The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-12-10

What 90 you think OF the Water
Commissioners report?
The first of the High School lectures
takes place Friday night.
Louis e. Bechman, of Kankakee,
Ill. was a Kenosha visitor Monday.
Frank Wilson, of Racine, visited
friends in Kenosha Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben jamin Bailey, of
Racine, spent Sunday with friends in
Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Jacobs, of Mil
waukee, spent Sunday with friends in
Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Taylor of Racine
spent Sunday andIMonday with friends
In Kenosha.
Mrs. N. ]. Terry and little daughter
visited relatives in Racine Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Robinson spent
Sunday with Mrs. Robinson's parents
in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Frank Robinson and daughter
Stella, of Chicago, spent Monday even
ing with Kenosha friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Flanary left
Sunday for Denver, COL, where they
will make their future home.
Wilmer Sieg, we'll known in this
city, is to be candidate on citizens
ticket for Mayor of Milwaukee.
DR.. Homer Wilson, of Sheboygan,
has come to Kenosha for two weeks
visit with friends and relatives.
Mrs. G. A Yu1e went to New York
last Saturday afternoon for an extend
ed visit with friends and relatives.
Most of the stores are putting on
extra help to take care of the holiday
rush, which has begun in earnest.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Johnson went to
Lacrosse Tuesday evening to attend
the marriage of Mrs. Johnson's sister.
The city council is planning to put
in seven new fire alarm boxes. My!
how the council does order things with
money in sight.
The secretary of the Y. M. G. A. re-
ceived for the association yesterday a
gift of hundred dollars from one of
the factories in the city.
The Kenosha merchants report that
the holiday trade is more than they
had expected and the first week is
proving a record breaker.
The National Evangical Alliance
has set the week of January 8 to 10 as
a week for universal prayer in all the
churches of the country.
1t is reported that the Milwaukee &
Racine Electric road will put on d
number of extra cars between Racine
and Milwaukee in the near future.
The snow storm did not interfere
with the running of the cars of the
Kenosha Electric Railway company,
and the cars were run on scheduled
time
Many of the SHADE trees of the city
are being denuded of all their branches
in an effort to get rid of the insect pest
which threatened to destroy them last
summer.
The preparations for the annual
show of the Kenosha County Poultry
Association are going steadily forward
and the indications a reth hat the com.
ing exhibition willfsurpa ss all previous
efforts.
The last will and testament of the
late Lewis Williams of the town of
Paris was admitted to probate in the
county court today. Lewis C. Williams
and Conner Roberts were named as
executors of the will.
Dowie threatens TO build a wall
about Zion City to keep out intruders.
He claims that the city has been defil-
ed by the coming of aliens to the
creed and he will make an effort to
keep out all strangers in the future.
Dowie's creditors are now fighting
for him and a majority have decided
to accept the prophets notes for the
amounts due TO them. Evidently
Dowie is a wonder and this, his latest
victory, will make him stronger than
ever before.
An excursion of Wisconsin people to
Shiloh battlefield when the Badger
monument is dedicatedis proposed by
the commission in charge Of the erec-
ton of the Wisconsin memorial. The
monument will be in place next sum
mer. A Milwaukee firm is cutting the
base of the monument.
The annual ceremony of inspection
of the Fred S. Lowell Post Of the
Grand Army, took place Monday night
the work of inspection being under the
direction of several of the members of
the Racine Post. The annual meeting
OF the Post was held later in the even.
ing, and all the officers reelected for
another year.
The University of Wisconsin has
granted the request of the farmers OF
this county for two institutes during
the coming year. One Of them will be