The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-21

I LOCAL ITEMS.

Sunday with friends in Kenosha,
Robert Gordon Gould, of Chicago
spent Sunday with friends in Keno
sha.
w. C. McDermott, of Chicago, visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. e. Hill over Sun
day.
Plans are being made for the en-
largement of the First Nationa! Bank
building.
Roy Dorr returned home Sunday
evening after short visit with Chica-
go friends,
Mrs. j. H. Kimball, who has been
very i'll for some time, is reported
slightly improved.
Miss Alice Moran, of Dayton, Ohio,
is spending few days with friends
and relatives in this city.
Mr.. Frank Slosson announces the
engagement Of his daughter Agnes to
Robert Gordon Gould of Chicago.
Weddings are very scarce in Kenos-
IA for leap year and thus far only one
marriage license has been issued.
Rev. Florence Buck was able to &C.
cupy the pulpit of the Unitarian
church Sunday after long illness.
M. B. Winter went to Chicago Sun
day for visit with his wife, who is
now at one of the Chicago hospitals.
"The Lighthouse by the Sea-" big
me1odramatic production, pleased a
large crowd at the Rhode Sunday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Murray, of
Springfield, ILL.,, are spending a few
days with friends and relatives in Ke-
nosha.
Mrs. Frank Hansen and daughter
Grace have returned home after a
three weeks visit with friends at Law
renee, Kas.
Mrs. T. E. Jansen and daughter re-
turned home Sunday after ten days
visit with friends in Omaha and Free
mont, Neb.
Henry Coulter, of Corliss, is making
an effort to secure the support of the
farmers for a new creamery in the
town of Somers.
w. e. Petrie, of Madison, former
resident of Kenosha, has been mem
toned as probable candidate for the
Mayor Of Madison.
The lamp makers of the Badger
Brass Works enjoyed an informal
smoker and banquet at the Brassville
hotel Saturday night.
The managers of the Citizens Tele
phone company are now making ar
rangements to connect up the lines in
the city, and the phones will be ready
for use in another week.
The funeral of Albert Manke will be
held from the late residence of the de-
ceased on Thursday afternoon at half
past one O'Clock. The remains will be
inferred at the city cemetery.
H. T. Williams, formerly employed
at the Meiselbach factory, has been
granted patent on a machine for the
manufacture of tools. The rights have
been sold to a Chicago company.
Mrs. Frank Avery, formerly of this
city, is not to join the English nobi1.
ity, a. her reported engagement to the
Duke Of Norfolk has been proved to be
untrue. Announcement has been
made that the Duke will wed Hon.
Gwendolen Consta BILE Maxwell, one OF
the leading beauties of the British cap,
ital.
The Kenosha man who remains IN
Chicago for Sunday morning has a
new train by which he can reach Ke
nosha. For some time the nine O'Clock
train has been the last one to Kenosha
on Sunday, but new train is now in
service. It leaves Chicago at 10:45 and
runs as far as Waukegan, where the
Kenosha passengers can catch the
''scoot' and get home in time for Sun.
day dinner. Another daily train will
also give chance for those who miss
the train leaving Chicago at FIVE
O'Clock. This train leaves Chicago al
$40, and by the scoot process reaches
Kenosha shortly after 7 O'Clock.
On account of the recent death oil
Willis w. Cooper, of this city, the
Methodist ministers of Chicago yester
day decided to eliminate any discus
sion of the theatre question from the
coming general conference. Mr.
Cooper was regarded as the leader II
the fight in favor of Broader Meth
odism,' as he styled it, and one of hi.
strongest points was the Withdrawal
of opposition to the theatre. One O.
the ministers at the conference classes
Mr.. Cooper as 'sthe leading Metho
dist" Give years ago" said this min
lister, s'Mr. Cooper offered to give one
tenth of his income to the church
Last year he doubled the amount ant
during the year just ended his tithe
have amounted to more than twenty
five thousand dollars. The action o
the ministers is splendid tribute t,
the wide love borne for the former Ke
noshan in church circles.