4.
IMPOSSIBLE SCHEMES
Of Endowment Associations De
nounced bv Frank P, Bennett
FIGURES THAT ARE MADE TO LIE.
Difficult to Understand HowSo Many Dnpei
Could Be Found.
ALL THE ORDERS IN THE SAME SHAPE
Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 26. Bepre
tentative Frank P. Bennett, of the Massa
chusetts Legislature, delivered an address
before the American Economic Association
here to-day upon "The Endowment Craze."
In introducing his remarks he said:
Any person who bad occasion to pass
through Tremont street, Boston, on tbe
evening of Friday, January, SO, 1891, irould
have noticed that Tremont Temple was sur
charged with a demonstrative gathering of
people, and that hundreds of curious or in
terested observers were being turned away
from the doors because of the inability of
the great audience room to accommodate
them. On the platform inside the Temple
-was a box containing $40,000 In crisp new
5:00 tieasury notes, and the principal
lea tine or the evening's programme con
sisted in giving one of these $100 bills to
each of too persons whose payments to the
organization giving this entertainment
aggregated HI within the previous 12
months. Among other speakers, a lady from
Cleveland, who was announced as the "State
Deputy irom Ohio" and the "leading lady of
the order," said: "CleTeUnd people had to
ha e the order of the Koyal Ark thoroughly
explained to them. A one-year order was
something new. Now we have six months'
and even four months' orders, and whether
the time will come when we can put In our
money Alonday morning and draw It out
Saturday night, I can't say." To herhcarers
this last sentence concealed behind its
doubtiul iorm the pleasing hope tLat the
time nas near at hand shen $41 put into the
hopper of one of these orders on Monday
morning would grind out $100 on Saturday
nicht.
r l he order which this lady represented ana
"which thus gave $100 for $11, with the accom
paniments of music, oratory and the ac
clamations of several thousand people, was
oneoi S6assessmentendonmentassoclations
doing a similar business in Massachusetts at
that time, while 201 "bond investment com
panies" and foreign endowment associations
were then engaged in an even more onlliant
eystein of getting rich quickly in that State.
The Height of tbe Craze.
The "endowment craze" reached its height
in Massachusetts during the six months
ending Jnne SO, 1891, and on that date the 88
Massachusetts companies had 255,485 mem
ber?, to whom they had promised the enor
mous aggregate or $4,810,278. And as the
existinc companies were given a monopoly
by the amendment of 1890 forbidding the
formation of any further similar corpora
tions in Massachusetts, a great number of
organizations were chartered in New Hamp
Bliiie and came into Massachusetts with
promises of the still readier method of ac
quiring riches, to which I have already
alluded. Inquiry of the commissioner of
corporations in the State House at Boston
Ebons that 201 foreign "Dond investment"
companies and foreign endowment associa
tions were registered there in May, 1S9L
The Sew Hampshire "bond investment"
Company differed from the Massachusetts
'endowment society" in promising to pay
each certificate in numerical order, as soon
as the necessary funds were In the treasury.
For instance, if the face value of the certifi
cate was $100 the "bond investment com
pany" acieed to pay that amount upon cer
tificate Xo. 1, as soon as the amount was in
the tieasury after paying expenses of man
agement. The next $100 was to be paid to
cei tiflcate Xo 2 with equal promptness, and
with assessments of even $1 per month and
1,000 members, it was evident that the early
ccitificate holders would get their $100 each
at very small cost, while the low would fall
wore and moie heavily upon the later mem
bers, and the last man would have nobody
but himceif to as-css after having con
tributed heavy assessmen ts to pay off earlier
and more lortunate certificate holders.
The Unfortunate Last Man.
TVhlle the assessment endowment societies
Oiffered from the bond investment com
panies by witnholding payments until a
definite period, as for example, until the
end of six months or one year or five years,
the promoters of each system agreed in
denying that there was any danger of a "last
man' to suffer loss because there was no
body left to assess in the society but him
self. In tbe Tremont Temple meeting, to
which I have alluded, the lady from Cleve
land, O., said: "As for the last man argu
ment, which all deputies have to meet. Just
assure the people that so long as the cradle
is rocked, there'll be no last man." But one
of the promoters of a bond investment com
pany, appearing before a legislative com
mittee at the State House in Boston, was
akod who had certificates Jo. landNo. 2
in his company, and he replied: "Well, 'er
I had 2o. 2." Being further interro.-ated,he
admitted that if he conldn't have No. 1, be
wanted No. 2. It was found that neatly all
the earlier numbers of certificates In the
bond investment companies were held by
the piomoters and their friends.
