The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-10-25
WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS.

Mr.. Howard Van Wyck was in town
last Tuesday.
The Hon. James r. Doolittle, Of Chi
cago, was in town on business last Tuesday.
Matthias Christman, Of Santa Fe, n. NJ,
7 is visiting friends and relatives in this city.
Mr.. H. Pardee and Mr.. w. Y. Gervis,
of Chicago, were the guests of Mrs Lance
and family, last Sunday.
MRS. VIZ. Dever, Of Milwaukee, visit
ed with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John b:
Kupfer, last Sunday and Monday.
4 Mrs. G. Race, Of Highland Park, has
returned home from visiting her mother,
Mrs. F. G. Hills
Mrs. Chester Reynolds, of Chicago, is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs Sam Reynolds
this week.
i Mrs. w. }. MARITIME, Of this city, is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. D. w. Wilson,
of st. Paul, Mimi: this week
Miss Henrietta Hills las returned to
| city after two weeks visit at her sisters,
Mrs. G.. Race, Highland Park.
Mrs. Ada Briggs, wife Of the we'll
| known Chicago commission merchant, is the
guest Of Mr.. aud Miss Alice French, this
week.
i Mr.. and Mrs Geo. S. Isermann, Miss
Annie Schwind and Mr.. j. c. Van Ess, Of
Milwaukee, visited with the family of An
ton Isermann last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson, of Green
Bay, Wis, sailed from England on the
steamer Elvina week ago last Saturday.
Mr.. Robinson will visit with his uncle, Mr..
Fred Robinson, Of this city, before return
ing to his home at Green Bay.
| MIR. A. M. Taylor and wife, Of Rush
ford, n. Y. have been spending few days
with his brother, Rev. E. O. Taylor, of this
city. Mr.. Taylor is a prosperous merchant
of western New York, and has been taking
an extended tour through the west for
health purposes They left Tuesday morn
ing last On their homeward journey.
Mr. James F. Petrie, Of the town of
Somers, is making the raising Of sorghum,
or Chinese sugar cane speciality. He has
raised sorghum for the past seven years and
has never had crop failure. He has a
large sorghum mill in operation and is
crushing out about 70 gallons of juice a day.
The st. Georges Young Mems Society
gave Charity Ball at Park City Hall
Monday night. The proceeds, which were
Considerable, were forwarded to Mrs Keil,
a needy woman on the north side.
-Messrs Weiskopf Bros, dealers in Jew
elry and fancy goods, have purchased the
property on Milwaukee Avenue, opposite
Gottfredsen's brewery, and will erect there
on block Of stores in the near future. The
consideration paid was $4,000.
-Evangelistic meetings of interest are
being held in the Young Mems Christian
Association Hall this week. All men are
invited. Mr.. c. B, Willis, SO we'll and ia
vorably known here, will be present and
speak and sing tonight.
The bodies of Daniel Sullivan and Jas.
Kline, who were drowned between this port
and Racine last Thursday morning have
not been recovered. Their boat, formerly
known as the "Great Eastern" but quite
lately christened with the euphonious name
Of The Bedbug," is a complete wreck.
| The following are the arrivals and de.
partures at the Kenosha Water Cure dur
ing the past week. Arrivals E. H. North
and wife, Of Beloit, Wis; w. E. Higgins,
La Porte, Ind; E. R. Hutchins, Des Moines;
Iowa; and G. R. Hight, Of Morris, I'll. De.
partures: E. r. Hutchins, Austin, ILL.,. and
W. D. Lyon, Chicago.
Last Friday noon the tug John Ever
son, while towing mud scow to the dump
ing ground southeast of the harbor, run her
wheel afoul Of and became entangled in the
tow-line, completely disabling the tug:
There was quite sea rolling at the time,
which was rapidly drifting the boat on to
the breakwater. The life-saving crew run
out with their surf-boat and carried line
from the dredge to the Eyerson and from
the Everson to the tug Fred Engel. The
work was promptly done BY the men at the
life saving station and another loss of prop
erty and perhaps Of life averted.
Last Sunday morning man by the
name Of Nelson found the remains Of a man
on the lake shore about three miles south
of Racine with bullet hole in his head.
The following description of the body is Ia
ken from the Racine Times: "The body was
that of man about 40 years of age, who
L q. L - II