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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

Whitewater Normal Graduates in
kenosha Urge the Election of
PresidentAIbert
MAY CONTROL SCHOOL BOARD

The hand of the fair sex is to be
seen in the coming election in Keno
sha county, and it is declared among
the women that more women will vote
on April than have exercised the
right of franchise in all the elections
held in the county IN the past.
At the coming election every woman
in the county will have a right to
vote. Out in the rural districts the
women may vote for state superinten-
dent of schools and for county super
iutendent' In the wards of the city
the women will have the right to vote
for a state uperintendent and for the
school commissioners. In past years
the women vote in Kenosha has been
decidedly small, and yet with this
sort of a vote the women have several
times controlled the election in sew.
era1 of the wards of the city.
This year, however, it is expected
that there will be larger vote among
the women than ever before In Ke-
nosha there are nurnber of school
teachers and ex-schoo1 teachers, who
are graduates of Whitewater Normal,
and these women have started out to
put Kenosha county in line for Presi-
dent Albert Salisbury for the office Of
state superintendent. The women
have made a canvass of all of their
friends, and have urged them to APP
pear at the polls and use their inf1u-
ence to secure the election of the
Whitewater man. Thee women have
not stopped with carrying this mes
sage to their friends, but they are
now going out among the club women
of the city and are making an effort to
get these various organizations inter-
ested IN the election. It is strange
that but few of the women seem to
know that superintendent Cary seeks
reelection, and the Whitewater grad
yates are doing their work so well
that Mr.. Salisbury should receive
votes enough from the women of the
county to secure his carrying the
county.
The women in the wards of the city
may aid a great deal in the selection
of a more representative school board
and it is to be hoped that every one Of
them will arrange not only to go to
the polls, but to post herself in regard
to the candidates for these important
Offices.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

PASSENGER steamers on the great
lakes will be subjected to more rigid
inspection By federal officials this year
than they have ever been given be-
fore. The new regulations which
have been put in force, as the result
of the General Slocum disaster, are
most stringent and for the summer at
lest, they will be strictly enforced.
The life preservers, life boats, fire
fighting apparatus and safety appli-
ances of all kinds, must be of the
most modern and approved patterns,
and no boat will be allowed to carry
more passengers than can be cared
for in case of accident. In the past
FIVE years the excursion boats on the
lakes have been operated with little
regard for public safety, and the
changes in the regulations may be the
means of preventing a REPETITION Of
the Slocum disaster on Lake Michi.
gan next summer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

THE one thing that will give an
other street railway company access
to Kenosha is the refusal of the pres
ent company to deal justly with its
patrons in the matter of a fixed
schedule for running cars and in issu-
ing transfer tickets. Sooner or later
the people will demand fair treatment
and if they cannot get it from this
company they can from another. The
company is making big money now,
but it's grab-a1l policy will kill the
goose that lays the golden eggs in the
long run.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin,.

snort Items OF Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.
A movement is on foot to establish
state bank at the village Of Neosho.
]. <. Douglas of Troy Center will
head the enterprise.
The Fond du Lac authorities have
ordered all the stalls removed from
saloons within ten days, the penalty
being a revocation of the licenses.
The gymnasium at the state univer-
sity is undergoing a transformation
IN preparation for the annual circus
that will be given Saturday afternoon
and evening.
Col. ]. A. Watrous of Milwaukee,
will beIthe speaker at campfire to be
given by the Grand Army Post and
the Woman's Relief Corps of Milwau-
kee on March 81.
A chemist employed by the city of
La Crosse has submitted an official re-
port thats".La Crosse must have a fl
tering plant Immediately as a safe
guard toIhealth.
Navigation opened on the Missis-
sippi river at La Crosse on Thursday,
the ice on the upper river going out
in a general movement. The opening
of navigation is a week earlier than
last year.
The Wisconsin Oak Lumber COM
pany's big sawmil1 in Frederic is
closed for repairs. About $4,000, 600.
lake, and logging will be continued
all summer by rail.
Water is rising in the 1ow1ands on
both sides of the Mississippi river,
and the bridges and roads are being
carefully guarded at La Crosse. Re-
ports of houses flooded and bridges
going out are untrue.
At Chiffon and Hayton, along the
Manitowoc river, considerable anxi-
ETY. is felt for the safety of dams and
bridges. The river is far beyond it's
stage, and, under the influence of con-
slant rains, is hourly rising.
| A Wisconsin Central train running
between Eau Claire and Chippewa
Falls was ditched by broken rail on
Wednesday. The baggage and pas
senger coaches were overturned and
burned, and four men were slightly
injured.
]. G. Morris, vice president and
manager of the r. Mcmillan Lumber
company, was fined $40 and costs for
violating the anti-child labor law at
Oshkosh on Thursday, his superin-
tendent having hired a boy who was
under age.
County Clerk William Bell, of Ra-
cine, has received an opinion from
the state tax commission that where a
county board of supervisors fixes the
salary of supervisor of assessment,
the amount can not be changed dur
| ing his term of office.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

