The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Work on the Racine public library is
progressing slowly.


progressing slowly.
Next Sunday will be Washington's
birthday. No holiday this year.
The old plans for building Masonic
Temple in Kenosha are being revived.
A we'll known 'salary" loan man is
planning to open an Office in Kenosha.
Have your watches, clocks and jew
elry repaired at Lockhart's, 267 Main
street. If
No new cases of scarlet fever have
been reported in Kenosha during the
present week.
Kenosha makes more beds and mat
tresses annually than any other city
of her size in the world.
The ground hog was right on Feb.
2; and in the future weather prophets
will consider his decision final.
Owners of game cocks in Kenosha
are arranging for big main with
Milwaukee birds for the near future.
Miss Stella Blackman, who has been
seriously i'll with erysipelas at her
home in Bristol, is rapidly recovering
An attempt will be made by the
Common Council to redistrict the city
of Racine SO as to give the city control
of the County Board.
Waukegan is making an effort to 10.
cate the shoe factory of the Jefferson,
Mo-, penitentiary, which recently
sought site in Kenosha.
Inspector Bird is still holding up his
report on the investigation of the car
rier service in Kenosha and nothing
has been done in the matter.
The man who bet that Chicago and
Milwaukee cars would be running IN
Kenosha in 1908 has won his bet, even
if the line is still incomplete.
A number of Kenosha union men
went to Chicago Monday night to at
tend the big gathering in honor OF
John Mitchell and Clarence barrow.
The High school boys and girls have
begun to prepare for the annual con.
tests in defamation. The preliminary
contests will be held next month.
The passengers that have been com
PEELED to patronize the M. r. & K. line
since the cold weather set in, are com
planning that the cars have not beer
properly heated.
People dependent on the city have
begun to invent reasons why they
should not go the poor farm. There is
only one sure way and that is to gel
off the city lists.
Members of the Salvation Army are
IN Kenosha making an effort to secure
funds for the support of the poor IL
Chicago. AS usual Kenosha is con
tributing literally.
Mrs. Sophrortia Strong Bradley
widow of the late William H. Bradley
and woman we'll known to many OF
the older residents of Kerosha, died al
her home in Chicago Monday.
The contractors in Kenosha are
side, in order to allow them to get to
work. Many new buildings will be
put up in Kenosha this spring.
Francesca M. Hannahs, a daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hannahs, for
rnerly residents of this city, died at
Boulder, Colorado, where she had
gone in search of health, on February
9Th.
The Chicago Ice companies are reap
ing the biggest harvest in years on
the Kenosha county lakes. The houses
are all well filled and thousands of
tons of ice are being shipped to Chi
cago.
The man who rides between Kenosha
and Chicago on the early trains has a
kick coming. The cars are cold, and
the continued opening and shutting of
doors does not in any way improve the
temperature.
The employees of the Hoosick Falls
Knitting Company, recently purchased
by the Cooper Underwear Company,
are still arriving in Kenesha, and it
seems that the entire force will be here
in another month.
Patrons of the Y. M. C. A. Star
entertainment are notified that the
postponed number of Richie, the
Magician, will occur Tuesday, March
8. The fourth number, Spil1man
Riggs, occurs this week Thursday.
Mrs. Mary A. Lecheminant died at
her home in st. Louis Monday of can
cer,of the stomach. She was sister
Of Irving ]. Cobb, Mrs. A. Fosdick
and Mrs. j. Ozanne, of this city. The
deceased was well known in this
county, having been an early resident
of the town of Somers.
The Misses Bertha and Annis Pal
meter were among the passengers on
the Dominion liner Commonw wealth.
which sailed from Boston for Mediter-
ranean ports Sunday. The Common
wealth carried 282 saloon passengers,
among them many we'll known society
and professional people.