The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 10, 1921, Page 12

PAGE 12 PRICES DOWN, BUSINESS 0. K.. Hardware Co. Necarbel Losses and Goes Ahead By E. P. Chalcraft e have had no business de jon, It is true that trade eon a little quiet, but buy- ing is on a healthier basis now in the hardware line than at ' for the last six month That's the sort of comeback you get from W. L, Bilger, manager of gales for tho Seattle Hardware Co. when “hard times” are mentioned. WAR SURPLUS MURT BUSINESS “What most hurt the hardware Dusiness,” said Bilger, “was the great surplus of materials left on hand when the siipyards closed down Quite naturally, people invested tn the cheap second-hand supply rather than pay the high prices for new goods, Tho shipyard surplus has About been exhausted, however, and) the public is buying new hardware ‘conservative basis, which ts in @icative of a mighty healthy condi- tion, They are buying with care ‘nd economy, but they are buying.” "Phe peak in hardware prices, Bil- ger said, was reached in November, 1920, That was when they started © decline. “We went up with the market, and We followed the market down, too,” he stated. “For nearly a year now prices have been dropping. When the bottom will be reached no man gay. But prices maintained @& steadier level during the last months than for a long while. STIRS UP ND FOR HARDWARE i staples have even advanced in last two or three weeks, 4 the harvest began, the de- _ Mand for hardware in all parts of country bag increased, and the tone of steadiness thruout he market has become most notice: and encouraging Tecent boom in the shingle has reacted directly to the of the hardware trade, Bilger far as our house !s concerned,” “there has been no real de- and we certainly do not for anything but better condi- from now on. Our business to- is approximately one-third less it was at the high peak, last . At present, with the market so unstable, most of sum up the hardware situa- have taken our losses; busi- in general, and particularly the business, is picking up, an: building increases all lines ire are correspondingly boost- Prices have registered a long, pteady decline, but just,now they are eadier and a few lines have ad- Northern points,” declared C. J. associate editor of the Anch- Daily Times, who arrived in Se from Alaska Sunday. The road be ready for traffic, he states, by 1. BOND FIRM OPENS The investment firm of Baillar- Winslow & Co., newly organ- amnounced Monday the rent- of offices in the Hoge building, the firm will deal in high bonds and securities, Cebert irgeon and Kenelm Winslow, are the heads of the firm. Both Seattle men and have been con- with Seattle bond houses for years. fae IRRIGATION DISPUTE JHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Reargu- of the Wyoming Colorado long dispute over the division of be irrigation waters of the Laramie was assigned for January 5, by the supreme court today. Sesef Hayden, the composer, was father of the symphony and Prof EXTRACTING TEETH posi- Panown Pihat night ome ee ee thelr r of m child determines negegee teeth should Prati _ DR. EDWIN J. BROWN 106 Columbia St. eg ‘Twenty Years Seattle's Leading 2 aes ‘We Offer INCOME TAX. FREE crap see wg Paid by m y [eyo by Pekin Gore” *” YIELD 9% 1 gid Call or Phone Main 2765. e ICE & COMPANY, INC. M Mscabliahed 1000 1823 L. C, Smith B Seattle ed R.M.S. P. YORK TO eames Calling a» ‘Ship News Tides in Seattle TURSDAY « aut Five Fishing Fleet Vessels Will Leave} Five of Seattle's fishing fleet ves: sels are expected to leave early k for banks at Portlack Dt Yakutat, Southwestern