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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

A vote at the primaries is equivalent
to & registration for the regular election
but it is freely predicted that if there
is any illegal voting done this spring
it will be done at the primaries. It is
already rumored that the fierce fight be-
tween the democratic factions will re-
suit in fraudulent voting, but the lead
ers on both sides profess themselves
ready to deal with any emergency that
may arise ard the probabilities are that
such a close watch will be kept that
it will be almost impossible and ex-
tremely dangerous to attempt any re
peating.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The plan to bar out anarchists by re-
quiring them to bring certificates Of
good moral character from home would
not work very we'll unless the past
records of the immigrants had been in
vestigated by United States officials.
There is more than suspicion that
foreign governments are only too eager
to assist their undesirables to leave home
for this or any other country and that
some Of the men who have made trouble
in this country were deliberately sent
here by their own governments. It
would take more than a certificate to
stop that practice.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The Stoughton Courier IS apparently
learning something in the hard school
of experience. Regarding that papers
change of heart the Sentinel has the
following comment:
Says the Stoughton Courier, form
er advocate of the primary election
law:
If a few politicians can come to-
gether and fix up a slate under the pri-
mary law precisely as they did before
its enactment, what useful purposes
does the law serves It costs nearly
100000 every two years to carry it's
provisions out, and if the law is in
adequate to accomplish the purpose for
which it was designed, is it not the
height of improvidence and folly to re-
tain it? The Courier is Inundated be-
cause it was so stupid as to believe that
politicians would do something to cur
tail their own powers. But the lesson
is a good one.
Here is confession which is signif-
cant, 1t is called out by the practical
application of the primary law. 1t is
exactly what was predicted by sane men
when the law was up for consideration.
There is no such thing as concentrating
the vote on any man unless bunch of
eelf-appointed leaders gets together and
names the man. And there is no show
for a poor man, under the law, unless
his friends raise purse for him, and
this destroys his independence.
To the selection of delegates by the
primary no one has ever objected, but
its employment in the selection and cleo
ton of officials is a manifest farce, and
the campaign in which we are now en-
gagged proves it. Candidates are nom
mating themselves for Office who never
could be nominated by a convention
and others are being nominated and
aided by ciques of politicians and nc
one can guess whether the best or the
worst will come out ahead. It is an
even chance. Experience is demon
strating that the primary" is de
lusion-a rank delusion.' -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
FEDERATION
'0Id Timer" Has Some Things
To Say in Regard to the
Reform Organization
PLENTY OF WORK FOR THEM
(From Saturday s Daily.)

