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THE YULETIDE MEET OPENS HOLIDAY All Seattle to Celebrate Sat- urday Night With the singing of Christmas earols at the County-City build Ing park Sat night, Se ‘Sttle will usher in the Christmas * Two thousand persons are ex to gather at the park at SS p.m. there to sing such eldstime songs as “Little Town af Bethiehem,” and “Carol, Brothers, Carol,” until 7:50, when the Wayfarer chorus will alone sing selections from “The Mes sinh.” At 740 Dr. Cleveland Kieihauer Will apeak. At & the Christmas pan fomime will commence on a sta for the occasion by the city stre and building departr The it, under the direction of Mra Bianae F. Smith, will at three Beenes, picturing “The Annuncia Bon.” the shepherds on the "@t Judea and “The Nativity.” ‘The entire city has the huge tree Saturtay night « plains «d to on in on invit ere Thursday celebrated festivities. Already many pre-Christmas par t and entertainments have broad. hae the holiday spirit At the College club, : the holiday was @ dinner in the manner of Old land, an affair which brought out | crowd testing the building's capact , and which was 4 ed by those nt to be as nove! and beautiful Stag affair as ever was staged in Diners were met at the club serfs, lord of misrule and lord the manor, appropriately og who welcomed them to festivities. A band of min- " strels led the way to a Yule log ~ eeremony in the main lounge. whieh to the dining halls, beautifully ited. Here all the 16th century | customs of Merrie Eng were reproduced—the saying of by the bishop, a boar's head on, singing by the “quire.” ‘of how the boar was killed, a en’s song, official tasting of | "foods by the “sewer,” wassail and ale keg festivities (Volstead, ‘Gourse), the burning of brandy on he immense plum pudding. carols by Choristers, etc. The dinner was by 4 committee headed by W. of the D. A. R. vintted sanitarium and staged a program for the and the Washington Soct- of Certified Public Accountants ‘Thursday night at the Masonic for a Christmas dinner. McNeil island penitentiary the spirit bas found its way. ¥ & gtoup of Seattle people the buildings of the peniten and staged a program for the all over the city were to for the occasion by the city and building departments. The clubs and business houses: have not already celebrated Planning to do so Friday night. MEN TO STUDY TRADE delegation of five Seattle bust- men to study conditions in American trade ts being by the Chamber of Com. foreign trade department. The pare to go on the initial sailing President Hayes, the first of the Pacific Argentine Brazil ‘The line will be formally January 6, when the Prest- Hayes swils from San Fran- for Seattle. Persons particu- interested in fisheries, fruit, and milling industries are selected by the department. § will be made at important where conditions can be sur- by the men. a ports and ports on the eastern ih America coast will be includ- the itinerary. The round-trip approximately four months to | Thiy new trade route has opened thru the shipping board ds the first new run to have ated passenger boats al- to it. ee ie Chilean earthquake broke open it graveyard, within 10 miles po, which may reveal valu- data. The master of ceremonies headed | conducted the} ‘Thursday | Seattle Life Underwriters’ as. | tant United States Pacific) { HORSE HAS SWEET TOOTH WIFE STEALER Son Leads Sightless Man to Victim story of a wife stolen from the fire ide of a bDiind er who sacri ficed hia aight France upon the field of battle, and the murder of her guilty love, has » revealed tale, lift from the pages of De Maupassant The wronged husband Vineent Fabre, takes the hand of his éye id daughter and whispers to her Daughter, get my old army pls ‘ sum 4 (tol out of the drawer. Are you sure + sea t is Take my arm and lead Here is “Bum,” Seattle police horse, with his adopted| me to the home of Joseph Auden master, Frank Groppenbacher, doorman at the Blue Mouse|\ nam. when wo get there, if you theater. “Bum's” actual master is Traffic Policeman Gay,| hear your mother's voice, lead me but “Bum” has adopted Groppenbacher. Every afternoon, at| rectly in front of her. “If she ts about 2 o'clock, when Gay dismounts at Fifth and Union to afl Ber yl ge clr gi |inspect the automobiles parked along Union st, “Bum | yam : crosses the street and ambles down Fifth ave. to pay a visit) Led by his litte diughter, who to Groppenbacher. And Groppenbacher always has a pocket-| 'ripned kally at | aon Rhy eached the home of his rival, His | ful of sugar for his equine u ard. Tan sien inet ahaa ae , daughter, obeying — it ‘ Hl C ' di her father in front of Auden s to Am ic ham. Fubre xpok Audenham re iodor omes or Qh) vied. Fabre fires * 1 Audenham i Then the baby horrif her father am to Wis heme, whan he fen 4s He Fled From "Bolsheviks' Seis aat ety mon aghter | NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Serge Tru: 1918 and went to Viadivostok, hel” abee