The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-10

MEMBERSHIPS AT LOW COST
Voting Members to Be Admitted to the
Association for Annual Fee Of Five
Dollars While Associate Mem
bers Will Pay One Dollar

z. G.. Simmons was elected presi-
dent of the newly organized Kenosha
Park association at the meeting Of
the members held at the Simmons
home on Prairie avenue Wednesday
night, and with the election Of full
list Of icers the association is plan
ming to get down to work to procure
better parks for Kenosha and the sur
rounding territory. Well-known men
consented to take ice in the associa-
ton, and as result the Offices were
filled by the leading men Of the city.
The full list of officers follows:
President @. Simmons.
Vice Pres. DIR. N. "A. Pennoyer.
Secretary e. L. Grant.
reasurer-Charles G. Brown.
The board Of directors will be com
posed of the officers and the following
well known citizens: Thomas B.
Jeffery. George Yule, M. Funck,
Charles w. Allen and j. ]. Hoyt.
The association has adopted the
bylaws as prepared by committee
appointed at the former meeting. The
bylaws are modelled on those of the
Madison Park association, and in
making them the committee planned
to make the association popular with
all classes of people in the city. To
this end the annual fee for voting
members was placed at SIS, while assoc
ciate members will be admitted for
fee of 81. Life memberships will be
sold for 800, and it is expected that
quite a number Of people will take
the memberships in order to get the
work properly started.
Several hundred dollars will be
needed at once to secure plans for
work, and to this end the officers and
members of the board of directors
will at once begin canvass for mem
bers. 1t is expected that several
hundred members will be secured dur
ing the first year of the association.
The Madison association, which start
ed out with membership of twenty
seven, now has membership of more
than six thousand people, and 1t is
thought that what has been done in
Madison can be done in Kenosha.
The board Of directors will have a
meeting within the next few days at
which time plans will be made to get
the work properly started. It is under
stood that the Park association will
work in harmony with thelKenosha
branch of the Outdoor Art associa-
ton, and it is thought that the COM
bined efforts of the two will be- able to
accomplish much.
| The large attendance at the meet
ing on Wednesday evening shows that
the people of the city are taking a
great deal of interest in the proposed
work. The memberships will not be
limited to the people of Kenosha but
the privilege of aiding in the work of
improving the city and the surround
ing territory will be given to the peo-
pie residing in the rural districts
about Kenosha. These people have
| shown an interest in the work already
and it is thought that the association
! will gain many members from portions
of the county beyond the corporate
limits of the city.
The men who have been named as
officers of the association are enthusi-
astic over the work and they will do
all in their power to make it a success.
While no women are named as officers
the ladies will be expected to take a
great interest in the work and
many of them will join the associa-
ton as voting members.