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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
TAX REDEMPTION NOTICE.
STATE OF IscoNsIN, / 80
COUNTY OF KENOsHA, %

STATE OF WISCONSIN,, &c.
COUNTY OF KENOSHA,
August 5th, 1903.
The following is true and correct list of all
unredeemed lots, parcels or pieces of land sit
uate, lying and being in the County of Keno
sha and State of Wisconsin, which said pieces
were sod by the County Treasurer of said
County Sof Kenosha in the State aforesaid on
the twenty first day OF May, A. d. 1901. for the
unpaid taxes and charges due thereon, pursu-
ant to the Statutes. in such cases made and
provided, calculated thereon up to and includ-
ing the last day of redemption OF the same tc-
wit; May twenty first, A. D, 1904.
Now THEREFORE, NOTICE is hereby given
that unless such lots. parcels or pieces of land
are redeemed, as provided by law on or before
the twenty first day of May, A. D. 1904, the said
lands represented by Certificates OF Sale by
the County Treasurer OF the County OF Keno
eha. Wisconsin,. of the parcels therein de-
scribed will be conveyed to the legal owners of
the said certificates upon proper application,
according to the Statutes OF the State of Wis
cOnSin, in such cases made and pro Vided.
Given under my hand and seal of the County
Board of Supervisors OF the County of Keno
sha and State aforesaid this 9Th day of August,
A. d. 1903. VIM. @. CROSBY.
SEAL
TOWN OF SALEM
Mahoney and Devany-Two lots of lot 8. sec
tton l6, town l, range 20. Amount-S573.
TOWN OF BRISTOL. u
John SWain-NOrthWest a of the southeast
a section 81. town /, range II, 40 acres.
Amounts 70.
TOWN OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE.
Mrs. Hugh Wallace Commencing at point
on Fremont avenue SO rods south of north line
of quarter section; thence west parallel with
south line Of section 52S feet; thence south
parallel to Fremont avenue so feet; thence east
parallel TO first described line 523 feet to Ere
mont avenue; thence north on said avenue to
beginning, section s, town 1, range p, 3-5
acres. AmOunt-S7,70.
TOWN OF SOMERS.
Orson Fox--West u northwest u section So,
town 2, range ~, 80 acres. Amount-S66.7q.
John Tenehagen-Part north X, south u
southwest Il by 40 rods, east northwest corner
n, east on north line 20 rods, south 40 rods to
south line Il. "A west on said line 20 rods. north
30 rods, except u rod on south side, section 30,
town 2, range 3d. acres. Amounts. 81
Richard Howe, trustee-Lots 10 to "a, block
3. section 30, town. range 23 Amount IS II 81.
Dorothy B. Owen-Lot IL, block 4, North 1e
nosha, section 80, town 2, range o. Amount
CITY OF KENosHa.
FIRST WARD.
Thos Hoban-Lot 9. block H. southwest d,
section 81, town 2, range %. Amount-S4.95.
THIRD WARD
John Langin-Lot 5, block g. northeast a
section 6. town range %. Anount-S2888.
wooLAcoTr's SUB DIvIsIoN.
Chas. Johnson-Iots and 6. block g. north
east "A section /, town l, range % Amount
s45.72.
FIFTH wARD-THELEEN's SUBDIVISIONS
Justin K. Orvis-Lot 16, block 1, southwest
section 81, town 2, range % Amount-s15.3S
SEVENTH WARD.
Hans Hansen estate-Lot q block 70, north
east a section 81, town 2, range %. Amount
S28.88. w26
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
First publication, August ID, 1903.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

