The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1921, Page 2

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SOMOGMVEED & SARS N’T BUY ANY LUMBER WITHOUT FIRST GETTING OUR PRICES AND SEEING OUR QUALITY In order to give the people of this city, whose patron- age in the past has made us grow from a very small busi- ness to a business v’orth nearly half a million, the benefit of the very low wholesale prices prevailing on Eastern orders, we have stopped taking Eastern business until the market changes, and— THIS SURPLUS WE ARE OFFERING YOU AT PRICES THAT ARE SO LOW THAT IT IS BOUND TO STIMULATE BUILDING SO FAR AS WE ARE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND. WE OWN OUR OWN TIMBER, DO OUR OWN LOG- GING AND MANUFACTURE OUR OWN LUMBER, and we believe it is a positive fact that there is no other lumber dealer in this city that can give you— AS LOW A PRICE FOR AS HIGH QUALITY OF LUMBER AS WE CAN. NOW, THEN—GET THAT BUILDING STARTED AND DON’T BLAME LUMBER ANY MORE. ON THIS OFFER OUR TERMS ARE CASH. Stetson & Post Lumber Company Elliott 711 3300 Whatcom Ave. Elliott 712 ORANGES AND APPLES COME | ———-- Two Carloads Arrive; Or- anges Still Short One car of mixed varieties of ap THE SEATTLE STAR Trading Is Listless NEW YORK, Feb, &.—Trading on the New York Mtock Exchange was Motions during the morning, following @ dull opening | All early transactions were in 100-share from M ing innue | Bouthern Pacific ox-rights was quoted at 78%, representing a gain of % Opening quotatt included te and the opening ehanges Jay's last quotations did not run more than fractional in lead=| UP i; Studebaker, 56, off %: General Bleetric, | on New York Market TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1921. Chin Naure BUILDING COST Ship News is comine DOWN “*ynn.8"” | Wholesale Price of Materials | Drops 22 Per Cent | JASHINGTON, Feb. 8-—The TUWADAY vEM, ® ples and one of large oranges were! United Htates st received on the Seattle market Tuo# ie, unchanged day morning But one car of the | orn Paetfie “a9 large oranges Waa not sufficient to 19%, unchanged satinty the demand for them, They | up. 4 were selling at 65 to $6.60, The de-| | rice declines in, guyar sirable wize of apples ts atl short On | jomn itumor Srklies fs the market od @ part in the slump. Walla Walla spinach, shipped in| ———- sihaateapncnaintanent refrigerator cars, which in cheaper WHEAT MARKET $1.55 per box. Los Angeles spinach was polling aa high as $2.60 per bas ket for top quality A car of colery also arrived, selling at Monday's prices i Butter and cheose were continuln: CHICAGO, Fon. & short, and an increase in price ts the jeamo Hoard probable March and May wheat Kens were from 3 to 5 cents low mE walne of Bee and wD ely he Kain wore er, The quotations were 36 to 37 | onced by heavy short coverings and cents par dozen on fresh ranch and) fresh speculative buying induced by 42 to 33 conts for pullets. reports of a better domestic milling demand and reports of light visible wheat and flour stocks, Another in fiuencing factor wan a re structive green bugs had been dis vered In the Texas flelda . h, 67, ry 99% + up Mi A Bears-Roebuck, 8 affocted & jon on t Wheat futures Bye influ | CHICAGO, }ings with light of Un disease caused advances in grain futu crate the Chicago Hoard of Trade t hours, dx Corn and oate | naympe ‘ | with wheat. Provisions were lower. March wheat down le at 53% and « later. July wheat « Ver oa ‘aulitlower @ai Flats per reen per reaned pe ee car Cal, per ™. ..