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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-30
Judge SIosson Makes an Important
Ruling in Regard 10 Taxing Es-
tates OF Deceased Persons.
LIMIT IS PLACED AT MARCH 81.
Many Large Estates Now In Process of
Settlement Will be Saved Vast
Sums In Taxes,

In the County Court this morning
Judge r. Fl. Slosson handed down a
decision making construction of the
new Inheritance law, and the taxes to
be collected from estates in the county
under the new law. The decision of
the Court will be of the greatest inter
est to the people of the county, as it
will result in the saving of thousands
of dollars to estates now in course of
settlement.
In his decision the Judge holds that
in cases where the testator died previ-
Gus to March 81, the date of the pas
sage of the new law, the estates shall
not be required to pay any inheritance
tax to the State regardless as to
whether the estates have been divided
or not. All estates in which death re-
suited to testator after that date will
be forced to pay into the State treas
ury the tax levied under the law.
This decision of the Court was made
after a careful perusa1 of the opinions
of the State Attorney General, and a
most carefully prepared opinion of the
law as given by Attorney Peter Fisher
of this city. Both the Attorney Gen
era1 and Mr.. Fisher held that the es-
tates without will should not fall
under the law, on account Of the fact
that the property was vested in the
heirs as soon as the ancestor had died.
There is some difference of opinion
in regard to the personal property, but
the decision of Judge Slosson held that
all property should vest in the heir or
legatees as soon as the testator was
dead.
Many estates in this county are
affected by the ruling, among the lar
est being the estate of the late ]. H.
Kimball valued at $4,000; that of
Lewis Balm valued at $4,000; William
Stanley with value of $4,000, Mrs.
Julia Mallory with a value Of $35,O00;
Mrs. Lucinda Bassett valued at $50, 900;
William Enge1 valued at $4,000; and a
host of estates ranging in value from
six to twenty-five thousand dollars.
All of these estates are in process of
settlement. and if the letter of the law
we're carried out all of them might fall
under the law and be forced to pay the
taxes demanded by the statute.
All of these estates would have been
forced to have paid some tax, and in
many cases the tax would have
amounted to almost FIVE per cent. of
the entire estate. The estates of Lu-
cinda Bassett and William Engel
would have been especially affected
by the law, as in these cases the prop
erty was given to people who were not
of near kin.
The total amount of tax which might
have been collected from these differ
ent estates would have amounted to
many thousand dollars.
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South Bristol.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Crosby and
daughter spent Saturday and Sunday
at Elmer Gethens.
Miss Helen French, who has been
staying with her sister Mrs. Graham,
returned to her home in Beaver
Dam last Saturday.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet in
the Wesley church basement next week
Thursday afternoon. May 9TH.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Adams and
daughter Ethel, went to Lake Villa
last Thursday to attend the celebration
of the iftieth anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. Darby.
Lee Savage and family spent Satur
day night and Sunday at F, Gethen s.
There will be a social in the base
ment at Wesley Chapel Friday even
ing, May 1st.
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sonners.

Mrs. L. J. Strong and Miss Alice
Strong spent the past week with
friends in Chicago.
Mr.. James Spence reshingled his
barn last week. B. F. Yule and Fred
Heddle did the work
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church met with Miss Emma
Longmore Wednesday afternoon Of
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carre, of Racine,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. e. G..
Ozanne.
Miss Nellie Leet entertained friends
from Racine over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fl. Bullamore
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. E..
Pearson, of Winthrop Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Bishop are in Ra
cine with their son Adelmar, who is
very Ill with pleurisy.
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Silver Lake.

