The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28


tied his parents here this week. Hi
brother, who is employed in Madison
Wis, was here a week or two ago on .
visit.
| Misses Mary Farr and Barbara Mile
gave party to their friends at Wildeni
Hall on Thursday evening of last week.
Prof. Dickhaut furnished the music
Wilden's Hall has been frescced and fit
ted up in nice style.
The Willing Workers Society, O.
Salem, will give a strawberry and Ice
cream festival on Friday evening, May
%, in the M. E. church. Good tables
will be set and good time is expected
All are cordially invited.
Mr.. James Rice, of Pleasant Prairie,
aged SO years, died on the 21st inst, oil
cancer of the stomach. His funeral
services were held at st. James church
on Monday morning, and were largely
attended.
The temperance lecture given by Rev.
Father Ceary in the Catholic church,
Dover, on Tuesday evening of last week,
was well attended. He was escorted
from Kansasville to Dover by the mem
bers of st. Mary's Temperance Society,
with Waite's band at the head.
A log house on the farm of Mr.. VIM.
Stanley, in Pleasant Prairie, was destroy
ed by fire on the afternoon of the Goth.
Some sparks from pile of brush which
a workman was burning set the house
on fire. 1t was used as storehouse for
tools. etc.
Exercises suitable to Decoration Day
will be held at the several rooms of the
public schools on Friday next. Exer-
cises begin in the High School room at
2 P. M. All interested in education and
patriotism are invited to be present.
The mercury ran up in the eighties on
Friday and Saturday. From Saturday
evening to Wednesday morning the
weather was cool. At 4 P. M. Wednes-
day the mercury marked rs degrees in
the shade at 8 P. M. Thursday, go.
Wall Paper at wholesale and retail, at
Geo. M. Melville's, agent for S. A. Max
well Dc Co., Manufacturers, Importers
and Jobbers of Wall Papers and Interior
Decorations.
A gentleman who has been canvassing
for Rand & McNally's Atlas of the World,
in speaking of the beauty of Kenosha,
said he had travelled from Chicago to
Puget's Sound, and he had never seen
place he admired more than our beauti-
full little city.
One good effect of Rev. Father Cleary's
recent lecture at Burlington is the clos
ing up of all saloons and business places
on Sunday. 1t is hoped the people of
Burlington will continue the good work,
and allow no liquor to be sold on Sunday
in their town.
The good opinion of the public in re-
gard to Ayers Cherry Pectoral is con-
firmed by clergymen, lawyers, public
speakers and actors. All say it is the
best remedy for affections of the throat
and lungs.
A game of base ball was played on
Sunday afternoon between picked
nine from Waukegan and picked nine
Of this city, in the field north of Mr.. S. |
7. Brandes residence, in the town of
Somers. The game resulted in favor of
the Waukegan nine by score Of q to
10.
The next annual convention of the |
Young Mems Christian Association of
Wisconsin will be held at Baraboo, Oct. |
lilly, 1886. Arrangements will be |
made to make this the best meeting of
the kind ever held in the state. 1t is |
expected that about 200 delegates will |
be present. B. w. WILLIS,
Secy State Com.
Business depression is being greatly |
felt in Racine. The il. Case Thresh- |
ing Machine Company have laid off $50
men, the largest part Of Mitchell & Lewis
Company's works has been closed. J.
Miller & Co.'s boot and shoe factory has
shut down, and many men are laid off
at the Junction. 1t is stated that 500
men have been laid off since Saturday.