The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

the picnic Labor Day given by the
Trades and Labor Council. SIS
The home Of Gerald Mcdowell on
Park avenue has been sold TO e. r.
Gottfredsen. Consideration $4,000.
Old Uncle Tom is coming to Keno
sha again and AL Martins big produc-
ton will be the feature of the opera
house on Labor Day.
The oats on the Stephenson farm
averaged, as far as threshed, Az bushels
to the acre. This is the highest so far
reported in the county.
It is reported that the potato crop in
the county IS nearly total failure.
Except where the potatoes were plant.
ed on very high ground the recent
heavy rains have caused them to rot.
Under the title Of the North Florida
Land and Improvement Company, a
new company has been organized by
Waukegan men and duly incorporated
for the purpose of dealing extensively
in Florida lands.
Waukegan residents are to start a
test case in the courts of Lake county
to ascertain if the street railway com.
pany in that city can be forced to pay
part of the expense of paving some Of
the streets of that city.
A report was sent out from the
Gravesend track this morning that
Dick Welles, the famous racer former.
~ owned by Heating & Hecker, Of this
city, had been sold to E. E. Smathers
for $41, 900.
The Chicago & Milwaukee Electric
Railway company, which is seeking to
enter Kenosha, is to start condemna-
ton suits in Waukegan to get right
of way through that city wide enough
for four tracks.
Dr.. Edgar M. Wilson, an old Bristol,
Kenosha county boy, was married
September /, to Miss Grace Boutelle,
of Lake Geneva. DR.. and Mrs. Wilson
will be at home to their .friends after
November 1st at Chippewa Falls.
Rube Waddell who is now under
suspension for the remainder of the
season for insubordination was signed
yesterday by the Philadelphia Amer
lean league team for next season. It is
poor day when the genial Rube fails
to gather in a little advance money
somewhere.
The temperature during August was
not much away from the normal, sac-
cording to the weather bureau. The
mean temperature was one degree
colder each day than the normal, 20
degrees. The warmest day was Aug.
"a, when the thermometer registered
81 degrees, and the coolest day was
August II, when it went down to So
degrees.
The fight of the promoters of the
electric railway line to be built south
of the city to run their line through
the golf links is attracting attention
all over the state. The state tourna-
ment of the Wisconsin State Golf AS
ISOLATION is scheduled to be held here
next year and golfers in all the clubs
in the state are watching the moves Of
the railway people.
E. C. Lane, of Chicago, who is the
manager of the tKenosha Kid" has
offered to match him against "Kid'
Vanwie, of this city. The men are ex-
pected to meet at 1873 to 1873 pounds.
Any acceptance of this challenge
should be sent to the manager of the
Chicago lad at "145 West Madison
street, Chicago
The Sholes team and the Kenosha
Grays played six inning game of
base ball Sunday afternoon. The
Holderness grounds were in such poor
condition that good playing was i'm
possible. The game was stopped ia
the sixth inning on account of rain.
This game will be finished Labor Day
and will decide which is the best team.
The Sho1es team did not have ali Of
their players but they will be there
next game. The score was to in
favor of the Grays.
Because he thought that the North
Western railroad was deriving too
much profit from switching freight
cars in the Zion City yards, John
Dowie has decided to go
into the railroad business on a small
scale. He has bought cheap engine
for ST. 200, and hereafter all switching
in Zion City will be done by a Zion
engineer and a Zion crew. Dovyie's
followers enter the engine with fear
and trembling, because they expect
the old locomotive to blow up at al
most any time. Anotherreason Dowie
decided to become railroad magnateI
was because he discovered that the
North Western employees were pollut-
ing Zion by chewing tobacco within
its sacred confines. M
The Nickel Plate Road, with its
eastern connections-the Delaware,
& Western and West
Shore and Boston & Maine Railroads.
is considered by those who have pat
ronized it, as most desirable line