By a Ia-v enacted June 4. 1891. the bond In
vestment companies were unceremoniously
swept out of Massachusetts and were sup
pressed with equal promptness by their pa
rent State of New Hampshire, though not
be: ore the "last man" had been reached
among the victims of several of them. Or
the Massachuctts endowment societies, tbe
Order ot the Koyal Ark," whose Ohio dep
uty hid "aid, "So long as the cradle is
rocked, theie'll be no last man," terminated
its active existence September 11, 1891, or
about seven months after its "leading lady"
bad made the remark which I have Just
quoted.
Xong and Short Term Orders.
Mr. Bennett thinks no more of long-term
orders than ot the mushroom production. Of
them he says: ""
Nearly all of the societies still In existence
call themselves "long term orders," and
their officers unite in criticising the "short
term orders." or those whose endowment
period w as less than four or five years. But
whateertheir term of payment may be, the
proposed methods of these societies have
been imilar. The Ullurcs have included 7
ycir, 3 j ear and 3 year orders, but have been
inoie Hrgely among the 1-year orders, be
cause the period or large pa ments in such
orders has been generally reached. Those 6
ycaroidere, whose Cist certificates do not
begin to mature until 1834 hae naturally
found continued existence mnch easlcrtnan
the 1 year orders whose certificates matured
In 1391.
But it is difficult to see why it should prove
much easier In the end to pay $500 in five
years for $200 than to return $100 in one year
for $10. The Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts, Hon. George S. Merrill, who
sturdily refused fiom the beginning to yield
either to the enticements or the threats of
these orders, readily disposed of this claim
oi superiority of the "long-term orders" be
fore u committee of the Legislatuie tbe
present year. In his report upon first tak
ing possession of his present office, in the
sear 1S-&S ne pronounced the promises of
even the "Order of the Iron Hall" as "ab
surd," "pi epostorous" and "morally and
mathematically impossible of fulfillment,"
and from that time until the present he has
appealed to the Legislature annually to
take irom these speculative schemes the in
dorsment and approval of the Common
wealth.
Ti-e piincipal feature of the Iron Hall has
been the pa inent of endowments of $1,000
eacli to those of its subscribers who persist
in pa iug the assessments as levied Dy the
Supreme officers for a period of seven
year".. The payment of disability and death
benefits has been merely incidental, and is a
service which can be performed lar more
honestly and satisfactorily by the legitimate
fraternal ormutual benefitatsociations than
by the endowment societies. The obliga
tions of tne lion Hall began to mature in
18:S, and in the lour jears from that time to
the date nf its last public statement, Janu
ary 1, 1832, it bad paid in final benefits to its
hick and persistent- contributors the largo
turn of $5,791 245: and the oost to each bene
ficiary was in the neighborhood of $300 for
SI 000. The amount of each assessment is
$2 50 for n $1,000 certificate, and the number
fit assessments have thus far averaged 17 or
18 ver annum. The lion Hall also Issues cer
tificates for less amounts than $1,000 at
as-csMueiits ranging from 50 cents to $2 00
.icii. The success oi tno Iron Hall in meet
ing its maturing certificates without any np
jmicnt disaster until the recent application
foi a leceivershlp was a powerful argument
in dcfi ne of the Massachusetts endowment
BtCietHS.
The Numbr ot Credulous f urprlsln-r.
In this generation of nn advanced public
scnool sjstcm in the United States, one
would suppose there were enough who have
been initiated into the mysteries of geomet
rical progression to suggest the impracti
cability of the Iron Hall system of specula-
uitnamziance. i
But while all men have the gift of reason, I
it is unfortunately true that soma men rea- I
son very badly, gome ol the victims of the I
endowment orders were very "practical"
persons, who scorned theories and doctrines
and were quite certain the endowment
orders ould succeed because they had seen
with their own eyes full payments made by
some or their orders to their certlfl cate hold
ers. Others of the victims admitted from
the outset that somebody was going to be
financially hurt In these orders, but that
thev themselves hoped to get their money
out'before the crash came.
