The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 2

Tomorrow, Saturday, Is the First Business Day of the New Year JOHNPANTONCO. Is going to start right by offering the biggest and best bargains it has ever offered—Bargains | that will crowd the store with buyers from 9 a. m. to9 p. m. Read every item and come early Saturday. c Children’s Sweaters 500 Sweaters for children 6 months Worth to to two years. Plain and fancy rib, in 1. whites gray, red and navy. Limit 2. HOSE SUPPORTERS |] 5c A table of Ladies’ Hose Supporters ee in white, black and Persian elastics. | “°"3sc” “° Ladies’ Long Kimonos C Some are made of heavy fleece lined Values to calico, others are Persian challies with sd Empire back.—Third Floor. BOYS’ WOOL Gloves, all perfect and well made. LADIES’ NECKWEAR Neckwear in all the new styles and materials. A Marge assortment of Decorative C Persian and Plain Ribbons, up to 6 Department. LADIES’ UMBRELLAS 500 Paragon frame Cotton Taffeta Cheap at $1:25. of Buttons; some have a dozen on a l C card, others less, but all go at less Werth up to A case of Men’s All-wool Black Cashmere Hose, with natural gray LUMBER MEN FULL OF HOPE. FORNEW YEAR Big Demand “From War Zone} and Eastern Market Means Prosperous Year for North-| west. It wasn't as terrible a risk as some of us imagined to extend New Year's greetings to men in| the lumber business today, In| fact, some of the struggling tim: bermen responded almost cheerily All of which may be asertbed to the growing hope among lumber men of the Northwest that a bust neas boom ts close at hand, Many mills which have been living en-| tirely on hope for nearly a year feel that their patience ts about to be rewarded Expect Big Business Some of the optimists go so far as to say indications point to bet ter business than has been enjoyed in two or three years, Even the cynics of the industry admit there has been felt “a alight change for the better. Northwest mille have been flood} ed with inquiries from foreign | countries and the Bast regarding large orders The mand for railroad ties ts unprecedented. | Great Pritain alone wants to place an order approximating} 12,000,000 feet of timber. While these tries are not of a def. inite ¢ Pl nd do not offer an attractive rice, it has, however, caused a most remarkable perking up in the industry | Easterners Bidding | The rket has become! an act of for timber from the Washington forests, This ts largely due to advantages offered by transportation via the Panama canal | The war has closed the North | sea so the United Kingdom there-| fore turns from Norway end Sweden to America for {ts lumber. | The Northwest will get a big por | tion of this business, according to| prevailing opinion. Whether America can retain {ts Great Britain customers after ces-! sation of the war remains to be} seen | Tho Incline tn hurtness has en- abled a number of mills to resume full operation. Others are prepar ing to open. | A. D. MeDonald, salesmanager of the H. C, Boleom Lumber Co., re ports an encouraging !mprovement, and prospects of flourishing bust-| ness. Inqutries have been recety- ed by the Bolcom Mills from/| French, English and Atlantic sea-| board sources. Something big may be closed soon, they intimate. Rate Incr: Helpe | “Bustness cond re rapidly ng. hips to pro ceed in safety to pean cout tries. That's why things are get ting brighter,” explains McDonald The E. H. Lewis Lumber Co. ts pleased with the outlook. They have been busy answering fn quiries from many Eastern bidders | With increase profits in view, the railroads are beginning their purses, they belleve. J. F. Ives, manager of the Stim son Mills, while not as hopeful as fs looking ahead with con. le anticipation. are hoping, that’s all,” he) to open Quite a number of mills, {n which machinery has been lying {dle sev eral months will renew operations tomorrow NEW BEAUTY TAKES PLACE IN CAPITAL STAR—FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1915. PAGE 2, — | Seanes_ The Going-Out-of-Business Sale OF: — J Pm Veith-Cammack Co. Possesses an added advantage to the usual “End-of-Season” buying in the fact that no store in Seattle has ever shown higher class merchandise than Veith-Cammack Co. This Store Has Always Been Associated With The Best Clothing in the United States has featured and advertised it as such—but, in spite of the phe- nomenal business done, we find that we still have on hand [owing to depressed local conditions] 50 per cent of this fine high-grade clothing. If You Are Looking for the Greatest Values in all Seattle’s Clothing Sales—and by values we mean not only PRICE, but QUALITY, study these reductions in prices named today, and remember you are buying Seattle’s Highest-Grade Clothing at the Price of Low-Grade Men's and Young Men's $15 and $18 Suits $9.45 $15 and $18 Overcoats $18 and $20 Suits $12.45 $18 and $20 Overcoats $12.45 75¢ Fancy Golf Caps 45c 50c 2-Pc Underwear $9.45, $5.00 Knox Hats, Fall Shapes $2.45 25¢ Silk Neckwear 15c Men's $3.00 Pants Men's $4.00 Pants Men's $5.00 Pants Men's $7.50 Pants Men's $10.00 Pants 85c Silk Neckwear Men's and Young Men's $1.50 Man- h’'t’n Shirts Men's and Young Men's $20 and $25 Suits $14.45 EXTRA SPECIAL 70 Odd Garments $15.00 Values English Tweed Raincoats Balmacaans Suits and Overcoats $7.95 Men's and Young Men's $25 and $30 Suits $18.45 $20 and $25 Overcoats and Balmacaans $14.45 $1.25 2-Pc. Mixed Wool Underwear 85c $5.50 Sweaters $1.00 Shirts Broken Lots $7.50 Sweaters 95c Men’s and Young Men’s $30 and $35 Suits $21.75 $25 and $30 Overcoats and Balmacaans $18.45 15c Black and Tan Union Suits{ Hose, 3 for 25c $8 Mackinaw Coats 65c |$2.95|$4.95/ $5.85 $25.00 Gaberdine Raincoats selling Veith-Cammack Co. |: Second at James $12.45 cat 912.45 Straight and Convertible Collars. 