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- =THE BON MARCHE’S= January Clearance oT Priges Reduced 25 Per Cent, 50 Per Cent and in Some Cases Evert More If your Christmas box was a cash one, bring it down to The and obtain double value for your gift money. SKIRTS CUT FREE Even Though Prices of Dress Goods Are Deeply Cut for a| Quick Clearance A dozen good standard skirt patterns to choo ter to do the work—he never fails to please Pick out your a yard, or more, $1.00 and $1.25 Black Wool Dress Goods, 50 and 54 Inch For the cooler weather, a assortment, including rich Bigeanla, $1.25, at 69c a yard —Upper M $1.50 French Serge and Epingle Poplin, 54 Inch $i. 35. Beautiful All-wool Epingle Poplins and French Serges at a of the season’s most popular weaves; 75 pieces in the lot in a sf and full 54 inches wide. such a clever little cut learance Sale bargains ce of Charge 69c Black Wool and materials fr ese at 69 and we cut y Skirt for tress, skirt or f se a fine basket weave novelties orth ain Floor. very | two of colors —Upper Main Floor. yw price lendid range | Clearance Reductions Are in Full Force in Drapery and Picture Sections And Many a ‘‘Home” Bargain Can Be Picked Up at a Big Saving Nowadays IN PICTURES IN DRAPERIES 10c and 15c Pictures 15¢ Curtain Scrims at } 500 Unframed Pictures, size 8x10 ) Heavy quality Scrims with inches to 16x20 inches. A great ) 5c d borders and neat 10c variety of subjects to choose from; | f igns on edges; some | worth to 15c; going at 5c each at 10x ) } $1.25 Picture Frames 12 Price a | |} = 28-inch Walnut Moulding Pic- 15¢ Brown Burlap, Yard | ture Frames, size 20x28 inches 500 yards of Brown Burlap, 3 for the enlarged phot scenes; $1.25 value, pri this sale at 63c $4.50 and $5.00 Pastels 35¢ and ‘4Bc Cretonnes Cretonnes, worth to 45c—your } tel Pictures, size 14x28 inches, choice at 25¢ a yard. Handsome, framed in handsome gilt bur-) . high-g terial wit line nished frames; beautiful 29} signs and « es for sald sets Beautiful Hand-made Pas- | 25 | tures for the living room— and shirt waist b Third Third Floor. Floor. Get Some of These “Noise Makers for New Year’s| Razoo Blow Hurrah Rattle Frying Pans, 5 5c Wood - Cla) 5c cl . Tin Blow Horns, enameled in ke) Pune Peper toe 25. roll or three rolls c Ted and blue, : 10c 25c : —Fourth Floor. | Trimmed Hats Worth to $25. 00 for i 69. If you have been waiting for hat prices t to sell $10, $12.50, $15, $18 nd $25 black and the leading shades Untrimmed Hats at Merest Fractionsof Former Prices -50 to $2.50 Hat Shapes 49c aes ore pws $1 Feathers to 50c at 10c "ancy Feathers, Stick: Pompons and Wing ef 95 to $4.95 Sha; $1.50 ‘ of feathers, @ oa to $3.95 Tas $1.95 $1.50 Feathers 25¢ $5.95 to $7.50 Shapes at Half . —Serond Floor, South. Kes fitted with strong Cow Bells 10c lots of nolse; price, each Rood for sur ch y're of we are going | values at velve and in all so prettily Big Reductions in Millinery Trimmings Millinery Fur Half Price ing hate, worth 5 r Ornaments and Skin and S60 a worth 860 to January Clearance Sale January Clearance of of Fancy Baskets at 2 PRICE 25¢ Bamboo Sandwich Baskets have been reduced to . 59c Bamboo Frult Baskets— good size, reduced to........... 98c Work Baskets, fancy colored, reduced to $1.19 Fancy Flower Baskets are reduced to half price $2.50 Work Baskets of sweet grass good size, priced at $4.00 Sewing Stands of Manila grass are reduced to. 3 LESS Women's $11.50 Fitted Bags of cow hide have been reduced to Women's $12.00 Bags of black leather, reduced for this sale to Men's $12.50 Bags of cowhide leather have been red 124c 30c 49c 60c $1.25 $2.00 —Lewer Main Floor. $8.34 saber? adhicey sss nuine walrus, $12. 34 relic aca vey hess of cowhide $12. 