The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-26
From Thursday 5 Daily.

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Another long sidewalk ordinance
was presented to the council Wednes-
day evening.
/ Clarence Varel, Of Racine, trans
acted business in Kenosha Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
Not word was said at the coun-
Gil meeting Wednesday evening about
the street railway ordinance
Miss Margaret Williams, who has
been away during the past seven
months returned to her home in Paris
on Tuesday, very much improved in
| health.
Two petitions for plumbers license
we're read at the council meeting We'd
nesday evening and were granted.
The petitioners were John O'Neil and
Hamer Reber.
The Pope Manufacturing COM
pany's buildiag at Boston burned last
week. A large number of new and
second hand bicycles were destroyed;
also a large amount of repairs.
The committee on fire department
reported that it was not ready to re-
port on the matter of purchasing a
chemical fire engine at the council
meeting Wednesday evening, SO it was
given more time.
The residents of Prairie avenue
and along Grover street petitioned the
council Wednesday evening to have a
sewer laid along in front of their prop
erty. The petition was referred to the
committee on sewers.
of $500 con7icts in the penitenti
airy of Texas, there is not a printer or
newspaper man, while there are minis
tiers, doctor, bankers, barkeepers,
photographers, BARRIERS, cooks and
members Of all other professions and
calIings.
81 Success is the reward Of merit"
not of assumption. Popular apprecia-
ton is what tells in the long run. For
fifty year, people have been using
Ayers Sarsaparilla, and today it is the
blood purifier most in favor with the
public. Ayers Sarsaparilla cures.
Mat. Stahl served a notice on the
council Wednesday evening that if the
grade of lower Market square and the
east end of Market street were not
raised he would fight the payment of
his sewer assessment on the ground
that the sewer is so near the surface as
to be useless to him.
"A communication from Congress-
man Cooper was read to the council
Wednesday evening in which he
acknowledges receipt Of the resolution
of the council asking him to do all in
his power to secure an appropriation
for Kenosha harbor. He pledges him
self to do all in his power for the harbor.
The ordinance which was present
ed to the council some time ago rela-
ting to the amendment of the city
charter so that the council would be
given the power to, by resolution, order
drain, sewer, gas and water pipes laid
in streets which 1t is proposed to pave,
passed to its third reading at the coun-
Gil meeting Wednesday evening. Its
publication and the signature of the
mayor will now make it law.
This cold snapin March is a grand
thing for the coal dealer and also helps
out the ice man, who had not secured
a full crop. Itfrequently happens that
March, the first month of gentle spring
proves to be more like midwinter.
There should be a special session and
disappointment of the seasons, the
" gerrymander" laid down in text
books of our schools having long since
become obsolete and incorrect.
1t is not often the council receives
a petition thirty or forty feet long, but
it did Wednesday evening. 1t related
to the building of sidewalks out on
Prairie avenue near the factories and
between the Chicago Rockford Hosiery
and the Sterling factories. Mayor
Farr remarked that he did not doubt
there was "a strong desire for walks
out that way. The walks will be
built
The committee on streets, alleys
and bridges reported to the council
Monday evening that James Cape &
Sons of Racine, were the lowest bid
ders on the brick paving proposed fol
Market street, but that the brick was
not of a sufficiently good quality. John
O. Jones, of Racine, was the second
lowest bid and the brick he proposed
using stood the committees test best
and so it was recommended that hi
bid be accepted. The report of thu
committee was accepted and adopted
Ed. Hollister is having quite {
time warding off the curious inquiries
fired at him these days. People arr
asking him how he is getting along
how he liked it and all that sort o
: thing. 1t took him some time to catcl
Al.