+ ty Florida. per 1. + pied Per t per bw per crate a on bdnches 28@ 49 - ee . . with preforre Atlantic Gulf, 62%, off % Baldwin, 86%, off &; North 64%, up %; General Motors, International Paper, 66% up UD phait 0, up sugar stocks today, American Sumar ting to 103, « four-paint he quarterly dividend tomorrow play N. Y. Stock Exchange notations) Mannip Bud High ta & Co, Clone us aK 1% e low " f. Bumatra | Amer, La yy ; Halt. & Ohio Haldwin Locomotive Hethi W +|Chicago Board of Trade (Monday Furnished by 1 Hater Hote! | Routhorn. |Tegmipe Local, per sack BR Wash | | Fagne—Viretnta 4 per hamper... FKUITS i296 146 . Chicago Car Lots (Monday's Quotations) Petes permepeeren Wigs Ded, per thm fmyrne .. [Grape Pratt. |. tmpert “ Fioridh, “per case. 1.6 Ney , joney—Comb, par er | Btrained. per Mm +. Chicago Live Stock CHICAGO, Reretpta, Market “ $4. 00@ 7.8; Bheep—Teceipts, 16,000. Market.steady, 29@ 9.60; owen, $205.25. kronen, N. Y. Coffee and ‘Sugar TORK, Feb, Quiet refined, Kege—Fresh ranch... Puljets see ewee Or, triplets ... Wheconein cream 7 Rio, 4 Santos, 1% @10% epot. Portland Market Status PORTLAND, Feb. #—Cattle—Market @t28; fair to cndlee jerws, ana campers, 8204; bulls, alt 100. 258. Market strong. olpte Market steady, pound Triplet Prices Reduced on Fordson Tractors Lower cost of materials and the fact that they are now located in their new tractor plant are given by the Ford Motor Co, as reasons for enabling them to reduce the prices on the Fordson tractor, tora have been cut from $790 to $62! If. © b. Detroit, according to an | nouncement by the company There tx no change in the prices of Ford trucks and passenger cars, Bmooth heavy Rough heavy « Pie. Prime lambs Yonrlings Wethers |Furniture Dealers Are in Convention SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. §.—"Econ omize on everything but labor,” was |the slogan adopted by the Pacific | Coast Retail Furniture Dealers’ con ¢ | ¥ention in session here tgday | Furniture buyers and dealers from 111 Western states are attending the jconvention. They declared they were not in any way curtailing their or ders, but on the other hand are buy. |ing heavily in order to stimulate pro- Ewes tes HAY, GRAIN AND FE Wholesale Price Per Tos, Cit; Rariey— Whole . Rolled | “Crackes | Chick Feed Developer (Mash Chop \Ground Bone Wheat—Mixed Feed falta posvedes Kau Mash oshe Meat Rerape—Local Faatern 4 Molasses Dairy al, Boat Schedu =—SAVE MONEY- Travel by sfeamer A general meeting of all passenger representatives of merican and Canadian railroads, fow serving in the Northwest, will be held in the Oregon-Washington station next Thursday. The meeting ts called by the Pacific Northwest Passenger as. sock SAFTY - SPFED-= ¢ Y, 0, 11:00 A, ML, 1:00, 3/00, 6:00, 7:00 P. M. “$1.20 ‘ar Tax IMFORT trict for the coming year BANK TO HAYE BIRTHDAY Seattle National Bank will cele brate its Sist birthday next Friday During its career the Seattle Na tonal haw absorbed two other banks the Boston National, in 1903, and the Puget Sound National, in 1910, Last reports showed deposits of $21,000, \ and resources of 000,000 for this bank PORT ANGELES - STRAIT: POINTS: } DAILY AT MIDNIGHT SAN JUAN ISLAND POINTS 19:00 Midnight, Sunday, Thureday BELLINGHAM- ANACORTES PORT TOWNSEND RAIL CONNECTION more HE BAGS A MOOSE After a big game hunt with five friends in the Canadian Rockies, L. |W. Hill, of Minneapolis, chairman of the Great Northern Railway board of directors, returned home with a moos inches across the horns, ch of which had 14 points, accord to information reaching J. F. Me. uire, general agent of the passenger department of the Canadian National Railways, Hach of Hill's friends got & moose also, 59 PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION («) COLMAN DOCK - F001 MARION ST ‘Thene trac jon, for the purpose of discuss. | ing passenger prospects in this dis- | than 4 Rat #& Rubber Stores * LIBERTY BONDS Hien 92.00 ferten RAN Batras. Cheese FRANCIACO, Feb, 4-@utter— Algo: prime frets, 1 he Callfornia fints, fancy, 26%. ae, 32¢ doren; extta fires, miliets, Zio dozen doren. ‘ee o e® fs undersized pullets, 3¢¢ Denver Live Stock Market | DENVER, Fed. #.