The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-12-11
The Park Whist Club met Tuesday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Mailer.

The Congregational ladies took In
S275 at their Fair last Thursday evening.
Miss Edith Garst is visiting friends IN
Vudeen, Ill, this week. She will be
absent about two months.
MIR. and Mrs. E. l.. Grant went to
Phoenix, Arizona, last week for short
stay
Read O. II. Hurd's sd. this week. 1t
contains some figures that will interest
you ~ you buy anything for Christmas.
The n. H. Petit Mailing Co. has put
in new Gordon steam fire pump and are
laying six-inch fire pipes around the
building. The pump is guaranteed to
throw two streams Of water over the
elevator.
Mr.. J. G. Roberts has been postmas
ter at Woodwork for twenty-three years.
He is now past eighty-one years of age
and his eyesight has failed so badly he
could not read any longer, so he resigned
and his son, r. F. Roberts, was appointed
in his place.
The TELEeRAPH-C COURIER appears
little late to-day but we have no apologies
to make II any other fellow wants to
try his hand at transplanting printing
Office and getting it in complete operation
on schedule time we are willing he should
have the job. He would have our deep
est sympathy but if he didn't have to he
would be very foolish.
Come to IS. Matthew's Guild Hail.
on Thursday evening, Dee. 18th, at 7:3O,
and be entertained with the laughable
farce of ''Ici en- Parle Francois" (here
we speak French). Refreshments served
after the entertainment, and many pretty
Christmas gifts only wait for purchaser.
Come all and carry home with you pleas
ant thoughts from first evening spent in
the Gould Hall" Admission only fifteen
cents.
Bids were presented to the Council
Monday evening by Mess. Gray and Bar
tholomew, the Fort Wayne Electric Co.,
and by the Western Electric Co. of Chic
ago for furnishing the city with electric
lights When the Council were ready 10
open the bids the Mayor Excused" the
spectators which had the effect Of clear
ing the Council room of all but the
city authorities. This has been COM
mented on rather severely by many citi.
zens, but the Council has the right to do
it and there were good reasons for it. The
Council must be credited with loyalty to
the. city and desire to care for its inter.
ests in the best manner. The bids were
ell rejected and the Clerk was instructed
to advertise for new bids according to
specifications to be prepared by the COM
mittee.
One Of the occupants Of the new
TELEGRAPHCoURIE building is a lady
dentist, DR.. May Cleo Smith. She comes
to Kenosha fully prepared for her profes.
sion and will give her patrons as good
service as they can get in Chicago or any.
where else. Dr. Smith graduated after
three years course from the Dental Col
lege Of the University Of Michigan, and
afterwards practiced FIVE years in Mime
apolis. She left fine practice there to
go home and care for an invalid mother.
She has put in an elegant equipment, pur-
chased of Lee Fellows In Chicago, and is
prepared to do anything desired in her
profession from pulling tooth deftly to
the most advanced work Of the profession.
Those who want genuinely first-class dental
work done need not go to Waukegan or
Chicago any longer. DR.. Smith will be
ready for business next Monday morning
In the west room on the second floor Of the
TIC. building.
After life of seven months the Daily
Gdaette has been discontinued. aicssrs.
Rudolph & Boissard made splendid eff
fort and did as we'll as any two men,
could, and they had ample facilities, too,
-O0V ~ toAOo uAOACy 1u0 o0RROAV w AoA
even small daily paper. The difficult
ties in the way Of a successful daily In
Kenosha are its proximity to Chicago and
Milwaukee, the North Side and South
Side differences in people, the heterogene-
ouspopulation and the size of the town. No
one who has not tried his hand at running
a daily in small town has any idea of
the slavish, uphill. discouraging work it
is. To make anything like success Of
daily In town Of this size one must have
the brains and do the work which would
earn SO, 600 year if properly employed,
and receive possibly $500 year. Several
business men have been lementing the
discontinuance Of the Gazette, but II they
had done their share towsrd supporting it
they would have been spared their lam
enations. The daily during its life but
very rarely sold 300 copies OF an issue.
Double that number would not have