To those of their critics who are so theo
retical as to appeal to tbe rules of simple
arithmetic, the managers of tbe endowment
societies answer that sufficient "lapses"
may be depended upon to insure tbe suo
ce of their enterprises, and moreover that
they do not promise to limit their assess
ments to anv definite ratio of the promised
benefits. Furthermore, the "Iron Hall"
replies that It does not even promise to pay
a definite amount, that it only contraots to
pay a sum "not exceeding $1,000." All of
their literature, however, suggests a definite
Sromlseor $1,000, and the persons who Join
o not see the certificates until they become
members, and are usually then influenced
rather by the promises of the company s
agents than by the precise language of Its
written or printed contracts.
A II lib. Price for a Prayer.
In someortho publio meetings of the as
sociations a supreme humorist seems also
to havo been employed; but his office must
be considered ephemeral and unimportant
since we nowhere learn that a supreme
humorist hs been admitted to any such
large participation in tbe profits of the en
dowment societies as the supreme chaplain.
In the "Order ot the Golden Lion," one rot
the officers who appeared before Justice
Allen, of the Supreme Court, was asked
what position he held, and answered that he
was the Sunreme Chaplain and that his duty
was to open the supreme session with
prayer. He iurther stated that bis previous
occupation had been that of a clerk in a
grocoiy store at $15 per week, but that his
salnrr as chaplain was $7,500 per annum.
As tbe supreme session of the Golden Lion
was li eld but once in two years, the cost to
the members for this supreme chaplain was
$15,000 a pra er. In the "Friendly Aid So
eietv ." which bezau business in June. 1890.
the old officers discovered a method of en
riching themselves by the process of selling
out the corporation, resigning and allowing
the purchasing members to be elected of
ficers in their places. The old officers re
ceived over $27,000 cash for this transaction,
ana the new officials managed, in 13 weeks
of the existence of the corporation, arter
they had gtilncd control, to secure to them
selves $36,200 in compensation. When a
receiver was appointed, tbe books and ac
counts were in a sadly oonfused condition,
almost impossible of being satisfactory ad
justed.
-1 have already taxed your patience by the
length or this address, and will conclude
merely with the suggestion that "the en
dowment craze in Massachusetts," though
unique in many of its details, is still suffi
ciently like the "loan fund" mania in Massa
chusetts 40 years ago, the "South Sea Bub
ble" in Europe 180 years ago, tbe "Tulipo
mania" in Holland 240 years ago and to
numerous other combined speculations and
swindles In all generations to prevent tbe
hope that the lesson which it teaches will
be permanent, or that any historical sketch
will be effective in preventing some similar
delusion in a future generation. In the caso of
the-Massachusetts endowment societies it is
not enough to sa ytbat "the American people
like to be humbmrged." To the greater por
tion of tbelr victims, connection with these
organizations has been no Joke.
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ALCORN On Thursday. Aumst 39,1892,
at 2:15. Akdt Alcorn, aged 68 years.
Funeral from his late residence, No. 188
Washington avenue, Allegheny", on Satur
DATatJp. if. Friends of the family are re
spectfully Invited to attend. i
ALLEV-On Friday. August 26. 1892, at 530
A. Jt, Mabtha. Allot, third daughter of
James and Elizabeth Allen, in her 20th year.
Funeral on Sukdat, August 28. at 2 o'clock
from her parents' residence, No. 6 Marquis
street, Allegheny. Friends oNthe family
and sisters ol Lily of West Lodge, No. 19,
are respectfully invited to attend,
ABCHEB August 26, Pittsburg, Mabt
Agses (Mrssrs), dauzhter of Plato and
Elizabeth Archer, in her 8th year.
Funeral from her rarents' restdenoe,
Thirty-firth stieet, Satbrdat, 880 t. v.
BEALE On Thursday, August 25. 1892, at
8:15 A. Jfc, Fraitcis A Beam, aged 43 years.
Funeral from the residence or N. G. Beale,
135 Pearl street, on Satpboay, August 27, at
2.30 p.m. a
BEACKEMEYER On Thursday, August
25. 1S, at 6:10 p. K. Jabed M. B., youngest
son or A F. and B. W. Braokemeyer, aged 25
years 8 months and 25 days.
Funeral from tbe xamlly residence, No. 221
Fourth street, Braddock, Pa., on Suhdat
APTEBicooir, August 28, at 2 o'clock. Inter
ment private.
Cincinnati, O., and Keokuk, la., papers
3 please copy.
CAMPBELL On Thursday, August 25,
1892, at 2-to p. x., Essie Mat, daughter or
John C. and Agnes Campbell, aged 2 years
and 7 months.
