The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-06

STeSdIlOudl CLUTCH 1HuTSudy evening.
When the weather clerk predicts a
fair Sunday he should give it to us or
give up his job.
The work of putting in the wing
sewers on Chicago street near Prairie
avenue has begun. ee
Several of even the new awnings on
Main and other streets look as if they
had seen better days.
! Since Rev. 81. S. Roblee took the
pastorate of the Congregational church
he has taken IN twenty new members.
Seven of them joined Sunday.
| DR.. Farr returned from his trip to
Virginia Sunday afternoon. He re-
ports having laid out under trees and
all that sort of thing down there.
Let the bicycle path progress. The
season seems to have come at last when
such a thing can be much enjoyed.
Local cyclists are getting sick of the
pavement.
Col. and Mrs. W. W. Strong returned
from their trip to Cleveland, O., Sun
day. The colonel attended the
national meeting of the Sons of the
Revolution.
Capt. Anderson has totally aban-
doned the scow, Contest, which went
ashore here short time ago as totally
unworthy of repairs. She is about
total loss. She was valued at $1,000
and carried no insurance.
A horse belonging to John Clifford,
of Pleasant Prairie, took fright Satur-
day evening about o'clock, and ran
away. 1t caused great commotfon
on Main street until bystander
jumped into the wagon, just before the
chief of police office and stopped him.
The Ashland Avenue Whist club
was entertained by Mr. and Mrs Thos.
Hansen. The club was finely repre-
sented in the meeting Saturday even
ing. The prizes were awarded to j. [.
Yule, Mrs. Windesheim, Frank White
and Mrs. Carrie Orborne.
Levi Hogle, of Salem, was arrested
Saturday on the charge of sodomy.
He was taken before Justice Blum and
bound over to the circuit court in bonds
of $500. He was brought here by
Constable Spitzman. The charge was
made by Henry Sevey. Mr.. Hogle is a
married man 81 years of age.
Clarence Eby, the bar tender at the
Grant House, was taken very suddenly
sick Friday evening. Drs. Pugh and
Ripley were called at once. He was
taken to the Presbyterian hospital,
Chicago, today There is some proba-
bility of his having to undergo an oper-
alton. just what the trouble is has not
yet been reported authoritively.
The life saving station is having a
long felt want filled. The approach to
the station, which has for so long been
matter OF wading, is at last being
filled up. They are hauling gravel
from the lake shore, and with it raising
and filing the low sandy ground which
surrounds the station. When the work
is finished it will be so that those going
to the life saving station will be able to
go over dry shod.
The Heroic Dutchman" given by
st. Aloysius society Monday evening in
the St. George school hall, proved to
be a great drawing card. The hall
was filled to it's utmost, it. being estl-
mated that there were as many as 700
or 800 people present. The orchestral
music was furnished by the Stemm
Bros. The play was, according to
reports, we'll handled, and credit to
the boys who took part. A number OF
cadets from Racine came down to
attend.
When :" the man on the bike" and
the " bloomer girl" come in contact,
the former invariably gets the worse of
it. Why it should be so nobody knows,
but that it is so nobody has ever de-
MED. 1t was exemplifed on the corner
of Main street and Park avenue at noon
today. The girl was riding up Main
street and the man was riding down
Park avenue. Just when the street
sprinkler had unloaded a great part of
it's load the collision occurred. The
girl rode serenely on, while the man
lifted himself and wheel out of the mud
and pulled up on the curbing for re-
pairs.
The banquet and ball given by the
Danish Brotherhood at thier hall in
the Gonnermann block Saturday even
ing was a great success. There were
about 90 couples that sat down to the
banquet at o'clock Speeches and
toasts were given by the President,
James Larson, Maegard, Peter John