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A Piano and MANUFACTURERS’ : f (1S hi is). ghest award No one is ask Every one s nding Home Songs” other contestants to First Grand Prize Superb, latest 1916 Studio Model, Brand New Upright Piano. All contestants will many PUBLICITY (containing words valuable Grand Prizes. other Beautiful answers will receive free First Grand Prize, Second Grand Prize Latest model, brand new, $50.00 Talking Machine, also receive from our Advertising Department, besides the Premiums mentioned above, a bona fide cash value Pur- REE PRIZES Premiums. free DISTRIBUTION AND “15 PUZZLE” CONTEST to celebrate the Great Victory at the Panama-Pacific in a most liberal International Exposition ed to buy anything to win one of these prizes. the and music of 66 songs), also an elegant “15” Exposition Souvenir Spoon, as well as having an equal chance win the collection of “National with all. the or some of the other very Third Grand Prize Beautiful Chest of Guar- anteed Silverware, and a Purchase Certificate good for $90.00. STAR—1 POSTPONE RATE HEARING AGAIN Interstate Commerce Commis. sion Puts It Off Three Months RAILROADS ASK Chairman C, A, Reynolds, of the public service commission, Is in receipt of a telegram Thureday from Secretary J. B. McGinty, of the interstate com merce commission, announcing Postponement of the hearing of evidence relative to the alleged discriminatory $17.40 tourist rate differential of the South ern Pagific and allied rallroads. The hearing was to have b held by Examiner Watkins of the commerce commission here on March 13. On the appliention of B. L. Bev |ington, secretary of the Trans continental Traffic association, the commission agreed to defer the hearing for three months mn nald he needed mo to assemble evidence for hi ons of the railroads, nts all carriers tnter Tt ts the old story,” said Rey nolds, “The railroads are stalling for time, We are ready to go to bat with our side of the case any TIME THURSDAY, MARCII 2, OUR ZIST FIRIDAY CLEARANCE Merchandis 1916. PAGE Babies’ and Children's White Dresses $1 A small collection of small Children’s White Dresses that were fort priced $2.00. $2.50 and $3.00 each tn ou regular stocks A broken assortment showing various sizes and Komarkable values Friday clearance atyle in the $1.00 Floo Heavy Plated Silver Forks and Spoons 10c Each Heavily tripleplated -odd Forks and Spoons, Sugar Shells, Butter Knives Attractive patterns and a wa: will give good service, Friday Bargain price Offers Importamt Savimgs on New amd De sila ible Fraser-Paterson Co $1.25 Striped Tub Silks 69c PECIAL purchase of a beautiful, hea qualit A \ able Tub Silk in a variety of striped that are in great demand this season for waists, dresse misses’ wear, men’s shirts, pajamas, et Cream white grounds with stripes in rose, new blue navy, dove gray, lavender, flesh, helio Twenty new pieces, 32 inches wide, in the Friday Sale BE PAI ies beiiees reise sesssaceee ‘ 89¢ Firat Floor 98c Peau de Cygme 75c Silks some bought for these If laced the order this Only because we { time ago are we able to.offer the Silks today the Just five pieces for Friday yard value we would cost very nearly the sale price Per A deep, rich jet black yp IOC a5c and Soiesette and Madras 19c Yd. 2 and 364nch Solesette and M Sbirtings tn attractive pronounced stripe ored styles for spring ant nen n's favored ec Friday Clearance ard pe y Women's Lingerie $1.00 A clearance {slightly rumpled and soiled garments, including Gowns, Drawe Combinations, etc Skirts, ete. Garments priced $2.00, § $3.00 and even as high as $5.00, A small lot- for Friday clearance $1.00 Second Floor. 