The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1915, Page 8

T /Here’s Clearance Sale Luck for the Man WHO WANTS A CHEAP OVERCOAT Overcoats and Cravenettes . That Formerly Sold at $8.00 and $10.00 Are on Sale at They are old timers, to be sure, bat the cloth is as good as it ever was, and they will keep you just as warm and dry as any $25 Coat you could find The Men’s Overcoats are made of tan and gray covert and fancy cassimeres—the cravenettes are dark gray and light.tan—and 52 inches long—with either military or plain collars. For we have rooted out all our “back number Overcoate—the ones that used to sell for $8.00 and $10,00-—-and we want to got rid of them eo badly that we will take $3.95 for any one of theur They are not new—they are not stylish—but they are well made and of good cloth—and at $3.95 you are not even paying for that Every Day You Will Hear] Boys’ High-Grade Suits Reduced People Say: “THE BON 25% MARCHE Is My Store” AND THEY ARE QUITE RIG! for if it had not been for their patronage th 1 be where tt Is today—and we think that these people fee! 7S mutual Interest with us—in Seattle's big . 2 We sincerely hope that you ‘ene Of theee They are the Norfolk Suits tn Bulgaria who allude to the Bon Marche y Store.” AT THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR “YOUR STORE” Ts ABLE TO SERVE YOU TO GOOD ADVANTAGE. For what with the January Clearance Sale—mak- ing very material reductions in the prices of all winter goods— And the January Sale of White—with its countices economies tn dainty white merchandise—tt is pos- sible for you to procure things you need at very decided savings. and loose belted effects, with fancy stripes, checks and dark mixtures, of cassimeres, chev- fota and tweeds, priced this way: Over 5,000 Men’s Shirts at Heavy Price Reductions “Manhattan” and Other Good Makes Men who do not buy their Spring supply of Shirts now will be sorry later on. Friday the Semi-annual clearance sale of Shirts will have a very different complexion—for some special pur- chases that just reached here—have been added to the clearance sale of “Manhattan” Shirts—making it one of the “Shirt sales” ever staged at this store. Seattle men will be quick to take advantage of these six remarkable “Shirt Savings.” Men’s 75c Negligee Shirts, Coat Style at 55c Men, can you beat this for @ bargain in Shirts? Negli- gee Shirts of good quality percale, in neat stripes, with laundered cuffs, coat style. Men’s $1.00 Shirts Sizes 14 Up to 17 at 79c Bon Marche $1.50 Madras Shirts at $1.15ea. Men's Shirts, the Bon Marche make, of heavy corded madras, tn a eplendid assortment of patterns. Both laundered and soft French cuffs. —Lower Main Floor, A splendid bargain § tn Men's good quality Madras Shirts—plain and corded—in a nice selection of patterns. St from 14 to 17. Special Men’s Manhattan Shirts Worth $2.00 3 Men’s Manhattans Worth $2.50 Each at $1.85 Men’s Manhattan Shirts Worth $3.00 at $2.25 And they're ~—aaplendid Shirts, too—lote of platted fronts as well as plain styles, with laundered or soft French cuffs attached. —Lower Main Floor. Slightly Soiled Underwear—Half Price About one hundred pieces of Women’s and Children’s ( GOING AT HALF PRICE Knit Underwear—that are slightly soiled from having LONG SLEEVED VESTS, LACE TRIMMED PANTS, been out on the sales tables too much—(some have been ) (ow NECK, SLEEVELESS mended, too). Half price for any of them on Bargain ( VESTS, LONG UNION SUITS Friday. -10c 1.35 grade =Manhattan Shirte—that give the best service. These are with piain or plaited fronts, in stripes and neat designs of different colors. At $1.35. Manhattan Shirts in sizes 14 to 17%, soft or laundered, with plaited or plain fronts, of madras, crepe madras, French flannel, with attached cuffs. WORTH 100 UP TO $1.50 25c Underwear Priced Misses’ 80c Wool Pants | 25¢ ” Underwear } oy lie /29c 1 Girl's Fiat Woot Pants, sizes 10 to [ vera vines 1, Sand § yeate, Pants and 15 years, worth Tho and 80¢, 260 each, | Drawers, sizes 6 to 10 yeara 19¢ Wool Hose Priced Black Ribbed Part-wool Stockings, } ay merino heels and toes. Sizes 4 to | f years, for boys and girin Sample Hose, Pair Values up to 60c in “Onyx” and other } well-known makes of Women's Stock- ings. Sizes 8%, % and 1 J 19¢ | FRIDAY _/( Creamery Butter 29c Lb. GROCERY | ,,,2f0#) churned Washington Boys’ Heavy Cotton Shirts and Draw- [ orm, wizes 24, 26 and 28, of real Feyptian cotton. 