—Cattle—Tecetpts, | #00. Market steady. Steers, $5.50@7.25 cows and heife 60; stockers and feeders, 16.60@7A, culver, 18610. How Market lower | Bheep—Receipta, 1.400. Market, lower 604,771.00 90,562.00 || Clearings . | Balances .., + 1,314,098.00 349,210.00 | | Cleartngs . Balances .. ;=— \Urge Probe Palmer | Dealings With S. P. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Invest! gation of A. Mitchell Palmer's regime as attorney general and alien proper- ty custodian, proposed by republicans in congress as the first duty of the new attorney general under Prest- dent Harding, will, ff inaugurated, ro into Palmer's surrender of the gov. ernment'’s Southern Pacific oll land suit. Palmer refused to appeal this suit to tHe supreme court, thereby reduc- ing the navy'’s ofl reserves by half and apparently clinching the South. ern Pacific's title to oil lands valued At $500,000,000. That Palmer's refusal to prosecute | the wil suit caused a division in the Wilson cabinet is attested by letters on file before the house public lands committee. 4,589,641.00 706,735.00 * SEATTLE BUILDING GROWS “A very healthy and active pro- gram of building has been inaugur- ated in Seattle as a direct result of our efforts to reduce the prices of building materials, the voluntary re- |ductions made by manufacturers and adjustment of the wage scale for says J. 2. Shoemaker, presi- jdent of the Seattle Master Builders’ |ampociation, in a report. |NEW FREIGHT LINE PROBABLE Probable establishment of another freight service between Seattle and Japan is announced by 8. Shibata, representative of the Mitsubishi Co. jof New York, who is studying thé freight situation here. The line will be started with a fleet of 8,000-ton steel steamers, when the cargo market becomes stronger, Shibata says. The oldest crane in the world, in use since 1413, is in Trier, on the River Moselle, France, WIFE SAYS HUSBAND TAUGHT THEIR BABY PRAYERS ARE ‘BUNK’ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8— The name of J. Parker Whitney went on the court records again today. ‘This WAS as a result of a suit for separate maintenance filed against him by his wife, Louise Carpenter Whitney, in the supe rior court he Mrs, Whitney alleged intemper. anee and cruelty When she tried to teach thetr son to say his prayers at night, Mrs. Whitney alleged, Whitney told the boy it was “bunk,” and proceeded to teach him maudlin songs, ‘ She charged, also, that Whit. y had beaten her while drunk. Whitney is the son of the late Joel Parker Whitney and an heir to his te, His alleged esca pades with Miss Genevieve Hanan and his reported and then denied engagement to Peggy Lundeen, actress, in 1914, brought him into | the qpotlight at that time, t | - — Of STORM WARNING | Southwest storm warnings fered dinplayed at 1120 u A wevere storm Vancouver island, rapidly south@astward wile cause strong south: gales from Cape Blanco north during the next 24 hours ASK DELAY ON SHIP CONFAB The Seattle and Tacoma han bers of Commerce and Seattle port comminsion Tuesday all sent tele were am tm centr moving It | | | » grams to Admiral Benson, chairman | lof the shipping be asking that the shipping cont heduled for February 21 be postponed for a month The conference ix to determine the cation of xhipping board 635 foot rn, five of which are supposed to have been assigned to run out of this | port | The object in asking the poetpone | ment is to delay the matter untii the | new shipping board under the Hard- jing regime