Alaska, They are the schooners Pioneer, | | Capt, Ingvald Hansen; Seattle, Capt. | Harold Nesland; Panama, Capt. Hen ry Austrem; Orient, Capt. 8. Reed, | and the Vansee, Capt, Andrew Olsen, | These are independently operated | craft, carrying combined crews of | nearly 100 men. | . HOLD VESSEL AT NOME Ordered to remain until the merchant vessel has safely made her way thru Unimak pass and Northern navigation ts ended for the | season, the United States coast guard cutter Unalga is lying off] Nome. last | FLORIDIAN DUE SATURDAY ‘The steamship Floridian, In the service of the American-Hawalian Steamship Co, in due in port Satur. day, She will bring a cargo of mis cellaneous freight from New York and Philadelphia. | + eee SEAPLANE STATIONS Seaplane stations have been estab. | lished by the Canadian government at Vancouver, B. C., and Dartmouth, | . &, for the purpose of supervising | harbor approaches at these points, oe WENATCHEE NOW LOADING Flour for China and Manila ts in- cluded in the big cargo now being taken on by the liner Wenatchee, in| the Oriental service of the Pacific Steamship Co, The Wenatchee is scheduled to sail next Saturday. : MAKING FIRST TRIP On her first voyage to Seattle in the service of the Matson Navigation Co., the freighter Manulani is sched uled to arrive in port October 17. eee GIVES UP LONG FLIGHT C. O. Prest, who arrived in Seattle Sunday on the liner Prince Rupert, announced that he would give up his attempt to fly from Siberia to Mex: | ico tMlis year. Prest attempted the flight September 28, a windstorm wrecking his plane. The flight will be successfully made next year, Prest thinks. Weather Bureau Report TATOOSH ISLAND, Oct. 10.—8 A. M./ —Barometer rising; clear; wind south, one mile an hour. Passed In, large two mast steamer, yellow stack, with seven pairs of stanchings, on Passed out, str Saginaw, Mary Winkelman and barge, # m.; & steamer, probably a Jap, this | TH Carrier Group Hit WS by Washingto 1 Ww YO ers from r i possibilities of wave at exohang Union Pacific n Nen 10.<-A bearish interpretat trad the, Washington altering the freight rate ne of heaviness to the carrier *, today. ty n th xtarted off at 121 and § Developments over the week dustrial list, and tran toma in th ‘aoteristion am at the hour Asphait Insue sing hour on Opening prices 1) Baldwin, 87% sylvania, off 1% continued. The aturday include . Stor 64M ; Mexican Petroleum, 9%: Famous « Tirothers aphophone » advance GRAIN MARKET | REMAINS WEAK CHICAGO, tions « Fernished by £ e Butler Hotel Maltdieg tren Low Some 8M 32% Biock Atohiaon au Oct Grain quota am antinued weak onthe Chicago board of trade today, Export sales were small. Receipts were heavy Provisions were irregular December wheat opened up 1% at $1.11 and closed up Me; May opened $1.15% and at the close on Neth gained December corn, the at 48Ko, eb opened up %e off, thee. mber La & mt ane fy Products after opening upc. M 4 down 1%. May | cura at 53% and ele Cor s opened up off Me 38 4gc Me F i May opened up and clos down Ke. at Chicago Beal of — Miasour New Haven Pacific High Lew Vetroleum Sigal te Sony B2.01 ie LK 1 Nominat Cash Wheat CHICAGO, Ovt h wheat # red, $1.18; No 3 nara, He@ igh Mm Ys padi anil Coffee | Today's Quotations ager Den. Raw, $12 ated, $5.50. Coffee—No. 7 Fue, spot, #4 OF Ke Id; 4 Bantos, 11% 12 we Ib, ee Willys-Overland ‘Total stock grane Muller Motel Building Mish Low ee One Foreign Exchange NRW YORK Get. 10.—Forvign change Opened Strons, sterling. 