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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Kenosha Electric Railway Pays
Original Trust Deed and
Mortgage of 5000, 900
MAY BUILD LINE TO THE WEST
Surveyors Are Now at Work on Line
West From Kenosha and 1t May
Be Built by the Company
Owing the Local Line

The officials of the Kenosha Elec.
trio Railway Co. completed the fnan-
cia1 negotiations for the re-bonding
of the company this morning, when
an order was filed with the Register
of Deeds discharging the trust deed
given by the Kenosha Electric Rail-
way Co. to the Northern Trust Co. Of
Chicago in 1903. The trust deed was
given at that time by Bion ]. Arnold
to secure the cost of building the
tracks in Kenosha, and as it called
for the payment of 100000, it is
thought that this snm was the entire
original cost of the lines in Kenosha.
With the payment of this trust deed
the new trust deed securing the pay
ment of $1,000,00O goes into effect,
and this trust deed or mortgage is
the only encumbrance against the
property owned by the company on
file in the local county Offices.
In connection with the different
deals that have been announced dur
ing the past few days, it is stated by
people close to Mr.. Frost and other
officials of the company that the Ke-
nosha Electric Railway company and
not the Chicago and Milwaukee COM
pany may undertake the work of
building line west from Keuosha to
connect with the lake regions. With
the issue of the new stock of the Ke-
nosha Electric Railway company new
directors will undoubtedly be elected
by the company and these men may
bring new capital to the aid of the
plans of the company for extension.
At the present time the Chicago and
Milwaukee is being kept pretty busy
completing the lines to Milwaukee
and as soon as these hness are COM
pleted it is thought that the company
will be forced to take some steps to
find way to get into the center of
Chicago. With these great projects
on hand the officials of the through
line will have little time and money
to give to building feeders for local
lines.
Notwithstanding this fact the Frost
engineers have been completing the
surveys out in the lake districts of
the county aud it is pretty certain
that the Frost roads will not permit
this valuable territory to pass into
the hands of an unfriendly or rival
company.
With the vast amount of money
that is to be raised by the bonds re-
Gently issued against the property of
the Kenosha Electric Railway COM
pany, the company will have large
sum of money to spend in improve
ments. The line proposed to the west
is onein which the people of Kenosha
are directly interested, and it would
not be a bad plan to have it under the
same management as the local line.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
RAID FISCHER HOTEL
Police Officers Make a Descent
on the Fischer Hotel on Sat
urday Seeking Gamblers
FEDERATION BACKS MOVE

A small sized sensation was caused
on Saturday night when the Fischer
Hotel on Market street was raided by
Chief of Police O'Hare and his assist
ants. The raid was made on a war
rant issued by Justice Sturges just be-
fore midnight. The complaint On
which the warrant was issued was
made by I. w. Huff, one of the direct
ors of the Kenosha Civic Federation,
who alleged that the hotel was being
used for gambling purposes. When
the police reached the hotel it had
been closed up for the night and only
two men were in the lobby. They
with Proprietor George Fischer were
taken into custody. The men we're
Frank Connolly and Frank Albright
and both gave bonds in the sum Of
fifty dollars to the sheriff and they
we're released pending a hearing on
Tuesday.
At the time the police reached the
hotel there was no gaming of any sort
in progress and the officers found no
evidence that game had been in pro-
gress. The two men taken in the hotel
we're simply friends of the proprietor
and they were not even drinking.
The bar seemed to all intents and pur-
poses to be closed up tight.
Fischer was not arraigned in JUS
tice court, but it is understood that
he will come up tomorrow.
1t is stated that complaints were
made against several other places in
the city where it'was supposed that
gambling was being carried on, but if
such was the case no arrests were
made.
1t is stated that the Civic FEEDER
alton is determined to close up every
ambling place in the city and agents
of4he Federation are now out seeking
evidence against the different places.
1t is claimed that three places are
under suspicion as gambling houses.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
ARE LAID AT REST
Remains of the Late R. F. Roberts are
Laid at Rest Sunday

