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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-25
Profitable Cooperation

To those who feel an interest in in
stituting and promoting measures for
the benefit of laboring men, the quar-
terly report of the cooperative Whole
sale society of Leicester, England, may
be of interest.
The capital of this society is owned
by laboring men in shares of one pound
sterling, $487. There are hundreds,
perhaps thousands, Of cooperative So
cieties in England doing an extensive
business in all lines of goods. Some
are engaged in manufacturing, export
ing and importing, and own their
steam vessels. The capital is fur
nished by poor workingmen, the first
savings of the price of a share made
probably in the postal savings bank.
Though poor, they are industrious and
proyident, and never patronize the bar.
The patrons of gin shops do not own
shares. The bar keepers absorb their
capital. The money spent for
intoxicants in Kenosha in one year
would furnish sufficient capital
for the entire dry goods and grocery
business of that city, the profits OF
which must be from thirty to fifty
thousand dollars per annum. Ii some
one should offer to distributefree thirty.
thousand dollars in one year to the
workingmen of Kenosha he would be
worshipped as philanthropist. d BUTT
is within their power to earn this
amount every year by a cooperative
investment. The quarterly report of
the Cooperative Wholesale society for
the quarter ending Dec. rs, 1895, is as
follows: Total sales for three months,
SIS, O37, 1876, an increase of IS per
cent. on the previous quarter. The net
profits, after deducting all expenses,
interest on capital and allowances for
depreciation of property is $272, 554.48.
The dividend of surplus profits for
three months to shareholders was ,642
per cent. The dividends to patrons
was .82l per cent, or nearly one per
cent. for three months on their pulr-
chases. All goods are sold at the reg
ular competitive prices and the diyi-
dends are a large inducement to deal at
cooperative stores and manufactures
This society has an insurance iqnd OF
$25, 900 and a reserve fund of S. 1000.
These are the prominent facts in a
three months history Of one co-opera-
tive society engaged in wholesaling and
manufacturing. r. F. ROBERTS.
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TENOSHA COUNTY COURT.--In Probate.
~ In the matter of the estate of John
Thompson, deceased.
On the application Of The Wisconsin Trust
Company executor of the last Will of said de-
ceased late of Kenosha. County deceased, no
one having required the appointment OF COM
misSiOnerS on said estate:
1t is Ordered. That all creditors are required
to present their claims and demands against
the said John Thompson, deceased. for exam
ination and allowance, on or before the hfs6
Tuesday Of September, A. ID. 1897, which time
is hereby allowed and limited for that purpose
1t is Further Ordered, That all claims and
demands of all persons against the said John
Thompson deceased, will be received, exam
ined and adjusted before this Court at the
Court Room of said Court, in the City of Keno
sha in said County, at regular terms thereof
appointed to be held on the first Tuesday OF
June, 1897. and on the first Tuesday of Septem-
Der, 1897, and all creditors are hereby notified
thereof.
1t is Further Ordered, That notice OF the
time and place at which said claims and de-
mands will be received, examined and ADJUST
ed as aforesaid, and of the time hereby limited
for creditors to present their claims, be given
by publishing a copy OF this order and notice
for four weeks successfully, once in each week,
in the observation-disclosures, newspaper
published in the City of Kenosha. in said
County, the first publication to be within
fifteen days from the date thereof.
Dated this sixth day of March, 1897
BY the Court.
ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
j. M. w. Pratt, Attorney for Executor AZ
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The greatest danger from la Grippe
is Of its resulting in pneumonia II
reasonable care is used, However. and
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy taken
all danger win be avoided Among the
tens of thousands who have used This
remedy for La Grippe, we have yet t"
learn Of a single case having resulted
from pneumonia, which shows conclu-
siyely that this remedy is a certain
preventive Of that dread disease. Il
will effect a permanent cure in less time
than any other treatment The . ana
80 cent sizes for sale by Starkweather
4 Co., druggists.
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First publication, March 4. 1897.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

TENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate
n In the matter of the estate of Leander
Richtmyer, deceased.
demands OF all persons against Leander
Richtmyer, deceased, late of the town Of
Pleasant Prairie, in said County OF
Kenosha. will be received, examined and
adjusted by the County Court of Ke-
nosha County at the regular terms
of said Court to be holden at the County Court
County on the first Tuesday of June,
A, D. 1897 and on the first Tuesday of Septem-
ber A. d. 1897 at 10 o clock A. M. OF those days;
also that the time until and including the first
TUESDAY of September, A. d 1897. is the time al
lowed and limited for creditors of said Leander
Richtmyer, deceased, to present their claims
for examination and allowance
Dated at Kenosha, the I'd day of March.
A. d, 1897. BY the Court
AS ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
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OTATE OF WISCONSIN, Count

