The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-21
(From SATURDAY. S Daily.)

death and eternity.
Three things to fight for honor,
country and home.
Three things to love-courage,
gentleness and affection.
Three things to hate cruelty, ar
rogance and ingratitude.
Three things to delight in frank
ness, freedom and beauty.
Three things to wish for-health,
friends and cheerful spirit.
Three things to avoid idleness,
loquacity and fiippant jesting.
Three things to admire -intellec-
tual power, dignity and gracefulness.
There are a lot of slump holes be-
ing punched into the roads now, farm
ers say.
Perhaps the weather man has let
up on us bit so as to get good hold
on the March weather
Lindeman x Son are putting up a
new house just north Of the railroad
station for Bernard Tack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Doan, of
Shoshone, Idaho, are visiting Mesdames
Seth Doan and G. G. Brown.
The high school is to be congratu-
lated upon the excellence of the enter
tainment given at the Rhode opera
house Friday evening.
Louie Yeoman, the cornetist,
played several selections ut the enter
tainment Friday evening n excellent
style. Mr.. Yeoman is good cornetist.
The Rhode opera house was we'll
filled for the high school entertainment
Friday evening with u splendidiy in
telligent audience. 1t was appreciative,
too.
While we may not get four weeks
more of winter, there is nothing in the
records Of the past which indicates that
we cannot get it with a good deal Of
severity.
Prof Carnes, of Chicago, sustained
his reputation in splendid style at the
high school entertainment Friday even
ing He is a good reader, no mistake
about that.
The Robinson estate suffered to
the extent of about 5000 by fire in Ra-
cine Friday night. Harry Robinson
was notified this morning and he went
up to Racine.
Miss Bessie Hurd made her first
appearance with her violin at the
Rhode Friday evening. She played re-
markably we'll and is deserving of
much encouragement.
Mrs. J. Frank Wray Of Burlington,
Wis, telegraphed her son, Walter Cole
at the University school, that her home
and contents had been entirely de-
stroyed by fire Friday night.
February is halfgone and as much
coal has been consumed in the two
weeks as were required during the first
three weeks of the preceding month.
February is short at the latter end, but
it has just as much sting in it as most
months.
The bit of the evening at the high
school entertainment was the dancing
of the little girls and one little boy near
the close Of the show. Each number
was most heartily encored. The
dancing was most graceful and neat
and fully equal to some dancing seen i'll
the professional shows.
1t has been suggested that it would
be kind act to send wraps and cloaks,
f1annels and overcoats, to our KenOsha
people who went south to spend the
winter. Their disappointment must be
great and the weather there is such as
to enlist the deepest sympathy for our
fellow citizens who went south hoping
to find surcease from such sorrow.
The cities of Grand Rapids, Wau-
sau, Stevens Point, Merrill and Marsh
field will be universally admired and
envied for the stand they have taken
in regard to the Bell Telephone COM
pany. They have issued an ultimatum
to the company requesting reasonable
rates, and if the company does not ac-
cede to their reasonable request, they
propose to withdraw their patronage
and establish a system Of their own. A
few doses of that kind Of medicine
would be good for the health Of the
Bell telephone.
1t will be matter ofnews to many
that the American Express company
has been doing a purchasing business
for fifteen years. They have men in
Chicago to meet all the trains, who do
the purchasing and have done it simply
to get the carrying trade. Order blanks
are in the Office here, which they have
used. All goods costing not over $500
will be purchased by them without
deposit and the only charges will be the
usual rates of carriage, % cents for all
packages under five pounds and 30
cents for packages weighing between
five and twenty pounds.
Checker playing is shaking Wal