THE BARRIERS law is to be given an
other chance to demonstrate its use
fu1ness. AS starter in the right di-
rection how would it do appoint an
entirely new board? No matter how
good work the present board may do
in the future it will always be ham
pered with its past record, and new
board, without any such handicap to
contend with, would have better
chance to accomplish something.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
MATTHEWS FINISHED THIRD
Kenosha Boy Gets Third Place in Ora
torical Contest in Milwaukee.

Joseph f. Matthews who represent
ed the Kenosha High School in the
State 1nterscho1astic Oratorical con-
test held at the Milwaukee Normal
Friday evening failed to win the first
honors but was placed third by the
Judges. Mr.. Matthews gave an ora
ton entitled "The Battle Of Gettys-
burg
Omar Mcmahon, of Manitowoc won
the first honors and Geo. Halverson
also from Manitowoc was second.
1t is probable that this will be the
last contest held by the association
as it has been shown that the contests
are not success financially. Last
night but thirty-eight people were
present at the contest and the total
amount Of money coming to Kenosha
was ffty-four cents. The Principal
Of the High school was forced to pay
the expenses Of the Kenosha contest
ant.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

APRoPos of the fight now going on
for the control of the Equitable Insur-
ance company, how much actual con-
troll do the policy hold srs of the mu-
tual companies really exercise in this
management. If we are rot greatly
mistaken most of them sign proxies
year after year with very little
knowledge of how or by whom they
are to be used.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

THERE is yet time for the assembly
to reconsider the i'll advised action re-
fusing an appropriation for Wis
consin exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, and if the assemb1ymen
have any regard for the manufacture
ing interests of the state they will do
it. Economy is all we'll enough, but
there is such thing as carrying it too
far, and in this matter the state has
been penny wise and pound foolish
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
soMERs REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

Notice is hereby given that Re
publican caucus will be held at the
Town Hall, in the town of Somers, on
Saturday, April !, at . O'Clock p. m.
for the purpose of placing in nomjna-
ton candidates for the several offices
to which officers are to be elected on
Tuesday, April 4, 1905, and for the
transaction of any other business that
may properly come before said caucus.
BY order Of the Town Committee.
r. 3. OzANNE, Chairman.
Dated March 20, 1905.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
THURSDAY, MARCH 80.
THIS beautiful spring weather is
doing more to stop the spread Of the
smallpox than all the doctors.

Nor to mention the expenses of the
candidates, the primary election cost
the city over two hundred dollars. Do
you think it was worth the money?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

Nor the least surprising thing
about the election of Major Warner as
Senator from Missouri is the fact that
his election expenses were only $50. 80.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
NEW SPRING STYLES.

Ready-to-wear top coats, spring
suits and cravenettes in all the new
effects. Call and see them.
L. M. EICHELMAN.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

I can give you s'good dea1'' on a
Kimba1lipiano for immediate delivery,
expires Monday. H. E. Tanner. m28
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
WAS ADJUDGED INSANE.

