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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

23.-Arthur J. Roberts and Miss
Lulu Orman.
25.-Wm. Jenkins End Miss Floy
Hough.
26.-W. w. Sterner and Miss Belle
Paine. Fred Wells and Miss Margaret
O'Malley.
&c. E. Hartman and Miss Pearl
Palmer.
30.-Harry A. Harlgraves and Miss
Dora G.. Cornell. Clyde Emery and
Miss Carrie Sagley.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03
HARRISON REYNOLDS FUNERAL,
Burial Of Well Known Agency Man
Sunday-ottumwans Present.
From Mondays Daily.

Sunday-Ottumwans Present.
From Mondays Daily.
Agency, Oct. Harrison Reynolds
funeral was held Sunday from his late
residence on West Main street. In
teEment was made in Round Point
cemetery. The funeral was the larg-
est held here for some years and was
largely attended, there being friends
here from Ottumwa, Eldon, Birming-
ham and Batavia. The funeral was
conducted by Rev. T. B. Hughes, as
sisted by Rev. D. NJ I~wer. The pail
bearers were W. F. Foster, R. c. Hix-
son, G. Hitler. James Jay, Alex Gilt
ner and G L. Nye.
Personal and Otherwise.
Charles Hixson of Galesburg, Ill.
was here visiting friends.
Mrs John Reno and H. R. Hillery
have returned from a ten days trip
through Canada. Mr. Hillery bought
some land up there and will move
there in about year.
Mrs. Wright of Ottumwa is visiting
friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dunbar left
Saturday for Denver, Salt Lake City
and other western points, where they
go hoping to find climate that will
improve Mrs, Dunhar's health.
Mrs Lou Wright, who has been Wis
iting her sister, M. Edward Jones
has returne dto her home in Chicago
She wa accompanied by Mastc- Lloyd
Nye.
F. w. Lambert of North Dakota, who
formerly was the principal of the
Agency schools, was calling on
friends here last Friday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Acton
recently, daughter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03
SOUTH SIDE NEWS.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Born. Nhis morning to Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Stokes, 512 Wabash avenue, a
son.
J. R. Swinney of Floris returned
home yesterday after visiting at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Isaac Swinney, who reside on Pine
street Mr.. Swinney was accompanied
home by Earl Tinsley and Stewart
Swinney, who will make short visit
there.
Mrs. John Trisler and daughter,
Mrs. b. G. Park, returned this morn
ing from Belknap and Floris, where
they made few days visit with
friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lafollette of
Blakesburg, visited friends on the
South Side today.
Mrs. Barney Markle and Mrs. James
Harper of Hedrick, and Mrs. Anna
| Little of Indianapolis have returned
to their homes, after visiting at the
home of Mrs. Omer Williams, who re.
sides on Willard street.
A party of twenty-eight students OF
the Southern Iowa Normal Institute
of Bloomfield. passed through the city
this morning en- route to Cliffiand, te
enjoy a day picnicking.
Mrs. Valetta Heth arrived on the
Milwaukee this morning from HedricE
| for visit with her brother, O. l.
Stockherger, 903 Church street.
From Mondays Daily.
Born Saturday to Mr.. and Mrs. H
Jones, who reside on Wabash avenue
La daughter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03
Favored by Both Parties.

TdVUFeu ny 0Ut1I = dTtISS'
Republicans and democrats alike
praise Foley's Honey and Tar for
coughs colds and all throat and lung
diseases. as no other remedy can com.
pare with it. 1t is safe and sure. F.
T. Slater, merchant, III Main street,
Gloucester, Mass, writes: "Foley's
Honey and Tar cured me of a very
bad cough which | had for three
months though other remedies failed
to benefit me. | can highly recon-.
mend it for coughs and colds" For
sale by w. D. Elliott, Druggist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

The case Of the city VS.. Mrs. III. J.
Bailey, an appeal, has been dismissed
and the costs taxed to the city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

From Mondays Daily.
Born Saturday to Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Jones, who reside on Wabash avenue.
a daughter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03
Mrs. Felix Dickerson, who resided OF
Queen Ann avenue, left Saturday FOL
Eldon and will make her home will
her daughter ri
WEATHER is FINE.
Former lowan Well Pleased With Con
L..

