The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-02

Flags and fireworks in greater va
riety than ever at Pitts & DeBerge's.
Our prices are extremely low this sea-
son.
See wrappers and shirt waists at
Lentz & Funck's as advertised. Call
early and secure your choice pat
terms. dWtf
The TELEGRAPH-COURI presses
are busy this week with programs for
the different Fourth of July celebra-
tiOns.
Miss Bessie Robinson has gone to
Fond du Lac to attend the wedding Of
her cousin, Miss Martha Aldrich, of
that city.
Mrs. Mart. MartinsOn and little
girl, of Racine, are guests of Mrs. Kate
Petrie. They will remain until after
the Fourth.
Mrs. N. C. Stafford will be in Ke-
nosha every Monday until July l. She
will then take vacation until Sep
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The ladies of st Matthews society
will give The Temple of Fame" at
the Rhode opera house on the evening
of July Is.
! Among the people of Kenosha who
went to Chicago Saturday to see Ada
Rehan were: Mrs. 2. G.. Simmons, Jr.,
Mrs. Nathan Allen, Mrs. C. P. Barnes,
Frank Slosson and daughter Agnes
1t is understood here that the
printing offices of Racine have offered
the printers union to unionize their
offices for three years provided certain
members of the union are left out of
the deal and the publication of the
Neacs be stopped. The offer has been
rejected.
This week Maj. Mckinley is to re-
ceive official notification that he has
been nominated for the presidency,
but there is reason to believe that some
meddlesome persons have deprived the
notification committee of half their fun
by giving Mr.. Mckinley a strong hint
dDOuG Gu0 udGG6E dlE6dUys
"A movement will probably be
started afoot in the near future to en-
ploy every tramp who stops off here on
the streets at cleaning to pay for his
board. They have been getting such
magnificent treatment here of late that
this measure will be taken to see if the
town cannot be rid of few.
In the road race at Racine Satur-
day John Anderson, of Racine, won in
3S:224. Howard Kehlor, of Kenosha,
came in fourth, time 39:08; F. W.
Schultz came in sixth, time 1920, and
Willie Eaton came in ninth, time 1918.
None of the KenOsha men won a time
prize. The winner of the race had an
$50 minute handicap.
F. j. Mooney, of Chicago, son of
John Mooney, of this city, and Miss
Mary Towle, of Detroit, Mich, are
spending a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Riley, of Pleasant Prairie. They
called on John Mooney here Sunday
and he drove out with them to Pleas
ant Prairie to spend the rest of the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Riley and family.
The barn in which Frank M.
Avery kept his carriage team aud car
riages at Wheaton ILL.,, was burned to
the ground Sunday night, the horses
and carriages being totally consumed
by the flames. Loss about So, 000 One
of the horses burned was the handsome
bay FLY that Mr.. Avery recently pur-
chased from DR.. Toles.
In its account Of the road race of
Saturday the Racine Journal says:
Julius .Meiswinskel, of Kenosha,
ran into man on the cross road at
Western Union Junction and was
thrown violently to the road and rem
dered senseless. He was carried into
house by some women who cared for
him. He was bruised about the arms,
legs and face and was brought in on
wagon"
II. l.. Carter went out to the Sterl-
ing course Saturday evening with a
party of other men, consisting of Fred
Hannahs, johnson Jackson, Elmer
Week, Frank Chesley, Will Smith, g.
F. Windsor and others, and on the way
in got in between two portions of the
party and while waiting for the last
end of the party to come up be got to
practicing some of his fancy riding and
landed over his handle bars in what is
known to the "perfesh" as a full
fedged header. He came up with his
new bicycle pants badly torn.