The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-05

Wis.,, is the guest of Mrs. A. E. Buck
master.
The spring election registrations
were provided for by the council Mon
day evening.
The members of the senior class
of the high school met Monday evening
with Olga Miller.
Peter Palmgreen, CT Somers, will
sell his stock and household goods at
public sale on Monday, March 16.
The bill of 5000 still owing Starke
& Co. for dredging the river, was al
lowed by the council Monday evening.
Frank Gill died in Chicago Mon
day. He is a brother of George Gill
and was former resident of this city.
Judge Fish granted divorce
Monday in the case of Mrs. John Lucas
against her husband, both of Pleasant
Prairie.
Newcomers to Kenosha are finding
Bailey's most satisfactory place to
trade. Prices are low and the goods
| first class. DIV
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Matt Stahl on Monday sold his
store building, located at the corner OF
Main and Wisconsin streets, to G. a..
Gonnermann for $4,000.
Well, guess four wards will have to
do us this spring, and now it will be
| less trouble to find candidates for the
Offices-not so many to fill.
The regular annual tax of the
Goodrich Transportation company of
$1,000 was announced as received, to
the council Monday evening
w. M. CoweH appeared before the
council Monday evening and presented
a petition that Park avenue paving be
extended south, when done, to the city
limits. The petition was referred to
the committee on streets, alleys and
bridges.
An engraving of George Washing
ton and a chart giving the origin of
of the American flag have been donat-
ed to the public library by Mrs W. W.
Strong. The Bode Bros. framed them
both and they were hung up in the
library room today.
There is considerable talk about
the alleged arrest of a certain boy who
is alleged to have broken into or was
about to break into the Balm Wagon
works office Careful investigation of
the affair shows that a certain boy got
into some trouble with the Waterman
at the works for suspicious actions
about the office building, but no war
rant has been issued for him, nor has
he been arrested.
A strong resolution calling on Con-
gresham Cooper to secure all apprO-
priation for our harbOr was presented |
to and passed by the council Monday |
evening.
The Gas company got in it's bid at
the council meeting Monday evening,
offering to light the city with gas and
Welsbach burners, furnishing 500 lights
at $3.50 per light per year. The mat
ter was referred to the committee on |
gas and lights.
When the dust is on the counter |
and the cobWebs on the shelf, and
there's seldom anybody in the store
besides yourself and the stock is get |
ting shelfworn and the groceries getting
stale, and bills enough a-coming due
to make banker pale, oh, then's the |
time merchant is feeling kinder blue,
and is troubled with the question of
the proper thing to do. But in such
a situation one sure remedy applies, if !
y,u want to get customers you have
got to advertise.
Wanted, in one hunderd thousand |
households in America a willing, sun
shiny daughter, who will not fret when
asked to wipe the dishes, or sigh when
requested to take care of baby; |
daughter whose chief delight is to
smooth away mothers wrinkles, and |
who is quite as willing to tighten her
fathers cares as his pockets; girl who |
thinks her own brother as nice as some |
other girls brother Constant love,
high esteem, and most honored place |
in the home guaranteed.
Speaking of libraries, Kenosha
may not look forward to anything quite
so grand as the great Congressional Ii
brary at Washington, but we may en-
joy description of that famous struc-
ture and it's furnishings; and we repro
duce the following in reference to it,
written by lady who is visiting the
nations capital 1t is noble struc-
ture, and, when completed, a year from
next January, will, it is said, be the
finest library in the world. Columns of
rich marble, imported from Italy and
Numidia, and a grand foyer and stair
case finished in white Carrara marble,
are but few of the brilliant features
of the interior. In the rotunda is the
main reading room with desks for three
hundred readers. These are arranged