Funeral from parents' residence, 51 Car
penter alley, Allegheny, on Saturday, Au
gust 27, 1892, at 2 p. m. Friends of the family
are respectfully invited to attend.
COCHRAN On Wednesday, August 24,
1892, at 11 p. x., ask Elizabktb, wife of W.
A. cochrun, aged 31 years, 1 months and 19
days.
Funeral from family residence, on Market
stieet, Leecbburg, Pa., on Satcbdat aitib
irooif, Auzust 27, at 2 o'clook p. ic 2
EICHBAUM At Willtamsport, Pa., An
gust 26, at 6 o'clock A. v., Joseph, infant son
of Cbarles H. and Leila S. Elchbanm.
Interment at Wllllamsport.
ELLIOTT On Thursday, August 25 1892,
at 11 a. .it, Mrs. Louisa, wife or Thomas
Elliott, in her 70th year.
Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
Peaoeful In thy grave so cold,
Yet again we hope to meet thee
Where no parting tears are shed.
Funeral from her late residence. Moon
township, Allegheny county, on Saturday ap
tzrnooh at 1 o'clock. Friends of tbe family
are respectfully invited to attend.
FEBTIG On Friday. Aucust 26, 1892, at
8:10 p. jc, Frakk Fbbtig, Sr at bis resi
dence. 46 Pennsylvania avenue, Allegheny
City, aged 48 years, 2 months.
Xotlce of funeral hereafter.
FORD On Thursday, August 25, 1892. at
10010 p. m.,Sust Ford, widow of the late Benja
min Ford, aged U years.
Friends of the family are respectfully in
vited to attend tbe funeral services at the
Baptist Church, Sewickley, Suhdat after
hoo, at 2 o'clock. 2
GREEK At the family home, 6643 Penn
avenue, on Thursday morn lne at 3.10
o'clock, Mrs. Sadix E. Greer, wife of Will
iam S. Greer, aged 65 years 4 months and 21
days.
i onerai services Saturday at a p. x.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend.
Greensburg papers please copy.
HOULIHAN On Thursday at 4 p.m. Mat
thew Houlihan, son of John and Bridget
Houlihan, aged 9 months.
Funeral from parents' residence. No. 7
Miller's row, Glenwood, on Saturday at 3
p. v. Interment Calvary Cemetery.
JACK At Brush ton, on Friday, Angnst 26,
at 3 a. M., Mrs. N. E., wife of William Jack,
in the 57th year or her age.
Funeral services will 'be Held In the Pies
byterlan Cbuich, Wilklnsburg, on Saturday,
August 27, at 9 A. St. Interment at Apollo on
arrival of train leaving Pittsburg at 10.40
A.M.
JOHNSON Wednesday morning at 5
o'clock, William Clabexcb Mead Johnsos,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Berthia M. Johnson, of
Mansfield Valley, being 6 months and 5 days
old.
Funeral Sunday, August 28..1S92, at 8 A. x.,
from St. Philips' Roman Catholie Church,
at Crafton.
KEENAN At Baden-Baden, Germany, on
July 30, 1892, Rose Keenan, late of Philadel
phia, Pa.
Funeral from the residence of her brother,
Owen Keenan, No. S2 Locust street, Pitts
burg, on Saturday horsing at 9:15 o'clock.
High mass of lequiem at St. Paul's Cathe
dral at 10 A. m. Friends of the family are re
spectfully invited to attend. 2
MACUONALD At her residence, 99 Ninth
stieet, Soutnside, on Thursday, August 25,
1892, at 1:30 A. M., Sarah Jake Macdoxald,
aged 63 years.
Funeral services at the family residence on
Susday aptersooh at 2 o'clock. Friends or
tbe family are respectlully invited to at
tend. MEADE At Point Chautauqua. N. T., on
Thursday.August 25,1892, Filmobe Woodburit,
only child or K. T. and Grace W. Meade,
aged 4 months and 2 days.
Services at the residence of his parents, 4i
Buena Vista street, Allegheny City, this
(Saturday) morhiko at 11 o'clock. Inter
ment at Sewickley, Pa., this ai-tersioow.
MUBPHY On Thursday. August 25, 1892,
at 11 JO a. m., Mary Mubphy, wife of John
Murphy, In her 78th year.
Funeral from the family residence, Ko. 16
Sixth avenue, on Saturday korsiso at 8.30.
Services at St. Paul's Cathedral at 9 o'clock
a. m. Friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend.