Mr.. Geo. Mutter has purchased a
Cypress incubator for the chickens.
Miss Harriet Button, Claud Dewitt
and Crystal Dixon were Burlington
visitors Saturday.
Either the correspondent wrote very
poorly or the editor was in rush, for
last week there were several mistakes
one especially about "Mr. Tom Wat
kius passing through here on the road
scraper."
Mr.. F. H. Schenning has gone north
to Spooner where heis dealing in land.
The weather takes a notion to
change very often, the weather man
must be away and his boys are making
the best of it.
Rose and Winnie Schenning were
Burling ton visitors Sunday.
The summer resort bowling alley is
being repaired and painted.
There was no preaching here Sunday
as Rev. Montague had gone to Buffalo.
DR.. Cogswell has quite a number Of
men at work improving the Cogswell
farm buildings and grounds.
Mr.. Langes expects tc leave here. as
he is not depot agent any longer.
The game warden was in town last
Saturday, but he did not come alone.
He brought four fellows from Twin
Lakes to pay for the one lone duck
they had killed.
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KENosHA COUNTY COURT.
Regular May Term, A. ID. 1903
Calendar.

Regular May Term, A. D. 1908
Cases will be called as follows on
Tuesday, the 5th day of May, at 10
O'Clock a. M:
l.. In the matter Of the last will and
testament of Harriet Johnson, de-
ceased. Probate of will.
2. In the matter of the last will and
testament Of Charles Shuart, deceased.
Probate of will.
3. In the matter Of the last will and
testament of Henry Harm, deceased.
Final account.
FIRST CLAIM DAY.
4. Estate of Leonard Lee, deceased.
5. Estate OF julius Henry Kimball,
deceased.
6. Estate Of Frederick Schenning,
deceased.
7. Estate of Caleb J. Worth, de-
ceased.
Last day for fling claims against
estates of:
5. Harriet E. Bacon, deceased.
9. Casper Struck, deceased.
10. William Kirchner, deceased.
II. Bridget Monaghan, deceased.
II. William G. Butrick, deceased.
Is. William Engel, deceased.
LAST CLAIM DAY.
IA. Estate of Ellen Leach, decea sed.
Is. Estate of Caroline D. Petit, de-
ceased.
10. Estate of Leroy U. Vincent. de-
ceased.
II. Estate of William Meyer, de-
ceased.
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Bristol.
Mrs. Emma Evans of Salem, spent
Sunday with her mother.
Mr.. Jas. Eddy and daughter were
transacting business in Kenosha Mon
day.
Mr. Edgar Getting of Beloit, was
visiting his grandmother part of the
week.
Mr.. Geo. Nixon and friend was call
ing on friends in Bristol this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Benedict are
visiting relatives in Bristol and
vicinity.
Miss Kate Struck spent Saturday
and Sunday at her home here.
Miss Maine Bacon has been in
poor health part Of the past week
and was unable to attend to her school
duties.
Mrs, Leonisa Ella of Rochester was
visiting her aunt Mrs D. Burgess on
A AA0ay hAS AAls
Frank Parker had the misfortune
of having a valuable colt break its
leg one day last week while training it,
Mrs. Hattie Porter of Chicago, spent
Sunday with her father Mr.. John
Leacey.
Mr., Clarence Curtis of Kenosha, was
the guest of his parents over Sunday.
Mr., and Mrs. Asby of Union Grove
were visiting their brother Mr., Chas.
Murdock and family one day this week.
Miss Mable Clapp of Chicago, is the
guest of Mrs. Florence Ellis.
Mr., Erwin Moore is spending few
days with relatives here.
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FITZGERALD rs FREE.
Man Charged With Stealing John Mayo's
Watch Released by Court Commissioner.

MAN OAaFS0u WIN SIeaAIng JOnn May0's
Watch Released by Court Commissioners.
John Fitzgerald who was in the
county Jail serving sentence for petty
larceny was released yesterday under
habeas corpus proceedings. The de-
cision in the case was make by Court
Commissioner Hastings. Fitzgerald
left the city at once and there is little
probability Of the case against him
being re-opened.
The man was charged with having
stolen the gold watch belonging to
John Mayo'a bartender who recently
died in the city. He was found guilty
of the crime by a jury in Justice Nc
Carron's court and was sent to jail for
sixty days. He served but three days
of the sentence.
The watch which was the cause of
the arrest of Fitzgerald is now in the
hands Of the friends of Mayo and it is
probable that an action will be made
10 recover it.
Fitzgerald claims that the watch
Vas pledged to him by Mayo and that
the latter never redeemed it.
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ROLL OF HONOR.

