The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1917, Page 10

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T New Decorated Dinnerware But at the Old Prices oe year’s compl Dinner Set $8.49 BOpiece set in “Traymo: “Tand Co.’s Ranson pattern, with | gold border decoration. | _ “Blue Bird” Set $9.05 Dinner Sets of good quality semt- in practical ee. | ‘The set includes covered dish and meat platter. Dinner Set $10.00 BO-piece Dinner Set, complete for six persons, including cov- ered dish and two meat platters, with floral spray and matt gold | d at $1.39 each. Tuesday. or waists; 30 and 3% inches dresses or curtains; snow w Other ‘Tuesday specials 50c size Phillipe’ Milk of Mag special 33¢. $1.00 size Ayers’ Sarsapariiia, our regular price 79c, spectal B5¢. One pound size Boric Acid, our regular price 25c, special 19¢. 35c size Limestone Phosphate, our regular price 25c, 27¢. 4. Size GOx90 inches, at $1.95 apiece and sheer; special at 15c a yard. Sheer White Rice Marquisette 15c Yard 20 pieces of fine sheer Rice Marquisette, 36 inches wide, that may be used for “Nuxated Iron,” $1.00 Siz nesia, our regular price 2%, | special | day prices. ete sets. Dinner Set $9.75 50-piece Dinner Set with a | phape, ® good imitation of Havt- | pretty border decoration of pink | flowers, The body of the ware is pure white and substantial 32-Piece Dinner Set at $2.45 Factory Seconds Piain White Semt-porcelain Dinnerware, factory seconds, which means that some pleces are slightly chipped, others warped, a big percentage of them are 0. K. The set con- sists of 6 Dinner Plates, 6 6 Fruit Saucers, 6 Tea Saucers, 1 Meat Platter and 1 Vegetable Dish. == it is almost impossible to get import- ed dinnerware now potteries cannot supply the demands, so you had better buy now at last Buy in single pieces or and domestic 15% to 50% Less Than Today’s Prices | THE BON MARCHE Dinner Set $10.50 Nina Shape Dinner Set with border decoration of pink flowers with foliage; full 50- piece set. Dinner Set $10.85 Pure White American Semt- Porcelain Dinner Set with 18 karat gold band border decora tion; full 50-plece set for 6 persons. Dinner Set $12.00 50-plece Dinner Set with dec- oration of yellow flowers ar ranged in festoons around the border. Covered 4ish and meat platter included FOURTH FLOOR—THB BON MARCHE Inexpensive Draperies at Special Prices : To Use in Fixing Up Your Summer Home or to Brighten Up Your Town House a Bit ouch Covers $1.39 Each; Heavy Burlap 30c a Yd. Oriental Striped Couch Covers, suitable or cot covers—green and red stripes. Size | D inches wide and 90 inches in length, A just-arrived shipment of heavy Burlap in shades of brown and green; full 36 inches wide, special at 30c a yard Fine to use in your summer home or town home. puch Covers $1.95 Each, 36-Inch Denim 15c Yd. Roman Striped Couch Covers of red and | en stripes, neatly fringed all the way | Denim, suitable for numerous decorating purposes in summer homes, priced at 15c Remnants of %-inch Brown and Green | a yard for Tuesday. THIRD FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Closing out all remaining | merchandise in the underpriced | section at about 25c on the dollar. | LOWER MAIN FLOOR--THE BON MARCHE A Special of in width; fine hite material, at 15c a yard. Untrimmed Hat Shapes $1.25 One table piled high with Untrimmed Hat Shapes, and marked special There are dished shapes, rolling brim Hats, smaller, close-fitting gray, bine, gold and blacks in abundance—all of them the very latest styles SECOND FLOOR—THB BON MARCHE at $1.25 Hats in Presenting Some Exceptional Values in White Cotton Goods 30- and 36-Inch | Lingerie Crepe 15c¢ Yard Lingerie Crepe, suitable for underwear Fine Sheer White Voiles 19¢ Yard For summer waists or dresses these sheer White Voiles are ideal ; 10 pieces in all, and a full yard in width; special 19c a yard. LOWER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHB e Is 83c Here—Every Day Tuesday we will sell it for 65c in the Drug and Toilet Article Section will be 1 Bc size Lavoris, our regular price 2%c, special 2p¢, 50c size Miro Dena Face Pow. | | our regular price 50c, 30¢. 10c cakes Stuart's Buttermilk Soap, our regular 2% for special, each, 5¢, 156 cans Golf Queen Talcum Powder, our regular price | special 10¢. special 25e, be, ! 60c size Danderine, our regular price 290, special 20¢, 50c alze Malvina Cold Cream, | our regular price 290, spectal 20¢. $1.00 size Scheffler’s Colorine, our regular price special 60¢. 