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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
2
An advertisement urges readers that teeth must not be neglected and promotes visiting a first class dentist for regular cleanings and examinations. It stresses high standard, registered dentists, a written guarantee, and notes the office hours including Sunday morning.
Seattle workers receive holiday payments with several firms distributing thousands in bonuses. Construction and Drydock Co offers 15,000 dollars to 3,000 men, B. & E. Corp holds a large hotel gathering, Wells Fargo reports 4,200 dollars for 63 employees, and Western Union raises salaries by 6 to 7 percent for staff earning under and over 1,200 dollars annually. Black Manufacturing Co plans a turkey dinner Saturday.
Prison labor produces 6,000 jute sacks per day at the state penitentiary with jute valued at 30 dollars per bale. A dead man was found in Visalia with a letter to Phillips Rosumng of Seattle in his possession. The French bark Marechal de Villars bound for Ipswich from Seattle was sunk by a German sub near the Scilly Islands. Dexter Horton Bank purchased Chelan county bonds worth 120000 dollars with a 6360 dollar premium.
Portland detectives heard Jacob Rotheiser a 15 year old boy recount a Christmas tale ending in a brutal attack at home. He says his father John Rotheiser struck him in darkness breaking his hearing and a woman and man beat him during the armed assault. He plans to press a battery of charges.
Roy B. Wright a 16 year old butcher apprentice in Greeley Colorado slipped while moving between blocks and fell on a carving knife. The knife pierced the wound and removed his appendix with apparent surgeon like precision.
Edward Griffith, a 14 year old Smethport boy, shot five times to kill the notorious raiding bear in McKean County. The creature weighed 5035 pounds and ranks among the largest per local reports.
Six cars of a Southern Pacific freight train derailed at Turner nine miles south of Salem this morning. The incident smashed four freight cars and tied up traffic for a few hours with no injuries reported. A storm warning was issued as small craft warnings were ordered and strong easterly winds were expected this afternoon and tonight.
In Umatilla the mayor elect is Mrs. E. E. Starcher replacing her husband January 1. Six women led a slate after deriding male councilors for neglecting meetings. They promise frequent sessions, street lights restored, and plans for a highway to the Pendleton wheat belt to boost commerce. Local women won a hard fought shift in power amid mixed reactions from residents.
The city park board unanimously endorses building a bridge across the Lake Washington canal at Montlake Boulevard, signaling support for the public works initiative and local infrastructure development.
Amsterdam dispatches report Cologne Volk Zeitung questions Wilsons aims and urges the Entente to accept German terms at a conference. Other papers like Berlin’s Allgemeine Zeitung and Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse foresee Entente reactions and emphasize the peace question remaining in the foreground.
Citizens urged to sign Nonpartisan petitions at 2107 Arcade for Beattie city petitions due Tuesday and return to headquarters for city registration checks before shipping to Olympia by next Thursday. Outside Beattie, filings go to Seattle headquarters with forms due by Wednesday.
The number of councilmanic candidates who filed with the city comptroller stayed at three by Saturday noon. No aspirants had deposited the required 30. William Calhoun, Robert Hesketh, and Allen Yale are the only candidates to date. Calhoun is brother of former Corporation Counsel Scott Calhoun and Dr. Grant Calhoun.
A large party is planned at the Firlands hospital tonight with John Von Herberg of the Liberty theatre presenting a Christmas film program. Ruth Osborne Mogan will perform vocal and harp, the Fire Department orchestra will play, and the show begins at 7:30. It marks the first moving picture screening at the tubercular sanatorium, funded by Star readers’ Christmas contributions.
In pre holiday hustle a Chicago Haymarket night court and New York high court faced heavy dockets. Justice Gordon presided after hours to clear cases. P. W. Pedelty, P. Breur and A. J. Rivers were fined 100 dollars each for liquor violations.
After consultations with railroad and port officials, the council named Erickson, Thomson, and Moore to draft recommendations for a belt line franchise serving the East Marginalway industrial area.
More than 150 children of active Bremerton navy yard officers and men will receive a Christmas tree on Sunday as part of a yard tradition.
In a World War I field report from France, Santa in khaki treks amid barrages delivering gifts to Tommies. Supply trains and hundred of lorries carry parcels and trinkets, chocolates, cigars, and cards to every front line unit, including personnel with no families. Canadian mail bags among the first to arrive.
A Seattle forecast warned Christmas weather may be unsettled with snow possible Friday night. Forecaster Salisbury said predicting Christmas day weather is beyond his powers. The recent snow was the season's second, the first falling on December 7.
Chief Fleming of Toppenish reports the arrest of three men suspected of peddling knives taken from the Fapato Trading Co. police say.
The federal arbitration board awarded an eight hour day with pro rata overtime pay and a 5 cent per hour raise from December 2, 1916, to December 2, 1917 for conductors and helpers across 13 railroads in the East and Middle West, partial fulfillment of the Switchmen's Union of North America demands.
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