The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1920, Page 3

THE MARY PICKFORD WILL OPEN AT THE COLISEUM Saturday Morning in Her New Play = Friday—Last Times Douglas Fairbanks —jR— ‘WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY’ Let's ge ent at Boldt's—uptewn, | A boulder weighing forty-six tons, ‘M14 34 Ave.; downtown, 913 2d Ave j Which is to be the base of : Grand | Army monument Town hall : CHAIR IN EXCHANGE lawn, East Providence, R. I. has |been moved two miles on rollers} NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—-Clarence J thru the streets. It broke down a/| Houseman, a broker, presented John }40-ton gear on the first attempt to} McManvws, his confidential clerk, | move tt ith his seat on the New York Stock Sxchange as a Christmas gift The last sale of a seat on the ex change brought $100,000, Houseman sald be transferred the seat to Me Manus, who “was a good and faith ful worker,” as an appreciation of i his work. The transfer was approved by the exchange board of governors |The clerk paid a “nominal sum” for |BROKER GIVES CLERK on FINAL PRICES SATURDAY There is no limit to the GREATSACRIFICE taking place here to- morrow. The following few items are but samples of the FINAL PRICES on this GREAT $60,000 STOCK. Men's Wool Mackin aws, Black Bear, Union made, values to $15.00 Men's Dress Shirts to $2.50, wind-up price 98c Men's Heavy Wool Socks, wind-up price 39c Men's Hats to $5.00; wind-up price $1.89 Heavy Double Army Blankets, wind-up price $2.85 $1.50 Children's Play Suits, wind-up price 98c $1.50 Work Shirts, wind-up price 69c PAY CHECKS CASHED MEN'S SHOES $3.50 Boys’ Shoes $4.00 Men's Heavy $25.00 now’ ME. nee Men’s $30.00 to $35.00 Suits, Collegian others, cut to.. $2.25 Men’s Union Made Overalls, now cut to $1.25 $7 Ladies’ Dress Shoes, welted soles, cut to $5.00 Men’s Heavy Work Shoes, all sizes, $6.00 Pants, serges terns, cut to Men’s in and = suit $8.00 Men’s Fine Dress Shoes, all sizes, now io. ..... $3.69 Men’s Union Made Douglas Shoes to $10, BOYS’ SUITS $8.00 Boys’ Wool Suits, Men’s Highest uits and Over beautifully ta worth up cut $10.00 to Chippewa cut Men’s Heavy Work Shoes 25e Arrow Col- Boys’ AlkWool Mack- inaws, eut to SALE Red Front Clothing C $2.50 Boys’ Corduroy sizes, cut to 20¢ Canvas Gloves, wind-up price 9c ENTIRE STOCK SACRIFICED MEN'S SUITS $11. $14. . $2. to $40.60, $17. lars, wind-up price UNION STORE STARTS SATURDAY, 9 A. M—COME TO THE SEATTLE STAR The same beloved Mary in the role of a mountain girl, fight- ing her feudist battles and afraid of “nobody nor nothin’,” Symphony Orchestra 31 Artists [the seat to make the transaction | legal |Missionary Work to Be Explained| Catholic missionary work in the Orient and Egypt will be expiain led and illustrated by Rev. D. J O'Sullivan, of Lyons, France, at | Cathedral hall, Ninth and Columbia Friday at § p.m. Dr. O'Sullivan who is a native of Cork, is campaign ing In America for funda to carry on work thru the Society of African Minion» OVERCOATS $25.00 Men's High- Grade Overcoats, now cut to All- Woot Oregon Wool- en Mills Ov $10.00, cut to $14.95 85 Men's and 85 Dress wind-up price stripes, 48 Grade rcoats, ilored, Jf derwear, wind-up price 69c $4.00 Me Union + 85 9c ‘4 Heavy . wind-up price $1.95 ‘s Wool Un- 1.00 Woot Flannel Shirts, wind-up price 1601-1603 FIRST AVE., Cor. First Ave. and Pine Street FRIDAY, JANUARY NEW NATION TO AID EDUCATION War on Illiteracy Begun in Czecho-Slovakia BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL PRAGUE of Crecho }to the tre | ehild-feeding play in the future recreatior of and the new-born epublic jehool matter y with the fa coming eneratic bound up of the natic 1 to ay thelr Slav ch wi many dyll, practical pr ing, fo ediat ition And yet, they ha vision om ime © taken hold’ ¢ with a EDUCATION PLAN VIGOROUSLY Pt rl The Ke Ope mia, Mc roment hi and and secc akia, whe teacherle 190 pr | teachers into 8 Rained Started v iMiteracy ure | slaries tleally no fi well, many read or write provided them by land dis and community pts there we 1 Prag was the iret great university in central Bu » many privat ivernity ope | But in Slovakia government used the sch the Hungariar Is an thet | principal v Magyarization.” Minister Habrman says that the percentage of illiteracy In varies from Slovakia dis 6 per cent in other parte. d there are many villages » Slovakia and Ruthenta ly a can read or write his own name. “It is not | wchoola will b 50 per cent in some decided whether all over by the Jon the new hu winh hes, er nety to ki if the schools are good, these wishes Will probably be respected. ‘The need for teachers is great a urgent. We now have 10,500 ac in operation in Bohemia, Mo atre and | very | their schools, and | and Silesia as against 9,967 before | the war. | that number before November 1, but | We will probably not be able to, be | Cause there is a demand for hundreds of teachers in Slovakia in addition to | the 199 we have sent, and many | former teachers are still in military j servion "4 “In Ruthenia about 900 of every | 1,000 people cannot read or write. | Bad roads ndd to the difficulties of | getting the children to school,” SENATORS HOLD - PEACE MEETING WASH N, Jan Impor rencer on the 5 1 today by hoock, republic At the laid for reopening | sions when the sen | plans the treaty 1 compromise | proposals