uIIIUFIS III OdHddd,
w G. Atchison, formerly of Abba,
now in Wilcox. Canada, in letter I'd
the Courier states that the weather *
fine and the days clear and warm in
Canada at the present time. The
farmers are threshing and he says that
oats yield from forty-five to one hun.
bred bushels per acre, wheat from
forty to sixty bushels and fax from
fifteen to twenty-five bushels.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

BY making bluff at being busy
some men are able to dodge a lot
of work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

Mr. and Mrs. D. w Masteis and FAM
lily of Abba visited over Sunday at the
home of Mrs Masteis sister, Mrs. p.
w. Steele, 200 South Schuyler street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

Jesse McQueeny and family of
Bloomfield are moving to South Ottum-
wa today and will reside on Myrtle
street
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Steele, who re-
side near r loomfeld visited at the
home of n. and Mrs. ]. S. Thurman,
1O5 North Weller street, yesterday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
ASK FOR MORE BIDS
Street Assessment Committee to
Open Bids for Sewers Again
on Friday, June 9Th.
BIDDERS HAVE LOST INTEREST

The sewer farce is on again and the
street assessment committee of the
city has caused a new advertisement
for bids for the work to be inserted in
the local official paper and in leading
contracting journals. It is the pur-
pose of this committee to open these
bids on the afternoon of Friday, June
9, and they will be referred to the
city council on the following Monday
evening. The specifications for the
work remain unchanged and even the
Objectionable clause demanding
surety bond is still found. It will be
necessary for every bidder to furnish
this bond with the presentation of the
bid. Some of the contractors had
urged that the clause in regard to
union labor be eliminated, but this
clause remains intact.
There is good deal of speculation
in regard to the way this new adver-
tisement for bids will be received by
the contractors, and members of the
committee state that they do not ex-
pect to receive as many bids as we're
presented on the former occasion.
The treatment accorded to the con-
tractors was not exactly pleasing to
out of town contractors and while the
action of the council was evidently in
good faith, several of the contractors
have openly stated that they will not
bid on the work.
No change has been made in the es-
innate of the city engineer and it is
thought that the bidders will probably
raise their bids to meet the estimate.
The work of bidding on the job will
be greatly reduced as many of the
contractors have already made a
pretty thorough investigation of the
conditions. If the bids are opened on
June 9, and the council acts promptly
on the contract it would be possible
to have the sewers completed before
the end of the present year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25

THE NEWS takes little stock in the
rumors of underhand work in connec-
ton with the failure to let sewer con-
tracts. 1t does not know and has no
means of finding out just how strong
the men opposed to building any sew
ers in the city at all are in the council
or whether they will be able to pre-
vent the contract for the new sewers
from being let. It does know, though,
that any miscarriage in the pres
ent plans would give the city a knock
out blow which it would be long
time recovering from and that if the
opponents of sewers had any inten-
ton of preventing their being built
they should not have permitted the
plans for building them to go ahead
as far as they have.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25

EVEN Lawson, while he attacks the
business methods of certain officials
of insurance companies, does not
claim that their operations have af-
fected the stability of the companies.
AS far as the Investigations under
taken since the row in the Equitable
broke out have gone, nothing has
been disclosed to make the policy
holders in any of the great companies
fear for the safety of their invest
ments., Some of the earnings of the
money of the policy holders may have
been diverted to the pockets of the
officials, but the principal itself is I'M
impaired, and policy holders will save
themselves great deal of unneces-
sary worry by bearing this fact in
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25

THE aldermen and the people of Ke-
nosha are Disguised with the Keno
sha street railway, but they are not
going to do anything foolish in the
endeavor to "p1ay even" with that
corporation. There is a franchise
and liberal patronage awaiting an
other street railway company in Ke-
nosha, but any applicant for that
franchise must give satisfactory evil
dence of his financial ability to build
and operate street railway before he
can get it. The city can wait long
time, if it has to, until the right party
comes along after a franchise, and it
has no valuable concessions to give
away to spectators and promoters.
We are cup against it" badly enough
now without making a bad matter
worse by giving away franchise or
two to anybody that happens to ask
for it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
Kenosha Electric Railway scom-
pany Makes no Reply to Bust
ness Mems Demand.
A REPRESENTATIVE PETITION
Only Two of the Business Men in the
City had Declined to Sign it but the
Company Fails to Reply
to Petition.

