The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-12
LOCAL ITEMS.

nosha Friday.
The new High School building at
Beloit is to cost $50, 900.
F. F. Gordon, of Milwaukee, spent
Friday afternoon 10 Kenosha.
A. A. Gordon, of Rogers City, Mich,
transacted business in this city Fri
day.
Thomas Lockhart and wife returned
Friday from a weeks vacation in
Michigan.
John O'Donnell, fireman at the
water works, has gone East on his
annual vacation.
Ormond Yule has returned home
after a weeks visit with friends and
relatives at Trevor.
Mary V. Brennan and Elizabeth F.
Brennan, of Chicago, spent Friday
evening in Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Gage. of Mason
City, Ia, are visiting their relatives,
Thee. Boyington and family.
Miss Ruth Jones, Miss Minnie Har-
tie and Miss Alice Stahl have re-
turned from visit in Racine.
William Davis, of Antioch, who
passed away August 81, lacked only
thirteen days of being 100 years old.
Mrs. c. W. McComb, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, is visiting at the home of her
son, F. E. Rutledge, on Wisconsin
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Hensgen have
returned home after a weeks visit
with friends and relatives ia Union
Grove.
Rural mail carriers are planning to
petition the post Office department
for an allowance for the care of their
horses.
Judge Claudius B. Grant, who has
been visiting his daughter, Mrs. G.
D. Barnes, has gone to Harkin, Ark :,
for several days visit.
Children must attend school in Illi-
nois until they are sixteen years of
age, according to the new law passed
by the last legislature.
Postmaster and Mrs. John B. Ma
loney returned home on Friday even
ing from Canton, Ohio, where they
spent ten days with friends and rela-
tives.
Miss Alta Beardsley, who has been
spending the summer vacation in
Grand Haven, Mich, returned to Ke
nosha Friday to resume her work as
teacher in the city schools.
Miss Ruby, who graduated from the
Kenosha high school few years ago
and last June from the Northwestern
University at Evanston, is to teach
history and English in a high school
near Madison.
Walter White, who was seriously
injured at the Badger Brass plant last
Tuesday morning, is some better to-
day and DR.. Bacon, who is attending
him, reports that there is every rea-
son to believe that he will recover the
vision in the injured eye.
Postmaster Maloney has as yet
heard nothing of the plans for the
Kenosha'post Office and it is supposed
that the government architects are
still at swork on the plans. IF the
foundation for the building is to be
laid this year the contra ctors will have
to get busy pretty soon.
DIR. ]. P. Stevens, of Clay Center,
Kansas, who was robbed of his pocket
book here at the time of the visit OF
Pawnee Bills Wild West show, has
recovered the pocketbook and papers
They were found by couple of boys
on the North side and had been hid
den behind bill board by the thieves.
In honor of winning a writing desk
Labor day, writing desk social was
held at the home of Miss Mada1ine
Quigley on Pomeroy street Thursday
evening. About twenty of her friends
we're present. Games were played
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was served. The feature of the even
ing was Miss Julia Morrison playing a
violin.
The Barber Commission law, which
has been one of the stumbling blocks
for Kenosha BARRIERS, is to be tested in
the Supreme Court of the state, as
two BARRIERS arrested in Wausaukee on
a charge.of not paying license, have
gone to jail rather than pay the fine
and the case will be appealed. The
Kenoshasbarbers will watch the out
come with great deal of interest.
Elihu Hawkins, aged IS years, a
resident of the town of Brighton, who
has been receiving treatment at the
Alexian Brothers hospital for some
time, was examined by physicians in
the County Court Thursday and
found to be not insane. The old man
is still in the county Jail and the
county judge is making an effort to
have him sent to some state institu.
tion to care for the senile.