Remains of the Late r. F. Roberts are
Laid at Rest Sunday
The funeral of the late Robert F.
Roberts was held on Sunday morning
at the Bristol and Paris Congrega-
tional church in the town of Bristol.
A large company of early settlers
gathered to pay last tributesof re-
spect to the memory of the departed
secretary of the Old Settlers club and
a large cortege followed the remains
to their last resting place. Many
people from Kenosha went out to at
tend the funeral and the Old Settlers
of Racine county also sent a number
of members to pay last tribute of
respect.
AS, yet the Old Settlers club has
taken no steps to elect new secre-
tary and it is expected that Assistant
Secretary Frank D. Roberts will be
named to take the Office so long held
by his father.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
WOULD ELIMINATE PARTY

Bill Now Before State Legislature to
Regulate Election of City Officers
One of the most interesting bills
that has been presented to the state
Legislature at this session is bill to
regulate the election oflcity officials
in cities in the state. The provisions
of thesbill are interesting:
All nominations are to bal made by
nomination papers as independent
candidates.
III, .however, petition signed by
certain number of voters oflthe city
is filed with the city clerk twenty
two days before election, he.shall call
preliminary election one week be-
fore the regular election. AT this
preliminary election all candidates
for each Office shall....be voted upon
and the two receiving the highest
number of votes shall be voted upon
at the general election and no others.
This would provide that the Off
cia1 elected for each office must re-
ceive asmajority of all the lvotes cast,
and not only plurality as at present,
the less popular candidates being
eliminated in the preliminary cleo
ton. The bill as introduced does not
apply to Milwaukee, but an amend
ment to make it apply to that city is
being considered.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
PLAN STATE MEETING
Arrangements Being Made for State
Teachers Meeting in November


The executive committee of the
Wisconsin State Teachers Associ-
alton met with representative of the
various school departments at the
Plankington house in Milwaukee Sat
urday to formulate plans for the con-
vention, which will be held in Mill
waukee on Nov. z, s and 9.
The change in dates from the holt
day week to November was made in
the expectation of obtaining a larger
attendance, as many teachers wish to
spend the holidays at home. Plans
for the program we're discussed. and
the work of arranging the session
was outlined.
Supt. John Kelley, Juneau county,
and Supt. w. E. Smith, Waupaca
county, represented the county super
intendents. President M. H. Jackson,
Grand Rapids, represented the county
training schools. City schools we're
represented by Supt. Carroll d.
Pearse of Milwaukee; Supt. A. c..
Buell., GAINESVILLE; Supt. B. E. Nelson,
Racine, and Supt, M. N. McIver,
Oshkosh. Other members of the exc
cutive committee are B. A. Schiller
and Miss Katherine r. Williams, Mil
waukees
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
CHANCE FOR STUDENTS
Correspondence Students of University
of Wisconsin To Be Given Privileges


of Wisconsin To Be Given Privileges
Young mechanics and shop workers
with limited means now have most
remarkable opportunity for both
theoretical and practical instruction
at small cost. The University of Wis
consin offers instruction by mail in
practical courses and then opens its
great shops in Madison to artisans
during the six weeks beginning June
"a. At that time, the same instruc-
tors who give the correspondence
courses will not only give their stu
dents further instruction by lecture
and text book, but will put them at
solid work a few hours each day,
under supervision, at forges, lathes,
planners, milling and drilling ma
chimes, shapers-at wise and bench,
with hammer, chisel, and file.
There will also be'practical work in
the steam and gas laboratory and the
electrical department.. This combina-
ton of opportunity to get the theory
of mechanics with the chance to prove
the theory and to get manual skill,
under the best conditions, will give
hundreds of ambitious workers in
Wisconsin splendid opportunity.
Full information will be cheerfuly
given upon application to the Univer-
sity Extension Department, at Madi-
son, Wisconsin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
GIVES UP $4,000 JOB
L. G. Bohmrich, Formerly of Kenosha
Gives Up Fat Job in Milwaukee