15¢ size Witch Hazef, §-ounce bottles, our regular price Ibe, special 10¢, LOWER MAIN FLOOR—~THE BON MARCHE CHICAGO.-A negro band of t ® ragtine recruiting campaign, CHICAGO.-Chester B. Taylor of the night, #0 he aroused the re enlisted forthwith, CHICAGO.—Director Eggers of back to-the-farm movement, . . CHICAGO,-Px Governor Willis evening club meeting into a wild, sald: “Put Roosevelt at the head of on the kalser at Potsdam arrives,” Ragtime Soldiers Follow NegroInfantry Band Into Chicago Recruiting Office nifty lowed the syncopated melody {nto the Armory, provided Wilhelm is at home when HE SEATTLE STAR he Eighth Miinois tnfantry started shoulder hitching youths ‘fol kot “war religion” tn the middle cruiting officer at 4:16 a. m. and - the Art Institute plans to mobilize 2,800 students to paint posters, urging enlistments and boosting the . | of Oho turned the senate Sunday patriotic demonstration when he an American division and he'll eall Teddy IS ENDED NEW YORK, April 16— Death today ended the 17-year feud between John D. | Rockefeller and his brother | Frank, The billionaire oll king announced that he would at- tend his brothers funeral ot Cleveland. It took the Reaper to nettle the rim, silent hatred that extsted for | what reason they themselves only knew between the brothers for [nearly a score of years | “John D. Rockefeller and Wik |liam Rockefeller will attend the| |funeral of their brother, Frank, tn | Cleveland,” was the laconic offt- | jelal statement from Rockefeller’s | Standard Ol! offices here today. | were 4d Chume | Nether friends, associates, mu |tual business interests nor family |ties succeeded in breaking down the mysterious wall between the jtwo men. For 17 years they neith | | ROCKEFELLER FEUD BY DEATH er spoke, wrote nor so much as re ferred to each other, It was to each as tho the other did not ex ist. They were chums in boyhood They fought their early business battles mide by side, They shared their first successes as they had shared thelr childhood poverty The break came in 1900, In that! year Frank Rockefeller announced he had left the Standard O11 com pany and taken @ vow never again to speak to his brother. The quar rel was sald to have been over) business Made Fortune, Too Not long ago Wm, Rockefeller made an unsuccessful attempt to! reconcile his two brothers | Frank, altho he made a large} fortune in ka, did not begin to equal his brother John’s fortune but he lavished as much care and affection on hin seven-mile square | ‘arm in Kansas as John D. has on fs Pocantico hills estate. SUPER-TAX ON | BiG INCOMES I$ OUTLINED WASHINGTON, April 16-—-The administration's income tax revie hi by which to ad@ to the war) n nue, does not contemplate the total confiscation of Incomes above $100,000, as demanded by EK. W. Scripps, Amos Pinchot, Simon Ben son and others. Incomes over $100, | 000 will be taxed 20 per cent, those over $150,000 will pay 25 per cent | those over $200,000 will contribute 3312 per cent, and those over « million 40 per cent. Other incomes will be taxed as follows 0 to $4,000, 1 per cent; $4,000-$6,000, 12 per cent; $5,000-$10,000, 6 per cent; $10,000-$20,000, 7 per cent; $20,000-$40,000, 8 per cent; $40,000. | $60,000, 19 per cont; $60,000-§80,000, | | 12 per cent; $80,000-$100,000, 15 per | cent. ‘HOUSEWIVES ARE BLAMED FOR RUN ON FOOD STOCKS. ?) o | Continued \e ad | | tin, and the steel in wanted for ma: | | nitions, shipbuflding, ete. But the | government {# looking into the mat ter, and we bave no doubt at all of a record pack this year | | “T see no reason at all for heary buying by consumers now | Vacant Lots in Demand | Real estate men say that property | which has lain {die for years is in such demand for cultivation that they cannot supply enough. “T have a tract near Auburn that hasn't been used for three year says Ole Hanson, “and the other | day a man paid « year's rent in ad-| | vanoe on it. He's going to put it In potatoes.” “T'll contract to deliver any quan- | tity of potatoes that may be wanted when this year's crop comes in, for | 60 per cent of present prices, and | I'll make my everlasting fortune j at it. “East of the mountains, they're putting in wheat as they never did before. | “As to sugar, Utah and Call!for- | nia are planting Immense acreages | to sugar beets, “There's going to be more food raised this year than we he people | who have their basements ful! of stuff bought now, will be eat- ing it at twice the prices they could get it for in a couple of months from now. "Somebody's getting rich at