10¢ each Fifth Floe time, tho we will go right ahead accumulating more evidence. At a mans meeting of citt chaser’s Credit Check, good toward the pur- chase of any new piano or player piano in the FRIDAY CLEARANCE ns nt Friday Salle of 40 New Pieces Eilers Music House, Seattle, Washington. eons MAVASIAG Gamaeen the Ge FOR MIEN — 912.00 to$15.00 Contest closes at 6 p.m, Western Union time, Wednesday, pment of the Northwest hed All March 5, 1916. answers received or mailed after that 1 will not be accepted. Don't delay anawering. CAUTION-—Write name and address very carefully and plainly, and send to the solution just as soon as possible. Awards will be made immediately after contest closes, and all contestants will be notified n retarded by the artificial bar rier of unjust rates for 20 due to the cowardice of busine: men who feared to act against the ratlroads T. D. Rockwell, Pe Leather Suit Cases for $9.75 ye amd-Loom Pomgee Silks Friday Specials 50c Silk Hose 290~—Mill trregu lars of black and tan Silk Hone, priced regularly for perfect goods 6 cy Polson and A clearance of twelve Suit ! An Interesting Puzzle Faron wick nernonae (MUL | Sizes 10 and 10% only SPECTAL purchase just received of imported hand- | Cate# that have become a very orm with Reynolds. ittle scratches 4 " ‘ Friday Bargains. .20¢ pair lex al Pongee Silk. The s 3 k t ie now b a asi At the clone of the Iatter’s speech loom natura ongee Si he special prices make rom being shown in stock, Can you arrange these numbers (use only 1 and 9 aN SMitkerey Satrodaes’” seectutions $1.50 and $2.00 Night Robes 85c it F i thay: ate ice tak ae advisable for one to buy now for future needs, for advancing prices are affecting Pongees as well as all other silks Not a value the Ro: large lot, but the are remarkable and on desirable, Size 1 inclusive) so they will total 15 up and down and side- ways, and, perhaps, diagonally? As soon as you solve it, send your answer. Also fill out the statistic which were unanimously passed RE IT RESOLVED, by th neas tuterests of the elty sirable, however, and the price at which they are offered is exceptionally low. ‘Why the“15 Pui”? rn This distribution {s partict-/ only, in fancy sateen, plain ood th t 0) Sik. 23 tde They're all of good heavy blank below. Do not delay. You cannot afford to pated tn by seven of the great tan and white iseanty “in oo ag aah eaters ee ween cowhide leathers, are splendid- be late |plano manufacturers of the ma- Friday Bargain price. .8h¢ Another is a Nitle heavier Gualliy, special. ge 4 ly made and have straps all $1.00 Shirts 450—Short, «tiff The yard |tlon, repretenting the finest’ and] rtant—Fach numb is to be used but once i A third is still heavi 4 more nervicsabla around. Impo nent Ea vg oh hb most valuable pianos and player x 15 and Specially priced, per yard...»....--..-+-....--91,00 Friday Clearance Price, If unsuccessful at first, try again—mathematicians eianee tae. Tite avant olor ts fre nd Te gane é say it can be done. |made to emphasize the «reat vic figures. A ove edi 5 For the best arranged, neatest, correct and most jtory at the Panama-Pacific Expo Friday Bargain price $17.50 Steamer Trunks jaition (fifteen highest awards) First Floor $10.00 artistic answer we will give the prizes in order of 45-in. Cream White Serge 4 ; and also to reduce the cost of onset ariel lh mall te T ly, five-ply St ¢ By merit. All prize winners will be notified and all leatting planos, The old methods Treat gabe ‘paneer a Bi prizes not called for within fifteen days after closing jof paying solicttors and agents ie prevented from FRIDAY CLEARANCE TS Yard five sente’ eaevina of contest are forfeited. This paper, or any other magazine and theatre program Northwest, to the reat detrimer A Ny, dl —Fifth Floor. va ‘ a mas f Oregon, Washington, Idaho at \ URE way may be used. When more than one person in [saver ing, oF ongaging | seat) i isska, \rt Nee eworlk : a y ey, it ; artis o play their pianos in fhe IT FURTHER 801 N all-wool cream whit rKe, sponged and shrunk. A quality a family is found as contestant, awards will be ve pablte are costly, and do not add that the democratic, rep you will recognize at a glance as being far better than the All prizes in this great publicity event are given Section lo jto the tntrinaie worth of the tn- ate ce price would indicate. $700 Folding absolutely free. Neatness and arrangement, as well etrement. Sy