Editor News
The Civic Federation stated in an
article in your valued paper last week
that they were organized for civic i'm
provements, ETC., and that they would
see that the Sunday closing law would
be enforced to the letter! What do
they mean? That they will stop bust
ness Of every kind; as they must know
that selling anything on Sunday even
newspapers is a violation of the law.
In regard to their petition; the same
was signed by merchants who violate
the Sunday law continually; by people
who are not citizens; while any number
signed who like to take their Sunday
drinks, but oftentimcs sign petitions to
get rid of the petitioners.
1t the Civic Federation wished to
make the civic improvements which
they claim they were organized for
why didn It they go to the Council room
and protest to the Council granting
every Tom, Dick and Harry license
and allowing saloons to be stuck up
everywhere in the residence district?
In regard to the, Sunday closing; we
had closed Sunday some years back
and while our city was but one third or
one quarter as large as at present,
venture to say that there was more
drunkenness than at present. We know
that when person can't GO in and get
what he wants and take it in modera-
ton. he will take home on Saturday
nights, much more than he would think
OF drinking under ordinary circum-
stances on Sunday; or he will go to
some other city, and besides spending
his money away from home, will drink
much more than if he could get it at
horne.
Then there is the club room that
springs up everywhere and where mi
nors oftentimes can get all they. wish,
while in the saloon they would be re-
fused.
There are hundreds of working people
that have only Sunday to go out with
their friends and have sociable chat,
play pool. billiards, or cards, take few
drinks, but don I ge5 intoxicated.
Should these people be begrudged
their little pleasure because there is en
occasional d1unkg Ny experience has
been that if the saloons are run quietly
and orderly on Sundays and III case
they are not any citizen can make com
plant to the chief of police, and [ dare
say they will be looked after-and run
for a limited number Of hours, that
there will be much less drunkenness
than if the Sunday Closing Law is en-
forced.
Yours respectfully,
An Old Timer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Many people have the impression that
since the passage of the pure food law
lit is illegal to use adulterants of any
kind in anything intended for human
consumption. This is a mistaken no
ton. Harmless adulterants may be
used provided, however, that the
amount and kind of adulterant is plain
ly marked on the package in which it
is contained and sold for exactly what
it is and not as substitute for some
thing else. People who object to the
use of adulterants in any form have
only to examine their purchases for the
tell tale formulas that the pure food
laws require all manufacturers to place
on any adulterated article offered for
sale and there is little danger of being
cheated. The required formula may be
IN very small type for the present but
it will always be there. When the law
is amended and improved so that the
size and style of type to be used in
announcing the presence Of adulterants
is fixed for every size of package it will
be very careless shopper indeed, that
can be cheated. The law has already
done wonderful work in protecting the
consumer but it will do better work in
the future when the minor defects have
1 I
been corrected by further legislation.
1t will also be a comparatively easy
matter to get the legislation needed
through congress for although the pres
ent law was held up for years by out
side influences it would be bold poll
tlclan who would dare now to assist in
blocking a bill that is so obviously in
tended for the benefit of his constitu-
ents and, most powerful consideration
OF all, about which they are SO well in
formed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The rumor that there is something
the matter with the stand pipe is fly
ing around again. When anything of
the kind once gets started it is hard
to quiet it and the city engineer may
have to come out with another state
ment before the critics are satisfied that
they know all there is to know about
the pipe. The fact that there have
been no complaints Of lack Of pressure
on the mains in the western part Of the
city is pretty good evidence that the
pipe is doing some work anyway.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

In another week the drift of public
sentiment to one candidate or another
may give the political prophets some
thing on which to base a prediction as
to the success of this or that candidate
but just at present they are all at sea.
The chances are that the active cam
paigning will divide up the regular
party votes about equally between the
leaders and that the actual choice in
each party will be made by the two
or three hundred Independent voters
whom, no campaigning however active
can reach.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

We should hesitate to say whether
the unusual activity among the mayor
atty candidates or the salary now at
tached to the Office is responsible for
the large number of applicants for
places in the council but we do say
that there is little excuse for any voter
to stay away from the primaries this
spring because there is no one on the
ticket in his ward for whom he can
conscientiously vote. There are good
men up in almost every ward and they
need support.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

When the committee appointed by the
school board to investigate the names
on the petition for new building to see
how many of the signers of the petit
tion are directly interested completes
its labors in that direction it might go
over the board itself little to ascer-
tain how many of the members Of that
body are interested or likely to become
30.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
1ative and unusually well edited.

vative and unusually well edited.
While the harbor has great advan
tages and gives the city water outlet
to eight States, the electoral vote of
which controls the presidential elee
tions, its greatest value, perhaps, is the
fact that it affords perpetual insurance
against excessive freight rates, although
such condition has never yet arisen
i'll the city's history.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The minor defects found in the school
buildings by the Chief of the Fire De-
partment and the President of the
Board of Education have all been RENE
died and it is now declared by those
who should know that the buildings
have been made as safe as it is possible
to make them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

