The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-01-01
Ben Jensen is reported on the sick

list
The Racine polo team won a game
Monday night! Hurray!
B. ]. Arnold, of Chicago, sper!
Monday evening in Kenosha.
Miss Avis Quinn, of Chicago, is Wis.
iting with friends in Kenosha.
Mrs. John Evans, of Grover street
is spending week in Chicago.
w. E. Gibbs and family, of st. Joe
Mich. ,-are visiting friends here.
Prof. Robt. A. Maurer, of Sheboy.
gan, is visiting friends in Kenosha.
Conrad Shearer went to Milwaukee
Tuesday to attend the convention OF
the State Teachers.
A. F. Towne, of Evanston, spent
Sunday and Monday with friends and
relatives in Kenosha.
Mrs. Sherwood, of Antioch, ILL.,, is
spending few days with Miss Ander-
son, at her home on Grover street.
Many of the county teachers went to
Milwaukee Monday to attend the
meeting of the State Teachers Assoc
citation.
The Modern Woodmen fraternity
and Royal Neighbors will hold joint
installation exercises at an early meet
ing in January.
Many Kenosha teachers went to
Milwaukee this morning to attend the
jubilee meeting of the Wisconsin State
Teachers Association.
With the opening of the early spring
another effort will be made to revive
the project to build an electric line
west from Kenosha to Pleasant
Prairie.
Messrs. Mellon and Hemp, both rep
resenting the Metropolitan Life, have
returned from Chiffon and Appleton,
where they spent their Christmas vaca-
ton pleasantly.
The Basket Ball team of the High
school entertained their friends at a
dancing party at the Guild Hall Mon
day evening, and jolly time was en-
joped by all who attended.
That franchise to permit the Wau-
kegan, Chicago and Elgin road to en-
ter Kenosha seems to have been hung
up somewhere and President Arthur
has not been in the city since since his
first visit.
Mrs. John McKune is seriously i'll at
the home of friends in Chicago. Mon
day she had the misfortune to fall and
sustained fracture of the hip. She
will probably be confined to her room
for several months.
The PASTORS aid Society of Grace
English Lutheran church will meet
Friday afternoon Jan. ., at 2:30, at the
home of Mrs. N. Nelson 571 Strong
street. A full attendance is desired as
some important business is to be
disposed of.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. M.
c. A. has sent out invitations for the
annual New Years reception to be
held in the parlors of the association
from 500 to 4:3O p. m. The building
will be open all day however, for the
reception of members and their
The city of Racine has a $4,000 suit
on its hands as result of fall on one
of the defective sidewalks of the city.
Unless some Of the sidewalks in Ke-
nosha are looked after som body will
be giving our own city attorney some
thing to do In the line Of defending
damage suits before the winter is
over.
Secretary Buckmaster of the Bust
ness Mems Association has received
from the North
Western railway company stating
that paper bag factory is looking
toward Kenosha for location. It
would be well to start the new year by
locating new industrial concern in
the city.
At a meeting of the Milwaukee
county Democratic members of the
Legislature elect Saturday it was in
formally decided to give the compli-
mentary vote for Speaker of the AS
semb1y to Evan w. Evans, of Sank
county, and that for United States
Senator to Mayor David S. Rose, of
Milwaukee. No other names were
mentioned at the conference for the
mp1imentary vote for either position,
and the conference did not last more
than ten minutes and was entirely in
formal in its character.
During the year ending June 80, 1902,
there were 1898 persons appointed to
positions in the U. S. Classified Civil
Service, which was 1862 more than
were ever appointed before in single
year. The Civil Service Commission
will hold examinations to secure
young men and women for these places
during March and April, at Lacrosse,
Madison, Milwaukee and Stevens
Point. From 3,O46 appointments dur