12 (^nnrvir most important events of tlie month of if uJv 111 \ 1 \m Xfliailkl' 7 ' May; it is an exclusive feature of our colored and white dress goods sections and 1 • i ': ; WU f \ \ \\\ If * will be found to be of great value to all women who make, or supervise the mak ill I \ 1 jy ing of, their own dresses. Note these savings: H ffj f I 1 \ 1 YI . V 8C orf P eß: ,rhit * grounds, in rosebud 15c printed Flaxon in white ami col- 50c silk floral brilliant, a half silk | 12 He batiste; 30 inches wide; in white Tlf I■ I \ \ I >| V . printing. Bontex Sewing Week price, ored ground*. 150 different patterns. Bon- weave; 40 inches wide; in white and tinted »"d colored grounds with neat printings of 1 MM r=\ > ard 5y 2 < tex Sewing Week price, yard, . grounds and floral designs. Bontex Sewingj str 'pes coin dots and neat effects. Bon- II { j /H ' l 1| ( / 8c gingham, in seersucker stripes; all 12V4c Manchester percales; 36 inches priie, \ard /If /ft \ \ UC roun d s - Bontex Sewing Week price, wide; in white grounds. Bontex Sewing 35 c | H( , e oloth; 36 inches wide in white ,'ij ■>, 1 \ f l\\ * ' vard Weck ,)riee ' • VRrd •j 4 \ \i j Jtfi Ij\ colored grounds with black and colored price, yard, 29f* A I Wfff . lv< I* li\ 12V4C voile- in white and cnlorpil I "9c crepe de chine; 36 inches wide; one „ .. .. t ,a \ \ Yxf VV V H |.m\ 1-vac \oue, in wnite and ioiore.l v i . . figures, coin, spots, awnurg stripes and \ \ \ \\x.\S.i \i Arf \ grounds with colored stripes and floral " alt silk. Bontex Sewing Week price, . .... 39c rlain crerve; 36 inches wide. Bontex \ \ \ \ TbdM \ •*• t. 4 Q ■ W I vanl 4oa floral designs. Bontex Sewing Week price, c ' . -. , „„ \ I \ \ ~ w \ " printings. Bontex Sewing Week price, > aru 4JJy ( Sewing Week price, yard 29^ V \ \ \ \ \ y ( \ - 36 in hps wi 1p- iw' le \\ « V \ \ \ \ f \ io i/ •4 j ii • ■.. . , , silk stripe with colored woven figure. Bon- ... „ . \ \ I \ *\ \ \ X I 1 12 printed mull in white and colored .... , 75c Minstral cloth, 36 inches wide; awning stripes on white. Bontex Sewing \V*l \ V \ \ \ \ 'V I grounds with printings of coin spots, tx cwln ß ee prae, \an iof white ground with wool embroidered fig- Week price, yard, 25^ \V\ \ _ J\ \ \ \ \ \ \\ I j 1 price, yard, and woven figures. Bontex Sewing Week 59d 40-inch organdie in white and colored \ \ \\f / / I p r i ce( yard grounds and floral designs. Bontex Sewing 5 \ \ \ w I / 20c poplin-in solid shades. Bontex Sew- i ' &01p Week price, vard, *3(61*4 \ ■ \ \ \*/ / ... .. 2oe tango chiffon; 36 inches wide; in \ 1 \ \ \] J /L ' ing Week pfice, yard sl>oo embroidered voile, 40 inches white Kroundg bla , k gtripeß with floral \1 JP%, \ \ \I // t ,« - „ „- , H de - BonteX Bewlnß Week ~rk' e ' ! design. Bontex Sewing Week price, ™ \ \ \ xi / j// />v 12 dress pmgham; 32 inches wide. yar(\ ard "i CkJ* tinted grounds. Bontox Sewing Week \ \ ki /y Bontex Sewing Week price, yard, J og , rt | yar 19v price, yard / / \ 1 L 12%e Bates gingham, in lengths from 3 shades; one of the most wanted dress fab- 20c voile; 36 inches wide in white and Silk voile; 38 inches wide; a new weave f I \ to 10 yards. Bontex Sewing Week price, rics of the season. Bontex Sewing Week colored grounds with floral patterns. Bon- in light grounds and floral designs. Bon yard price, vard J tex Sewing Week price, vard, . tex Sewing Week price, yard 75^ Here's An Interesting Value An Important Feature of Bontex Sewing Week Is the ln Sll^^re^nT, omen Distribution of Special Values In White Weaves A special lot of Bradley's full fashioned silk sweaters in purple, Thousands of yards of white materials, including fine quality ratines, rose and tan with sash, .+18.(10 values. Special at 511.98 gabardines, flaxon, novelty cloths, lawns and piques will go out at special Another special lot of silk sweaters includes tine weaves in concessions from regular prices in the Bontex Sewing Week display. Among w two-tone effects and solid shades at §55.98 the foremost values are these; Other styles in lilue, tan, Palm Beach, grey, rose, azure blue, watermelon pink, rose and white, black anil white, hlue and gold, and 15c white novelty weaves. Bontex 25c fancy flaxons. Special, yard, 15c /x^v-s green and tan, purple and black, black and red, and green and Sewing Week special, yard 10c 2 5c white gabardine. Special, yard n>c %aTV. \ black $5.98 to 525.00 12 %c and 15c fancy weaves including Stripe 2 5c white ratine, 36 inches wide. Yard, 17c /RW, $P\ //2 ¥» \ \ „ r , • r, o . I lawns, crepes, Swiss and check lawns. Special, . k\ / 'r\ \A / - \ i Dives, Ponierov A: Stewart, Mens .Store, Balcony. I vard 10c 50c white gabardine, 36 inches wide. d., i?.