13.29% up Ke: france, $0.0734; lire, $0.0 marks $6.0081; Denton Kronen, $011 WANTS $5,000 FOR EYE Buit for $5,000 damages was started Saturday by Nigel Springer, alleging that she fell against a barbed wire | fence July 19, at 2ist ave. and James | st., her eye being pierced by a barb. | The owner of the property, Miav| Amy B. Gardner, and the tenants, Mr. and Mrs. George Beal, are made defendants in the sult. The action will be tried in superior court. ¥ Hecood 4s First «4s CRI) lThird 4s | Fourth ¢\s Fifth 2%e | Fiten 4M Total boud salen, $6 oe Railroad Securities oer Ag Uveotetions) [* Manning & Co. Tatton Motel Building Mocks Atchia@h Gen. halt. &Ohie ¢ | Rethieuemn Steal Me ist 9 A M.—Passed ty, str San i eee Arrivals and Departures Arrived Oct. 10—Str Valdex from St. Micharl, Southwestern via Houtheastern Alaska, at at 12:16 @ m. from Tpcoma, at §:30 p.m; str Admin Redman from Southeastern Alaska, 9:20 p. m.; ate Spokane from Southens! ern Alaska, at § p. mj str Prince Iu- Rupert, B.C. ¥ ta, ; str Admiral Dewey from edro and San Frao- San cisco, at 10:26 a m. Salled Oct. $—Str Prince Rupert for Prince Rupert, B. C., via ports, at 11:45 p. m.; ste Alameda for Tacoma, at 11 p. m.; str Admiral Dewey for Vancouver, B. G, at 10 p. m.; atr Willpole for New York St. Helens, San Francisco, San Pedro and Balboa, st 7:30 a. m. eee Alaskan Vessels Skagway——Ort. Balled. str City of Seattle, southbound, at 6:20 p. Ketchikan—Oct. s—Satled, ‘str Watson, southbound, at 6 p.m. | Vessels in Other Ports Shanghal—Oct. 6—Arrived, str Arizona Maru from Beattie; str Kidridge from Se- Tientsin—Oect %. 5—Arrived, str Manda- san Maru from Seattle. Kobe—Get. 5—Halled, Alabama Maru for Seatti for Be. attle Arrived, str Suwa Maru from Se- ar Balboa—Oct. 7—Galled, str Ohtoan for Beattie. Ban Pedro—Oct. §—Arrived, str Forest King from Seattle, Sailed, str Rotarian 10—Arrived, str ste Admiral Farragut from Oct. S—Arrived, str Oct. P—-Halled, str 11 p.m. Oc 9—Arrived, Bea at 5 a m. Lehigh from Beattie. Rataler for Beattie str Astyanax for Be Fred J. Luekenbach for Seattle, 6 p. Point Reyes—Oct. &—Passed out, Quinault, Tacoma for San Franciaco, at noon. Astoria—Oct. $—Arrived, str Romulus from Seattle via Tacoma, 7 p. m. 4 eee Oct. Str Kinkasan Magu, bound Se- attic, passed Cape Flattery, at noon; str Willpolo, passed out, Seattle for st Helens, & p. m.; atr President, Seattle for San Franciseo, 318 miles north of San Francisco at 8p, m.; str Ban Diego, san Franeisco for Beattie, 24 miles north of olambia river at § p.m.; str West Jap Yokohama, Cordova for Beat at 8p. m. Vessels in "Port at Seattle Smith Cove Terminal—Pier B- Seichen Fler areangit ded | Beth Bireet"Termiinl=-0- Aigonguin, ig ey Pier 14—Str Wahkeena, atr Fulton, Pier 8—tr Thos. Crawley. Pier b—Motorship Culburra, str West van, Fr 2-—Str Jefferson, str Latouche. nd Trunk Dock—Btr Spokane. Seattle Shipbullding & Drydock Co.—0, 8 L. & T. Snohomish, U, Fern, Pacific Coast Coal Bumkers—Str Wathora. U. 8, Bhipping Board Moorings —str C K Delrona, str Iconiun me atr Delight Hiverado, ate Went 1 Knight. ae Connecticut Street Termina}—Atr Atianta Milwaukee Ovean Dock—Str Noorder- Spokane Street Terminal—s, ie aeatan lotorwhip Lib- Bast Waterway Dock & WwW: Bir Admiral Rodman, io aeedha ts 1a’ ry Dock—Ship Chillicothe, bktn Forest Wriend, bktn Forest Pride, str | t Hound Bria & Puget Bound Bridge & Dredging Co.