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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11
VALENTINES STILL POPULAR
Kenosha Dealers Expect a Larger Bust
ness This Year Than Ever Before

valentines will never go out, - said
a dealer in these little love missives
yesterday.
"The demand is increasing each
year. People begin early to select
pretty valentines SO they may get the
first choice. Not only the children,
but grown people as well buy valen-
tines and often at the last moment
ST. Valentine s eve the staid old bach
elor will sa.unter into the shop to buy
a valentine for the children next
door,
The most popular form of valentine
seems to be the postal card style with
the love messages in plain sight.
Also there are little figures cut out
in the form of paper dolls with stan
dard and bearing little love messages.
The Marconi wireless messages being
carried by little pink cupid and tele-
grams and cablegrams are new de-
signs for the season. The bouquets of
flowers and hand painted hearts are
not new.
Some of the novelties of the year
are the semi-comic valentines which
take the place of the ugly affairs of
former years which were printed on
cheap paper. Some of these new
style comic valentines have funny
verses, but are in the style Of char
acters of the Sunday, papers.
A novelty in valentines has tiny
loving cup and the message twill you
share this-with me?' Another with
a girls head and a tiny lemon be-
meath bears the message, Don t wor-
ry; here $ yours. =
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11
Wisconsin Cities Being Asked To
Urge q Change in Time for
Paying Annual Taxes
JULY BETTER THAN FEBRUARY
Even Installment System is Being Sug-
gested as Preferable to the Plan
Now Prevailing in Wis
consin Cities

A movement is being started among
the Common Councils of leading cities
in the state with view of changing the
time for paying taxes from the month
| of January to the month of July. The
petitions for the enactment of such a
bill are being sent to every Common
Council in the state and it is thought
that a sufficient number of the cities
will act favorably in this matter to
secure the introduction of the bill to
the legislature before the latter part
| of next week.
For years there have been many OBJ
jections to the time that taxes have
been collected in the larger cities Of
Wisconsin. At the present time the
Kenosha property owner is forced to
face all of his big expenses at once
With the winter comes heavy expenses
for coal and wood and some of the
houses in the city are blanketed down
with mortgages and the interest on the
mortgage generally falls due ABOUT the
first OF January. when the property
owners have paid for their coal, met
the interest charges, and paid taxes
he is financially embarrassed for sew
eral months afterward. In many Of
/ the states Of the Union the payment Of
taxes is divided into two portions, one
of them being collected in the spring
and the other in the fall. The bill
that is now being prepared does not
contemplate double payment plan, but
simply change in the time of collec-
ton Of the taxes.
Many Of the members of the Com
mon Council have already been ap-
preached on the question and it is
thought that the Kenosha City Coun-
Gil would be favorable to the proposed
new law. The fact that the tax sale
does not take place until in May, has
shown to the officials that July pay
ment would be better in this part of
the state as often there are several
hundred pieces of property returned for
non payment of taxes, but the great
majority of this property is never sold
for the taxes as the owners find that
later in the year they are not only able
to raise the amount needed for the
original tax charges, but they also are
able to pay the advance Of Is per cent
demanded.
Of course change in the time for
the collection of taxes would be little
inconvenient for the first year as it
would make necessary a. change in the
entire plan of operating the finances
Of the city. IF it could be arranged
for a partial collection in the first year
to be made in March and the second
installment in July, this would make it
possible for the Council to re-adjust the
finances of the city so that the new
plan could be used without further
trouble
The city Of Racine has acted favor
ably on the resolution asking for the
change in time and it is expected that
it will be presented to the Kenosha
Council at it's next regular meeting.
It is pretty certain that the change
would meet with the endorsement of
great majority of the tax payers in the
city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

Alderman Fred NJ. Mayer, who has
represented the Eighth ward in the
Common Council for several years, has
taken out petitions for denomination
on the Democratic ticket. The services
of Mr.. Mayer for his ward, certainly
entitle him to the highest considera-
ton from the voters and he should
secure the nomination of his party with
little difficulty. There is one thing
about Mayer and that is that there has
been no doubt as to his stand on impor
tant questions and he has usually
shown decidedly good business sense
in his work on the Council.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11
MARRIED SATURDAY EVENING

There was a quiet wedding at the
parsonage Of the First Baptist church
at eight o'clock Saturday evening, the
contracting parties being Miss Jennie
Marshall and Oliver Axtel, both well
known young people of the city. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
S. F. Dimmock, pastor of the church in
the presence Of a few dear friends.
After short wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs.
Axtel will make their home in Keno
sha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11
Wheatland.