66) $14.00 Women’s $21.00 Bags of « —Lower Maia Floor, walrus, nicely fitted Good C oF orters Reduced | | $9.50 Down Comforters at | $15.75 Down Comforters. $7.50 Ka. Down Comforters, coveres floral sateen, 2x84 inche and warm. larly $9.50. $12.50 Ea. Handsome Down Comforters, size 70x80 size 72 ere th floral Special at $7.50; v blue and —Lower Main Floor, January Clearance Sale Bargains in Domestics 10c Percales, 26 inches wide: | 9c pene mill lengths and full bolts. t and dark shades; yards toa p customer; a yard fast ylor 7 Apron Ginghams, in lengths Outing Flannel, 2,000 ee to 20 his: bine checks ana4 in a 7 inches wide not over 15 f olta; not over —Lower Main Moor. The Postoffice han moved back to Ita old piace on the Upper Main Floor Balcony THE BON MARCHE) Pike Street—Seeond Avenue—Union Street Eliott 4100. Bon Marche | the prospe: Fitted Bags and Suit Cases | $7.67 | $8.00 | satin in| helio | BY JACK JUNGMEYER Bpectal OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec, 28. “How can we hope to make a success of a shingle plag@® which ita owner, a practical mill op. erator, had to shut down as a loming proposition?” It was with such doubt that the former employes of the MeCann mili here faced the ralsing of $3,000 cash to oper llahment on a co Is one of a dozen such being run in the state of Washington by former employes h marked success, tell you how," Oscar McGill, logger-pre: wtart | encouraged | ot Seattle, who started | the Plan | you received a of wages Your em-| yer could not cut them, no mat-| ter what the condition of business. | When he n't or wouldn't mees| }@ payroll he had to shut down, = | ' Ww, AX Co-Operative man-| ager-workers of the mill you will buy your materials first, for cash,| set aside a fund to meet your debt, | and afterward divide whatever ts| eft among all. This may be $1/ each, or $10, a ing to condi-| jtlons, When t are good you make a good profit. When they are slow you may make a bare living. YOU WILL MAKE A It In better than idlenons, | if you can PAY YOUR SELVES but half of what you} earned as employed workers.” | He Goes to Merchants | And so, after much persuasion by McGill, they pooled thetr f s and went ou | | went to the whom the . ney No one tn the we " he told} tive coo! deeply interested tn good Jodi o A MONTH NS AMONG OL) S MEN. The merchants ng just that much by hay | demon with of faith linked up #8 shrewdness, on the © penniless men and thelr *—of the faith that is the wheel of all industry Debts Prove an Asset The greatest difficulty was to {re the shingle weavers with In themselves, and to hem to sign their own notes 50 each was the first time I or any m had ever realized that 4 metimes prove to be a post aaset 1 has now been operat ing three mont |made new records in produ under the new enthustasm o weavers. At the present market price for shingles !t will cor » « comfortable Ii tive managers, as well © the $3,000 debt by the » fiscal year. Supplies Bought for Cash Logs and all supplies are bought For every 1,000 shingles laid aside for a fund to meet t en What fs left ts divided equally among the men the preacher who had been sent to the tall timber by hts church has helped hundreds of people, here and tn other 1 townn, to ad themselves and to set going anew | ry from the machinery of a n down one on little more than & shoestring (To Be Continued.) Rev. 9. H. McGill UPHEAVAL IS} THREATENED | IN BRITISH CABINET LONDON, Dec. 28.—The British cabinet faced the grav- est internal crisis of the war when It met shortly before noon today with the momentous question of conscription to be decided. It was rumored that several members would resign unless the body agreed to some form of compulsion; it was sald, too, that Premier Asquith and poe sibly Earl Grey would quit if the pro-conscriptionists won. In the latter cane it is believed David Lloyd George would become in known to be unalterably |i and is be jf 1 to “slackers stand squarely for some of driving or into the munitions It was belleved the conscription would be settled once for all today Parliament meeta tonight, follow 1, and unless ent is forth et bitter de Premier A primed for tle. fnelst that the govern t fall ure of Lord Derby's or pro- © view the suc wit h which it has been her. ontrovert that ‘PORTLAND KID’ THROWN FROM IS A MYSTERY OLYMPIA, Deo. Pn Despite his readiness to talk to whomsoever choosen to talk to him, Frank Stone, sometimes known as “The! Portland Kid,” case Jointly accused with J F n, and EF. saloon specific Kearna, an man, of grand lar da claim on the accident 1,200 one arrived tn Olympia | Monday from Portland, where he| had been going under an assumed | name since December 7, he anke Tanner. ned, how no statements that new Hght on the in aft > made ows an surance gr OPEN OFFICES HERE i Factory offices to handle North West trade will be established In Seattle by the Willys-Overland © BUILDERS TO MEET Hullders will Bullders' * building moet