If the performances Of the candidates
square with their promises this is going
to be the best governed city in Wis
consin for the next two years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Poverty is sometimes a great bless
ing. China and Japan would have
been at each others throats long before
this if either had had any money in the
treasury.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The attempt to brighten the people
with the bugbear of prohibition is not
making much Roadway. This move
ment among all classes that is frighten-
ing the brewers half to death is not a
movement for prohibition but for the
proper regulation of the saloon and the
men who are behind it giving it force
are men who as general rule are OPP
posed to prohibition. What they are
after is the elimination of the saloon
as power in politics, the closing Of
the dives that make their money har-
boring girls and corrupting minors, and
the strict enforcement of proper and
reasonable regulations without fear or
favor against all alike. They propose
now to discriminate between the good
saloon and the bad saloon, between the
dive and the poor man club. Should
the saloon men and the brewers make
the mistake of trying to all stand or
fall together and opposing this move
ment as unit it is conceivable that
absolute prohibition may be the out
come for the people are determined to
correct abuses that now threaten the
very existence of good government and
they may become wrought up to the
point where they will be ready to go
from one extreme to the other, from
laxity almost criminal to unnecessary
severity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The anti splitting ordinance has never
been enforced and the chances are that
there will be no effort made to enforce
it at this time, but the filthy sidewalks
are in starting contrast to our nice
clean streets.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The sudden spasm for cleanliness
which has seized the street cleaning de-
partment exceeds our most sanguine ex-
peCtatlons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Willingly or unwillingly every proper
ty owner is contributing to the cam
paign.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

La Toilette has made $4,000 lectur-
ing during the past season Doesn't it
pay to advertise ?-Record Herald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Locations of Factory Sites

Both in the city limits proper and
outside, there are tracts of land suita-
BILE for factory sites. The interests
owning a site in the district known as
the North Side, offer a location free to
a legitimate industry. The site is on
North street, at the intersection Of the
tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad and comprises an area of sew
eral acres. There was formerly a fac
tory on the site, but the building was
destroyed by fire. There remains, how
ever, the smoke stack.
There are natural advantages, especi-
ally for industries in which women and
girls are used to any great extent, such
as the manufacture of women s apparel
and other light industries Help of this
character is of higher and more reli-
able class than may be be found in a
large city. The county of which Keno
sha is the county seat, furnishes much
of the female help
"We secure better female help here
than the factories in our same line get
in the large centers'' said manager
of one Of the factories where number
Of girls are employed. GIVE have in
vestigated this subject and find that the
percentage Of efficiency in our factory
among the girls is higher than it is in
Chicago industries Of the same charac-
teri
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

cratic. While there has been consid-
cradle criticism of the administrations
the manufacturers generally state that
they have experienced no difficulty in
securing the passage of ordinances for
the vacation of streets or for franchises
to place sidetracks to their plants. The
council is progressive regarding new in
dustries and members Of the body say
that the passage of ordinances declar-
ing off taxes to new factories for a
reasonable term of years could be Sc
cured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19


There are openings at Kenosha for
factories in many lines Especially are
the opportunities good for industries
which use brass. There are available
many workers already educated in the
brass trades. Other factories that are
particularly accessible to the location
are for the manufacture of shoes, cloth
ing, leather goods, jewelry, copper
goods, automobiles, and in fact any in
dustry where certain well defined at
mospheric and meteorological conditions
need not be considered.
Commercially the city is in position
TO take care of the requirements of
plants of all sizes. There are two
banks, one national and the other a
state institution, to handle pay rolls.
The stores are Of the first class and can
handle the needs of the workers. There
is an evening daily newspaper, conser-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
We Call
Attention

To the fact that we sell 10
per cent cheaper than com
petitors. Whyg Because,
we sell for cash only.
And
We. Also
Pay car fare or give a suit
case to out of town custom
ers, if purchase amounts to
over $1,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Want ads p cents a week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