The following is the list of pupils
who have been neither absent nor tar
dy during the past month:
District No. Pheasant Prairie and
Somers.
Edna White, Allen Turner, Carrie
Schnuckel, Kathleen Turner, Lewis
Turner, Harold Schunckel, Elsie Max
well, Walter Maxwell, Kenneth B.
White.
The attendance contest between the
girls and boys closed for this month
with majority of nine for the boys.
Elga NJ. Shearer, teacher.
District No. Pheasant Prairie.
Bessie Raymond, Gerald and Emily
Riley, Ruth and Blanche Tobin, Isa-
belle and Jesse Stahl, Mile johnson.
Eva and Airline Tennesen. John d.
Pierce, teacher.
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A. E. Rutledge, Of Rockford, spent
Tuesday evening in Kenosha.
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Big Piano Player Factory in New York
Seeks to Secure a Location For
Plant in Kenosha.
WOULD EMPLOY $50 W0RkMEN.
Mayor Pfennig is Asked to Have the People
of Kenosha Make Proposition For
the Location of the Plant,

The Peerless Piano Player company
one of the largest companies of the
kind in the world, is looking toward
Kenosha for site for the location of a
factory and Mayor Charles H. Pfennig
has received letter from the man
ayers of the concern asking'the city to
make some proposition for the location
of the company in this city. The
Peerless company, as shown by the
letters, is doing great business and
the plant is one which, if established
in Kenosha, would add much to the
city. The managers figure that when
the plant is removed to the West the
company will employ between six and
seven hundred men and will do bust
ness of 100000 annually. The letter
to the mayor in regard to the location
of the plant is as follows:
New York, April "a, 1908.
Charles HI. Pfennig, Mayor, Kenosha,
Wis.
Dear Sir:-A co-partnership owning
a plant in successful operation, en-
ploying 800 men, located in a small
town ia central New York, may con-
slider a change of location of plant,
under favorable conditions.
The output Of the ablishment has
reached its limit because of lack of
available labor.
Business TO the value of S125, 900 has
been turned away Ia one department.
in the last three months because of
lack Of proper help. This would have
employed $50 more men as 90 per cent.
of the cost of the goods is labor. Males
can only be employed.
The firm branched out into a new
field three years ago and this depart
ment developed into business of
$115,OO0 during 1902. This latter de-
partment purchases certain material
amounting toS35,OO0 in valueiand these
goods could be made and another
branch developed as the goods are sold
in direct line and to the customer of
this firm.
Only intelligent men can be used in
producing them, and on conservative
basis $50 men could be employed in
this department, after a reasonable
period for development.
There are now employed about 800
men; if available, could employ $50
more for business offered; new branch,
easily developed, would require 200
men. Total, $50. Allowing for in
crease over business now offered, 100.
Total, $50.
If you are interested please write us.
Respectfully,
PEERLESS PIANO PLAYER Co.,
Roth & Engelhardt, Props.
Makers of: Roth & Engelhardt Piano
Actions, Peerless Piano Players and
Automatic Pianos.
The matter has been referred by
Mayor Pfennig to a number of the
leading real estate men in the city but
it is matter in which the whole city
is interested and the business men
should take some action to get together
and make some effort to secure the fac.
tory for Kenosha. The company has
a splendid rating in the mercantile
agencies and it is probable that if the
managers have decided to remove to
the westward they will be ready to con-
slider any proposition that city like
Kenosha will care to offer.
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AVID GAMwOT BE CURED,

Backed up by over third Of a century
ofremarkab1e and uniform cures, record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained, the proprietors and makers of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now
feel fully warranted in offering to pay $500
in legal money of the United States, for
any case Of Leucorrhea, Female Weak
ness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb
which they cannot cure. All they ask
is fair and reasonable trial of their
means of cure.
They have the most remarkable record
of cures made by this world famed
remedy ever placed to the credit of any
preparation especially designed for the
cure of woman's peculiar ailments.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
most desirable laxative for delicate
women.
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Salem

The Priscillas will give strawberry
and ice cream social at the M. E Church
Of Salem, Wis, Thursday evening
May q Imogene Bacon, Sec'y.
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Wilmot.