Gistributing @ por e A wpecial purchase made before the recent general advance in all , as accuracy, will be considered. All answers must olin age Maeda Fyn MBver oad Rb gy ft abbey n goods accounts for this offering Go-Carts ss 4 p on 4 ” ne proidery Silks, A clearance of ¥ spec ric re 4 be the contestant’s individual work. In case of tre ers, all parties reap the greatest | Bae One. GFUTery ree collection of odd st sdaiyaneict rare ipa aye ate Eh possible benefits. We are to use aghiberal portion of the manufac-| exact duplicates of every prize in this contest will be awarded. The decision of the three judges will dozen qualities Zhe a dozen special at IT FURTHER RESOLVED, 99.95 turers’ advertising money in this| [| that a copy of these resolutions be| 8 4 Combing Jackets of be final. All answers must be sent at once to Desk . | ¢ chairman of e of Stamped Combing Jackets o' * n . : profit-sharing campaign, thus political of Terry cloth ta easy working ecials i —A lot of splendid, substantial, H, Eilers Music House, Eilers Bldg., Seattle, Wash making this most unusually attrac. RS tnteletate aoa cara the ana 00 Pieces Friday — learamce Spe als in| large, roomy folding Go-Carts, - ive offer direct to every one. | i tatives @ for hoe with rubber-tired wheels, three- 3 Siamped ready-made Kimono Draperies, Rugs, Furniture bow hood, spring seat.” Open Gowns, stamped on conyeat —— —— - or fold with one motion. ¢ in pink, and seco silk tn Py f hie |. einhes ; | Statistic ad Information Blank Se SLNe eelaee oamaie 85c Sunfast Draperies] Scotch Wool Rugs | Mal! this blank, or one stmilar, _ ~ priced ° P $1.00 at 50c | at $7.25 | A FRIDAY SALE OF with your address. We want to ff T econ ¥ | sak. pan tte, GF ettheetive | “gcoics ‘Wica Ale muck cok fiver ies Soe comber tha Ss N MUS | colors from which to choose, | All.Wool Aberdeen Rugs, in | mart [merr" FACE THEFT CHARGE i Sieh ann raven | C0 alae Priced regia | sw TRE ova English Teapots | suitable for side drkp ly 911.60 and ease, frei Narrow Ribbons | - ‘ < $7.25 each | pallet Yai Eo ets |Purer Pleso Clifford Manning, formerly 29¢ Each Drapery Remnants | for Sport H Hats |Name Seattle, is under arrest in VC Hach 19¢ Yard Rag Rugs at $1.00 Pp ‘ according ta members of the pros: | A collestion of desirable | — 1; / | | Street No ecutor’s office, charged with theft | Rockingham Earthen Teapots short: pleces, containing up to mettah” ations "Stettioe | 20C Yerd SR SRP Dial tee of two typewriters from the Puget in seve hapes and deco & yarda. Almost every kind | Bun & vor ancl tele _&@ a und Navigation Co. yoann ng of | tions. a nee A ppuanghs & bc and of Drapery Matertal included. | regular stock at $1.25 each. | —For the smart sport Hats #0 « Grand Trunk dock fire here on Oe. To brew a pot of tea suc “ é Sagi rovgnd | 25 t Ht You Know of Anyone Who Late seestitts. onan shacle: tee mk Priced regularly 260 to @0¢ ®| Special Friday price. ..$1.00 strongly in favor this season, gat ‘ ly hou ’ yare | |] | the Ribbons in this sale are Should have a Piano or Player Earthen Teapot | ait a ‘ ‘ t Piago, write name and. address Friday special 29e] Hl 45c to 85c Nets at 29¢ | Odd Dining Chairs’ at jf | Just the needed trimmings. ACTOR Is MARRIED | F $ ‘ An attractive lot of All | $1.85 Each Picot Edge Grosgrains. \ | Name | 65¢ Casseroles 29c over Lace Nets, Contatninga | —A: Friday clearance of all | Narrow Bayadere Ribbons, Sireet No Jimmy Adams, of Adams, Beverly Seven-inch round brown and] ff} variety of attractive patterns | Dining Chairs, of which we Fancy Grosgrains. and West, at the Emprem, was mar white earthenware Casseroles | [| for curtains. Cream, white | have only 1, 2 or 3 of a kind Regularly 30c and 35c yard, 4 cuy - ried to Mise Minnie Ingersoll, of with the Friday | and ecru. Remarkable values | $2.25, $2.04, $3.00 and $3 In the Friday Clearance at i Address all replies to Desk H, [| Milwaukee, at Butte, Inat week. | Clea zie | J) at 29¢ | values. Choice .. $1.85 5 |The company gave the young Aitth Pioor are couple a great