had ses blind elnde the fanoff, better known as Tiodor, the|was made a prisoner of the reds,/ war. With the subtle sense of the | former monk who was once a prom-! but lat was re ase) orders | blind he noted a change in his wife's inent figure in Russia and @ friend) from Me yw and permitted to enter ynduct and then ous fy bors of the late is now a resident! the sov republic Hie went tO) confirmed his suspicions, When he of New York, having just arrived|Tenritsin and to rinbure,| was led off by the gendarmes | with his wife and three children ue | where he met the Caar Nicholas and| stumbling down the roadway, he jintends to become an American citt| his family on May 3, 1918, a short) exclaimed }aen and join the Baptist church. time before they were put to death. I am a soldier, I did what a Miiedor is a little under six feet | ‘They were in great want and soldier would do.” }has a pronounced Slavic counte-|actually short of food, Hiodor told | nance, a sallow complexion and a/| reporters, and he believed he sup llong goatee He now appéars in) plied them with the last me b \U District Fire jcivillan attire, altho on one finger|had. The czar, he added, expressed Caused by Stove he wears a gold ring with a white|the belief he was soon to be killed! pire starting near an overh cross, an insignia of a bishop in the} He said he would have something | wove pine totally destres Ht wig wed Russian Reformed Greek Orthodox|to say later about the treatment of | 7°) Dips (OUnly, Unstruved the home |chureh. Tliodor is 47 years old and|the royal family while in captivity. | bith pve. N. E., Thursday afternoon, his wife 17 years his junior. | IModor aid the treatment accord-| ina tor a time threatened the enthng | On his arrival department of jus-jed the royal family had aroused| tiverstty district Mutt hen a= jtice men and immigration officials!in him such indignation against the| orice Joe K. Kinney. in charee of an questioned him closely to get @|Bolshevists that he refused, altho! sieine company and harge of an statement of his reason for coming | he was threatened with arrest, to| iade @ deaperate attempt to eave the to this country. He told them he|have anything to do with them attempt to save the was going to be at the home of| They wanted him to become head of Joseph Podlesney, son of a Baptist the Russian church under their re jwork of the Baptist church and/|cials he would have to make a def- went back to Russia with the idea|inite answer, Iliodor with his wife of planning the reformation of the/and three children escaped to Rica Greek Orthodox religion along the |and finally got out of the hands of lines of Baptist ideals, but he never | the boluhevists succeeded in putting It into effect. He sald he went thru five years Tiodor said when he left the Unites States after his last visit in NEW WILD BEAST|KILLER ADMITS SCALPS NATIVES! DEED TO GHOST “” Cross Between | Gorilla and | Victim's “Spirit” Hyena Appears Confession NAIROBI, India, Dee. 22.—While WHITE CLOUD, Mich., Dee. 22. pms ing underneath a hol tree a Charges that she was taken to the Lumbwa native was seized by great | claws from above, and had his scalp barn on Romie Hodell'’s farm late at torn clean off. The attacker, fright-| Might, several weeks after Hodell's ened at the native’s screams, fled | body was found hangmg in the hay- in when Dvn aii a mow, and was frightened into con- en in ita ter on, the na- “4 fessing the murder by a state police th ta ve Stearel The Sa) WOl 98. | ccneee, who wes dreseed in white tainly not a leopard, but some strange beast, which he had never|and told her he was Hodell'’s ghost, ‘were made by Mre. Alice Dudgeon, | seen before, and peculiarly shaped! | marks in moist earth near the scene | of the affair bore out his statement. This incident lends additional col- or to the rumors which have for some time been current in the Lumbwa district about the existence of an animal hitherto unknown to native land. Wrings trial, The bedy of Hodell was disin terred by Meda Hodell, the young widow, and her brothers, Lee and Herman, several weeks after burial, KR. I, Olsen, a sexton, testified, The | Europeans. It is said to inhabit the| three came to his home, Olsen said, | deep forests in that part of the| with the statement that they be country. eved Hodell’s. body had been re The natives state that the animal was fairly common many years ago, but it is now almost extinct. It is known as the Nandi bear, or “chemosit,” and is described an be. ing @ cross between a gorilla and & great spotted hyena, with enor mous strength and long talons. An organized hunt by thousands of natives is now in progress in the hope of effecting a capture grave and investigate, With the sex ton's permission this was done and the body was found undisturbed, he sald ly with her mother and brothers in the death of her hushand, was ro cently convicted of slaying her in valid father.inlaw because “he was in the way.” The Tub Tilts Give your wife or mother a present that will save her health and strength and will be a lifetime femembrance. Just think—a exclusive washing machine stores on the Coast— doing an exclusive business of Woodrow Washers only—which enables us to giv FRE 804 PINE STREET —THIS WEEK ONLY—with each purchase or order taken to be delivered later, an ELECTRIC WAFFLE IRON or PER- COLATOR. Sold on VERY EASY TERMS. W. E. DOOLEY & CO. 