takes office. Seattle and Tacoma see in the con fer which was called with no previous warning to this district, an tlempt by Portland, Los Angeles und San Francisco to tuke the ships away from Seattle. eee SPOKANE IN FROM ORIENT Coming from Samarang, Java, via Singapore, the steamer City of Spo kane is in Seattle Tuesday, after completing one of the longest voy- ages of any Vessel in the transpacific nervi Business in the Orfent shows signs of picking up, according to Captain Quinn, commander *. WILLIAMS SHIPS COMING Steamer Willfaro, first of Williams Steamship Co. vessels to call here, in due in port in time to load f She will carry cargo to Savannah, , and Charleston, 8. C. eee DOLLAR MAN LEAVES To take charge of the company’s interests in Qhina, W. J. King, for two years connected with the Seat- tle office of the Rotert Dollar com will leave Wednesday nee, TATOORH IRLAND—Fi ¢own. February cloudy; wind west, Passed out—A tw lumber-iaden, at 9:40 a m. Str Colm Le 19 miles an hour ast steam schooner, Passed tn— 1 mast yellow stack, black top, at 2 Dm; str Meiwu Maru, at 2:49 p.m; str Lansing, ot 6:30 p.m. Arrived February t—Str Queen from Ban Diego via Ban Pedro and San Francisco, at § am February 1—Str Admiral Bvans from Tacoma at #:30 p. ta; str City of Bpo- kane from Samarang via Singapore and Manila at & p.m. Salted February &—Str Admiral San Diego via Ban Francisco and San Pedro, at noon; Depere for Valparaiso via Ban Branciseo and ports, at noon. February 1—Stanwood for San Francts- co via Everett, at § p. m.; str Fulton for British Columbia porta, at 11 p.m, oe 8 Alaskan Vessels Petersbure-—Aatled, Tebruary 7, Spokane, northbound, at 1 p. m. Valder—Sailed, February 7, str North- western, southboubd, at 11:45 a. m Ketchikan—ailed, February 7, Princess Mary, nertimound, at midnig! February 6, str Spo! northbound. Sp, m.; str Latouche, northbound, at 6 om Evans for otr str eee Vessels in Other Ports Hongkong—Arrived, February §, str Suwa Maru from Seattle via Yokohama, Kobe and Shanghai, Ralled—Str Pro- tentiaus for Seattle via ports. February 1, str Admiral Sehley from Beattie via’ San Francisco and San Pedro, § p. m., and sailed for Seattle via San Pedro and San Francisco at 10 p.m. fan Pedro—Arrived, February 6, Yorba Einda from Seattle. San Franciseo~-Arrived, February 8, Tacoma, Ana- Febreary 7—Ar- from Seattle via Vie~ 4p. m. Bailed—February 6, etr towing barge Griffson, for Seat- til a m. Dungeness—Passed tn, February 7, Standard O11 str Col. BL Drake for Point Wella, at 2:40 p.m. Port Townsend—Arrived, str City of Spokane from Samarang via Singapore, Manila and Vancouver, B. C., at 3:18 or pm. Rverett-—Arrived, Februa: wood from San Fi } Tacoma—arri miral Evans from Beattle sailed for Beattie at 4:30 U. S. Naval Communtentions February 7—S8tr Queen, San Francisco for Seattle, p. m.; atr Lyman Stewart, Port San Luis for Seattle, 242 miles from Seattle at & BD m.: #tr Bpokane, 26 miles from Juneau northbound; str Devel, Orient for Seattle, 590 miles from Seattle at § p. m.; str West Jappa, Vancouver for 426 miles from Cape Flattery at § p.m. .ee Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove terminal—Str City of Spo- kane Rell st. terminal—U § CG Algonqutn. Grand Trunk Pacific terminal—str Ad- miral Rodman. Pier 1¢—Str Tyndareus, str Fulton, mt nipping str West str Victoria. Str Admiral Goodrich. Str City of Seattle. | Pier D—Str Admiral Evans, str Morning atar. | Hanford st. terminal—U 8 1 8 Relief. Duthie Yard—Str Wert Tvis waterway dock and Horaisan Maru, tr rehouse—Str Kayseeka, etr Schr Columbia, str For- Admiral Sebree, | Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging works— 1 Btr Patterson, hull Ratnbow, | Ames yards—Str