>c y6Jg iffLs v'X \ — 19c white pique, 28 inches wiie. Special, 69c embroidered white voile, 40 inches wide. j iVV J Combination Offering of '""" ° 12 Vic quality pajama checks in remnant lengths, 19c white rice cloth, a sheer soft material for 4?aß M'fjJpK-S'A W. M „ J fj * for athletic underwear and children's dresses. Bon- waists and dresses; 34 inches wide. Bontex Sewing I- /WW //'I Tfl OUgar ana Orocenes tex Sewing Week price, yard ~sc Week price, yard, Wic f A A /If IfTV I r-r-v f 12% c white plisse underwear crepe, 30 inches 50c fancy checked crepe. Bontex Sewing W r eek Bjj U / \ ffj j! (I , TV'a\ I I wide " Bontex Sewin i-' Week r rice - y» r,i Hc price, yard •jsc M 4 /: . 'Cv /// • v\Vv / A 111U11U W 19c lingerie mercerized batiste, 40 inches wide. cn . , ,■■ ~ . ~ w a ffl \Ptf I I •/•'II • ; H \\ / _ „ _ Bontex Sewing Week price, yard, 10c . Boe imported white voile and Marquisette m Xgfa.- ; .•. .g M ■ ' I •= \\ / Site.granulatedBHWU-, 2401 L nl Stj " ' M.iU ;IJW lb- Kat -olive. 28c! nc _ «"(■« »«* P«.-e, v.rd .Id.: V< f? M 'A lb. Senate tea. . . Kir- ' /OU 1 2 ttc dotted Swiss, 27 inches wide, three good oor(1 for separate skirts. Bontex Sewing Week \ ,4, T mm. patterns. Bontex Sewing Week price, yard, ...10c nrice vard 25c \ 5 -j Oai'S iVOI'V soap, J 25c plain white chiffon voile, 40 inches wide, ' u-. ' i- oc •' i, • i t V- t \ I / „ " tancv ocean white hsh, 10-lb. pails, containing 22 fish, . . Sewing Week price, yard 12Hc ,lrPßses and children« wear. Bontex bewing Week \ fN Norway mackerel, fat and tender, 3lf or lOd 19c plain white Flaxon of sheer quality, 36 inches P r ' ce ' y ar< l> >c [/ v wide. Bontex Sewing Week price, yard, .......15c 25c white mercerized madras; for waists, chil ooap and Starch 25c extra fine quality Flaxon; 38 ineheß wide. dren's dresses and rompers; 28 inches wide. Bontex /I White laundry soap, made of vegetable oils, 10 cakes for 35<* Bontex Sewing Week price, yard 4 17 c Sewing Week price, yard 15c y T /timn laiiiwl,«, c tai.,.l, - ... \ 29c seed voile, a snowflake material; 40 inches 39c rice cloth, 40 inches wide. Bontex Sewing p lauut »> std " 11 or .) pounds tor 25? wide . Bontex Sewing Week price, yard, 15c Week price, yard. 25c . Ones, Pomeroy 4: Stewart, Basement. I>T Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. TWO NORWEGIAN STEAMERS" VICTIMS OF SUBMARINES i London, 'May 4. —The Norwegian steamer Baldwin was sunk bv a German submarine in the North sea on Sunday. The members of the crew, numbering seventeen men, were allowed to take to their boats. To-day they landed at Leith. Nine shots were fired into the! Baldwin beforeyshe went down. The Norwegian steamer Baldwin was j of 098 tons net register and 231 feet I long. Built in 1903. she was owned I by Det Selmerke liaderi, of Trondbjem, Norway. Copenhagen, May 4. —The Norwegian steamer Laila was sunk in the North sea on Friday by a German submarine. | !Her crew was landed at Copenhagen I to-day by the steamer Anna, which wit- j nested the sinking and at the request ' of the commander of the German sub- j marine took the crew of the Laila aboard. / 12,000 GERMANSREPORTED SLAIN IN BATTLE AT YPRES 'London, May 4. —Pereival Phillips, » in a dispatch to the "Daily Express" from the Belgian frontier, savs: "The German staff in Belgium admit they lost 12,000 dead in the battle of Vpres. Some idea of the enormous flood of wounded that poured across Belgium last week may be gathered from the fact that on Thursday alone trains, each of 40 carriages filled with serious cases, passed through Bruges on the way to Cologne. "Southeast of Bruges and east of | the Briyrps-Courtai road Flanders ap | pears to bo