James E. Petit, a former Kenosha
man, is seriously i'll at his home in Chi
cage. For many years Mr.. Petit was
general manager of the Chicago Offices
Of the Postal Telegraph Company and
Notwithstanding the fact chat the com
pany pensions men only after twenty
five years of service the services of
bfr. Petit for the company were of
such a satisfactory nature that he has
been pensioned after twenty three
years of employment with the company.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

The funeral of the late Howard Van
Wyck, who died at Marriette, Ga, on
last Thursday morning, was held from
the residence Of r. E. Mailer on Dur
kee avenue at three clock Sunday af-
ternoon. The service was under the
direction of the Rev. E. 7. Farrill of
the First Congregational church. Many
well known attorneys came from Mil
waukee to attend the funeral service.
The remains were inferred in the Van
Wyck family plat in the Kenosha City
cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11


! Raised biscuits from Gold Medal Flour
are excellent. SAMANTHA.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

Judge Ludwig Of Milwaukee, will
come to Kenosha on Feb. 23rd to sit for
Judge Belden in the Circuit Court. The
case of Gaastra VS.. Kehlor and John
Mensforth vs.. The Chicago Brass Com
pany, are set for trial at that time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

Charles I. Jeffery spent Thursday af-
ternoon in Chicago.
| w. H. Brabant of Sheboygan, was i'll
Kenosha Thursday.
| j. R. Cole of Milwaukee, was Ke-
nosha. visitor Thursday.
B. M. Schilz Of Wheatland, spent
Thursday afternoon in Kenosha
Mrs. Walter Burke spent Thursday
afternoon with Chicago friends.
P. w. Rome Of LAGRANGE, ILL.,, spent
Thursday afternoon in Kenosha.
Mrs. Belle newell spent Thursday
with friends and relatives in Chicago.
Mayor M. J. Scholey spent Thursday
afternoon IN Burlington on a business
trip.
Miss Anna Kimball visited with
J friends in Chicago on Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. Austin and children Of Madison,
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. J..
Austin.
| A. B. Curtis Of st. Paul was the
guest of Charles A. Tarbell Thursday
evening.
| Cornelius Marx of Dolgesville, New
York, visited his brothers in Kenosha
Thursday.
Miss Ella Gordon has gone to Bata-
via, Ill, for two weeks visit with
her parents.
Miss Emma Becker of Chicago, is
spending a few days in Kenosha as
the guest of Mrs. M. P. Schmitz.
Mrs. George A. Capwell of Racine,
has been elected president of the Ra-
cine Woman's Club for the ensuing
year.
Petitions are in circulation for the
nomination Of James Fl. O 'Brien as
Democratic candidate for alderman in
the First ward
Guy Ballet. former Kenosha base
ball pitcher, and Miss Eva Dillon of
Madison, were married at Rockford.
Ill, on Thursday afternoon.
John T. Yule has taken out petitions
as candidate for county supervisor in
the Second ward subject to the action
Of the Republican. primaries.
A license has been issued for the
marriage of Benjamin F. Bose and Miss
Carrie G. Schwartz, both Of the Town
of Somers.
A record breaking crowd attended
the card party and social given at st.
George Hall on Thursday evening.
Those present report very enjoyable
time.
The police have not as yet discover
ed the man with the s'star'' who put
the Racine police to rout, but it is
thought that his identity will be dis
covered within a few days.
James stoelping of Kenosha, has pur-
chased the Albert Whitley farm Of
forty acres situated in the Town Of
Pleasant Prairie. The consideration
was $4,000 for the forty acres.
Bland Ballard, a we'll known golf
player, committed suicide at Lake For
est on Thursday shooting himself with
a revolver. It is supposed that he was
temporarily insane at the time.
The honors Of the Senior Glass Of
the High School will be announced on
next Tuesday morning and there is
considerable nervousness among the
pupils on account of this fact.
A new Main street theatre is one of
the possibilities of the near future.
Efforts are being made to rent the Con
hermann building now occupied by
'The Fair for theatre purposes
The Republicans Of Racine, have
signed a unanimous call asking Mayor
A. j. Horlick Of that city, to become
a candidate for reelection as mayor
of the city. It is expected that he will
accept the CALL
Charles Russell, the negro who escap-
ed from the Waukegan pest house while
suffering from small pox, has been tax
en- into custody at GAINESVILLE. An eff
fort will be made to have him sent
back to Waukegan
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11
BARGAIN COLUMN.

~700~~-~~c~~~o~|N@|o |~~|~r~|-~~---N'OI
DARN TO RENT CASH-125. 100 or 2
acres on Mound Prairie, mile from Twin
Lake K, R. station; extra buildings; can
stachion IS cattle; land in fine condition Rey-
nolds on farm. J. S. Reynolds, Richmond,
Illinois. VII
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-05-16
NO GOD.
Secretary of Materialist Association Takes
Issue with Editor Maple and Others
on Issue of Deity.
(By Eliza Mowry Bliven.)

