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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-17

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Mems League of Park Ave. M. e. Church
Celebrates With a Dinner.

Mems League of Park Ave. M. e. Church
Celebrates With a Dinner
The Mems League of Park Avenue
M. E. church celebrated the first ami
versary of its organization Thursday
evening. Covers were laid for 1872
persons and nearly every place was
taken. The tables were beautifully
decorated with cut flowers and Candida
bra and most toothsome three course
dinner was served.
Music and toasts followed. A male
quartette, composed of Messrs. Ander.
son, Shippee, Cooper and Truax, rem
dered two fine selections. Mrs. Truax
sang solo and responded to an en-
core. President Shippee served as
Toastmaster, introducing w. w.
Cooper, W. ]. Hammill, E. L. Grant
and W. w. Stevens, who spoke in or
der on "The Value of the League to
the Church, as viewed from the Stand
point of the Business Man." "The
Educator" "The Layman" and "The
Pastor" The addresses were full OF
humor, wisdom and inspiration.
The Secretary reported twelve
monthly Sunday evening meetings
and nine social and business meetings
held during the year. The Treasurer
reported $50 in the treasury. With the
names received Thursday evening the
League now has nearly 100 members.
The following officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year:
President-E. L. Shippee.
Vice President-E. L. Grant.
Secretary-W. E. Rimes.
Treasurer-Grover Cleveland.
A rising vote of thanks was ten
dered the ladies for their aid in pre-
pairing the dinner and contributing to
the social enjoyment of the evening.
In conclusion President Shippee
spoke of this day as celebrating the
birth of Americas greatest President;
made some fitting remarks upon the
life of Abraham Lincoln, and called
for the singing of America, in which
all joined heartily. Altogether it was
one of the most enjoyable social events
in the history of the church.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Missing Insurance Agent Sends Back
Money to Pay His Shortage to
the Prudential Company.
NO SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY.
Millen Writes to His Former Manager That
he is Now on Ranch In Colorado and
Makes Good His Shortage.

Frank Millen, of Brighton, formerly
agent of the Prudential Company al
Waukegan, has cleared himself of the
charge of EN- bezzlement lodged against
him at Waukegan short time ago, as
Wednesday night Peter thinner, the
Superintendent of the Prudential com.
pany for this district, received letter
from Millen enclosing draft for
three hundred dollars and assuring
the Superintendent that if there was
any other shortage in his accounts at
Waukegan the money would be
promptly forwarded to the officials OF
the company.
Mi1len is in the interior of Colorado
and is working on ranch, but he has
pot seen fit to give to the manager of
the company his reasons for his sud
den departure from Waukegan. The
solution SO far as the company is con-
cerned remains mystery. Millen has
evidently d desire to conceal his
present wherea bouts and the managers
Of the company have noidesire to look
into them further than to get the
money that is due to the company.
The draft sent by Millen does not en-
tirely cover the amount owed to the
company, but only a small balance re-
mains and as Millen had something
due him from the company it is prob
able that this will make good every
cent that he is alleged to have taken
from Waukegan at the time of his sud.
den departure.
Millen always had a desire to go out
West and rough it on ranch for year
or so, and it is supposed by his friends
that he is now taking this unusual
mode of life. He stated in his letter
that he was in the cattle country in
Colorado, and that he had taken en-
ployment on ranch. Heis at present
laid up with sprained shoulder, which
was the result of an accident of few
days ago. He had been riding one of
the ranch ponies, and the pony slipped
and fell throwing Millen off and in jur-
ing him quite badly.
It seems that the recent story sent
out from Waukegan, to the effect that
Mi1len's parents had paid all his in.
debtedness is evidently untrue, and the
manager of the Prudential in this city
is authority for the statement that the
parents of the agent refused to have
anything to do with a settlement OF
the affair.
The people in Waukegan seem to
think that the strange action of Millen
is due to love affair, but nothing OF
the details of this case are known in
Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

DURING the coming week and prob
ably next week there will be battle
royal-1egal of course-over the pro-
posed change in the system of railway
taxation from the license TO the ad
valorem system. At every turn there
seems to be legal objections, if not
constitutional objections, to either
system proposed. There are as many
ways of taxation as there are minds to
conceive of them. Even the friends
of the administra tion are in doubt as
to whether the state should assess
aud collect the taxes ad valorem, or
have property assessed in the various
counties, towns and state, and the
taxes, local as well as state levy, col
lected thereon. Cities are fearful lest
the imposition of municipal taxes IN
addition to state taxes, would not in
duce the railway companies to remove
headquarters and division shops and
all surplus rolling stock to other
states.-Monroe Sentinel.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
swITCHMAN SAVES A TRAIN
Throws Open Switch and Corrals wild
Engine Near Winnetka.

