The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-30
Capt. Lew Mont is visiting in thi

city.
William Fisher was a Chicago visi
/ tor Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Letsom are
reported seriously i'll.
]. c. Davis, of St. Joe, Mich, spent
Thursday in Kenosha.
c. J. Newt, of Pontiac, ILL.,, was in
Kenosha Thursday evening.
! James Lawrence, Of Milwaukee,
transacted business in Kenosha Fri
day.
John c. Slater and H. B. Robinson
have been appointed Notaries by the
Governor.
I The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Week is reported dangerously i'll with
pneumonia.
The Press club of Chicago has de
cided to hold their annual picnic at
Waukegan during June.
Mrs. Edward Thacher and daughter
Miss Ellen, of Chicago, are spending
week with friends in this city.
The settlement of the estate Of
Michael Zeien and Cornelius McKune
have been appealed to the Circuit
Court
Mabel Lorraine Robinson, the five
year-o1d daughter of DR.. H. A. Robin
son, of this city, died at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Thursday. -
The Kenosha Chapter of the Catholic
Order of Forresters entertained friends
at dance Thursday evening in honor
of it's eleventh anniversary.
The Kenosha members of the Uni
form Rank, K. of P, attended the
banquet and review given in Racine
Thursday evening. The boys report
great time.
The marriage of Miss Mamie Weller,
daughter of Mrs. Mary Weller, to Mr..
Hal Sigafoos, of Racine, will be cele-
brated at ST. James church on the
morning of June 4th.
Huge posters are out announcing
the opening of the new base ball park.
A special train will be run from the
Main street crossing to the grounds
and ample pleasure is promised for all.
Evidently the boat business on the
lakes is booming. The Racine Boat
company has been forced to order their
men to work twelve hours a day in
order to get the boats ready for the
sailors.
Chas. D. Merrill, of Beloit, has pur-
chased mante1 from C. A. Dewey to
be placed in the Children's Home at
Be1oit. The purchase was made from
the Kenosha firm after both Milwau-
kee and Chicago dealers had bid on
| the work.
Two hundred men are employed at
Zion erecting a mammoth platform to
be used in connection with the big
celebration there next week. It will
be more than mile in length, and is
being constructed to hold fifty thou
sand people.
The River and Harbor committee is
now at work en- new bill to be pre-
scented to Congress at the next session.
Kenosha will be provided with an
| SlAu4NACul " AhSuAC (LN
completion of further improvements
in the breakwater, which have been
urged by the Kenosha business men.
The team of horses attached to the
delivery wagon of the Chicago-Rock-
ford Hosiery works ran away on Main
street Thursday afternoon. The race
created quite little excitement. At
the corner of Main and Pearl street the
horses dashed into wagon belonging
to Henry DeBerg and the wagon was
badly wrecked.
An effort is being made to have the
! benefits of Saturday afternoon closing
extended to all the factories in the
: city. At present the Hosiery Works
and the Windsor Spring Co. are using
the plan, and it is found to be most
profitable one for both the employers
and the employee.
L The Water Commissioners met at
the city hall last evening, but little
) business of impor tance was trans
acted. A number of petitions for ex-
! tensions were received but no action
on the matter was taken on account of
the fact that the purchase of the new
pump makes extensions impossible
this year.