Louis G.. Bohmrich, formerly of this
city, caused sensation in political
circles in Milwaukee Monday after
noon when he resigned his Office of
assistant district attorney of Mil
waukee county. The position is one
greatly sought by attorneys in Mil
waukee and pays salary of $4,000 a
year. Mr.. Bohmrich was appointed
to the Office on The first day of April.
In resigning the appointment after
one month of service Mr.. Bohmrich
gives no cause for his action more
than the fact that his personal bust
ness is such that it is impossible for
him to give the time necessary to
take care of the Office of assistant
prosecutor. He states he has large
private practice in Milwaukee which
takes up too much of his time for him
to take any outside work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Business Men Talk Of the 0rgani-
zation Of a Forty Thousand
Club to Boom City
RAPID STRIDES POSSIBLE
With a Little Judicious Boosting Ke-
nosha May Be Made the Second
City in Wisconsin Before
TIE Close of 1915

Prominent business men in Keno
sha are considering the advisability
of the organization of Forty Thou
sand Club and make the slogan of the
club ''FoTty thousand people for
Kenosha in 1915" Such clubs have
been organized in nearly every city of
any size in the United States and
their work has had a decided effect on
the increases in population. Keno
sha has no association at the present
time which has for its purpose the
boosting Of the city and its indus
tries and it is possible that the
"Forty Thousand Club" would do
this work.
There is no doubt but that with the
proper kind of pushing Kensha may
be made the second city in Wisconsin
during the next eight years as every
work on population issued in the state
during the last ten years shows that
the population of this city is growing
at a greater rate in proportion than
the population of any city in the state
and almost as fast as can be found in
any city in the country.
It is now estimated that the city Of
Kenosha has a population of $4,000
people. This is not an IDLE guess,
but statement made by a man who
is accustomed to estimate population
of cities. That man is one of the
agents for the A. G. Wright company,
of Milwaukee, who came to henosha
on Thursday to begin the business
canvass for the new directory which
is to be issued next January.
He said, "A little over a year ago
when we got out the directory of Ke.
nosha we estimated the population at
$4,000 and I do not believe that we
were any too high. have been over
the city pretty well this week and ]
want to say now that | believe
Kenosha has a population close to or
over $4,000 people"
"Kenosha, he continued, sis the
banner city in Wisconsin so far as
growth is concerned and its growth
is greater than any of the other cities.
find, however, that Kenosha' IS
growth is more ia quantity than IN
quality. The number of Hungarians
in the city is increasing at a most
rapid rate and they will, in the near
future, have greater number than
the American born and Natura1ized
Americans.
ne report of the state factory in
spector shows that the wage earners
in the city have been increased fifty
percent in a single year and counting
three people for each wage Garner the
increase in population during the
single year would be placed at up
wards Of six thousand people. All of
this growth has come to Kenosha un-
sought and with an association work
ing for the advancement of the city
there is no limit to the possibilities of
KenoSha
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
NO CHANGE IN PRICE
Milk Dealers Decide to Uphold Present
Rates During the Summer Season

Milk dealers OeC1de TO Uphold Present
Rates During the Summer Season
The price of milk in Kenosha will
remain the same during the summer
as during the winter months, for at
meeting of the dealers held on Mon
day evening it was decided to main
tain the present price. In former
years the price of milk was reduced
on the first of May to the amount Of a
cent a quart. The dealers now claim
that this reduction is impossible.
They cite the fact that in Chicago
milk is now being retailed at 8 cents
quart and that the farmers are re-
ceiving $l.15 per can for the milk,
while last year at the same time they
were receiving but 80 cents. Under
such prices the Kenosha dealers claim
that they would supply the milk at an
actual loss if they sold it at S cents a
quart.
1t is understood that large maior-
ity of the milk dealers were repre-
sented at the meeting Monday even
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
WAS 88 YEARS OLD
Kenosha Odd Fellows Celebrate
Anniversary ofIFoundation of
Order Friday Evening
SHOW LOVE OF FELLOWSHIP

