THE MORNING STAR. WILMINGTON. N. C, SUNDAY, JUNE . 16, 1918
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I, The C. W. Polvogt Company, because of an increased demand of rent of 100 per cent., and other excessive increases iu
operating expenses, also tha future impossibility ..to secure floor coverings, have decided to retire from business and will dis.
pose of our large and valuable stock of household furnishings at less than the present wholesale cost of same, offering great
inducements on all goods. i .
Sale to begin Monday morning at 9 o'clock and continue, until' every item is disposed f. No goods will be charged; every
item to be sold for cash. No goods sent on approval. Two deliveries daily.
Customers owing us accounts are kindly asked to pay same as early as possible and help us wind up our affairs. House
keepers will do well to lay in a year's supply. Prices on a majority of our stock will be lower than the present wholesale
prices.
"Are you going to furnish a room or two for the newcomers? If you are you will find bargains here.
Respectfully,
THE 0. W. POLVOGT CO.
SALE STARTS AT 9 O'CLOCK MONDAY
TRUNKS, BAGS AND
SUIT CASES
An Opportunity to Buy Your Luggage
at a Big Saving
$75.00 Wardrobe fcfY flft
Trunks JpDU.UU
$65.00 Wardrobe (fcCC CiCi
Trunk . ipOO.UU
$60.00 Wardrobe $50 00
$30.00 Dress Tray QO CA
Trunks J)eDU
$25.00 Dress Tray 4 $1Q CH
Trunks ij) ii.DU
$20.00 Dress Tray t1 C HH
Trunks . . . . .tj 1 0.UU
Steamer Trunks at Closing Out Prices.
Leather Suit Cases, Leather Hand Bags, Fiber Suit Cases, Fiber
Bags, Straw Suit Cases, Straw Bags. All at Closing Out Prices.
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' Lace and Scrim Cur
tains, suitable for any
room in the house, at clos
ing out prices. These are
all displayed with reduc
ed prices marked on them.
Special $2.50 Lace Cur
tains $1.50
WINDOW SHADES.
Stock sizes and. shades
to order at closing out
prices.
Cream and white shades,
3 by 7 feet, today's
price $1.00; closing sale
price 60c
Green, white and ecru
linen shades, 6 and 7
feet lengths, worth to
day $1.25 and $1.50;
closing price
90c and $1.00 each
2-inch Cream Opaque
Shades, worth today
$2.50; closing up priqe
$1.50
Sheets, Pillow Cases,
Spreads and Towels
$2.00 full size sheet, sale
price S1.65
50c Pillow Cases, sale
price . 40c
12.00 Bed Spreals, sale
price S1.6S
$2.50 tied Spreads, sale
price f2.0O
$2.75 Bed Spreads, sale
price fa.35
$4.75 Bed Spreads, sale
price ..$3.75
60c Bleached Turkish Tow
els 40c
35c Bleached' Turkish Tow
els 28c
30c Bleached Turkish Tow
els 22c
25c Bleached Turkish Tow
els . 20c
After 35 Years Must Retire From Active Business
II This Is Your Chance to Secure Goods Impossible
jj to Get Until the Great Overseas Struggle Ceases.
I THE G. W. POLVOGT CQMP'Y
Crex and Grass Art Squares ...
Smaller Rugs to Match
6x9 size, sale price .$7.50
54x90 size, sale price ...$4.50
36x72 size, sale price $2.35
30x60 size, sale price $1.75
'27x54 size, sale price $1.35
Greerv Brown or blue, -9x12 Are Squares bor
dered in severaj patterns, today's price $15;
sale price $10.00
8x19 Art Squares, with borders; today's price
$12.50; sale price $8.50
CARPETS
$2.50 Velvet Carpets, suitable for room, hall
and stairs, closing out price $1.50
$2.00 Velvet Carpets, suitable for room, hall
and stairs, closing out price . . : A. . . .$1.25
$2.00 Brussels Carpet for room, hall and stairs,
closing out price, per yard $1.00
$1.25 Crex Hall Runner, 36 inches wide, in
green or brown, closing out price $1.00
$1.00 Crex Hall Runner, 27 inches wide, clos-
CARPETS
ing out price 75c
50c Matting in plain white or fancy China,
closing out price 35c
$6.50 Straw Art Squares, 9x12, closing out
price, each ...$5.50
Straw Rugs 50c and 75c each
Cretonnes, Scrims and Lace Nets, an excel
lent showing and we assure you they will not
last long at prices they are marked.
