The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 2

CHRISTMAS CAROLS [CHRISTMAS SPIRIT EVEN ? RING OUT TONIGHT Weatherman ‘Says Showers, but Community Christmas _ Plans to Be Carried Out Whited States Weather Oteerver George N. Salisbury prediota “coca sional showers” for Wertnesday Might, but even this knowJedge will © Met dampen the enthusiasm of hun dreds of street singers of Christmas | carets, who wil! gather around vart Ous Yuletide trees in the community centers of the city, to celebrate the birth of the Savior Tn spite of the weather man's gloomy . Seattle's commu ~ mity centers will be ablaze with brit. Mantly lighted Christmas trees, at Which the carolers will sing en ™asee even as the troubadours guth- ered im olden days at the window | which bore a single lighted candle. Before the carolers congregate at “planted” Christmas they will wend their way thru march of song promptly at 6 o'clock tonight. Girlian treble and the deep @r volots of the boys will be heard thrueut the neighborhood, as the car olora Wind in and out Of the streets prior to Massed singing at the fir Monarch of the forest. The commu nity chotr will sing under the direc on Of Claude Madden. In the downtown section, tele brants will gather around the huge Christmas tree in city hall park, Mre H. A. M, Bonar will have charge of the program, which wilt include three tableaus staged on an automo bile fruck. Music for the celebra tion Will be furnished by the Seattle police band. district RR) Malin Street District Carclers in: the Main «t will assemble at Seventh ave. 8. and Jack#on #t. at 7 o'clock. A large Christmas tree at that point will be the lodeatone for the revelers. Those who will lead the singing will moet at the Main at. schoolhouse, at 6.90 o@ clock, for inatructions, the streets of the city, raising their | reqi, Curtetmnes tree, In the yard of the old Yesler school, will be Miuminated for the merrymakers of that section | Colebrants in the Queen Anne dis trict will gather in the high achool anditorium, at 6:30 o'clock. In the University @istrict, the car. olers will mags areand a Christmas tree at 14th ave. N. EB. and BK. 45th st, and in the Wallingferd-Fremont district @ Rage tree will be lehted in the yard of the Linesin high school. Other cetners to cetebrate at com munity trees include Green Lake, Rallard and Mount Baker park. In the Bryant school district, a honest-to-qood ness appear to mar the occa Start 6 P. M. One of the most impreasive cole: will be held at the foot of gigantic fir tree which grows at ave. and Terrace st, near olf courthouse, The carolers, re- principally from the ranks school children, will start their F ays There Is No Joy in ~ Germany Over Christmas and want, grinning at a grieving populace thru door and window. “WIN we succeed after all theee years of war in again making the world sound? Can we restore those dwarfed children, crippled thru years of undernourishment? “This ‘9 a Christmas after four years of war—and one year of the -jarmistice. Individual men may not have had so much guilt there as peo ples. They did not overcome the power of hate. But now we must | battle against the world hatred.” ¥, Dec. 24.-—“In tl ‘ory of all that ha» happened, let us ‘faise our heads spiritually in the dark 4 t. in every land, i‘ Say Two Bandits Came to Seattle PUYALLUP, Dec. 24.—That both bandits who hel@ up a store in Ta- coma late Monday night, instead of -j}only one, boarded @ train for Seattic early Tuesday morning, was the be lef here today. Two men were seen M BOY WITEN MESS CALL SOUNDS’ “Merry Christmas, huh? Howd'yuh @et that way?" grunted the postman an he piled another Chrtatmmaa pack-| age on the towering stack he waa already carrying. But there was «| look of Jolly resignation on his wind: Teddened face, as if, even if the holi- day season did mean & lot of extra work, there was a certain solace in the thought that he was carrying | papsents for the kiddies and ctumatty-| tied packages from the folks back More like a “Merry Christmas? madhoune, I say,” observed Puttot- man W. G. Briggs, as he helped to disentangle the traffic swarming about the pestoffice windows “At that,” he continued, “every-/ body seems to be In a good humor, | even if this lobby has got the worner | @f Second and Pike at 6 o'clock beat.) en to & worried frasaie. Everybody happy this year; and it makes Good just to see the jolly people's faces when they ‘There's a lot foe into those parcela, 1) e's Bnowed Under | And Patrolman Briggs away to help a feeble old lady who| was bewildered by the noise and ex-/ citement of the Christmas throne. | “Merry Christmas’ quertea! Charlies M. Perkins, superintendent jewirl of homanity a» | Sround the stamp window | ea =,OLD LaDy’ “4 ——vaw Dee ——— Y hf \ wood tinwed; “and there's human tn in every parcel that passes thru the hands of the postoffice department.” Expects Fine Dinner “Merry Christmas? {ll tell ‘em wh yo stand at attention,” re marked the doughboy with the biue band of the recruiting service about his arm, ae be longed in the corr dor of the postoffice, watching the tt surged “You ought to see the chow the mess sergeant t* going to fix up for the boys.” he drawied. “Home din ner! Oh, boy, when that oid mem call sounds! And bis eyes took on a hungry gleam as he thought of the moment when the army cook should poke hin