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Keator of Tacoma will be the principal speaker at the remular meeting of the King County Democratic club | Meven cafeteria, Saturday noo! comber 23 at n, De A spectal Christmas pro. of hell and wanted no more of his/gram has been arranged for the oe | canion and the singing of Christmas | carole will be under the direetion of KR. H. Viviag, Seattle's popular com. munity song leader, Woman Is Jailed for Tattooed Legs Eng, Dec. 22-—Mra ates leaves: Wan arrested because | she exposed her tattooed Inge at the Barnet fair. The court held that the exhibition was perfectly proper and was about to release her when a) woman witndas cried out: “But «he claimed she was a Belgian woman | and that the Germans tattooed her!” on misrepresentation Mra Bowman was bound over for 12 montha. | |Bogus Lord Gets 20,000 in Gems | ROME, Dec. 22—An Engtishman posing as Lord Charlemont has dis Jewels worth $20,000, which wore sent |to his hotel room for his wife to in- xpect | We know you have mas dinner. Why When you do your not fail to include in y American Meat Co., Bay City Meat Co., Olympic Meat Co., 1 Western Meat Co., 1 Seattle Market, 109 WHAT ABOUT CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST? breakfast a real function. by serving FRYE’S Pure Pork Sausage Made of young, tender, corn fed porkers and seasoned just right. On Sale Tomorrow (SATURDAY) at all of FRYE’S MARKETS IN BULK Price 25c lb. Here is a real delicacy that every member of the family will enjoy. of pounds of this delicious Sausage. FRYE’S MARKETS Ballard Meat Co., 5443 Ballard Avenue Central Meat Co., 1420 First Avenue SEATTLE STAR H_ | BLIND--SHOOTS Contest Letters Are | Flooding Star Office Excitement? The Bxciting ht Keditor fy ‘antic ‘phan f t right now with floods of letters ming in. Letters, letters and me The Star office is fairly flooded with ‘em and they are still coming. But while we have hun dreds w as well have more 0 wend ‘em in Hore's what some are about Aman living at 7021 46th ave, & hunting with his brother After they had made a camp he hiked off nto the woods with his gun while the brother laid down and went to sleep. He 1 shot a x © and Wis trying to scare it out of a brush pile, Jumping on the brush, when it lenly gave way and he fell deep hole, That was not so f ut when he found the hole ful rattle «. Whew had on hightop boots which the he fired whieh he WHITE CHEMIST BECOMES BLACK Strange Malady Darkens! Hue of Skin KALAMAZOO, Mich Dec 22. Dr, Leroy HM, Harvey, head of the biological department of Weatern State Normal and one of the | most widely known Michigan, died at his bh f one of the American was 47 years old years ago Dr. Harvey, prob ably due to an infection received in his laboratory work, began turning dark. His affliction puzzled the best physicians of Kalamazoo, Detroit and Chicago, who were consulted in an effort to arrest the progress of | the dineane Altho it did not affect his mental | physical condition in any other| way, hin skin became darker until it almost was black. He continued | to engage in his educational duties, however, until just before his death his ailment oth erwise led him into almost complete | retirement } The malady t» believed to have! been the cause of the complications | which set in late in the summer and which were the direct cause of bin death ‘Chamber Nominees | Selected Jan. 20 Nominees for president, vice pret dent, treasurer and eight vacancios on the beard of trustees will be chos en by a nominating committee ap. pointed yesterday by Frank Water houre, president of the Chamber of | Commerce, for election to Chamber of Commerce offices on January 29 ‘The committes consists of: J. D. Low scientific men of me here, the strangest mal medical annals. vietim adies 1 a Sensitiveness over man, chairman; B. B. Trefethen Raiph Stacy, C. 8, Miller and Dr Park Weed Willis, | Nominees’ names will be placed on ballots and mailed to members of the | chamber, who will return their | marked ballots not later then 6 p. m., January 20. The list must be filed with the secretary of the chamber not later than January 15, according | jto the by-laws | Alleged Wives Caress Dead Man| ATHENS, Dec. Two women who claimed Sir Arthur Strenham, | an Englishrnan, as their husband, en- | gaged in « dramatic altercation an he | was about to be buried. To disprove the claims of the other, each insisted that the coffin be opened at the |grave, When this was done, they dropped their quarrel and threw themselves upon