literally packed with wait ing divisions bivouacked in fields and billeted in every building, while the countryside is dotted with new artillery parks. Belgian railway officials declare that the recent movement of new armies into Flanders was the finest example of perfect organization they had ever witnessed." MONTENECRINTREPULSE NEW AUSTRIAN ATTACKS London, May 4. —The following re | port from Cettinje was given out yes terday afternoon by the Consular Gen j eral: "During the last few dayd the Aus trians "have renewed their activity on the entire Montenegrin front. Our troops posted on the heights above Cat taro were subjected yesterday to a fierce attack, but they maintained their positions and repulsed the assaults." A further announcement by the Con solar General states that Montenegrin villages near the frontier are in a piti able condition from lack of provisions anil from the ravnges of infectious dis eases, which, it is declared, were brought to Montenegro by the Austri an*. Austrian aeroplanes are daily bom barding open towns, the statement says. Advising Italians to Leave Austria Udine, Italy, May 4. —Italian con suls in Austria-Hungary are recom- > * ' FTARRISBtJRG STAR-INDEPENDENT. TUESDAY EARNING, MAY 4, 1915 I j mending that all Italians leave the | country a* soon as possible. TURKS AMHRIfISII NEAR THE SUEZ CANAL Constantinople, May 4.—An official announcement last night said: "One of our divisions near the Suez canal attacked on April 28 a company of camel drivers (British camel corps), who were equipped with rapid-fire guns. We pursued them and after half an hour's fighting we captured a number of rilles and some camel gear. During the night of April 28-29 our artillery Severely damaged a dredging boat. •'Two enemy squadrons of lancers were repulsed, losing 60 killed and wounded. They were pursued by the fire of our artillery and machine guns. We lost nine men." SAYS CLAIMS OF RUSSIAN DEFEAT ARE EXAGGERATED London, May 4.—German claims of a crushing defeat of the Russian center are exaggerated accounts of local suc cesses, in the opinion of the "Daily Mail's" military correspondent, who says: "Such exaggerated claims are to be expected just now in view of the ne cessity of influencing wavering neu trals. Nevertheless, the German offen sive against the Russian center long has been expected. For the past month the Germans have been moviug men to Cracow. "That such a maneuver as piercing [ the Russian center was essayed at the, same time as serious attacks toward Riga and Vpres shows the resources and j amazing audacity of the German staff, i If the Russian front has been pierced l and a serious reverse suffered, the war j will be greatly prolonged, but that any j German success, however great, will af- ; feet the resistance of Russia cannot be , believed." Stockings for French Soldiers Reading, Pa., May 4.—The French government yesterday closed a contract with the hosiery mill conducted by O. B. Herbein and Harry W. Anthony at Strausstown, near this place, for the entire output of stockings for two months. This will total approximately dozen pairs. The hose will be used by the French army. Martial Law In Tripoli Paris, May 4.—A Rome dispatch to the Havas Agency says that the Ital ian Cabinet yesterday issued a decree placing Tripoli under martial law owing to the attack on Italian troops by reb- , els near Syrta last week. The Tripoli tan irregulars attached to the Italian column deserted to the rebels at the beginning of the engagement. Botha's Troopi Capture Otymblngue Cape Town, Via London, May 4, 5.11 A. M. —An official statement is sued here last night says that General Botha's Union of South Africa troops on Bunday captured Otymbingue, an important post 100 miles east of Swak opmund, German Southwest Africa. Tho British losses were only eight killed. Five of these men lost their lives' in the explosion of a mine during 1 tho advance up the Swakop river. JEWELRY SALESMAN ROBBED Joseph Moltz, of Towanda, Held Up by Highwayman Near Lumber Camp Williamsport. Pa., May 4.