— Fisher's ‘a Flouring Mill Dock—Str North- nd. Ames Yard—Str Roosevelt, West Seattle Kievator—Str Horaisan ;|ing drags him in front of hunter's one | str | ate ‘Went | Mother of “Weary” | Wilkins Dies Here Mra. Elizabeth Ablah Wilkins, 88, | died Sunday morning at the home of |4’ bh her son, W. A. (“Weary”) Wiking, |® P- 7158 N. Gist = Funeral will be held in the mortuary of But terworth & Sons at 4 p. m. Wednes- | day. | Mrs, Wilkins was born in Water | town, N. ¥., and went to Towa just after the civil war. She came to Seattle in 1888 with her husband, the late Joseph Henry Wilkins. Three sons, Joseph H., of West Superior, Wis; William H., of Chicago, and W. A. of Beatt survive Ben Murray May, Cinsirection Work 581, from a street car on Third ave, wday, and, be dea: Is Increasing Here re Siig was ete |walked from the safety zone into a With substantial increases in the | Passing car driven by Thomas Olsen, volume of construction undertaken | Bellevue, Wash. He was knocked in September, indications now point |40wn and sustained minor bruises. to a steadily increasing business in > dl this field for the balance of the year, 5. 8 real estate men. There were 1.146 | knoe ORL, Ret. 4 1921 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles Mrs. A. W. Shackleton 6525 ith N. &, was 4 down and dragged a short | according to local contractors and tember. These permits call $1,355,430 worth died construction. for | hit by a ear driven by G. W, | 9155 W. Laurelhurst drive. oe |stightly bruised. Busine: bd Improves, 3. 0. Ringstark, 82, ‘irk Says Weekly Report 58 te atk land, was struck and 1 down at Pike st. and Third Business continues to improve, ae-}ive. . a Friday afterno by t cording to weekly review of R. G.\-roit >and sigh adic ns eke ea eer 4 He was taken to his home ° ard revival in cer. Lukes, driver of the stage. tain basic industries in increasingly| py ic evident,” says the report, “and the 537 27th ave. see s L, Patrick, recovery, if extended, will ultimately '58 benefit ail tines." , Was crossing Western at Virginia st, Friday when he | was struck by a car, The driver . vs man to the running board of a ma. chine parked near by. Patrick is at |the home of his daughter suffering WASHINGTON —Armored crulser |*7™ & Wrenched shoulder and body rulses, Pittsburg, formerly Pennsylv . to be placed in commission Octaber 16, | according to navy department an.- | nouncement. She was by Mike lave shotgun while on dtick hunting trip. Maro | Lake Usiion—Motoranip W. F. Burrows, states Bakr, bees Ges & Gee eel Benjamin ¥. Packard, bk W. B. Flint, |p barge J. D. wehr Maud, ache Salvator, str H. B. Lovejoy, ship Bt. Paul b The comic actors of ancient Greece and Rome used to wear a Meht shoe that reached to the ankles, Winslow Marine Ratlway—-Str Morning Btar, sehr Camano, str Griffoo, barges Coquitlam City, Henry Viliard, str Griftau. h! Boy! Announcement We wish to announce that the winners in the OH! BOY! letter contest are as follows: First prize, $10.00-——Mre. J. B. Rengaw, Insaquah, Wash. Second prize, $5.00—Mre. Nellie O. Seattle, Wash. Third prize, $3,00—~Mrs, . W., Seattle, Gorman, 927 West 68th street, Jas, Rooney, 7743 18th avenue Wash, | Winning letters will be printed as advertisements in the near future. We wish to thank all the contestants for the interest shown in OH! BOY! and hope to have the pleasure of offering more prizes in the near future. There were so many good letters that we had a hard time choosing the winners, Union Soap Company hate etm “ae menses meri ne r Piatt LA A Vat SMT ATTL 71, alighted | building permits issued during Sep-|distance Thursday afternoon when | Skinner, | He was slightly bruised. | TAR Held on Charge of PRODUGE FROM "si3,0n Charset, wed with of the Hupmobile car that caused of four in whieh Chief Deput ,Shortage of Commodities .;, Slightly Relieved automobiles on wreck [We W. R. Warts of the office was injured county auditor consignr of California 1 vegetable Monday