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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01
SOUTH BRISTOL

Mrs. 6. H. WaIdo is on the sick
list.
VIM. Carney spent Sunday in Keno
sha.
The infant child of Ben. Gilmore is
quite sick.
I Eugene Jackson entertained com
Ipany from Kenosha the first part of
the week.
There will be a Bean Social at the
Anderson home Wednesday evening,
April Z. Something new for enter
tainment. Come and get a good sup
per and have a jolly time.
Frank Gethen spent Tuesday in Ke-
|nosha.
Miss Cora Edwards entertained com
pany last week.
Miss Mae Boyle is able to resume
her school duties again.
Miss Ellen Waldo spent Sunday at
home
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BRISTOL

/ Miss Jennie Garland spent last We'd
nesday in Kenosha.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Holbrook of
Kenosha, spent Sunday evening with
Mrs. Richtmyer.
Miss Elizabeth Sheen of Oak Park,
visited at the home of w. G. Bacon
last Saturday.
j. A. Rowbottom spent Saturday af-
ternoon in Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs, George Shields and
daughter Lyo4a, returned from Chi
cago last Sunday night where they
have been visiting relatives for the
Hast three weeks.
Miss Merle Jordan Of somers, visit.
ed her cousin, Ida Stephens, part
of last week.
Mrs. Butrick spent last Saturday in
Racine ~
Miss Minnie Sheen Of Paris, visited
her sister Mrs. Ray Shields last week..
A baby girl arrived at the home Of
Mr.. and MIS-. VIM. B1unell last Mon
day night.
Mrs. Charles Bishop visited her
daughter Mrs. Lew Bennett Of Win
tt5hrop Harbor, on Tuesday and We'd
nesday. .''...o.'
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Britton and daugh
ter Of Pikeville, spent Tuesday in Ke-
nosha.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


w. V. Gull of Salem, spent Monday
afternoon in Kenosha.
Mayor W. B. Bullock of Waukegan,
spent Monday afternoon in Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Riley of Strong
street, are rejoicing over the birth Of
a son.
Mrs. Clifton Weed Of Racine, was
the guest of Mrs. Minnie Weed on
Sunday.
James E. Schwarz of Chicago, was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Mayer
on Sunday.
DR.. William M. Hugh is seriously
i'll with typhoid fever at his home on
Ashland avenue
Just received a carload of seed oats.
Also garden and lawn seeds. Inquire
Peter Jacobs & Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Geisler and
daughter Helen Of Highland Park,
] spent Sunday in Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Pearson have
removed to Kenosha from Chicago and
will make their future home here.
The Misses Irene and Emma Gleason
and Agnes O'Niel of Burlington, are
the guests of Mrs George Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank HI. Miller of
Waukegan, are spending a few days
with friends and relatives in Kenosha.
Judge r. H. Slosson of the County
Court made a business trip to the west
ern part Of the county Monday even
ing.
Mrs. J. J. Orth has been called to
Minneapolis, Mimi, because of the
sickness Of her sister Elizabeth Orosen-
toch
Frank Story is here from Northwest
ern Military Academy at Highland
Park, for a visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Dewey.
Mrs. Rouse Simmons, who has been
visiting her son, G. B. Simmons, at
Portland, Oregon, returned home Sun
day afternoon.
We have carload of white barley
seed oats from Northern Wisconsin.
Price 60c per bushel until further no
tice. Also seed potatoes, seed corn,
and grass seeds. The Dunnebacke
Company, Kenosha, Wis. 40
The White Giants defeated the
Riverside Juniors Saturday by score
of Ii to 6. The batteries Of the
Giants were G. Kellman and M. Lei
nenweber, for the Juniors were N.
Ludwig and r. Drinkwine
Joseph G. Siebert and Miss Eta j..
Hartnell, both well known young peo
pie of Kenosha, were quietly married
by Justice George B. McCarron on
Saturday evening. They will make
their home in Kenosha and have the
best wishes Of large circle of friends
Eugene Gehl Of Kenosha was one Of
class of % who received minor ord
ers and those Of second deacon on Sat
urday last and on Sunday was raised
| to the office of deacon at st. Francis,
Wis. Right Rev. Bishop Fox Of Green
Bay, conferred the degree owing to
the illness of Arch Bishop Messmer.
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SALEM

