The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-11-19
tFrom Saturdays Daily.

| Mrs. Ii. I'll. MarcussOn, OF LaGrange,
visited friends here Friday.
r. S. Christensen, of Racine, is visit
| ing friends on the north side.
The funeral of Rev. Father Etsch
man, Of Brighton, took place Friday.
E. P. Chalfant intends going to Chi
cago this evening and staying over till
Monday morning.
T. g. Littlehales is contemplating
making a change in climate and locat-
ing in the far west.
Mrs. Edmund Gallauner, who has
been spending a few days in Chicago,
returned Friday evening.
Mrs. E. P. Chalfant returned from
Chicago Friday morning where she has
been spending several DAYS.
Mrs. G. M. Story, of Arlington, who
has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
E. Dewey for few days, returned to
her Dakota home Friday.
Hairy Grogan, at present a resident
of the western prairie, thinks of NOV
ing down town where the winds will
not have such full sweep at him.
The appointments have been made
| for the farmers Institutes for the win
ter. The nearest one to Kenosha
county will be at Kansasville, Jan. %
and 80.
A very exciting game of football oc
Cured on the lawn of Mrs. e. j.
Lewis this afternoon between the hours
of 2 and 3. The players were all little
fellows, but the game was played with
spirit and resulted in score of 4 to O..
There are three kinds of weddings in
Keposha: high life" SWELL" and
" quiet" If the bridegroom's salary is
$1O0 month or over it is marriage
in high life." If $75, SWELL" If be-
low $75, quiet. Waukegan Herald.
D. 81. Lance won the prize of S. 90
offered by T. j. Dale, the jeweler to
the best guesser on the states that
would go for Mckinley in the general
election. Mr.. Lance entered his guess
on Oct. g. The guess proved correct
in the case of every state, except Ne
braska.
Fred Reinold hurt himself quite
severely Friday by fall from his
wheel. He was riding over the rail-
road track when his handle bars
slipped, allowing the wheel to catch in
the rail and throw him off. He cut
both hands very badly and did some
| injury to the wheel.
A man by the name of Fred Bloy-
dorf, an employe at the tannery while
working about the watts this morning
was splattered by the burning liquid
and badly burned. DR.. Farr was
called at once and the burn was pro-
nounced IL very bad one, though he
says it will heal easily.
The board of directors of the Young
Mems Christian Association met at the
Y, NJ. G.. A rooms Friday evening.
They did the usual work in appointing
committees for the coming year and
re- elected p. H. Mcintosh to the posi-
ton of secretary of the organization
for the ensuing year.
A report comes from Bristol to the
effect that a peculiar disease has made
its appearance among the hogs OF that
Ine' ghborhood. The ailmenU is said to
resemble diphtheria. The hogs are
attacked by sore throat and become
very sick and in short time die.
Quite number of hogs have been
affected and the farmers are becoming
more or less alarmed about it.
IC is matter of complaint that a
number of houses in KenOsha are so
constructed that it is impossible to get
heavy articles of furniture upstairs. A
recent arrival from Chicago found it
necessary to discard the stairs alto
gether, and after removing one of the
upper windows, swing his bed ends up
with block and tackle. AS most of the
bed rooms are up stairs, the man who
designed the houses must have been an
unconscious humorist.
Another wind bearing scandal and
excitement seems to have struck Keno
sha. An old citizen of the town was
heard to remark the other day that, if
he could judge by previous experience,
within another week something start
ling would strike the town. And true
to his prediction, few things, little
out of the ordinary, have come to light.
1t is not every town so regular in its
ebb and flow of excitement that it can
be predicted to such a verify.
The Lake county Patriot remarks
anent the publication of our recent
hallow- cen new woman fun: We are
happy to say that we have no new
wome-f in Waukegan that would be
guilty of such conduct" That reminds
one of the story told of an Englishman
who, after hearing one of Artemus
Wards humorous lectures, and all the