- "A L IL
k)Court for Kenosha County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at regular term
of the County Court, to be held in and for Sa1d
County at the County Court Room, in the City
of Kenosha, in said county, on the first Tues
day, being the sixth day Of April A. D.
1897 at 10 O'Clock A. M, the following matters
will be heard and considered:
In the matter of the last will and testament
of William S. FriSbie, deceased
The application of George Curtis as executor
to admit to probate the last will and testament
of William S. FriSbie late of the town OF Br1S-
toll, in said county, deceased.
In the matter of the last will and testament
of Gottlieb Stre1, deceased
The application of Mrs. Amelia Frenz to ad-
nit to probate the last will and testament of
Gottlieb Strei. late of the city OF kenosha,1ln
said county, deceased and Tor he appontmen nj
of an administrator With the VIII annexed OF
the estate of said deceased
In the matter of the estate of George Tour
telOtte, deceased.
The application of Charles B. ToUrtelotte for
the appointment of an administrator OF the
estate of George Tourtelotte. late OF the town
of Bristol, in said county, deceased.
In the matter OF the last will and testament
of Eliza Fletcher. deceased.
The application of Alexander Fletcher for
the examination and allowance of his final ac-
count as administrator with the will annexed
of Eliza Fletcher, late OF the city OF henosna'
in said county, deceased, ana Tor the aSslg u u.
ment and distribution OF tne residue Vi Salo
estate
In the matter of the estate of Harriet E.
SHIRLEY, deceased
The Application of Howard G. Vosburgh for
the examination and allowance OF his maj &C
coTnt as administrator of the estate of Harriet
F. Shibley, late of the city OF Chicago, IN COOK
County, Illinois. and for the assignment and
distribution of the residue OF the estate of said
deceased.
Dated March 10th, A. D. 1897.
BY Order OF the Court.
as ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
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iNFERloRlTY OF our OWN AS COM
PARED WITH SCOTCH AND CANA
DIAN CURRENCY SYSTEMS.

Need For More Money to Move Crops +
At cnoe Supplied IN other Countries,
but Not In This Red Tape, Cost and
relay In Obtaining Currency Make Our
system IneIastic and Increase Rate OF
Interest In August and september Bet
ter Banking and Currency items Alone
Can Rid Us Of the silver ssAst3as-
Secretary Of the Treasury Window
said in his treasury report for 1890:
"In my Judgment the gravest defect
in our present financial system is It's
lack of elasticity. The demand fol-
money, in this country, is SO irregular
that an amount of circulation which
will be ample during ten months Of the
year will frequently prove SO deficient
during the other two months as to cause
stringency and commercial disaster.
The crops of the country have reached
proportions so immense that their move
ment to market, in August and Septem-
Der, annually causes dangerous alb
sorption of money. The lack Of a suffi-
Gent supply to meet the increased de-
mands during those months may entail
heavy losses upon the agricultural as
we'll as upon other business interest.
How hard and inelastic is our present
unscientific currency system, or lack OF
system, is apparent when comparison
is made with the currency systems OF
other countries. In a pamphlet recently
issued by the sound currency committee
of the Reform club Mr.. L. Carroll Root
illustrates the relative elasticity of 20
different banking systems in is different
countries. He says:
1.-The data secured includes weekly on
monthly statements of the outstanding
circulation of the leading bank currency
systems of the world. The period Gov
cred in each case is the two years 1894
and 1895 The method of preparation
of diagrams has been to take the mini
mum circulation of the period as base
line and to reduce the amounts on other
dates to percentages of this. sIn this way
a common measure has been secured,
and comparison of one diagram with
another is facilitated
We reproduce below three Of Mr..
Roots diagrams which show i'll a strik-
ing way the great difference in elasticity
of currencies in Scotland, Canada and
the United States
BANKS OF sCoTLAND-TzN, BANKS.
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.eecQrs one month earlier than i'll