60c Sleeping Garments Knitted, soft, part-wool Sieeping Gar- ments, made like Dr. Denton's 8 1 to & years; with feet. —Lower Mate - Floor, 123c | Friday Specials in Domestics } Creamery Butter, the best qual- 10¢ and 12 1-2c Ginghams ity, teed fresh. No pho 1 SPECIALS | (rian at toc « seuna, "| gee roses ot Brome, auneten a + TDC Butter, Pore Peanut Del Monte Siteed Pine- | piaids, checks and stripes Roger's, one of the very | apples, one of the bent beat and 12dc¢ | 2sr4,,.No ts, site 12 1-2c Dress Percales 1 purest, pound me... Lie Fine, new, ateiped Percales, In lengths | 8 Cc Rome Beauty Apples, | Map of Italy Olive Ot), to 20 yards, 26 inches wide, spectal at 2 extra large nize, fancy | tne reguine ¢i.00 "| bie m yard ‘ stock for cooking or 75c size, bottle Lard, Carsten's Mil~ 12 1-2c Dress Madras ) Wasting Madras, 26 inches wife, $1.40; > on Mght grounds with stripes of blue, [ Cc pails 70; No. 8 5 biack and hellotrope. J rails . c —Lower Main Floor. BEST 30c NOONDAY LUNCH IN TOWN—6IXTH FLOOR CAFE poNMARCHE Telephone Elliott 4100 Union 8t-—-Second Ave.—Pike St.—Seattle LR ETN es bey HE SEATTLE STAR That these poor rhymes are often punk 1 fully realize; So you'll forgive me if | try to Joseph-Millerize.® i | | | |Jamea A. Duncan, R. | Permission of the committee, until the bill is printed *(Look It up In the dictionary, We had to.) Mrs, Hawker, of South Park, didn't scream when she went. to the chicken coop for a chicken to bake and found # genuine ‘pomfum tn | one of the ne The ‘possum had @sten all of the sehicken Mt the feathers, and had curled up as bold as you please for a nap Instead of screaming, Mra. Hawker went to a neighbor and bor rowed his gun. And when Mr, Hawker came home that night, Mra Hawker was just taking the ‘possum out of the oven Fat and sweet, and browned to a turn,” reports the fortunate Mr, Hawker eee ee A certain Second ave, landlord, known for his greed, is a “self inade man,” and worked as a clerk for a small wage in Seattle tn the early days. He likes to brag about his humble beginning. He dined, he says, at & cheap restaurant, The name of the restaurant was “Live and Let Live.” oe eee Mr. George T. Nagel waa cleaning his cistern when Me found a valuable gold watch which he had lost two years ago last June The watch had been at the bottom of the elstern all the time “And, except for the case and the works, it in Just as good as ever,” reports the lucky Mr. Nagel LABOR TO FIGHT FOR MOTHERS’ PENSION Following an address by President Marsh of the State Federation of Labor, the Seattle Central Labor council Wednesday night recom mended to its delegation to the to take such eteps as will cry ize state-wide sentiment in behalf ot | the mothers’ pension law, which Senator Taylor ts attempting to destroy : Donations of $85 to the campaign fund of T. H, Bolton were an nounced. | New delegates to the council include P. W. Lewis, Willlam Me} Govern, J. 8. Salter, P. C, Woods, T. H. Rolton, John EB, Carlson, A Henderson, C. J. Jacobs, RL. Brazzle, G. BR. Harrison, Erwin & Knave, Mra, Emma Shelby, Miss Helle Craveness, Miss Robby, Mra, Rooney, Loewe, C. M. Dahlager, J. BR, McDonald, J, Mo Mahen, E. Davies, M. V. ¢ ° ‘PROPOSES CITY PAY HIGHER INTERST In order to make the bonds more attractive to the market, Coun- eilman Fitagerald will introduce bills to Increaso the interest from 4% to 6 per cent on two bond issues heretofore approved by the people, the tuberculosis hospital bonds for $125,000 and the masonry dam bonds for $400,000. ECONOMY PROGRAM RUDELY JARRED OLYMPIA, Jan. 14.—-Senator Palmer's economy bill on road-bullding got the ax tn a hurry yesterday, when the road and bridges committee Yoted it dead. Palmer called for a pulmotor and resurrected ft, with But the com Palmer's bill would have reduced mittee’s mind is made up anyhow. | the levy about $2,000,000 from the present rate allowed for road work MUST READ FIVE BIBLES FIVE TIMES LO8 ANGELES, Jan. 14—Harold Lane, 20, began a 30-day study of the Bible tn the city jail today. He chose that punishment rather Hibles from the First Presbyterian church. “You may go to prison or you may read each of thone five Bibles through five times during the next 30 days,” was the sentence imposed by Judge Wilbur. LOS ANGELES MURDERER TO BE HANGEO 108 ANGELES, Jan. 14.