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HOUSTON DAILY POST: SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1915. 8 nfi V- Ml From Every Standpoint A Sale Absolutely Without an Equal. Circumstances Compel a Complete Reorganization of the Shotwell Harris Firm Owing to the retirement of Mr. Isaac Harris, it becomes necessary to convert the entire stock of high grade merchandise, consisting of MEN'SV AND BOYS' CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HATS, INTO CASH. The business will be incorporated and continued by William I.

Shotwell, senior member of the firm. The fall stocks are now arriving and it is absolutely necessary to force this sale with the greatest of rapidity. It is fully realized that there is only one way this can be done, and that is to make your money do double duty, and you will readily note from prices given below that our full intentions are to clean up every dollar's worth of Spring and Summer Goods in our store. Many of the Men's and Boys' Spring Wool Suits have ample weight for the fall and winter wear. This sale is launched just at the time when you can use any 1 article we carry, and far less than can be had thirty days from this date.

Our future plans are to increase our stock and. make our store larger and better than ever before. With your co-operation, we shall succeed, and we take this opportunity to thank you, one and all, for your past patronage and earnestly solicit your future favors. This Sale Is for Cash Only. No Goods Will Be Sent on Approval or O.

D. Please Come. Special No. 3 All Men's Palm. Special No.

4 All Men's $5.00 and Special No. 6 All $1.00 Union Suits and Separate Drawers and Undershirts; summer weights CCf. iteacn r.xira i rousers, sold tor Special No. 1 Any Men's All Wool Suit in our store, prices $10,00 Special No. 2 Any Palm Beach Suit in our store; prices up to $10; m.hs to 50 chest: gen- QC nine Palm Peach Cloth $2.95 ool Pants on sale, at only $3.00, sizes 30 to 50 waist measure.

Your choice $195 ill si2es choice UUb All Men's $3.50 and $4.00 Wool Pants, choice $1.95 Special No. 5 $1.50 and $2.00 Shirts; soft and laundered. QCp Choice uuC Three Shirts for $2.50 $2.50 to $3.50 Shirts $1.55 Special No. 11 50c Belts 35c Men's 50c Leather and Silk QC Belts, choice Ouu Men's $1.00 Belts, fine quality. PC-Choice Quo Special No.

12 $1.00 Caps 50c Special No. 7 Four 50c Ties $U0. Special No. 9 50c Socks, 3 for Si- Special No. 8 Six Handkerchiefs $1.15 Six 25c Initial Linen Hand Men's Fine Golf Caps, sold for One lot of Fine Silk Four-in-Hand 50c Men's 50c Silk Fancy Socks, fine Ties 35c each, or four lot kerchief; our regular 25c Special No.

10 $1.00 and $1.50 and $2.00 Night Shirts; a real bar- HQ-gain; fine quality 03b $1.00. Choice Men's 50c Golf Caps, in all colors. Choice $1.15 quality; 35c each, or 3 for $1.00 onlv 35c kind. Six for The Boys' Store Is Included In This Sale and Everything in Spring and Summer Wear Is Reduced Our entire stock of Boys and Little Fellows' Spring and Summer Clothing on sale at half price and less. We are unable to mention all the articles, but you will note low prices on a few.

Palm Beach Suits No. 3 Children's Wash Suits 39c Two hundred Wash Suits in the new No. 1 Boys' Suits One-Half Price All Voii Suit-. jut the thing for school No. 2 $5.00 Palm Beaches $1.95 Children's Sox No.

5 25c Children's Sox 9c All our 25c Fancy and Plain Socks; Q- 4s to oy2. 3C styles that sold up to $3.00 Aq Choice now J1 ic Boys' Pants No. 4 All Boys' $1 Pants 49c All Boys' $1.50 Pants 95c All Boys' $2.00 Pants $1.15 All Boys' $2.50 Pants $1.35 All Boys' $3.50 Pants $1.95 Straw Hats No. 6 All Straw Hats for small and large boys; sold up to Cfl $5.00, now UUC All Little Fellows' Panamas, QC now Hub his i a clean-up price and includes 200 fine Wash Suits, sold ud to $1.95 S15.0U Suits, choice $10.00 Suits, choice $5.00 Suit-, choice all our Boys' Palm Beach cnoice 200 fine Wash Suits, sold up $1.95 19c Boys' 25c Hose 19c All our School Hose now on sale at. $2.95 Suits; good assortment.

to Sb.50, choice i SPECIAL NOTICE! THIS SALE Is for CASH ONLY. Please Do Not Ask Us to Charge. NO MAILORDERS FILLED Unless Accompanied. With CASH No Goods Sent on Approval or C. O.