Committed to Winnebago Hospital.
William Rauthum, aged "a years, a
we'll known farmer of the town of
Paris, was adjudicated insane by
Judge S1osson in the county court
Wednesday afternoon and ordered
committed to the state asylum for the
insane at Winnebago. The applica-
ton for the examination had been
made by relatives of the man, who
claimed that he had been suffering
from softening Of the brain for the
past two years.
Rauthum was taken to the asylum
this morning by Sheriff Vietch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

For the best service in hack and
baggage line call up Nelson. All
rigs rubber tired. Both phones SO. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
No Excess Fare Charged on Nickel
Plate Road.

Its trains are composed of the best
equipment, consisting of through
vestibu1ed sleeping cars, in both
directions, between Chicago, C1eve-
land, Buffalo, New York, Boston and
intermediate points, with unexce1led
dining car service, meals being served
in Nickel Plate dining cars on the
American club meal plan, ranging in
price from 35c to $1.OO; midday
luncheon, SOC.
Train No. 2, leaving Chicago at
1885 a. m, daily has through vesti-
bu1ed s1eepers for Boston, via Nickel
Plate, West Shore and Boston & Maine
roads, and through vestibu1ed sleep
ers to New York and intermediate
points, via Nickel Plate and both the
Lackawanna and West Shore roads.
Train No. 4, leaving Chicago at
2:3O pm, daily has through vesti-
vestibu1ed s1eeping-cars for Buffalo,
New York and intermediate points.
Train No. 6, leaving Chicago at 9:15
p. M, daily has through vestibu1ed
sleeping cars for Fort Wayne, C1eve-
land, Erie, Buffalo, New York and
intermediate points, arriving at New
York city early the second morning.
Rates always the lowest. Write,
phone or call or nearest ticket agent,
or John Y. Callahan, general agent,
Nickel Plate road, 113 Adams street,
Room 298, Chicago. Chicago depot,
La Sale and Van Buren, streets. w48
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30

The new barrel Of sauerkraut at
Perkins Bros. is the limit. Try it. If
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30
Remarkable Power of Advertising

take home to the wife and children or
Saturday night.
II had the recipe for a painkiller. a
good medicine made out of herbs that
my great-grandfather had gotten from
an Indian. To try and make up a back
months rent my wife put up two dozer
bottles of the painkiller--it cost her. all
told, so cents-and l put a dollar 'ad
in the paper about what the medicine
would do. What happened7 A drug
glst took the two dozen bottles at 20
cents apiece and ordered six dozen a
week till further orders. Further or
ders. a month later, were for the doub-
ling of the weekly supply. 1 soon had
to leave the retail furniture emporium.
soon had to hire six girls to help me
put up painkiller, And that was my
start"
~" said the third fisherman. haul
ing in a founder, made and sold
timed soup for twelve years at an
annual profit of $500 without advertis-
ing, l now advertise my timed soup
have been doing SO since holland
already my annual profit Is $4,000"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

ny THEN BUSINESS men get to-
wv gether 1t is impossible for
them to avoid for long the
subject of advertising and on this an
sorbing topic many odd stories are told.
Some New York business men were
fishing at Anglesea.
II once advertised" said contractor,
"for donkey engine. I got the very
thing I wanted at a low price. and
when I opened the boiler I found It
filled to the brim with smuggled Ha-
vana cigars and Jamaica rum. sold
the odd cargo for $125."
IT." said John Mark, man in white
linen, ''own. as you know. Marks Medi-
cine mill. the only factory of it's kind
In the world. Our daily output is $780,
900 pills. 125,OOO plasters and $4,000 bot
ties OF painkiller. How did this mann
moth business start? 1t started with a
dollar ad' 1 was 2S at the time. and 1
was keeping the books of a retail furni-
ture emporium at 81 a week. hours
from till s. Pretty near sick was 1
had thoughts Of suicide; slaving. mind
YOU, ten hours day, and only 81 tc
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

