The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 4

‘Yea, Bo! Telephone Company Take Own Medicine? Nay! Nay! Won’t Do Business by Phone writer He shoulder lke Dear Mr. looking for like to weep emit Balter: ‘The is} would | nd | sympathy on your a few ulful sobs | ventriloquist’s dummy }turning ts Like worm of my downtrodden but the field lUmited, procens | to do is te many another I want to turn, activities being a diftic thing The burat That is what only left T am in danger of | | doing if I do not get this sad story jof something jat all during the time of the r With the return this| week of our buyers, from New York, we are! able to make a prelimin-| ary exhibit which will} enable the wmen of Se-' attle to see for the first} time all that is-definitely correct in Suits, Frocks, | Coats and Millinefy for Fall Wear. We assure you it is a display not to be lightly overlooked and urge you to come in at this time, whether or not you are ready to make a final * decision. TO WOMEN of STOUT. FIGURE A new feature of this great fashion center wilt be as complete a range in colors, styles and materials, in sizes 46% to 54%, as is shown in the regular sizes, An announcement as to the opening of this department will be made at an early date. Sulu Princess C@ming, But Not | to Marry, Boys Princess Tarhata, royal daughter fof the sultan of Sulu, will arrive in Seattle sometime Wednesday aboard the steamer Kator! Maru— not im quest of an American hus- band, but seeking to complete her education in political science and the fine arts. Tho-the princess is 19 and the reputed belle of her celebrated father’s widely storied domain, it is semi-officially reported that she is not as yet on the: eligible list of marriagables, With the princess is Miss Car- men Aguinaldo, also 19, daughter of the former Filipino war chief, but now a mere business mam; the Princess’ foster brother, H. Gulamu Rasul; Gov. Agustin L. Alverez of Zamboanga, and Walter W. Mar- quardt, an educational agent. The two distinguished young women wil) enter the University of Miinois at Yhe expense of the Fili- pino government, which appropri- ated $150,000 for the education of 140 students from the islands. Spokane Bakers Get Big Rakeoff SPOKANE, Aug. 19.—Charges that the ingredients of a 13-cent whole- sale loaf cost bakers but 6 centa were made to the fair price committée-by Cline J. Morrison, manager of the Washington market. The\same loaf is sold to consumers at 15 cents. Morrison introduced figures to back up his charges. | SUBSTITUTE. FOR BITRL-PHISPHATE LENDS TO ARREST it to Make Fortune ry IBERTY + 1X, Ariz—The arrest of a sist of this city revealed a igantic plot to violate the state and ederal statues elling a cheap, inferior, | genuine | The authorities found thousands of counterfeit labels and materials indicating elaborate plana for th nation-wide ation of the spu- | rious tonic case ia unique in the criminal records of Arizona and serves as a warning to the public against worthless imitations de- signed to # |high grade, efficacious pr Vor many years Bitro-Phosphate has enjoyed the confidence of its | millions of users and the fact that | reputable physi prescribe and recommend it 4 of nervous- neds and Ke makes it the natural unscrupulous substi- | tutor. | Frederick Kolle, M. D., editor |New York “Physicians Who's Wh: ays Hitro-Phosphate should be pre- seribed by every physician and used in every hospital to increase the strength and enrich the blood of weak, thin, nervous vr anaemic peo- ip The enuing bitro- old by all firsl-c' ler a defiaite gua) tion or money back, and cases o tempted wubstitutic of an huitation should. be reported to ARROW CHEMICAL CO, sole man- ufacturers, 31 Union Square, New York City. gums are sore, and bleeding, you have so-called Riggs’ Dis- ‘We are the only Dentists Northwest who spectalize dreaded disease, Exami- and estimhte free. Special taken of children’s teeth. parations Jtarget for th ja Third Ave, Cor. James St. Phone Elliott 3633 Hours; %:30 a, m. to 6 p. m. Sundays, 9 to 12. fg hosphate out of my system. | Th story is about a claim for al lowance on the telephone bill because leas than wervic ent no strike There is a phone, Bast $751, in the apartment of my mother, Mra, L. A Singletary She went in person last orrice Sf wae TRL CO bust nens| over bhel thonth to the company’s office to set Ue the bill and to see if a fair al justment of my phone bill for the strike pertod She—You