Exchange in the Tuesday night charge being that |, city at to form al New Henry ‘night. ent BIKE; HE MAY DIE Cc. P. Cane, 4208 First ave. N. BE, with little chance of ident at 8 o'clock Tuesday | morning Case was riding the wheel when | |he ran into Tony Kayno, waiting for a street car. Kayno re a gash over the eye and also to his legs was hurled to the pavement | with great force " NEW ITALIAN CONSUL Lieut, Paulo G. I Seattle to take t Italian consul fo in answer ef from Vice Consul A Irenna is tem ew Washington ar SALESMEN DINE Seattle sales man ed the traveling 5 a holiday Washington rs entertain. hotel Monday | 1s at the city hospital, with a frac tured skull, remains as much al recovery, as the result of a motor. tery as ever in the Industrial tn-| cycle ac who was| trenna, of Rome, | to the! them into the |} tac: |i Ith’s opponents are men of the| banquet at the} More than 450 were ad End-of-the-Year Prices on Women’s and Misses’ Outer Garments are making a quick disposal of all remaining assortments of Suits, Coats and Dresses remaining on hand from Autumn and Winter Displays. This is the opportunity to secure high-grade garments for every day and evening oc- casion, in styles that will be worn with pleasure during several months to come, at very much less than the season’s earlier prices. WOMEN’S SUITS reduced to $12.25, $18.75, $24.00 and $29.00. men's We at reduced prices. and Misses’ Dresses, also Girls’ Cc WOMEN’S COATS reduced to $14.75, $21.50 and $27.75. ats and Dresses, regrouped for clearance The Clearance in Trimmed and Untrimmed Millinery affords exceptional values in Hats from representative New York Milliners, and models from our own workrooms, marked at decisive reductions. Trimmed Hats reduced to $2.95, $5.00 and $7.50. Untrimmed Hats reduced to 95, $1.50 and $3.00. ;@ Children’s Trimmed Hats reduced to 95c, $1.95, $2.95 and $5.00. | House Dresses in the Clearance IGH-GRADE House Dresses that have bec slightly rumpled from handling, priced greatly under former value in this clearance offering: SPECIAL $1.95— Many attractive styles of excellent quality percale in pink, ome well-made Dresses light-blue, and heliotrope with hemstitched lawn or voile collar cuffs polka dots. Also Dresses in pretty striped ginghams or mummy cloth in rose and with patterned large of lavender, tan or brown SPECIAL $2.95— Pretty Dresses of fine colored Copen- hagen, rose and brown, trimmed with circular flounce and white embroidered collar and cuffs in this lot are some attractive Dresses in plain pop- linens in Also included lins and fine tissue striped ginghams Second Floor. The Ohio Steel Range | pos ime touched minutes from the the the kindling the firebox of the Ohio Range the baking | Fifteen minutes match is to in oven is at the there is the from FP time the fire is lit, hot enough for bath water Four sizes, 16-, 18-, 20 $49.50, and 22-inch ovens, $57.50 and $61.50 respect- —Third Floor ively BASEMENT SALESROOM BROKEN LINES OF Fancy Linens At Reduced Prices AT 75¢ Lace-trimmed Luncheon Squares, 30-inch size. 30-inch Centerpieces of Filet-pattern lace combined with embroidery arfs in French knot em- Lace-trimmed Dresser Sc broidery. combined with eyelets AT 39¢ Dresser Scarfs of linen-finished cotton, trimmed with wide lace, size 17x50 inches An_ odd lot Embroidered Centerpieces, and 45 Lace-trimmed of Round Scalloped in 36-, and 54-inch sizes, and Linen Scarfs at extremely low prices —Banement Salesroc ~Second Floor. 7, HOME ROOK OF SaLsprtond Ties The Early Spring Number of the Home Book of Fashions B ‘iemation on Spetue a ions, this vom number also Illustrations of and under- of the sub- new contains man children’s wear muslins. A few jects: Paris Sounds the Note for Early Spring. The Blouses Show Many Attractive New Features, Glittering Evening Frocks in the New Plays Show the Use of Crinoline. The Corset is the Substruc- ture of Smart Gowning. Color in Negligee and Un- derwear. Smart Fashions for Youth- ful Figures. Simple Lines and Direc- toire Effects in Latest Fash- ions. Price 25c, including a pat- tern certificate Pattern Section, First Floor® Basement Salesroom Silk Waists Reduced to $2.95 \ pe La Ps D in thi are lines of Wai Chine, Taffeta, meuse a clear- broken in Crepe de Striped Char- Tub Silks, one collar 1 heavy with low or two-in and long sl esroom,