, she told her sister Patty, little tot 8
years old, to run for her life down the
track and flag trains coming from be-
low
Then turning household affairs ever
to little Julia, a 6-year-old mountain
kid, she ran like a deer up the track,
where she knew train would soon
no red table cloth, but she switched
off her red petticoat as the roar of the
train was heard approaching, and
waved it frantically as the big loco
motive thundered down the mountain.
The engine driver reversed" and the
grinding machine came along IN a
cloud of steam and with fire stream
ing from every wheel. The heavy train
finally came to stop not ten feet from
the big rocks of the mountain avail
anche. 1t was in that part of the
canyon where the road runs through
a notch in the mountain, thousand
feet above the valley
When the passengers swarmed out
of the train and men, women md chill
dren looked into the dizzy abyss they
realized what they had escaped. In
an instant they brushed the tra;nrten
away from the girl and hugged ard
kissed her as If she were the one hero
inc on earth. Bob" Weaver, the en-
gine driver, had already picked her up
in his arms, calling her an angel whom
heaven had sent to save the train and
its passengers. A dozen men, with
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speedily arranged and in that longest
and most beautiful of all the sunny
days of the girls life she learned that
she was to begin her education at the
Asheville Normal Collegiate institute.
1t would take diamond pointed pen
with an Ink pot full Of rainbows to be-
gin to describe the joy of the girl and
her household over their wonderful
good luck in saving train full of peo
pie and In getting pretty little noun
tain farm. with a first class college edu-
cation thrown in. But that seems to
be the way they do things on great oc-
casIons down among those mountains
near Asheville. N. c.
II was listening to hear the train go
by when the landslide came" said Nan
ME, as she afterward described the Ia
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

| tears in their eyes, came forward and
wanted to adopt little Mamie on the
spot, while others, swearing or crying,
were taking up a collection. Enough
money to fill a Baptist preachers
stovepipe hat was realized in two min
utes.
Mamie thanked everybody in n sweet,
her mother was dead and that there
was no one to care for the children
and run the house inNthe absence Of her
father but herself.
With the modesty of the vio!ets by
her side, the girl talked shyly of her
family affairs, and explained why it
would be impossible for her to accept
the many kind offers showered upon
her for home in a big house. with
servants to wait upon her and piano
to play after she had learned music
and other things.
She accepted the money, however,
because it was pressed upon her, and
they told her that she could do what
she pleased with it. 1t was all hers,
they said
Like a dutiful daughter, she gave
every penny of it to her father VINO is
an Industrious and honest man. In
stead of going on a North Carolina
spree to drink moonshine whisky and
have big time with the boys ct The
crossroads, he went further down The
mountain and bought the sweetest lit
tie home you ever saw There is
patch of grass around the house, a
fine area of farm land under cultiva-
tion, with the clearest of trout brooks
flashing down from the giens above to
iirigate the crops during dry seasons.
1t is an ideal place. where bluebells
the skies are as blue as in italy and
the air is crisp and tingling with
health.
1t was in this new home that Mamie
and her father settled down with the
children the other day, and We're six
times happier than Texas rnncblna
with a hundred square miles Of land
and cattle. In this particular case 1t
seemed as II virtue were really its Jwn
reward. There was only one poes bis
thing that the girl hoped for ard that
was an education. Like all resolute
minds who read, she was ambitious for
of books and the world she
dreamed of.
Such was the situation in that lulet
home near the wonderful re-
gion Of Asheville, where the Wander
bilts and other millionaires have heir
palaces, when the unexpected hap
pened A representative of the south
ern Railway company appeared and /
said the corporation was anxious to
offer the girl a substantial and per-
manent reward for her courageous |
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

cidents in what was to prove to be the
great and memorable day of her life.
Il knew by the sun that 1t was pretty
near train time. l was listening for
the train to go along so as to put the
potatoes on. If you put them on when
the train goes by they are cooked just
right when daddy comes home to din.
ner So when 1 heard the noise of the
landslide 1 knew that it must be al
most train time. That's what made me
stop the train. l didn't feel very sure
that 1 could stop it because the trains
never do stop here. was afraid that
the engine driver wouldn't pay any at
tention to me even If l did get there y.
time. He might not know what l
meant and I didn't know how to signal
to have it mean stop"
In sparsely settled mountain COM
munities, like that where Nannie's
home was, clocks and watches are
scarce things. The sun is the most FREE
quently consulted timepieces, and IN.
many cabins the only one.
However, cabins located near the rail-
road are considered to be especially fa-
vored, as the trains go by at certain
hours and their passing answers the
purpose of town clock. When the
up express goes along the mountaineer
knows that it is half~past eleven and
that in half an hour dinner will be
ready.
The passing OF the trains are the
chief incidents Of the day. Everybody
stops work to watch them and watches
are regulated accordingly.
Enough to fill dozen books has been
written about the charm ana the
beauty of that wonderful health resort
of the south. But nothing can COM
pare with the clear romance OF this
little story, which ends like fairy tale
of childhood and which many a big six
footer has read in preference to poring
over musty volumes on law or the ways
OF stocks and high finance. At the end
of Nannies college course a prince
should appear to round out the fairy
tale. and all the neighbors In the Ashs-
vile region say he win come for little
Mamie
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