RAG BUGS
In all colors and sizes to match the floor cov
ering for bedrooms, cool and washable.
$18.50 Rag Rugs, 9x12, pink, blue, green, tan
or gray, sale price $14.00
$16.50 Rag Rugs, 8x10, in all shades, closing
price i.... $12.50
7.6x10.6, sale price .$10.00
$12.50- Rag Rugs, 6x9, in all shades, closing
price $8.50
$3.00 Rag Rugs, 36x72, sale price ..$2.35
Smaller sizes at reduced prices.
CONGOLEUM RUGS IN ALL SIZES
$17.00 size 9x12 Congoleunf Rug, closing out
price . . $12.50
$14.50 size 9x10.6 Congoleum Rug, closing out
price t $10.00
$7.50 size 6x9 Congoleum Rug, closing out
"price $5.00
36x72 Congoleum Rug, today's price $2.50.
' closing out price .. . $1.50
36x72 Congoleum Rugs, today's price $2.85;
sale price .$1.50
36x54 Congoleum Rugs, today's price $2.10;
-sale price $1.10
Qongoleum, two yards wide, today's price $2.00
per yard; sale price, a vard $1.50
Inlaid Linoleums and Cork Carpet at reduced
prices.
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PLAIIIIGTO FIGHT
NDUSTRIAL
S
Not Neglecting Them' While
Fighting Military Forces.
Allies Will Not Lend Capital or Buy
; ) Masked Export as They Have In
.. 'the Fast War After War
'h, ; to Extend Commerce.
' Washington, June 15. While the al
lies are engaged in the struggle with
German autocracy, the problem of
meeting industrial aggression 'after the
yr&r also Is receiving attention.
. prance la debating regulations to
compel , registration of nationality by
manufacturers and trades people, so
that the - nation which has borne the
brunt of the German assault may not
Unwittingly send gold to provide funds
for another war. Italy has Issued a
decree k requiring declarations of na
tionality. - Others of the allied coun
tries are discussing similar measures,
despite opposition irt some official quar
ters i to anything savoring of an "eco
nomic war after the wur." ;
German duplicity and intrigue re
vealed in the last four year have
strengthened f ear in European coun
tries that Germany may . attempt to
market her goods when peace comes
by means of "masked exports," giving
the impression that they originated
elsewhere. Official dispatches, quoting
financial writers, Bay that it is to be
expected France for some - time after
the war ends, will be dependent upon
imports, because the most important
Industrial districts have been devas
tated by the invaders and in order to
prevent unwitting, buying of enemy
goods, three measures have been sug
gested, as follows;
1. To establish a personal register.
2. To to establish a trade register.
3. To demand the national mark put
on all goods imported into France.
With regard to the personal register
it is the intention to make one for
each community, containing the names
and addresses of all the inhabitants,
their birthplaces and the names of their
parents. All storekeepers shall hang
in their shops a sign plainly stating
their nationality. On tne tmsls of this
personal register, a trade register shall
be kept, as in Italy, Spain, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Hun
gary and Germany.
There is no Intention of boycotting
German goods. Economists hv nnlnt-
ed out that such a step would be a
senseless thing to do and the inten
tion in France is only to control the
German Imports and keep them within
bounds so they will do no harm. To
that end the French syndicates have
suggested that it be made obligatory
for all imports to bear the national
trade mark of the country of origin. V
Writers in neutral European : coun
tries have pointed out that such inter
national protective system would do
away with all suspicion regarding the
origin of goods, make access to the big
markets easier and protect them
against being monopolized by the more
powerrul . states.
Germany Is not missing any chance
to prepare for business after the war,
plans in the making including-one of
such tremendous proportions as a ca
nal between the Black Sea and the Bal
tic. The Lubec chamber of commerce
has reported that the canal would
shorten the transportation or petroleum
from Batoum to Hamburg by 3,000 kil
ometers, new markets for German
goods would be opened and Russian
products could be obtained by Germany
at much cheaper, price than heretofore.
RYAN SAYS NOTHING
BUT HE SAWS WOOD
Man In Charge of Airplane Production
Haa Sent Drafted Men to Forests ,
to Get Out the Timber.
Washington, June 15. John D. Ryan,
financier and copper magnate, has been
saying nothing ever since he took over
direction of aircraft production, but
considerable evidence ha saccumulat-
ed that points toward definite accom
plishment in one direction that mili
tary men say it would be most danger
ous to neglect.
... That Is the production of Airplane
spruce. ,' v r ' .