this food-scare game.” Canada is laughing at us a little. Not illnaturedly, for it has been thru the same thing itself; but with the knowledge, born of expertence, that a country of wide and fertile spaces may be actively at war for two or three years, and yet not be short of food. | Canada Expertenced It A headline on the Vancouver | Daily Province market page last Friday said: “Hysterical U, 8, Buy ‘ers Boost Foodstuffs to Sky.” Evidently,” observes the Cana dian payer, “the United States is ex- periencing similar condftions to those prevailing in Canada after the | outbreak of war, when wild buying | of foodstuffs by consumers | matically forced prices skywar In Chicago, the other day, Sol | Westerfield, vice president of the National Association of Retail Gro cers, told the association that the public was becoming hysterical and playing into the hands of speculat- ors by buying great quantities of {food which they did not need | department of agriculture announced from Washington on Sat- urday that 100 cars of onions a day from Texas are on thelr way to | bring down the prices of that neces- From Page 1 COULD SUPPLY ENOUGH TIMBER. FOR 1,000 SHIPS While Robert M. Allen, secre- tary of the West Coast Lumber. | men's association, was telling the shipping board at Washing- ton, D. C., that the forests of Washington could supply enough timber in 90 days for the entire fleet of 1,000 ships to be constructed by the govern- ment, experienced ship carpen- ters and helpers, responding to the call of the government, flocked to the local immigra- tion office to register their | names. Denoting the government's baste in making ready for the construc tion of the large merchant fleet, the immigration department at Wash ington late Saturday telegraphed Local Immigration Commissioner Henry M. White to rush a let of experienced ship carpenters to the capital ] Could Supply Lumber White immediately got in touch with the branch immigration of. ficea at Tacoma, Everett, Belling ham, Aberdeen, North Yakima, Wal ja Walla and Spokane. He also got |{m touch with various employes’ or fanizations, and as a result 125 ship carpenters and helpers called at tho office, First ave. and Union at.. Sunday. L. Wood, director of employment under White, is in charge of the compilation. The government wants there skilled workers to re port whether they will accept gov ernment work or not. There will be no compulsion in this regard At the national capital, Allen told the shipping board that the lumber industry in the Northwest was in shape to handle the bulk of the wood shipbuilding business |Oregon and Washington forests, to- kether, he said, would yield suffi- clent timber tn 60 days for the en tire 1,000 ehips. Washington for. ests alone could do it in 90 days No other section of the country ts 80 well fitted to handle this work, he concluded. MOSES BARITZ TO | SPEAK TO LEAGUE, Moses Baritz, an English Jew of Russian parentage, who has been a student on continental politics from the standpoint of a radical, will ad dress members of the Municipal league at the Washington Annex next Tuesday noon His subject will be “The Present Political Situation in Continental Europe.” Baritz has been lecturing in England, Canada and the Eastern part of the United States for the! last few years DR. F. 8 LEWIS DIES PORT ANGELES, April 16.—Dr. Freeborn 8. Lewis, for 30 years one of the most prominent residents of Port Angeles, died here last night Dr, Lewie was three times mayor of this city. He was a lifelong friend of Judge Wilson R. Gay of Seattle At the time of his death he was postmaster of Port Angeles | “Snow White,” Grimm's fairy | tale, was presented Saturday after- noon and evening at the Press club theatre, under the auspices of the | Ladies of the Maccabees, Mrs, | Exon Fleischer directed the produc. | tion, Children played the roles of Snow White, the gnomes and falries | and the court i Helen Fleischer played the queen, Maria Hurst Snow White, and Ruth Fleischer king of the gnomes Coos Bay will witness the build ing of 12 wooden ships for the gov ernment, each of about ( This was announced on who have been conferring with | sary. The crop is two weeks late this season, says the department, | but 20 per cent larger than usual, Parag yarUrTRENTS BVEN SURI DATTA WET ing commissioner, who (was 10 gene last week, Theodore Brent, government “| New Silk and Cotton Georgette 75c and $1.00 Yard IVALING in beauty of ¢ these sheer Crepes pres handsome afternoon dresses and summer dance