—Charles Ethelbert Oxnam will be sen- tenced to hang, by Superior Judge Willies, next Monday morning. His fate will be in accordance with the verdict of the jury that found him guilty of the murder of William M. Alexander. Under the Call- fornia law, the returning of such a verdict, without recommendation of — punishment, requires that the judge shall pronounce the extreme penalty. ‘SEATTLEITE STAGES FIREWORKS FEST SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 14.—H. W. Priestly, representing a Seattle pyrotechnic firm, today held the record tn San Franciaco for a one-man celebration. Last night was the date set by the department of {llumination of the Panama-Pacific exposition for a tryout of fireworks. Priestly ar rived early on the scene with two sacks of showy fireworks For some unexplained reason, however, the exposition experimenters fafled to appear. “Here goes for a big time, all by myself,” said Pricstly, after wait- ing three hours. He loaded up a big cannon and touched it off. A smoke bomb, trailing flame, burst into a shower of stars. It was a great success, and the one-man audience below cheered frantically. Other bombs and skyrockets fol- lowed in quick succession An a finale, Priestly sent up a amoke bomb, which burst Into an American fiag. As the flag was unfurled tn the sky, Priestly sang the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and then went home, GOV. BLEASE BEATS FATHER TIME TO IT COLUMBIA, 8, C., Jan, 14.—Gov, Blease of South Carolina resigned at noon today, five days previous to the expiration of his term, Attacks almed at bim as a result of his pardoning and paroling more than 3,000 convicts were ignored by Gov. Blease. He said he was proud of his “record of mercy,” adding “It wae right, and {t was my duty to extend mercy to my fellow men. I expect to be rewarded for it, too, not only here but tn the here after. I believe there is a God and I believe He ts my God. But for His help I would not have been governor of South Carolina,” OREGON MAN AND WIFE EXTRADITED AUSTIN, Tex. Jan, 14.—Accordti to an opinion on record here today in the court of criminal appe Victor EB. Ennis and hia wife, Ida May Ennin, of Eugene, Ore., must stand trial in Georgia. The Enneses have been indicted at Atlanta, charged with misappropriating funds of Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis, and Gov, Colquitt has granted extradition. GOUT ONLY FEAR OF DEPUTY SHERIFF ‘ CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 14—“I don't care If they never come ack.” Thi was the declaration today of Deputy Sheriff Tom Kane, who was enjoying himself as “master” at the million doliar marble palace of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Calhoun while the San Franciaco-Cleveland traction magnate and his wife are in New York. A judgment for $811 for unpaid premiums on fire insurance was obtained here ayainst Mrs. Calhoun by Albert R. Davis, in- nce man, Kane \@ to get the money. m living In the lap of luxury," sald Kane. “I dine daily In the gold room. The only thing | fear is that | may get the gout.” . PLAYFIELD SUPERVISORS TO STAY Seattie’s playfield supervisors will stay on the job, if a report of an advisory committee is adopted tomorrow afternoon by the park board, This committee was appointed to suggest a way out of the board's financial dilemma. it consists of Mra. L. B. Hoag, Mrs. C. E. Bogardus, Mrs, 8. H. Coe and J. Howard Stine, The committee wouldn't tell today what its report would be except that, in geferal, it will be for a reduction of expenses in nd a continuance of the playfield system on about ADDED TO the horrors of war, now comes an Europe Is sure no place for a nervous man. earthquake In Italy. —A woman in Missouri recently achieved the distinction of having three names within an hour, She went to the county seat as Mrs. Hillis, got a divorce and had her maiden name of Holliday restored, and then in a few minutes became Mre. Jacob Seigel, —Prof, F. Soddy, F. R. ©, declares that It is only a question of ap- plication to change lead into gold. He ys that, while now we can only work with electricity at 100,000 