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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
4 REVISED VERSION
Ten Commandments Revised to
Fit Demands of Mail Order
Houses in Big Cities
SMILE FOR LOCAL MERCHANTS

Local merchants in Kenosha and in
other parts of the county are having
broad laugh on account of a revised
version of the Ten Commandments
which is being sent out by the assoc
citation organized to oppose the spread
of the mail order business. Here are
the Commandments as sent out:
First-You shall sell your farm
products for cash whenever you can,
but not to us; we do not buy from you.
Second-You shall believe our state
ments and buy all you need from rs
because we want TO be good 70 you,
although we are, not personally ac-
quainted with you.
Third-You shall send the money
IN advance to give us the chance to
get the goods from the factory with
your money; mea awhile you will have
to wait patiently few weeks be-
cause that is our business method.
Fonrth-You shall apply to your
nearest city to aid you in building
good roads SO you may conveniently
get the goods from the depot which you
buy from US, for we do not build coun-
try roads.
Fifth-You shall buy church bells
and interior fixtures from us and for
ward the money in advance, for that
is our business method, and you shall
collect from the business men in your
vicinity as much money as you can
for the benefit of your churches. AIS
though we get more money from you
than they do, still it is against our
rules to donate money for building
country churches.
Sixth-You shall buy your tools
from US and be your own mechanic,
in order to drive the mechanics from
your vicinity, for we wish it SO.
Seventh-You shall induce your
neighbor to buy everything from us,
as we have room for more money
the less money there is left in your
community, the sooner we can put
your local merchants out of business
and charge you any price we please.
Eighth-You shall look often at the
beautiful pictures in our catalogue,
so your wishes will increase. and you
will send in big order, although you
are not in immediate need of the
goods, otherwise you might have some
money left to buy necessary goods Of
your local merchants.
Ninth-You Shall have dc me.
chanics who repair the goods vol Guy
from us book the bill so you can send
the money for his labor to us for new
goods, otherwise he will not notice
our influence.
Tenth-You shall, in case of acct
dent, sickness or need, apply to your
local dealers for aid and credit, as we
do not know you.-St. Paul Trade
Journal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
BOOSTS ITS CAPITAL
Kenosha Electric R. R. Company
Files Amendment to Its Ar
ticIes Of Organization
CAPITAL IS NOW 100000

The Kenosha Electric Railway com
pany filed with the register of deeds
today three amendments to it's
articles of organization which tend to
show that the company is planning
great extensions of it's business in
Kenosha and the surrounding terri
tory. The first amendment to the
articles increases the capital stock Of
company from $15O,O0O to 81, 100000
and it is stated that the stock is to
be divided into ten thousand shares
of par value of 500 each. The next
amendment made increases the mum
Der of the members of the Board of
Directors of the company to five in
stead of three and it provides that the
directors of the company shall be
stockholders of the company.
The officers of the company are
named as a president, a vice presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer.
The Office of general manager of the
company has been eliminated and his
duties will be taken by the president
that A. c. Frost is the president of
the company but no statement is made
as to the identity of the other stock
holders. 1t is claimed by men in a
position to know that the stock of the
company is now being offered for
sale and that it is finding ready
purchasers. It is known that large
block of the stock is fowned in
Kenosha.
The amendments to the articles of
organization were adopted at the
annual meeting of the stockholders of
the company held month ago, but
they have just been made matter of
record. The increase In the stock is
in keeping with the fling of the re-
cent trust deed which was given to
secure a loan of one million dollars
which was to be fsecured on bond
issue.
When the company was originally
organized it had capital stock of
$4,000 which was afterward increased
to $4,000 and again increased to $780,
0O0
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Sweet Potato Pie.