head out of the mers ball and let loose his bulblike bellow: “ tioned the man without a collar, recently convicted of selling dope, an he eaned against the bare in the marshal's office. “No, not here.” we reminded him gently; “In the coanty jail” It's the Spirit “Well, I've been in worse places,” |the hop peddier remarked philo- sopbicaily. “It be warm, anyway, and they ¢ive you a pretty good to swing ente © coach at the same/of mails, hurrying back to bis office | feed) up there on the hill Christmas time. One was identified. He ts be- Ueved to be the same man whe held up an Olympia store and killed E. H. Schultz of that city earty Monday evening before going to Tacoma. ‘The chfer o man gets the harder it As Influensa Tip, ‘ab- }Is an CT erated form of LAXATr Snowe QUININE than’ly prescribes for ordinary rin. .|A rood plan te not to wait until you are PREVENT BROMO QU ‘ab- lets ip time. IS THE SINCERE WISH OF “ABIE” | (LEW WHITE) “OLE’ ? (OSCAR GERARD) “SLIVERS” (ERT. C. HUNT) AND THE ENTIRE LEVY’S MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY “The Spanis 99 |THE. IDEAL FOR CHRISTMAS, ‘perished in the fire which destroyed | That number of patients waa mian from the whirling activities at the postal terminals in the railroad yarde. “It seems like everybody ta the world was sending presents to everybody cise, and it was al) com- ing thru the Seattle postoffice. Every | train from the Kast in bringing small mountains of Christmas mail. If ali the red ribbon that has gone to tie| up Christmas parcels received here) were to be put together, it would be; wyawer than the 47th meridian. | pere’s many @ trembling finger ties | those pieces of red ribbon,” he com | day. Now, last year, it weren't halt bad———" and bie voice trailed off in gustatory @reaminess “Well, we know of several places we'd rather spend Christmas.” we snapped rather unsympathetically “Well, brother, it's Hike this,” fe. torted the collariess one. “I juenm it don't make much @ifference where you spend Christmas, or how you spend it It's the eptrit of the thing that counts.” Whieh, you come to think it over, THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1919, GLOOM CHASERS 'G0 TO FIRLANDS They'll Perform at Merry | Christmas Party for Patients wonderful names te conjure with —all appear on’ the program pre- pared for entertainment of Fir lands howpital pationta by the Merry Christmas company of Star readers, nown, | render, and M. Castailuce! @ musical | artint of vaudeville fame. They are included im the party ef if is fall i i I Ti rt ill i» just about right Beware of Christmas Tree Fires, Is Warning & few pointers to guard Fear Nine Insane Patients Perish MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Deo. 24. (United Press.)-—Nine of the 53 pa- tients who occupied a farm cottage! at the Connecticut hospital for the insane were believed today to have the building last night. ing, and R. L. Leek, assistant super- intendent, said they were not of the type which would run away. The ruins will be searched today for thetr bodies as goon an the debris is suf: ficiently cooled, perhaps within a few | hours. | | ‘ | St. John’s Choir to | Sing Yule Carols Jonn's chorus choir, of St. n’s Episcopal church, will go |trom door to door in the parish | | Christmas eve, caroling Yuletide an | |themas, Church children will engage ‘in the annual Sunday school fenti- val at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening Don't leave ie | mates lying around loone. ¥ Don’t let baby ° thing bot electric lights on Christmag tree. Don't lose your presence of mind) in case of fire. Don't take your eye off the chil dren for a moment. the Don't take a chance. Don't, above everything else, jeop artize the life of a single member of your family; it ts more precious than -| all the Christmases past and to come, Hits His Wife, So Police Jail Him Over Christmas Thomas Hamilton, 26, a salesman living at 2151 Sixth ave. W., is one person in Seattle who won't spend his Chrietmas at home thin year, Harmitton had an altercation with his wife early Wednesday morning, and in his wrath he resorted to cave- man methods, which resulted in his arrest, | The frightened wife calied the po 3 lice station after Hamilton had placed a large bump on the side of | Seattle Is Sixth in Money Orders November broke all records at the Seattle pontoffice for money orders received, postal officials announced ‘Wednesday. Only tx other cities registered above Seattle in paid money order recetpts, Over $1,757, 185 was the amount paid out by the local office in November, which is nearly half a million more than No- vember of last year can show on the books, Consider Offer to Sell Line Monday City officials, next Monday, will consider the offer of the Seattle & Rainier Valley car line owne® to nell to the municipality for $1,656,- 6. The offer made in October. 