—State police arc searching the mountains in tho vicinity'of Nordmont for a high wayman who yesterday robbed Joseph Moltz, a traveling jeweler of Towanda, of $136 in cash and several checks. Moltz's sample case, which contained jewelry worth $2,000, also was taken, but was dropped by the highwayman when he was pursued by Moltz and G. M. Feister, who arrived shortly after the hold-up. The hold-up occurred a half mile from the lumber camp of Julius Na varia, where Moltz had gone to trade with the woodsmen. Day Set for Mayo Divorce Case < Scranton, Pa., May 4.—Judge H. M. K.lwards yesterday fixed May 14 as tho date for hearing the divorce application of Mrs. Florence Weeks Mayo, who al leges that Virginius J. Mayo, the Now Haven radiator manufacturer, whose entanglements with- Lillian Cook and Lois Dudley gained him wide fame ns a man of loving proclivities, is hPr hus band. Mayo is expected to make per sonal appearance in the case. For a sturdy spring drink, try Fink's Wurzburger.—Adv. Killed While Painting House South Bethlehem, Pa., May 4. — Henry 0. Fulmcr, for several years a member of the Town Council, was in stantly .killed yesterday while engaged in painting his house. A ladder on which he was standing slipped and he fell 25 feet/to the pavement. He was 64 years HOLD ROBBEKY SUSPECTS Find No Trace of $2,500 Stolen From Shamokin Trolley Car Trevorton, Pa., May 4.—Kenton Neipart and Milton Bitting, arrested last Saturday after a trolley car had been held up and robbed of $2,500 be ing ibrought here from Shamokin to pay silk mill employes, had a hearing yes terday. No one positively identified them as being the robbers. They were, however, committed to the county .jail for trial. No trace of the stolen money has been obtained. DOWN BANK WITH BAIL MOTOR One Dying, Six Others Badly Hurt After Jumping Track Slhenandoah, Pa., iMjiy 4. —One man was proba'bly fatally injured and six others were seriously hurt, when a speeding railroad motortruck on the lLehig>h Valley railroad jumped the track rounding a f»harp curve here yes terday morning, hurling the men in all directions down a steep embankment. The injureil are: John Ohimcihock, foreman, skull fractured, may die; John 'Shubick, bad lacerations of scalp; Si mon Stetz, lacerations of forehead; 'Mi chael SHnubiek, father of John, badly bruised on the head and left side; Steve •Comenstsky, bad seal]) wounds; Yotsko Stetz, back and legs bruised; Luke Ti'mmins, head a mass of contu sions. Leaves $«5,OO0 to Church Hollidaysburg, Pa., May 4. —Tlve will of Mrs. Kate J. Bowman, of Al toona, was probated here yesterday. She bequeathed $65,000 to organiza tions connected with the-Roman Cath olic church. MUST PAY «120,0<>0 TAX Northumberland Court Dismisses Suit of Coal Companies Sun'bury, Pa., May 4.—.1 mlge iMoser, in the Northumberland county court, y'egterday dismissed a preliminary in junction which restrained the Coal township School Board from collecting • $70,000 ta*es for 1913 from the Phila delphia and Heading Ooal and Iron 'Company, the Lehigh Valley Coal Com pany and the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company. t Tlie Court said t/he companies had shown laxness in the suit, which was ■ brought fifteen mont'hs after the levy ihad been laid. In all $120,000 in taxes must be paid to the township. For Coughs That "Hang On" Lingering colds, bronchial coughs, la grippe colds and similar ailments that "hang on" until May are likely to last all summer if not cured. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound will allay in flammation, clear stopped passages, re lieve distressing discharges at the source, banish stuffy, wheezy breathing " and heal and soothe raw nasal and bronchial passages. It is prompt in action; safe and sure. Contains no opiates, (leo. A. Gorgas, ltf N. Third St. and 1\ R. R. Station.—Adv. Chester Man Killed In Allentown Allentown, Pa., May 4.—'While at tempting to board a passing freight train on fhe Mew Jersey Central rail road, two miles north of this ■city, lasrt evening, Harry Hagen'biirth, of Chester, and Harry Klkins, of Siegfried, were struck ibv a shifting engine and hurled fifteen feet. Hagenbuc'h died soon after his removal to the Allentown hospital and his companion is in a critical con dition.