The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-11-01

SchoonerS, Jason Parker. The schooner
Two Fannies will go into winter quarters.
Mrs. A. G. Grosvenor retains the agen-
cy for the best sewing machines in the mar
ket. All the best brands are to be had at
the old stand. Any one wanting sewing
machine should be sure to call on Mrs.
Grosvenor before buying, elsewhere. All
kinds OF machines promptly repaired. 2ltf
In relation to the attack made by "Lex"
in last weeks issue of the Kenosha Union. 7
have to say that the insinuations made in
said article are without foundation in fact,
as the records in my office will attest
The printed proceedings of the County
Board are correct transcript of said rec
ords year by year during my term of office,
and have been passed upon by the several
County Boards during the six years that
have held the Office of County Clerk. These
county boards have been composed of men
of ability and integrity, representative men
of the various towns and city, and were
competent to pass upon those records with
precision and judgment 1t would be the
height of presumption to question the in
tegrity of their work.
characterize the article as untrue, the
records of the county being the best evil
dence of the fact, and / invite the attention
of the public to the printed proceedings of
the several years, as distributed fIom year
to year for the information of the people of
the county, as being correct statement in
detail of the business of the respective years
and of the whole thereof, as taken from the
records in my office for publication, the
same being a correct transcript therefrom,
as a critical examination will verify.
The writer intimates that [ am using the
county property in the prosecution of my
personal business, using the County office,
fuel, lights and all modern conveniences in
Guiding a set of Abstract Books"
When in the Registers office one-third of
my time was given to the public in exam
lining title without any compensation to
myself When [ was elected County Clerk
The business followed me to such an extent
that I was obliged to call to my aid an as
sistant, and [ associated myself with Mr..
Tarbell in the Abstract business, appointing
him my deputy as County Clerk, he also
holding the offices of County Agent and
County Coroner. We have been engaged
in examination of title in the County
Clerks Office when not engaged in the dis
charge of our official duties, but not to the
cost to the county of one cent additional ex-
pense; on the contrary we have furnished
our own lights and all other necessary sup
plies for such work and can show vouchers
for same purchased at our own expense.
AS to the Abstract Books of the county
in the Registers office being for our special
benefit and use this is not true. The books
are used by the general public, as they
clearly have the right to do, and if the sup
position with regard to the authorship of
the article alluded to is correct, then I have
to say that he, in the prosecution of his
business, uses the same books as much, if
not more than we do, and has used the
books of the county in the transaction OF
his business for more than 40 years without
let or hindrance.
That the article was penned by the:writer
as campaign document is evident, and it is
not strange that the writer should desire to
screen himself-from public gaze by an
anonymous article, the language of which is
too thin gauze-for the writer to escape
detection, but certainly it would have been
manly for him to have placed himself
upon the record as the author.
Right here I.leave the matter without
further commenl. D. B. BENEDICT,