The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-01-30
A SECOND EDITION.
GsorgIana, !Flo1ida, Rapidly becoming a
City Composed of Kenosha People.

GsorgIana, !Flo1ida, Rapidly becoming 8
City Composed of Kenosna People.
Georgiana, that little Florida village
on the banks of njun river, is rapidly
becoming a second edition of Keno
sha, and if the emigration of people
towards Georgiaua continues at the
present rate, in a short period of time
it will be necessary to move the post
Office and the county Jail to the village
and the election will have to be hello
there in order to get quorum Of Ke-
nosha people together in one place.
This morning Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra
Simmons, Lewis Balm and daughter,
Mrs. G. R. Mcdowell, Miss Alice
French and her niece, Miss Ada d.
French, left for Georgiana, and when
these people arrive the Kenosha colony
will have the balance of power in
Georgiana.
For some time Georgiana has been
known as the Kenosha city of Florida;
like the little town of "Tailho1t,'
Georgiana has no pretentions. It's
little like and small and in fact there
are less than hundred people in the
village and the census taker has been
forced to do his work in the winter
time in order to get the name of the
town on the map. But the little viii
lage on the Injun has a peculiar at
traction for the people of Kenosha.
Twenty-Five years ago Mrs. William
Munson and her son, Frank Munson,
went to Florida from Salem and Sc
1ected the spot of the village as their
home, and five years later Mr.. f. w.
Lyman began his winter pilgrimages
10 the village. Since that time it has
been Kenosha county village, just
transported to the sunny climate of
Florida Frank Munson, an old Keno
sha county boy, occupies the leading
place il the village and dictates the
village government. Incidentally he
keeps the village store and has a GER
tain monopoly, as has DR.. Dowie, at
Zion City. Munsor rules with an iron
hand, but he insists that Georgiana is
town for comfort and not for style,
and when the residents of Kenosha
arrive there for the winter they are
forced to put aside their billed shirts
and join in the general cooperative
scheme to make Georgiana a city in
which every man can do as he p1eases
without being forced to give an account
of himself.
There are now between thirty and
forty people from Kenosha spending
the winter at Georgiana, among the
number being Grand Patriarch Fred
erick w. Lyman, Mrs. William Nun
son and son Frank, of Salem, who
have the honor of being the earliest
settlers; Capt. and Mrs. Robert Sym
monds,ss Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Simmons,
Mrs. Hampstead and children, Guy
Simmons, Lewis Balm, Mrs. G.. r.
Mcdowell, Misses Charlotte and Emily
Bond, and little Misses Emily and
Edna Bond, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Reber
and children, and Mr.. Reber's father:
Miss Alice French and Miss Ada
French, her niece; Robert Lyman, Miss
Mary Newell and Mrs. F. M. Pierce, Of
Pleasant Prairie.
| A short distance from Georgiana
across the Injun river, Captain Cog.
| gin, of Salem, has started a new Keno.
sha colony with himself and wife as
pioneers; and on the Island a little
farther down the river Mr.. and Mrs.
John Merrill, of Kansas City, former
Kenosha residents, have opened a
country place.