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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Joseph Flynn Of Racine Comes 10
Kenosha TO Wake independent
Inspection Ct Gas Heters
OFFICIALS SANCTION WORK
special Light Committee and the
Mayor Give Flynn Credentials
but Gas Company Will IN
dou5tcdly Protest

Joseph Flynn, WHO lays claim to be-
ing an expert meter tester, has come
to Kenosha from Racine to test gas
meters and he has been given a per-
nit from the mayor to do this work
in Kenosha.
The meter tester is not work
ing for any corporation or state com
mission, but he is wholly independent
in his work and the permit given him
| by the mayor is simply credential
to show the people that he knows his
business and has no official sanction
with it. Flynn charges fifty cents for
testing a meter and if his test shows
that the meter is working overtime
the property owner can appeal to the
Kenosha Gas and Electric Company
for test. Flynn, however, is in no
way connected with the Kenosha Gas
and Electric Company sand it is prob
able that that company will object
strenuously to his continuing work in
Kenosha.
The independent tester came to Ke
nosha after court writ had prevent
ed his working in Racine. Flynn first
made his appearance in this section
as an employee Of the Kenosha Gas and
Electric Company and he worked in
this capacity for several years. Later
he went to Racine and for five years
he was employed at the Offices of the
Racine Gas Light Company. Later
he appeared before the Wisconsin
Railroad Commission as one of the
witnesses against the company in an
Investigation of Inc rates charged for
gas in Racine. After this hearing
sas over he began the testing Of
meters on his own hook and had tastesa
about thirty meters in different parts
of the city of Racine when the Racine
Gas Light Company secured an order
from Judge Belden enjoining him from
continuing the work. The matter was
taken into court and on last Saturday
Judge Beldcn handed down a decision
granting the Racine company a per-
manent injunction. In the decision
the court held that Flynn had no
right to interfere with any of the
property of the company and that the
State. Railroad Commission furnished
a remedy for any one who desired to
have tests of meters made
Roger N. Kimball, manager Of the
Kenosha Gas and Electric Company,
stated last night that Flynn would not
be permitted to work in Kenosha. He
declared that the company had no OBJ
jections to the testing of its meters
and that it was willing to make d test
of any meter in the city on the sugges
ton of the property owner, but that it
could not afford to have an out
slider working with it's equipments.
Mr.. Kimball stated that the company
would undoubtedly take steps to stop
such inspection.
Before giving Flynn a permit to
work in the city Mayor Scholey took
up the matter with the special light
committee and this committee decided
that the inspection would be a good
thing for the people of the city and
would give the people a chance to
have an independent test of the
service beng furnished by the Keno
sha Gas and Electric Company.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
HELD UP IN TIE PARK
Il. Racr Tells Police How Two Me-
Held Him Up in Library Park

4. Racr Tells Police How Two Men
Held Him Up in Library Park
H. Baer who restless at Orth Hotel
OF Park street, made complaint to
the police just before midnight Mon
LAY night that he had been held up
and robbed il Library Park by two
men short time before the report
vas made. Baer declared that he was
walking through the park just after
eleven clock when he was accos5ed
by two men and that one Of them
struck Lin on the head with a club
shocking him down and rendeling him
unconscious. lie alleges that the men
rhen proceeded to go through bis
pockets anG secured green backs to the
,n.eJit Of seven dollars. The police
we're at once sent ont with Bacr to
loo;z into tbs story, out when he reach
81 the park nc could not point cut the
olace where he ha5 been robbed, but
;ecsaed certain of the story that there
yers two men in the deal Tae police
\ have as yet got no trace of the hold-up
men, but the ease is being followed
viii as much vigor as the limited in
! formation given them viii allow
!
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
SEEK MILITARY CONVICT
Police Looking for Man Who Escaped
From Guard at Ft. Sheridan

Acting chief of Police Newhouse re-
ceived telegram from the comman-
dant in charge of TT. Sheridan this
morning asking him to arrest John
Rolewicz, a former member of the
Second Battery of the Field Artillery
who escaped from a guard at Ft. Sheri-
dan on Sunday while a military con-
Wet. 1t is alleged that the escaped
convict has relatives and friends in Ke-
nosha and it is thought that he will
make his way to Kenosha. The man
is not in uniform and for this reason it
is feared that it will be hard matter
to locate him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Low RATES TO SEATTLE