the casket, caren» Hodell’, mother-in-law, during her | “PP*@red, and with him have gone | ing the face of the dead man until |the cemetery officials ordered the |funeral to proceed. The women left the cemetery together. planned your Christ- not make Christmas shopping tomorrow do our purchases a couple 519 Third Avenue 1420 First Avenue 416 First Avenue 102 Western Avenue Occidental Avenue ae . | —— BANDIT FLED-ROM ROMANTIC {DDING ‘COMEDIAN TO | AMUSE SICK Ai pe teria BY BRAVE TEACHER BIG PRIZES GIVEN ard Mrs. Barbara Naarieb Grimes, | ri Ryd of the I wityot fornia | _FOR BEST ESSAYS atta, | faculty, met a maton Markt T ffering prizes tor will be the feature || Wh a no eo” he best thr f not more erformer at the || ®U". her purse a0 po |+cdeay pry 2 pe “How romanti¢ she exclaimed M t Exciting Night rite gram at Firlanda || “T veep stay eB ont oy 1 ry and send it in to the sanitarium Frida to be mane ap. @ right 0 Exciting Night Editor, The night. Others on || Most Intriguing . the .steatain will The bold robbe, stopped Here are the prizes be members of the our &rén necktie, a First, § cond, $20, third Players’ club, who || ¥ Pleas give it to : $10 will Aance, | sing || for & souvenir.” § 5 are to be published and put on Christ That was wil he man could Ff nT tar nee dite A ts stand in the way ¢ kidding. He tion picture, Har and Mrs. Grites kept her had trying to attract his brother to id Lioyd, in Mae “Grandna's Loy! |” pull him out, But his brother wa eens fg ag be - jae ae . a ; HARKY TIGHE Will be shown on High Li Road ound asleep © mpent the whole the screen. Glenn night in the hole wondering when |Goff, Seattle organist, 1 be in 1g) ine oO the tier» would finally get im |<RAFE® of the evenine’s muni | Backin T civen He casually mentioned he wae Inter-Club council apembers in- Heved when his hae Sound him Growth of Body dorsed the action of ahe Chamber the nex { of Commerce in adopt}g resolutions An ex-soldier, A. J. Mote, 1020 Here Commended | ‘0 avsist. Tacoma in fecuring re me ey st, writes of a night io se spirit was very much alive, cation of the Hi-Line gad as Cp rance an by Tacoma, at the edgnell meeting Th day ight he monthly meet A small party started out over “No| -Ureday m! * the pee in the chamber asdnbly rooms Man's Land,” looking for their regi- |!" Of the Danish-American, Business | phursday. The Chami™r previously mental headquarters ‘without any | Men's club, which was held in the! passed a resolution sporting Ta- t. ‘The place wat! American hall coma in getting the farted ont, but to suit Tacoma int Articles om Bastern publica they made much progress the F from Eastern publica-| | oointed a committg@l to co-operate German artillery started shelling. 80 | 00", commending the growth of the | with them. they crept alor nm the ground for|body here, were read before the| The council dectd@m “iso to hold the whole nig with big shells ex-|meeting. 8, Olsen was the principal] regular meetings th@@first Tuesday ploding all them and dirt « ape Hana P. Petersen presided.|in each month at pm. in the rocks landing # th Officers will be selected for 1923 at|Chamber of Com © assembly they aay it was a } the next meeting, which will be held! rooms, other meetin being avall Now try your hi January 18 able on call, experience you h 1 at night - — — The Star in offe es for the - it would require 1 ys to travel peat Whrod these simply |Grocer Enlarges a tulle ab the pace ct al, write your story ore than 4 a ou jerks at Sat’ tan) Westlake Storc| per only and send it in to “The| Roy F. Rice, grocer, in the West Exciting Night Editor, The Star.”|lake market, has found it necessary | Then next week go and see the play |to increase the size of his store in| at the Blue Mouse, “One Exciting |order to accommodate the fast Night.”* jgrowing patror gained since be} Here are the prizes offered: First,| purchased the store from the Seattle $25; necond, $20; third, $10. And the|Credit bureau, agents for the Tokyo best wix received will be printed in|Grocery Co, a Japanese organiza | The Star } tion sare to be an acceptable i gift, because auto supplies ; and accessories are made F to fill some real need of the bol motorist. Study this list, click O the items that interest you, then v9 come in and let us cynd og why = they méke such sple Aste Clock §=— tG Last Minute Suggestions ‘o Western Giant Moter Horns Y Tire — Whistles ° ‘oot — Accelerators . 3A. Tire Bumpers ° Gauge Cooper Cut-out arias ¥ Tire Carrier Auto tO Vacuum Spotlights Sperk Plugs Motometer Gloves Gauntlets Tool Kits Set Wrenches Camp Kits Every day new customers at “Western Auto” stores are ex- poe surprise at what excel t stocks they see to choose from, and at the values they find in all parts of the store. ““West- ern Auto” is more and more the auto ly headquarters of the West. We invite you to visit the something nice fer kis store nearest you now for Christ- or her car. 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