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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1921
Page
5
A dense page of classifieds offers employment, goods, and services. Listings include house rentals and sales, clothing, furniture, and hardware, plus carpentry and repair ads. Also public notices of trades, auctions, and job ads from Seattle area merchants.
A composite directory page shows money to loan on jewelry, automobiles, furniture, and personal notes from several Seattle lenders. It advertises low rates, quick cash, confidentiality, and open evenings, with addresses including the Empire Building, 355-956 Madison, 2134 Arcade, and 666 Empire Ride near Second Ave. It also lists services for monuments, marble, piano tuning, and violin repair.
The trial of former Sheriff John Stringer on grand larceny was postponed to Tuesday morning in superior court due to delays in delivery of important case documents. He is accused of converting $1141.58 in county funds from federal prisoner care payments and is free on $2500 bond.
The annual Seattle postal offices inspection is underway this week with inspectors from Spokane detailed for the work to review operations and compliance.
Washington observers quote sharp lines and colorful asides from delegates at the arms limitation conference. Lord George Riddle shows quirks and coups of wit while diplomats like Sir Arthur Willett pace and argue. The piece blends humor with portraits of Borden, Abernathy, and other figures amid taxi-free delegations and curious room chatter.
Port Orchard residents clear out closets to help neighbors through a Christmas One Dollar Club led by Mrs. George F. Miller J A Meili and HH B Howe. Members contribute one dollar for baskets and volunteers raid attics for clothing to distribute at Christmas.
Eight men charged with conspiring to loot a federal liquor warehouse appeared in United States district court Monday. Judge Jeremiah Neterer granted a week for pleas. Named defendants include Curtis Berndahl Albert N Dickey William Murray K R A Livingstone Carl H Martin Carleton H Parker Clarence Linde Warren Youmans and Charles M Crawford. Youmans was absent. William Youmans represented by Robinson & Robinson. others by John F Dore.
Washington notes Rep Mott of New York introduced a House resolution proposing a 1 percent sales tax to fund a veteran bonus. The item frames the tax as a means to repay the nation’s wartime debt to veterans. Card of thanks follows, praising neighbors and teachers for support during bereavement.
Seattle council's license committee considered renewing the licenses of four leading cabarets, with entertainers attending to monitor their fate. A decision on the Butler case license was postponed to allow police witnesses. Other licenses before the committee included Lodge Breaker and Alhambra. Mayor Caldwell vetoed renewals last week.
Rk. C. Erskine will speak on the proposed revision of salaries of city employees at the Municipal league meeting Tuesday noon in the L. C. Smith Building restaurant.
High water washed out the Miller river bridge on the Cascade highway near Skykomish. County Engineer Thomas R. Beeman reported the cascade incident was confirmed Monday.
Thomas O H are an auto bus driver was fined 25 and costs by Justice of the Peace C C Dalton for assault in the third degree He was alleged to have beaten Joe Welcome.
Washington dispatch reports that of the first $2 500 000 portion of the $15 000 000 forest roads appropriation nearly $1 154 000 will be allocated to Coast states and Alaska California receives $994 000 Oregon $310 000 Washington $190 000 and Alaska $258 000 The plan funds roads and trails to protect and develop national forests and nearby communities.
Experts note no imminent gasoline shortage as science develops motor fuels from air, shale oil, alcohol, molasses, straw gas, and new compounds. Shale, ethanol from alcohol, acetol, tetraline, and naphthalene look promising. U S and European efforts seek cheap, abundant substitutes for gasoline.
New York dispatch reports Georgette Leblanc, once Maeterlinck’s wife, condemns stage morality as hypocritical in America and praises the country’s artistic future. She discusses theater life, her views on morality, and plans for a dramatization of Flaubert's Salambo with a musical accompaniment.
The twelfth American Good Roads Congress and thirteenth National Show will gather January 17 to 20 at Chicago’s Coliseum. Invited women include Dr. Jennie C. Murphy Yankton’s street commissioner and Miss H M Berry of Chapel Hill, among others, with demonstrations and talks on road machinery and highway finance.
Washington reports success in keeping fires from the Olympic peninsula after a January tornado and a year of patrols. Special forces rose to 46 men, two daily patrols in low country, one in high areas, and $100000 state funds plus another $100000 federal for air field surveys. Pilots from the 91st Aero squadron aided the effort.
A jury was to be seated in the Superior Court to hear Loren F. Lee against the city over damages claimed from a municipal street department truck collision on Westlake Avenue between Seventh and Eighth Streets on August 12, 1919. The suit seeks 739.13 dollars for car damage.
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