The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-14

"A farmers institute will be held at
Bristol Feb. 81 and %.
Peter Boyer, of the Park street
house, is better and hopes to be around
tomorrow.
The seniors in the high school
have decided upon essays for COM
mencement:
Court Commissioner Ell. j. Hast
ings joined a Chicago couple in we'd
lock Saturday evening.
Emil Liebling, of Chicago, will
give an organ recital at Kemper Hall
next Saturday evening.
To be healthy use c. 81. Ernsts
special Mocha and Java coffee, IS cents
per pound. Telephone as. :
In addition to the severity of the
weather we suffer from the reminis-
cences of the Oldest inhabitant.
Good advertising is simply the null
tiplying of good business ability and
the extension of money making skill.
j. W. Rourke, one of the calkers
engaged on the water works, who has
been quite seriously i'll, is GONZALES
cent.
John Krethen. has resigned his po-
sition as dispenser of drinks at the
Commercial hotel and will resume his
position at Whitaker's foundry.
Willie Wylie, of the University
school, has returned from Chicago,
where he has been visiting friends from
the east.
"A st. Louis man was fined S. and
costs for refusing to remove his hat in a
theater. How long is this persecution
of the sex to cOntinueg"
Sharon, Wis, merchants tried the
early closing movement, but quit after
Just one night. Some of the merchants
failed to keep their agreement.
The poet who wrote that Life is
but Dream" must have been think
ing of the sort of dreams that come
after eating mince pies late at night.
old settlers are scratching their
heads to try to remember another such
cold spell, so long continued and so
severe. None has been found who can.
Tickets for the high school enter
tainment at the opera house Feb. 10Th
may be exchanged at Woodward &
Conley's for reserved seat tickets on
Wednesday and thereafter.
The question has been asked by
one interested who is the income tax
collector for this section. We presume
there are several residents of Kenosha
whose income exceeds $4,000 a year,
and who are anxious to meet the col
lectOr.
1t is reported that owners of hot
houses and hot beds are having con-
siderable trouble caused by rats this
winter. The pesky things dig in and
the cold air finds it's way through the
holes, thus destroying whatever may
be growing inside.
"A petition is being circulated in
Kenosha asking for the passage of a
bill looking to the publication of local
politics and the doing away with the
paying of political debts by the award
ing of offices. The petition is numer
ously signed by the business and pro-
fessional men.
The officers elect of the uniform
rank, Knights of Pythias, were in
stalled Monday evening. After the in
stallatiOn a social time was enjoyed.
The members have decided to give a
social and dance on the evening of
February 10, thus celebrating the an
niversarY of the order.
A Palmyra stamp collector wrote
to Edna Brown, of Kanesyiile, ILL.,,
who started the recent =" chain to Sc
cure stamps. asking her how many
stamps she had and what she would
sell them for. Miss Brown wrote that
she had twenty bushels of stamps.
which she will sell for So 900.
At the annual meeting and cleo
ton of st. Georges Benevolent Society
held Monday evening the following
officers were elected: President, George
Zeven; vice president, Herman Brock
haus; general secretary, Clements Loef;
assistant secretary, John Thome; treas
urer, John Berens; marshall, Mat
Willems.
If our people for ten years past
had put into local real estate the mon
ey they have dumped into iron, gold
and silver mines, speculations of all
kinds, legitimate or wildcat, every
dollar so invested would be worth three
dollars today. There is positive safety
in Kenosha real estate. Bad times
will come, but property here holds it's
own in vicissitude as we'll as in pros
porous days.
Think of wheat at fifty cents a
bushel! With wheat at that price
-four ought to be from $3.50 to
three dollars a barrel. Why doesn't
-four drop in price with the fall in the