The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1920, Page 5

TeRRakeesgeaNicey Sh 5 378035 | Binee THE SEATTLE STAR FORMERLY WOODHOUSE-GRUNBAUM FURNITURE CO., INC. BB BUT FROM TODAY GRUNBAUM BROS. FURNITURE COMPARY, INC. And to Mark the Occasion We Hold a SPECIAL SALE ago Mr, Otto S. Grunbaum ac- quired an interest in this old established Home Furnishing Company, and since that time the store has grown from a compars tively small concern to one of the largest in the city. Mr. Grunbaum's interest in the company has in- ereased steadily and from today his brother, Mr. M. L. Grunbaum, being his only associate, the style of the company will be changed from the Wood- house-Grunbaum Furnittre Co., Inc,, to Grunbaum Brothers Furniture Company, Inc. Just nine years Under the new name the very generous Credit Terms which have always been an important factor in the policy of this store will be, if possible, more To celebrate this event in the Grunbaum Brothers have reductions in every depart- ment for a limited time. Here we give details of just a few of the wonderful price concessions which await buyers for a limited time. liberal than ever. history of the made substantial price store, THE ME FORCE OF s “We'll Trust z ESMEN—SO W KNOWN “ You" TO HUNDREDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS—WILL BE READY cheno ou TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR SELECTIONS. Convenient Big Blanket Bargains Wool-finished Plaid Blan kets in blue, gray. F tan. Reeve Double- Faced Veltour Cloth Suitable for overdrapes or res, 36 inc hes de ar “value 6 and arent: ‘$1 45 a yard Wool Blankets black and wh Medallion Seamless Wilton Velvet. ree Deltox Waite Grass Rugs, $18.00. for ° Choose ular $55.00, for 837.50 813.50 A Big Xi Anglo-Persian Wilton Rugs, $175.00. MEF Gassves $145.00 ie Your Seamless Velvet, $55.00 for.... 848.50 Karnak Orlental Wilton, $165.00, for Savin Blue, gray and tan Seamless Tapestry, : $135.00 g POF... ssrceecceees $37.50 Floral Wilton Velvet, $60.00, for design ‘Tapestry, $35.00, tor 848.50 O : $25.50 Rose Allover Wilton Velvet, $55.00 n $35.00, for wep oe for 815.00 r Se o” Tapertr T ‘ x ' w Seamies sis 00 g27.50 there are hundreds of others to choose from. All above are 9 feet by 12 On This Ivory Suite— A dainty suite in a very popular design, consisting of Chiffonier, Dresser, Dressing Table and Bed- stead. Our regular price on this is $218.00, but it is priced for this special aden st oe... 9187.50 You Will Save $60 on This Walnut Bedroom Suite— The suite consists of Walnut Dresser, Chiffonier, apcmmged Table and Bedstead, and this same suite is also shown in mahogany. Our regular price of $282.50 is now reduced wee. $225.00 Save on Your New Buffet Golden Oak and Fumed Oak Buffets, regular $33.50, for $27.50. Mahogany, Cane and Rich Velour One of the handsomest Three-piece Living Room Suites in the store, richly upholstered in old rose velour, loose cushions as illustrated, Regular price $250.00. This week ates. $197.50 Dining Suite in wax or fumed finish. Suite comprises Extension Table, Buffet and Chairs, substantially made and well finished. Regular price $1 14 00 e $136.25. A wonderful value at.. Extended Credit on Extension Tables _ Our very liberal terms make it easy to buy your new table now. Here are some of the sale ae Oak Buffet, reg- prices: Walnut Table, regular $36.50, for $30.00. $53.50, for $45.00. Golden and Jacobean Oak Buffet, Fumed finish Extension Table Tegular $55.00, priced now regular $20.00, for $13.50. at $45.00—and a host of and many other similar bar- other similar bargains. gains. “Quick Meal” Gas Ranges With “Lorain” Heat Regulators Here at last is AN ELECTRIC IRON FOR $3.35 Here is oneof the big bargains of Extra French Art the ideal Gas Mirrors] this special occa- Range with a | 10x34, reg-| sion. A 6-pound heat regulator : Blectric Iron which absolutely — ais Stand, fully guarantees re- for $9.85. santa A sults, Prices | 6x26, $4.50,| 208" . Reis from $27.00 to for $3.45. limited number $107.50. only. RUNBAU FORMERLY WOODHOUSE-GRUNBAUM FURNITURE CO., INC. “WHERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH” MONDAY, FEBRUAR ALL ABOUT NEWMEMBER OF CABINET Penniless Boy Becomes a Farmer, Printer, Editor and Statesman The U. 8 Senate Se firmed the nomination dith to be seeretary Mere ix am article te Meredith, from a newspaper cditer in