Take several sweet potatoes, and
when they have boiled themselves ten
der peel and slice them. Line the bot
tom and sides of deep dish with
crust-the dish must be fully three
inches in depth-and upon this ar
range layer Of the potatoes, butter
ing them literally, sugaring them free
ly and sprinkling them wMn nutmeg.
Add next layer of very thin slices OF
dough, sprinkle with hot water, then
follow with another layer of sliced po-
tatoes and repeat until the pan is full.
The top crust follows, and the pie must
then be baked for an hour or more
Miles Bradford in Bohemian Magazine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
State Labor Commissioner Closes
the Half Holiday for Saturday
Afternoon to Child Workers
MAY WORK ONLY TEN HOURS
II Half Holiday Is Given on Saturday
the Hours of Work Must Be Re-
duced = No Overtime Work
Will Be Permitted

The sos boys and girls under sixteen
years working in the Kenosha fac
torres will not enjoy the liberty of the
half holiday during the coming sum
mer months unless the managers of
the factories employing them consent
TO make them present of this half
day. The state commissioners of la Dor
at the request Of the managers of
three kenosha factories has handed
down decision to this effect. During
the past the holidays have been al
lowed but it was with the understand.
ing that the time was to be made up
by work at other times during the
week. The child workers are ex.
pected to put in sixty hours a week or
ten hours a day.
len hours day is the limit that
these workers may be employed under
the state law aud in order to make up
tor the half holiday the factory man.
ayers found that it was necessary to
have the children work ten and three
quarters hours for FIVE DAYS in the
week. Ia this way there was nc time
lost at the shops and at the same time
the workers had Saturday afternoon
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
I'M The DEATH CHAIR.
How 1t Feels When the Killing Cur.
rent Is Turned On.

rent Is Turned On.
He waited a second or an age. Then
suddenly it seemed as if1he must leap
from the chair, his body was swelling
to some monstrous, impossible. inhu-
man shape; his muscles were stretch
ed, millions of hot and dreadful nee
dies were piercing and pricking him, a
stupendous roaring was in his ears,
never seen or imagined before, colors
no one had ever seen or imagined, col
ors beyond the range of the spectrum,
new, undiscovered, summoned by some
mysterious agency from distant cor
ners of the universe played before his
eyes. Suddenly they were shattered
by terrific explosion in his brain
then darkness.
But, no; there was still sensation. A
dull purple color slowly spread before
him, gradually grew lighter, expanded,
and with q mighty pain he struggled,
cropping his way in torture and tor
lnent over fearful obstacles from some
far distance remote as black stars in
the cold abyss of the universe. He
struggled back to life, then an appall-
ing confusion, grasp Of conscious
ness; he heard the ticking of the two
watches. Then through his brain there
slowly trickled thread of thought
that squirmed and glowed like white
hot wire
A faint groan escaped the pale lips
below the black leather mask; a tremor
ran through the form in the chair; there
1t relaxed and was still.
It's all over The doctor, lifting his
fingers from Archie's wrist, tried to
smile and wiped the perspiration from
his face with a Standardization
Brand Whitlock's "The Turn of the
Balance"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
FORM NEW LEAGUE

Six Of the Amateur Teams Of the County
to Play at Central Park This Season
A meeting of the managers of six
of the amateur baseball teams in
the city was held at Central
Park Thursday evening and an or
ganization was completed. The or
ganization will be known as the Cen
trail Park League and will have three
games each Sunday. A full schedule
Of games will be arranged. ]. E..
Decker was elected president of the
league, Lewis ]. NORM, secretary and
Charles McGahon, treasurer. The
teams and their managers follow:
Fortune Brothers, c. ]. Decker;
West Ends, John Worting; Christen-
sen Brothers, John Weber; South
Ends, Charles Li1ley; Somers, Otto
Tabbert; Somers Greys, Albert Werve.
The first games of the league season
will be played on next Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
ELECT STATE OFFICERS
Annual Meeting Of Wisconsin r. A. M.
Closes With Election of Officers

At the annual session Of the grand
council Of the Royal Arcanum Of
Wisconsin, held at Fond du Lac
Thursday, Milwaukee was selected as
the next place Of meeting. The fol
lowing officers were elected.
Supreme representatives. e. b.
Be1den, Racine, and S. A. Ecksteip,
Milwaukee.
Alternates Gibson, Fond du
Lac, and E. A. Dow, Plymouth.
Grant Regent s. R. Armstrong.
Racine.
Grand Vice Regent-C. M. Boyles
Wausau
Grand orator-G George E. Adams,
Milwaukee.
Grand Chaplain-J. A. Francois,
Green Bay.
Grand Secretary C. D. simonds,
Milwaukee.
Grand Treasurer D. E. Cameron,
Milwaukee.
Grand Guide n. W. Johouotte,
Monroe.
Grand Warden Joseph schafer,
Milwaukee.
Grand Sentry J. H. zimmerman
Beloit.
Grand Trustees-W. H. Krueger
Milwaukee; DR.. w. B. Coffeen, Greer
Bay, and George Even, Amigo.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
LOCAL ITEMS

