The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
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Z COUNTRY
CORRESPONDENCE.
SOMERs

On Saturday Of this week, August
81, the men interested in lakewood
cemetery are requested to meet there
with scythes and rakes to cut the
grass. The ladies will serve dinner
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. @.
Ozanne. Let every one who has in
terest in the improvement of cur Gem
etery make it your duty to be there.
Tuesday evening, Sept 3, the Meth
odist society will hold social at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Long
more. Everybody is cordially in
vited.
Rev. Costing will preach his fare
we'll sermon at the Methodist church
next Sunday morning. Rev. Costing
will return to his home in Michigan.
Mrs. L. J. Strong visited with
friends in Milwaukee recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bishop are
attending the Jamestown Exposition
and visiting other places of interest IN
the East.
Mrs. r. E. Jones, of Milwaukee, Wis
tied at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
H. Bullamore during the past week.
Mrs. p. M. Anderson and daughters
Misses Myrtle and Lillian, are visit
ing with friends and relatives al Hart
ford, Wis.
Misses Grace and Bessie Walker, OF
Racine, visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lyman ]. Strong over Sun
day.
Miss Edna Barrows, who has been
very i'll the past week, is improving at
this writing.
Miss Emma Naylor and Mrs. Ham
i1ton, of Milwaukee, spent Friday at
the home of Hiram Bowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Gardiner, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, have returned
home after weeks visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth Gardiner.
Miss Bessie Briggs, of Milwaukee,
is visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. L. J,
Strong.
Miss Edna Bush visited with friends
in Racine the past week.
H. A. Clemens, of Racine, spent
Friday in Somers.
Mrs. c. ]. Barrows and daughters,
of Genoa Junction, visited at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Barrows-
the past week.
Mrs. Emma Persel, of Colorado, was
called here last week on account of
the death of her sister, Mrs. Fred
Donsing.
It is reported that William Laner
has purchasd forty acres of land from
M Donsings and will erect a new
house upon it in the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman, ]. Strong and
Miss Bessie Briggs, spent Saturday
with friends at Jacobs Island, north
of Kenosha.
Judge and Mrs. D. H. Flett and
daughter, of Racine, spent Sunday
with friends in Somers.
Last Thursday evening a 'arge
company of friends and neighbors
gathered at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellsworth Gardiner, ia honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Gardiner of Grand
Rapids, Michigan. The evening was
enjoyably spent by all present, re-
freshments were served.
Mrs. Marcia Newman, widow of the
late Atwell Newman, one of the pio-
neer residents of this neighborhood,
and one beloved and esteemed by all,
departed this life Tuesday afternoon,
August 20, 1907, at her home in Ra.
cine after an illness of several months
The deceased was born May 20, 1928
She was an active worker in the
Methodist church and has devoted a
great deal of her time and energy to
w. C. T. U. work. The funeral SER
vices were held from her late home in
Racine Thursday afternoon, conduct
ed by Rev. William Rollins. Inter-
ment was at lakewood cemetery be-
side her husband and son. Her son
was soldier in the waf of 1861 and
died in 1864.