The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-15

Kenosha and Milwaukee will try
at Golf at Milwaukee next
Saturday afternoon. The Kenosha
team will e a strong one.
It is reported that there will be an
other vacancy in the city schools be-
fore the opening of the fall term. Gu
pid is to blame for the trouble.
The doctors report that Tuesday was
the busiest day ever seen in Kenosha.
Well, six accidents in one day is doing
pretty we'll for town of this size.
The coroner's jury called to investi-
gate the death of John Gales held an
inquest Tuesday afternoon and re-
turned verdict of accidental death.
DR.. Lane has removed from the old
DR.. Haze1ton offices to DR.. Ripley's
new building, us Wisconsin street,
opposite the gas Office. open evenings
from 7 to 8 O'Clock. wifi
Rev. Francis P. Riley will give the
annual address before the Old Settlers
club on the occasion of the 23rd annual
reunion and picnic, to be held at Pad
docks Lake on Thursday, August
Goth, DIV
The Chief of Police has issued an
edict that horses must not be left un-
hitched on the streets of Kenosha.
This kind of business is against the
ordinances and guilty parties will be
punished.
The employees of the Kenosha Street
Railway company are wrapping all the
trolley poles on Main street with heavy
iron withes. This is certainly good
move and it should be extended to all
parts of the city.
John Alexander has had another
rude awakening. Last Saturday the
will of the wife of Deacon Stevenson
was filed for probate and this estima-
Bile lady left none of her fifty thousand
dollars to John Alexander.
The enforcement of the ordinance
requiring horses standing on the
streets to be hitched is good thing;
but aren't there some other city ordi-
nances that could be enforced to the
betterment of the community?
The local golfers have not yet given
up the plan of holding an open tour
nament in this city during the present
season. After the other tournaments
are over the arrangements for the Ke-
nosha meet will be announced.
From present indications it looks as
if it would have been a good thing for
the yacht Prairie to have been selected
as a defender for the Canadian cup.
She might have lost but she would
have made as good a showing as the
Cadillac.
The members of the Chicago yacht
club are planning to have cruising
race to this city late in August Or
early in September. The members of
the club are very fond of trips to Ke-
nosha and there will be no lack of en-
tries for the race,
The Windsor Spring company mar
row1y escaped a serious fire at their
plant during the noon hour today.
While the employees were out of the
factory a tank used for painting pur-
poses caught fire and the flames were
spreading rapidly when discovered.
AS the tank was covered the fire could
not get out of the narrow confines and
in this way the building was saved.
Shortly after noon still alarm was
sent in and the department went out
and extinguished the flames in the
tank. The loss from the fire will be
small.
A threshing machine and equipment
belonging to Jacob Alsted, of Trues-
dell. was burned Tuesday afternoon
on the old Craney farm in the town of
Paris. The machine had been in OPP
GRAFTON but a short time, when the dry
grain stacked around caught fire and
the flames were quickly communicated
to the machinery. The loss of the
machine will be about $500. The five
stacks of grain destoyed contained
about FIVE hundred bushels of oats. 1t
is not known how the fire started, but
it is supposed to have resulted from
sparks flying from the engine to the
stacks.