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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
5
Classified notes showing demand for experienced piano instructors and recitals, with postings directed at beginners. Includes misc listings for transportation, sale items, and services with names, locations, and contact numbers from the era.
Classified listing for a poultry setup near Seattle with an 800 bird chick en house a brooder house about 3 acres pasture water and farm improvements. Price 2760 cash or terms. Also estate sale 40 acres near Centralia with good soil and running water listed with 760 cash and other property notes. Includes near Pacific highway and school areas.
Six acres of rich loam land offered at 406 dollars with easy terms. Location praised as near the Navy Yard and ideal for clearing and development. Prompt showroom view available to discuss a favorable purchase on buyer’s terms.
Verle Brummet, convicted in 1919 for aiding in a robbership, was refused admission to the penitentiary at Walla Walla after paying his own way from Everett. He did not report for transfer and the papers committing him for five to ten years remained with Snohomish officials, sent to Walla Walla by Deputy Sheriff Ray Taro.
Bremerton voters approved replacing the council with a commission system by 17 votes in a Sept 22 special election. A second special election is set for November 14 to elect the new city officials.
The Cornish Little Theatre hosts the first performance of Mr. Faust on Thursday evening with modern settings and costumes by a master craftsman. Arthur Davidson Ficke, renowned lyrical poet and adapter of the Faust tale, will attend the opening night and has assisted Maurice Browne’s company in shaping the acting version.
Moscow dispatch reports that Poland sent an ultimatum to the Bolshevik government. Leon Trotsky announced the note demands immediate execution of the Riga treaty and the release of all prisoners of war before October 56.
Olympia officials expect a state bureau of investigation report will show Pierce county commissioners overspent their annual budget by about 200000 this year. State law bars such excesses but provides no remedy except potential bond repayment by the commissioners.
Omaha report states Grace Hans could not bail out both sons charged with auto theft. Her son Fred, 23, secured release while Albert, 25, who has no romantic attachment, remains jailed.
Attorney General Daugherty indicated he may summon Imperial Wizard Simmons and other high officers of the Ku Klux Klan for a conference at the Department of Justice. He said he has full power to call any person necessary in his investigation of Klan activities.
A blaze at a large Campbell Street house near the Chinese gardens in Baker Oregon killed Lock Sell age 80 who was blind and Lu Lain 68. A third resident Lock Sun escaped by leaping from a second story window when the building burned about 2 o clock this morning.
Denver reports John Hennessey, superintendent of the free employment bureau, suspended after his shoeless feet were propped on his desk in a display described as surly and discourteous. Washington notes third quarter tax intake at 500 million dollars with an expected 25 million more.
Louis Frederick Speaker, 63, a merchant, was found shot dead on the Forest Inn hallway in Duvall. His son Walter 16 reported seeing the body next to a smoking pistol. Police and the coroner investigate whether the death was suicide or murder. wife says he had threatened self harm.
Olympia, Sept 22. The state board of equalization announced this year’s tax levies for all state funds. The report compares the levies for 1920 and 1921, outlining changes across funds and the overall fiscal impact.
Dr. H Foster Bain director of the United States Bureau of Mines and Congressman Marion E Rhodes Missouri will arrive in Seattle Friday for a three day visit to assess bureau aid for Washington and Alaska mining. The group includes D J Parker C Ralston and others and will attend a chamber luncheon and dedicate the new Mines building at the University of Washington Saturday afternoon. They plan a Western tour concluding in Portland and beyond.
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