Deputy Sheriff Horace Chaffee is
suffering from an attack of rheuma-
tism.
William Savage is i'll with pneu-
monia at his home on Exchange
street.
The Elks had pleasant social ses-
sion at the club rooms on Thursday
evening.
The deal for the purchase of site
for the Bijou theatre has not as yet
been completed.
Chief of Police owen O'Hare traus-
acted official business in Chicago
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Harry Kupfer has returned
home from Los Angeles, California,
where she has been visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Worthington
entertained small company of
friends at dinner at their home on
Congress street on Thursday evening
Those present report very pleasant
evening.
Zion City has decided to elect a
Board of Education, and the schools
of that city will be taken from the
rule of the church and placed under a
civil commission.
The Kenosha members Of the Inde-
pendent Order of Foresters entertain
ed their friends at a card party at the
hall on Thursday evening. A pleas
ant time is reported by all present.
A petition is being circulated for
the paving of the alley between Main
and Church and Wisconsin and Park
streets. The petition will be pre-
scented to the Council at its next SEES
sion.
DR.. Geo. A. Hi1dreth, High Chief
Ranger for Independent Order of For
esters of Wisconsin, made Court
Southport visit Thursday night and
reported the wonderful growth Of the
order the past year.
Mrs. Mary D. Stevens, formerly Of
this city, has been granted a decree Of
divorce in Chicago court from her
husband, J.. G. Stevens, a son Of
Christ. Ludwig, of 318 Lake avenue.
The charge was drunkenness. Mrs.
Stevens will assume her maiden name,
Mafy Harges.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
FREE LOVERS IN JAIL
Advocates of Free Love, Returning to
Zion City From Racine, Arrested

Advocates of Free Love, Returning TO
Zion City From Racine, Arrested
Fannie Crosby and Harry Bales, a
couple from Zion City, fed to Racine
to escape arrest on a warrant sworn
out by Elder Silas Moot of Zion. In
the arrest of the couple blow was
struck at Zion City's free love coll
ony. Bales was formerly a student
at the Evanston University, and he
and Miss Crosby became acquainted
last fall. The two created sensa-
informed Zionites that they had been
married by God. Miss Crosby in
sisted that she had vision In which
God had informed her Of her spiritual
marriage, while Bales said the same
vision had come over him.
Then the two are said to have or.
gained the free love cult and had in
the neighborhood of twenty followers.
Elder Moot Of Zion did not believe in
the vision business or the free love
business, and he swore out warrant
for the arrest of the pair. They elud-
ed Chief of Police Walker of Zion,
and went to Racine. There they nave
been living quietly for some time.
Believing that the feeling had sub
sided at Zion they returned to Zion
Tuesday night, we're arrested and
spent the night in jail at Waukegan.
The hearing was at Waukegan
Wednesday, and both were held tc
the Grand jury.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Mrs. Eda GerIiOg and Ed. GerI.
ing Arrested in Chicago by
Chief O'Hare Thursday
WIFE RETURNS TO HER HOME
Her Paramour Spends the Night in
Jail. and Hearing is Continued
Until Saturday Afternoon
Goes Back to Jail

