The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-15

note and letter paper are very small.
"A new window is being placed in
the south side of the Melville store
building
Miss Alice French and Miss Laura
Brown will leave next Monday for New
England, for few weeks visit.
Mrs. 81. Larson was in Racine Sat-
urday in attendance upon district
convention of the Epworth league.
Miss Bertha Goener and nephew,
Roy Loomis, are Spending a week with
Miss Goener's parents at Lake Zurich,
III.
20. F. Parker, who died Monday,
was born at Warsaw, Cayuga, Co., N.
Y, Sept. 30, 1922, and had lived in
Kenosha since 1856.
"A movement is on foot looking to
the starting of new syndicate for the
purpose of taking up some of the land
out near the new cycle works and put
ting it onto the market in lots.
The postoffce clock must have
been little swift Monday evening. At
any rate the time of closing the post
office did not agree with the watches OF
twenty five or thirty people who tried
to get their evening mail after 1925
o'clock.
The College of Commerce has
again found places for students. Miss
Carrie Frenz is stenographer at Dan
Head & Co.'s bank, and Mamie Weller
is book-keeper and cashier for Iser-
mann Bros.
Milwaukee has just let contract
for street paving with asphalt at 81. 80
a square yard Can we Of Kenosha
make better investment than to cover
some of our sand diggings at that price?
Think it over. b.l6st
lin order to take care Of our in
creasing jobbing patronage a brand
new printing press has been added to
the TELEGRAPH COURIER job rooms.
The very newest styles and faces in
types have also been added to our
equipment.
Roberts & Case, the Racine millers
have display ad. in this issue, which
announcement will prove of interest to
Kenosha county farmers. This enter
prising firm is reaching out for bust
ness and we hope they will get it as
they deserve.
The council decided to make the
public test of the water works on Aug.
IA as originally intended, and did not
accede TO the request of the st. George
church that it be placed on Aug. 20, so
that the day could be made more or
less of holiday.
An exchange g1avely declares that
the new woman will not receive propo-
sails On Sundays or legal holidays, as all
contracts made on such days are illegal.
The general impression is that the So
called new woman will not be over
burdened with proposals on any day.
Frequently the news columns of
the daily press contain a heading
which reads /" Suicide of an Embez-
zler," and following the heading is a
story of the evil doings of the man and
the grand finale, suicide. And the
philosopher who reads can not help
thinking: what strange method the
fellow took to square accounts.
The National Telephone Construc-
ton company, of Milwaukee, expecting
to secure franchise at the next meet
ing of the council, respectfully asks
that the citizens refrain from making
any contracts for their telephone serv-
ice until this company can present its
proposition to them, which will be done
in the course of week or ten days.
BY the invitation of Rev. Father
Roche, Rev. Father E. 81. Devlin oc-
cupied the pulpit of St. James church
at 1870 a. m. Sunday, and delivered a
most excellent discourse. The thought
enforced was the supreme necessity
and desirability of striving for purer
and better daily life and nobler charac-
ter. Father Devlin has recently re-
turned from Rome, Italy, having spent
three years in the American College
there and received his ordination in
St. Johns LateraG. His sermon at
ST.. James church is his maiden effort
and did the Devlin name no little
credit. Father Devlin was born in
Bristol, this county, and his character
and attachments reflect credit on his
birth place. He will leave in day or
two for the diocese of Minnesota where
he is located.
Potato farmers in Wisconsin have
been delighted in this season by the re-
appearance on the vines of what are
commonly called "potato balls. f" They
are in reality the seed pods of the vine
and resemble small green tomatoes.
Not since the days just after the war,
when the potato bug made its debut,
have the vines been able to produce the
seed balls, because of the stunning eff