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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1921
Page
10
Mrs. Mathilda Beaubert, 74, sues Louis Schubert after two months of marriage in Chicago. She says he declared love a myth for mature men and refused contact after marriage. She recalls their youth in a Westphalian village and says the union failed after two days.
Bruce C. Shorts is elected president of the Seattle and King County Bar Association at the annual banquet held Friday evening at the Ho Washington Annex. Judge War W. Tolman delivered the principal address.
Bravo, Michielina and Trujillo lead a glossy slate of acts in Gypsy Love at Loews Palace Hip. Angel and Andelon perform a lively comedy sketch while Walter Fenner and company headline Show me a unique comedy play. Also featured are Long and Perry, Jean and Valjean aerialists, and the Pan show musical glee by Jarvis with Roe Reaven and four dancers.
Eighteen sacks of whisky were seized at Richmond Heights on Friday by sheriffs deputies acting on statements by Sheriff Matt Starwich. The smuggling shipment was dropped at the Richmond Heights siding via prearranged plans after being hauled across the border by train. One hundred thirty-two cases were allegedly moved earlier, and deputies continue the pursuit of the whisky runners.
Modesto California July 16 Harold Bud Coffee one of four killed in Thursday airplane accident will be buried with full military honors at 4 p m attended by exservice men Modesto Elks Gamma Phi Beta fraternity and Oakland Aero Club representatives. Inquest found no blame and Rachel Jacuzzi testified Coffee may have attempted a sudden correction causing the monoplane to collapse.
Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma announced she would vote to keep hides on the free list in the tariff bill, breaking with several Republican leaders who favored a 15 percent ad valorem duty. She said she is against a duty on hides because she loves farmers' children more than packers.
The Trinh societies of Seattle plan their annual picnic Sunday at For tuna park. A baseball game features the A. O. H. versus the K. of C. Orators include Dr. B. A. Cantrell of Los Angeles John I. O Phelan of Raymond Judge John M. Harnum and John L. Fitapatrick.
A Gen. MacArthur rose exhibited by Mies Rena Wilber of the Seattle Rose association won the grand sweepstakes at the Seattle Horticultural association's first flower show. The event opened Friday at Volunteer Park and will run through the weekend.
The Harmony Homestead 1743 chapter of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen plans a Sunday picnic at Rainier Boulevard Park featuring baseball games and dancing. Picnickers will bring their own baskets.
Dan Hogan proprietor of Hogan's Place in Renton said a burglar tapped his cash register for five dollars while he was back room tapping a keg of cider. The tapper remains at large.
Seattle school board expenditures will be discussed at an open meeting in the Central building assembly room next Thursday evening. Tax Reduction council and Voters Information league reports form the basis of discussion. Homer Hill, representing the tax groups, will present the case against the expenditure program, while Superintendent Frank B. Cooper has been asked to prepare a statement of his opinions on the tax reports.
Four masked bandits robbed an interurban car near Charleroi Py. They shot John Patterson, general manager and chairman of Youghlogheny Coal, as $40,000 carried to pay Charleroi miners vanished. Police pursue suspects.
U S immigration officers accuse Japan of not enforcing a gentleman’s agreement as 766 picture brides entered San Francisco by July 1. They say 66 arrived aboard the Siberia Maru, which docked here Wednesday, amid ongoing departures from Japan.
The Seattle auto caravan left Friday morning for Vancouver B C after greeting the Bellingham Chamber of Commerce at a hotel dinner. The group promotes The Wayfarer and a merchants convention for Northwestern Washington and British Columbia. In Spokane state Senator F L A Hutchinson grows weaker after operation.
William G B Coulter 41 of Riverton drank carbolic acid after years of ill luck dating to a 1919 shipyard injury and a 1920 auto crash. A note to Dell and Billy was found. his wife Della and their 2 year old son Billy survive.
UNION GAP W ash July 16 Forty six years ago William York came to the Yakima valley and never left. He dies at 83 and was an early pioneer who fought the Indians of Yakima. He served as deputy sheriff in 1877 and helped round up the murderers of Blanche Perkins. His Indian curios are valued at 25000. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at Union Gap.
Sergt George Edward McKnight longtime chief jailer at the city jail died of Brights disease after a period of illness. Born March 1 1868 in Epping Ontario Canada he joined the police in February 1907. He is survived by his widow Mrs Sarah Wright three sons Herbert Earl William and a daughter Mary Frances McKnight.
Aberdeen North Dakota July 16 officials placed extra guards about the fall in which Harry Casey an alleged radical is held after 103 I W W members were driven from town yesterday. The N W W were escorted ten miles from town in two groups after they staged a demonstration against police.
Ezra Meeker will recount how he helped blaze the Oregon Trail to the King County Democratic Club at Meier’s cafeteria Saturday noon.
Disabled war veterans at Cushman hospital in Tacoma are producing a four page magazine aimed at boosting morale for overhead men. A name for the publication will be chosen next week.
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