The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1917, Page 2

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SUNDAY 4 Days Only | | “Fear Not,” wgith Brownie Ver- non; a 5-reel, first run feature. } | RUSSIAN ARRESTED eral investigation. When arrested, he had tn his possession @ map of the Western hemisphere and a draft reg istration card. He said he did not know whether or not he had been (7 Montgom 7 ery & Geo Perry) /*T can ead 5 Other Acts |help you to escape many ail-| Twice parLy—t:0e ana sige | ments, if you give me ne teacly fe, S00, 180, Mats. 10c, 280, S00 jaid. Naturally, Nature prefers ALACE HIP BEECHAM Ss 7 10c Mae fag prt tend open sh a Prices include tax CLOQSS 4 ae > THEG@YTRE | | WE HAVE CONTRACTED FOR THE FIRST RUN TRIANGLE RE-ISSUES OF ALL FAIRBANKS and HART Pictures Theatre Players MATINEE TOMORROW —SUNDAY Other Mats. Wed. & Sat. Tel. Elliott 2525—2526 “THE THIRD DEGREE”’ A Daring Drama of Police Methods, Charles Klein, author of David farfield’s great success, “The Music Master.” Nights 22¢ to 55¢e—Matinees 17¢ to 28¢ Week Dec. 16—‘‘Kick In” }I felt the sidewalk shake. | End, where most of my friends lived, Eye-Witness Shock and Terror of People in Halifax | By United Press Leased Wire ST. JON, N. B, Deo. Declaring that he at first thought the entire elty bad blown up and that he did not regain his senses until after he ored tn the work of | pulling in) dead from beneath wreeknge, Koy Wil Hams, formerly of Portland, Me., today told the United Press of his experiences in Halifax when | the munition ship Mont Hlane blew up. A graphic deseription of the wreek age, the bleeding, broken bodies, the pall of amoke that hung over the town and made more ghastly the! screams of the injured, came from | the lips of Willtams, over the tele phone to St, John from Windsor where he had been sent with other wotnded. Word received here stated that reseue crews are working val jantly in the teeth of @ northeast gala ¢ Find Bodies in Snow Bodies are being removed from deep drifts of snow in many places Willams buried flying wreckage. I was standing on PF walting for a car,” b wan by rrington st,, sald, “when The rear that followed mad think that the whole eit own Ur “Insanity” word he used to deacribe the scenes that followed Sereeching women, weeping men. distracted children mingled in the torn streets, he declared ember hearing the awful notse, said, “but for some time after that I did not know anything I had been struck by a fying brich from @ chimney. My side is very and! bruised, but sore, 1 an jucky, Fire for Mi “All below mo when I \woke wa & mass of flames, For miles it seomed to me Unat every butiding hac beon destroyed. It seemed as if some force had turned the foundations of these buildings to jelly. They had simply crumbled and sunk to a Jum died shambies | “People were dashing thru the streets, Some were partly dreamed, others with blood streaming from wounds, Others, m beyond hope of identification, were lying in| the streets, some at my Very feet I tried to run toward Hollis at The wreckage wan indescribable. | Butldings | had passed only a short | time before were lying in ruins. Only then did I realize the full force of the blast that had struck the town. Wee on Every Side “IT began to hurry to the North I met men and women, tears in their for lost friends and relatives, One man, his voice choked with sobs, rushed up to me on the street and wanted to know if I had seen his wife and childrea, They were miss Ing, he said, “Firemen began rushing about the streets. The confusion became so sTeat I decided it was useless to push nhead and began to help pick up the injured. “AS we work worked to get victims from KEYES TELLS OF VISIT TO WEST By United Press Leased Wire DEDHAM, Mass., Dec. §.—George | HM. Keyes, husband of Mrs. Pauline| Keyes, was called as a witness for the prosecution of Mies Harriet A Varney, charged with the murder of Mrs. Keyes. Keyes testified of his intimate re lations with Miss Varney and said they lived together as man and) wife for ‘nore than @ year prior to} his marriage to his stenographer in August, 1916, He told of his honeymoon West, at | which time he visited Seattle, leav- ling about Thankagiving because hia wife became Il, He described several meetings with | Miss Varney after he returned East Keyes says that on June 19, the day his wife was shot, he received a tele phone call from Miss Varney, meet ing her in Boston a half hour later 'NO ONE