The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1923, Page 13

{SECTION TWO | Kirkland Has One of the Two State Woolen Mills BY WANDA VON KETTLER runs into the lake. And the “iron policeman”? Hv the stra up-and-down monu ment-like structure who directs the |t traffic. Signs hung upon him read > « ig “Red- | r ke farms, The pickle plant mond, six miles west, attle, 21 miles north,” “Seattle, 34 miles south.” All the| Civic pride Seattle directions being due tothe po-|ror many tow sition of Kirkland, situated’ right on | thom the Lakeshore boulevard, which clr | with Cles the lake and, therefore, passes thrn Seattlo on one side and Kirkland | jin on the other, | 3 done. consider Kirkland amon; The Kirkland Women's club, ent’ membersh devotes oe ok }has Kirkland has a population of some. |” thing like 7,000. The majority of its people are engaged in business en terprises in the town proper, in work at the woolen mills, in farming and ranching nearby. Some work-at the shipyard, some at the lumber yard, and in the summer both men and women are employed at the cannery Thanks to Glen af. Johnson, a trus-| © tee of the Kirkland Commercial club, and president of both the N bank of Kirkland and the Kirkl: . : ‘ou. We “State bank, rs, Johnson, offered to show" us the tow saw the inside workings of a fe of these establishments on the day| § of our visit. {the for th And as the future—w rolied onto t . Just ferry. for a 1 back t | Coitins, 1890 of Kirkland since A to us that he but Mra, John statement and come again, but eo we'll be month. ry posgbly we'l lice next time we go be met | eee We'd never been in a woolen mil! before. We'd always seen wool either on the sheep who grew it or in the RS finished product. Saturday we saw BUILDE it being scoured, carbonized, dyed, dried, carded—and finally spun. We went thru the Matzen Woolen Mills, w 125 people at present are em- ployed, and whete George Matzen, president of the company, has what he calls his “‘motor-boat"’ office. The mills are built on the lake shore, near the business district of Kirk land. Almost due west from the mill dock, Seattle is seen in the distance. To the right of Seattle, Sand Point. Seven miles of blue lake lie between the shores. ‘And real often,”’ Mat. zen explained to us, ‘‘when the ma- chinery out in the plant {s steadily | humming along and I'm just sitting at. the desk and looking out of the window, I get a sort of sub-conscious idea that I'm in a motor-boat. 8* great li M. J. Marks, superintendent of the | plant and recently elected Kirkland councilman, showed us about, giving facts and figures. Wool. from ‘Montan: tern Washington, Ore. fon and California, we learned, amid the whirr and roar of machinery, is transformed at the mills annually into approximately 400,000 yards of material. Only ona other woolen mills plant operates {n Washington | —that at Washougal, in the southern | part of the state. Bre, Kirkland’s cannery sounded like a! boiler factory. We wondered why. ‘We knew the place wasn't in opera- tion and wasn't expected to be un- til approximately June 6, when the|, first canning strawberries are due. We made our way along a narrow porch and peeked thru a doorway to behold Henry Fisher himself, presi- CHURCH NEEDS MORE MONEY INDIANAPOLIS, May . 25.— Dr.| | Henry B. Master, of Philadelphia, to-| ST. PAUL, May 25.—Reading and day submitted to the Presbyterian| writing and ‘rithmetic long have General assembly, the 68th annual| been recognized as the foundation of report of the Presbyterian Board of | education. | Ministerial Relief and Sustentation,| But students at the South St. Paul of which he is general secretary. | high school are building their edu-| He said the fact: that more than|cational foundation of cement—and one-half of the Presbyterian churches | erecting houses on the foundation | had a membership of less than 100/ besides. apiece made ‘t necessary for a pen-| i larnin’”” may be all right, sion system sustained by the larger|the teachers agreed, but when the | and richer churches. |students demanded more practical | The Presbyterian church was a|cducation, they decided to give It to| pioneer in such a pension system, but| them. it was inadequate, he said. The relief} As a result, this is what the stu- department of the board needed $1,-|dents have accomplished during the 600,000 a year, for Income for retired | last three years: ministers, widows aed drphans of| Built and completely ministers, and for support of the|three model homes. three Presbyterian homes and the| Started construction on a fourth. tuberculosis sanitarium. The board) Constructed a number of garages. | needed another $500,000 a year for} Wired half.a dozen homes for the church's share of annuities in the | electricity. sustentation department, which {4} In addition to this, they've re-| one-fith supported by the previous] modeled several dwellings. savings of the annuitants, All the houses are built for res!- Dr. Master pleaded for an endow-| dents of the community, The owner ment fund sufficient to care for the| supplies the materials; the students growing demands of pensioners, und|the labor. asked the general assembly to, set] Tho ont start at the bottom, = ee as | Above, high school stu- dents at work on a dwelling, | below, a house completely| built by student labor. equipped | up a new laymen’s movement tol/and none o(the rough labor is spared | raise additional endowment of $15,-|them. Firat comes the excavatin| 000,000 during the next threo years.|for the basement and then the con-| Peete ete structiva of the foundution. French Cupid Is Next comes the framework, anal % Fy #0 on until the house ta completed. | Taking Vacation Before tho w finally done, the | . students have wired the home for fibers May 25.—If the present) sectricity, built. the fireplaces and} ual decrease in marriages con: tng) Hallt-fn features, tinues in France for wx years, nots a single marriage will take place Oe: * ishing touches include the interior and exterior decorating and building the sidewalks and retaining walls, ‘The students, however, don’t spend | all their time in physteal labor, for | DATCHET, England, May 25.—|half of thelr course must be spent ‘Threo farmers have abandoned tholr|in pursuing the academic branches land near here because they say It|of nigh school curriculum, ‘This iy haunted by the ghost of a head. plished during the inclement | kas woman woatlor. ! 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