HENOSHA COUNTY COURT Probate
n N the matter OF the last will and
testament of Ward Silvernail deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
demands Of all persons against Ward
Silvernail deceased, late of the town Of
Salem in said county of Kenosha,
will be examined and adjusted By the County
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
terms of said Court to be holden at the County
Court Room, in the City of Kenosha, in and
for said County. on the first Tuesday Of
November A. D. 1903, and on the first Tuesday
of April. A. d. 1904, at 10 o'clock a. NJ OF
fhosedavs: also that the time until and includ-
Sag the first Tuesday of March, A. D. 1904
is the time allowed and limited for creditors
Of said Ward Silvernail, deceased, to pre-
ance.
Dated at Kenosha. the fifth day OF August
A. .. 1903 BY the Court
RUSSELL Fl. SLOSSON,
wis County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
WE ARE GETTING THE WORST OF

wv IA AhE VVOh01 OE
EDITOR TELEGRAPH-CoURIE
Like large majority of our people
have been watching with interest the
fight now going on-on paper-be-
tween Messrs. Beggs and Arnold over
certain railroad properties.
Now, while we are interested, I am
willing to confess it is from very
selfish and SO perfectly natural and
human cause: we want better service
for ourselves-and we don't care a
tinker's blessing how Beggs or Arnold
come out, if only we get what we
want.
have occasion to travel north of the
city limits are getting decidedly the
worst Of the squa bible between the two
great railroad magnates. Beggs don't
care whether his cars running south
from Milwaukee reach Kenosha in
time to connect with the absurdly-
scheduled Kenosha line, and Arnold is
totally indifferent as to when his dinky
cars land passengers at the sentry
box known as waiting room" this
side of the Sanitarium. Both parties
to this fight are apparently work
ing overtime to see which can
make it the more uncomfortable for
the unlucky travellers.
At the present writing honors ap-
pear about even, with perhaps trifle
A~~aAgA1r &C.
thing, for B. J. has three cracks at us
to Beggs' one.
Here's one way Bre'r Arnold works
his scheme to be exasperating and
generally disagreeable: The cars on
the local line are scheduled to leave
their northern terminus at three, thirty
and twenty minutes past the hour.
The two latter periods are all right, but
what does that three minute start
mean? Why not five minutes after?
Because Beggs' cars arrive at that
point-if they are right on the dot-at
just three minutes after the hour. If
they chance to be minute or half a
minute late, which they frequently are,
you will see Acknowledgements vehicles
bobbing along down Milwaukee ave-
nue. like lame camel hunting cover,
while the crowd of passengers from the
north hurriedly flock away from Mr..
Beggs only to find that Mr.. Arnold has
fled and left them to stand around and
stamp and swear for twenty or thirty
minutes. A good hard storm fails to
improve the character of their remarks.
1t only makes the coming car an hour
or SO late. Go up there some night if
you care to enlarge your vocabulary.
All this may be fun for Messrs. "a.
and B., but the travelling public is get
ting sore. Il re have no influence
with Mr. Beggs to hurry his cars up a
bit, it might be possible to induce B.
J. to make haste trifie more slowly
with just one car out Of his three at
the point and time mentioned.
Fl. w. M.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1908.

THESE are days al county fairs that
farmers are told of all the bad things
that exist in our state and then they
80 home and sit down and wonder
whether the facts actually exist or
whether their preiudices are being
played upon. Grant County Witness.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

II is limited that the transcontinent-
mi railways are responsible for the
failure of the Panama canal treaty. If
this is susceptible of proof" it is tirae
shat somebody made it clear to the
Colombians that they are being made
catspaws Of to rake the railroad chest
nuts out OF the FIRE.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

THE Schmitz case has been settled"
and the man himself has been "in~
duced" to leave the city but if half the
stories now floating around town in re-
gard to the influences used to make
aim drop his case and skip are true,
there will be merry time if Schmitz
ever gets his nerve back and!returns to
cell his story.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
ACRES IN SMALL AMOUNTS.

Will sell acre property for fine gar
den purposes, S acres to 40 acres, mile
from city. Also, hotel with good
patronage, and acres For further
particulars see Peter Rhode, sor inquir-
at News Office. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
CORN CROP IN Danger.
If Frost Comes Before September 15.
Little Sound Corn viii be Harvested.


