The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-11

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/ Another spasm of colds has struck
/ the town.
/ Sheriff Abel is running variety
show at the county jail.
/ Great artistic skill is being displayed
in the shape of comic valentines.
The Rhode opera house was crowded
Monday evening as it has not been for
some time.
Chief of Police Stemm took in the
production Of King Lear at Racine
Monday evening.
Miss Higginbotham, of Rayenswood,
ILL.,, who has been visiting Mrs. Hack
ley has returned.
j. W. Merrill and son, of Kansas
City, Mo-, are visiting at the residence
of Mrs. O. G.. King.
The Young Ladies Of St. George
church give valentine social at the
school hall Friday evening.
Some are inclined to think that the
whist craze has reached its zenith in
Kenosha and will soon begin to wane.
From observation it seems that the
prospects for large sale of wheels IN
Kenosha this season is quite remark
able.
| If the report of the bombardment of
Canea be true we may soon look for
something definite in the Turkish stu
alton.
Mrs. Ell. G.. Crook was first to hand in
correct answer to the prison puzzle this
morning. The visitor was son OF the
prisoner.
A number of Kenosha people went
to Racine Monday evening to take IN
the play of King Lear at the Racine
opera house.
The j. I. Case T. NJ. Co.'S plant
started up Monday morning, Feb. s,
giving work to about 200 of Racine
men.
Miss A. E. Morrity, OF Milwaukee,
who has been spending a few days with
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cooper and in Wis
iting old friends in this city, returned
to her home Monday afternoon.
One of the advantages to the patron
of saloons accruing from the ordinance
scattering saloons is that it makes 1T
more easy for drunken and disorderly
cases to escape the eyes of the police.
The masquerade ball to be given by
the Journeymen BARRIERS union next
Thursday evening, Feb. IL, at Colum-
bia hall will be the most popular ball Of
the season. Six cash prizes will be
given away.
According to Kenosha papers Ke-
nosha is very we'll supplied with foot
pads" says the Waukegan Herald.
We regret that that seems to be the
case. However, they are usually on
the Waukegan road.
A corset may make or mar q grace
full figure. We are doing wonderful
corset business, and no wonder. A full
| line of the most reliable make. On
common corsets at common prices.
Signed Barden & McArdle. dwtf
A large number were turned away
from the Rhode opera house last even
ling. All available seats were taken
| long before the curtain was raised.
The play was Faust and was fairly we'll
presented. Mephisto and Margaret
were we'll represented, but if we should
criticise too much speciality was intro
duced and the thought of the author
somewhat obscured by the parapher-
MALTA of the modern stage.
Fred Richter made a bet of dollar
with Bobbie Burt Monday afternoon
that Gilbert Haigh could not run from
Richter's restaurant up to the Sterling
and back in less than fifteen minutes.
Burt took the bet and Haigh made the
run, touching the front door of the
Sterling and returned to the restaurant
in Just twelve minutes Haigh does
not pretend to be a runner, but he can
do it if there is money in it.
Wherever the Northwestern railway
| has double tracks the trains run IN and
out on the left hand track. In but a
few instances is the time hOnOred rule,
keep to the right" disregarded, and
the Northwestern furnishes one OF the
instances. They claim that by having
the engineer ride over the inside rail,
he can keep watch of both tracks, while
| if he is on the right hand side there is
a space in front of his engine and
ahead Of it on the other side that he
cannot see. Most engineers, however,
prefer keeping to the right.
Ward L. Smith, of Frederickstown,
Mo-, was troubled with chronic diar-
rhea for over thirty years. He had
become fully satisfied that was only a
question of short time until he would
have to give up. He had been treated
by some of the best physicians in Eu
rope and America, but got no per-
manent relief. One day he picked up