Engine Near Wannetka.
There is a brakeman on the North
Western road who will receive a suf-
fcient recognition of his work if the
authorities of the road discover his
identity, and that is the man who,
while working at Winnetka saved the
company from terrible wreck and
serious loss of life. The wreck was
the one which occurred at seven O'Clock
Wednesday morning in which freight
train switching near Winnetka, and
the Green Bay passenger were the
main actors. The freight train lies in
ditch south of Winnetka, but the
true story of the wreck was not given
out by the members of the different
crews until this morning, and this
story shows that a serious disaster
was averted by the quick action of an
unknown switchman.
The freight train had backed into
the main track, the engineer thinking
that he would have time to reach the
next side track before being overtaken
by the Green Bay train. He had gone
only few hundred yards when he saw
the passenger train coming. He made
an effort to reach the switch and threw
the throttle wide open, but he was too
slow. The engineer on the Green Bay
train saw that collision could not be
avoided, and throwing all steam into
his engine he struck the freight car
and drove it forward at terrific rate.
The passengers in the train behind
were thrown from their seats, but the
engine on the freight train was so
broken that it was impossible to stop
it. The engineer and fireman leaped
from the carriage and the wild engine
without any one to restrain it went
whirling down the track. Half a mile
ahead the switchman saw what had
happened and as the engine came down
the track he threw another switch and
the engine and car dashed into a
bumper and was thrown into ditch at
the side of the track. The man who
threw the switch disappeared as mys-
teriously as he had appeared and when
the men began to telephone ahead to
stop the wild engine it was found that
it had been stopped effectually.
The loss to the Railway company
from the act of the switchman will
probably be thousands of dollars, but
his throwing of the switch undoubted-
ly saved the lives of many people. The
tracks were crowded with suburban
trains, and had the wild engine been
allowed to have proceeded it seems GER
tain that terrible wreck would have
occurred. The managers of the road
are now seeking to find the man who
threw the switch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

THE appointive Office system is not
intrenched in impregnable logic. It is
based, no doubt, on the supposition
that greater efficacy can be obtained
in an executive working force by the
selection of the minor officers by their
superiors, the latter knowing what the
requirements of their helper in the
way of qualifications should be, and
picking their men accordingly. But it
must be admitted that it would be pos
sible to elect these same men or men
as we'll qualified. And behind all the
argument as to this point is the fact
that there turks in the appointive sys-
tenn the danger that is the foundation
of the political machine. Remove the
spoils that are dubbed patronage"
and it would indeed be difficult for a
public man to build his political
strength in anything more impeach-
able than personal popularity born Of
good deeds.-La Crosse Chronicle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Board of Education Pass Resolutions on
the Death of August Meiser.

Board of Education Pass Resolutions on
the Death of August Meiser.
AT the last meeting of the Board of
Education resolutions were passed in
regard to the death of August Meiser,
who was member Of the body at the
time Of his death, The resolutions
follow:
Whereas, The infinite and all-wise
Providence has removed by death one
of our mem bers, August Meiser, and
Whereas, Not only has he served
faithfully on the present Board, but
has often before been associated with
the schools of the city, be it
Resolved by the Board of Education
that it deeply regrets the loss of one
of its fellow workers in the interest of
the building of a coed and efficient ed
vocational system in the city, and be it
Resolved that the deepest sympathy
of the Board be extended to his be-
reaved family and relatives and that
these resolutions be printed in the
local paper"
FRANK J. GRAssER, Pres,
NORMAN L. BAKER, Supt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

A HUMANE SOCIETY is one of the
things that Kenosha needs and should
have. A regularly empowered officer
of such a society could fad many
things to pro6tably occupy his time in
Kenosha and he would not have to look
very far Sfor them either. Cases of
wife beating and abuse of children by
drunken husbands and fathers would
be looked after by the agent of the
humane society and it would be his
business to see that the perpetrators
of such outrages we're brought into
court and punished as they deserve.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

THE "get rich quick concerns" are
going under with startling rapidly,
and there is hardly a city or town Of
any size in the country but has its list
of victims. It will never be known
Just how much the credulous "inves-
tors" contributed to the Golfers of the
gam blers, but in the aggregate the
total must be enormous. The expert
ence will be worth all it cost, however,
if it put an cad to the mania for this
form of speculation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
MAY BE FIRST GLASS.
Increase In Postal Business at Zion City

