The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-18

The prettiest novelty all wool
dress goods you have ever seen at Soc.
a yard at R. E. Sutherland q
Cos. di19wlt
Will Mcneil and Miss Hattie
Schmutz attended divine service at
the Baptist church of Kenosha, last
Sunday evening.
We expect to sell every shirt
waist We own, Trojans and all. You
know what that means.
dj19w1t r. E. SUTHERLAND & CO.
Prof Rand states that he now has
a chorus organized Of about sixty voices
for the Fourth of July music and he ex-
poets this number to b. materially
added to when he hears from st.
Georges church choir.
Three men were made policemen
without pay by the council Monday
evening. They were Henry Vetter,
Waterman at Bain's; John Adamson,
at the Sterling, and John Bach, while
at work on the Parks.
Some of the friends of Nick Zehren,
who met with $1,000 loss by fire re-
Gently, are arranging ball and re-
ception to be given Monday evening,
June %, at his home in Pleasant
Prairie, to which all are cordially in
vited.
w. 81. Wheeler telegraphed from
Chicago Monday, that he could not be
present at the council meeting and re-
quested that his franchise ordinance for
the electric lighting of the city be held
open for him until the next meeting.
The council voted to hold it open.
The Lincoln's of Racine dropped a
base ball game in here Sunday to a
team composed of players from the
Park Citys and Aetnas, the score being
IL to 8. Smithanna and Dischler were
in the points for the Lincolns, and
Cooper and Meyers for the Kenoshas.
The new plans for the engine
house for the Second ward were laid be-
fore the council Monday evening by
Aid. McGivern, chairman of the COM
mittee on fire department. The build
ing will be handsome one and it is
estimated will cost about $4,000 to
S., 500. The council ordered the city
clerk to advertise for bids on construc-
ton.
=" That there thin chicken with tn
draggled feathers" said the farmer to
the summer boarder, I" is the one | call
the socialist. Know why?" Of course
the boarder didn't know. Well, I'll
tell you. l call him that cause he
spends so much time chasin' the other
chickens to git their vittles away from
'em that he don't find time to pick up
none for hisself. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
The committee on judiciary, to
whom was referred the bond and ac-
ceptance of the franchise ordinance of
the Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha
Street Railway company, reported ad-
versely on the bond of the company
and against the reception OF the &C
ceptance. The council voted to adopt
the report and ordered the city clerk to
notify the company of the councils
action.
Not word was said about the
Fourth of July celebration at the coun-
Gil meeting Monday evening. 1t would
have done no good if there had for it is
not at all likely that any of the alder
men would have changed their votes.
Mayor Farr left almost as soon as he
had called the council to order and
President ..Schend took the chair.
THAT would have made another vote of
5 to 3, which would not have carried
any proposition.
A certain concern in this city is
Offering for sale piano, claiming it a
high grade, standard make, also claim
ing it their own, manufacture, which is
an imposition and a fraud on the pub
lie. The fact is they have no factory,
and never built a piano. According
to the New York Musical Courier, they
are called stencil thump boxes, falsely
called pianos. There is no objections
to any one selling those boxes if offered
for what they are. John McKune, agt.
Tor the Kimball, a strictly first-class
piano. DIV
-"July l saloon licenses again fall
due and from the outlook quite a num-
Der will allow their licenses to lapse
and go out OF business. On Main
street at least four firms will pass out
of existence at that time. The reason
given is that there is no money in the
business during these times. A city
official said this morning that he would
not be surprised if about one-fourth OF
the Racine saloon men would go out OF
business at the expiration of their
licenses. "--Rdci2ae News.
An opinion concerning the petition
to open a street through the Carrie
Lee property from the city attorneys
was read to the council Monday even