The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1916, Page 13

| Van Ness was resumed MEW ABSORPTION METHOD SPOOKS BROUGHT IN THE VAN NESS WILL chiweiinaame Aged Widow Saw Dead Hus- band in Her Negro Butler, Declares Niece. Spooks invaded Surrogate Cobalan's Court to-day when the hearing of the contest of the will of Mrs. Mary Not really, Of courses, but in some vivid testimony which is relied upon to buttress the contention of the and Albert A fox-trottin was notin she framed the will leav her colored butler, Joseph Sheldon; $15,000 to Frederick T. Barry, a real estate dealor at No. 648 Madison Ave. nite, Whom she also named as execu: tor, and the bulk of her $400,000 es. tate to her nicce, Miss Penelope Ag- nes Lutgen. The first witness was Miss Maud Maraball, in the col who in be wlousty axe to fi ination. “Aw tar back aw 1913," my gunt who rs, 3 left “out ‘an Ness, and suimony last week mirac- w from thirty years of Ay-seven under crogs-exam- she testified, d to me that sho ral visits trom her expressed my in- aunt cried vehe- a dead husband credulity, but my mently: ‘Yea, 1 saw him, wan't tell me differently.” jometimes she would ask me if I var some one knocking, When y . she would dec! con 1, 1 did, and I know it's and you didn’t td en my aunt had been alone ali the afternoon she would tell everybody that she had been recelv- ing oompany and would mention any number of per had heen ne ns, not one of whom aunt for her ndkerchtef | my looked at It that a dish “nat,” added the witness, with a glimmer of tears in her eyes, “was regarded b butler as her husband return the dead. Mrs. Van Ness died last July at No, 17 East Seventy-first Street, where she had lived as @ recluse for many years. CHURCH MEN IN FAVOR =| _ OF VOTES FOR WOMEN “No Movement of Modern Times Is __More Vital Than Their Struggle,” Says Report. BY. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 11.-—"No movement of modern times or of an time is greater or more vital to the welfare of society than the strugsle of women the world over for free- dom and for equality of opportunity and status with men.” This portion of the rep Commission on Church an¢ Bervice of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in Am brought mucha use from the 4 egates in the final session of the con- ference to-day. WOMAN DIES ON WAY TO BANK Staty-thr qyears old, camo to Ne from No. 139 Am tal here and hy Henry Chambe lain, acc VAR-NE-SIS HELPED NEW HAVEN MAN Pain of Rheumatic Joints Responded After Other Remedies Failed. W. FE. Goss, of 104 Olive street, New Haven, Conn, is enthusiastic} about, Var-ne-sis, He said: | “1 suffered from rheumatism of the Joints for five years. I was in con- stant pain most of the time and was unable to sleep or find a comfortable position, My hands and fingers were stiff and sore, My knees were very stiff if TF remained quiet any length of time, 1 had great difficulty in going up or down stairs, My ‘legs would cramp and swell, Nothing in the form of medicine} seemed to help me in spite of going | before a clinic for treatment, Four months after taking Var-ne- sis T was a well man without a pain or an ache. Tam recor \ ne-sis to all sufferers praise it too highly Send to W. A. Varney, Lynn, Mass., rs 1 cannot | for the “Story of Var-ne-sis.” Get Var-ne-sis now at all reliable drug- gists.—Advt PILES CURED AT HOME BY $e you suffer from Mit 1 will address, and BY CONTESTANTS OF WT Give ‘Greenhut’s THE EVENING WORLD, MUNDa«ayY, A Practical Plan of Economy Save Mex Gold Stamps Economy is in the air. Oo ded in expenditure for your home and yourself as you are, come for a careful survey of the means whereby you may ost for your outlay. Here are the two best economy rules that we know: The first; Buy what you need at Greenhut's. Thesecond: Save'Sperry’’ Gold Stamps. At “The Big Store, found the best moderat badass Ise in New York, With every 10c purchas: give a “Sperry” Gold Stamp. Filed books are redeemable in any tment of ‘The Big Store" for $2.50 of Merchandise of Your Own Choice Or at your option $2 in Cash (at the 2H Office On the Fifth Floor) “Sperry” Gold Stamps cost you nothing. Prankly, they constitute a bid for your tro but, none the lese, they are a most Important factor in helping towards a solution of today’s harassing problem—The High Cost of Living. is well known to thousands, there Is to be iced merchandise in the world, priced as ‘GREENHUT’8—THIRD FLOOR: Don’t Be Scared— These Animals Won’t Bite “TOY TOWN" IS A REGULAR CIRCUS WITH ANIMALS AND FUN—there are camels and dogs and horses until it looks like Noa! own ark, but big and fierce looking as they are, they can’t hurt you, You can ride the Lion's back and he can't roar. Climb the Giraffe's neck, he won't move, Poke