1918, wan to sel for $1,600,000, and not $1,200,000, as errontously report ed Monday. The difference of $56,766 represents improvement ex penditures aince the first offer, of ficlals ofthe company explained. TRADESMEN INDORSE UNIVERSITY PROFS Indorsement of the demand of pov. erty-stricken university professors for a 50 per cent increase in salary was announced Wednesday by the Seattle Metal Trades council © indorsement followed the sug night that the professors form a union and join the American Federation of Labor, her head, and Motorcycle Officers W. Dench and N. P. Anderson ar rived in time to save her from fur ther mistreatment. Hamilton waa booked on an open charge, pending action from the 14,000 Youngsters hte Tee Stage Riot in New York Christmas Party NEW YORK, Dec. 24, — Seven thousand Christmas presents, Seven thousand invited children. | Seven thousand ubinvited children | One rott. Six precincts called on to send ‘police reserves to restore order. ‘That te the story of the Christmas | restive “rranged, by the People's f teen ll TAberty chorus and the police do- partment Many children, including several cripples, were knocked down and trampled upon in the wild scramble for presents. Dolls, candy and other presents were matched by eager youngsters, TREATING WOODCOCK FOR MENTAL TROUBLE SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24d gar Woodcock, recently found “not guilty” of the murder of Edward Kelly, newapaper circulator, has been confined to a sanitarium. State Senator Kehoe, his attorney, ed for “mental trouble.” Kehoo re- fused to say where Woodcock i be: ing held MOONSHINE SUSPECTS FACE HEARING DEC. 26 Preliminary hearing of Mike La. conto and Tony Angele, accused moonshiners, was set for December 26 at 10 o'clock. Bail was placed at only be rematched by others more rT. It Was give and take— | PENETRATES INTO JAILS jon at a meeting of the council | said that Woodcock waa being treat4 idian 900 each by Commissioner R. W. McClelland DONT FORGET the best dentistry at prices much less than usual at the NATIONAL DENTISTS E. Cor. Third and Pike BestGold Crowns.. N. Plates... This office is under new management, which is de- termined to make this one of Seattle’s foremost den- tal offices. To get acquainted with you quickly we are making this It means a lot for you, but act at once. . This offer is for a short time only. _ THE very special offer. of money saved NPI DENTISTS THIRD$ & PIKE NATIONAL DENTISTS Under New Management N. E. Corner Third and Pike PURSE SNATCHERS PREY ON CROWDS Holdup meh, petty thieves and a boy purse snatcher kept the police constanuy Wednesday. The following robberiea were reported: ©. G. Giteland, 6427 Kensington place, held up by an unmasked highwayman and relieved of $10, Mrs, T. B. Tammiil, 6322 16th ave. nipped by fleet-footed | alert 8., youth Mrs. B. N. Knivek. 1301% Jefferson st. purse containing $ snatched, . Mrs, P. W. Rood, 1103 Sist av purse cut from her arm. Mrs. BE. L. Bordman, 3609 ©. Cherry st, robbed of small change and children’s car tickets by burglars who ransacked her home F. B. Leach, 1521 Bighth room entered and $35 worth of Inu dry stolen. $. A. Smith, Astoria hotel, Bighth ave, and Pine st., room entered anc $7 stolen. Office of Merchants’ Arctic building, ransacked $327.20 indorsed checks and $3 stamps stolen Jack Longworth, 1117 Pike st room entered and $20 nugget pin and suit of clothes stolen. | Mrs. H. Kerr robbed of $86 by pickpockets on Union st. A. Johnson, 43th st. N. and Mer. | ave., house ransacked and turkey, hams and other edibles re moved N. P. Lindros, 434 Broadway N., entered bis store just in time to scare away two men who had en tered a rear door ahead of him, Mrs, 0, 1. Bender, 659 Jackson st, purse Containing pair pearl ear} rings and $25, snatched at King st.| station, Mrs, R. UL, Swan, 4607 Malden ave, purse containing $4 and three stick pins, and a $90 sapphire, picked from her pocket, purse Texchange. and in SNOWISDUE IN THE EAST Cold Christmas ts Predicted for Atlantic States WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—It's go- A few people go around the world, | ‘" to be a cold Christmas, but, ac- but the majority of us are satisfied | cording to present indications, Santa to go thru it. Claus, for the most part, will have ~ to worry along with the snow now oa ground, the weather bureag Peter A. McDonald, 619 Central bidg., lost $35 roll of bills at Third ave. and Pike st, J. M. Machews; 3308 Harbor ave. S. W,, lost a uit | Occasional flurries of snow | looked for in the Great Lakes region | and in the Middle Atlantic states to- day, so Christmas eve will be white there. 4 Sharp drops in temperature Christ. _ mas morning are predicted in New |England and the Middle Atlantic You are cordially in- HM) ciitea sii . iehtt eh ‘weath vibes ‘ to attend bei | shoutd prevail inthe Oto valley ant ristmas service a ‘ennessee, Conditions in the South | the FIRST PRESBY- Atlantic and Fast Gulf regions will TERIAN CHURCH, remain practically unchanged, the . " weather man says. Thursday morning at Normal temperatures will prevail 11 o'clock. over the country from the east slope of the Rockies to the Pacific coast. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Thieves Pick Out Christmas Gifts entitled Thieves, who helped themselves to | W. P. Cavon's stock of groceries at 45th ave. and Stone way, were very particular to keep uppermost in.their minds the Yuletide season. lected a 49-pound sack of flour; then they picked out’ $18 worth of candy ‘The loot was hauled away in axl automobile, ‘The police found th footprints of a man and woman out. side the grocery store, ‘The robbery “sooner early Wednesday morn. | ing. “Prince of Peace” Brilliant program of music. ‘There are too many men in world who are not content wasting their own tu oa