The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-18
(From Fridays Daily.)
&c. E. Remer spent Thursday

house on Market street.
Mrs. w. Fl. Drake and Miss Maggie
Holmes are visiting at Fort Atkinson.
The steam barge Toledo, of De
troit, came into port Thursday even
ing.
-Messrs. A. Ell. and Lucien Lance
saw the Baltimores beat the Chicagos
yesterday.
Miss Jeanette Wilson, of Evans
ton, Ill, is visiting friends and rela-
tives here
john Gleichman is contemplating
the enlargement Of his store building
on South street.
Nick Thomas went to Chicago
Thursday and bought a horse and
drove him home.
Mrs. L. w. Toles, Of Chicago, is
visiting Mrs. G.. W. Toles. She will
spend the summer in Kenosha.
John Volmer, who has been spend
ing the past three or four months here,
was returned by the Soldiers Relief COM
mission to the Waupaca Soldiers home
Thursday.
The tug Alice took the party hav-
ing Congressman Cooper in charge
down through the harbor Thursday to
show him the great necessities for i'm
provement there.
The work on the pier extension in
the harbor is progressing rapidly.
About all the piles are now in, the 9TH
er timbers will now have to be placed
and the stone dumped in.
Charles Meyers, Chester Allen and
young Piehl advertised for horse race
Thursday afternoon at the Balm driv
ing PARK. 1t did not take place. Ted
Meyers heard Of it and nipped the
affair in the bud.
The local fisherman want to know
what is the matter that perch are not
biting this summer, and have conclud-
ed that the dredging at the water
works intake has been the means of
keeping them away from this shore.
II. L. Carpenter, of Ranney, writes
us that the announcement in this paper
that Mrs. John Pedley, of Somers, was
the first lady elected to serve as school
commissioner is incorrect, and adds
that Mrs. John Greeley, Of Pleasant
Prairie, is the first to be accorded that
honor.
The Smith Bros. have added new
tug and outfit to the fishing fleet of
Kenosha. The tug is the Emma
Broecker, of Grand Haven, Mich, and
was purchased with 300 nets for
$4,000. This is considered big bar
gain. The tug got here Thursday
night and will 60 into commission very
soon.
A young lady from the Rip Van
Wrinkle town, commonly known as
Waukegan, was in Kenosha the other
day and while walking up Grand ave-
nue. came to a fire alarm box, which
she viewed with .wonderment and
wanted to know if they yelled fire"
in the key hole when they turned in an
alarm.
The summer girl who used to kick
open ripe wasp nests to see the yellow
striped seeds run out, and who asked
the farmer to grow milkweeds as
substitute for COWS so she could do the
milking, has been replaced by the new
woman whose only great source of hor-
ror is carpet tack lying on it's back
waiting to puncture her bicycle tire.
According to the latest reports
medical men have discovered that one
of the haunts of bacilli is the window
sill. just think what nice rOosting
place this makes for the enterprising
bacillus, where he may sit and bask in
the rays of sunshine until convenient
zephyr watts him into the bosom OF
your family. The window sill must go.
Why is it that newspaper writer's
will persist in saying the marriage
was solemnized." Why should it be
solemn IN any sense 1t is only sort o.
solemn and dreary to the fellow or fell
lows who couldn't get the girl and they
are largely in the minority at a we'd
ding feast. May be Solemn in due
time 2" Well, that doleful time don't
come on the wedding day, and solemn
lied is not the appropriate word for
him, even. So let's drop it.
-Kenosha wheelmen have decided to
have a parade at some near date, if a
large number of riders in Kenosha so
desire. 1t will not be worth while to
undertake to give parade unless nearly
all the wheelmen will go into the affair
and personally promise his or her best
cooperation to make it a success. To
this end all riders are invited to leave
their names with any OF, the following:
Geo. Yeoman, Richard Welles, Robert
Mari, Pitts & DeBerge or S. G. New
man. Do this at once if you wish to
have an organization of any kind, for
after a good parade club will be
formed without doubt.