D. RELIABILITY $4250 ADDED TO RELIEF LOAN FUND FOR FARMERS SECOND DAY of the women, had had others offered, had on hand all the clothing and other supplies hich can be used, and that the comfort of the refugees is assured during the remainder of their stay in this city. They are comfortably clothed, bedded i and fed now. according to the statement of the officials in charge, through, the generosity of the Houston citizens. While supplies needed for the soldiers' wives and children have been adenuate.

I LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME wmmw there is still, however, demand for At Last the Voice of Sticky-Toes Is Heard. -AND Local Committees Appointed Friday to Arrange Details of Movement Organization to Be Effected in Several Counties. I clothes and other supplies for the sufferers of tiie storm in outlying districts. I Clothing, food and money can be used by the relief committee in alieviating the wants of these storm sufferers. The i committee has made its headquarters for supplies at the city auditorium, where they win be glad to receive all contributions, or where they mav be notified By THORNTON W.

BURGESS. (Copyright, 1916, by J. G. Lloyd.) A cheerful sound It Is. my dear.

A voice you've waited long to hear. Local committees to arrange for the re-! trs of this vi inity. and will lie much telephone of contributions, for which they will call. Money should be sent to L. Scarborough at the city hall.

pl'-ased to give you sui-h access to and information from our books as you may rT WAS so long since it bad rained Mil on the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, the Old Pasture and the Old Orchard that the little people DISEASE DANGER LESSENED BY TEXAS CITY PRECAUTIONS Brighten Up Store Phone Preston 2646 622 Travis Street who lived there had begun to think that it never would rain again. They had given up looking for Sticky-Toes the Tree Toad in order to try to make him call rain or to do dreadful things to him if he refused. They had Bodies of Dead Animals Are Being desire in that work without charge." Kvery -ne seems to be willing to cooperate with the plan, as it seems to impress one as helping those who are willing to help themselves. Amounts subscribed to the Houston Loan Fund to Farmers August. 16 amounted to The following subscriptions were made August Hankers Trust company $1,000 00 Fidelity Trust company 1,000 00 Houston Land and Trust company 1,000 00 F.

W. Heitmann company 500 00 K. Paine 500 00 Bank and Trust company. 250 00 amount subscribed, Au- eust 27 .250 00 Total amount subscribed, August 26 22.000 00 Amount still necessary 00 Burned by the Score, Said Major Ford Now in Houston. TEXAS fflMPANY STATPMrNT LUMBERMEN WERE HARD HIT hunted all through the Green Forest, lief of farmers in the storm "district were appointed Friday afternoon by the general committee in charge of the work of raising a fund of $40.

Ow to be as 2 loan fund for. planters who suffered by the recent storm. The central lommittee ku become known as the 'mmittee of the Houston loiin funl to farmers." Members of the Houston l-arina house and other citizen cot together Thursday unl raised for the farmers while rhy were form in Organization to carry on the relief work. 'The object of the emmittee is to ra.se the 140.000 and then let it be distributed among the worthy fn-m-rs at the of 4 per cent with or witnout security. $4250 ADDED SECOND DAY.

On Friday, the iecoi.u day of the movement. $4250 more was raised. There are many details that the committee will have to work out yet that will take some' time and when the organization in the! various counties is c.mpl-ted tlv moncv will be ready. The of the application blanks has been settled on. and Herbert May i printer, has voluntu red to print theni I tree of charge, so rr.anv auonevs of.

fered their services free that a 1 ommittee of five was named 1., lo. after the lepal work of the nri WHEN STORM SWEPT WOODS at least through that part of it where they thought Sticky-Toes was likely vii a a i a Willi 1 SHOWED INCREASE FOR YEAR Gain of More Than $3,000,000 in 1 Surplus Over Figures for Preceding; Fiscal Year. More Than 140,000,000 Peet of to be, and through the Old Orchard, without finding him. Then because Major Ford, who has been directing the sanitary campaign at Texas City, and who is In Houston at the Rice, stated Friday that the health problem at Texas City is being solved, and that here is little fear of disease resulting from the many it was so dreadfully hot they gave ua. Standing; Timber Was Leveled by Recent Hurricane.

Now Sticky-Toes wanted rain quite Feel "They'll as much as anyone else. Perhaps he Better if They ooaies 01 animals out on the prairies. "We have already burned otot a hundred bodies of animals, and have the situation well in hand." said Major Ford. Texas City was under martial law for a whole week, from Tuesday, August 17. wanted it a little more than most of Know That It Is Goingto Rain Soon." me annual statement of th.

r.v.. Total amount desired $40,000 00 LIST OF LOCAL COMMITTEES. Local ommittees thus far appointed: Harris county: Pasadena Roy Glasgow, chairman; J. XI Jackson, B. A.