HELD FOR ASPABAGUS DEATHS Faulty canning of asparagus was lame for the deaths of Sven Troe ly, an of the Underwood Typewriter Co.; hi Edlund, shortly estigations t and Deputy Coroner Frank i have determined. WALLINGFORD “DAY Saturday was Wallingford com munity day in the sale of Red Cross | weals for the benefit of the Anti-Tu berculosis league. The ales for the day were under the direction of Mrs. | Filen Seamon. | The Ladies’ Aid nociety, of the Swedish tabernacle, Mrs. Charles Schnell, chairman, turned in a cred itable sum as the result of the sale Friday. enploye BLIZ: kD HITS NEW YORK By United Press Leased Wire W YORK, Deo, 8 New York! had the back fling of a blizzard to. day manifested in a brisk storm whistling wind temperature was down to the lowest | so far this winter. Traffic suftered | considerably QUARANTINE al Some blame it to our General Greene, || Some biame it to the mayor, i} | And yet we are in qu With orders to bew and a ntine, “quarantine” has done much harm hurt our elty’s name; are debating And throwing off the blame. great Seattle Spirit And while we are in quarantine, Wo know you will save more fall SUIT, COAT, DKESS and o' FLORENCE STORE, Second and Union UPSTAIRS ‘Are you looking for acre age? Read Star Want Ads, Hip STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1917. PAGE 2 DECLARES WIFE “HELD PRISONER IN IRON CAGE TACOMA, Dep, & Perle Ward Root, was age in a New Yor Describes That his wife, ept in | the flames, sereams hurried us on. meet in Many were silenced long before we could ald them, [ continued tn a stunned way help pick up the charred and torn things shat had and women ore than & y ¥riday, « Whore affiduvit is being taken before | Commissioner Pratt, for we in a de | mand upon John Brainerd, trustee of | the wife's $2,000,000 estate, for an ao-| men Works Until fxh tend, “T worked until | was driven from | counting the #oene by fire and smoke, I Mra, Itoot, who div gan to get dixty and realised I had! Root in 1914, accuses Hrainerd of been bleeding from wounds. MY/ having used $200,000 of her estate hands were torn from clawing at the) wrongfully during the thr wreckage she was being held as insane m6 New York sanitariam. | | gave up burning. My!“ ghe escaped from the snitartum eyon were hot coals, I waa atum:|in 1919, being aided by @ nurse. Root bilng in m dane, from tons of blood. | tewtitied Friday that he had beon led When I left Halifax (yewterd4y) | to believe that his wife was violently there were still men and women ("| insane and would commit mulcide if the wreckage, All estimates of the given the opportunity SUNDAY URGE SHOPPERS SUNDAY leouncl! for defense, a state-wide ef. | ATTENTION! shoppers to make thelr purchases ‘Tell Father that Prot. early in the day; by carrying home their bundles and by paying cash. Meetings are being held in all Inventor of the moreantile centers in the atate, at which resolutions prepared by the! council are offered to the merchant and 100 other modern ecien- tifle wonders, will lecture at the Hippodrome Fifth and University TOMORROW NIGHT Dont Mise This Treat! Prices 50c, 75c, $1 weed George F years ina in the My lungs we time afternoon | | | The merchants are asked to clone their stores promptly at 6 p.m, ex cept on Saturday nights and to en courage the purchase of staples rather than luxuries ¥. F. Dahm, of the state untvers ity extension division, and Mra. Tuth| Karr MeKoo, regent of the univers ity, are chairmen of the committee, which includes A. J. Thodes and B, C. Beck as Seattle members. ‘SAMMIES IN OAHU | WANT LETTERS An appeal has been received in Be atte trom soldiers of Company G,| Second infantry, stationed at Fort Shafter, on the teland of Oahu, Ha an islands, to the in of Seattle “We get terribly lonesame here.” explained a Sammy, “and we would tke to get some letters from Ameri ean girlie, The men who signed the appeal are | Charlies C. Riley, Eimer B. Clontn | ger, Poibe HM, Johnson, Henry Eran, |Andy Sandell, Merman A. Mueller, |Beott Y, Potts, Nobert HE. Lockwood. Fred B. Lott, John ¥", Burns (Hawk shaw”), Charlies M. Webber, Spike A Raice, Jack W. Law, Grubby D. Cam eron, Herman Cluchie, Charles M |Ball, Lawrence Griffin, Sleepy C |Mardiman, Nathan 1. Bryant. MORE FUN THAN A CHAPLIN MOVIE! And every invention shown te @ practical modern Sunday 8:20 P.M. DON'T LET DAD or any- body else keep you from this CHANCE OF A LIFETIME! ‘This ts ap entertainment that young and old should not fail to see and