(By Eliza MOwry Bllven.)
Editor Maple, in April Ingersoll Beacon,
wants us to believe in Supreme Being;
Comrade Mattox wants Great Dynamis;
Protestants want the Bible God; Catholics
want the Pope and Purgatory, but the Ma
teriaiss want the Truth.
Gods, Dynamis. and Supreme Being are
all founded on the idea that some ONE
great guiding intelligence Or power is
back and within all activities of matter.
That idea leads to reverence and worship,
and belttling human ability and forces of
matter. The Agnostic's Supreme Power
differs from the Gods in being shorn Of
ability to create, perform miracles. forgive
sins, answer prayers, bestow rewards and
punishments, but still bosses everything.
and is everywhere present. yet is ONE
HUGE I AM 1T.
Just get down to common-sense investi-
cation of nature and mankind's doings, to
find out whether the universe is run by
One Power, or by numberless billions of
material atom forces. The UNIVERSE is
a UNITS everything combined, because
all atoms are inter-dependent; every atom
controls and is controlled by every other
atom, each by its attractive force helps
produce motions and combinations: but
each atom is an individual material 1T.
with its distinct qualities and force
Friend Maple is an individual I am
another. Our environments, inherited
qualities, education, foods, the kind of at
oms we are composed of, are so similar
that we act and think considerably alike.
yet we are different individuals The indi-
viduals in a country combine INTO one gov
eminent, with much in common, for mutu-
al welfare, yet each remains an individual
So all atoms are combined into the Uni
verse by their inter-dependence and at
fractions. causing the Laws of Nature. and
all activities. yet each atom is an TT.
Each individual person was born and
will die; every collection of atoms may
separate, and the atoms unite into other
compound forms; but atoms were never
born, and will never die. Every atom in
the endless universe is an ETERNAL IT.
When you discard the old Gods as man.
made stories; make no new Gods: teach
the Truth, and prove it best for all man.
kind
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-05-16
Theory of the Origin of the Planets in the
Solar System, as the Writer Says, 1t
May Possibly Be.
(By j. C.. Watkins.

(By j. Z. Watkins
Far out in the vast region of space, be-
yond the orbit of Neptune, where the tenn
perature is perhaps lower than we can even
imagine, possibly thousand or more de-
grees below zero, and where the expanded
matter sent off from the sun circling out
in space, is rapidly condensed into its vari-
Gus more solid forms and begins clustering
together in great rolling masses, the planet
began to take shape, and as it proceeded
ON its orbit around the sun-(for all mat
ter sent off from the sun never loses the
motion impaired to it, when as gas or rx-
banded matter, it left the parens body
gathered to itself by affinity and the at
traction of gravitation, all the matter in,
and for millions Of miles on either side of
its track. 1t took the planet probably
more than a hundred years to make this
first circuit around the sum- but in that
first trip it gathered to itself all the mat
ter in it's track and for even millions of
miles on either side Of it, so that when it
reached again the point in its orbit from
which it started, it had become a huge
globe almost as large as the sun.
But the planet was not a rock-ribbed
solid body like the earth is, for it had yet
to pass through those long physical pro-
cesses by which embryo planets are evolv-
ed into habtable worlds. Its mass was
probably composed of matter in all the pri-
mary stages Of development, from gaseous
to solid atoms or particles, the heavier or
more solid matter naturally drawing in to-
wards the center Of the planet, while the
lighter substances in the order Of their
respective specific gravity were crowded
toward the surface.
The planet s motion in its orbit was from
West to East, and it also turned ON its axis
in the same direction.
1t must be remembered, that while the
planet was in this stage of its life. il was
composed of individual particles of matter
each having certain properties and inner
ent motion, so that there was continual
intermingling and grinding together of
these material atoms, and, by friction, in
ternal heat was developed to such degree
that in time the whole fused and the planet
became a molten mass. This condition. of
course, ended the friction, and the planet
began to cool. While all these processes
were going on, the planet had made in
Vulnerable trips around the sun, each one
little shorter both in distance and time
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-05-16
BLUE GRASS BLADE
The Evolution of A Planet