The romantic relations Of Ed Ger
ling and Mrs. Eda Gerling, the wife
of Henry Gerling, came to rather
unexpected conclusion just after 8
O'Clock Thursday evening when the
couple were taken into custody on
warrants charging serious offense.
The arrests were made by Chief of
Police O'Hare, who had been closely
on the trail of the couple for the past
ten days. The chief went to Chicago
late Thursday afternoon and at once
began watch over room on the
South side of Chicago at which he had
learned the couple had stopped for
some time. It was just after s o'clock
when Mrs. Gerling approached the
room and just before she entered the
door she was arrested by the chief.
The woman broke into tears and hur-
ried into the room to prevent the
exposure that must follow her arrest
and she awaited there while the chief
went to a saloon a short distance
from the room and arrested Gerling.
The couple were hurried to the police
station and both at once signed an
agreement to come to Kenosha with
out extradition papers. The chief
reached Kenosha with his prisoners
just before midnight and Gerling was
taken to jail while Mrs. Gerling went
at once to the home of her lawful
husband on Elizabeth street. She re-
NAMED there during the night.
Gerling, after spending the night
IN jail, was taken before Justice
Sturges Friday morning and he stated
that he was ready to enter plea of
not guilty to the charge. The hear
ing was continued until Saturday
afternoon and Gerling was held under
bonds of $1,000. He was unable to
furnish bonds and returned to jail to
await the hearing. Mrs. Gerling did
not give any bonds, it being under
stood that she was under the custody
of her husband.
Henry Gerling still insists that his
wife is under some influence welded
by the other man and it is thought
nolle the proceedings against the wo-
man and that recon collation. will be
brought about by the husband.
1t was developed in Court Friday
morning that Ed Gerling has wife
and one child living in Chicago, but
that he had not been living with his
family for some time.
Several letters were received from
the two during the last few days and
it is admitted that they had received
money from Kenosha with which ehey
met the bills while in Chicago.
Ed Gerling's wife was the daughter
of a man formerly well known in
manufacturing circles in Kenosha
and it is not thought that she will
come to Kenosha to aid the husband
who proved unfaithful to her.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Euphemisms For Death.

"Decease" is now a regular form of
word for death. But it began as a
gentle euphemism, "decessus (depar-
ture) seeming much less harsh to the
Romans than "mors" All languages
abound in euphemisms of the kind,
which go back to a superstitious re-
luctance to mention death plainly that
gradually passed into a kindly desire
to soften the idea. Passed away"
departed" gone" expire" (breathe
OUT, mo more" demise" and even
"the late are expressions of this ma
ture. Most striking of all is the Ro-
man euphemism for che is dead, ''vix-
it" Che has lived.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
TO KEEP YOUNG.
Lessen Your Food Continually az You
Grow Older.

Lessen Your Food Continually as You
Grow Older.
What man or woman, growing old,
would not give a fortune for the re-
newal Of youth? With a little care
they might have kept it for ten or 9
dozen years longer, but it's value was
not realized until too late, says DR.. Co
hen, the noted London specialist.
Up to the age Of twenty three or
twenty-five in the case of men and
eighteen or twenty in women the
framework of the body is being form
ed, and the diet should be generous.
After the thirtieth year has been pass
ed it is no longer necessary to eat to
make more tissues, but only to pre-
serve equilibrium Of weight and
strength. Yet at that time eating is Il
pleasure highly appreciated. Therefore
most men and women eat too much
and this is the time Of life when in
discretions in diet produce disease with
especial frequency.
Do not eat heavy suppers.
Drink little or no alcohol
Avoid rich meats and pastry
Do not grow fat by eating too much
Fat people seldom reach a good old
age. The youthful old man is lean.
Lessen your food continually as you
grow older.
Overeating produces all the diseases
that make one old.
Undertaking shortens life.
Just enough and a trife over is the
ideal
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

free. The matter was taken 10 by
the state factory inspector and state
labor commissioner on the request of
the managers of the Chicago-Kenosha
Hosiery company the Cooper To-
derwear company aud the Windsor
Spring company and all OF these
plants had arranged to observe the
Saturday afternoon holiday rule. The
matter was laid before the state
officials by Assistant Factory IN
spector D. D. Evans and ia speaking
Of the decision on Thursday evening
Mr.. Evans said:
The heads of the two departments
held that it would be impossible for
them TO grant to Kenosha plants any
thing that was in opposition to the
state law, Which required that these
workers be allowed to work hp+ fen
hours day. 1t is now the nIan of
the department. to havesa la " passed
making it illegal 20 permit child
laborers to work for a period LONGER
than nine hours a day and the de.
partment in the light of this agita-
tion for shorter hours could not give
their consent for longer hours even
with the consideration of half holt
day on Saturday."
The ruling of the department in
the Kenosha case will have a wide
reaching Influence, as the Saturday
holiday plan IS being rapidly adopted
by factories IN all of the larger cities
of the state and some plan will have
TO be devised to give the younger
workers the same privileges of the
older ones. 1t is thought that in
some of the factories the children
will be allowed the half holiday With
out being forced to work for the added
time on the other days, but such
plan will badly Interfere with the
work III the plants. In most cases
the children were willing and anxious
to work the added three quarters of
an hour in order to get the half day
off on Saturday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
An Artificial World.