The Foster Mercantile Company has
new lady clerk. The company is
about to enlarge Their building.
A. Higley and family have moved to
Freeport, I'll.
S. Gull who went to Chicago the last
Of the week for an operation, is on the
gain.
Mrs. Tom Manning, who has. been
suffering from blood poisoning, is i'm
proving.
Mrs. Ada Stewart, who has been
sick with rheumatism, is. getting bet
ter.
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A ballot clerk may inform tie voter
as to- the proper manner of marking
a ballot, but he must not advise or
indicate in any manner whom to vote
for. If the voter wishes to vote for
some of the candidates Of different
political parties, he should make a
cross mark under the name Of each
candidate he desires to vote for or
at any place thin the space in which
the name is printed.
] IL he wishes to vote for a person for
a certain Office whose name does not
appear upon the ballot, he must write
the name in the blank space under
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HEAVY INCREASE IN TAXES
Claims Committee Issues Statement of
Interests Demanding Appropriations


The joint committee on claims will
send out letter with the statement
of the appropriations asked for in the
present legislature. The statement is
to be sent to every newspaper in the
state.
1t is shown that the increases in
which the farming communities are
interested aggregate nearly fourth
of the appropriation bills, the total
approximating $1,7o0,00o. In this is
included $150,000 fer the State Board
of Agriculture for improving the state
fair grounds.
The educational interests represent
ed by the university and normal
schools ask for $3,157,5o for the
former and $1,0O6,800 for the latter.
It is stated there are a number of
Implications here which would reduce
the grand total somewhat. Included
in the university appropriations is
100000 for the extension course for
two years.
The charitable and penal institutions
ask $4,000, parks and forestry
$698,0oo, the national guard interests
ask for 100000. The courts, Supreme
and Circuit, wish an increased appro-
priation of 100000.
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ter it has been marked it should
be folded so that the inside cannot
be seen, but so that the printed in
dorsements and signatures of the ballot
clerks on the outside may be seen.
Then the voter should pass out of
the booth or compartment, give his
name to the inspector in charge of
the ballot box, hand him. his ballot to
be placed in the ballot box, and pass
out of the voting place. A voter who
declares to the presiding officer that
he unable to read, or that by reason
of physical disability he is unable to
mark his ballot, can have assistance
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Frank Wicks who got so badly hurt
is still in critical condition.
A. W. Burdick is in Ashton, Ill,
.shearing sheep
Mr.. and Mrs. Finley are entertain
ing relative from Scotland.
Mr.. Bailey is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Acker visited their
grandson in Genoa last of the week
Peterson Bros. have bought a. car
load of cattle.
John Orvis of Mimi, has been visit
ing relatives here.
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the printed name Of the candidate for

the printed name Of the candidate for
the Office. The ballot should not be
marked in any other manner. IF the
ballot be spoiled it must be returned
to the ballot clerk, who must issue
another in its stead, but not more
than three to any one voter. Five
minutes time is allowed in. booth to
mark ballot. Unofficial ballots or mem-
'orandnm to assist the voter in mark
ing his ballot can be taken into the
booth and Smay be used to copy FROM
THE ballot must not be shown SO
that any person can see how the bal
lot has been marked by the voter. AT
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party OF other designation, each in its
proper column.
Information to Voters
The following instructions are given
for the information and guidance of
voters. IA voter upon entering the
polling place and giving his name and
address, viii receive a ballot from the
ballot clerk which must have endorced
thereon the names. or initials of both
clerks and no other ballot can be used
Upon receiving his ballot the voter
must retire alone to a booth. or com
partment and prepare his ballot for
voting. $500
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Of one or two election officers in mark
ing his ballot, to be chosen by the
voter, and if he declares. that he is
totally blind, he may be assisted by
any person chosen by him from among
the legal voters of the county. The
presiding officer may administer an
oath in his discretion as to such per-
sons disability. The party designa-
.tions and candidates for the different
offices are for example as follows:
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7771r7
ELECTION NOTICE :
Office of County Clerk,
March 25ths 1909.

