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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
5
A crowded classified page lists furniture, coal, housing rentals, acreage for sale, and real estate ads. Items include furnaces, coal, doors and windows, rooms for rent, garages, and parcels of farmland with prices, down payments, and monthly terms. Also notes on stocks and bonds, business opportunities, and professional services.
Entries list law firms doctors jewelers loan offices and repairs in Seattle with addresses phone numbers and service notes. Notable items include attorneys Frederick Gorin Parry Bowen Pierre Barnes and Patents trade marks firms. medical and optical services. money loans and auto furniture ads. piano tuning and repair. miscellaneous sale listings.
Mill wood offered as single load for 4.25 and double road for 7.50 with delivery anywhere by truck. Contact Main 6540 or Beacon 3260 for orders.
The market shows a renewed drop in fresh ranch eggs to 40 cents a dozen, with bids to shippers ranging 36 to 37 cents for standard whites and 30 cents for pullets. Butter remains steady and creamery stock sales are noted. cream receipts rise, potentially softening prices. Vegetables show rhubarb down 3 to 4 cents, celery firm at $7 per crate, and cauliflower steady at $23 per half-crate.
Auction-like real estate ad with multiple parcels offered. Includes a 300 per acre tract with 450 down and 10 monthly payments, a Piney Improved Orchard Groom House on 20 acres with fruit trees, water system and bungalow near county road, and a fully cleared acre near transit with attic and 15 monthly payments.
Total university registration reached 4098 with projections to 4600 before relia clone. About 600 new and returning students entered residence. 8500 visitors viewed registrar. 250 Federal board signups. 31 percent registration assistants. Two thousand five hundred paid fees by 2 pm, marking a new record for the system. Funeral services announced for Vera B Danel wife of Ralph F Danel. An application to erect a woodworking factory at 5662 Woodland Park Ave, block 3 Vadgemont Addition. Obituary and public notice sections follow.
The New York Stock Exchange opened with little movement across key issues. American Can held around 33, American Sugar dipped to 67 and United States Rubber remained strong in its group, while several copper and railroad shares showed steadiness amid routine early trading.
Prices generally lower with corn and oats weakens and wheat mixed on the Chicago board of trade. Short-covering demand seen in corn and oats while wheat closes near unchanged. San Francisco notes firmer onions and abundant fruit. California dairy and meat prices listed. Live stock quotes show higher cattle and strong sheep market with lambs at around eleven dollars.
Eleven striking packing house employees began jail terms of seven to 60 days for contempt of court in Denver. Fourteen others including one woman had their sentences suspended. Judge Morley denied the motion for a day of execution. T. A. McCreash of Spokane, district president of the Amalgamated Butcher Workers' union, got 60 days. local leaders received 20 days each.
A R B Hammond president of Hammond Lumber company denies reports of selling the Coast holdings to Long Bell Lumber company. He states not a single share was sold and he is not negotiating to sell to Long Bell or any other lumber firm at this time.
Robert W. Bender, UW graduate 1921, appointed secretary of university publications. He will oversee The Pacific Review, catalogs and bulletins, the historical quarterly and all other university outputs. Bender was business manager of the University Daily and belongs to Sigma Delta Chi Oval club and Theta Delta Chi.
The Pacific Coast will likely be last to feel improvement in the economy says Professor H. T. Lewis of the University of Washington College of Business Administration. He told Kiwanis members at the Washington Annex Wednesday that there is no cause for pessimism.
State Commander C D Cunningham of Centralia and Paul Edwards along with Henry A Wise Fred R Mast and Howard E McDonald of Seattle will represent Washington at the American Legion conference January 20 and 21 in Indianapolis. Principal topics include service and rehabilitation work for disabled veterans.
Complaint is filed against Canadian officials over permits for liquor purchases in British Columbia with export to the United States. The issue will be raised with the department of state. Senator W L Jones pledged in a letter to Customs Collector Millard T Harrison received Wednesday.
University Post No. 11 of the American Legion will hold a membership drive starting Friday and continuing for a week. The group comprises University of Washington students and veterans living in the university district.
Col Howard A. Hanson, chairman of the state development bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, will address the Masonic club at the clubrooms Friday at p.m. Charles H. Whitelaw, 55, Northwestern Fisheries Co. vice president, died at Olympian apartments. He leaves a daughter Mrs Day of Big Lake and two sons Gordon and James Hugh.
Six vessels from Norton-l Aliy & Co. are in port, four docked Wednesday. The Mont Gervin and the Isthmian freight steamship Knoxville City are loading cargo, while the Steel Seafarer heads to New York and other Atlantic ports after finishing here. The notice lists high and low tides and times for the day.
A list of ships with origins and arrival times including Africa Maru from Vancouver at 10 15 morning Cordova from Hosotula via Astoria at noon Admire Waeteen from Southwestern via Southeastern Alaska neon and Weet Jappa from Hongkong via Shanghai Kobe Yokohama Vancouver at noon Admiral Nicholsen from Bea Vrancieco to Sa Francisco at 1400 jan 4 Hdwerd Lockenbach from Port Ladiow at 0830 Peebles from Burekea via Everett at 1615 Swallow from een dety at 1515 U B Wicks at sea duty 1400 Karonga from Sanderiana via Meibes at 1320 off Tuscalooss City from Kobe at 1515
Alaska vessels report January movements with ships sailing and arriving between January 2 and January 4. Notable entries include the brigantine West, the steamer Admiral Geedrich, and arrivals at Seattle Smith Cove and various terminals. Multiple ships are listed in port and on outbound routes to Beattie, Beattie Sound, Hongkong, and Beattie regions, with many arriving from Seattle and Beattie.
General Motors directors yesterday approved the quarterly dividend of 25 cents a share on common stock payable at this time. The company had earlier placed common on a cash basis in 1920 and suspended stock dividends. Regular dividends of 1.50 on preferred 6 percent debentures and 7 percent debentures were declared payable February 1 with a stock record date of January 14.
DETROIT Jan. 6 Federal Judge Tuttle ordered the Lincoln Motors Co sold at a receiver's sale February 4. Stockholders will receive $60 a share for stock. Judge Tuttle said nothing less than $8,000,000 would be acceptable.
Theo M. Finch files in superior court charging Alice G. Finch with cruelty. He says she displayed a terrible temper and at one point held a pan of hot chocolate over his head forcing him to crawl on his hands and knees into the kitchen while she finished her supper.
Har ry Brandt, rail and water transportation expert, will assume management of the Transportation club of Seattle succeeding W P Lockwood who retires to become Pacific coast agent for the Sealine. Brandt previously served in the shipping board and was Chicago ticket agent for the Great Northern. The body of James A Penney, 55, Seattle pioneer, killed by an automobile New Year s eve, will be shipped to Portland for burial.
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