of the finest quality pure thread silk. Made with deep double garter tops of mercerized liste thread, soles, heels and toes of the same quality. Black, white and colors Sizes 8% to 10, Women’s 65c Silk Hose 50c a Pr. Women's Slik Boot Stockings, with double soles, heels and toes, garter tops of fine mercerized lisle thread. Black, white and cos tume shades, in sizes 8% to 10, at SOc a pair, Lower Main Floor. $2.50 Long Kid Gloves $1.79 Pr. You will want new Gloves to wear to the New Vear festivities. These are 16-button or elbow length, white dress kid gloves, with three clasps at wrist. Sizes 5% to 7. Lower Main Flour, For the Last Day of the me | Pre-Inventory Clearance Sale Marche Horn on New Year's Eve—with the rest of Dlades—a dime or two you with an evening's lars size rola, 25 rolls The women who like pretty Un- derwear will want some of these Venetian Silk Vests at $1.50 each. Beautifully embroidered. of white or pink. Sizes 34 to 42 in the lot. Lower Main Floor, Last Day of the Pre-Inventory Sale of Fancy China Half Price 25c Fancy China Plates will go Thursday at . 26e Fancy China Sugar variety of handsome designs, 28 Bonbon Dishe have been re- Sets, a good assortment, at 4% Fancy China Powder Boxes are reduced to $1.00 Fancy China Comb and Brus! Trays are cut to. Cut Glass at 4 Less $149 Cut Glass Nappies have been reduced to...... $3.49 Cut Glass Bowls, ‘in beautiful " $2. 62 designs, are reduced to. $3.49 Cut Glass Vases in various “sl graceful styles, $6.00 Cut Glass Bowls, cut in hand $3 75 . some patterns, Choice 50c Plain and Fancy Silks —19c Yd.— Here's rich picking in Silke for the closing day of the Pre Inventory saves. Short lengths and dress patterns in ploin and fancy Silks, worth to 60c—in a fine line of colors, at 19¢ a yard —Upper Main Floor. Every Wool Remnant in Stock —1-3 Less— Take any remnant of Wool Dress Goods we have in stock at one-third off the proper price. Poplins, broadcloths, serges, suitings and checks, in all desirable colors included in the sale. —Upper Main Floor. Lace and Trimming Remnants —1-2 Price— Beautiful Laces and Trimmings that you will need to bein your New Year's sewing—60c to $3.08 valnes at just half price. Allovers, flouncings, edges, bands, chiffons and neta, % to 1%- yard lengths. —Upper Main Floor. Grocery Bargains for the New Year's Feast Washington Creamery Butter 324c—No Telephone Orders Cranberries, extra fine quality Wash- Oc ington berries, pound Shoulder Ham, medium welght, nicely trimmed and smoked, no phone orders, 1 14 re c pound . New Mixed Nuts, a splendid picture of the best nuts, pound 19c Boft Shell Almonds, California IXL Almonds, one of the heat, pound. . ‘224c Soft Shell Walnuts, New © ‘allfornia 224 c soft shell nuts, pound, Little Pork Sausage, fresh ‘shipment 15c '17ke received dally, pound Wet Mince Meat, Tea Garden brand one of the best, pound Navel Oranges, regular for a $1.12] | a: : 25c Table Raisins, hew California Cluster Table Raisins, 140 and... .. 22c New Seeded Ralsine, your choloe of Maxtmum or Fresno brands, package... 10c Del Monte brand, 22/40, 400 and... 75c —Fourth Floor. .124¢ 4 Cre im Sets in a 124c Be .. 25€ 260 wlze, $2.62 Maraschino Cherries one of the best, 150, fer Main Floor, Thureday This Store Will Open at 9 A. M. and Close at 6 P. M., as Usual THE BON Union M%—Becond Ave—Pike St.—Seattle RCHE Telephone Elliott 4100 healthful Increase in exports Imports during November, 1914, were $126,000,000, compared to $135,000,000 tn October and $148,000,000 tn November, a year ago, giving a favorable trade balance to the country for November of $79,000,000, | as compared to $56,000,000 for October and $97,000,000 for November, | | 1923, The digest concindes with a prediction of most favorabie trade con ditions throughout the country during 1915, declaring the coming year will be the most eventful in America’s commercial history | It says in part “We will manufacture and eupply ourselves with many things which we have heretofore bought abroad; we will export many things which have heretofore fbund only a home market; those who must travel will probably ‘See America’ next year, and the foreign tourist travel in this country, due to the Pan- ama exposition, promises to be quite heavy. siness ie con. valescing, and with proper nursing It should be h: ind hearty In a few months.” COMMERCIAL CLUB SWATS BRIDGES’ PLAN | Opposition to Port Commissioner Bridges’ plan to segregate the| commission's work into three divisions was voiced in a resolution adopt-| ed by the Seattle Commercial Clab unanimously Tuesday night Bridges’ plan is to create finance, operation and engineering de-| partments, and to place one commisstoner in charge of each, subject to! | the general policies defined by all three commissioners. President Chittenden is against the plan, The resolution adopted by the Commercial Club declares that the voters did not intend any part of the management of the port work to be delegated to any one individual. YOUTH OF 17 DIES CALMLY IN DEATH CHAIR | TRENTON, N. J. Dee. 30.