volts, it is only a matter of per. fecting the method to be able to work at ten times that voltage, when the baser metals can be changed into the more precious, ° ate convention at Olympia next week | than a prison sentence, after he had been found guilty of stealing five| | ‘ot up 1,000 feet Into the air and} it | Ranges styles and Suede and pink, blue and red Over 400 pairs -FRepenick e-NELSoN N the First Floor Shoe § broken Tan Cal Ladies’ Home Journal Patterns Clearing Broken Lots of Women’s Shoes ection (Friday) a disposal of W Shoes in odd Patent, omen’ ize comprising Button Boot Gunmetal, { Leathers, also plain Satin Dress Slippers in gray, lavender, Viret Floor in the disposal, at $1.95 pair. January Clearance in Boys’ Wear HIS week the Boys’ Clothing Section is quoting unusually-low prices on odd and broken lines of Suits, Overcoats andother garments now remaining on hand from Winter displays. Among the unusual opportunifies’ are the following: Boys’ Novelty Dress Suits Little Boys’ Balmacaan Coats Reduced to $5.00 and $6.50 High-grade Balmacaan Overcoats for little fellows of 1 year and upward to 10 years of age chinchilla coating. Exceptional values at $5.00 and $6.50. Boys’ Fine Norfolk Suits Reduced to $5.75, $7.75, $9.75 Three exceptional lots of Boys’ Norfolk Suits, made up in the newer models and tailored from fine imported tweeds and fancy cassi- meres, in gray, brown and novelty mixtures Sizes 6 to 18 years; reduced to $5.75, $7.75 and $9.75 Made up in fine imported tweeds and Boys’ Wash Suits Reduced to $1.95 Reduced to $6.50 Middy and Russian-style Suits, sizes 2 to 6 years, finely tailored from white serge, with tasteful mings Exceptional values at $6.50. , -——Boys Boys’ Tapeless Blouse Waist of fine madras shirtings, with separate collar to match, sizes 6 to 16 years. An attractive lot of Wash Suits, includ- ing Russian, Pixie and Oliver Twist styles, in plain and fancy wash fabrics. Slightly soiled from display. Sizes 2 to 6 years. Clearance price, $1.95. 2 contrasting trim- Tapeless Blouses, Special 75c Special, 75c each —Secon@ Floor. January Specials in Children’s Muslinwear OR January selling, the Infants’ Wear Section has arranged a series of especially- good values in new, dainty and well-made Undermuslins for Children from 2 to 14 years of age. CHILDREN’S DRAWERS, SPECIAL 12c, 15¢, 18c, 25c and 45¢ good quality several small tucks and hemstitched hem, sizes 2 to 12 years, Drawers of trimmed with special 12c. Knickerbocker edging, sizes 2 to 10 Knickerbocker years, special 18¢ Straight Drawers, trimmed with tucks ruffle, and embroidery years, special 25¢ CHILDREN’S GOWNS, SPECIAL 45c, 55¢, 65c, 75c, 95c and up to $1.45 Pretty Slip-over Gowns of Dresden- crepe plisse, Barmen lace edge drawn sizes 4 to 14 years, special 65c patterned Muslin sizes 2 to 12 years, trimmed with hem- stitched ruffle, special 14c Knickerbocker Drawers of good grade muslin, trimmed with frill of embroidery Drawers crepe plisse, with narrow frill finished with Barmen lace edge, sizes 2 to 10 We quote some examples: muslin, Drawers in years, special 15¢c of white Children’s Knickerbocker Drawers of fine cambric, trimmed with dainty Val- enciennes edge and beading drawn with 2 to 10 years, special 45c. sizes 2 to 10 ribbon, sizes Other attractive Gowns in the Sale, in slip-over style, specially priced at 45c, 55c, 75c, 95e and up to $1.45 —Second Floor trimmed with with ribbon, A New Nemo Corset at $3.50 Ww 5c The Clearance of Housewares HE clearance of accumulated odds and ends in the Housewares Section affords exceptional values in four under-priced lots: a Corset that combines perfect fashion-lines with absolute comfort and long wear It has no external reducing straps, the figure being sup- ported and reduced by “invisible” straps which are made of a series of narrow tapes, sewed to the inside of the corset and hooked to the front stays A new style feature—a slight “nip” at the waist-line, is shown in the illustration, Two styles are featured in this Corset : No. 341, for the short, full figure. No. $42, for the tall, full figure. Price $3.50. Broken lines of high-grade Corsets are quoted at extremely low prices for clearance, ranging from $1.00 to $6.50. —Second Floor. cnsbipcieneaasil lima 50c Housewares Section, 10c 25¢