1t is desired that all interested in
Liberty Cemetery, meet there Satur-
day afternoon May 2, 1908, for the pur-
psse of cleaning the yard.
Bring lawn mowers and rakes.
Respectfully,
Mrs. CARRIE FAULKNER, SEcv.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
TOO LATE.

They came too late, the fragrant dewey
blooms,
Nourished where sunshine beats the
whole long day.
Life held no solace for her darkened
hours
And fields were barren as she went
her way.
All! take them back, the words so
long unsaid,
The spoken love to starving heart
denied;
Ye gave stone where she had asked
for bread;
She held it in her empty hand and
died.
The sweet pink roses lie upon her
breast;
She passed through waters where no
pink bud grows;
She passed and sleeps-what matters
all the rest?
She hath no need for any fairest
rose.
Take them away and bear her softly
forth
Where singing birds and tender
grasses wait:
Holding your peace-your words are
little worth
For love and roses all are come too
late
Mary Riddell Corley in Boston Tran
script.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
A Smallpox Cure.

A correspondent of the Catholic Co
lumbar, Columbus, O., writes:
beg to advise you that the formula
for Mother Gonzaga's treatment for
smallpox as published in your issue OF
Jan. II is misleading.
Having had a number of different
versions of the recipe brought to US
for preparation, l wrote to the sue
cessor to Mother Gonzaga for correct
information, and 1 take pleasure in Civ
ing you the following as an author
lied copy:
Solid extract of digitalis; sulphate of
zinc Chemically pure), of each, one
grain. Dissolve ingredients separately
in tablespoonful of water; mix, and
add four ounces of water.
Dose: One teaspoonful every hour
for twelve hours. Children under 3
years, half a teaspoonful.
This remedy is effective also in scar
let fever, measles and diphtheria.
Note-The digitalis should be in the
form Of the solid extract-not the pow
der or liquid-and should be of a re-
liable make; otherwise the mixture will
be worthless
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
Pretty. Though Plain.

A girl with a pretty face has good
start towards attractiveness, but a
girl with only pretty face may, after
ALL be easily distanced by the other
girl, who, feeling the want of this de-
sirable item, take great care of the
detail of her appearance, says Har-
per's Bazaar The tint of the eyes and
hair should be repeated in the gowns
she wears: irregular features should be
framed in hats with dropping brims
and waving lines, and the colors af-
fected should be those that experience
shows are suited to her complexion.
Yellowsand red browns go i'll with black
hair and eyes, yet a light tan may be
worn by the dusky-eyed girl with fine
effect, unless her skin is sallow. An
ivory white gown with reliefs of ORR
entail embroidery in which some gold
lights are hidden will make a beauty
of a woman with a pale complexion
and chestnut hair who, in black frock,
would be a fright. The too slender girl
must wear her clothes fitted in shapely
fashion indeed, but loosely, that she
may seem to fill them out. and the
stout girl inclined to a short waist
will find that a belt pointed down.
wards, and shaped bodice trimmings,
plain goods rather than figured are
some of the 'musts" of her dressing
Leader.
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~ Dome Circle. ~
"Papa What Would You Take For
Me-"