Little Sound Corn viii be Harvested.
Wisconsin's corn crop depends en-
tire1y upon whether or not there will
be a killing frost about Sept. 10 in the
northern counties and Sept. is in the
southern counties, according to the
crop report just issued By the Mil
waukee weather bureau. Frost may
be expected, as the second week IN
September is usually marked by such
a visitation.
The outlook for good corn crop is
by no means promising, the weather
man says. If the frost comes, very
little sound corn will be harvested.
Tie report says:
Special reports received from cor
respondents in regard to the condi-
ton of corn are summarized as fol-
lows: In the southern counties corn
on well drained rich soil will mature
by Sept. 10. this probably comprises
one-fourtn of the crop. About one
half of the crop will require from
ten days to two weeks longer, while
the remainder will not be out of dam
ger before Oct. /. La the central
and northern counties practically the
same conditions exist, except that the
crop is generally from five to ten days
later than in the southern counties.
The weather conditions for the past
week have been generally favorable
both for growing crops and for curing
grain in the shock. Practically no
rain occurred until near the end of
the week, when showers we're general
over the state. The dry, warm weather
dried shocked grain very quickly.
and large amount Of threshing was
accomplished during the week. The
yields Of wheat, rye and barley are
generally considered satisfactory, al
though not quite SO good as last year.
The value of the barley crop is some
what 1essened by discoloration. Oats
have proved rather disappointing,
both as to yield and the quality of the
grain. Rust appeared in some sec
tons on this crop early in July, and
gradually became general over the
state. The yield per acre has been
greatly lessened, while the grain is
light and lacking in feeding value.
Apples will be light crop, although
of fair quality. Cranberries are ripen-
ing, and picking will begin on some
marshes by Sept. /. The crop was ma
terially shortened by the June frost,
especially in Waushara county, and in
portions Of Wood county. The quality
Of the fruit is excellent, the berries
being generally large in size. EARLY
potatoes are being dug, and the yield
is mainly satisfactory, although gen.
orally not SO large as anticipated.
Late potatoes are doing well.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

oughly alive and up-to-date ia many
ways Kenosha gives up" easier than
any place on the map. The victims
probably go IN on the principle that
experience comes high but we must
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
Excursion Rates to the Centennial CeleDra-
tiOn at Chicago.

Via the North Western Line. Excur-
sion tickets will be sold at reduced
rates September %, % and go, limited
to return until October 2, inclusive.
For further particulars apply to
Agents Chicago & North-W Western
R'y. w2o
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

Firms like Armour & Co., Swift & Co.
Adams Express Co. and the u. S. Express
Co. have used Picnic Oil for years. 1t
contains no ammonia or turpentine and is
not greasy. II is healing, strengthening,
invigorating. antiseptic lotion for all the
ills of the horse. It penetrates through the
skin and gets at the seat of pain and disease
and quickly banishes it. 1t is guaranteed
to cure all wounds and cuts, saddle and
girth gals. foot rot, bony engagements.
hstula on the wither, cracked heels. sand
cracks scratches and grease heel. sal-
lenders. mallenders. mango, foul ulcers.
itch, sprains and bruises, splints, spavins,
scalds burns, CHAMBERS, catarrh, and collie.
Sold since 1885. Price, Bounce bottle, 25c:
lO-ounce bottle. SOC: 32-ounce bottle, $1.00.
Picnic CONDITION POWDERS
Horses are just as subject to constipation
as human beings, SO il something besides
Picnic Oil is needed use Picnic Condition
Powders. Clean out the bowels every SO
often Its good for the horse. The Con-
dition Powders cure constipation. collie,
pink eye. epizootic. rough coat. hide bound.
Price, % cents package.
TnHH We sell the Picnic
TREE Oil Co. preparations
and to all who call we
will give an interesting book giving diseases
of horses, how to cure them and copper
plate engraving suitable for framing of
America S Most Perfect Horse. Call today
as it costs you nothing,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

Fruit Champagne is the best 5 cent
drink that can be bought. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
GIVEN AWAY.