Kenosha Odd Fellows, in keeping
with Odd Fellows in all parts of the
country Friday night, celebrated the
eighty-eighth anniversarysof the birth
of Odd Fellowship and more than
hundred of the member of the order
and of the auxiliary order of the
Daughters of Rebekah gathered at
the hall on Main street and made
merry in honor of thesorder sseighty-
eighth birthday.
Many of the old time Odd Fellows
who had been members of the order
for nearly half a century were in at
tendance and the entertainment pro-
vided was of very interesting nature.
Early in the evening musical and
literary program was rendered in
which well known local entertainers
took part and following supper was
served.
After supper Attorney Clifford E.
Randall delivered an eloquent ad
dress in celebration of the anniver-
sary of the founding of the order.
Mr.. Randall spoke of the work that
has been done by the order during
the many years of its existence, and
lauded the principles that had kept it
so long as one of the leading frater-
nal organizations of the United
States.
After the address an informal dance
was given, and the merry party con-
tinued until early morning.
The Kenosha lodge of Odd Fellows
was one of the earliest to be estab-
lished by the order and the first gath
ering of Odd Fellows was held in Ke-
nosha early in the spring of 1849.
Park City Lodge No. AZ was chartered
by the national organization on June
II, 1849. The lodge was reorganized
in 1872 and since that time it has in
Guided among its members many of
the best known men of the city. The
lodge now has membership of more
than hundred and fifty and it is re-
garded at one Of the strongest frater.
nal societies in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
HELD TO CIRCUIT COURT
Mrs. Eda Ger1ing Valves Examination
and Husband Signs Bond

Mrs. Eda Gerling was arraigned be-
fore Justice Sturges late Friday af-
ternoon on serious statutory charge
and waived preliminary hearing
and was held to the Circuit Court for
trial at the September term under
bonds Of one Thousand dollars. The
bonds were signed by Henry Gerling,
her husband, and Mrs. Gerling was
dismissed from custody. No state
ment was made in regard to the case
and Mrs. Gerling was not required to
plead to the charge.
The hearing of Ed. Gerling, who
was arrested at the same time as Mrs.
Gerling, will be taken up IN Court
late this afternoon and it is thought
possible that Ger)ing will make a
fight against being held to the Cir
cult Court. He stated yesterday that
it was his intention to enter plea of
Not Guilty" to the charge against
him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
ROBERT ADAMS DEAD

Man Long Resident of the County Died
in the Town of Bristol Saturday
Robert Adams, aged 90 years, long
a resident Of the town Of Bristol,
died at the residence of A. J. Bene-
dict in that town on Saturday after
noon. The deceased had been an
invalid for more than fifteen years.
Many years ago he was paralysed and
for years he had been confined to his
room at the home of Mr.. Benedict.
The deceased had resided in Bristol
most of his life and was widely known
in that section Of the county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

That incompatible comedy, "Bache-
1or Hail." which is to be given May
10th under the auspices of the Women
Catholic Order of Foresters, will in
clude the following well-known local
favorites in the cast: Mamie Denton,
Laura Magill. Edith Miller, Grace
Mathews, John Hegeman, IT., Will
O'Donnell, Joseph Lippert, Claude
Huck, Tom McCaferey, Joseph Math-
ews, George Gibbs and Walter Burke.
Miss Marie Heating is directing the
cast.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
CONTEST AT WILMOT
Miss Maude Vincent Gets First Honors
in Annual Dec1amatory Contest


The annual declamatory contest
among the students of the Wi1mot
High School was held on last Satur-
day afternoon, and as result Of the
contest Wilmot will be represented at
the district contest by Misses Maude
Vincent, Ethel Wright and Verah
Lubeno. The decision of the judges
awarded the honors in the order
named. Seven young ladies and two
young men took part in the contest.
1t is stated that the contest was the
best ever held at Wilmot, and it is de-
c1ared that the young ladies selected
to represent the school at the district
contest are counted on as leaders. A
large crowd attended the contest,
which was held at the Woodman hall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
FUEL MEN BANQUET
Employees of the North Shore Fuel and
Supply Co. Banquet in Chicago

Managers and employees in general
of the North Shore Fuel & Supply
company were entertained at a BAN
quet by the heads of the firm at the
Hotel Stratford in Chicago Friday
night, a nine course spread being
served.
The banquet was merely good
fellowship affair at which company
matters we're discussed to make way
toward improvement and progress.
The company has Offices at Lake For
est, Highland Park, Glencoe, Lake
Bluff, Highwood, North Chicago,
Everett, Waukegau and Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

One of the chorus girls in the "Wiz-
ard of o." company, which played
here Friday night, attemptedEto com
nit suicide in Racine Sunday morn
ing by jumping from Main street
bridge into the river. Sheiwas seized
by passers-by just as she had climbed
over the railing, but wouldegive no
reason for her actions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

Want Ads Csc a week.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-18
NOTICE. 10 CONTRACTORS.