It is evident that the managers of
the Kenosha Electric Railway COM
pany are not considerate of the feel
ings of the business men of Kenosha
for more than a week ago represen-
tative petition signed by nearly every
business man on Main street was for
warded to the general Offices of the
company but it has failed to awaken
any sympathetic response and the
company is still operating its cars
without transfers.
The "pub1ic be damned" policy is
70 be continued by the company and
even this appeal of men who have the
greatest interest of the city and the
company at heart seems to have
failed.
The petition was one worked up and
circulated wholly by the business
men who sought to secure the best
interests of the city and who made an
emphatic demand on the company
that transfers be given on the cars.
In the petition the business men
company as we'll as the best interests
of the business men of the city de-
manded that this fight between the
city and the company be settled at
once. The business men held that
there was but one logical settlement
and that was for the company to ac-
cede to the general demand of the
people of the city and issue transfers
to all passengers in order that they
might secure the rights vouchs afed
to them by the ordinance under which
the company is now operating.
Only two of the business men in the
city to whom the petition was pre-
sented had declined to sign it. One
of them was a member of the city
council and he stated that he thought
the company was living up to its
ordinance. The other was man who
was wholly in sympathy with the
petition but who stated that he would
call on President Arnold and personal
1y present his views on the transfer
problem and urge that the company
take immediate steps to secure the
transfers. The dropping of the suit
against the city officials by the COM
pany seems to indicate that they
simply desired to secure the operation
of the cars and with this suit out Of
court the city will have no way to
bring the matter to an issue unless an
action is brought by the state attorney
general or by some passenger who
has been refused a transfer on the
line. In this case the action would
be one for damages. 1t is a hard
matter to find anyone who is willing
to bring such an action as it would be
attended with heavy expenses and
the city is not willing to stand behind
and pay these expenses. AT present
the company has an injunction which
would prevent the mayor or the mem.
bers of the police from stopping be
cars and the people will probablyshave
to suffer along without redress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
Judge Dick, Of Waukesha, Puts
An End to Claim of Attorney
H. Weismann on Monday.
WEISMANN SAID TO BE INSANE
The Town Officers of Brighton Have
Won a Blood1ess Battle in the
Great Suit for $1O,OOO-Weis-
mann to Appeal Case.

The suit of Henry Weismann VS..
John T. Tigh, Anton Daniels and
James Ward, election officials of the
town of Brighton, to secure damages
to the amount of $4,000, on account
of the fact that Weismann had been
denied the right of suffrage at the
last general election was thrown out
of court by Judge Dick in the circuit
court at Waukesha on Monday after
noon.
No evidence was taken in the case
for when the matter was called for
trial Attorney Peter Fisher of this
city, who appeared as attorney for the
defendants IN the action, presented a
plea in abatement in which he alleged
that Mr.. Weismann was insane and
for this reason should have no stand
ing in court, This action was not un-
expected by the gray haired plaintiff
in the action and he had prepared to
make the fight of his life on it. The
defense at once began to call wit
nesses to support the causes alleged
in the plea and Judge S1osson was
called to show that Mr.. Weismann
was adjudged insane ii the county
court here several years ago and that
the Judgment was still in force. The
three defendants we're also placed on
the stand to swear to the fact that
they were aware that Mr.. Weismann
had been adjudicated insane in the
Kenosha county court. Attorney
Weismann placed r. V. Baker of this
city on the stand to counterbalance
this testimony but the evidence of
Attorney Baker was rather in favor
of the defendant officials.
| After the evidence had been pre-
sented Mr.. Weismann started to make
| plea to the court which was pathetic
in the extreme, but after he had spok-
en- for a short time the judge sum
mari1y put an end to the action by or
dering the clerk to render a verdict
of dismissal in the action.
| The old Brighton attorney has an
nounced that he will make one more
effort to establish his rights as a citi-
zen and will appeal the case to the
supreme court of the state. This
court has dealt kindly with Weis1nann
as he has been allowed to appear sew
era1 times in the past few years as
his own attorney in this court.
The suit came up in the circuit
court of this county at the last term
of the court and at that time the
plaintiff filed an affidavit of prejudice
and demanded change of venue.
Judge Be1den sent the case to Nauke.
sha for trial.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
TO NAME SCHINNER.
Vicar General of Milwaukee Did,
cese to be Bishop Of New
Diocese of Superior.
TO BE INSTALLED WITH P0MP