cecgrs one month earlier than i'll
/ stsaa. Pie explanation will without
1oubt his found in the Scotch PRESTIGE Of
making payments on mortgages, inter
est annuities, etc., at those dates-a
practice not followed so extensively in
Canada
..In general q single annual move
ment may be said to characterize agri-
cultural communities. This occurs in
the fail, ard is due to what we have
come to call moving the crops. Its
explanation may be found in the fact
that farmers, as a class, are not aceus-
toned to make use Of bank deposits, and
consequently when payments are made
to them for their crops (largely at a sin
gle season Of the year) the surplus over
Immediate payments is required by them
in the form of notes-it being unques
tionably true that in any Of our agricul-
t1lral communities in this country the
average farmer has in his possession
during the six weeks following the sale
Of his crop much larger amount Of
currency than during the rest of the
year. The result in the aggregate is an
extraordinary demand, such as that
which leads in Canada to an annual ex-
pansion Of 90 per cent in the bank cir
culation
Undoubtedly the needs for currency
in the United States change about as
much as in Canada, but the cost of buy
ing bonds at high premium OH which
notes can be issued only to 90 per cent
Of their par value, the red tape neces-
sary to obtain these notes from the gov
ernment and the tax on circulation
make delay and cost in increasing the
circulation which practically prohibit
an increase until the need for such in
crease is past. Therefore interest rates
in this country run up rapidly in :Au-
gust and September without appreciably
affecting the supply of currency.
In Scotland and Canada the machinery
necessary to increase the supply of cur
rency is simple and is entirely in the
hands of the banks; hence the cost and
delay necessary are much less than with
us. Thus in Canada few big banks
with numerous branch banks supply
all parts of the country with currency
Wnon more money Is uG6u5cl III dAy
province - as in Manitoba when the
wheat crop is being harvested-rates OF
interest begin to rise. The profits Of sup
plying currency in this province are in
creased, and Immediately additional sup
plies of currency are sent from the big
banks in Montreal, Quebec or Toronto
to their branch banks in Manitoba. Thus
the cost of moving the crops is much
lower in Canada than in the United
States, where rates of interest go up and
down without materially changing the
supply of currency. Of course the farm
ers, through increased competition of
bidders, who obtain plenty of money at
low rates of interest and can afford to
pay high prices, reap most of the benefit.
There are other advantages connected
with "branch banks" which it is I'M
necessary to explain here. It is sufficient
to say that in Canada there is no silver
question to disturb business and occupy
the time of politicians and legislators
Tt is not likely that we will have finan-
cial peace until we greatly improve our
banking and currency systems.
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sHERIFF's SALE ON FORECLOSURE.

CIRCUIT COURT, KENOSHA
Daniel Wells Jr., Plaintiff Is. William +.
Stelloh, Louise Stelloh lis wife, and
Channcey Umland, Defendants
BY virtue Of and pursuant to judgment of
said Circuit Court in the above entitled action,
which was entered in said Court on the 10th
day OF March, 1896, | shall expose for sale and
sell at public auction as one parcel at the
front door of the Court House in the city of
Kenosha, in said county, on the first day of
May. 1897, at the hour of two o'clock 2. NJ. OF
that day, the following described moftgaged
premises lying and being in the County Of ke-
nosha and State of Wisconsin, to-wit:
The southwest quarter %. the west halft1%
of the southeast quarter ca, and the south
half ~ of the northwest quarter 60 OF section
number five 5l, and the southwest quarter
"a of section number six CO., all in township
number one (1) north. of range number twenty
two (22) east, containing four hundred eighty
(4S0) acres of land, more or less: excepting
therefrom one y acre of land in section num-
Der five (5) used for cemetery purposes. and
also excepting a certain strip of land conveyed
to the Wisconsin, Dairy Company by deed re-
corded in the office of the Register of Deeds of
KenOSha County on the 9th day OF February,
1892 in Volume 80 of Deeds on page 301, de-
Scribed as being a part of the southwest quar-
ter ia of section number five (5), township
number one ~ north, of range number twenty
two (22) east bounded by line commencing at
a point in the south line of said section. which
point is five hundred twenty eight t528) feet
east of the southwest corner of said sections
the west line of said section two hundred
twenty five C225l feet TO point: thence east on
a line parallel with and two hundred twenty
five (225) feet north of the south line of said
section two hundred tWentY-SiX (226) feet TO a
point thence south on a line parallel with the
west line of said section to the south line of
said section; thence west two hundred twenty
six (226) feet TO the place OF beginning, and eX-
cepting also and reserving to the Wisconsin
Dairy Company. its successors and assigns,
the right to and to the use of an equal and I'M
divided One-half Of all water coming from the
artesian we'll upon the lands in section num-
Der five O. last above described. together with
the right TO enter upon so much OF said land
in said section five 90 as will be necessary for
the purpose of maintaining and keeping in re-
pair said artesian we'll and for the purpose of
laying, maintaining and keeping in repair q
suitable pipe to conduct said water from said
well to the premises so conveyed to the said
Wisconsin Dairy Company as aforesaid
Dated at Kenosha, Wisconsin, this 18th day
of March, 1897.
JOHN j. ABEL,
Sheriff of KenOsha County, Wis.
Wells, Brigham & Upham,
Third Floor Old Insurance Bldg. MilWau-
lzee, Wisconsin, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 80
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EXCLUSIVE OF BANKS OWN NOTES ON HAND.