Sealed bids will be received at thu
office of the City Engineer of the
City of Cairo. Illinois. until II O'Clock
a. m. Oct 21st. 1907, for paving with
brick and otherwise improving Sec
ond street from the west line Of Ohia
street to the west line Of Washing
ton avenue.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at the Office Of the said City
Engineer No. I'LL Commercial ave
nue.
All bids must be sealed. marked as
such and accompanied by cash or a
certified check TO he amount of u
per cent Of the amount of such bid. as
an evidence OF good faith of the bid
der
The right is reserved to reject ans
and all bids.
". b. THISTLEWOOD.
City Engineer
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-18
CAIRO & TH[bES
IMPROVEMENTS
FOUNDATION FOR TWENTY
STALL ROUND HOUSE FINISH
ED-wATER MAINS LAID TO
SUPPLY 10000 GALLON TANK.

The foundations for the twenty-staIl
round house Of the Cairo & Thebes
railroad has been finished. also that
for the turn table. The sand pits
also been built. Superintendent Gan
non Of the Water Company is now
having a six inch water main laid to
the ground to supply the premises
with water. Il will take six hundred
feet Of this main to reach the prem
ises from the nearest main now
there. The pipe TO supply the yards
at verious points has already been
laid-so0 feet or more. Il is purposed
to set up tank near the round house
with a capacity Of 10000 gallons. from
which to supply the engines.
The round house is bigger than all
the ether round houses in Cairo com
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-18
TRUANT OFFICER
FORC|TY SCHOOLS
SHOULD BE WINNER OF PARENTS
MORE THAN DRIVER or LAW
BREAKERS.
LAW Is NOT ENFORCED
Says Prof. Clendenen, Because School
Authorities Are Not Penalized For
Failure--Other Defects
Pointed Out.

The general idea prevails that the
school attendance law Of 81, q;
amended 1903, and finally amended
1907 is generally enforced. The con
trary is true. 1t is generally ignored
in the rural schools The farmers
girls attend about all the time there
is school The rural boys start in If
tier corn gathering time. about De
cemher LIST on an average, and quit
when oats planting time comes round,
thus losing both ends Of the school
term with one OF the ends attached to
"a big slice of the middle. The school
attendance law was intended for the
rural schools as well as the towns
and cities. But no law is stronger
than the citizen sentiment back Of it
of the short five months winter
term Here is a field for the educa-
tional side of the farmers county in
stitutes.
There are a number of towns and
cities making an honest attempt to
enforce the law but many villages
ignore II entirely, while not a few
of the five TO twenty thousand popu-
lation cities have made little or no
effort towards the laws enforcement
The law is weak in that school an
thorities are not penalized for negli-
gence in its enforcement.
The truant officer makes or I'M
makes the right sort OF sentiment in
schools making an honest effort at en-
forcememt One city of more than
twenty thousand population expends
but s17500 annually for salary of a
truant officer 1t is admitted by its
superintendent that the enforcement
Is unsatisfactory. And why not?
Where little is expended little may
be expected. Still, in this school the
attendance has been Increased In the
grammar grades. especially Another
school almost as large as the one
just cited tries to enforce the law at
an expense, of $500 per month AMI
with results very satisfactory. Efi
cheney in truant officers as in teach
ers always begets pleasing results.
Our city school board employs n
woman trusnt Officer at $500 per
month. She IS secretary. also, Of the
local board of associated charities
and thereby receives sufficient add
tional pay to retain her in the posi-
tion for several years past. The re-
suits are reported as materially bet
tering the attendance over what il has
been. Another superintendent reports
that during the past school year there
were but 40 cases of truancy in
school OF some $500 children enrolled.
This leads to the reflection that this
school attendance law Is in no sense
a tuant law. The truancy feature IS
a mere incident The real thing con
templated in the framing and passage
o fthe law was the lettering OF the
annual enrolment and an increase
average pearly attendance upon this
enrolment Of the children Of the
state between The ages II seven an !
sixteen years. Children that do not
start to school can not be terme !