The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-20

Golf bids fair to be the next Keno
sha fad.
George Brisach, of Waukegan, has
come here to make his home.
Judge Be1den, of Racine, trans
acted business here Thursday.
Mrs. Henry Hops, of Chicago, is
visiting her cousin, Mrs. j. L. Stevens.
Misses Bessie and Tessie Smith, OF
Chicago, are visiting Mrs. Robert Mic
oil.
The orchestra which played for
Clay Clement Friday evening was from
Waukegan.
Miss Anna Ruster and W. F. Wer-
ner we're married by Justice Morey in
Racine Thursday.
If the backbone of that hot spell
was broken it seems to have been
mended rather quickly.
Nine little maidens helped to cele-
brate the ninth birthday of Miss Marie
Bates Tuesday afternoon.
"A large crowd of Kenoshaites at
tended the dance in the pavilion at
the tavern Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Villas re-
turned home Thursday evening from a
three weeks visit at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
L. B. French has purchased the
Citizen property next south of G. A.
Dewey's store, Consideration, $1,000
Mr.. and Mrs. j. FL. White and
George Holderness have returned from
Cogswell, N. Dakota, where they have
been visiting for sometime.
Mrs. Henry Welter and two chill
dren, of Chicago, are visiting Mrs.
Welter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
O'Donnell, on Durkee avenue.
Farmers are now coming into the
city more numerously than for several
weeks past, as harvesting is finished
and fall work has not yet begun.
-Math Boerner, the fourth student
of the College of Commerce to obtain
position with the First National
Bank, began work there Thursday.
President Michael Wagner. of the
Racine Typographical union, in a card
to the Racine Meas absolutely denies
that the strike of the printers is off in
Racine.
-Forty-five new books have been
added to the public library in the last
few days The shelf room there is now
so crowded that the board of directors
will be obliged to furnish more shelly
ing before many days. The popular
ity of the library still remains at high
water mark.
A subscriber asks what is meant
by the word humid as related to the
atmosphere on hot days. 1t means
dampness, moisture in the atmosphere
or that nasty sickness so often COM
planned of. Humid or moist atmos-
phere in warm weather is very much
harder for humanity to bear heat in
than perfectly dry atmosphere is.
The. gold democrats call is out for
the so-called national democratic
convention. The convention is to be
held August 26. Here are the names
Of the signers of the call in Kenosha:
W. W. Strong, Maurice Funck, Phillip
Lentz, j. A. Killeen, DR.. Geo. Kimball,
A. A. Rel, John Gillett, R. W. B..
Lance, VIM. NJ O'Brien, E. G.. Hazel
ton, Lucian G. Lance, Chas. c. La
Bagh, A. H. French, Henry j. Hast
ings. Among these names oneis radical
and avowed free silverite and one
equally radical republican, who, so far
as known would never vote demo-
cratic ticket
-Kenosha is not the only town that
can have jail breaking. A dispatch
in the Chicago papers this morning
from Sault Ste. Marie says: " Five
prisoners escaped from the county jail
this morning. Some outside friends had
passed in saws, with which they cut
through the bars of the windows and
got away before the guards knew what
was going on. The prisoners were
George Mcdonald, George True, James
Doyle, William King and R. Nedeau.
They were all short-teTm men except
True, who was awaiting trial for lar
ceny. The whole county is searching
for the men,"
Doubtless most of our readers have
read the tale of the man who was con-
fined in Joliet prison under a fifteen
year sentence for some crime who met
while there a philantbropic preacher,
and how the prisoner seemed to melt
under the good mans talks, embraced
christianity and apparently led the
most earnestly devoted of christian
lives; and how the preacher feeling
that the fellow had a greater field of
usefulness as convert outside the
prison walls, secured pardon for him
only to have a bible the good man
gave him as he left the prison walls
thrown into his face with the jeering
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