The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-02-20

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st. Paul, MINI.
1t is rumored that the Sieg g.
Walpole company will purchase a fine
tract of land west of the city to fit up
for bicycle race track. It expected
the track will be ready this coming
summer.
1t has been reported that the Bap-
fist society had called Rev. Patrick to
fill the pulpit in this city. There is no
foundation whatever for the report, as
no action has as yet been taken toward
locating a pastor.
"A certain prominent business man
was taken up to the public library
room last Saturday. 1t made him
open his eyes. He remarked that he
thought the public library was all on
paper yet. He found very differently.
Here is the way an exchange un-
derstands the game law: Book agents
may be killed from August /; spring
poets from March to July; scandal
mongers from July to Dec. 81, inclu
sive; umbrella borrowers from Feb. |
to Nov. l; open season all the year
round on life insurance agents and fell
lows who borrow their neighbours pa
pers.
-Llveryman Meyer drove up to Ra-
cine to see a show. When he got there
he tied his horse on Main street. Some
body saw it tied there for a long time
and humanely took it to barn.
When the show was over Mr.. Meyers
looked for his horse and found it was
gone. He thought 1t was stolen and
reported it to the police. It was soon
found.
"A new brass and reed band was
organized Sunday among the employees
of the Sieg & Walpole factory en-
ployes. Phil Waltz was elected direct
or; Will Schend secretary, and John
Jaeger treasurer. The band is twenty
two strong and is backed up by the
company. The band is to be known as
the Windsor band The company will
furnish the uniforms and some of the
music.
A vacuum process of canning fruits
in glass has been invented, which it is
prophesied will doom forever the old
fashioned and extremely obnoxious
tins. All the deleterious gases gener-
ated in cooking the fruit, and even the
air, are extracted by this new method,
that fermentation is reduced to a mini
mum. No solder is used and each jar
is opened by making puncture with
a penknife, after which the cover can
be lifted off entirely.
Mrs Clifton P. Garst gave French
euchre party Saturday evening, in
honor of her friend Miss Mae Simmons,
of Chicago. Five tables were required
to accommodate the invited guests,
and the games were close and exciting
during the entire time. At the con-
clusion, however, it was found that DR..
Toles had succeeded in winning the
gentleman's prize, while Mrs. John
Lewis was the envy of the ladies, as by
her score, she was clearly entitled to
lady's prize.
The board of directors of the pub
lie library held meeting Saturday
afternoon at the library room. This
being the first meeting since the gift 0
81, 900 had been made vote of thanks
was extended to the donor. Appfopri-
ate remarks were made on the occasion
by James Cavanagh, who stated that
no one thing had so aroused enthusiasm
for the library, and put it upon It's
royal road to success as this had done.
The vote on the question was a stand
ing one. A couple of bills were al
lowed and the board adjourned.
There is much complaint among
small dealers with merely neighbor-
hood trade that great establishments
are drawing away their business. OF
course it is so; but the reason why such
concerns are monopolizing trade is not
that they are using any unfair means
to absorb the patronage of their petty
rivals. They have no monopoly of the
method by which they draw to them
selves the trade formerly distributed
among great numbers of little shops.
There is no secret about the cause of
their vastly larger volume of business.
The way to it is open to everybody
else. The profitable distinction they
enjoy was secured by advertising. Ex-
cept for it, every one of them would
now be doing a comparatively and even
an actually petty trade.
-Kenosha county has few farmers
who still regard money spent on sys-
tematic road building, as money vast
ed. They wouldn't work their farms
the way they work their roads, days
work here, two hours work there, and
the rest let go until another year. If
they did, the sheriff would do a bigger
real estate business than any agent in
tha cOuntV Rut thew can't realize that