To the electors of Kenosha county:
Notice is hereby given that5a cleo
tion is to be held in the several towns,
wards and election precincts in the
county of Kenosha, on the 9th day of
April A. D. 1909, at which the officers
named below are to be chosen.
The names of the candidates for
each office to be voted for whose nomi-
nations have been certified to this Of
fee, are given opposite the title of
the office and under the appropriate
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Russell FL. Jones,
County Clerk.
(seal)

Mrs. Gaylord Sheppard, formerly
one of the best known women of the
town of Somers, but a resident of Ra-
cine for the past five years. died at her
home in that city on Monday. Mrs.
Sheppard was about fifty years Of age
and she had been i'll for many weeks.
She is survived by her husband, one
son and daughter The arrangements
for the funeral have not as yet been
made public. +
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SPECIAL NOTICE OF ELECTION
OF MUNICIPAL JUDGE

State of Wisconsin
County of Kenosha %
Office of County Clerk, Kenosha.,
Wis, March 9th, 1909.
Notice is hereby given that at the
election to be held in the several
towns, wards, and election precincts
in said county on the first Tuesday of
April, A. D. 1909, being the 9th day
of said month, there is to be elected
a municipal judge, for the Municipal
Court of Kenosha county established
by the state legislature and, which
bill became law on Friday, March
Goth, A. D. 1909, upon its proper pas
sage and publication.
The election Of said judge shall be
held and conducted, votes canvassed
and returns made according TO law
Given under my hand and official
seal at my Office at the City of Keno
sha, Wisconsin this 9th day of March
A. D. 1909.
IT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01

Eugene Gehl is home from St. Fran
els Seminary for few weeks vaca
ton.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01

E. J. Rhodes of Salem, was in Ke-
nosha Monday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01

Ask your doctor to name some of the
results of constipation. His long list viii
begin with sick-headache, biliousness
dyspepsia, thin blood, bad skin. Their
ask him if he would recommend YOU
using Ayers Pills.
Made by the j. G. Aver Co.. Lowell, Mass
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On Friday evening of this week
April 2, the ladies of the Presbyterian
church, will give a social at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. Yule. Every
body is cordially invited
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-11-11
BY p[ARGARET MAYO X
COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

about the room as though everything
had changed color.
Eyes"
"And you got matineeT' she ex-
claimed incredulously.
1--WE have services" he corrected.
gently.
1--WE rest up on Sundays" she said
In tone Of deep commiseration.
"Oh, 1 see," he answered. feeling 1t
no time to enter upon another discus
sion as to the comparative advantages
Of their two professions.
"What are you goin' to spiel about
today"
"About Ruth and Naomi"
Ruth and who?"
"Naomi," he repeated.
"Naomi," she echoed, fitting her head
from side to side as she listened to
the soft cadences of the word. 81 new
er heard that name before 1t 'ud look
awful swell on a billboard, wouldn't
ftp
"It's Bible name, honey" Mandy
said, eager to get into the converse.
ton. Oars buful picture bout her
I seed it."
II like to look at pictures" Polly an
swered tentatively. Mandy crossed the
room to fetch the large Bible with its
steel engravings.
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human enough to resent the injustice
Of his fate.
Douglas mother had suffered sc
much because Of the Impractical eff.
forts Of her husband that she discour.
aged the early tendencies Of the son
toward drawing and mathematics and
tried to direct his thoughts toward
creeds and Bible history. When he
went away for his collegiate course
was able to steal time from his ath
letics to devote to his art. He spent
his vacations in a neighboring city be-
fore drawing board in the Office Of a
distinguished architect. his fathers
friend.
Douglas was not a brilliant divinity
student. and he was relieved at last
when he received his degree in theol
ogy and found himself appointed to q
small church in the middle west.
His step was very bright the morning
be first went up the path that led tc
his new home. His artistic sense was
charmed by the picturesque approach
to the church and parsonage. The
view toward the tree encircled sDire
was unobstructed, for the church had
been built on the outskirts Of the town
to allow for a growth that had not
materialized. He threw up his head
and gazed at the blue hills. with theil
background of soft. slow moving
clouds. The smell of the fresh earth
the bursting of the buds. the forming
Of new life. set him thrilling with q
Joy that was very near to pain.
He stopped halfway up the path
and considered the advantages Of a
new front to the narrow eaved cot
tage. and when his foot touched the
flrst step of the vine covered porch he
was far more concerned about a new
portico than with any thought of his
first sermon.
His speculations were abruptly cut
short by Mandy. who hustled out Of
the door with a wide smile Of welcome
on her black face and an unmistaka BILE
ambition to take him Immediately un-
der her motherly wing She was much
concerned because the church people
had not met the new pastor at the sta
ton and brought him to the house
Upon learning that Douglas had pur
posely avoided their escort preferring
to come to his new home the first time
alone. she made up her mind that she
was going to like him.
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When Polly gained courage, Douglas
sometimes persuaded her to read to
him. and the little corrections that he
made at these times soon became
noticeable in her manner Of speech.
She was so eager. so starved for
knowledge that she drank 1t as fast
as he could give it. 1t was during
their talks about grammar that Mandy
generally fell asleep in her rocker, her
unfinished sewing still in her lap.
When letter came from Jim and
Toby 1t was always shared equally by
Mandy and Hasty. Polly and the pas
tor. But at last a letter came from
Jim only, and Douglas, who was asked
to read 1t. faltered and stopped after
the first few words,
Its no use my tryin' to keep it from
you any longer, POLL" the letter began.
I'VE amt got Toby with us no more.
He didn't have no accident; 1t wasn't
that. He just seemed kinder sick an
a1iln' like ever since the night we had
TO leave you behind. l used to get him
warm drinks an things an try 10
PUN HAiA luIouSu, Out lie was always
a-chillin' and a'achin'. If 1t wasn't one
thing it was another. done all
knowed you'd "a wanted me to, an
the rest of the folks VS. mighty white
to him too. l guess they kinder felt
how lonesome he was. He couldn't get
no more laughs in the show, so Barker
had to put on another man with him.
That kinder hurt him. too, 1 s'pose,
an showed him the way that things
was a-goin'. 1t was just after that he
wrote the parson a-tellin' him to never
let you come back. He seemed to "a
got an idee in his head that you was
happier where you was He wouldn't
let me tell you bout his feelin' rocky,
cause he thought it might mebbe
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els there any more to that story?"
she asked. ignoring his question.
eyes. indeed
"Wou-d you read me little more?"
She was verv humble now.
"'Where thou GieGt will | die, and
there will lie buried The Lord do so
to LIE. and 81. also, if aught but
death par. Ike Il t.,ep.'"
Their eye i There was a lonc
pause. Sudden the. sharp. swee.
notes of the emu. i bel brought job,
Douglas to his feet with a start Of
surprise.
Have Eou got to go?" Polly aske,
regretfully.
"Ies. must. but I'll read the rest
from the church. Open the window
Mandy" And he passed out Of the
door and quickly down the stairs.
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CHAPTER vi.