The Very Rev. Augustine F. Schin-
ner, vicar general of Milwaukee arch
diocese for several years past, has
been appointed bishop of the Superior
diocese, recently created by the re-
division of Milwaukee province.
The appointment has been made by
Pope Plus x through the congrega-
ton of the propaganda at Rome, and
it is believed that the brief is already
on its way to Archbishop Falconio,
the apostolic delegate at Washington.
The creation of the new diocese has
also been verified.
The information of the. appoint
ment of Father Schinner has come to
Milwaukee through private sources at
Washington, and official announce
ment is being held pending the ar
rival of the brief, or the official notice
of the selection. Although 40 con-
frmation could be received at the
archbishop's residence last evening,
it is believed, that Archbishop Mess
mer has received a cable. announcing
the appointment and that Father
|Schinner is in receipt of letters con-
tanning the same information.
So certain is the information which
has been received that arrangements
for Father Schinner's conservation
are already being discussed, and the
elaborate ceremonies will take place
at St. Johns cathedral on Apostles
day, either in June or July. If pos
sible to complete the arrangements,
the conservation will be celebrated on
Thursday, June %, but, if postpone
ment is necessary, the date will be
Tuesday, July Is.
Archbishop Messmer will conduct
imposing ceremonia1s by which the
bishopric will be conferred on Father
Schinner, and all the bishops of the
province and the majority of the
priests will assist. The service,
which is beautiful and impressive
one, continues for fully three hours,
and will be held in the morning of
the chosen day. It will doubtless be
attended by banquets and other
festivities in honor of the newly con-
secrated bishop.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
COULDN'T DODGE cHAR1vARI.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tanning Wed in the
Morning but get it Just the Same.

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tanning Wed in the
Morning but get it Just the Same.
Cards will be sent out on Wednes-
day announcing the marriage of Miss
Emma Louise Cumiskey, for many
years head operator for the Wisconsin
Telephone company, and William
flaming, the well known salesman of
the Barden dry goods store. The
marriage which was decidedly quiet
event was celebrated by Father Ma
lone at St. James church at $50
O'Clock Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanning are among
the best known and most popular
young people of the city and their
friends had promised to make their
marriage an event long to be remem-
bered. The bride and groom decided to
fool the "wise ones" by an early
morning wedding. At the church
when the ceremony was performed
were Miss Belle Cumiskey and M.
Cafferty, who acted as maid of honor
and best man.
Monday afternoon the friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanning began to sus-
pect something and last night pickets
were posted at both the Tanning and
Cumiskey homes to prevent the es-
cape of the bride and groom. At $3.50
O'Clock party of fifty friends sur
rounded the Cumiskey home. They
were accompanied by band and or
chestra and when Mr.. Tanning stuck
his head out of the door to see what
was up he was promptly captured.
Both the bride and groom steadily
denied the marriage, but the party OF
friends kept up the charivari just the
same until midnight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanning will go to
housekeeping at once at their new
home at 500 West street and they will
be at home to their friends after July
first. The bride and groom are well
known in the city and they are re-
.ceiving hosts of congratulations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25

CHICAGO now has a race problem of
its own to deal with, and the South IS
watching to see how the windy city
will handle it. 1t is a condition and
not a theory which confronts Chi
cago now, and all the advice which
that city has been so generous with
in times past, when southern cities
were struggling with the same prob
lem, does not seem to apply now that
Chicago has to deal with race preju-
dice within its own gates.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25

CONSIDERING the condition the
books of the city were in and the
special knowledge required to do the
work, the charge for Strengthening
them out was certainly not excessive.
It will be worth all it cost and more to
know just where the city stands and
the new system of bookkeeping may
be the means of stopping some of the
leaks through which the money of the
taxpayers dribb1es away Even if it
does not help keep down expenses it
will be some satisfaction to know how,
when, and where the money was spent
and who is responsible for spending
If,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
MISS JENSEN FOUND.
Pleasant Prairie Woman Long Missing
is Found Living at Boone, Iowa.