1,000 pairs Boys’ Fancy Wool A big lot of left-from-Christmas inches wide, at our new Ribbon ve to Umbrellas with cord and tassel. A table of odds and ends of all kinds than half. MEN’S HOSE feet. Sold everywhere for 25c. (HOW SOLDIERS MEET DEATH CHARGING ‘BELGIAN FOLK INTO NET OF ELECTRIC BARBED WIRES _ "OFFERED HOMES &&.. ‘IN THIS COUNTRY LONDON, Jan. 1.—Farms in the to firing line in Northern France as the ordinary non-combatant set . mab piapent Kuantan shoal 2 mas present America offers titute Belgian farmers. Each farm will have a how from two to five rooms, also a & cow, a couple of chickens on it, and all the ments necessary to rp ia tatty Each colony of 50 ™.7 have tt 7 church and school house. This offer of farm homes in the | Southern states—Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ten- nessee, Virginia, Kentucky and Ala- has been submitted to Bel n exiles by W. H. Manns, flee sident of uthern settlement i aisinak : . and developn ssociation, x Londo ‘om Se Cardinal Far. ; ley and Cardinal Gibbons. nef fertile Srey % He is reaching the Belgians Man anihera 4 through Ambassador Page and the London foreign office. “This offer we are Belgians is Manns. “We SOLDIERS MIND BULLETS N Percales (5c ||(Meege>y MORE THAN THEY 00 RAIN By H. J. Phillips cales—navy, red, gray and black and Regular Staff Correspondence white grounds. Economy Basement. te ‘ CALAIS, France, Dec. 15. Wash Basins 1,000 of them, assorted sizes; extra heavy retinned. Limit 2, and none delivered unless with other goods. I have just come from a point as near A new phase of the war has arrived. Daily fighting in the t it about, This Mary Wheeler Vast WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 1 Miss Mary Wheeler V grand-|® jo daughter of the iate 8 ‘or Vent! Nobody thinks about of Mississippi, is to be one of the| heroos—Belgian, Germar debutantes of the holiday season. | A hall of bull Miss Vest, who {s a Southerner, | the storm is over or you go out in will be presentec storm. {s too sev aunt, Mrs. at it ception to be given thi illage that fighting is now a business rane from ¥ village has brought ‘The soldiers’ work on th heroes any more. To the Jayman they'd all be Britisher and Frenchmar # {8 like a rainstorm to @ far the fleld and get you all get under shelter it is now on the front in Northern France. resting by the roadside the other day when an officer of the Two Millinery Specials - Me sicko pune" lesioce” Ga St okar aes oie Pin, ly pencing HITS TRUCK @ sat ‘and talked, ‘The village fighting, be t A “big.assortment of Untrimmed orse than trench work Hats, velvets and plushes, in black n. Latter t san We sappera have to o right down each street, and colors; assorted shapes and sizes. ick and : iinetiings Out inen Kre:ab ooo 454 and the Garsuicn wi the other Values to $4.00, for 89c. HALF to do anything or cuss abo d me, blowing up every armed with credent smo! tary of State Bryar Values to $4.00 The G where and 1 to be regularly n the énd very met away = = ch i not t almor e} hen they found a dozen at the of and an interpreter walked straight up and shoute are giving these ex- for Sat- € t if they wonle ender no harm wo to them. 4 iles an opportunity to help them. ; a Si 1 P ' them both were talkin “ urday only, such as ostrich plumes, mught the ; stick-ups, roses and fancy flowers, QDOUS GF PEN ens go at half price. men had cle top of one of aking to the not charity,” declares d come dead as the iid and did not want to wait until we br urge of dynamite. Whon it fell i with the Bel ers were dug out, curiously enough, unhurt par sag? ar me ain Amons After being medical ed by drumhead and man spies disgu ts We always lose a lot of men in this work, but it is their own fault i ‘ are ax Cool as cucumbers | Bought for the above Hat “We will give them these farms and homes, schools and churches, without any immediate cost te them. “For the first year no interest or any part of the principal will be paid on the purchase of the land The payments may be made in from five to twenty years’ time, and the money required will come from ithe farms.” examined, they were tri © never dare go boldly in, as the Ge emins| a picked lot of snipers behinc | a to blow holes inthe walls and t tunnels underneath the roads When we take @ villag Gold-Filled Spectacles uke house by house. as well| to get across without being | JOHN PANTON (0. Barbed wire entanglements, charged with high-voltage electricity, again our men will never use the underground, and are used by both sides in the war fronts, The picture shows a German "6 K, CHESTERT Il bullets are whizzing like hall, you will see a man stroll acros¥| ON soldier meeting his death, ret with a kettle full of hot water or some such thing wanted a © other side.” STAR WANT ADS BRING RESUL Ts rieal 82.50. Exa n Pree BINYON OVTICAL 00. 1116 First Ave. here Dr, Hinyon, LONDON, Jan, 1.—G. K. Chester. ton, the writer, is very il