These diagrams show that in Scotland
there is about 20 per cent more of cur
reney in circulation in November than
in February. In Canada there is % per
cent more currency in circulation in Oc-
tober than in May. In the United States
there was only 6 per cent change in cir
culation during the two years 1894 and
1895, and the most of this change is ac-
counted for not by the changing needs
for currency at different periods Of the
year, but by the sales of United States
bonds, which made it convenient for
banks to increase their CIRCULATION. Mr.
Root thus explains the changes in Can
ada and Scotland
ssFor instance, on comparing the cir
culation of Canada and Scotland, the
first thing noticed is that in Scotland
there are two upward movements, one
eliminating in May and the other II
November, while in Canada the former
movement is entirely absent and tbs
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First publication. March Il. 1897


CTATE OF WISCONSIN:-In
Circuit Court for Kenosha County.
Lewis Knapp, Plaintiff, Against Carrie NJ. Lee
and Edwin r Ripley. Defendants.
BY virtue OF and pursuant to Judgment
and decree of foreclosure anu sale rendered by
the above named Court, III the above entltted
action, the 23d day OF June, A. ID. 1894, IN
favor of said Plaintiff and against said De-
fendantS. and dOcketed in said Court on said
day. l. the undersigned, Sheriff of kenOSha
County Wisconsin, shall offer for sale and sell
at public auction and yendue at the front door
of the Court House. in the City and County OF
KenOSha, in the State Of Wisconsin, on Satur~
day the 24th day of April, A ID. 1897. at three
O'Clock in the afternoon of that day, the fol-
lowing described mortgaged premises directed
in said Judgment to be sold, or so much thereof
as may be sufficient to pay the amount due up
on said judgment for principal, interest and
costs, together with the expenses OF such sale
which said premises are described in said
Judgment as follows:
Situate, lying and being in the County of Ke
nosha and State of Wisconsin, viz Part OF
the east half of the northeast quarter of sec
tion six (6l in township one t1 north. of lange
tWenty-tnree (23) east, the same being in the
Third Ward Oh the City OF kenosha, viz: Com
mencng on the south line of Dem1ng street In
said city at point thirty-three (33) feet west
of the east line of said quarter section: thence
west on the line of Deming street one hundred
and thirty one feet or to the east line of a lot
owned in the year 1857 by one MedOra II: Low
ell: thence south on said east line of said lot to
the southeast corner of said lot; thence east
erly to the southwest corner of lot at that
date owned by one Bryant, and to a point
thirty-three 1881 feet west of the east line OF
said quarter section; thence north TO the place
OF beginning
Terms of Sale. Cash.
Dated Sheriff's Office, Kenosha. Kenosha
County Wisconsin, March 10th A. ID 1897.
JOHN J. ABEL,
Sheriff of Kenosha County. Wisconsin
Baker & Baker, Attorneys for Plaintiff. ~
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

TENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate.
n In the matter of the estate of Thomas
Wallis, Sr, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
lis. ST., deceased, late of the city of Kenosha,
in said County of Kenosha, will be received,
examined and adjusted by the County Court Of
Kenosha County at the regular terms of said
Court to be holden at the County Court ROOM
in the city of Kenosha in and for said county
on the first Tuesday of May, A. D 1897, and
on the first Tuesday of September, A. D. 1897
time until and including the first Tuesday of
september, A. D. 1897, is the time allowed and
limited for creditors of said Thomas Wallis, ST..
deceased, to present their claims for eXamina-
tiOn and allowance
Dated at Kenosha, the fourth day of
March, A. d. 1897 By the Court.
48 ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
zENosHA COUNTY COURT In Probate.

DENOsHA COUNTY COTRT.-In PROBATE.
n the matter. Of the estate OF William
E. Reed, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de-
poands of all persons against William 4.
Reed. deceased, late of the city of Kenosha,
in said county of Kenosha, will be re-
ceiyeG. examined and adjusted by the
County Court OF kenosha County at
fine regular terms of said court to be holden
at the County Court Room, in the city of Keno
sh. in and for said county, On the first Tuesday
of May, A. d. 1897, and on the first
Tuesday of September, A. d 1897, at 10 O'Clock
4. M. Of those days: also that the time until and
including the first Tuesday of September, A. D.
1897, is the time allowed and limited for credl-
tors of said William E. Reed, deceased, to
present their claims for examination and
allowance $3.50,
Dated at Kenosha, the fifth day of March,
d IS 1897 BY the Court.
AZ ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
zENosHA couNrY coURT.-In Probate.

In the matter of the will of Claus Andersen.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de-
mands of all persons against Claus Andersen,
deceased late the City of Kenosha, in said Coun-
tv of Kenosha will be received, examined and adj
iusted by the County Court of Kenosha County at
the regular terms of SAID court to be holden at
the County Court Room, in the City OF kenosha
Nav. A. D. 1897, and on the first Tuesday of Sep
teniber, A, ID. 1907, at 10 o'clock A. M. of those
days also that the time until and including the
rst tuesday of September A. d. 1897, is the time
allowed and limited Tor creditors OF, said Claus
Anderson deceased, to present their claims for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the second day OF Mafch, a.
D., 1897 By the Court.
AZ ANTHONY VAN WICK, County Judge.