flee *Y're Traly want the business of: hat is the idea * (pause) * * * (more pause), Nigeles on the receiver) * (a few pauner). A New Votoe Me--1 want + ** ( few pau Now the scene changes, ‘The cant of characters is different. A man's ard. I get my pen ready 1 will be soon over. ully I Begin my explanation 6 voice orrupted, “You'll have ome in person to our business of. (a fow ’ What ta it? to axk, ete I was willing to be patient, so 1 began all over again, and then asked what there was I could tel at the main office that I had not told What I wanted was the amount so I could the check eo man got real peeved. Said he wasn't tn terested in my complaints; for ther In real big letters, “WE DON’T bDO =-BUSINES§ «=6OVER) = THE PHONE.” What do you know about that? Perhaps 1 am naturally of an argu mentive disposition. Anyway, there seemed to be big pousibilides here, 1 had heard of doctors that refused to take their own medicine; using the telephone, tho, seemed different On second thought, there is some thing suggestive of dark, brown medicine in the phoye service Anyway, I felt it my duty to tell this man that I was a creature of babit and my habit the 20 cents for 15 Turkish TURKISH CIGARETTES The reason for the low price is that LORD SALISBURY TURKISH Cigarette is packed ive and the most attract- of | using purposes lowance would be made for h jtime as she had no service worthy }of the name. Her complaint was Matened to and she was told that it would be looked into, She was left |to infer that a proper credit allow. ance would be made This month a bill for two months. No miention was} made of a credit. My mother, be! Marks along these Ines, the son-of- ing away on a visit, asked me to/*sun hung up on me, I gnashed take care of this bill all 32 of my teeth, then the thought Now the plot thickens. Occurred to me that perhape I wag I took out my check book, then | “Tong, maybe I had been cut off. ‘ phone for business had been developed to a certain high state of perfection thru following the suggestions of well-written ads of his company met with in my trav. jela thruout the length and breadth of this broad land. In the midst of my few, brief re. was received in the most in ive machine -made package instead ex of the expensive hand-made cardboard box. grabbed the phone within reach of| Hanging up is no fair way to treat my right hand. My intention was to|% customer, nohow. It lan't polite get the business office, ascertain the | °F &ccording to the book of rules on amount, mait.a check and close the |SoUrtesy. A public service corpora transaction. tion is supposed to have an oily bird This to whet hadpinees [in the complaint department who Me—Buasin, of jiggling the re/ colver,. © © © (denoting pause). Voice—Number, please. Us—Business office. Her—Oh, you want Elliot 12600, It do, if that is the business of fice. * * * (mere panse). New Voice—This is Elliot 12600. | What tw it, please? I'm--I want to ask about an ad- ASSISTANT TO MAYOR DENIED, Council indefinitely Post- pones Rroposed Plan Seattle will lumber along without an assistant mayor. The city council, at its meeting, Monday afternoon, adopted the rec commendations of the finance com- mittee and indefinitely postponed ac tion on the creaffon of an assistant mayor at a salary of $5,000 per year, Mayor Hanson has been tnaistent on having a helpmate, declaring that the immensity of the cliy business necessitated an assistant in order that his office could intelligently keep in contact with the inner werk ings of each department. A communication from Dr. FE. J. Brown, asking for the position if it on this, He changes your frowns amiles; the customer is always @ watinfied client Is our best Phe chap who tried to a ° advertisement; all that sort of thing, you know, ‘With some little difficulty T got the voice again and asked it tf it had really hung up on ma It told me that it had, and to prove how brave it wag, ft did it again. Twice im the same place, ouch! Yea, I did just what you would have done; I told It what I thought of it, but I am afraid it escaped everything after the firet mouthful Now, Mr. Editor, what I yearn to know’ is: (1) Whether It in possible in. Seattle to do business with the telephone company over the tele. phone; and (2) if the services was! such, during the strike period, that! be created by the council, declared |a rebate is due, why inn’t the same the idea was “preposterous,” but|made on a basia that is understand: | said he wanted the Job, nevertheless, |ablo and fair to all? Why should! council iy to finish, in Avn, | by graduate op- not prescribed necessary, BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVE. suggest that if one assistant mayor | w, over it the word “Charity.” the Furth estate, of Commerce until next month, Dlackheads, #un spots, roughness, | appropriating |SPBieation proves it. See large an-| The ordinance authorizing the ap A resolution condemning the state |sioner John Thatcher | "The believes that if the A recommendation that the DR, J. R. BINYON held the vote on the F from start ‘The proposition of changing the grounds, and a public hearing will be if it were open, any difficulty be placed in the way | of any subscriber obtaining same Suggests Four T have a friend who, on paying | “Gentlemens of can save our city $250,000 per year.| Wnder if anyone else feels the it would be well to provide at least | same way? | four, as that would bring us even on | CHAS. EB. SINGLETARY. | | “However, this may not be neces | sary, as the brainstorm revolution S#| all over, and the typhoon is fast flay: | | who needed an assistant, it would yes you tried it yet? Thousands seem.that our present mayor may be /@v*rywliere are using it. It ia a) lable to struggle along with the as-|WOP#rful tonic for the akin, defies “If, however, your honorable body | Futuenets, to, quickly disappdhr, | it) seen fit to create the ponition, I make | makes anyone lowk 10 years younger | application for such position.” Mcoment Koon to Appear in thi $18,744 from the market fund to pay or. Ask your druggist about it the federal government for the ex-| Bartell and the Owl Drug Co. cens army food stuff which the city propriation of $50,000°for the crea- tion of & produce market was not jvoted upon, as there were not public service commission for invit |ing the telephone companies to raise | their pre-war telephone refuse to. recognize the $12,-| 000,000 assessment for taxing pur- | posen ntly placed against the present assessement is recognized an valid, the eity will be unable to con | tent it without carrying the suit to board ot public works begin. plans for the erection of a dam and power site at Gorge creek, on the Free Examination | BEST $2.50 | |nance appropriating $432,000 for | ES $ ig GLASSES | |carrying out the work until later. | on Earth | |The decision to withhold the vote | | | THs Pike pl. public market to some other amination free |tocallty, #0 that: the streeta in. the vieiniw of the market may be announced when the property own ers will be given an opportunity to tate their side of the question, the council,” ad-| His phone bill last month, ran his| dressed Dr. Brown, “permit me to! pen thrgueh the word “Services” and | the $8,000,000 gift to the Stone-Web-| Green Mag Mer corporation, in the interest off - —+———& ing itself to pieces on the rocks of political expectation, and, as hereto }hot = summer sun, and | caus ais given him by the Chamber | wrinkles, tan, freckles, sallow. wieim | |Gives ® youthful complexion and “a Couneiiman ©. Fitzgerald Intro jakin you love to touch.” A single uced an ordini has been selling. The ordinance was teferred to the finance committee. |enough votes in the chamber to pass the ordinance | unanimously adopt | lution requesting street railway system of Seattle, Recommend Dam the supreme court, which will neces: |aitate considerable delay, | Skagit river, was adopted by unant- |mous vote, But the We are one of th | was made upon the request of Coun: in the Northwest that Fenity jcilman ft. H. Thomson. Jen | tometriat, Glas juniess absolucel cleared to traffic was referred to the mmittee on harbors and public AAG ig You can’t smoke the box. Then why buy it? -LORDSALISBURY + TURKISH CIGARETTE is inevitable —which means that if you don’t like LORD SALISBURY Cigarettes you can get your money back from the dealer. All Right, Neighbors, Let’s Hang Our Latchstrings Out Fully 50,000 out-of-town visitors will be tn Seattle during “Fleet Week,” beginning September 8. Seattle hotels are pretty well filled. So are apartment and room ing houses. But the visitors must be housed, and Jim Lansbury, chair. man of the fleet housing committee, has undertaken the task “We're asking everybody to do their bit,” said Lansbury Tues day. “By opening our homes, and in no other way, will we be able to accommodate the crowd." If you have a room, or more, fill out the following and mail it to the Fleet Housing Committee, 205 Commercial building Address Street Car Line .. Single Rooms .. Double Rooms Double Beds QMale or female) Single Beds (Male or female) Price, if any Parties Preferred Remarks .esscceseeseeseesesees tecants Forest Fires Now |Cut Distance to Far Out of Control) Snohomish County SPOKANE, Aug. 19.