Meredith's own home town. BY W. E. BATTENFIELD Editor the Des Moines News | DES MOINES, Ia, Feb, 2-—From a penniless boy of an Iowa farm to Secretary of Agriculture in I dent Wilson's cali farm paper pub! been the rise of Edwin T. M | in his life span of 43 years Born on a farm inear Avoca, Ia December 23, 1876, Meredith of neces sity early became interested in the game of making money. chance came when his father gave him @ little runt of a pig and told him that with proper care the ple | might be raised and sold at a profit Meredith thought it was the oppor { lifetime. Hoy like, he t the oh rom that oft TENDED FURNACE, WAITED ON TABLE AT COLLEGE Leaving the farm, Meredith en- tered Highland Park college, at Des Moines, He had no money from) | home, except a little he had saved, so jhe paid his way thru college by tend ing furnace and waiting on table. | | Mathemation was hin favorite study His first job after leaving col | lege was as a printer with a Des Moines firm, In 1899 his uncle, Thomas Meredith, started the fa mous Tribune here, and young Kd became his assistant, doing | everything from writing news and chasing advertisements to | setting type. The paper was started as a politi cal organ to support the Greenback | party. Neither the paper nor the party gained much strength in Iowa grim struggle to make expenses. In | 1901 Meredith and a printer friend bought the paper. dith founded “Successful Farming, now one of the largest and mont prosperous farm publications in the} country. FROM SMALL BEGINNING TO $50,000 A MONTH At the start it was @ little sheet scanty in news and scantiar in ad | vertiaing, but it had certain princi ples, and the young publisher was a fighter, | The initial number carried the an | nouncement that only “clean” adver | tising would be accepted, The first | few inmues were refused by the deliv ery wagons hired to take them to the | Postoffice until payment was made The postoffice would not mail them | until the postage w aid, Few be | Heved in the wit uccena of the | magazine. But Meredith “had a way with him,” and it was but a few | Years until farm publishers of the | country were forced to reckon with a | “comer.” His publication today has over 800,000 circulation, and the net profit from each monthly issue is otsimated at $50,000. Meredith not long ago summed up his “rule for suceess” in three words: integrity, industry and imagina- tion, “IMAGINATION SPELLS . DIFFERENCE’ agination spells the difference a small su ws and big suc Meredith rvice to his dith's hob! things the ders is one of me of the big: rmer can do ts to nterested in the farm, ay the drift to the citle "he any 1 be P ’ will be interested in the farm if he has a stake wants to make Meredith will lend any boy to carry on farm work, f py can borrow $2 0 or $100 to buy a pig or a cow or whatever he y want, The nt interest If he has bad ine his note is ex Pi doand he is urged to try in it money again | Meredith also loan | young men working their way thru | college > far he claims he ha paratively nothing and he money to | feels well repaid for having helpbd |hundreds of young men to get a start in life. He got the idea from his father's plan of giving him a! pig to raise HEADS ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING CLUBS Meredith married Edna ©, Elliott jin Des Moines, They have two child 1a daughter | h is president ; of the Ansociated Advertising Club: of the World and a director of the seventh district. federal reserve bank, He was a democratic candidate for United States senator in 1014 and democratic candidate for gover | Corduroy Smocks, Special $7.65 le: ENTY Tuesday’ They with American and Copenhagen blue. fe tion ished 44, in 7) The Rhodes Co. Pictorial Review and McCall Patterns Upper Main Floor THREE Smocks are reduced elling in the Women's Blouse See are made with all-around belt and fin- attractive yarn embroidery, Sizes 36 to Beauty, coral, pink, maize, bisque Formerly $12.50. Reduced to Corduroy Hin first) $9.75, then priced for Tuesday at $7.65, | a { aii dy} ‘ . Printed Georgette, N ; Tl . « r « l« *, 4 » Special Tuesday, a Yard $1.85 | Main Floor | Baas Dress Trimming Section will place on special sale for Tuesday yards of All-silk Printed Georgette in orchid, yellow, turquoise, rose, green and wine designs on contrasting colored backgrounds. | Formerly $2.75, $3.00 and $3. | TRAMORG, & VOEG