BOON At tbe residence of his dauzhter,
Mrs. Charles E. Fitzgerald, 187 Bidwell
street, Allegheny, at 9 o'clock Friday morn
ing, Michael Rook.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
STEWART At Idlewood, Pa., on Friday,
August 26, 1892, at 9 a. m., James, son of Hugh
and Ellen Stewart, aged 18 years.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
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And the J2 B0 and $3 OXFOKDS, MA
DRAS AND CHEVIOTS
REDUCED TO $2.
Reduced From 75c to 50c.
Just received, another new lot of Ladles'
Navy Blue Silk
26-in. UMBRELLAS!
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1 nn at
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HORNED WARD
41 Fifth Avenue,
NBW AD T KKX1 SEMENTS.
Moi'sForiiiSuiMs
Gymnasium Shirts, Bicycle
Shirts and Rowing Shirts that
were $2 and $4 reduced to $1
and $2. Only a few left
White Merino Undershirts
reduced from 25c to 15c
Gray Balbriggan Undershirts
reduced from 38c to 25c
Pepperell Jean Drawers, with
elastic ankles, reduced from 50c
to 38c.
Ditto, better quality, reduced
from 75c to 50c.
Scriven's patent elastic seam
Drawers reduced from $n to
75c.
Fancy Undershirts, excellent
quality, reduced from 75c to
50c.
All our Spring and Summer
Scarfs reduced from 50c to
25c.
Seamless Half Hose reduced
from 15c per pair to 10c.
British Seamless Half Hose,
gusseted, very good value, re
duced from 18c to 24c.
Fine Seamless Half Hose,
warranted fast colors, reduced
from 25c to 18c.
Fine Lisle Half Hose, never,
sold for less than 50c, now re
duced to 25c.
Fine Colored Embroidered
Handkerchiefs reduced from
25c to 12JC.
Laundried White Dress
Shirts, slightly soiled, reduced
from $1 to 65c.
FLEISHMAN & CO.
504, 506 and 508 Market St.
MAIL ORDEfiS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
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WHAT r. Mtt CKMT BO.
Would fill a good-sized vol
ume if written out. What he
can do at jfacksons' in the
way of bargains in fine
Home-Made Clothing would
fill an entire library. We
have placed on sale thishweek,
to make things hum, about 40
new styles of good All-wool
Cheviot Pants, called "The
Favorite," at $2.25. Now,
two dollars and a quarter is
but a small sum, and some
people may think it isn't
enough' for them -to spend for
Pants, but we say to you if
$2.25 will do the work with
us that it will take $4 to do
elsewhere, why not take ad
vantage of our Pants sale.
'Ask for our $2.25 "Favor
ites." In- our suits: Well, every
other man in town wears our
Home-made Suits, and for
good reasons. First, we
guarantee them in repair free
of charge for one year; sec
ondly, you can save from $3
to $5 on every suit.
Why not try us? It's to
your interest. See the ad
vance styles in our Hat Department.
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Vvarj
rtAikvflik
934 and WBJjIBERTY St.
B. & B.
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-TO BUY-
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Good ones for less money
than they were ever sold in
this store.
We have a. window packed
full of them new styles this
Fall's best patterns that came
in too soon which we are
going to sell right away.
All Chenille Portieres with
dado and frieze, and tassel
fringe both ends, $4 a pair.
Portieres at $4.50, $4.75,
$6. $7-5. $8, $8.50 up to $14
a pair, and such values as we
never before offered. A big
assortment of colors to choose
from, and the most artistic and
effective designs yet produced.
It will pay everybody within
a radius of a hundred miles or
more to come, or send, for
them.
People who send for them
will do well to send sample of,
or name, the color preferred,
and state which price is wanted.
We are satisfied that all will be
more than agreeably surprised.
BOGGS & BUHL,
ALLEGHENY.
au2S
ODDS AND ENDS.
ALMOST GIVEN AW AT.
CARETS AND BUGS.
Some nice patterns, enosgh lor
a room, may be J nit what 70a
want, and to be bad ataaaerlflee
price. Ruga to match In price and
pattern..
CHINA MATTING,
From a good fancy, 15 OO for 40
yards, up to the best brands.
GINN1FF & STEINERT,
Limited,
WOOD STREET CARPET HOUSE,
305 WOOD ST.
JeJSrra
IT IS "A DUTY you own youraelfand fam
Si
onomlzo In your footwear by purchasing
la sec me neat rains lor your money
nofnlKfl In Tour footwear bv nnrchmlni
It. DeorlaaHheee, which represent the
beit Talne for piicei aakei
a, as
thousands
win irnuy
TAKJC NO 80BSTITDTE.