—Stephano Ruggigiri, 17, the youngest convict ever condemned to di s prison here, was electrocuted for Fulgarano at Lyon The boy died calmly. everybody good-bye before he was strapped! in the electric chair. The Rev. Edward A, Griffin administered the last sacra- ments and prayed with the prisoner on the walk to the chair. Five other men who are to die next month sang hymns as the death march began. Ruggigiri claimed he was employed by an uncle to kill an enemy of the latter and fire: shot that slew Fulgarano. REPULSE ENTIRE AUSTRIAN FRONT CETTINJE, Montenegro, Dec. 30-—The Austrian forces, an- nounced the Montenegrin war office today, attacked the entire front of the Montenegrin invading army in the province of Her- zegovina Monda: three Austri tenegrin troops at Gratovo, but without doing serious damage. TEXAS RANGERS TRAIL BANDITS SAN ANTONIO, Deo, 30—Two masked men early today held up and | robbed the passengers in two sleeping cars of train No. 9 on the South- | ern Pacific railroad, at Cline, 15 miles weat of here, A posse of Rang | | ore took up the trail of the bandits at once, BULWARK DEATHS DUE TO “ACCIDENT” 30.—The inquest in the case of sallora who lost} their ‘lives by the recent expioson on the British battleship Bulwark, at| Sheerness, ended today with a verdict of “accidental death. From this it was taken the authoriities had satisfied themselves the vessel | was destroyed by spontaneous combustion of powder in one of its maga-| | zines. UNGLE SAM WOULD BUY THREE RAILROADS | WASHINGTON, Dec, 30-—Latest information concerning the bulld-| | ing of the Alaska ratlroad is to the effect that the government its con templating the taking over of three lines now operated in the North, for the purpose of linking them with the government lines, The roads being considered are sald to be the Alaska Northern, the Copper River & Northwestern, and the Tanana Valley rods | MILLION BUCK CLUB WILL DANCE JAN. 9 Having perfected organization, the “Million Buck club,” a dancing society formed by a number of Broadway high school students, is pre-| paring for its opening dance Ita series of dances will begin Saturday night, January 9, at Douglas | hall, in Odd Fellows’ temple, Tenth ave. and Pine st, Invitations were | issued Wednesday. | The officers of the club include Kirk Gifford, Edward Pinkman and | Fred Carper. ‘“QRISIS” IS LAWYER'S MAIDEN EFFORT There are two unusual things about “The Crisis,” the comedy- drama H. Guy Woodward is presenting at Pantages this week, One 18, the plece was dashed off during idle moments by one of San Francisco's wealthiest and most prominent attorneys, the other that the handsome royaltios from the same each Week are drawn down by the author's amall daughter The author is Archibald Treat, a close friend of Alexander Pantages, ‘This play isthe lawyer's maiden attempt at} | writing for the stage. Treat jotted down the dialogue for it while o: his vacation last summer. Woodward, who was in Ss time, was handed the little playlet possibilities. Without the knowledge of Treat, he gathered his company together and put the sketch into rehearsal, accruing on Francisco at the |} for perusal, and immediately saw ell i Silk, long to $3.25 Charmeuse and Messaline high Reduced for clearance plain with and low necks and sleeves Sizes 8 to 14 years in serviceable Coats — of Zibelines, Boucles, Melton Cloth and Faney Coating. ‘Reduced for clearance to $3.75 Basement Salesroom. Thursday Specials in House Dresses 39¢) [69c) [95c HE Basement Salesroom offers an exceptional in the well-made Percale House Dress pic- tured. It is shown in gray and white nurse stripes or gray, light- blue or black and white stripes with black, blue or white polka dots. The stitched-down collar and cuffs are of self-material and white pip- ing finishes the collar and waist- line. Special 39¢. SPECIAL 69¢— A Pretty Percale Dress in light- value blue or black and white cross-bar pattern or fancy stripes in gray and white. Flat collar and turn-back cuffs are of white pique finished with delft-blue machine- embroidered scallops and white pique piping finishes the waist-line. Special 69c. SPECIAL 95¢— Gingham House Dress in lavender or light-blue and white cross-bar pattern, with plain-color vest effect fin- ished with lace edging, turn-down collar and turn-back cuffs of white cotton poplin. Special 95c —Rasement Salesroom Fancy-Border Scrims 10c, 12!/ac and 15c Yard XCELLENT Drawn-work Scrims placing the other types of scrim for window curtains, They are from 34 to 36 inches wide and are featured values in these Fancy-bordered and which are so rapidly dis- attractive low-priced at Several patterns to choose from, unusually 10¢, 12%¢ and 15¢ yard. LOOM-MADE LACE CURTAINS SPECIAL 65¢ PAIR— Exceptional values in this collection of discontinued patterns in Lace 2% and 3 yards long and 40 to 50 inches wide, and ivory and ecru color. Special, Basement Salesroom. in white, ivory and ecru color. Loom-made Curtains They are may be had in white, the pair, 65c. Tea Kettles Special $1.00 A‘ EXTREMELY | low srice on Tea Kettles of solid copper, nickel plated. No. 7 size, five-quart capacity, special $1.00, Housewares Section highly Men’s Ties Reduced to 10c Each SHARPLY lowered price on a collec- tion of Men's Ties in fancy materials and knitted silk—each, 10¢, —Basement Salesroom. Ribbon Remnants at Reduced Prices N sale at greatly re= duced prices, Rem- nants of Plain Silk and Satin Ribbons as well as Fancy Stripes, Plaids and other novelties. ——Basement Salesroom, Jewelry Novelties Reduced to 10e N underpriced assort- ment of Jewelry Novy- elties, including Bar Pins, Belt Buckles, Beauty Pins, Cuff Buttons and many other pieces features ex- ceptional values at 10¢. Basement Salesroom, Initialed Stationery Reduced to 10¢ | eres = Stationery with delft-blue letter in a broken assortment of initials, broken lines of Holiday Box Paper, sharply underpriced at 10¢ box. —Basoment Salesroom, also Silk Hose Reduced to 39¢ yo Silk Hos- iery in tan and a few light colors, reduced for clearance to 39¢ pair. ~-Basement Salesroom,