N. R. Allen Sons ............. 700
Balm Wagon Company ....... $50
Badger Brass Company ......... 300
Chicago Kenosha Hosiery Co.. 200
Chicago-Kenosha Hosiery Co., girls $50
Chicago Brass Company ......... 700
Frost Mfg. Co.. 1875
Thos. B. Jeffery & Co. ......... IT'S
Kenosha Crib Co............. ITS
Simmons Mfg. Co.............. 1000
Windsor Spring Co. 1875
Wells Machine Co. 65
Earl Motor Car Co. so
Cooper Underwear Co. .......... 125
Bee Hive Fly Catcher Mfg. Co.. 40
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Want ads. rs cents a week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Labor Conditions

According to the manufacturers, every
factory in Kenosha is now working on
the open shop basis. Some of the
plants employ both union and non
union men, while at others only non
union men are given employment
The following are the prices for labor
which prevail at the present (March
1909:
Common labor ....$150 to $1.75
Skilled machinists. :. LIS to 800
Electricians ........ LIS to 800
Office help ......... 1.25 to 800
These figures are given by one of the
largest manufacturers in the city, and
were taken from his pay roll.
Manufacturers Association
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

The city is governed by mayor and
! common council Of sixteen members
At present the administration is demo
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

ST thought you said it was case Of
love at first sight?"
81 did, but she soon got her second
sight and weakened on me-"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

Manufacturers Association
On October II, 1907, after one of the
large industries suffered a strike of
some proportions, it was decided to or
ganize a Manufacturers Association
which resulted in placing the factory
interests on an open shop basis. Fac
tories employing $500 men, and with
combined pay roll of more than $5,OOO,-
600 became members. Headquarters
were opened in the building at Main
and Park streets. The association also
organized an employment bureau, and
since it's opening the factories secure
their new help through the b reau. No
fee is charged. According to officers
the association there is no discrimina-
ton against union men. The organiza-
tion works in harmony with the Nation
al Metal Trades Association.
La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14

Mems So. 50 and s4 90, the old reliable well
known Douglas shoes in Patent Colt % 20
and Vici Kid Goodyear Welts at. S6'O0
-. .Ns,,le,en" saa e $500 Dress Shoes on S3.49
,,-ssa Mems Box Calf Shoes, regular 81 50 s1.@
NE Mems s $50 80. Welt Sole Box Calf S2.98
n Mems = s.. 90 viei Hand sewed. on S2.39
Mems SO so and 81 90 Gun Metal 81 hQ
Shoes. button and lace, on sale at. S
Boys Box Calf. double sole, wear ST 9f
resisting, English back stay size to 81
La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14

Sensational Sale Of Shoes
Reliable Qualities Styles
hveneve to
than
DIV n
Notethe mp eitens
La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14

Sizes 9 to ii e1AI
on sale at ...................... 0I.7o
on SIZE isi. ~ to1 S1.65
on ssie at. -, =; "a
o,soras Wo%sns NJ $500 and 81 50 Shoes and S1.49
Women's SO 80 and $500 Shoes. all % 40
sizes, light and heavy sole. at. VI'7o
rcls chdrsn's sns .shho; shoes sizes to s. for 79c
Sizes 81 to II 81 "a
on sale at ..................... S''oO
Sizes liz to 81 dq
onsale at. Observation-Disclosures. Ss''S
La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14
Mill Ends of COLO1-ed

whole summerfu of Gngams Cacoes from this
stock very qualities designs sold
who wanted rid of his odds and ends
need hope for other bargains equal be
o
one nne c lawns IN &C .nghms usually sold 7c
La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14
Goods, Wash Fabrics, Etc., to be Sold for
Half Prices and Less
ri ONING as it does right at the beginning of the Spri

merchandise needs are many. /
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-07-18
NEWS FROM CASTRO COUNTY.
Large Increase in VaIuation-Brazos
County Visitors Expected.