frocks. In plain colors, Chartreuse, ‘color, Nile-green, light-blue ium and gray, 36 inches wi In the spot-patterned effects of hunter’s-green, white, navy, mustard and inches wide, $1.00 yard. New Plaid Poplins, 75c Yard The boldest of plaids pattern these firmly woven cot- ton poplins, in combinations FREDERICK @NELSON Crepes oloring the all-silk fabric, ent many possibilities for Mercerized Cordonnet Dexter’s “Silko” 9c Ball Crochet Cotton HE variety of colors apricot, mais, pink, flesh- and sizes in this cro- , old-blue, mustard, geran- chet cotton adapt it to de, 75¢ yard many kinds of crochet CT: worl of the vogue, on grounds | In White, there are sizes from No, 1 to No, 100 rose, 36 Ecru and Pongee color, in | sizes from No, 2 to No. 70. ink,light-blue, rose, emp | phire, deift, ti orange and | is of gold and blue, red and | Nott gray, mustard and king’s-blue and gray and mustard— suggesting striking sports suits and skirts inches wide, 75¢ yard New Madras Shirtings and ; Waistings have just been received in an assortment of pleasing striped and corded patterns, 40c and 50c yard Thirty-six 32 inches wide, 25c, 35c, —First Floor. Bed Comfortables, $3.85 Unusual HESE Comfortables are batiste or silkoline on with 7-inch border of plain white, fleecy cotton. blue, yellow or lavender anc Values | binin covered with figured both sides and finished It ts of soft, black kidskin Seco silk. The filling is with hand-turned sole and ombination colorings pink, medium low heel, with emall beaded bow on vamp. An 3. Firat Floor. i white. Price $4.00 Ivory Enamel Wood Bed $18.50 signs we are show- of de- ing in moderately- priced Wood Beds is shown in the sketch. A Full-size Bed, in ivory enamel, $18.50. Other Wood and Plain and range of prices. Beds Decorated ir is | their In n Mahogany, Walnut pink 1 Enamels, at a wide Floor. Basement Salesroom sea-green, in sizes Nos. 20, 69 and 76 Price %¢ a ba “The Empress” House Slipper for tractive appearance. elastic band under the tongue ensures & pearance. Sizes 3 to & Honeycomb Weave _ Bath Towels HE healthful glow fol- lowing the use of the honeycomb-weave only woven from California cot- ton, spun like linen yarn, and are unusually strong and durable. 21x44 inches, 25¢@ each. 2, 10, First Floor. ons Bect © a Li} $4.00 WOMAN'S _ Slipper housewear, com- g comfort with at- smooth-fitting ap Price —First Floor. 25c Towels reason for superiority. They are one all-white, also with or blue border, size —First Floor. Dotted Nets 50c Yard ae bed sete and fancy work uses, also for window cur- tainsand drapes these Nets are particular ly well adapted. They are in white, pink, mals, ecru and cream color, 86 to 64 inches wide, Priced at 30¢ yard. Basement Salesroom. New Hat Pins 25c Pair TERLING- and gold-headed Pins with German silver stems, two on card, zhe. Bi ment Salesroom Pink” Union Suits 50c 6é6QBCONDS” in J Women’s fine ribbed Cotton Union Suits, low neck and sleeveless, with tight knee. Sizes 36 to 44. Price 50¢, Basement fu. s/oom Dr. Scholl Appliances for P N ¢ of front lac skirt, Correcting Foot Ailments Basement Salesroomn ar hose suf Electric Vacuum Sweepers Smart Styles in Silk Skirts at $4.75 OW _ attrac- tively styled these Silk Skirts are is suggested in the sketch. They are fashioned of soft Taffeta and Silk Poplin, in tan, gray, Copenhagen, brown and navy patterned in sports effects, also in plain black. Shirrings, nov- elty pockets and belts are used to give variety to the showing. Ww 30 inches measurements from 25 to Price $4.75. —Basement Saiesroom. aist . N. Lace-Front Corset, $1.00 xeellent-fitting, comfortable Corset firm coutil in pink or white, with cing. It has medium bust and long nd is furnished with two sets of yporters. Price $1.00. Basement Salesroom The Housewares S of tested dependabilit Bee Electric Hoover Electric ection stocks these makes y: Frantz-Premier Electric Hotpoint Electric Single Lace Curtains 35c Each AY attractively low price for these Single-window Curtains, which are of durable laces, tn white and Arabian color, finished with serviceable scalloped edge. Lengths 2% to 3 yards. Price 35¢ ” ’ Curtain Ends ; 25c Each ‘ Choice of Filet, Cable and Notting- a bam weaves in these fi Curtain Ends, which b may be used to good advantage for attio y or basement win- f dows and for sash ! curtains. They are 0 in bordered plain- n center effects, also allover patterns, measuring from 1% to 1% yards long. price Thor Electric Basement

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