peanuts in the Elephant's trunk and twist the Monkey's tail all you like. i this menagerie there are Bulfal ith great humped-up shoulders, ffes with the longest necks, ith plenty of glorious seri serious looking Camels, big aad little Dogs, the biggest and wooliest Teddy Bears, and ever so many others. And from the biggest Elephant to the tiniest wooly Dog they are all yours te play with any day and take home as many as you want for your own menagerie Christmas. DID YOU EVER SEE SUCH A MENAGERIE? $1.95 to $8.95 1 oi $2 to $5 -$1.25 to $3.50 2 to $3.50 1 to $2.27 $1 to ti ie Boe to. 3538 59¢ to $1.50 59¢ to $2.75 Tigers Buffaloes... GREENHUT'S—FIFTH FLOOR A Wide Range of Sensible Gifts of Furniture Take a stroll through our Furniture Department. Right and left are spread before you meritorious and inexpensive articles which will solve your Christmas problems. Here are some by way of examples: High Back Golden Oak Leather Seat Rocker (as illustrated), *8.00 Morris Chair Frame in ma- hogany finish (es Wustrated) Mahogany Fin- ished Cane Seat Bedroom Rocker, *2.95 Gilt Mirror With 18 x 40 French Plat Glass, 58.25 Jacobean Oak Chair or Rocker Betsy Ross Mahogany | Sewing Table | *4.65 erette seat, "3.95 Mahogany Finished Music Cabinet, 6.75 Smokers’ Stand In fumed oak or mahogany finish, $ 12.50 Matern Mahogany Tea Wagon, Muffin Special, Stand $ Special, ' 9.75 Inlaid Mahogany Tilt’ Table, Special, *4.75 Double wa¢ Green Trading Siamps with Purchases Till 12 0' Clock. DECEMBER 11, 1916, __ Unexpected Underprice Purchases of Christnias Merchandise_. Store Additional Underselling Advantages {| “THE BIG STORE” SIXTH AVE..1B™TO I9™ STREET mported Vases Embracing Loveiy Specimens of the Foreign Potter’s Art, at. . . "1.89 You will be amazed to see what extraordinary values we are giving in this sale of Imported Vases. We could describe them in one short phrase: “The Poetry of Pottery.” they that we would regard them conservatively as really worth double what we ask. There are only about 500 of them—which th unfortunate, for we could easily dispose wi HL than that number, were they availetle. he shapes are artistic, the designs exquisite. newspaper illustration can do their richness of coloring and beauty of form justice. You are looking for.a worth-while, inexpensive gift that is a delight to the eye. And its cost to you is only $1.89. GREENHUT’S—SECOND FLOOR Just in Time for the Great Christmas Demand—We Announce a Special Purchase and Sale of 5,000 Pairs of Women’s The slippers are so dainty in style, so serviceable, so sponse will doubtless be the igreateat ever given to an offering of this kind. These slippers were made up by one of the largest and best known ‘makers in the country, and by arrangement we purchase his entire surplus stoc EN STYLES FOR YOUR CHOICE. Fou Byer F pair fresh, new and perfect. The grea' gray and Nile green with “Comfy” soles, Included in this lot you will find fur and ribbon-trimmed rot Juliets with hand-turned leather soles, blue, purple, black, red, brown and Nile green, All sizes from 3 to 8. Misses’ and C! paren N's $1.25 Felt Slippers— with taney beaded de: sizes 12 to 2, at izes 5 to I, at... Men's $1.50 Felt Slippere Romeo and Everett het 6 to 11, at ‘ated, inge includes red, purple, old rose, lavender, pi GREENHUT'S—SECOND FLOOR: Dainty Blouses Always Acceptable These Captivating Creations Are Certain of Appreciation Silk Blouses |Cotton Blouses $2.98, $3.98, $5 | $1, $1.98, $2.98 HERE YOU MAY SELECT THE PRETTIEST OP THE PRETTY NEW WAISTS. Dress waists, if you like; sheer filmy combinationsof cobwebby lace and crepe, or tailored beauties of shim- mering silk. = White Blouses—one of the smart styles is of White Voile. There are many others of Crossbar Lawn, figured and seif-striped Voiles and tailored siyles ‘1 of Linene and Pique, On sale at. GREENHUT'S—MAIN FLOOR: High Class Shirts, Such as Usually Priced from $1.50 te Section wou be welcomed during any year; bur coming as it does withis 4 mas this sale is sure to be doubly BUT THERE'S ONE DRAWBACK. There 1,200 shirts in the entire lot, and we could times that quantity at the special price named All of these shirts are of highest quality, made up by one of the foremost makers o the country. In every detail of fabric, workmanship and trimmings they are flawless. MATERIALS WHICH INDICATE = ADVANCE STYLES FOR NEXT SPRING ARE IN THIS EX- wedtesy: R CEPTIONALLY FINE LOT OF SAMPLE SHIRTS. White Voile Blouses — effective styles, lace trunmed in ; s jneludead seabacal many pretty effects; some of the models are in Your choice includes finest grades o! sizes up to 52-inch bust. ] 98 Mover. Madras On sale at . jannels Other White Voile Blouses at $2.98 ep Biriped Madeaa : » Me i Crepe de Chine Blouses