were Republicans ion gathered in 1 over certain pr al in the week from dem¢ ing a proposed modifi reservation ¢ tual eliminat lution to equ of the Unite empire, Hitehooe tors Swa urged Hite oposed ntes and the British k took counell with Sena nd others, King promise reservations, | approval of which King ha | from repubile an mild resery NEW YORK MAY "BUY GAR LINES NEW YORK, Jan New York eity may be the ext American to take r traction und operate of failure of private to adequate os, | municipality lines them because interests at low f t that pres to the give Traction official ent revenues wervier in ure insufficlent service purchase by ransit Con ohn H. De vice Commis. follows: city of all titles companies in. ratlroad | maintain pre A proposal city has | struction Commisst }laney and * Pub Nixor he the been m: er Lewis nteed payment by the elty © of interest on ide of 1 per cent for the purehd wf the properties at the ex piration o A suffic | meet these requirements. | All else connected with the plan lare matters of detail, whieh it was Jagreed could be worked out if the mmpanies agreed to relinquish con of thelr properties. | ‘The proposal is now in the hands of various boards of directors of the properties involved ase in fares to k to accept a set of |‘ eought | * We had hoped to extend | South Africa to Aid in iN famin by the This January | Furniture Sale Exceeds All in VALUE AND VARIETY T exceeds in variety, because we foresaw an unprecedented demand and prepared for it, purchasing far in advance for the best part of the best products of the most reputable makers. The values demand inspection and invite comparison and we © cordially welcome you to exercise both of these—your privileges. You Will See Living Room Furniture Dining Room Furniture Bed Room Furniture All beautiful pieces and complete suites at lower prices than you ever expected to see. There are days of unequaled opportuinty — the opportunity. to save substantially on furniture for every room in your home © —furniture that will be a source of lifetime pride and satisfac- tion to everyone. Ble Preventing BY EDWARD M. THIERRY E. A. Staff Correspondent With Smithsonian-Universal African Expedition.) South Africa.—World » future may be averted of Prieska. PRIESKA f t “Poison Hills They have an ominous name retching 70 miles northeast be- nm here and Griquatewn — but den wealth is the antithesis of pois chief fertilizing agents. re the fear of world famine and wipe | out a dangerous weapon of war. Sc ur of land p' to W ducting experiments here newly formed South African Nitrate | and Potash Corporation. fident the hills will produce quanti-| ties of the precious deposits exceed: | ing Germar held these riches Ca erying out for years to quenc J South African. nf It’s nitrate of potash, And enough » rid the world of the menace of warfamous potash m ts mac omints real African expedition ly inaugurated h Africa. public of the rk here. are adjacent ws, holding ble deposits of t known produc der mining opera nian-Unive to see th fant indust Littl sb ate are the two They are »solutely essential in food produc: @ biological necessity for the of harvest which nothing iscoveries in South Africa ach expectations they will remove te say the worlds oread eaters than the area ul cultiva 7 onl increasing nitrates, Chile, And to be richer and purer according mineralogist con: for the yrth $200 a ton, L. Calder He is con id Chilean production, “Criminal procrastination has with from the world," in a country fertilizer un hed virgin beds. u finger in it, There that powerful re operating for enthusiasm about tes. Their exist alder said. “Here ternal forces hilis | 4 the Smith-| World Famine ence has been known for many |years, but until the war the eco- |nomic mastery of South Africa was jin the h Prieska’s “Poison Hills” may re- et South Africa’s economic now based—some think | ly—on gold, diamonds, and h feathers LITERARY ARGONAUTS BEGIN WORLD TOUR SAN FRANCISCO, earch of the gold of experience and ral two young literary its have started to work their y around the world, They are Miss Stella Benson, English author | and poet, who has made her home in| San Francisco for a year, and Miss Mariquita de Laguna, University of California girl and daughter of a} well known Oakland family. | With just enough money to take Jan, 2.—In SAND DIGGER FINDS $3,350 IN FIRST HAU PITTSBURG, Jan. Dilke, sand comber and a McKees Rocks, is having the ti his life. A hard worker on the river winter and summer, Dilke had windfall when his little sand 4 brought up from the bottom of @ Ohio river exactly $2,350 in wet sticky greenbacks. 4 Dilke pushed his digger out onto the back chanmel et the foot Neville islané @a@ began i sand for a ce gag aentractor, When the first backet cam top there lay a wallet, which p 5 to be a large one and well filled. Hig eyes bulged as each bill smoothed out, cleaned and counted, Everything shipshape, Dilke, after “rewarding” his helper, jumped inte his yawl and rowed ashore, saying he was “in for a time.” 2—c pair expect to travel “on faith” and are trusting to luck, and their own — resourcefulness to carry them thru Japan, Russia, India, England and them to I kong, the adventurous | At the first chill! “Bayer Cross’’ to breal | Fever, Stuffiness. Warning! 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