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The Chicago & North Western Ry. to
the Exposition at Seattle, the Yellow
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Illustrated folder descriptive of the
Exposition, booklets, maps and timer
aries of personally conducted tours to
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sion to any ticket agent, The North
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

help we can get in our deliberations, =
said Chairman Sanborn. eve invite
manufacturing interests and the repre-
Isentatives of labor to join with us in
framing a measure that shall place Wis
consin in the vanguard among the
Estates which are striving to do things
for the good Of all the people"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

The play ground for the children
at the Orphan Asylum plat will be
closed for the remainder of the week
ON account of the fact that the Y. M.
c. A. Chautauqua is being held on the
grounds. The committee in charge
of the play grounds ask that it be
given out that the grounds are for
the use of the children and not for
adults.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
low RATES EAST
Via The North western Line

Excursion tickets to New York
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best of everything enroute. For full
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

The members of Co. H and I 80
Wis, nifty, are kindly invited t
hold their annual reunion at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Rowell
sos Durkee avenue, July IS, as thel'
guests.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Market St. Property Owners De
eide To Fight Paving Assess.
ments in Courts
CLAIM RAILWAY MUST SETTLE
Ninoty-eight Per Cent Of the Property
Owners Sign an Agreement to
Contest the Issue of Bonds
Against Property

Market street is going to put up
fight against the payment for the
pavement west of the Northwestern
tracks recently completed by John 0.
Jones and to this end after meet
ing held on last Monday night
ninety-eigbt per cent of the property
owners are alleged to have signed an
agreement to carry the fight into the
courts and to insist that the property
owners be required to pay for no
more paving than was agreed to in
the original contract. There is no OBJ
lection to the manner in which the
work has been done and some OIL the
property owners state that the street
is paved better than any street in the
city, but they are protesting on account
of the fact that the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company has as yet made no
move to carry out the agreement which
they made with A. @. Frost under
which the railway company was to
pave twenty feet of the street it
double track was laid. The PROPOSE
ton of the property owners will be a
new one to the courts OF Kenosha
county and it is just possible that
they will be able to throw the entire
cost of the pavement on the city at
large. The contract was let by the
Council more than two years ago and
at that time A. G.. Frost agreed with
them that he would pave twenty feet
if he put double. track on the street.
Then money got short with the rail
way company and the double track
was never laid, but the curb had al
ready been put in by Contractor Jones
and the city had na way to cancel
the contract.
The people of the street have de-
clared several times that they would
protest against the payment for the
pavement and M. T. Barber was a
leader in filing with the city a formal
notice that he would not permit a
special assessment to be levied against
lis property for the cost of the paw
ing. The special assessments may be
issued by the Council after July oath
but it is declared that before that
date the property owners will enjoin
the city against issuing the bonds
against their property. Money has
been raised by the property owners
to carry the case into the courts SC
that this contest so far as they are
concerned will be united one and
it looks as if it would also be a deter
mined enc.
The present owners of the Ke
nosha Electric Railway Company
have as yet made no official state
ment as to whether or not they would
meet the demands of the property
owners and pay for twenty feet of the
pavement, but as only single track
is in use on the street it is probable
that the English syndicate will object
seriously to paying for more than the
usual amount of paving where single
tracks are laid. The complaint OF
which the injunction against the city
will be asked is now being drawn, bu
it Is not probable that it will be ready
for the injunction or other court orde1
to issue until the time when the bonds
may be issued
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

Mrs. C. C. Shrek and family of
Saginaw, Mich, are visiting with
Mrs. Hammond
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

Try d want ad.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
A LAUCHABLE BUT EXPENSIVE BULL.

Printers bulls are frequently hu-
morous contributions to the gayety
of life, but are more likely to be
sources of hair-tearing grief to the
employing printer. One of the rich
est breaks of this kind that has come
to our attention halls from Chicago,
where there is compositor who, by
getting one wrong letter into book
catalogue, lost his employer a good
deal of money and who made the
client the butt of a joke that he can't
get rid of.
In setting up list of old classic
books the compositor came upon
''Plurtarch's Lives" Maybe he was
dreaming of long ago, when all was
young and fair, or maybe he was
carrying just one glass to many, for
he mistook the r. box the g $ box
in his type case, and the book came
out catalosued as ''PIurtarch's Liv-
er.''
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
WATERLOO

Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. c. Durham
and children, of Leon, spent last
week with relatives at Deer Lick.
Mrs. Mary Greenlee. of Flat Rock,
has been visiting Mrs. Mary Jane
Beard and other relatives here.
School at Rocky Is progressing
nicely under the management of
Charles Stephens, of Baden.
W. W. Kingvisited Point Pleasant,
Tuesday.
Grant sayer. Of Nat, and Alfred
Boles, of Leon, were here, Thursday,
W. H. Boles, our Photographic,
was at Leon taking pictures Friday.
He viii prepare to take photographs
of schools soon.
Charles Hill has moved back from
Kanawha county and gone to house
keeping in his property. Mrs.
Nellie Burdett moved from Charles
Hills property into ]. W. Stover's
house, which was vacated by Charles
w. Hill, who moved into B. S.
Smiths house, which had been pre-
viously occupied by Jasper Hill, who
moved inflow. V. Knapp's house.
H. A. Buxton was in Virginia last
week and expects to move there if
he finds suitable location.
Maryland Thornton is on the sick
Mrs. D. F, Hill, of Arbuckle
visited Leon one day last week.
B. P. Williams and NJ. 0. Raines
are preparing to build a fence be-
tween their farms.
Harry French is worli.,g at Boomer
for few days.
Hugh Hanson, wife and daughter,
Mrs. Nellie Burdett, visited Leon
Monday.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
The Polar Ananias Club
Is now in extra session
Awaiting word from Africa
OF Bwana's fresh obsession.
NOTICE

At meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation of The Independent School
District of Point Pleasant, in Mason
County, West Va, held on the nth
day of October, A. D. 1909, that as
a necessity exists in said District for
more School Buildings to aceommo-
date the youth of school age, and to
provide for the same under the pro-
visions of the law, it is necessary to
borrow the sum of Twenty thousand
Dollars, and to pay and secure the
same, with its annual Interest, the
Bonds Of said District should be
issued in denominations of Five Hun
dred Dollars each, numbered from
One to Forty inclusive, each bearing
date January LIST, 1910, and each
bearing four and one-half per cent
interest from date, and each Bond
payable not less than ten years from
date, and each one of said Bonds
payable after ten years from its date,
at any time, at the option of said
Board of Education, within thirty
four years from the date of each
Bond. And also giving authority to
said Board of Education of said Dis
trict each year to levy maximum
levy of Eight Cents (if necessary on
each One Hundred Dollars of the
taxable property in said District, to
pay the annual interest onsaid Bond
ed Indebtedness of Twenty Thousand
Dollars, and to create Sinking Fund
to pay the Principal of said Bonded
Indebtedness, at any time after ten
years, at the option of the Board of
Education of said District, and within
thirty-four years of the date of said
Bonds.
The question ofissuing said Bonds,
as aforesaid, and the question Of
authority to levy the annual Tax of
Eight Gents on each One Hundred
Dollars valuation of the taxable
property in said District as aforesaid,
shall be submitted to the qualified
voters ofthe said District, at Special
Election to be held on Tuesday the
9th day of November A. D. 1909, at
the various voting places in said Dis
trict, heretofore fixed by the County
Court of Mason County, West vir-
GINA, for holding general Elections.
BY Order of the Board.
Teste: E. W. CRAIG,
Secretary of the Board of Educa-
ton of the Independent School Dis
trict, of Point Pleasant, West vir-
ginia.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
THE NAISTLlg

Time was when woman had waist
line and that was all there was about
it. There was faity and purpose to
her equatorand therewas nothought
Oft galIiyanting up and down her
major axis ike a ring on falsir's
cane at country fair. There was
nonow-you-see-it-and-now=you-d don't
business at all. If woman was
dressed for company there was a gen
eral scheme about her clothes that
indicated very plainly where the zero
line in latitude lay.
If you surprised her in the morning
hours robed in her mother hubbard
and minus her waist line she was as
much embarrassed as If she had mis-
laid her switch or had been caught
without her false teeth.
In those good old days the femi-
nine form was disguised with hoop
skirts, and later by hustle that
took as much room to turn in as a
hook and ladder truck. But there
was no triAing with the waist line.
But after the dressmakers had Jug
gled with lovely woman's outlines by
increasing the diameter and making
her first the center of circle and
then the focus ofan ellipse, the happy
idea occurred to Worth or Paquin
that, by scooting the waist line up
and down, another startling effect
could be produced.
Therefore, the mid circumference
was hOisted up under the wearer's
arms until it nearly lifted her of her
feet and just now has been dropped
to her knees where it bangles ike
the ring about a tight-wire performer.
But the edict now has gone forth
that the waist line is to be slipped
back into place, and it won't be very
long, It's said, until woman can
stoop to pick up pin without crack
ing all the varnish off $40 gown,
and crinkling it up like an elbow OF
a stove pipe.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
SNAKES CAUSED A WILD STAMPEDE.

