The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-18

The first robins are getting TO 0e oid
stories.
John Betting returned from Chicago
Monday.
We all hope this will be the last Of
the snow.
This fine weather brings out the
bicyclists.
George Hoffman, Of Cleveland, was
in the city Monday.
L. M. Wilson, of Milwaukee, spent
Monday among friends in this city.
There is already enough interest in
the circuit court to fill the court room.
Miss Swift has retired from her posi-
ton as stenographer for the gas COM
pany
Ben Cameron is going to Racine
Wednesday to call on his friends in the
Belle City.
The two fire department teams are
competing for honors on the streets
nowadays.
Miss Timm, of Pittsburg, is the guest
of Miss Gertie Meyers, at her home on
Park Place.
If we can ward off snow and rain for
a little while maybe we will have good
roads again.
Mrs. Henry DeBerge leaves Wednes-
day for weeks visit with her parents
in Caledonia.
Tho common council met Monday
evening, but it did not discuss the rail-
way franchise.
Miss Amy, the little daughter of Mr..
aud Mrs. S. G.. Newman, is i'll with the
whooping cough.
! The citizens mass meeting will not
take place until after the council has
taken up the franchise.
Matthew Slash, of the Milwaukee,
Racine & Kenosha Electric railway,
spent Monday in this city.
1t is beginning to look as if tuber-
culosiS might be or have been quite
prevalent in Kenosha county.
As the spring approaches we are in
terested in knowing what the gas COM
pany will do toward protecting the
river from the gas refuse.
II. Halberstadt has the plans for two
large double houses to be put up on
Park street all drawn up. They will
| be open to bidders Wednesday evening.
There are class of speople who use
language as Tallyrand did. for the
purpose of concealing thought, and to
whom craftsmanship is only abusive
ness.
The semi annual meeting of the Mil
waukee district Methodist Minister'S
association will be held in Racine
March 25 and 26. Rev. G. E. Gold
thorp is booked fora paper on " Church
Insurance" Mr.. Goldthorp is di-
rector in the Methodist Mutual In
surance company.
There is some talk of getting Rev. j.
B. Koehne, who gave a series of lee
lures in this city last year to speak be-
fore Kenosha people again. Relative
to this matter all those of the Congre
gational church and society who are
interested in having Mr.. Koehne here
again are invited to be at the Congre-
gational church at s o'clock Wednes-
day evening.
The milk shippers between Harvard
and Kenosha are going to organize.
They have a meeting of delegates next
Saturday, March 20, at the county
clerks Office, where they will elect a
director to represent them in Chicago
March %, at which time and place a
meeting will be held in the interest of
all milk shippers around Chicago.
Many of the friends of the young men
in the senior class of the High School
have been very curious to know the
reason of the soft down on their upper
lips disappearing after they had evil
IDENTIFY taken such pains and waited SO
long to have these smustaches ~ ap-
pear. We have just heard of the
reason and would say to the curious it
was due to a bet made with the young
ladies of the class that they made the
attempt and if they all succeeded before
March l, the young ladies had to furn-
ish five pound box of candy, and vice
versa. We would say, for fear there
might be some doubt, that the ladies
ate their bet
ITO those of our readers who may
be interested in rhymes, and who may
think that in the matter of poets the
new paper will not be so well equipped
as the two older ones we beg to say
that we make our own poetry. We are
not dependent on outsiders, whose
muse may be uncertain and hard to
WOO, but whenever there is any call fol
poetic goods wejust set our rhytmica
lathe going and the result is we'll
turned triolet or quatrain, barcarolle OF
dithyramb." Thus spake our new
neighbor in its bow to very anxious
and expectant public. Having spoken
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