The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-23

LOCAL ITEMS.

nesday with friends and relatives in
Chicago.
Mrs. G. T. McElwain has returned
home after visit with friends and
relatives in Escanaba, Mich.
Isaiah Daveler has gone to New
York on business trip for the Sim
mons Manufacturing Company.
The interior of the Miller Undertak-
ing parlors has been re-decorated and |
1t presents greatly improved appear
ance.
Market Square will be taken by the
people of Kenosha as Christmas
present this year and it will be
worthy one.
George P Hewitt, formerly editor
of the Kenosha Evening News, was |
here from Appleton Thursday for a
few hours visit
The acetylene gas lighting plant at !,
the postofice is again in working order
and the debris of the recent explosion |
has all been removed.
The Kenosha fishing tugs have resum
ed the work of lifting nets in Lake
Michigan and the supply of fish being
secured is unusually large.
The water has been shut off at all
the drinking fountains in the city and
it will not be turned on again until
the spring weather arrives
A number of Kenosha people went
to Racine on Thursday evening to at
tend dancing party given by the
Bachelors Club Of that city.
There is no judicial election in Wis
consin this spring and the sole interest
in the spring campaign will have to be
worked out of the local elections.
Even the Social Democrats promise
to get busy early for the spring cam
paign and meetings are already being
called to get them in readiness for the
election.
Sheriff Gunter transacted official
business at the state prison at Waupun
Thursday and he reports that all of the
Kenosha prisoners in the institution are
in good condition.
The finances of the Hotel Kenosha
are being adjusted very rapidly and
it is thought that the hotel will be
back under the management Of Homer
Royce within a few months.
The Thomas B. Jeffrey Company is
planning the erection of handsome
new Office building in the early spring
The plans for the Office have already
been accepted by the company.
Telephone service in Kenosha is be-
ing revolutionized and many of the
smaller stores in the city are putting
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able to take care of the trade.
The epidemic of scarlet fever and
diphtheria which threatened Kenosha
seems to have been driven away by the
cold weather. Not single case of
either disease has been reported in ten
days.
Picture shows seem to flourish in
Kenosha and it is said that moving
picture theatre is being planned for
the west side. Kenosha now has four
of these theatres and all of them are
doing good business.
The new plan for drawing coroner's
juries is not appealing to the business
men of the city and there is lot of
kicking every time a jury is drawn.
Notwithstanding this fact the plan
seems to result in the securing of bet
ter juries.
Kenosha merchants declare that the
holiday trade this year promises to be
larger than in many years. The early
buyers were out in force Thursday not |
withstanding the cold and snow and
the business was reported as decidedly
satisfactory.
The N. R. Aliens Sons tannery is
planning to erect two more large build |
ings for manufacturing purposes dur
ing the coming year. The plans for
the buildings have been prepared and
the work will start with the opening |
of the new building season.
The coming January term of the |
municipal court will be about as busy
as the usual jury terms of the circuit
court. Already seventeen cases have
been noticed for trial and it is ex-
pected that half dozen other cases
will be ready before the term opens.
The plan for the trial of commits
sion form of government in Kenosha |
seems to have been abandoned as the |
petitions which were ready for circula- |
tion are still being withheld. 1t is
just possible that the men boosting the [
plan feel that it is better to bear the |
ills we have than to fly to others that
we know not of.