the model pi tured js an ex: High Count Percales sion of the beauty of these moderately priced Fibre Silk This 1s of white or flesh color $4 298 Silk Mixtures Crepe de Chine, On sale Handsome effects in colors; also plain white Other Crepe de Chine and Georgette Crepe $ 3 98 Soft or laundered cuffs, A limited number of these Blouses, at oo shirts are pleated; also good choosing in shirts with All are trimmed in the height of ta hiog attached collars. Exquisite Bloyses—one of the charming is shown in the Sizes 14), 15 and 18), ONLY illustration, There are dozens of beautiful styles § Attend this shirt sale--every man appreciates a few in Crepe de Chine and GeorgetteCrepe, onsaleat e | | good negligee shirts at any time Singlo gag Sten Thereafler Single Hei So elegant are of very We illustrate six of them, though no crude re it is. e desirable, and such big values at the price, that the re- @ special Ink, blue in gray, “Belives” Shirts On Sale at ‘1. 35 Are D $3 An offering of this kind in the Men's Furnishing e of the f Christ- are only sell ten |JEWELRYGIFTS We Give “Sperry’’ Gold Stamps ange, Redeemable in full Zi; books for $2.50 worth of merchandise as se- lected by you in any . department in this store, or for $2 in cash at the “S, & H.” office on the Fifth Floor, tens GREENHUT'S—MAIN FLOOR What Wonderful Can Be Bought for Little Money Here! And Those Who Want Jewelry of Great Value Can Also Purchase It Here Advantageously $1 Buys $6.50 Buys Choice of Gold Filled Brooches, La Vailieres, Bar Pins, Cuff Links, Cuff Pins, Lingerie Clasps, Scarf Pins, Combination Sets of CuffLinks, | Sterling peas. Silver Go Scarf Pins and Tie Clasps. 5 $2.25 Buys as , Genuine Cameo Brooch, a baal | beautiiui . filled mountings, beautifully en-| en ' graved, and in leatherette box monogtam, Mase te hold Nee lee rettes. $2.50 50 Buys Cigarette, Of @ Solid Gold Japanese Signet ‘of nickel! Ring, very handsome design. Roman finish, $7.50 Buys Case silver, in gilt or silver’ finishing. | New flat model, engine turned) Gold Filled Convertible Bracelet design. . Watch, fitted with seven jewel move- OraSolid Gold | ment, in excellent 10-year gold filled Cigar Cutter, | case. Extension Bracelet, complete plain polished | in a neat box. English finish Orasolid Gold Searf Pin, number of by titul designs, set | with genuine pearl or choice ruby, Sapphire or amethyst. $3. 50Buys | Pin; fined with good Swiss move- ment; choice of several styles of enamel; complete in pretty box. $3.75Buys//" > $9.75 Buys Gold Filled Watch for men and boys, thin model, fitted with 17 jewel movement; silver or gold dial ; triat sald Cut! ular bow, Other watches from $1 Solid Gold Cu to $240. Links, handsome’ engine turned $11.50 Buys Solid Gold Bracelet, set with genu- ine cut diamond; beautifully hand engraved, with safety guard. ter, bright finish, $4.25 Buys Solid Gold Brooches, many beauti- ful designs. Some set with colored stones, others with real pearls, Come plete in leatherette box. Sterling Silver Chatelaine Watch and Pin, fitted with good Swiss m ment, plain polished or engraved | cases, in box, kt. solid gold mounting: fine cut diamonds weighin, or) kt, $59 Buys 1-4 | Diamond Princess Rings, set with $5.75 Buys 19 fine cut diamonds in platinum, German Silver Mesh Bag, hand-| The ring is 14-kt, gold, some embossed 5S-inch frame, re+ Great Selection of Rings Priced versed ring mesh, fringe bottom, from $15 to 8295. Boys’ & Girls’ Ball-Bearing Roller Skates, °1. 65 This year's most remarkable value in roller skates It is a fact that today's wholesale price for skates of this quality is more than what we are asking at retail in this sale tomorrow. An order for 4,000 pairs of skates placed before the latest rise in prices is the only reason for this low price quotation, All of these skates are of the famous Union Hardware make—and can be adjusted to fit any size shoe, They are fine, simple running; fitted with rubber bumpers and shock absorbers. GREENHUTS—DOWNSTAIRS STORE Christmas Gifts of Utility From Our House Wares Department Duplex Fireloss Stoves-—-these stoves bake and roast; economical in use; foods are not wasted or spoiled by scorch: burningret-s- 0,200 20 Kitchen Sets euch set consists of L tea kettle, 3 quart capacity; | stew pan, 1 quart I frying pan, 844 inches; 1 lipped sauce pan, ‘Ib; quarts; 1 Berlin pot, 3 quart; | doubl 2 Quart, the set com- Fireproof Pie Plates handsome nickel-plated frame brown earth- enware dish, white centre; "88 Be ve Sl inches; at 10 inches, at.....++0- Serving Trays~-mahog- assian walnut, ion inlays plete Handsom any of clever imir » felt back; | The Same with Funey Gold ones Corners Asx); i reer b 70) cuse; top; with tron foot Shan 75 carpet cove } rest and holder, at $1.