The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-16


o. Trolsen of Chicago, are spending a
short time here, before leaving for Lake
Geneva.
Mrs. N. G. Stafford will be in Ke-
nosha every Monday until July l. She
will then take a vacation until Sep
TENDER l. jun10ti
The Misses Annie Wallace and
Lizzie Owen, of Chicago, and Miss
Lucy Bacon, of Kenosha, attended the
birthday party of Miss Maggie Hinder
holz, of Paris, on Tuesday, July z.
1t is funny to hear the democrats
talk about that Chicago convention.
Some of them are cursing it up and
down, others damn it by faint praise,
and there are some very radical sup
porters of it.
William Tanning is laid up with a
broken collar bone. He was on the
road between here and Wilmot Sun
day, and in coasting down hill on his
wheel he lost his balance, fell and
fractured his shoulder.
People who kicked about the eff
forts of the council and newspapers
last year to keep boys from playing
ball in the park can now see the wis
dom of the move. The seats were at a
premium Sunday in both of them.
Mrs. Abram Kraak, of the town of
Paris, died at the Presbyterian hos
pital, Chicago, Saturday from the re-
suit of an operation for cancer. The
remains were brought home Saturday
evening. Deceased was 81 years of
age.
Some young men evidently thought
the Fourth was not yet over Sunday
night. At about 9 o'clock they STA
toned themselves in Central park and
began shooting off fireworks. OF
course the conventional Oh! followed
each blow off.
Clarence Smith, an old Kenosha
county boy, who went from Salem to
California about eight years ago, is
here visiting friends. His headquar-
tiers are at San Francisco, where he has
a lucrative position as general agent OF
an insurance company.
While the fire alarm system wires
were being repaired Sunday, in some
way an alarm was sprung at the power
house of the water works. It called
from box % at Park avenue and Eagle
street. The department responded and
crowd gathered, but there was no
fire.
Harry Robinson, who attended the
democratic convention as an alternate
delegate, says that although he is a
gold bug, he could go the silver craze
if it were not for the other communistic
and anarchistic planks in the platform.
He don't want to be understood to be a
bolter, however.
John Priddis is laying concrete
walks on Park avenue, in front of the
TELEGRAPH COURIER building, and
the properties of Matt Stahl, Frank
White, Mrs. Nicol and Mrs. Clapp.
The improvement was greatly needed,
and would have been done long ago,
had the grade been established.
Yes, it is hot, and it was hot last
year and it will be hot again next year.
Don't fret about it. Walk on the
shady side of the street, wear your
thinnest clothing, carry an umbrella,
keep away from the ice water jug and
don't talk politics unless you meet a
free silver man, in which case it is your
bounden duty to forego personal COM
fort and convert him.
Some one with a fertile imagination
started the story that the body of a
girl had been found under the porch OF
the Hilgendorf place, and carried the
story out in horrid detail by claiming
that the girl was a niece of the dead
woman whom Hilgendorf did not like
and that she had suddenly disappeared
about two weeks ago. The story is a
canard, pure and simple.
1t is reported certain candidates
are seeking a nomination on the repub-
lican county ticket, and at the same
time furthering a scheme to keep
County Treasurer Hansen from re-
nomination. If this is true, and we
hope it is not, the scheme will not win.
County Treasurer Hansen has made
one of the most faithful and obliging
officials this county has ever had, and
he is entitled to and should receive a
nomination. 1t pays to play fair in
politics as in everything else.
The ordinance about the sprink-
ling of lawns is meeting with bitter OPP
position from various quarters of the
city The hours at which the water
can be used for lawn sprinkling are
very INADEQUATE, the lawn owners say
The idea of making the hours from 5 to
s a. N. ! How many of the people in
this city who own lawns they care for
get up at the former hour for any pur-
pose? Then what is the objection to
the LAWNS hainp Snrinkled all daV?