W. L. DOUGLAS
33 SHOE ceIImen.
THE BEST SHOE IN THE nOttDFCB THE MONET.
A genuine setred shoe, that triO not rip, fins
calf, feamlou, smooth Inside, flexible, more com
fortable, stvllsh and durable than anv other shoe
rer sold at the price. Equals custom made shoes
costing from 4 to (5.
and 5 Hand-sewed, One calf shoes. The
a hi
tvltih.
lithe
most stylish, easy and durable shoes erersold
the price. They
ilia, easy ana aursoie saoei eT.rKiia
hey equal ln Imported shoes costing
from to $12.
All-
-other grades of the same high
tnndard of excellence.
CAUTION Bwr nf dIn rahitlrntlnff
shoes without W. L. Douglas name aad the pries
stamped on bottom. Such substitutions are fraudu
lent and subject to prosecution by law for obtaining
money under false pretences.
W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by
D. Carter. 71 Fifth a venae: J. N. Frohrlnr. 933
Firth sTenua: H. J. A O. It. Lnr. 4501 Butler
street, Pittsburg: Henry Kosser, 108 federal street.
VL O. Hollman. So. 72 Rebate street. Allerhenr:
Hutchinson Bros., Mo. 280 Bearer arenae, AUe-.
M. MAY, SONS & CO.
FXKB DYXXMCr AM0 CLKAX1N8.
Mllxt art, rttueurt, Jfa.
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THE
THAT CALLS
THE BOYS
WILL
SHORTLY RING.
Get the boys ready. It
what it costs you to do so if you
some other store. The season has come when we make 3
OUR ANNUAL TALL SALi
m
SCHOOL CLOTH
ID FOIIESi
Our counters are full of the
Ua lM1r A ArnaUklA - -
SCHOOL CLOTHING,
SCHOOL SHOES,
SCHOOL
All the above and many
enumerate in endless variety at
OUR
CUSTOMERS HAPPY.
In our Boys' Suit Department we shall offer special induce
ments in suits with short and long pants. We've several hun-
dred medium-weight dark-colored suits left over from the sum-
mer's trade which we offer at prices far below what they ought
to bring. This affords a splendid money-saving opportunity for;
parents and guardians who-have little ones they are compelled
to fit out
WE CAN SERVE YOU
TO GREAT ADVANTAGE.
School Companion Free
300 TO 400
GUSKY'S
AT 2.90!
FOR LADIES AND GENTS.
THE FINEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED.
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Worth $4, $4.50, $5 and $6.
NOW ONLY $2.90.
Men's Finest Calf
Finest Patent Leather,
Genuine Kangaroo,
Fine Congress
Bals and Bluchers.
Bargain Prices.
Every pair fully warranted.
W. M.
433 AND 435
WOOD ST.
WHOLESALE
AND RETAIL.
WATCH CHAINS, i
We will, for this week only, sell a Ladies' or Gents' Rolled Plate
Watch Chain, WARRANTED FIVE YEARS FOR WEAR, at the un
heard of low price of Q 1 5 O eac-
SICITS.
, W. COR'FXMt ATX. A1CD
ss
0-23,000 GRADUATES.
THE LARGE8T AND MOST FR0GRI8Snj
Send tat Hew Illustrated Clroolar,
.
XTMUC HsHHI PH K0BUF, Mjltmutr M.
BELL
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TO SCHOOH
will make quite a difference inj
fit them out here instead of aty
-OF-
very articles you need to give
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HATS,
SCHOOL HOSE,
SCHOOL NECKWEARS
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other things that w.e cannbf
prices that make
COMPETITORS ANXIOUS.'
TRY US.
with every Boy's Suit
MARKET ST.
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AT S2.9D! ATM!1
WORTH $4, $5AND$6A
NOW ONLY $2.90.
Ladies' Finest Cloth Top,
The Fine Dongola Kid,
Newest Style Tips,
Latest Style Lasts,
Common Sense and Opera;J
New York or Piccadilly,
Every size, every width.
LAIRD
406-408-41C
MARKET f
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Cor. Libarty and SmitMeli
and 311 Smithfield Street:
Jyl7vrraB
SIXTH ST., MTTSBTTHO, PJU
BD3IHE88 COLLEGE IN WESTERN PESIA.:$
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