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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
2
The food price advisory board under the U S food administration notes no changes today from the previously announced rates. Prices remain the same as earlier in the week.
The U S employment office reports 300 business men enrolled for shipyard work by Friday noon and notes a need for full eight hour shifts. Rector Wood says workers cannot be taken on for four hours and seventeen hundred more volunteers are required to cover the labor shortfall.
Joseph A. Bwalwell state chairman and county workers plan a Saturday meeting to prepare for the fourth Liberty Loan drive beginning September 28. The discussion will cover tactics to counteract bond buyers offering far below cash value and outline community actions.
Iraf George Klerehfield of Tiga Hirenia told Seattle sales managers of the Chamber of Commerce that trade from Siberia will help build new world cities in America. He said the trade is absolutely assured for Seattle and union with Orient and Alaska promises stupendous postwar growth.
Special to The Star by N. A. from London August 16 indicates German press reports in the Reichstag and Bodaliat Cohn echo a view that the new estates in Massa are built on the bones of murdered soldiers. They call the war a family affair of the Hohenzollerns and warn that if allies concede Europe could become a continent of beggars.
Fifty seven resignations from city school teachers were received by the school board on Thursday night. An additional 18 names appeared on the applicants list for potential future reentry. Of the 36 leaving, 22 have taken other jobs while Judge Thomas Iurke will head a committee to review textbooks for German propaganda.
The residence districts of Seattle will be canvassed by 250 workers of the council of patriotic nervy during the QQ war ravings drive. It begins August 26 and aims to raise Seattle to its quota. Judge King Dykeman will head the downtown section.
Cottage Grove within Seattle limits sells fast with many homes already built on 40 foot lots near Steel Works and Shipyards. 1000 lots go on sale tomorrow at 9 am with affordable prices and easy terms. Located near Cedar River water and a large school with a 20 acre playfield, the area promises convenient transit and no lot restrictions.
Governors from every state were invited by the Illinois Centennial Commission to attend the August 26 celebration of Illinois's first constitution in Springfield. The October week will mark the meeting of the first legislature and the inauguration of the first governor, the grandest event of the centennial.
Nine hundred members of the G A R Daughters of Veterans Women's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans from Seattle will attend the sound national encampment at Portland. A special G A R train will leave the OW depot at 10 a m Monday.
The Todd Dry Dock and Construction Co. secured a city building department permit Thursday to erect a frame machine shop at 1801 Harbor Ave. The project is valued at $15,000.
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