hear Redpath Bureau. Palace Go over to 4th or Sth fros The Ship Yards, ani you cas yo home quicker. at the ease tine, help those that have to ) Let 24-end-Srd Avena Thie 0180 eppiles to Seare Roebuck, Seattle ern Dry Goode. And 011 other South end eu headed for the Sorth ag of town above Union Stree veh Ace Ean pM = Men aries, peni mat night to A new teachers + 8. I just kn soorsi' 1 @ot to ti atoas Hseseste® from Mies Irene Clark, at the Suith Building Bewe Stand, todsy. “The People's Show Shop” ‘ontinuous Dafly, 1 to 11 TOMORROW Double ARIETY © Heal your childs sick skin with Resinol The minor skin troubles to which infants and children are subject itching patches, bits of chafing, rash or redness—so easily develop into serious, stubborn affections, that every mother should have Resinol Ointment onhand to check them before they get the upper hand, Doctors and nurses recom- mend Resinol for this with the utmost confidence because of its harmless ingredients and its suc cess in healing eczema and similar serious skin diseases Tonnes DANCERS ALICE TEDDY World's Famous Roller Skating and Wrestling BEAR 4More Acts Brady-Made World Picture Resino! Ointment is sold by all dru Stirring Feature piesotese TEVERY: MEAL A Alice Brady tee INJECTION Few folks auffering from kidney and bladder troubjes ever think that : ene Ris meals which they are taking thelr death. Every mor ood taken gives up its quan Th nature Haarlem Oil been doing this work prompt relief in alk dinea and blade ‘The Absorbing Story of a Belgian Refugeo 10¢ ® arising troubles Eves. and diay Prices I War ments Haarlott r the them. Weekday Mats. our drugeis Kuaranteed Insist on GOLD genuine Vax rh TEACHERS ASK FOR PAY INCREASE teachers schools have made a demand for a 10 per cent bonus on their present anl-| under Three representatives of the new. formed High ers’ club presented the request | Sunday, Monday and An Extra Bill BILL HART The Roughneck Bill Russell The Sea Master A Bully Good Comedy 10e— Adults, Prices include \4 Days Only Starting Sunday Thomas Meighan is again co-starred with beautiful Billie, in a story of man in the rough. FIFTH AT PIKE Continuous 11 to Ll Admission 20c, Children 10c Wr. eee k Relief for People Who Suffer] HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS) From Stomach Trou The school board took the Be Better Looking—Take } oubles advisement Friday | Olive Tablets |'YouPay NoMoney | skin io is yallow—complexion School Men Teach | pallid ton Pease a pour mont Until Relief Comes f tage die Fetiee healer nie Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—a sub- stitute for pn ted prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients, Lene «sonata me et sar { vegetablecompound mixed witholiveoil. | You will know them by their olive color. 2 mapas felng of ort ae tencher has served eight years. Teachers who have served seven | years will receive $1,560. in Seattie high| meet tnereased living ex | salary grade for high school in general was established, | known as gre ‘Sample Package Sent Free Send us your name and ad- dress and you will receive Sample Package of J-OQ-T-Q; which will give you almost on De Ea en en stget atthecanse| instant relief from. vecanl tenaainn cael eens the Stomach, Sour Stoma¢h no dangerous after effects. (commonly called heartburn), ‘They start the bileand overcomecon- Belching, Swelling and Full preg ple eg oa sp Feeling so frequently com- All druggists. Take ane or two nightly, plained of after meals, in and note the pleasing results, TWO MINUTES Especially useful to people who suffer with Pains in the Stomach after eating, for the relief comes so quickly that | you can hardly realize its use- fulness until once tried. Be convinced of its real merits before you pay a cent, | by sending to us for a Free § Sample Package. Bellingham Chemical Co, Bellingham, Wash, je by Druggists CLEMMER — ur TOBACCO Thin veteran learned of @ k that tele Tuesday @ UNGINNING TOMORROW Corinne Griffith ‘REPAY’ From QO, Henry's Famous Story —in— PICKFORD “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” COME —and— enilinnes KARLY “A Municipal Report” —and— Livery incident, every high light of this human, heart - gripping picture brings one nearer to the highly - keyed, smashing climax—a radiant exam- ple of the deft O'Henry ouch. Children—Se war tax, “Ernant,” Verdt A Woman's Smile” Frim! Childre) 15c% Loge Seats 25¢ We Pay the War Tax

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