The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
LETTERS.
SALEM.

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week was no guarantee against the
snow storm on Monday night.
Miss Florence .Wicks is visiting
friends in Woodstock, Ill.
Mrs. Hugh MINIS has gone to Penn
field, ILL.,, to visit her sister.
Mrs. w. Fl. Barker, of Grinnell, Iowa,
is looking up old friends and relatives.
The town seems livelier already, since
Capt. Tuttle and wife have returned
from the east.
Mr.. Homer HOLSTER was 16 years
old on Friday, and about twenty of his
friends gave him a surprise party in
the evening, in honor of the event.
The presentation of an elegant gold
watch chain, present from his moth
er, plays and refreshments, closed a
very pleasant birthday party.
Ward Bloss, who has sold his farm
to George Hockney, has bought the
Dwight Robbins farm of N. Bassett.
The sales at Salem Station are 0. J.
Fosters house and lot to G. Silvernall,
and L. P. Barnes house and lot to
Peter Brock.
Mr.. J. Dries, who has sold his farm
to TIL. Dixon, will leave for Sibley,
Iowa, in about two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Bailey rejoice
because it is boy.
The Brass Ball school will close with
grand exhibition on the evening of
March Sd.
Justin Johnson hurt his limb when
gathering ice, and the other day at
school it received fresh injury as he
was playing ball, so that he walks by
the aid of crutches.
Mr.. Furlong, while engaged on
Thursday in breaking a span of valua-
BILE colts, which he had just bought,
had the misfortune to lose one of them.
1t reared up and fell over, breaking It's
back.
The Willing Workers met at the
residence of Mr.. David Prosser on Sat
urday afternoon. Randall was repre-
scented at the Mite" in the evening. 81
The public think they paid pretty
dear for the whistle at the Scott concert
on Monday evening.
L. A. Havens and wife, i. Stevens,
D. G. Stewart, G. Booth, H. Patrick, A.
S. Barber and Ira Brown attended the
Dairymen's Association held at Lake
Geneva the past week.
Mr.. J. w. Voak wishes to hire sew
enty men to go to Dakota this spring
to work ON the Northern Pacific Rail-
road. David Black, Jimmie Pease,
VIM. Mutter, Nodiah Brown, Hudson
Brown and others, probably, will go
from this place.
Chanticleer, large and magnificent
bird, reputed to weigh seventeen
pounds, with Plymouth Rock blood
flowing in his veins, will never flop his
wings and crow any more. Charley,
the blacksmith, laments his loss.
The Hagel Ice Co., of Chicago,
backed with lots of money, will finish
their large ice house, which was filled
with ice some time ago, the middle of
the week. But they will continue to
make improvements on the place. At
present they have months grading
to do, which they have commenced,
preparatory to the building of another
ice house in the fall, consisting of
three buildings joined together, each of
which is to be 30 feet wide, $50 feet
long and "A feet high. Mr.. Christie
pher Kurtz, one of the Ice Co. mag
mates, and great favorite among his
employees in this place, returned from
Chicago on Tuesday, where the com.
pany had finished shipping 100 cal
loads of ice from Madison the day be
fore. As seen, the company is doing
an extensive business, and Salem Sta
ton may well feel proud of her new
acquisition, while the laboring classes
are already reaping the reward of theil
labor.