—Fires in Sel-| That the short cut highway from way, Clearwater and Nez Perce | Seattle to SnPomish will now be forests are out of control. Nothing | come a reality wan the report made but drenching rains can avert a calamity, forest supervisers here cay One fire in the Selway covers nearly | of, the state development bureau of 1000,06 acres, and cannot be checked. | the Chambefot Comm Spokane is sending out about 100 men a day to fight the fires. yesterday to the executive committee by the | g00d roads committee. | year the committee has been advance Even a crook may cast a straight | ing the plan and the survey has been shador recently adopted by the state highway commissioners, ‘The new route will clip about 20 miles from the distance between the two cities. | Streng recommen: | made to be forward: garding an approp the Baker lake fish hatchery, which jwas recently destroyed by fire | About $50,000 is the estimated cost of storation for the Whatcom county | establishment Posse Hunts Boy After Stabbing SPOKANE, Aug. 19. — Herman Watson, ranch hand, was probably fatally stabbed during a threshing |crew row near Rockford last night. A sheriff's posse is hunting the al- leged attacker, erett Marlowe, a youth of 18, ations were Announcement made that. the hops t# still an impe dustry of the Yak and will require: th harvest, weeks. ne and * last about six an outing and come to nderful valley of di- i farming, and assist harvest general to information write Yakima Hop Growers’ Association Yakima, Wash, ¥ $1.26 per Box, All men are born good. but few stay good For over a| |Alaska Mourns Today Because Barney McGee Has Passed Away ie dead. Alaska of the veteran Barney McGee mourns. The body northerner was to be taken Tuesday night to the home of his close friend, Dr. Daniel Buckley, 1154 18th ave. Death came early Sunday morning in the Savoy hotel. Thruout the Klondike and along the Yukon in the early days of gold BELLEVUE BLOSSOMS IN BIG TOWN STYLE Bellevue, that rustling suburb of Seattle, across ‘Lake Washington, is to blossom out Tuesday in real met- ropolitan regalia, This important step is in the nature of a real up- totheminute moving picture show to be held at the clubhouse under |the auspices of the Bellevue District Development Club. From the number of tickets already sold, these shows will be a permanent attraction. The constructtgn of the new Lake Wash- ngton boulevard right thru the en- | Ure length of the community has aroused the people to their future | possibilities and order to keep | pace with other” developments no- tices are now posted for an election to vote money to provide a new school site. Within another year Bellevue expects to boast of a strictly modern school building that will take care of the rapid increase in population for some years to come. and privations there was not a man, from the lowllest cabin,boy on the river steamers to the millionaire mine owner who did not know Bar- ney McGee and respect him as @ man among men. Born th Ireland, McGee came to this country at an early age and went into raflroading, but was off to the northland in the vanguard of the rush over Chilkoot pasa He staked his claims in the Klon- dike and opened up two roadhouses, one at Whitehorse and one at Daw- son. Like many others, he was smiled upon by Fortune and came out to the land of summer “heeled” with yellow gold. Tho he was a lover of children he was self-con- scious in the presence of women and he never married. Of late years much of his time was spent in Seattle and Callfornia. He was returning from the south on his wa¥ back to Alaskg when death overtook him. Funeral services will be held at St. James Cathedral at 10 a. m. Wednes- day. He will be buried in Calvary cemetery. en ee Slane Many a girl after visiting a drug store appears in the pink of con- dition, —— Let's go buy Boldt's . French try. Uptown, 1414 3d Ave.; cone: town, 913 2d Ave. | | | YOUR GROCER HAS IT. You get a leavener that is wholesome and at the same time sells at a price that per- mits the practice of economy, 35c for 16 ounces. Does not contain alum, A THE ROGERS COMPANY Ay Seattle