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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1919
Page
23
The Rialto Building at Second and comer to Somaeed is the new Cherry's store opening with crowds expected today. The shop promises courteous service and a prompt attention to visitors. An easy payment system will allow customers to wear the latest fashion while paying.
Social notes recount L E B Eyman hosting principals from The Belle of Ballard after a Sunset Club performance. Wedding plans detail Meta Fohn and Ray Carr with matron of honor Mrs. Horace Chassee and bridesmaids Marion Lorenz Ming Coletta Fohn. ceremony at St Joseph's Church.
Personal updates list Mrs Farwell Putnam Lilly visiting Yakima over the weekend Mrs A T Wanamaker and family planning a trip to the East to join Dr Wanamaker for a visit Mrs Frank Dabney heads East for a month Ms Catherine Luhn returns to Spokane after staying with Miss Mary Walker Mrs Stuart Tompkins back from Yakima visiting Mr and Mrs Fred Chandler ex commander Miller Freeman returns from Washington DC Mrs Ira Rawn to Japan after Christmas Miss Marcela Connor returns from Spokane visiting Judge and Mrs Bruce Blake Miss May English to Kansas City for a month Mina Elinor Crink of San Francisco staying with Mrs H Brown at Bremerton.
The column lists multiple social departures and visits from July through autumn. Notable mentions include Mr. John FE. Baline returning from the East, Mrs. Lena de Groff and Miss Anna de Groff arriving from Honolulu to Seattle for six weeks, and golf team captain Jack Rithhet visiting for a tournament. It also notes Dr. Don H. Palmer attending the surgeons congress in New York and UW honor society elections for Keator and Allyn. The piece then highlights fall and winter fashion, praising wool fabrics for dresses and detailing a two-piece ensemble adaptable from last season, with velvet, serge, tricotine, embroidery, and accessories.
A narrator shadows Berghoff and Chrystobel Certeis as an unusual letter exchange ties them to a ghostly figure. The scene shifts from a bench behind autumn leaves to tea with Mother Lorimer where Katherine Miller’s duplicity and a hidden trail threaten Bob and Benjie.
Serbia sent ten young women to study in American colleges and Miss Militea Veljitch is the first to arrive in New York.
Ten days after their arrival, Mrs. T. Z. Pape and her three children from Hoquiam, along with their son Ensign Donald F. Palmerton from Washington D. C., arrived to assume roles as supercargo and paymaster aboard the steamship Dewey.
A King County osteopathic meeting at Dre Ford Winner Ford offices elected officers led by President Dr. James T. Slaughter and Secretary Dr. Lawrence M. Hart. The gathering included Dr. Gertrude Phillips as vice president and Dr. Lydia Merrifield as treasurer.
The Classic Culture Club will be addressed by John Speed Smith on What Are We Doing to Americanize the Foreigner in Seattle The chief naturalization examiner for the Northwest will speak. The meeting starts 2 30 at the federated club house Harvard and Thomas with club women invited.
Commodore Charles H. Raynor notes 425 people saved from drowning this season by volunteer lifesavers. More than 75 percent were rescued by 5,500 members of the United States Volunteer Lifesaving Corps, with Raynor credited for about 300 rescues over 30 years.
The ordinary housewife learns wool yarn uses short fibers and is carded while worsted uses long fibers and is combed. woolen threads are tangled with fibers running in many directions whereas worsted fibers run parallel. wool fabrics tend to felt with surface ends exposed, while worsteds reveal the weave and finish with neat ends.
London reports a rapid rise in births with 400 to 500 more children born monthly than in 1918. The male to female ratio shifts toward more boys, aligning with wartime patterns, while high living costs do not deter parenthood across classes.
A jumble of reader questions and phrases from a Miss Grey advice column includes invitation etiquette for a soldier, a note on divorce residency law, song lyrics from Fleet Week, and farm advice. The compilation blends requests about manners, legal notes, and household tips with conflicting fragments.
A reader asks Dear Miss Grey if a man should fulfill a joking promise to a neighbor girl about slippers and suggests involving his wife in the purchase. The letter touches on propriety, safeguarding young women, and handling a potential divorce after residency requirements.
Ex service men in London protest and urge MPs Sir J Bethel and AGB Ward to push parliament to halt training as housing, while veterans struggle to find work.
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