ward the sun in accordance with the law
of falling bodies in space. In time, the sur
face Of the planet cooled, and a crust be-
gan to form, first at the poles, gradually
extending toward the equator, though, of
course, a long time elapsed from the time
the crust formed at the poles until it form
ed at the equator. When the crust be-
came cool enough, the water, which had
been evaporated and driven off by the great
heat of the planet, now began TO be pre-
cipitated and TO settle in the depression
of the surface in the polar regions. For
a long time this water was boiling hot, but
eventually it drove the surface heat far
ther down, and then itself not only cooled,
but began to freeze. A sheathing of ice
and frozen snow gradually began to extend
itself from the poles toward the equator.
If the planet had remained at its then
distance from the sun, this glacial forma-
ton would have continued to extend to-
ward the equator until the whole planet,
with the possible exception of its equator
ial region, would have been covered with it.
But all these ages the planets orbit was
shortening, while its speed was increasing.
but shortened its year so that the heat
from the sun prevented any further extern
sion of the glaciers, and gradually they
began to recede. Long before this event
it is probable that vegetation existed and
animal life was developed. Whatever of
such life had existed in the planet s north
and south zones before the glacial period,
either persisted or was driven to, or con-
fined to, the equatorial region, while this
period lasted How long this was, no one
can tell. 1t may have been hundred or
even a million years, but it had an end, and
gradually, but surely, the glaciers receded
until both Temperate zones and consider
able portion of tn Frigid zones were di-
vested of the icy mantle that had covered
them.
1t is probable that something like this is
the physical history of our own planet
the earth. We do not know how long it has
been since the glacial period nor how far
the earth was from the sun at that time.
We may assume, however, that planets are
habitabe only where they are within the
bounds of certain maximum and minimum
distances from the sun. That is. that
planet does not reach conditions of habit
ability until it gets within n certain dis
tance from the sun, and that these condi-
tions cease to exist after the planet gets
too near the sun. The ultimate fate of all
planets (the writer beieves) will be to fall
into the sun and be burned up or converted
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1909-05-16

into gas and again sent whirling out into
space to become part of the composition
Of another planet.
Kanawha Falls, w. Va.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-03-26
Corunna.

F. B. Perry. of this city, has as
ISOLATED himself with his brothers,
Arthur and Milton, in the manufac-
ture of automobile castings and the
Perry jug chain. The latter Is an
invention of the brothers and can
be attached to any automobile. 1t
is believed to be the best thing in
this line ever manufacturing and it is
expected it will meet with Instant
favor by all users Of the auto.-Tues-
day was the day set for the hearing
in the matter of providing perma-
nently for the children of Herbert
N. Smith, Of Owosso, who is serving
a term in the county jail. Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Joe Collins APP
peared for the children in the case,
and Attorney w. j. Parker for their
father. BY mutual consent. it was
decided to adjourn the matter until
May ~. The father will then be out
of jail and will have an opportunity
to speak for himself. Friends OF
the children who are now taking care
of them, have asked that they be pro-
vided for in some way, so that they
may be beyond the authority or in
fluence of their father. The motho,
is dead.--Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-03-26

Getting Him Out Into the Open For
the Camera Man.

tVc SdTicTd WaUs
have seen barefoot boy when the
alligator refused to respond to his call
wade in the mud to his waist, explore
with his toes till he felt the wiggle of
the gator beneath them, then worry
him to the surface, grab him by the
nose before he could open his jaws and
tow the creature ashore to be photo
graphed. When an alligator that we
were hunting crawled into his cave
held noosed rope over his mouth
while the boy poked stick through
the mud until it hit the creature in his
hiding place, and soon l had him
shared, ready to be dragged out on the
prairie and tied, to be kept till the
camera man was ready for him; then
we turned the reptile loose on bit of
prairie, and the boy and 1, armed with
sticks, headed him off when he tried to
escape, while the camera man, with his
head in the hood of his instrument, fol-
lowed the creature about, seeking for
evidence in the case of reason versus
instinct. When the camera man was
through with him the alligator was set
free, final shot being taken at him as
he walked off. Our hunter boys could
never be made to comprehend our rea-
sons for restoring to the creatures their
freedom. They understood the photo
graphing, but when this was done why
not collect a dollar for the reptiles
hide? Their manner implied that to
this question no sane answer was pos.
sible.-A. w. Dimock in Harper's Mag
N-tpo
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-03-26
Democratic City Ticket.

The Democrats at their city con-
vention Wednesday evening re.nomi-
mated Mayor w. d. Burke by unani-
nous vote, the speakers complimenting
him highly on his work during the
present year. No nominations were
made for city clerk or treasurer. The
other nominees are: Justice, J. W.
Thorn; constable, j. T. Martin; alder
men, first ward, Alton Rundell; second,
o. G. Whitney; fifth, James Lynch
Supervisors. first ward, D. L. Dens-
more, second, d. r. Salisbury, No
nominations have been made for alder
men or supervisors in the third, fourth
or fifth wards. ID. ]. Gerow and NJ. ].
Phillips >were reelected as chairman
and secretary Of the city committee.