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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1909
Page
2
The Star announces an essay contest for students not exceeding 150 words with prizes. Ten prizes include seats for the Moore theatre production of Commencement Days and orchestral prize awards. Winners gain access to a significant play about graduation and the life transition to serious study.
The Star announces a 150 word limit essay contest for readers on the theme Commencement Days. Entries must be handwritten in ink on one side of the paper and received at The Star office by 12 o’clock next Friday noon. No scholars barred. 70 member Moore theatre company led by Frederick V Howers performs a boy newly recruited from college.
Seward Alaska September reports a major find by the California Alaska Mining Company on Falla creek near Seward. At 40 feet depth a nine foot vein cross cuts a three foot quartz vein. The vein yields about 32 dollars in gold per ton and extends across the full width of the deposit.
A. A. Broderick president of the Business Men's Association is named to the board of public works to fill the vacancy caused by B. B. Marshall's death. Other notices from Tacoma Spokane and Bellingham cover local business deaths shipyard reassignments and a mount McKinley claim inquiry.
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