(By Eugene Field)
She was ready to sleep as she lay on
my arm,
In her little frilled cap SO fine.
With her golden hair falling out at the
edge,
Like a circle of noon sunshine,
And hummed the old tune of Ban
bury Cross"
And Three Men Who Put Out to
Sea-"
When she sleepily said as she closed
her blue eyes:
Papa, what would you take for me?''
And I answered, "a dollar, dear little
heart"
And she slept, baby weary with play,
But held her warm in my love-strong
arms,
And I7rocked her and rocked away.
Oh, the dollar meant all the world to
The land and the sea and the sky,
The lowest depths of the lowest place,
The highest of all that's high.
All the cities, with streets and palaces,
With their people and stores of art,
1 would nSt take for one low soft throb
Of my little ones loving heart;
Nor of all the gold that was ever found,
In the busy wealth finding past,
Would stake for one smile of my dar-
ling's face,
Did 1 know it must be the last.
So 1 rocked my baby and rocked away,
And 1 felt such a sweet content,
For the words of the song expressed
more to me
Than they ever before had meant
And the night crept on, and l slept and
dreamed
OF things far too gladstone to be,
And l waken'd with lips saying close
in my ear:
Papa, what would you take for me?"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
LOST IDEALS.

Have we not all. amid life's petty
strife,
Some pure ideal of noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not
hear
The futter of its wings, and feel it
near,
And just within our reach. 1t was. And
yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now we live in vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will
wait.
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late;
No star is ever lost we once have
seen,
We always may be what we might
have been
Since God, though only thought, has
life and breath,
Gods life can always be redeemed
from death,
And evil, in its nature, is decay,
And any hour can blot it all away;
The hopes that lost in some far dis
lance seem
May be the truer life and this the
dream.
Adelaide A Proctor.
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Household Hints.

Put pinch of bicarbonate of soda
in the water when boiling salmon. This
makes it a beautiful red color.
When roasting fowls put them into
an intensely hot oven until carefully
Drowned; after that cook slowly, bast-
ing frequently
When gravy is being made from
roast veal, lamb, beef or chicken, use
milk instead of water added to the
brown drippings left in the pan after
the fat has been poured off.
Before baking a bluefish the creole
cooks pour over it sauce made from
fresh or canned tomatoes in which gar
lie is chopped. 1t is then baked until
the flesh of the fish flakes, admitting
the sauce.
For quick cake beat until thick
four eggs; add four tablespoonfuls of
sugar, half a cupful of flour, a little
cinnamon and lemon rind; beat we'll
and spread on baking pan; bake in
a quick oven and cut at once
Cooking teachers say that the in
gradients for pancakes, fritetrs and
the like should be mixed fully two
hours before the batter is needed. This,
they explain, gives the flour a chance
to swell, and the batter is better and
more wholesome
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
Irish Laces.

1t is gratifying to me to read from
time to time extracts from subscrip-
tons and business letters that come to
this office, thanking for suggestions Of
fered in this department. One just to
hand is profuse in thanks for receiving
laces ordered from Ireland, taken from
the advertisement in our columns. One
reader asks: why do we not see this
beautiful lace in our big stores?'' The
answer is easy: Because you do not in
quire for it, or, when you do, you ex-
ercise no judgment and permit yourself
to be persuaded into purchasing an in
ferior article. Make it point in shop
ping to ask for what you want, and do
your own thinking as to whether or not
You Will purchase. If you are judge
Of lace, then you know that some of the
most exquisite laces in the world are
made in Ireland. and you can even
have a design worked out for you if
you desire. The Irish laces were award
ed prizes for designs and prizes for
workmanship at the Worlds fair at
Chicago, which exposition was the
greatest ever held in this country. The
industrial school of the Convent of
Mercy, Gort, County Galway, ireland,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28

oil of lavender and eucalyptus in
one ounce of rectifed spirits of wine.
In another glass dissolve five grains
of boric acid in a little elder flower wa
ter, and add ten drops of solution of
ammonia. Get an eight-ounce bottle
and pour in first the acid, oils and
spirits of wine, then the second mix
ture, and fill up the bottle with elder
flower water. The bottle and glasses
used for mixing should be rinsed with
distilled water. Apply this location to
the blackheads at night after wash
ing, rubbing it in with your fingers;
but remember that curing clackheads
is a matter of months, so don't ex
pect an immediate apparent result
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