Roosevelt. | Standard Boller works dock—U 8 0 @& ‘G8 Explorer. Lake Union—Hulla Abilia, Abnoba, Aby- dos, Addison, Allenhurst, Ahmik, An- | thon, Bayden, Bertrand, Bingamon, | Bincaya, Mack Wolf, Blanford. Oel- win, Houghton, Pesuta, Puyallup, Cagacan, Capraria, Cardia, Cenina, Charus, ‘Chesterfield, Chalcia, Cinsas, Cinyras, Corus, Coxian, Cola, Clone, Blisen, Electra, Endymion, Fort wix, Fort Harrison, | Heffernan dock—str | U8. C. & G. & Wawona, atr Kote | kan, atr Jefferson. | Stimson Mill Dock—-Str Depere. Grove's Laxative blets, The first and original Cold and Gri Tablet. (Be sure you get BROMO. 30c.—Adverlisement a trip out on February 15.| for) 150 miles from Seattle at &/ Yokohama, | aches and | wholesale price of building materials slumped per cent in the past eight months, cording to the bureau of labor. etal declined 20 per cent im |the sume time. A further decline is | looked for before April. | The money spent for construction |during 1920, in the 26 Northeastern | states, was practically the sume as in 1919, but the big Increase in costs |meunt ‘that the money bought only [three-fourths the construction im | 1920 that was done in 1919. | The decline in residential construe tion iy the most conspicuous feature in the comparison between the two years. ¥. W. Dodge Co.'s review of build Jing activity predicts that in 1921 res |idential, pujic works and utilities construction will predominate over other classes of buildings, | TO PAVE HIGHWAYS | Paving of 1 way hetweer and Renton at la cont of $250,000 and the paying of lthe road from the Pacific highway to the proposed steel bridg | White river, near O'Brien, of between $12,000 Jed upon by the county commis sioners Monday PTUNE GIVES DANCE vern! hundred mariners and@ ir ladies attended the first annual dance of the Neptune asspeiation, igiven at Redding’s hall, Monday night. Capt. Donald 8, Ames, local federal inspector of ateam#ost hulls, and Mrs, Amex led the grand mafch, ny persons prominent In shippiag circles were present pooh Aina JAP FREIGHTER SAILS Loaded with 5,500 bales of cotton, 2,000,000 feet of lumber and 2,500 tons of weight cargo, the freighter Horaisan Maru was scheduled to sail for the Orient Tuesday afternoon. || Public Market 119, for WESTLAKE for ale, turk breeding. Stalls st suitable |e | cans corm, Stall 68, Royal White soa: nt fleur, $2.40 °. sack Blue Stem pate SANITARY Stall 109, pure American cane sugar, 4 Tha tic, § tha the; Crystal White soap, 4 bare pure fresh milk, Se qt. Stall , orange marmalade, 3%¢ ™.; assorted 4c jar. Stall short ribs, 1 hamburger, 2 the. Stall 45, 3 split prunes, ttc; § Tos good Cali- 28e CORNER Stalls 94-96, pot roast, 160 T.; veal chops, Ife ™.; sirloin steak, 20¢ 1. Stall |14, salmon, 20c T., 2 Tbe 38c; fresh mack 20¢ T., z Ibe. abe; sliver smelta, 156 . 2 The ibe. Stall 102, peanut butter, 1M Tha Ife; fall cream cheese, 29) 1b. cream brick cheese, 28 T.; fresh eres, 480 don; fresh bulk roast 2be QUEEN Crry Btal 50, best butter, «te . 2 Ihe. sugar, 4' Tha Sic, § Ibe 6be: salmon, the; 3 Toe heed rice, the fornia beans, 2 bulk cocoa, 360; 6 bars Royal soap, the. ‘ PIKE PLACE j | Stall 17, pure American sugar, 4 the 23, § The Gbe. Stall 1625, large Califor | nla peaches, 1f¢ can; Libby's corned | beef. 250 can; Royal White soap, 1¢ lige. Stalls 2% 2 Tha 40c; lamb roast, 15@ | . 12% TH. Stall st, fresh ground peanut : & bers Crystal White soap, 25c; choice split prunes, 25; 23 450 corned beef, tbc; 2 Tha cube sugar, 2 cans corn, peas or tomatoes, 25¢; bars Naptha soap, 30¢. tories Pile Suppositories, Ram Pyramid 2 househo been the more than two decades. You've | idea what blessed relief is ui | You use Pyramid. 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