The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
SALEM.

SALEM.
Work has commenced on Mr.. Del
Cornwell's farm.
Mr.. Andrews is getting along finely
with his garden, but the season has
been rather against him.
Farmers are digging away with all
their might, preparing the ground for
corn planting, while few who were
dexterous enough to take time by the
forelock have already planted. As
another week rolls round there VIII be
lively times planting.
Julian Foster had two car loads of
lumber arrive this week, which he
will use for repairing and building
purposes. He will remodel his house,
build an addition to his barn and other
wise reconstruct it, besides erecting a
model pig pen, 24x36. His brother, o.
j. Foster, does the carpenter work.
The Center school, taught by Miss
Matte Brown, numbers over 30 pu-
pills, and the superintendent says it is
the largest school he has struck yet.
The Willing Workers met at the
house of Mrs. George Wicks on Satur-
day.
The town is getting measley again
with a kind called the mock measles.
One, at least, of our fashionable
bellies does in spite of herself still look
lovely in her new poke bonnet.
Mr.. Jos. MINIS, who recently moved
from Iowa with his family, is living
in Mr.. Hugh MINIS house, which was
vacant.
Mr.. G. W. Blanchard has again
changed his habitation, this time occu-
plying a house of Mr.. Barnes, at the
station.
Mrs. Faber returned home from
Chicago on Saturday. She contemplates
starting on her eastern trip in June.
Miss Anna Gallagher, who is attend
ing school in Kenosha, was visiting her
parents, and returned to town on Mon.
day.
Miss Nellie Smith left on Thursday
of last week for Sturgeon Bay, where
she will teach in the same school with
her brother Clarence. Mr.. Clarence
Smith is one of the happy parents of a
little daughter.
Mrs. P. Vanalstine. who is blind, oc-
casioned by cataract, went to Milwau-
kee on Tuesday to have her eyes OPP
Grated upon, but the doctor advised
her differently, as her sight could not
be restored. Her granddaughter, Miss
Lizzie Vanalstine, accompanied her.
Miss Klttie Gordon, of Chicago, who
had been visiting her aunt, Mrs. X. X.
Cass, for some weeks, returned home
on Monday of last week.
Miss Luanah Palmatier spent the
past week in Chicago, visiting the fam
lily of her uncle, Mir. George Bailey.
Mrs. Choak, of Brighton, called on
her friend, Mrs. VIM. Grant, on Satur-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Belle Van VIE returned home
on Sunday from Grass Lake, where
she had been visiting her parents.
Mrs. Bradford, of Kenosha, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Eugene Bailey.
Mrs Frank Cogswell, wife of DR..
Cogswell, visited her husbands par
ents recently.
Mrs. Button, of Union Grove, has
been at her fathers, Mr.. j. K. Smith,
this week, sick with the measles.
Mrs. III. E. Cline, of Kansas City,
Mo-, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A.
Orion.
Mr.. Herman Molitor and Miss Eva
Loescher, of Kenosha, drove out to
Salem OH Sunday in ostentatious style,
to visit some of their old friends.
Mr.. H. A. King and wife visited the
family of her father, Mr.. J. Turner, of
Randall, on Sunday.
Mr.. A. T. Drom, of Antioch, a highly
respected citizen, died on the goth inst,
of Inflammation of the bowels, after
short illness of less than week. He
leaves wife and six children. The
funeral took place at Liberty on Sun
day and was conducted under the
auspices of the Odd Fellows, though
the MasOnS and the Sons of Tenn
perance lent their aid and presence for
VAO OCCnOkUll, do Vic ltCC0dSSu Was a
member of each of the three orders.
Appropriate music was furnished by
the Antioch choir, and the clergymen
officiating were Revs. Heigh and At
Gibson, of Antioch. After prayer and
reading in the Scriptures by the Rev.
Mr., Heigh, the latter preached fine
sermon, standing under the blue vault
of heaven, in order to better accommo-
date the vast assemblage, estimated at
one thousand, which was congregated
in the church and out door, to do honor
to the friend who had gone before.
Finally the last look was taken and
the pageantry of people which followed
the remains of the departed one to the
grave in slow and measured step,
keeping time to the sad heartbeat, was
strikingly grand and solemn, long to
be remembered, and testified in a touch
ing manner how strongly the affections
of the deceased were implanted in the
hearts of the people.