A LII the world is talking of the
~ heroism and the reward Of the
little mountain maid in North
Carolina who tagged the train with
her red petticoat and saved many from
horrible death when part OF The
mountain buried the track ana you'd
have sent the express down the pieci-
r,ce, hundreds of feet below.
This is the story: Mamie Gibson, the
heroine, fourteen years old, livel i'll Il
rough mountain hut with her father
in care of her younger brothers and
sisters. It is wild, stupendous re-
rising high on every side. y river
rushing like a torrent through the
gorge below spreads away in soft silver
loveliness as it reaches a plateau in
the wilderness.
Nannie's mother had died but few
weeks before, and being the eldest,
she became the Little Woman" of the
household. She was at work about the
house cooking and caring for the chill
dren when suddenly the mountaia trem-
bled and with the roar and crash of
q cyclone an immense slab OF the
mountain fell upon the main track of
the Southern railway.
1t was a situation to appall any o.e
but the little heroine with good cool
blood in her veins She recovered her
wits Instantly and became mas er Of
the situation. Seizing red table cloth
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receive first class up-to-date educa-
tion. In the bewilderment OF this as
founding information, when everything
in the world seemed dancing to fairy
music, she began talking of her broth
ers and sisters and asking herself what
would become OF them. 1t was explain
ed to her that with education she could
easily look after them.
SO It came about that the matter was
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-30

foresight in saving the train in that
awful emergency
The girl said that she wanted moth
ing, now that she had a home, except an
education; but she little thought that
anything short of miracle or a cloud
OF angels from heaven could bring that
wonderful thing about. Then the rail-
road man told her that she should go
to college at the company's expense ana
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-15

came along, and when he saw pa with
| Watermelon and bluing water all over
him, and perspiration rolling down his
face, he said to pa: why don't you
take your elephant back to the lot,
cause the afternoon performance is
about to begin," and that made pa
mad, and he said: You go on with
your afternoon performance, and I
will have Bolivar there all right" and
then everybody laughed, but pa knew
what he was about.
Pa dropped his hook and went to a
hose cart and took a Babcock extin-
, guisher and strapped it on his back
and went up to Bolivar, who was tip
ping over some dummies in front of
a clothing store, and pa said: 'Boli-
var, you lay down." but Bolivar threw
a seven dollar suit of clothes at pa,
and beloved, as much as to defy pa.
Pa turned the cock of the extinguish-
er, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's
head, and began to squirt the medi-
Gated water all over him. For a mo-
| ment Bolivar acted as though he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-15

pull it out by the roots and jump up
and crack his heels together like a
drunken shoe maker, and below as
though he was saying he was bad
man from Bitter creek.
Well, at Akron, the keeper of this
elephant, Bolivar, had to go and see
a girl that he met when the show was
here last year, and settle a case of
breach of promise before a justice of
the peace, and the boss told pa to look
after the elephant for an hour or so.
So pa took pole with hook in it and
sat down on bale of hay to- watch
Bolivar. 1t was one of those hot days,
and Bolivar stood dropping and per-
spring, and wishing the show was in
Alaska, and pa was kind Of sleepy,
like everybody in the show, when sud-
denly that elephant whoOped, and
sWatted Jeanette, his wife. couple of
times, and she cried pitiful and pa
put the hook in Bolivars hide and
gave jerk, and told him to hush up
that noise, but Bolivar just reared and
pitched and walked right through the