The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-11

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an extended visit with relatives in St.
Louis.
Miss Sarah Howard and Miss Grace
Dodge spent Sunday with Racine
friends.
Charles Crabtree, of Waukegan,
spent Sunday with Miss Gertrude
Ho1lenbeck.
Mrs. H. S. Read, Of Ludington,
Mich, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam L. Yu1e.
George Gordon Yu1e, who has been
visiting Ellsworth Paine at Oak Park,
has returned home.
Mrs. w. N. Shandrew and daughter,
Ethel, have returned from short visit
with friends in Milwaukee.
Miss Margaret Te1far has returned
to her school work at Arlington
Heights after a short visit with her
parents.
It is limited that the incoming city
council will make some changes IN the
police and fire department. After all
it would be just as we'll to give some
other men trial.
Mr.. Buckle, of Freeport, ILL.,, has
been named as the business manager
of the Daily Gazette. 1t is reported
that Mr.. Buckle has purchased a halt
interest in the paper.
A short armed "grafter'' was arrest
ed on Prairie avenue this afternoon.
The fellow claims to be the champion
"pan-hand1er'' and from all reports he
lives up to his reputation.
William Keafer and Miss Sophia
Marx, of Ravenswood, were united In
marriage in Kenosha on last Saturday
afternoon. The ceremony was per-
formed by Judge S1osson.
The chapter of the order of the
Buffalo among the young ladies OF the
city is growing very rapidly. 1t is
said that the young ladies have now
over two hundred members.
The death kne11 of the Primary cleo
ton bill has been sounded in the state
senate. Kenosha's senator did his
part in killing the measure. A sub
stitute bill will be presented later in
the session.
The police department of the city
! are badly hampered on account OF the
fact that there are no police calls IN
the different wards. An effort will be
made in the near future to have
police call set up in every ward of the
city.
M. A. Smead, who was formerly en1-
p1oyed at the Simmons Manufacturing
company, was united in marriage to-
day to Miss Elizabeth Kellogg, of Min
era1 Point. Mr.. and Mrs. Smead leave
this evening for San Francisco, where
| they will make their future home.
It seems as if the porch climber and
the burglar is reaping harvest along
the lake shore just at present. Wau-
kegan reports a burglary Saturday
evening and Racine reports that eight
houses were entered. 1t is high time
a protective association was organized.
Mrs. Mary S. Kess1er, wife of Julius
Kess1er of Omaha, Neb., died at the
Pennoyer Sanitarium early Sunday
morning. The deceased had been at
the Sanitarium only short time, and
had been i'll for several years. The
remains were shipped to Omaha for
interment.
The attention of the police force is
called to the fact that large number
of small Boys make practice of loaf
ing on the streets after night fall and
on many evenings the boys are on the
streets far into the night. Kenosha
has no curfew law but these boys
should be sent home and to bed by the
policemen.
The police office will have new Off
cia1 within few days. He will be
desk sergeant, whose duty will be to
take charge of the place at night. Many
calls are received at the office late at
night but as all the officers are out on
their beats there is no one to answer
such calls. The appointment of the
new man will fill long felt want.
After guiding sailors into Racine
harbor longer than sixty years with
it's bright beacon the old brick light
house on the pier is to meet its doom
by edict of the government. 1t is
planned to erect a steel tower at the
extreme east end of the pier to be
completed by June 1. The govern
ment has appropriated $1,000 for that
purpose. A large storehouse also is in
| con Str11ctiOn for The increased SUD-
plies for the harbor light and quarters
for two keepers.
The chief of the GAINESVILLE fire de-
partment has prepared some interest
ing facts in regard to the first twenty
cities in the state. Kenosha is given
good mention in the list of cities. The
report shows that Kenosha stands
seventeenth in the list as to the amount
of property returned for assessment
the amount being placed at $3,095, 100
The amount paid in insurance losses