Increase In Postal Business at Zion City
Makes 1t Rival for Kenosha Postoffice.
Postmaster .Wiedman, of Zion City,
says that the phenomenal business
transacted this last year will undoubt-
eddy cause the Office to jump from the
fourth to the Ssecond class, which is
something unprecedented in the his
tory of postalsaffairs.
After the Office has become second
class, and ,has sreached the higher sec
ond. class grade, Zion City will be
given free delivetyisystem.
Three carriers will then be supplied,
and mail wi11 be collected from letter
boxes placed at important points
throughout thescity.
After the removal ofsthe Zion Print
ing and Publishing House from Chi
cago to Zion City no doubt the post
Office will soon sbecome frst-c1ass.
Many patrons sofssthe surrounding
country and neighboring villages APP
preciate the superb.. service of ten in
coming and nine sout-going mails per
day, and they8have0b permanent
patrons of thcszionsCity Office.
A rural free delivery is expected, as
soon as possible,stoa cover radius of
from five to eight miles Zion Banner.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

WHEN the stand pipe, which the
Water Commissioners propose to build
on the North side is finished, the mu-
nicipal water works will be complete
in every detail, and Kenosha will have
the finest system of any city of its size
in the country. The original plans
provided for stand pipe, and the sys-
tenn has grown so that one is almost
necessity now. While the first cost
will be heavy, the Commissioners be-
lieve that in the end it will more than
pay for itself, and the finances of the
city's water company are in such good
shape that it will be possible to build
and pay for one without imposing any
additional burden on the consumers.
After the stand pipe is built the fires
can be banked at night, and the saving
in the fuel bills will amount to con-
siderable sum annually, and it will be
possible to maintain a uniform pres
sure on the mains at all times. The
success of the Kenosha plant has been
one of the most powerful arguments of
the advocates of municipal ownership
all over the country, and the City En-
gineer and the Commissioners are re-
ceiving requests for all kinds of infor.
nation concerning the building and
operation of the plant from other
cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A mans bull-headedness is his
worst enemy.
Negro servants come under the head
of \unbleached domestics.
Most men who consider themselves
big guns are only smooth bores.
Although pugilists are close-fisted
they would rather give than receive.
It's an easy matter to fill teeth;
all you have TO do is to kick a savage
dog.
Society people are seldom punctual.
Even their clothes are Of the latest
style.
Advice is like castor oil-it is one
thing to prescribe it and another thing
to take it.
Every woman is born with a master
mind-or in other words, with mind
that no man can Chicago
Daily News.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

THE Department of Agriculture is
perfecting arrangements to run
''good roads" train through this State
late in the summer or early in the fall.
The train will be operated by officials
of the department, who will give in
structions in road building at various
points in the State. Some effort
should be made to have the train visit
Kenosha county, as the demonstrations
of practical road building given by the
experts of the department have proved
to be of great value.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

THE property, of the railroads,
whether taxed under the license or ad
valorem system, should pay its fair
share of taxes and no more. The more
the matter is Investigated, however,
the less it appears probable that
change TO the I'D valorem system of
taxing the roads would result in a
greater revenue for the State. If the
railroads own one-seventh or even one
eleventh of all the taxable property of
the State, Wisconsin is poorer than
many of us believed she was.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
KENosHA g ROCKFORD LINE
First publication, Feb. IL, 1902.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
n ENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probs

II ENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate.
N In the matter of the will of James
Smith, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
demands of all persons against James
Smith deceased, late of the town OF
Bristol, 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 Keno
sha. in and for said county on the first Tues
day of June, A D. 1908, and on the first Tues
daY of October, A. D. 1903, at 10 o'clock A. M. of
those days; also that the time until and inelud-
ing the first Tuesday of September A. D. 1903,
is the time allowed and limited for creditors of
said James Smith deceased, to present
their claims for examination and allowance.
Dated at KenOsha, the 10th day of FebrN-
ary, A. d. 1903 By the Court
RUSSELL H. SLOSSON,
a County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
AUCTION SALE.

F. J. Smith will sell on his farm one
half mile north of the Brass Ball, on
Saturday, Feb. 81, all his stock, ma
chinery, tools, &c.
Notice-Dates for auction sales car
be made for E. r. Wilson at the TELR-
GRAPH-COURIER Office.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
CLERKS GIVE A DANCE.
Members of the Local Association Enter
tain Number of Friends.