send-off, including a $US2) wedding dinner and an electric CAN IT BE DONE? | chafing dish -—___—__——_—___— eee ; Fi | AMERICAN MAY BE so they total 15 in every di Coys! earn to ay | tp and dome and Pi 0 CONFESSIONS DRAFTED IN CANADA perhaps diagonally, Third at University, Seattle, Wn lano or Urgan | wer at once. | In a Few Hours, DOESN’T LIKE MONEY iting your arrival her. You remember the lin PORTLAND, March 2B. G, se ot po ~| A Detroit musician bas invented OL MOONS FOR FOUR ie “W hy, didn’t you get our wire |«"Aeross the hills and far away Wendling of Vancouver, B. C., may n wonderful new aystem, which en-| stoyje's ‘letter to me was funny {lees and telegrams Beyond thelr utmost purple rim, be drafted Into the Canadian armg. [TopAv's BEAUTY TaLx] S BEAUTY TALM)|REPUBLIGANS OF ANYONE WANT A |so.cves"czcsr'ttic tains), mower tao me man tony rand tran TT | Megara tt Prete rte no he Canadian ari NICE. $! JOB? : learn to ph } the plano or organ In} it began, “I cannot begin to tell | laimed. Who do you mean by | satiny wont . oll start, how Oredon’ senators th $vashingieaaae our wo. | . b AS » he of | ov 1 ‘ONO! Saarauremam CALIFORNIA SPLIT eens anna ce Ste Peeler we ore S mn ee poo with very little effort and for tal card or in a letter, and oe eee iene a vith r ener rie Ph Seis ey an yl County Clerk Coffey is searching a very trifling cost ff you get from 2 O8 ANGEL March send you our eu 6 and) ind enti asm, lying on ir 1, with a bald head, made his WEDDED 60 YEARS here for documents to prove that he ; ‘ ckage of can state marede ' fea e ) absolutely \ ! . , your enesiet . oe je Bore . _ Dare t r a {8 DINe!Y | hack for week weeks in a hos-) nce from behind a piece of PASADENA, March 2.—Mr was born here June 14, 1886. His throx and dissolve a teaspoonful tat g hunted today NATE. at atathod Masie|Pital You goer att, 1 aon |stetuary and a large palm Mrs. Warren Woods, aged 82 birth certificate has been destroyed eee eet ee, oe en ; ; 126 L. Trusted Concrete Huild-|* tho I were doing something Children, she quavered, ‘this|79, celebrated their 60th wedding |and the doctor who officiated ts poo — as Jus: saya poe od * . t re vev to it Mids rong to be “0 happy when I/ig my husband, Mr. Trent—this 18/anniversary today dead at a time on the scalp and ri ta] leap f . foot burning know you must be miserable Chadwick and Mollie.’ West by ox cart befo Wendling is circulation manage! se — | . ae a ng is circulation manager os 9 Sige tle erry tagged — tower into a net held San, By A ee down quickly, 1 was 80 /any railroads. of a Vancouver newspaper = ate ~ : - id have been here last week. | overcome. —— oughly dissolves gs ‘8 fay Poe atick " ME f had . nd t eae been ee Didn't you know? asked! dandruff, excess ofl and dirt er late they have already chos F uround Rome all day—the weather | mother rinsing, tho hair dries quickly, with/en, together with their pian of s glorious—and arrived somewhat Of cotired:- nat,’ enawored: Ohad. f heav ' ke state factions and standing for a |would not dress fo er, which | mother is accompanying Chad and ich Juster and a softness that make| progressive at Chicas |we usually have served in our own Soh Gee welliae Gin’ ond tas | >Re You Rheumatism, Kidney, Liver or arranging It a pleasure. ped | suite added another in the person of| j ———— | _Aitho nearly # million were mint Take # glass of Salts If Saal od Thero is a lady waiting tor | rent tthe family party Bladder Trouble? 4 Lu h th Holly wood, 212 ed, the United “ce e hurte or Bladder bothers—Meat jyou upstairs said Chad man It is fur to hear mother ex | N aye 455 anch at the Ho ye eS ee 7B ogg tes | ay forms urle acid Ve hurried up rather peeved to| patinte on dear old dad's virtues| Pain or dull ache in the back is| er troubles day and night, terital Pike —Ady. to 8 GIRL SWALLOWS ink of entertaining for] gad laborious explain that she| often evidence of kidney trouble.