The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-26
did you get in your stocking.

your good things.
The Balm Wagon Works shut down
last Saturday evening for the holidays.
The Prairie Avenue Whist Club met at
Mr.. Jas. Cavanagh's last Wednesday even
ing
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lyman, Of Kansas
City, are rejoicing over the birth Of a
daughter that came to their house last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. j. Bentley, of Wash
ington, d. c., are the happy parents of
son, born to them the first of this month.
The terrible condition of Main street
this week is standing appeal to the city
authorities for little enterprise and en-
ergy in its behalf.
The Hatton Club did not meet last
week nor this week Its meetings have
been suspended until after New Years,
when they will be resumed every Tuesday
evening.
There will be matchmaking in the
Methodist Church Tuesday evening, Dec
3lst, to watch the old year out and the new
year in.
The postofice and the express offices
have been crowded with Christmas goods
the past four or five days. Judging from
the piles of packages received at the U. S.
Express Office, the people of Kenosha were
well remembered by their friends.
The Waukegan Gazette got out a very
fine edition last Saturday It consisted of
a double paper, half Of which was devoted
to the "New Waukegan" and contained a
large number Of very good illustrations of
the principal buildings Of the city 1t was
very creditable issue.
"A committee of the Board of Educa
ton will go to Joliet on Friday to inspect
the school buildings of that place. Mr..
John t. Yule, the president of the board,
Mr. d. A. Mahoney, Superintendent of the
schools, and Mr.. John Engelhardt will
Will Rowe expects to accompany them.
Quite number of our friends have
thought of the printer in this glad Christ
mas season and have come in and made his
heart light by paying up back subscriptions
and some in advance. 1t was appreciated,
they may be assured This is a good time
to remember the printer. He works SO
weeks in the year to give his readers an in
teresting paper and gets all sorts of cussings
in his efforts to champion the interests of
the people and stand by the taxpayers
Don't forget him while you are counting up
your friends.
Mr.. Geo. Melville and Mr.. A. E.
Draper, Of St. Paul are about to start a
new drug store in the booming city of West
Superior, Wis. They will keep drugs
and wall paper. Mr.. Draper is gentle
man of considerable experience in the drug
business and will have direct charge Of the
business. West Superior is a booming
place and Mr. Melville thinks it is bound
to develop into good size city. He will
not leave Kenosha, however. His home
will still be here and his store will continue
to be the same busy place it always is.
The marriage market was good on
Tuesday, Justice Slater was called upon to
unite in the bonds of holy matrimony Mr..
Jesse D. Miner and Mary Margeret Houle'
both of Chicago. The ceremony was per-
formed in Justice Slater's Office and was
performed in his usual af1able and pleasant
manner. He had hardly put the last
touches to the marriage certificate before he
was called to the Grant House to render a
like service for Mr.. Charles J. Kaub and
Miss Annetta Payne, Of 81 Gothic street,
Chicago. The wedding ring was used in
both cases. Mr.. Kaub and his bride were
a very progressing young couple. The
young lady betrayed by her difficulty in
pronouncing her MS her English birth.
She was born in London, England, and was
living with her widowed mother in Chi
cago.
The condition of Main street this fall
and winter so far has had highly educat-
ing effect upon the people Of Kenosha. A
sentiment is very quietly forming in the
minds of the people Of this city that will
force the reluctant authorities to take de-
cided steps to place the street in decent
shape. The City Council have their duty
very plainly marked out for them. They
should advertise for bids for the laying of a
frst-class sewer through the Main street,
the sewer to be of proper size and depth,
and the work should be begun as early in
the spring as practicable. Such sewer
would not cost large sum and would be
of immense value to evory piece of prop
erty on the street. Then it would be pos
sible to get the street paved If this
Council wants to DO a good thing for the
city and a thing that would reflect credit
upon themselves, let them take this sewer
matter in hand and settle it. They would