4
County Visitors Expected.
! Dimmitt Tex, July 13.-Bryan
I Eagle: Messrs. Enoch Holland and
Luther Barron of your town came in
to Dimmitt short time ago and are
| still here. Enoch is driving the Dim
mitt and Hereford mail hack and
Luther is working for his cousin. S. |.
Lee. Harvesting is nearly over for
this year. | have 10 small stacks of
wheat and a rick of oats 60 feet long.
| One of my neighbors and myself
bought an S-foot During machine and
have cut about 400 acres of wheat
and oats, and have 80 acres more to
cut after district court adjourns. Court
convened this (Monday) morningl
and it seldom ever holds more than
three days here. Our pastor, Rev. j.
T. Burnett, assisted by Rev. Sebe
Thomas, of Decatur. began a Baptist
protracted meeting last Saturday at
IL O'Clock. The services are well at
tended and we are expecting a glori-
Gus meeting
Well, the candidates are hustling
now among the dear people; they all
seem to have the candidate grip down
pat Olls we'll lHtll NlOuDltS VIII SOOn
be over, for awhile at least We have
had an abundance of rain ever since
the 18th of May. Crops are simply
fine. Wheat is threshing out from 10
to 20 bushels per acre where they
have threshed. We will begin thresh-
ing in this crop in about 10 days.
Would like for some of you people
to visit us while we are knocking out
the golden grain with the latest inn
proved ]. |. Case steam threshing ma
chine. We are going to expect ]. II.
Mccullough and r. M. Nall to visit
us this summer, but we won't look
for them until after the 25th of this
month. The total valuation of all as
sessable property in Castro county
this year is $3,0S0,24S, an increase of
81, 900 900 in the last four years.
| enjoyed reading the letter of Jack
Swearengen of Hondo in the Eagle,
as he is an old acquaintance of mine,
and | have been at his place in Me-
dina county; he had a nice place at
that time, II years ago. and | am sure
he is getting along all right by this
time. Say, what has become of Joe
Shepard of Colorado City? He prom
Used me he would write to the Eagle,
but haven't seen anything in the pa
per from him yet | would love to
hear from all my old Brazos county
friends who have left that country
through the columns of the Eagle I
am sure If all the people who have left
there were to write as long a letter as
| have written for the same issue of
the paper, they would not have room
for any advertisements.
Hoping to hear from you all, am
Yours truly,
w. S. DIXON.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-07-18
d192w1t
MINNEAPOLIS TO HAVE BALLOON
RACE.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July Ito
morrow, if the weather and other con,
ditions are favorable, Minneapolis
will have its first taste of the new
SPORT of balloon racing. For several
weeks preparations have been going
forward for a balloon race to start
from the state fair grounds. II is to
be a long-distance endurance contest,
international in its scope.
Among the balloons entered are the
Chicago the largest balloon in the
world; the America, of St. Paul"
which won second honors at the St
Louis contest, and the United States,
of Minneapolis" which was a contest
ant in the recent Chicago meet
The meet at the fair grounds will
be the first given by the new Aero
Club of the Northwest and will be
held under the official sanction of the
Federation of American Aeronautic
Clubs.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-07-18
CITY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
Proceedings Are Brief-Seventh Grade
Teacher EIected-Miss Parks
RESIGNS

A meeting of the board of trustees
OF the city schools was held yesterday
afternoon at the Carnegie library
with President w. r. Saunders pre-
siding and a quorum of the members
present.
The session was of short duration
very little outside of unimportant
business coming up. A report from
the building committee was received
and showed that repairs being made
on one of the buildings were progress
ing satisfactorily.
Quite a number of applications for
the position of teacher of the seventh
grade were considered and that of
Mr.. d. j. Blankenbecker of Virginia
point was accepted conditionally. Mr..
Blankenbecker will be advised of the
action of the board and its terms,
subject to his acceptance.
Miss Lillian Parks, who at the reg
ular election, was chosen music
teacher of the school for another
term, rendered her resignation to the
board, which was duly accepted.
The 1858 tenn of school will open
on the 14th of September, to continue
the usual nine months,