One of the most enjoyable social
events of the season in kenosha was
the dance given Wednesday evening at
A. O. U. w. hall by the members of
the Retail Clerks association of Ke-
nosha in honor of the members of the
Racine Retail Clerks association.
Sixty members of the Racine associa-
ton came to the city to take part in the
affair and large number of out of
town guests from other cities were
also in attendance.
The music was furnished by Stemm
Brothers. orchestra and the merry
revel of the dance was kept up until
early morning Kupfer served refresh
ments during the evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

SENATOR MASON of Illinois IS i'm
proving the fleeting moments before
March 4th, the date of his retirement,
by sending his goods and chattels home
under his postoffice frank. Twenty
tons of email natter forwarded by
the Senator arrived in Waukegan yes
terday. The Senator evidently believes
in getting his moneys worth out of
the Office before he lets go of it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
First publication, Feb. 5. 1903.

llTATE OF WISCONSIN-County Court for
y Kenosha County-In Probate
Notice is hereby given tbatat a general term
of the County Court to De held in and for said
County at the County Court Room, in the
City of Kenosha. in said County, on the first
Tuesday being the THIRD day of March, A d.
l9O3 at 10 o'clock A. NJ, the following matters
will be heard and considered:
In the matter of the estate of John Riggs de-
ceased.
The application of James NORM for the ex-
aminatfoh and allowance of his final account
as administrator of the estate of John Riggs
late of the town of Salem in said county, de-
ceased, and for the assignment and distribu
ceased.
Dated Feb. 5. 1908.
BY the Court
RUSSELL n. SLOSSON,
County Judge. j
HENRY J. HASTINGS, Attorney for Estate a
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Is Assem- lyman Dudgeons' first
mame High?

THE police have been very lenient
with the bicycle riders lately and no
one has been arrested for riding on the
sidewalks. It is to be hoped that the
bicyclers will understand that this is a
favor granted them by the Chief and
not right and take to the streets
again as soon as they are passable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
JlNGLES AND JESTS.


Naming Town.
At a town in Nevada
The citizens met
Its name to consider;
They fixed on You Bet.
But woman was scarce;
He was lucky who met her;
So the boys advertised,
And the town was You Better.
Now, brides are forthcoming
To all the distressed,
And I hear of a movement
To call it You Best.
San Francisco News Letter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19

THE drug stores display signs stat
ing that prescriptions are carefully
compounded for members of the Red
Cross society," The rest of us who
don't belong will still continue to take
chances
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Less and Less.

"Marconi has aided thirty pounds to
his weight during the last year.
That's all right He isn't nearly as
wiry as he used to be."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
The Quiet Dresser.

New Boarder-Who is that making
such a noise because he can't find his
necktie?
Landlady-Oh, that is the gentleman
who dresses so quietly Philadelphia
Record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
When She Turned.

Sharpe The Chinese even claim to
have discovered rubber.
Whealton-I don't believe it. Lots
wife was the original rubber" Chi
cago News
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Modern Education

Modern Education.
She with geometric sector
Can trace the radius vector
And can give the suns diameter in feet;
She can analyze the arum,
Classify the coptic carum,
But she cannot tell cabbage from a
beet.
Chicago News
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
The Connection.

To speak of a duck of bonnet
May seem rather meaningless; still
There's something in this think upon it:
A duck has pretty big BILL
Philadelphia Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
A Difficult Task.

"In heavens name, why is De Rigeur
so attentive to that ordinary woman"
Hush, or she might hear you. That's
the new cook he is taking home."-
Town Topics. =
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
The Florists, Sure Thing.

Ere long the gentle violet
Unto the skies will smile,
And then some other kind of flower.
OF course, will be in style.
Washington Star.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Fine Outlook.

whats the outlook for newspaper
in this town.
"Finest in the world. Editors up in
a tree, an sees over the whole coun-
nyw-Atlanta Constitution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Queer woman.

eyes, all the other women in the
neighborhood consider her suspicious
character"
'You don't say! Why is that?"
'She never gossips at l."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Felt Good.

Her Mamma-Daughter, | am sur
prised that you would suffer a man to
kiss you.
Her Daughter-But, mamma, it
wasn't suffering.-Denver Republican.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
CorrectIy Bifurcated.

''Is this the way to Wareham?"
Asked the maid with boomers on.
cts how I've always wore 'en,
Said astonished Farmer John.
Baltimore American.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
False PretenSes.

"Why does he always begin with the
statement, To make a long story
short?"
"Oh, that's just to encourage you to
think he's going to do it."-Chicago
Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
The kicker

the chronic kicker gets naught for his
pains,
But often thinks he's struck it,
Yet when the world most by his kicking
gains
Is when he kicks the bucket.
-Lippincott's.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Another Reminder.

Lives of senator's may teach us,
Killing time with none to balk,
That the judgment day can't reach Us
While the tongue holds out to talk.
Washington Post.