The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-02-01

Adolph Schmitt is home for a visit
with his mother.
W. S. Frantz, Of Zion City, spent
Friday evening in this city.
You will proclaim. the Boston Stores
sale the prime bargain event Of the
10th century.
The members of the Royal League
are planning to give a private
masquerade on the evening of Feb. ~.
George Bubser, formerly the pitcher
for the Kenosha base ball team, has
signed to manage the Green Bay team
next season.
Waukegan had a saloon hold up on
Sunday and the police of Kenosha
have been asked to look for the
guilty parties.
/ Let everybody tell their neighbors
about the big sale at the Boston Store
and everybody come and see for your
self what's going on.
The North Western Railway com
pany has delighted the residents Of
Prairie avenue by repairing the rail-
way crossing on that street.
An unknown man was trying to
pawn his overcoat on Market street
Friday afternoon. He evidently
thought we would have no winter.
The Boston Stores entire $28, 900
stock will be turned into cash in ten
days. Profits and cost will be sacri-
feed in way almost beyond belief.
You haven't moment to loose when
the stupendous sale opens Wednesday,
Feb z, at the Boston Store, 452 Pearl
street. One block east Of the North
Western depot.
The Bristol and Paris Congrega-
tional church will give their annual
oyster dinner" at the home of Abram
Gu1ick on Friday, Feb. 9. Everybody
invited. Dinner at II m. sharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. William W. Crandall
have filed a petition in the county
court asking leave to adopt Richard
Borkenhagen an adopted son of Henry
and Mary Borkenhagen and son by
blood of George and Anna VanLone.
The funeral of the late Laust
Koldenburg was held from the Dam
ish Lutheran church on Sunday after
noon. The services were largely at
tended and large cortege followed
the remains to their last resting place
in the city cemetery.
The members of the Kenosha Yacht
club have sold over five hundred
tickets for the dance to be given in
February. The money raised is to be
used for building home for the club.
It is expected that the dance will net
about thousand dollars.
An order has been issued by the
county judge permitting the sale of
property owned by Peter Achten in
this county. The property is located
on the shores of Camp Lake, and it is
understood that it is being purchased
by Chicago people for resort purposes.
The marriage of Fred Mindermann
and Miss Martha Johns, both well
known in Kenosha, was celebrated in
Milwaukee Thursday afternoon. Mr..
and Mrs. Mindermann are now spend
ing their honeymoon in Milwaukee,,
but they will return early next week
to make their home in Kenosha.
CL;n,oro a4+o~naxyre r,1a4o - LY.xorl, !,
Tuesday looking over the papers in
the. estate Of the late Charles Dnrkee.
It seems that the old claim against the
government is to be brought into the.
lime light again. The claim has been.
exploded so many times that Kenosha
people are no longer taking any in
terest in it.
The suit Of NJ, /. Loose, ofs.Milwau-
kee, VS.. John Love, of this city, which
was brought with the plan of testing
the work Of loan sharks, failedto come
to trial. The plaintiffs we're ordered
to furnish security for the costs of the
action, and when they declined to
give such security Justice Sturges|
entered an Involuntary non-suit.
In the past six months taps have
been sounded over the graves of
$4,000 pensioners of the Civil war, ac-
cording to statement of Pension
Commissioner Warner. This, he says,
is an evidence of the rapidity with
which the veterans are being dinin-
ished. The total number of pension
ers on December 81 was 679, PA.
Mrs. Mary Anna Derbyshire Hook
er, widow of the late Phillip ]. Hook
er and an early pioneer resident of
the town Of Pleasant Prairie, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. H.
Dole, in Beatrice, Neb., on Jan. IA.
The deceased was 90 years of age.
Mrs. Hooker had been one of the
settlers of the town of Pleas
ant Prairie as she came to that town
from New York in 1887. She had
resided at Beatrice since 1866.
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