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©1 """•a***, Saturday USA- % •£ MAY ROBSON ^7/o comes to the Metropolitan in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," week commencing Sunday night VOL. XIX. NO. 2 JANUARY 12, 1924 Price 10 Gents F'iKe Two THE TOWN CRIER iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii GRAND CENTRAL GARAGE Distributors oj Distributors Oj Interurban Day and Night Storage TO TACOMA one bin, Grease Rack WINTON Monthly Storage CASE KENT AND AUBURN one flour— Wash Rack 6:00 a. m., 7:10 a. m., Thel SIX Crank Case Service SIX "HOURLY FOURTH AyENUE AT COLUMBIA Phone Main 7231—7232 You don't have to fuss with on the HOUR two flours, one for bread, an From 8:00 a. m. to 10.00 p. m.. |r other for cakes, when you buy elusive! then 11:25 p. m Branch Line Operates to The Seattle National Bank RENTON Second Avenue at Columbia Street Bus Connection at Tacoma fc ORGANIZED OVER FORTY Olympia, Montesano, Abe YEARS AGO deen, Hoquiam, Shelton, nino, Centralia, Chehalis. For further Information u^l| MAIN 1148 BLEND SEATTLE DEPOT Yesler and Occidental BRAND Fast Hourly Express Service FLOUR Pickup and Delivery at Are You Proud of SEATTLE AND TACOMi (Except on trunks, furniture It's just as good for cakes and milk and pastry as for bread. Your Kitchen ? Phone Elliott 626 When you take friends through your home, what Puget Sound Electri< Ask your grocer. about the kitchen? Railway > Main Line Trains Leave B^th Are you really proud to exhibit it. Tacoma and Seattle Is your kitchen just as attractive in its way as any other room? 11111111111111111111111111111111111111 •!111111111111 The workshop of the home deserves to be made COLORADO COLOft cheerful and inviting, as well as thoroughly efficient. The White Enameled Gas Range is naturally the JUAN DE FUCJ Located center of interest. in the It is not only the finish, but many other features CIGARS that make the modern Gas Range so desirable. Are All-Havana Heart Automatic Oven Heat Control. of the retail business district, Touch a button lighter. Brewster's Stor< in its own six-story building Easily cleaned removable parts. All Over Town at the corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street this Better heat concentration. bank has been doing busi Convenient oven and broiler. ness in the same location These are vital points and deserve investigation. •* We Take Anyth'" since 1900. Any Time—Atiy> Visit our salesroom and we will be glad to explain where • i op Interest Paid why We say: Webster $ It is impossible for you to overestimate the value of Stevens • '° on Savings COMMERCIAL THE LORAIN OVEN HEAT CONTROLLED PHOTOGRAPHB" For anything *Pj, Peoples 1 GAS RANGE or out of the ora""j see us. 1700 4th Ave-' {,ll Times l »-'-7il Savings bank Phone Mair. W PEOPLES BANK BUILDING Seattle Lighting Company Second at Pike STUART BLDG. 1308 FOURTH AVE MAIN 6767 Organized 1889 THE GAS CO. INVESTIGATE The Mutual Life Insurance Co'"' gjiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiiHwiHiiiHiiiiiiiiininHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiim pany's New $10,000 Policy W. H. SILLIMAN Assistant Manager The Puget Hotel FOR ALL SEASONS j 459 STUART BUILDING PORT GAMBLE, WASH. "THE ADMIRALTY" HOTEL STAHL'S PORT LUDLOW, WASH. | ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES On Georgian Auto Circuit THE LARGEST STOCK OF UP-TO-DATE RESTAURANT Both hotels owned and oper ELECTRIC APPLIANCES Now in our new location ated by Puget Mill Company. In the Pacific Northwest 1209-1211 FOURTH AV# Twenty-five miles from Seat tle; reached by first-class passen Three Conveniently Located Sales Rooms ger boats. Automobilists wel ELECTRIC BUILDING, HENRY BUILDING, Phone East 0013 comed. Moderate rates. 2012 VERNON PLACE, BALLARD Splendid rooms and board; good Bonney-Watson O FUNERAL DIRECTORS automobile wharfage facilities. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. Crematorium and Columbari"1 HUNTING AND FISHING Main 5000 1702 BROADWAY l : -| | .;ii!:iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiMn!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNifniiiiiiiraiiii:iiii':^ 'iii'!'ii ' ii:!in!iiii:! !iiiiti'" u iiiiiimMHiiiiiiiimi'Miimi- THE TOWN CRIER VOL. XIX, No. 2 SEATTLE. U.S.A., JANUARY 12, 1923 PRICE TEN CENTS membered and acknowledged. I should like to growing generation can properly discharge them. THE TOWN CRIER think this possible. Dr. Sharpies has amply demonstrated his ability Official publication of the Seattle Fine Arts Society. At least, if this be but an hypothesis as ap and his interest. Member 0f Washington State Press Association Published every Saturday plied to the dead, I feel sure our gratitude for The coming year and the years which follow 408 Marion Street, Seattle, Wn. things well done or well attempted will be ap will be a time of great problems and necessarily Telephone -Main 6.102 