asacecdidees i xetT $1.85 | oe Coats Reduced v H *, Ya © toc 7 a joe ao ‘4 Children’s and Misses’ Sweaters to $18.75 Upper Main Floor New Second Floor | | CLEAN-UP SALE of two specially priced assort- | HE ¢ j his | | ments from the regular stock. These Sweaters 4b oats i bcm are reduced on account of being soiled from showing assortment include and incomplete in color and size variety. belted and loose back | 46 Sweaters in sizes 1 to 4 ars, of fancy weave styles of velour, kersey in color mostly. Formers and $4, Ke 1 , choice at of Fae al $2.95 cloth, silvertone and 21 Sweaters in sizes 30, ¢ and with old rose mixtures, which were color predominating. Forme 50, 50, $9.50 and marked for former sell- $12.50. Tuesday, choice.......c....ssecseees 25 |. eee Fase ipeee ae $4.95 | ing at $34.75, $89.50, | sf nd | $45.00, $49.50 and i | $55.00. In all there are ‘hs : Children’s Hair | 54 Coats, in sizes 16 to | Handkerchiefs Brushes 40, but not each size | Five hundred Hand- Solid and open bach in every style or color. kerchiefs, printed in co : Choice Tuesday at or Formerly 10c. Hair Brushes. Formerly ag | Choice Tuesday, each, T5c. Tuesday, each 49¢. 5 deay end | | | Se. Main Floor Main Floor Re wit trecserepinptiieathalh nor in 1916. feated, He was a member of the tndus- ~ Both times he was 4>-| Meredith ‘Swoeht in | trial and later jof the pub! dustrial war labor commission that | toured England and France in 1918) aa ~ chowen as a member| Meredith today took the oath of of. roup In the first in WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—F. T. fice an secretary of agriculture. Aft at ler seating Secretary Meredith at the | desk he has occupied fe ht years, vid F to the table conference bring energy and and Meredith and hia uncle had a) In 1902 Mere} jat druggists. a ture ix the basis permanent prosperity of of all the | producer and consumer, I hope to work out some solution of this dif fieulty.” AMERICAN LEGION posts of | the state began a two weeks’ drive |for new members Monday BABY NAMED. LYOMN Because Her Mother Was Made Well by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable table Sotmpouna, I was in a very bad condition and had lost two ba- bies. One of my good friends told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- und and after had taken eight or ten bottfes I felt like a different woman. I kept on taking it until my baby girl was born last month and we have had her christened Lydia Elizabeth. I wish |you to publish my letter to benefit other women who are suffering as I was.’’—Mrs. KATHERINE Kurz- |BACKER, 1086 Manhattan Avenue, | Brooklyn, N. Y. Women who suffer from any femi- nine ailment should not lose hope until they have tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The many convincing testimonials constantly published in the news- papers — to be proof enough for women who suffer from those dis- tressing ills peculiar to their sex that Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound i is the medicine they need, | Grip, Influenza Hamlin's Wizard Oil a Reliable, Antiseptic Preventive During ir the r day wi uenze epidemics, spray and throat § rts w u haven't an a oat and snuff This treat to ¥ Wiza fied, return the get your money back Ever constipated or have sick headache? Just try Wizard Liver Whips, pleasant little pink pills, 30¢ Guaranteed, no 0 plann been in| junior senator from Virginia the country,” Meredith has ofte aid. “The chief difficulty of the farmer in recent years has marketing his crops, There has | been too much lost motion between | the oath rved of his d of the treasury ke lunch before hasten tol to be sworn in as A Great Sale of Aluminum Cooking Utensils Special at $1.59 This Is One of the Biggest Bargains We Have Ever Offered A “Special Purchase” of a large quantity of high-grade Reliance Aluminumware enables us to offer these remarkable values. Six Good Items to Choose From Assortment Consists of 5-quart Aluminum Tea Kettles 2-quart Aluminum Double Boiler 6-cup Aluminum Coffee Percolators 6-quart Aluminum Preserving Kettles 8-quart Aluminum Preserving Kettles 5-quart Berlin Kettle with patent strainer cover. SHEARS, Special at 69c These Shears are made of best carbon steel by special process, and they have an adjust- able cushion tension that Keeps them always H sharp by taking up the wear. Special at 69c. 12 Be tl 9 at pi pet! ba a] f