The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-11-27

Have your watches, clocks and jew
e1ry repaired at Lockhart's. dwtf
w. L. Lock, of Chicago, is spending
few days with friends here.
Edward Durkee, of Elk Rapids,
Mich, is visiting his brother, Harvey
Durkee.
Mrs. John Mindermann has returned
home after short visit with friends in
Chicago.
Mise Bessie Germaine, of Oak Park,
is spending a week with friends in
Kenosha.
T. c. Mayer, who has been i'll for
the past six weeks has gone to Mil
waukee Sanitarium for treatment.
Mayor Pfennig is now looking about
for new Chief of Police. He will
have to be good man to keep up the
work.
The last will and testament of Peter
Schaefer, late of the town of Somers,
was filed for probate in the County
court Thursday.
The Horlick Polo team Of Racine,
defeated the Indianapolis team in the
opening match Of the year Friday
night by score Of 10 to 1.
Typhoid fever is still on the increase
in the city and the health officer urges
that every precaution be taken to pre-
vent any further spread of the disease.
Makes people prick up their ears,
makes people strenuous, puts one on
tiptoe of expectation. That's what
Rocky Mountain Tea will do. Csc.
C. H. Hurd. dwn22
The only farmers institute to be
held in Kenosha county during the
coming winter will be held, at New
Munster on March and 4. w. C.
Bradley will be the conductor.
The County Board has a genuine
mystery. Some one has stolen the
gayil presented to Chairman Tigh by
retiring Chairman Becker. The gavil
disa ppeared on Tuesday night and ali
effort to locate it has been futile.
Rural delivery carriers will be given
vacation on Thanksgivingssday so
that they can spend the day at home
with plenty of opportunity to offer
thanks, and they will be paid as
though they had worked on that day.
The Anti-Cigarette League in Ke-
nosha is growing. 1t now has more
than hundred members and the boys
are, still joining. Some effort to en-
force the laws against the sale of Gig
arettes will be made in the near future,
There are no changes in Lake Mich
igan coal rates and rumors of an ad-
vance are declared without foundation
by vesselmen. They claim they can
charter all the tonnage they can load
before navigation closes at the present
rates.
Notices will be sent out in few
days by insurance agents to business
men and other policy holders warning
them against the Christmas tree haz-
ard. While but few fires during the
holiday season last year were traced to
the festival tree and its innumerab1e
candles, Wisconsin agents do not in
tend to run any chances this year.
Archbishop Katzer will be a guest
of honor in Racine on Thanksgiving
day, when the golden anniversary of
the erection and dedication of ST.
Mary's Catholic church will take place.
It is half a century since the corner
stone OF the Racine ed:fce was laid.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made for the event and it will be one
of the largest gatherings of the Catho-
lie clergy and members of the church
ever held In Wisconsin.
The Federated Trades Council of
Milwaukee has elected James Sheenan
of the cigar makers union as its rep
resentative to call upon Gov. LaFol-
lette and discuss with him the legisla-
tive measures affecting labor which he
will be asked to include in his MESA ge
to the Legislature. Fred Bockhausen,
secretary of the State federation of
Labor has already been selected by the
executive board of that body to repre-
sent it on the same mission. The call
will be made soon.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way company is evidently suspicious
of the renewed activity being shown
by the Kenosha Electric Railway com
pany and the old guards which watched
the Northwestern crossings for some
many months have been called into
service again. The superintendent
of construction for the railway com
pany state that the crossings have not
yet arrived In Kenosha and that no
trouble will occur between the two
companies when the crossings are
ready to be put in.
There is well defined rumor afioat
in railroad circles that the financial
control of the Pere Marquette line has
passed into the hands of a group of
St. Louis capitalists and that, with the
object of e1ecting the officials in sym
pathY with the CONTEMPLATED nIau of