preciated by the living. Let us reach these of continued progress for the school system of Entered aa w - matter at tbe United States postoffice at Seal with our recognition while we have the oppor Seattle. The city may consider itself pecu EASTERN OFFICE: No 20:1 Eagle Bldg., Brooklyn. tunity. It may even serve the cause of reform liarly fortunate to have so able a man as Dr. New York. • better than too prurient a zeal in the exposure Sharpies at its head. CHICAGO OFFICE: 58 Baat Washington Street. SUBSCRIPTION: Due year, in advance, $3.00: six of the bad. HERBERT H. GOWEN. Mr. Carl E. Croson, whom Dr. Sharpies suc months, |1.60; three months, $1.00; single copies, 10 cents. Foreign subscription (countries in Postal ceeds, has led Seattle schools through a period Union) 14.00 a year. For sale at news stands. of tremendous advance. His administration Payments should be made by ("heck. Draft, Postal An Example Needed Order, payable to THE TOWN CRIER, or by Regis has been most satisfactory and he has done tered Letter. everything that could be expected of the head of BV» advertising rates address 408 Marion Street. Ole Knutson, the man who struck with his Seattle. Inquiries within city limits of Seattle, made automobile and killed Ilene Branshaw, a crip so large an institution as the public schools. He by mall or by telephone to Main 6302. will be per completes his term with a record of which he sonally responded to by a representative of Till'; pled girl, Christmas day, will be tried for man TOWN CRIER when requested. slaughter, February 18. If found guilty, Knut and the whole city may be proud. It is but son should be given a sentence in which no fair that he be relieved of the burdens of the clemency is allowed to enter. office after a period of such meritorious service Apologia and it is a good thing for the city that he will If the charges preferred against Knutson continue as a member of the board. are true, his was one of the most wanton and Absence from the country during the greater Seattle is indeed fortunate in the personnel most cowardly acts of killing which have oc of its school board. All the members are part of last year furnished so good a reason for curred in Seattle in recent months. According dropping out from the list of the Town Crier's public-spirited citizens, interested in the welfare to the indictment, Knutson hit the girl and of the children, broad-minded, and leaders in contributors that I seem hound—if only to my then ran away from the scene. After he read the life of the city. Under such guidance, it self— to offer some apology for reappearance in the papers of her death which followed, he is to be expected that the progress of Seattle's I confess I have very little liking for much hid himself on a fishing boat, where he was educational svstem will be marked during the that passes today for journalism. It cannot he found by officers and newspaper reporters. entirely healthy for the body politic to break- year 1924. The mere fact that the accident, if accident * * * fast on information that most tilings are out it may be termed, occurred while Knutson is al of joint; that the most reportable night ad leged to have been under the influence of liquor, Post-Season Football ventures are banditries, burglaries, or debauch is no excuse for mitigating the penalty. Knut eries; that the most noteworthy activity of the Since the retention of Enoch Bagshaw as son should be made an example of. He may football coach at the University of Washington ministry consists in "defying," authority, and not have been responsible for hitting the girl, "rowing" over points of doctrine; that the hest has been effected, the press hints that another being under the influence of liquor, but he was East-West football game is being arranged by front-page stories are those involving scandal, responsible for drinking the liquor and should crime, failure, suicide; and that things other officials of the Navy and the University of be made to suffer for his act the same as if he Washington to be played next November in wise are only important as they are hig, noisy had deliberately killed the girl in cold blood. and obtrusive. Seattle. Since the beginning of the year, more than If the game can be arranged in the normal 200 traffic violators have gone unpunished in We all know, of course, that such is not a football season, there can be no objection to Seattle. It avails the police little to make ar fair transcript of life as it is lived in America, its being played. If, however, it will be neces rests if they cannot secure convictions. The sary to schedule it after the regular season has or anywhere else, nor even a fair summary of fact that most of these violations are petty the things in which men are most vitally con come to a close, it should, under no circum makes little difference.

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