One term Of music lessons will be
given free to any person or persons
purchasing new piano at G. G..
Schulze's music store. The purchas-
ers will be allowed to select any teacher
they wish. This proposition will be
good for 80 days only. For particulars
call at G. G. Schulze's music store, 500
Main street, Kenosha, Wis. sS
Tanners Ice Cream Soda positively
the best. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

Half Rates to Wisconsin State Fair at MIL
waukee,
Via the North Western Line. Excur-
sion tickets will be sold at one fare for
the round trip, Sept. to II, inclusive,
limited to return until Sept. II, inclu-
sive. Apply to agents Chicago s.
North Wester R'y. VII
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23

efgn military attaches, who looked at the marching troops from the experts point of view, were impressed by the admirable appearance of the infantry. They are a sturdy set of men. There are nc fancy regiments. All the com mands seem to be ready for immediate service. The artillery is composed of men equal in personnel to the infantry. It is well equipped, so far as guns are concerned, but it is not strong in horses. The Japs have not learned the value of the American mule. Their bat teeries are drawn by Chinese ponies, which are very small. compared with American horses and mules. So also with the cavalry. The Japanese Rough Riders are mounted on ponies, while the officers ride horses imported from Aus tralia.
 The Japanese army is said to be ach- ing to show what it can do, and when it gets a chance it will doubtless give a good account Of itsel:.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
BAD SPELLING.

Reflection on Ones Inability to Put Right Letters in Right Place.
 Besides being the seat of the North western university and various other educational institutions, Evanston, H., is the home of Professor J. Scott Clark, who makes a fetich of correct orthogra- phy. Recently many applicants for ad- mission to the Northwestern university were rejected because of bad spelling, and special school was established for instruction ir this branch. How neces- sary such a school is has been further shown by the discovery of sixteen hun dred gross and in some cases nischiev- ous errors in spelling In the revised or dinances of the town. The cost of the n1isspelling to the community is several hundred dollars, the entire edition of ordinances having been destroyed and new and corrected one ordered. The blame primarily rests on the committee Iof the common council, to which the re- vision was intrusted. In defense of themselves the members of the commit tee have published communication to the public, in which they protest against the importance which is generally given to good spelling. They affirm that the ability to spell well is a direct gift of
 heaven, and cannot be acquired by those in whom the gift is lacking. They deny that there is any warrant for making the ability to spell test of lrespectability, or even of learning, and recite that many men who have been eminent in different departments of en- terprise have been constantly guilty of erroneous orthography. They include | in the list George Washington and many statesmen whose intelligence has never been doubted.
 Probably it is mistake to say that any person with an average memory cannot learn to spell. As there is a lack Iof analogy in the spelling of words, learning to spell is chiefly matter of memory. Repetition is the only secret about it. There are some aids, but it is the words to which there is no guide which are the common source of trouble Persons who do not spell well have simply neglected the study or orthogra-
 phy, and are not entitled to the sympa- thy they ask. Operators of typewriting machines who have considered them selves the victims of a defective ortho- graphical memory often become good spoilers through practice. In a vast proportion of cases bad spelling may be traced to wrong pronunciation, which is l even more frequent than is wrong spell ling. Probably the modern methods of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
JApAN'S ARMY.

The accounts of the review of some of the best regiments in the Imperial army by the Emperor of Japan indicate that Japan's army, is ready for business. Before the review the Emperor held a reception, when the ministers and mili- tary and naval attaches were presented to him. The sovereign of Japan is dem- ocratic in his ways He shakes hands with foreigners who are introduced to him and engages in conversation with them. Not many years ago it was con- sidered sacrilese by the Japanese to speak the Emperor's name. To this day many of his subjects look upon him as a god. His bearing at the review did not impress foreign observers as that of a ruler out of touch with the people and the army. AS he rode along the hollow scuare into which the soldiers had formed he looked earnestly and steadily into the faces of the men. The essence os Japanese patriotism is devotion to the monarch. There is not soldier or sailor, it is said, who would not consider it all honor to die for the Emperor. Yet as the army passed in review before the sovereign not voice was raised in &C., clamation. The men moved, like clock work. and their lips were mute. For
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
BAD MEN Fon GOOD ROADS.

