The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-12
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Victor Eppler has sold out his
Brassville saloon business.
Miss May Everett, of Chicago, is
visiting relatives in this city.
Lack of trade is bitter, but results
from good advertising are sweet.
james Fox, of Pleasant Prairie,
has rented his farm and moved to Chi
cago.
Miss Julia Kelly, who has been
teaching a Brighton school, is home on
a vacation.
The hens are getting down to
business now in preparation for the
Easter rush.
Spain admits discovering us four
centuries ago, but it's only now that
she's actually finding us out.
When kind nature makes cheap
ice by freezing weather she puts the
difference on the increased coal bill.
The political cauldron has started
to simmering lively now, though the
cover is being kept pretty tight on 1t.
Some of our local Free Masons
went to Union Grove Thursday even
ing to attend a lodge meeting at that
place.
Mrs. c. D. Holt, Of Pleasant
Prairie, is reported to be recovering
slowly from q severe attack of heart
failure
Misses Emma Bidinger and Alice
Madden came up from Waukegan
Thursday afternoon for a call on
friends.
1t is getting so that that the aver
age citizen assumes an apologize all
whenever any stranger begins to speak
to him about LIVth congress.
The rumor that Mr.. Cleveland will
not be in Washington one year hence
will create the greatest joy and salts
faction among those Maryland ducks.
Married on the 23rd of Feb. 1896,
at WilmOt by the Rev. r. Davidson.
John S. Dunn, of Antioch, to Miss
Mary Alice Gray, both of the state of
Illinois.
The mayoralty candidates this
spring seem to be exceedingly scarce.
The land all seems to slope in one
direction just now, and that seems to
be toward DR.. Farr.
&C. G. Theleen, the ex-furniture
man, is looking for the republican
nomination as assessor. Mr.. Theleen
would make a mighty conscientious
and painstoking official,
The council committee on gas and
light is preparing a report on the
electric light franchise wanted By w.
FL. Wheeler. The estimates to be fur
nished will be from expert sources.
This is the time of the year when
the cry goes up from every city. ELECT
good alderman" In about SIX weeks
from now it will be superseded by the
question: How in blazes did that
ignoramus ever get into the cOuncil?"
Despite the inclement weather Of
Thursday evening there was quite a
large gathering at the "let us be &C :
quainted" social at the Park avenue,
M. E. church. The program was ex-
Uellent and the time was greatly en-
joyed.
People would not wonder at the
delay in getting the public library
ready for the opening if they under
stood the thirteen different processes
every book had to go through in get
ting it labelled, classified, catalogued,
and all that.
The Baptist church choir under
the leadership of Prof. c. n. Rand
we're entertained Thursday evening by
Mr.. and Mrs. George Yule. There
were between thirty and forty present.
An excellent supper was served and
the program was very fine one.
Probably we have not considered
the Salvation Army with sufficient
seriousness in this country because it
lids uOU OOOu pun III IOuClA NlOAA U1IO
class of people who go to church in
starched collars and black silk. 1t
has been looked upon with a hardly
suppressed scorn as something that
savored more of play than work or re-
ligion. AS matter of fact, a good
many of the Ash Barrel Johnnies
and Hallelujah James" have done
more practical good in the short years
of their service than many an attend
ant at fashionable churches. Surely in
view of this actual good we can eX-
cuse the grotesqueness attaching
to their practices. The Salvation
Army will continue to prosper. 1t is
an institution that we can we'll afford
to encourage. -Racine Times.
in almost every community there is
a general tendency to find fault will