The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-31
UNIQUE AMONG CLUBS.
is THE KENOSHA CLUB, OF CHI
CAGO, THE HERALD SAYS.
IT Is DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS
Made UP of Old Residents of This City
Who Were Educated According to Their
New England Ancestors Ideas.
The Names of Members.

unique among CluOS is the h6nOSnd,
of Chicago, says the Sunday Chicago
Herald
Smaller than the Union League club
in numerical strength; less potent in
politics, perhaps, than that of the
Fourth ward, the Kenosha is still to its
members all that could be desired. 1t
is unlike any other social organization.
1t is different in its origin, different in
its purposes and different in it's manner
of celebrating its feasts.
In the first place. the KenOsha has
no idea of trying to reform the politics
of Chicago, to get its members APP
pointed to fat municipal offices or to
raise money for the beautifying OF the
lake front. All of these aims may be
honorable ard all these things may be
desired by the members of the Keno
sha. But that is not what they are
working for. They have been in ex-
istence little more than a year, but the
experiences of that time encourage
them to continue their organization
and to hope for future of pleasant eX-
istence, like that which they seek to
commemorate.
For the Kenosha club is designed and
devoted to the pleasant task of COM
memoration. The members Of it were
formerly residents of Chicago's charm
ing northern suburb, and they have
drifted into this city, one or two at a
time and through the years of the past
four decades, and here they have col
lected like the little particles Of gold
which, discovering an affinity, coalesce
and thereafter remain one compact
body.
Kenosha. like many another town
here in the west, used to be greater in
some regards than was Chicago. 1t
was settled largely by New England
people. And those people We're pecu-
liar in one thing more than another.
They believed in educating their chill
dren. They were willing tospend money
on the teaching Of those studies which
would be of value in later life. They
found in the new west to which they
had come little advantage in the way
of schools And they went at once to
work to provide the things they needed.
In Kenosha there rose schools which
were better than the schools Of other
towns. There were better teachers,
paid a higher price, and giving in
struction in branches that were rather
neglected in most of the schools. And
there was larger percentage of at
tendance.
Then the high school was organized.
1t was simply arranged on the custom
airy academic plan prevalent in New
England. but it was the first high
school of the west. It was better than
anything in Chicago or even in Galena
at the time. And the KenOsha club is
simply the alumni of that high school
enlarged, now that the club is formed
by the addition of former residents of
Kenosha.
Once a year the members of the Ke-
nosha club get together and drive or
ride or sail to KenCsha, at the time Of
the annual commencement Of the high
school, and there hold again, and on
the ground made sacred by the happi
ness of childhood, reunion of the old
boys and girls. They are given the use
of one of the rooms in the high school
building, and every one who is inter-
ested is admitted, though no. to the
exclusion of any proper member of the
society.
The old school building itself is gone.
That landmark, with many others of
the old town, has been taken away.
There are better buildings and hand
somer, perhaps, but there arenone that
seem quite the same to the members of
the Kehosha club.
Following is a list of the clubs mem
bers:
Messrs. and Mesdames g. W. War
velle, Lee Fellows, j. E. Petit, E.
Cheetham, G.. B. Foster, A. G.. Wood
ford, VIM. Nelson, w. A. Pierce, E. S.
Harvey, F. K. Tracy G.. Fl. Francis,
VIM. E. Smith, b. E. Landergrln, +.
Starkweather, A. L. Fitch, Jas. Han
non, C. S. Tobin, FL. B. Briggs, l..
Doanne, Haven, Lindman.
Messrs. D. j. Hynes, w. j. English,
W. Stebbins, George W. Newberry, E.
H. Kellogg, Charles Parrish, Ed. Sholes.
Mesdames Celia E. Bailey, c. Dem
ming, S. Radcliffe, SHIRLEY, M. v.
Wakeman.
Misses Jennie Bayless, Theresa
Drake, Ella Stanton, Nelly Ely, E.
Belle Pierce, Emma Atkinson, Char
lotte Bayless.
What They Do in Chicago.
And some of their friends may be in
terested in knowing what these old Xe-
nosha girls and boys are doing in the