The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-12-26
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covering from her recent illness.
w. P. Yeoman was up from Wau-
kegan Thursday to visit his sons, Louis
and George.
Holiday trade is keeping up better
than might be expected, considering
THE weather.
Express agents viii please be pa
tient. The women nailed up many of
Those boxes.
Nick Walligrecently lost the small
finger of his left hand at the Sieg Il
WalpOle factory.
-Mincemeat isn't made right unless
you have headache within two hours
after eating the pie.
The children of ST. Georges school
will give concert and entertainment
the evening of Dec. 26.
Quite a number OF the local MEM
bers of the Elks attended the minstrel
show at Racine Thursday evening.
As between blizzard and a cold,
drearv, masmatic soak, we beg leave
to express a preference for the blizzard.
When a man gets so that he is
only interested IN quarrels he has out
lived any usefulness be may have had.
The sort of weather we are having
is enough to drive any nation to war
without consideration of other causes
of irritation.
Several OF the students at the Uni-
versity school are sweating under ex-
aminations preparatory to entering the
Chicago University.
If yon have exhausted every other
means OF obtaining fame, try taking
care of your health in order to break
the record Of longevity.
In this present period of the worlds
history, people pay more attention
to how thing looks to others than to
how it feels to the owner.
Most estates are divided not be-
tween the heirs, but between the law
yers. There are few grave legal Ques-
tons involved in poor estate.
Assignee Hale, of the Dan Head &
Co. bank, will pay out the first divi-
dend on Jan. 6. 1t will amount, as
heretofore stated, to IS per cent.
See notice elsewhere calling the
meeting of the Kenosha Public Library.
Don't fail to make a special note Of the
date and make arrangements to be
there under any circumstance.
This paper was in error in stating
that the Catholic Knights of Wiscon-
sin, Branch Isl would give dance on
the evening of Jan. y. 1t is to be
supper and entertainment at the
hall.
Col. w. W. Strong has been
nominated by the nominating commit
tee of the Illinois Society of Colonial
Wars, of which he is member, as an
alternate delegate to the general court
of the order.
The old saw which says something
about going away from home for the
news finds exemplification in the
columns of Thursday evenings Wauke-
gan Herald. 1t says: The banker
Dan Head, of Kenosha, is working for
firm at Orchardfarm, Mo-" If the
Herald should get to Utica, N. Y, and
Uncle Dan should see that he would
find added amusement in his visit
there. And if itreached young Dan
Head at Orchardfarm, he would wonder
when he became a banker.
Dispatches from Washington state
that there is strong probability that
Congressman H. A. Cooper will be
placed on the rivers and harbors COM
mittee CT the LIVth congress by
Speaker Reed. Our Business Mems
association should begin to watch this
matter closely now so as to take the
necessary steps toward securing,
through him, the appropriation neces-
sary to put our harbOr in proper con-
dition. Kenosha will never reach her
possibilities without good harbor and
better lake traffic facilities. This mat
ter should not be lost sight OF this
winter.
90 If there is one thing the city
needs more than another" remarked a
citizen this morning, it is public spirit
the kind that will build sidewalk
where it is needed. Our citizens are
dreadfully negligent in such matters
and have to wait until the common
council orders the walks laid. When
only the cheapest and most undersir-
able walks are put down. Our citizens
should take great pride in this matter
and realize the fact that a defective
sidewalk is more often the cause OF in
creased taxation because Ofthe expense
of fighting damage suits and paying
the judgements that arises from even
the extravaganza of any set of officials.
1t often happens that the biggest kick
ers against the size of the taxes are
those whose sidewalks are positively
dangerous and who have left them in
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