Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-17

1 D.
Manager Mcdaniel announces that
the display cards intended to be hung
| by the merchants in their windows or
within their stores announcing that
their closing hour on Saturday night is
8 O'Clock, are on hand at the CONNER
cial club office, and that all merchants
who desire same should call and secure
them.
active Steel Ranges best, handsom-
est cheapest. Buren' Is Furniture Store,
Commercial street.
Oil paintings at Buren's furniture
store, Commercial street, by Mr.. How
ard Ellis, the artist, soc, 75c, 81. They
make nice gift to mail or express.
Cretonne for draperies, bags and 9th
| er gifts. nice line ranging from 21
cents up Buren, s Furniture Store, Com
mercial street.
A dollar or two invested judiciously
in plain wall paper would give the
| whole family a better feeling. Buren, $
Furniture Store, Commercial street.
Harold Hager, formerly employed at
| the Ladd g. Bush bank, and who has
completed the ordnance department
course at the Washington State Univer-
sity, has been spending a few days with
his mother, Mrs Cordelia Hager, of
this city. Mr.. Hager has been accepted
into service and has been transferred
to Jacksonville, Florida, where he will
serve in the paymaster general IS depart
ment.
Bed comforts soft and fluffy, large
sizes, dainty patterns, beautiful cOlors,
prices lowered. Buren, S Furniture
Store, Commercial street.
James W. Mott, who completed the
law course of Willamette university last
wear and was admitted to the state bar
in July, leaves today for Astoria, where
he will enter the law firm Of Norbald
& Hesse. Mr.. Mott is the son of DR.. w.
S. Mott of this city, and has won an
| enviable reputation in local theatrical
4 circles for his successful direction of
a number of local talent productions,
the latest being the Elk's play, "The
Man From Home.'
A commercial basketball league will
again be formed in Salem this winter,
according to the plans of the local Y.
NJ. G. A. notwithstanding the fact that
approximately one hundred of the
younger numbers of the league are now
in some department of government ser
vice. The league will be composed by
teams entered from the various bust
ness houses of the city. The first year
of the league there were six teams ana
last year there were eight. So tar fou1
teams are in sight Cor tlis year, tho
business concerns being represented be
ing the Watt Shipp company, Hausel
Bros, Capital National bank and Bis
hons Woolen Mills. L. is planned tC
have the opening of thu league ;lh"ni
the first of the year.
The majority of the stores of the city
will remain open Monday night OF
Christmas week and on Saturday night
of.this week. This was the sentiment
found to exist among the merchants
when approached by committee of the
Business Men s League on the matter
Thus Christmas shoppers should not de
Law too long in making their purchases
This is the last week before the event
full occasion and there will be two
nights when the stores Of the elty ar'
open after supper.
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At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of .he Armenia Relief fund call
ed bv JOS. H. Albert and held in tbs
form of a luncheon to day at the Y. M
c. A. building, an address was heard
bv ]. J. Handsaker, of Portland, chair
man of the Oregon Armenian Relief
committee, and permanent officers wer'
elected as follows; Jos. H. Albert, chair
man: Ben. W. 0lcott, vice president
and R. A. Harris secretary. A meeting
Of the officers and committee viii be
held in the near future to perfect fur