Baldwin. fn.uth Houston H. G. Klob, chairman; V. Osburn.

G. W. Smith. 'Jenoa R. S.

McUowen. chairman; I H. f'assleman, J. W. Daniey.

Mvkawa John Swengle. J. Bammer. the others, for he is never bo happy company for the fiscal year ending June 30. which has 1uat h-on i throughout Monday, August 23.

During According to statistics carefull compiled by Dionne, editor and publisher of the Gulf Coast Lumberman, the lumber Industry of Texas has been a great deal harder lilt by the storm than had been heretofore reported. Mr. Dionne has had reports from all turn time luc iuiieu 01at.es lurnisned food to both soldiers and civilians in the stricken city. A number of visitors to an increase In the surplus of $3,393.826 79 over the figures for the nreceriinv vL.r and comfortable as there is dampness in the air. You see he has a skin which is very to dampness and heat.

The first makes him comfortable and the other very uncomfortable. He can always feel the least tiny bit of dampness In the air, and that is how he knows before his neigh- wnom no rood was sola were also fed in the restaurants which had been com farmers wishing to put up stfjrlty I their loans. mandeered Dy tne government. When asked about possible plans foi gross earnings for the year ended June 85 were and the net earnings, after deducting the ODeratlna SSSKSf pableorrpTu. $6,33.326.7.

Dividends to the amouSt bors do when il. is going to rain. Of course that makes him happy and cheer sections of the Storm area and the total loss in standing timber alotie Is 140,000,000 the movements or soldiers stationed at Texas City, Major Ford said: "Nothing definite has been given out as feet, valued at 1700.000. to whether the camps will be rebuilt Logging conditions are worse than they where they were or whether the soldiers had been for, years, with the woods full The following Houston attorneys are the committee: Sam Str-etman hai'-mnn: P. Hamblen, E.

s. Phelps Thomas H. Bottt and A. It. Hamblen.

ABSTRACT COMPANY GLAD TO HELP. The committee received trie following letter from the Harri County Abstract company "We are henrt sympathy with the movement to aid the storm-tri. ken farm- will come to Houston or go to San An tonlo. It is still a matter of conjecture. of water and the ground wet and boggy, Operations are only now being resumed In Webster H.

1' llose. chairman; W. H. Plumley, J. W.

Thompson. A. dine James Soence, chairman; W. B. Lowery.

Carl Anderson. Ilrazoria county: Pearland Berry Miller, George B. Jenkins, E. D. Jack, chairman.

Fort Eend county: Fresno F. O. Kelr, chairman Galvest ti county: Friendswood H. La. Green, rr airman.

Chamhe county: Anahuas and Wallls-ville Ans.n Miller, chairman; L. R. Miller. The headquarters of the committee are the liainl.tr of Commerce, fifth floor of Chronicle building. All Information relative to the loan fund can be had there-Thomas har lson and W.

L. Stalling some localities. BOAT SERVICE, HOUSTON TO Besides the damage to standing timber about 60 big sawmills, have reported dam GULF, IS BEING MAINTAINED age. The total loss sustained by the mills. ful and he begins to sing "It's going to rain! I Us going to rain!" That Is why a lot of people have got it into their heads that he actually calls the rain.

Now sooner or later all bad things come to an end. Sticky-Toes knew this, and each day be hoped would end the terrible heat that was drying up everything. At last one afternoon ho felt something In the air. He couldn't have told you for the life of him Just what that feeling was like. It was Just a feeling, a feeling all over, that was all.

But he knew what it meant. It meant that rain was coming before long, it made him glad, so glad that he opened his mouth to cry the news that all might hear and rejoice. Then he closed it again without making a sound. -He looked up at the blue, blue sky. Jolly Mr.