Thirty snakes belonging to H. D,
Sine and major" Davis were placed
on display in the window of j. A.
Bartholow's plumbing shop today.
All day long crowd gathered about
the shop viewing the antics of the
reptiles. This afternoon about four
o'clock the public school dismissed
andseyeral hundred children gathered
about the store. The crush became
so great against the glass that it finally
smashed in, breaking down the small
partition which separated the window
from the store room proper.
Almost panic ensued. The child
rem ran for safety in every direction
and the spreading report that the
snakes had been liberated caused the
greatest CONSERVATION throughout the
the city.
The snakes, however, were about
as badly frightened as the people.
All but one of them sought hiding
place in the store. They crawed in
to gas pipes and electrical fixtures,
hung from the chandeliers and lodged
beneath tables and show cases. One
lone snake made its way to the street.
When Sine heard ofthe delivery
he FASTENED to the store and after
several hours of work succeeded in
recapturing about all of the family.
-Morgantown Dominion.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27

A Boston physician has created
something of a stir among his pro-
fessional brethren by the following
statement: ''An operation for APP
pendicitis should be called criminal
operation and as such should be pro-
hibited by the law. l have been
following the records of appendicitis
operations ever scince the craze for
this form of surgery started, and
confidently believed that the day is
coming when the people will realize
that the cutting of the appendix is a
criminal operation. After the widely
proclaimed benefits and saving of life
by operations to cut the appendix, it
seems hardly necessary to cite the
long list of death following the opera
tion.''
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
Upton WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE AT
THE TROPHY.

New York, Oct. e5.-on his ar
rival here today from Europe, Sir
Thomas Upton announced that he
would challenge the New York Yacht
Club, and do his best to arrange
matters with the club 50 that he can
have another change to lift the
Americas cup.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
FuRRE0Rs AND ERIILS BARRED.

Chicago, Oct. ss.-ExageratiOn in
dress and chi#ure women employed
has bsen tobooed by a pig department
store.
The management has adopted a
system of dress censorship which,
although it aroused the united protest
of the more frivolous in the army of
female helpemployed, has been high
ly effective, and the utilitarian stand
point is a great improvement over
the former state of affairs.
Simplicity Is the keynote of the or
ders issued to the girls and instead of
paint and powder, hair puffs and bows,
dangling jewelry and enormous brace
lets and fluffy lingerie, thesaleswOmen
appear neatly attired in a black skirt,
hair done neatly without artificial ad-
ornment and minus padding and
other exagerations of the fashions.
Mrs. G. Hoinville has been appointed
censor.
Here are some Of the +b;ncx Mrs
Hoinville has eliminated from the
attire of woman and girl employees of
the store.
Hair puts, rats, false curls and hair
bows.
Low-neck collars and short or ex-
tremely long sleeves.
Peek-a-boo waists or sleeves.
Powder, paint or other kinds of
makeup"
Flashy rings, buckles and pins.
Waists of any other eolors than
black or white.
Skirts Ofany other color than black.
Every employee who fails to dress
according to the standard adopted by
the store is notified by the censor to
call at her Office the following morn
ing before reporting for work, and is
sent home if she has not complied
with the request made of her the
night before.
All kinds of fresh meats at Wine
CARS. Both phones.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9Th, 1909,

SAlUkUAI, NUVEMBER 6IH, l9U9,
commencing at 9 o'clock a. m. OF
that day, the following personal
property, to-wit:
Five head of horses, among them
being fine driving mare and span
Of good work horses, le head of one
year old steers, l6 head two year old
steers, g head of three year cd
steers, 8 COWS, 5 heifer calves, ex-
ira yearling colt, l Hereford Bull,
100 head of sheep and lambs, 8 sows
with pigs, and 6 shoats, Shay stacks,
and lot of hay in barns, large
amount of farming implements and
machinery, including one Deering
Binder, one New Empire Drill, one
Deering Moving Machine, one man
ure spreader, and several cultivators,
plows, harrows, ETC., usually found
on well equipped farm, 9 wagons,
buggy, sets of single harness, 9
rolls of Page wire fence, about 500
bushels of corn and a lot of fodder, /
straw rick, and lot of straw in barn,
and large amount of household and
kitchen furniture.
Terms OF SALE:-Cash as to all
sums OF $500 and under, and as to
all sums above that amount, credit
of 6 months will be given, taking
notes from the purchasers, with APP
proved security, bearing interest
from day of sale.
JOHN L. WRITTEN,
Executor of Henry Gwinn, deceased.
oct. a7-ew.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-27
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