The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-08
From Fridays Daily.)

at Racine, visiting her brother.
Mrs. Charles Paine, of Chicago, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Reed.
The prominence of the new wom-
an is due to reading advertisements.
Mrs. Geo. Villas is visiting friends
at her former home in Ogdensburg,
n Y
Mrs. E. w. Blinn and Miss Blinn
entertained few friends at tea Thurs
day afternoon.
John Mead of Appleton, will sub
stitute at StarkWeather's during the
absence Of John Lewis.
-Maulsby Kimball is expected to
arrive here from New York next week
to make a months visit.
While the hay crop in this vicinity
is short, much of an advance in prices
is not expected as there is an album
dance of hay within twenty-five miles.
Julius Klopf was arrested Thurs
day afternoon by Officer Mat Moder for
being drunk He broke one of the
front windows of the Jensen grocery
store on the north side.
-Thera have been five bodies taken
from the lake shore between Racine
and Waukegan. They are all believed
to have been of the crew of the Kate
Kelly There are two more to be
heard from of that crew.
The Baby OPERA" as produced
Thursday evening at the Congregation
al church under the auspices of the
Young Peoples society, directed by
Mrs. G.. FL. Hurd, was very successful
and Melted something over $40 for the
society.
The last northeaster stirred up the
lake considerably. The bodies OF two
sailors were picked up off Racine.
They are supposed to have been part of
the crew of the Kate Kelly. A third
body which could not be identified was
buried as that of an unknown.
L. M. Theirs and the Misses Agnes
and Jessie Walker, of Chicago, went
up to Milwaukee on their wheels this
morning. They were to meet Arthur
Wheeler there and Mrs. Theirs went
up on the train. From there they ill.,
tend going to Chicago on the lake. All
the parties dined with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Quarles.
The National Telephone Construc-
ton company, which has been asking
franchise of the common council, has a
short exhibition line up today. 1t runs
from the StarkWeather & Co. store to
the Dewey store. 1t has been on eXhi
bition today, but in its present condi-
ton it is not noticeable that it is much,
if any, improvement over the regular
line we now have, which everyone will
admit is wretched enough.
The Postal Telegraph company is
now ready to receive and discharge
business, having established an office
in the room with the United States eX-
press office. Messages by telegraph
will be forwarded to all the principal
points of the country at lowest rates.
Fl. D. Sloat who for thirty years Was
with the Western Union company, is
the resident manager, and be promises
TO our citizens prompt and reliable
service, and on this basis solicits
share of business from Kenosha.
The captain of the schooner Three
Brothers, which cast anchor few miles
south of here last Tuesday aud sent a
man ashore to telegraph Racine for a
tug to tow him into Kenosha has be-
come the laughing stock of marine
men. He went by Kenosha and mis-
took Waukegan for this port. Thurs
day the underwriters ordered her to
Milwaukee for repairs. Not since
Capt Tom Jones ran the big steamer
Iroquois into a Methodist camp-meeting
on Lake Erie a month ago has a cap
tain's blunder caused so much amuse-
ment as did the feat of the Three
Brothers skipper. 1t is said that after
the services at The Ohio camp-meeting
had been broken up by Capt. Jones a
notice was posted on the lake shore to
the effect that These are private
grounds, and trespassers are not al
lowed" The bright light over the
preachers had been mistaken by the
captain of the Iroquois for the light at
the entrance to Fairport narbor.
Telephone matters bid fair to be-
come quite lively here now for time
The Business Mems association has had
in mind the establishment of a local
line which would better serve the pur-
poses of the city for some time. Then
the National Telephone Construction
company, of Milwaukee, stepped in and
asked for a franchise. This matter IS
still pending. Today P. J. Skulsky, OF
Milwaukee. the inspector for the Wis
consin Telephone company, came here
to see what the matter was between the
company and the business men. He is
taking such steps as he thinks neces-
Sarv TO ward on the efforts of citizens to