Sun was smiling as broadly as ever and nowhere could Sticky-Toes see a cloud. He looked over in the next and there sat Welcome Robin with wings drooping and looking very, very miserable. He looked down at Johnny Chuck's house and there on their doorstep lay Johnny and Polly Chuck panting for breath arrd looking very, very uncomfortable. exclusive of the standing timber, will total Daily Barges Leave Foot of Main Resinol considerably over $100,000 between Houston and the Sabine river. The enforced idleness of the mills has out down the output about 45.000.000 feet sines th.

are in chaige at the headquarters, and ti central committee requests that everv one call on these gent, omen at the Cham, ber of Commerce for all information. Street and Many Small Boats Hake Special Trips. storm. GOOD PIANOS ALMOST GIVEN 'AWAY AT OLIVER'S Call Saturday, Monday and Tuesday save the most monf ey, get the best values-j-alwayi at Oliver's, but for three days everything goes half price and less in used Pianos. However, the lumbermen are looking on the bright side of the situation and with the lumber market showing a steady upward tendency they are going ahead as fast as they can under the conditions.

Tt WIVES OF SOLDIERS GIVEN Is expected that the effects of the storm i ALL THE AID THEY NEEDED once more sticky-Toes looked anxiously at the sky. "If I cry it is going win De overcome In another week. Every lumber yard In Houston Is doing capacity business at present, supplying material to repair buildings In this city damaged by the storm. I to ram apa it doesn't, everybody will know Just where I they will be so angry that there is no knowing what will happen to me," thought he. "I believe I'll wait a Mttle." However, There Is Still Demand for Eelief for Sufferers I Along; Coast.

Regular daily service between Houston and Galveston, to continue at least as long as rail connections are broken, has been inaugurated by Captain Fred Gillette. Barges make dally trips, starting at the foot of Main street. Captain Gillette Is owner of the tug boat Ohio. Several boats are making frequent trips up and down the channel, carrying merchandise between Houston and Galveston. Among these are the Elk, the Ineda, the Zelds, the Ora and the barg pioneer.

All these load and unload at the foot of Main street. The second consignment of fish to be brought to Houston by boat from Galveston arrived Friday. -The business Is being handled by the Gulf Fisheries ot Galveston. Distribution was made from Houston to outside points by Wells Fargo 11 WANTED SES So he waited a little longer and all the time that glad feeling that rain was really coming kept growing. He saw Peter Rabbit come up and throw hta'self on the ground near Johnny and Polly Chuck and Peter was panting as if every breath was hard work.

i 5 "They'll feel better if theyknow that is going rain soon," thought Sticky-Toes. "I I'd like to make them feel better. Perhaps they -won't believe me, but I guess I'll risk It" Once more he looked up at the sky and and it seemed to him that Jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun smiled broader than ever. Then, he opened his 'mouth and began to cry: It's going to rain! It's going to rain! Although the day la bright and fair.

FOR GOVERNMENT CO. i heals baby's itching skin Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap are absolutely free from anything harsh or injurious and can therefore be used freely for. babies' skin troubles eczema, heat rash, teething rash, chafing, etc. They stop itching instantly and speedily heal even severe and stubborn eruptions. Doctors have prescribed the Resinol treatment for the past 20 years.

KmIboI Oiwmtat and K.einol Sop am sold br alUracsisto. Balaam, 1U. THE CLERK GUARANTEED IT. "A customer came Into my store th effective has been the campaign of rehVf for the wives and children refugees from Tc-xfis City who have been housed st the old Houston Infirmary, Washington and Tenth streets, that all the clothes which can possibly be used, plenty of sewing machines and everything else for ut waa emand has been up-irllal the relief committee was formed that their work Is completed fr the time being. In- i winks of the women, children and be bus bands of the wives and fathers of I.

extended the relief eih Da nerou People ot the ut and to The houston Post Friday evening for what has boen done for (hi refuK- LJeut ant T. b. Bannatta, In charge of the ref- He stated had Secured, three aewmg machine for the us other day and said to one of my clerks. 'have you anything uat wiucure dlar- It's going to rain! It's going to rain! HORSES OR MARES from li to 16 hands high, from to 10 years old, broke to saddle. Will buy at Denver Stables and J.

S. Bowser's Stable in Houston on September 2nd and at Texas City on September 3. For further information, apply to steger company 'TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, or Phone PreBtoiH38. Houjton. rboeaT and my clerk went and got him a bottle of Chamberlain's Ceilc Cholera For I can reel it In the air! (The Post Is offering prises for the best scranbooka h- o.

and Diarrhoea Remedy, and said to him, If this does not cure you, I will not charge you a cent for So be took it home and cans back In a day or two and said hm was cured," writes J. H. n.rrv A Oo Salt Greek. Vs, Obtainable illlul Thl. onirics This announcement which are submitted.

Sunday Post. If von was earned on the children's page of The haven't been keeping the stories and wish to start now with 2 a lot of the stories by writing tf Peter Rabbit, cari 0f scrapbook you can secure cure everywhere. A4t inn twi.) Ur "3- 'V i. -v..