Schenectady county, New York, has been trying an experiment which ought to be more generally tried. It has util- ized some of it's abIe-bodied jail prison CTS in work on the highways. They are not sent out as a chaingang, al- though guards go along, and they work only eight hours day. Most of these men work without objection" reports Inspector Mclaughlin to the State com mission of prisons, "and it greatly im- proves their capacities and keeps them in condition to continue to labor after the expiration of their terms"
 Why more of this kind of thing isn't done doth not appear. Making good roads is certainly a good use to put bad men to, and it is as good for the men as it is for the roads. The way of the transgressor is hard and not smooth, but he is well occupied when he is mak- ing the ways of those who manage to keep out of jail hard and smooth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
THE BALLOT OF THE SHADOW OF
 DEATH,

The mode Q: voting by ballot was at the outset very difficult to acquire by
 many os those who all their lives had been accustomed to the system of open voting, and, in consequence, there was a
 much larger proportion of spoiled ballot papers then than now. We remember at the first election in one Of our, large manufacturing towns, after the Ballot act had come into operation, an elderly
 voter, known by the soubriquet of '',The
 Shadow of Death" coming into the
 polling station to record his vote. And,
 by the way, it may not be wholly unin- teresting to explain the origin of this
 somewhat dolorous, but, as will be seen, very appropriate. nickname. Those
 were the days before the half-penny
 post, and it was found to be less bur densome to deliver circulars by special
 messenger than to send them through
 the post office. The voter referred to
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
DEAD LETTERS.

The annual report of the dead letter office ought to cause a great awakening and make every man look in his pock- cts for letters he hasn't mailed. It ap- pears that an average of 213 letters and parcels without any address whatever are received at the dead letter office daily. More than half of them contain money. Last year the office received 2f0,255 letters containing postage stamps. Besides these, almost $6,000 worth of postage stamps was received that had been found loose in the mail bags. The dead letter office does what it can to correct the carelessness of the people. but it cannot do complete work, because letters which have no address or Q wrong address on the outside often have no address on the inside which enables them to be returned to the writers. But in the course of the year 2,544,370 letters that reached the dead letter office were subsequently delivered to their owners, and 5,S06 were returned to the writers. But e,111,49S letters that afforded no clue. to enable them to be forwarded to anybody were destroyed. Of course some of these dead letters make great trouble. The poet truly says that more evil is wrought by want of thought than by want of heart.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23

combined i'll his person the occupations of tailor and circular deliverer, and
 when he heard of any one being serious. ly i'll, would call at the door to inquire after the health of the sufferer. On the response to his inquiries being given
 he would say, in a low funeral whisper, If anything should happen, and in case You might want me for delivering the funeral letters, my address is so-and- so," mentioning his usual place of res idence. Our old friend, having in due course been supplied with a ballot pa per, was put into the usual compart- rr1ent to mark his vote. Five. ten. fif- teen minutes elapsed, and still no word Of his energence, when the presiding officer lifted the curtain and was greet ed by the trembling Shadow with the anxious inquiry, What am bitten in here for?" No doubt the poor wretch thought that he was condemned to a protracted period of imprisonment for some unknown nisdemeanor!- William Auld. in Long1nan's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-23
4 Soua oi Bright Days

The bright d6;s-they arc coming, no mat
 ter what tliey say! For heath the sneus of winter dreams tie
 violet of May. And same time, in tho future, in the golden
 years to be, There'Il be blossoms in tGe desert, and the
 streams wifi sins to see. The bright dAys--they are coming; there's
 tWinkling of the ligbt ii the storm that sheds its shadows on tie
 starry brow Of night; Aud son.e HMer-in the future, when the
 clouds hSyn faded far, The sun will greet the morning and tho
 night will claim the star: The bright days-~they are coming, in the
 citles and the deiis There's whisper of the music from the
 mornings golden beilsl And some time. in the future, when the
 skies are bending blue, There1l be angels at the windows ,and s. they'll kiss their hands to you. Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.