The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-04

Erected-New Factories Built and Ole
| Ones Enlarged-A Record of Genera.
Prosperity Unequalled by any other City
| in wisconsin.
| Well may we say
THE year has passed and gone,
And with it many bright and happy throng
OF golden oreamS.
Its mark is on each brow.
It's shadow in each heart
The year has been the most prosper
Gus in the history of the city. The
following brief resume of the chief
events of the year may awaken some
memories of the past:
January
Council decides to act on har6or question
Annual meeting of trustees Of Fire Dept
Father Cleary lectures on 1.-The Flag and
the Cross. . Marriage Of W Birmingham
and Miss Bernice Wallace at Galena, III
New Denl1ng school opened
10. President signs bill1or survey of Keno
sha harDor
70 Hon z G Simmons makes the offer to
give the county d soldiers monument An
nouncement of the death Of julius Wisconsin
Bacon, the Oldest native of the county
brary to the city as memorial TO his son.
Gilbert M Simmons Death of K w Blinn at
Mason City, Iowa
Is St Georges church trustees decide to
Ell ect new society hall at cost OF $4,000
16 City Council decides to refund the city
debt.
18 Charity Minstrel show at the opera
house
Fl Mygatt property purchased for the har-
bOr improvements
% Danish Lutheran church celebrates 25th
anniversary
% w H Schott presents franchise for mu-
nicipal heating plant
% Fourth matrimonial venture OF II
Schulz
February
/ Annual feast of St Matthew's church
choir boys Mrs Mary Halves Wilmarth lee
lures before the Woman's Club
3 Dedication of the Dem1ng school j.
5 Murder of Albert Freitsche
pernicious contract granted to the Elec-
trio Light company for ten years City &C.
cepts gilt of the Balm park
Miss Osta banks weds Newton Moore OF
Chicago
II swedish Lutheran church pays the debt
on the temple
IS Kenosha divided into eight wards by the
committee
70 Madame Allen celebrates the 80th ami
versary Of her birth
25 Milwaukee company makes deal for
the purchase of the M r & Il railroad
March
2 Railway wreck at Pleasant Pra1rle
Death of James M Kellogg
Harbor bill passed by Congress
Death of Mrs Warren Slade at SHADES
Corners
Church-Saloon bill killed
II Death of Hon LathrOp Burgess
10 Another enlargement of the Northwest
ern Wire Mattress works started. Deatn OF
Stephen Burroughs
IA Abraham Ozanne died suddenly at his
home in Somers BI
IS Sterling factory decides to join bicycle
trust
IL tt Meyers erects four story building on
Market street
21 Goodrich liner Atlanta goes ashore off
Kenosha at daybreak Death of Mr. and Mrs
Joseph 1ongwell. of Somers
% Mr. and Mrs S Newell give $1,000 to the
YIN G A building fund
"a Col Farr nominated for Mayor by Re-
publicans
q James German nominated for Mayor by
Democrats
28 Mr. and Mrs ] j Hoyt give 1000 to Y M
CA
30 Disastrous fire on the farm of Hiram
Ferry
April
8 Saloon ordinance becomes a law
James German elected Mayor
5 Military funeral of Adolph NeWhouse
6 Crap games in city raided
IL MR. K co granted franchise by the
City Council Company L gives military ball
IA Mayor German declared the M & K
franchise null and void
II Death of w S Gibbon occurs in Chicago
20 Marriage offs Fred G Schroeder and Miss
May Rice and DR. E F Rowell and Miss Ethelyn
Bullamore
20 MR&K is sold to Milwaukee company
May
2 HC Chamberlain killed in railway wreck
5 Thomas English died
Annual meeting of the Old Settlers club
Pop Graves gets his leg broken Mandamus
proceedings brought by M & K against the
city
Mysterious disappearance of Arthur
Schrader, ahsa1lOr
II Little Willie Sears killed by a train at
the state line
men
"A Remains of Mrs William Stayner OF
Milwaukee washed up by the lake
Is Roy Hale weds
81 Herman Ploetzsdies from injuries recetv.
ed in railway accident
"a City Clerk Jacob files reply to mandamus
proceedings and alleges bribery in railway
fight Founders day at Kemper Hall
20 Railway company gives up the fight the
Kenosha Council a{ %
| 81 Mr. and Mrs w MARITIME celebrate their
golden wedding
80 Appropriate observance of Memorial
| day
81 Capt G Cameron awarded a silver
medal by the government for his distinguished
services as a life saver
June
Countess Adelaide Schimmellmann visits
the city
Assault on Mayor German by an unknown
1 German
10 William Lynch,celebrates the Tooth ami
versary of his birth
12 Final settlement of the Dan Head bank
failure
10 Death OF Marie Ramsey Bacot AID
FRANKIE weds Miss Eva Keenan,
IA Commencement day at Kemper Hall W
w Miller weds-
IS Foreman William McSperrem killed in a
railway accident
18 VIM Borkenhagen lost his lost his life
while fishing at Hooker lake
10 Aid FRANKIE resigns