War figures are all large, too large
for most people to digest; but lumber
men say that 3r. - Ryan has demanded
15,000,000 feet f a month from. the Cas
cade forests, and little things like the
drafting of 9,00pmen, the planning of
logging railroads, and -the mobilization
of rather large existing industry for
war production, indicate that he in
tends to get it. -
The consoling fact is that If Amer
ican 7 factories are late in making
planes, so long as the raw material
flow to France and England is main
tained, the allies will "have machines.
Mr. Ryan's first move was to call in
Colonel Disque, head of the spruce di
vision, from Portland, Ore., and there
after something was started. There
had always been less criticism of the
spruce production efforts than of any
thing else that had been done, largely
because the expected consumption of
the rftw material did "not develop.
About 3,000,000 feet of pruce was the
by-product of normal fir and other
lumber cutting in the northwest each
month. The allies were getting all of
that i from the open markets, and- it
was a simple matter for the American
government to step in and take it all.
It was also comparatively simple to
Increase prices a trifle, and double the
normal production.
But when it comes to running the
output up to the mark Mr. Ryan is
credited with setting, a task is pro
jected that Is immense when compared
to even the Inflated standards of war
work. It is because of the peculiar
qualities of Sitka spruce that it'sus-
talns the stresses of high speed - air
planes better than any other substance
the world knows, and it Is because of
its peculiar distribution and habitat
that the United Spates is finding It a
difficult task to get enough of it. It
had but low" esteem as a commercial
woodMn the pre-war days, most -of it
getting Into the waste piles of sawmill
yards though a little of the best 'and
thickest, specially prepared, .went In
to sounding boards of pianos." Queerly
enough,' Germany was always a bjiyer
Of that portion of the product.
Now that the world needs spruce, a
lot of Americans will- have to buy Lib
erty bonds and keep on doing It indefi
nitely Just because the Sitka spruce
has a retiring disposition and ts fin
icky about the places where it grows.
It . grows only when surrounded by
trees of a different species, which hab
itat the lumberman is describing when
he says that from 5 to 40 per cent of a
given timber stand is the best that
spruce shows. It likes the sea-fog
from the Pacific ocean, and grows to
valuable size . only in scattered belts
where-the fog comes regularly.'
Lastly, only about 35 or 40 per cent
of the wood in the trunk has the
strength,' toughness, and resiliancyH
that airplane struts and spars require.
It takes special machinery and spe
cial handling in hundreds of mills,
small and- largo, to get out this 35 per
cent.
It isn't practicable or possible, the
lumber operators find, to take out the
spruce unless surrounding trees are
also removed. All the logs are im
mense in size and it takes railroads,
motor trucks, or donkey engine cables
lem means that to get the 15,000,000 i
handling of at least 100,000,000 feet of
other timber monthly. It will involve
also problems concerning the disposi
tion, present and future .of the unused
fir and other timber that' comes out
with the spruce.:
i But immense as the task Is, there are
signs that it is being done.:: Mr., Ryan
continues his refusal, to talk about the
.method. And It only takes 200:board
feet of spruce to .make one airplane. ,
WAR . KILLED THIS INDUSTRY.
Mexican Women No Longer Dress Up
, Fleas for the Market.
Juarez, Mexico, June 15. War In Eu
rope has crushed another small busi
ness in a neutral country. Dressing
fles for market is no longer a profita
ble business in Mexico and the little
insects have disappeared from the
show oases of curio stores that line
Calle Comercio in this rambling bor
der town.
Dressed fleas were long a staple ar
ticle in the stores and shops here fre
quented b ytourists. In little boxes,
no bigger than the blunt end of a lead
pencil, these adorned fleas could be
seen through reading glasses in all the
glory of theid wedding or christening
finery. Mexican women tolled for
days in dressing these diminutive In
sects, using the point of a needle - to
attach the bits of bright cloth and lace
to the bodies of th ewee pests. Through
the miscroscope these dressed fleas ap
peared as miniature persons with hats,
dresses and suits covering their tiny
forms. "
When the United States government
limited passports to persons on neces
sary business, the tourist travel to
Juarez ceased and, autojmatically. s0
did, the demand for dressed fleas.
Jumping Mexican beans, another of
fering of the curio stores, have ce-dA
to be sold fo rthe same reason. Hun
dreds of these little, wormy, leaii3
were sold to travellers from the Unit
ed States "when the port was open.
Drawnwork, pottery, hand carved
canes,, mantillas and Mexican cnf"'
tions are rapidly disappearing from tne
shows. and many of these curio stores
have cclosed their doors since the tour
ist embargo became effective.
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