The mingled feelings of admiration
and skepticism with which we gazed
upon the stuffed animals in the toy
shops of our youth we still experience
in the society Of many of the human
animals we meet later in life. The
more we admire the more do we mis-
trust, while there is nothing Of which
we are more convinced than that ev-
erything is unreal from the complex
ion of our friends to the genius of a
great writer. London Ladies' Field.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

The Virginia sptderwort apparently
cannot endure a high temperature.
During the day it is wilted and de-
dected As the evening comes on it
reytyes, all its leaves assume a lively
appearance, and the plant appears to
flourish and enjoys it's life until the
morning light again returns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
An Experienced View

Bride prettily)-I wonder why they
call a wife's allowance pin money /?
Matron (savagely) Because money to
buy enough pins to hold her old clothes
together is about all that the average
man thinks woman needs. = Balti-
more American.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
NOTICE

The local Union No. 87o, Kencsha
y. B. |. y. of A. have complied with
and amended their bylaws to the IRE
quest of the Master BARRIERS of Keno
sha, that the price of shaving be ad-
vanced to fifteen (15) cents on and
after May 1, 1907. a3O
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02
Addition.

"a bigamist should be an, arithmeti-
cian."
"Why?"
He adds one and has two TO carry
Washington Post
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

Poverty Of thought is worse than
poverty of pocket Bohemian.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-16
MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The Industrial Index Points Out Grea
 Progress for the Week.

Columbus, Ga., May 15.-(Special.) )-The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says in it's regular weekly issue today:
 Municipal Improvements, large pro- jected lumber manufacturing plants and extensive investments to be made in other industrial lines, news of projected con struction in over fifty cities and towns Of Georgia and Alabama, including more than one in a number of them, five banks and twenty-five new corporations with total minimum capital stock of sS75,OO0 are features of reports to The Index for the past seven days that tell in figures and few words the wonderful growth and prosperity of the two states, and indicate the advantages that they offer to home- seekers, manufacturers and promoters of general commercial enterprises
 "In the following cities elections have been ordered upon the issuance of munich pal improvement bonds: Milledgeville, Ga, city hall and auditorium; Forsyth, Ga., sewers; Sparks, Ga, water works; Mansfield Ga., school building, and Ade, Ga, lighting plant. Athens, Ga, will ask authorization by the legislature for the issuance of bonds for erecting school buildings. An election will be ordered In Glynn county, Georgia, upon the Issuance of $75,000 of court house and jail build ing bonds. Newman, Ga, has voted bonds for constructing electric lighting plant and Rome, Ga, has voted an issue of $150,000 for water works improvement, sewers and street Improvements. Tn ad- dition to numerous residences and busi- ness buildings to be erected, the follow ing are noted: $35,0O0 auditorium, For syth, Ga.; churches, Sheffield, Sparta. Ga. and Goodwater; five school buildings sewer plans in three cities and paving plans in five; s10.O0O cold storage ware house at Albany, Ga, and cotton ware. houses at Tuscumbia and Florence, and two bridges. Among the contracts award ed are: s2OO,0O0 school buildings, Monte vallo 900 santa rium, Savannah; SLIGO bridge near Dadeville.
 "The following will be established: Concrete plant. Elberton, Ga; fertilizer factory, Cordele. Ga; horse collar fac
 tory and tannery, Florence; S125,000 oil mill, Summerville, Ga; s59.O00 sewer pipe and brick plant. and a showcase and Of flee fixtures factory, Mllledgeville, Ga; spring bed and mattress factory, Athens Gal; and turpentine plant. Fitzgerald. Ga Franchise has been granted for building electric street railway at Waycross, Ga. ; building of electric street railway at Grif fin, Ga. is contemplated railroad between ! Hazelhurst, Ga, and Waycross Ga, Is projected; $1o0,000 will be expended in im- proving and enlarging gas plant at Au- ] gusta, Ga.; sl60,0o0 lumber mill will be | established at Douglas, Ga. Waycross- i Ga, is to have lumber plant of 5000 | capacity; preparations are being made for ! the establishment of lumber plant near { Savannah, Ga, to cost about s5O000O: gold 1 mining company with capital stock of | $150,000 has been organized in Atlanta. i Numerous land deals are reported"