Letters received in Pleasant
Prairie state that Miss Anna Jen-
sen, a woman who disappeared from
that town some ten mouths ago
is now in Boone, Iowa, working as a
domestic. Miss Jensen it is alleged
wandered away from home while de-
mented and in hers letters she claimed
that she walked all the way to- the
Iowa city. It is stated that when she
arrived at Boone she recovered her
reason and as she was without funds
she accepted a position as domestic.
So far as can be learned the woman
has no relatives in this county and
before her mysterious departure she
had worked in several homes in the
town. She stated in her letter that
she would return to Pleasant Prairie
in the near future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
HoNoRs FOR SCHOLARSHIP.

Fourteen members of the senior
class and seven members of the Junior
class of the University of Wisconsin
have Just been elected to the honorary
literary society of Phi Beta Kappa,
which was founded at Harvard in ITS
and membership in which is awarded
on the basis of excellence in scholar
ship. The seniors are Daisy NJ. AL
len, A1lenville; David A. Crawford,
St. Louis, Mo-; Willis P. Co1burn,
Cassvi1le; Edmund C. Harder, Mil
wvaukee; Grover G. Hnebner, Mantle
voc; Leon B. Lamfrofn, Milwaukee;
Karen Lasen, DEBORAH, Iowa; Max
Loeb, Appleton; Emil O1brich, Har-
ward. III. Edwin F. Rathjen, Milwau-
kee; Rose M. Wagner, Menasha;
Agnes Walsh, Milwaukee; Harry E..
Whee1ock, South Bend, Ind; and
Leta M. Wilson, Boscobei.
The seniors who were chosen in
their junior year are Ruth F. Allen,
Sturgeon Bay; Elizabeth Barnard,
Ear1ville; Edwin B. Bartlett, Mi1wau-
waukee; Margaret E. Coffin, Eau
Claire; Anna He1mholz, Madison;
Frank ]. Katz, Milwaukee; Wi11ibald
Wenigar, Milwaukee.
The juniors elected are Merrill H.
Crissey, GAINESVILLE; Kate G. Grant,
Milwaukee; Victor H. Kadish, Mil
waukee; Marion E. Ryan, Wausau;
Peter H. Schram, Madison; Lily r.
Taylor, Madison; Martha L. Wash
burn, Sturgeon Bay.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
DEATH OF w. J. RHODES.
Well Known Farmer of the Town of
Somers Died at ST. Mary's Hospital.

Well known Farmer of the Town of
William ]. Rhodes, of the town of
Somers, prominent throughout9 the
county as farmer and politician, a
member of the county board of super
visors for many terms, and a man
prominent in the development Of Ke-
nosha county, died at st. Mary's hos
pita1 in Racine just after 2 O'Clock
this morning.
Mr.. Rhodes had been i'll for many
weeks, and six weeks ago he was re-
moved from his home at Somers sta
ton to the hospital in Racine. Since
that time he had been growing stead
lily weaker and the end was not I'M
expected.
The funeral will be held from the
late residence of the deceased in the
village of Somers on Thursday after
noon at O'Clock. Interment will be
at Oakwoods cemetery in Somers.
The death of w. =. Rhodes marks
the passing of aan1an who did much
for Kenosha county. The deceased
was a son of the late Jonas w.
Rhodes, one of the pioneer settlers of
the county. The father came to this
county from England in the early
forties, and the son was born at the
old homestead in the town of Somers
April "a, 1874.
In his young manhood he became
prominent in the affairs of the town,
and during the sixty-one years that
he was resident of Somers he held
many offices. His most important
work was as a member of the board
Is county supervisors, of which he
: one time chairman.
,eased is survived by a wild
nd one daughter, all of
IS of the town of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-25
SHOWS AN INCREASE
Report of Postoffices in Wiscon.
sin for Year Shows Big To-
crease for Kenosha Office.
RACINE FALLS DOWN HARD

Judge E. w. Keyes in the Mi1wau-
kee Sentinel presents some IN
teresting data regarding Wisconsin
postofices. He says the increase in
receipts of the postoffices throughout
the state is sure indication of the
growth and prosperity of the several
localities.
He gives the following table show
ing the total receipts and increases
for the year ending July /, 1904.