the shortage of ed on the m which helpe pape lieve me ¢ | itle Oregon Concord at $1.75 per one-half Washington citron grapes lug and were from | quoted 0 to 96 two and to three pounds Eastern was on market 7 pound 0 chang reported in the division of the varieties of the ule «oof has slightly Increased of last week's market Head squash was meeting at 2 to 2} were don FRUITS Prices Paid Whvlesale Dealers Local, bunenew. s+ vegetable market, periah California with many J ables red | tomatoe the Marble f demand pound Several 4 cents a jobbers tales on een at the fresh ranch | pullets, Butte |eenta a pound | brie hea. reported cents a dozen for nd 38 cents on steady at 47 city creamery Co Tabitt Crabappies w for . per box . 6-1. basket ero bs Teale Oranges 1.6091. 25 | Peaches hothouse, Fee Plant Wash, erate Garlie-Per Lettuce-Local, outdoor Onions—Cal., per ™ Local green, doe bunches Parsiey—Looni, doe Real Painless. Extraction Free Daily: don . TD. box 9901 00 280 O14O O24 NUTS Prices Paid Wholemle Dealers | Admante, 1. X. la, per Mb. reritl—Per T . Hiberts Per t. No. 1, per 40. 2, per ® ream Virginia Keyet~ Japanese . China Peeans—Per t DAAAY PRODUCTS Prices Paid to Shippers wt jo, Beattie delivery .. resh ranch lets ‘ Cwt, Lob. Seattle supply. 0. B. condensary, ewt DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid Wheistale Deniers . au ™ F. In order to (whalebone Introdu strongest cover the root | n bite corn off the cob; puarante od 1b yours. Whalebone set of Teetm . 88 Crowne ** Ps OA Hridgework 4 Block. Bwis Wash. triplets . Tillameok triplets FREE DOCTOR Ex-Government Physician ANY man, woman or child ts welcome to this service, which. means that our doctor will give you an examination and prescrip. tion without charge. RIGHT DRUG CO. 1111 First Ave. Seattle, Wash. f Our Plate and Bridge Werk. We Stand ‘Teat of Time. Most of ot Present patron: te givin ood aa our cus tomera, who have t our work When coming to our offices, be eure you are in the right place. Bri this ad with ated *| OHIO Sz Dentists 20T UNIVERSITY ST. MON DAY, OCTOBER 10, 1921. Puget Sound Pow ( Hight Per ¢ er & Light Company's nt Five-Year Gold Coupon Notes Why We Have to Build Extensions five ye TIES TO ING OUR AID SERVICE Hight purpos! Five Per Cent They brokers in the Terms These for thi bank for cash or are on Basy o ASK YOUR BANKER. Fuller information may be of our office Notes are now Ready for istrict the number of customers served et 1 trict increased of the erving today thene new communi mm 120,000 horse ) horsepower to of new lines COMMUNI OF EXTEND. Year Ge mle 1 Coupon Notes are offered offices, at the leading be purchased either payments, n at our and f ten equal 1m monthly had by writing to or calling at any elivery Puget Sound Power & Light Company Seattle Tacoma POULTRY AND MEATS Prices Vaid by Wholesale Dealers to Shippers Live, old, per 1% Springs, over 2 Tbe Dressed, per T Live Cows—Country dressed, tai or, meatur ™ Coarse, heavy, 176-200 The... oc Heavy, fancy . Sows, ‘heavy «| oe POULTRY AND MEATS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Ducks Dressed, per — Dressed, per %. . per ® Droliere: Over 1%. . Geese 1 med, per ™. ... Turkeys Dressed. per T Cows Country dressed. Th. . Dressed, light fancy, envy, dresned Dressed. light dium, dreased Medium to ch Common to good Rest cows and heifers Medium to choice Common to good Everett Bellingham Calves 10.00@11.00 Medium Heavy Bulls Prime lambs Fair to good city delivery GRAIN AND erp” Prices, Per Tom yellow, 120-M. ake, whe. to0-te, aks feed, 106-™, sks. 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