| a Res ete. - YPH Q Jat least a short call i mild never love again as she loved Nature's timely mind tol 8 ny TYPHOID GERM ry day, eat but flush your kid: | other Sith Aik ihe , ta’ Anine a me Ney sun = Arning (©) acid, dizziness, indigestion, sleep. ne salte occasionally, says a We have been waiting for you} im Abe ats if GIN | show you that the track of health| lessness, nervousness, somethnes : t IoC 2 noted authority who tells us thatlat least two hours,’ she sald in o miserable If I were | !s not clear | the heart acts badly, rheumatism, ame Senoenene & ‘ilfor meat forms urle acid we almost) that severely hurt volce that you] ever to marry again rtainly Danger Signals bloating, lack of ambition, may be att pp ient-ae A a pasalyses rhe 8 oe ‘4,| and I know so well, Niet my first husband rest in If these danger sismals are un-| !088 of flesh, sallow complexion. , | es ee ae . enh nom ‘oh and Weaken, |...A# We id not know you were) 7 really tho that heeded more serious results may bo} _Prevalency of Kidney Disease . % Sostert : . re a tui misery [COmMNE. aald Chad in tho ‘edges’ |some sort of fashion, he, Is y trouble. in. ite| Most people do not realise the t . acter the u sufte ith a dull mise ‘olce ad ever heard from him, on a iat, enothan ts b, ! . tatenene, ; b ° ‘a kidney region, sharp n ; Dr You know, mot i steal upon you alarming increase and remarkable "EMPRESS CORNER bt a ae nen to jit the kidney region. sharp paine|'t do not see how you can expect |to look at, with her white hair, her Reyne valency of kidney disease, While . going en n t Bs ~ wadinenae il fine teeth and her still brtl ow nore disorders are among the SULLIVAN + CONOIDING Se e eine eg gmoyg gyan R gee Nant, dark eves. Sho has grown | fea they t t fommon diseases that prevail, V n - rm , ) twinges yung, to n her } € an b ’ nes the last recog "THE HOUSE OF EXITS" rhe = gota eloudy, full of eed) m mish ud “she has gotte atients, whe very often Features oe vine Spcdnale. chat KOK rd ther very own t themselves with dontaaiaiy and irritated, obliging 2 to Beek : : ‘ ets, while original dis. were satisfied to let Chad and me) !f ro a the kidneys and spectators to Mr, ‘Trent's hom Lame Back e bottles at all drug stores. P es of Jad Salts from | chafe under it. I am Ro symptoms of kidney trouble. Other} member the name, Dr, Kilmer’s = ~ * ey har re: take a table afraid of some kind of an sunray symptoms showing that you may|Swamp-Root, and the address, S—ADAMS, BEVED a k YORK . in a glass of water before Our honeymoon 1s over, for You | hood Swamp-Root are, being aubdject | Binghamton, NY. which you wilt Witete dimenen p few days and your Lend One Cent un't ‘moon’ with four, can you? | eel Seam i beeauend Sint.| Had be aeerr GAME —rnED THOMAS 4 te ts, I ard Abrend 1 will then act fine. This " r ey Maraie, dear, I have been wonder ! . Vv Mr. Dippy Rudolph Kra tal fraud |» ‘ . thas thie acid f Y. M Tae vce oka Manne: with SPECIAL NOTE—You may obtain a sample size bottle of Swamp. vient wos: haan . “y seg peol ple cong | Set or Your Woney De an Chad and Tare i don't| Root by enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, LA " oot think you could be even In the| This gt¥es you the opportunity to prove the ret ble merit of this 1 VAUDEVILLE to f n irst flush of married life, for | medicine will end you a book of valuable information, (AU . - 1 ne 0 to D has none of th differential | Containing r of th ousands of grateful letters veceived from me BES ron 4 ( ' . , , ‘0 it traits and fhittering manners that women who say they found Swamp-Root to be just the remedy # AMERICA "ract aos " sneer irritates, thus ending |Chad ha ed in kidney, liver and bladder troubles. The value and success The were also charged ad ler weakne | | “You would think I was the|of Swamp-Root are so well known that our readers are advised to send Pe dulentiy collecting money fe Jad Salta is inexpensive; cannot | princess in the fairy tale, and, in| for a sample size bottle. Address Dr, Kilmer & Co,, Dept, R, Bingham- | Belgian relief work Jinjure, and makes » delightful et Clone thing, 1 wish 1 could emulate| ton, N. ¥. t ‘ " is scent Lithlawater drink, i '