ITATl HEN John Douglas uncle Of
lM fered to educate his nephew
V Tor the ministry the boy wa;
less enthusiastic than his
mother. He did not demonstrate. how
ever. for it had been the custom of
generations for at least one son Of each
Douglas family to preach the gospel
Of Calvinism. and his fathers career
as an architect and landscape gardener
had not left him much capital.
Douglas senior had been recognized
as an artist by the few who under
stood his talents, but there is small
demand for the builder Of picturesque
houses In the, little business towns of
the middle west, and at last he passed
away, leaving his son only the burden
of his financial failure and an ardent
desire to succeed at the profession in
which his father had Jared so badly
The hopeless, defeated look on the de.
parted mans face had always haunted
the boy, who was artist enough to feel
his, fathers genius intuitively and
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1--WE got a girl named Ruth In our
leap Of death stunt. Some Of the
folks is kinder down on 'er, but
amt"
She might have told Douglas more
Of her forlorn little friend. but just
then Mandy came to the bed hugging
a large, old fashioned Bible, and Doug.
las helped to place the ponderous book
before the invalid
"See, honey, dar dey u.s." the old wo-
man said, pointing to the picture OF
Ruth and Naomi.
'Them's crackerjacks, amt they?"
Polly gasped, and her eyes shone with
wonder. (Which ones Ruth?"
"Dis one" said Mandy, pointing with
her thumb.
''Why, they're dressed just like our
chariot drivers. What does it say about
'em?"
You can read 1t for yourself" Doug.
las answered gently. There was some
thing pathetic in the eagerness of the
starved little mind.
"Well, l amt much on readin'-out
loud" she faltered, growing suddenly
conscious of her deficiencies. Read it
for me, will your"
Certainly" And he drew his chair
nearer to the bed. One strong hand
supported the other half of the Bible
and his head was very near to hers as
his deep. full voice pronounced the sol
emn words in which Ruth pleaded so
many years before.
'Entreat me not to leave thee,'" he
read, "'or to return from following
after thee, for whittier thou goest will
60, and where thou lodgest I will lodge.
Thy people shall be my people and thy
God my Cod"
He stopped to ponder over the poetry
Of the lines.
"Kind of pretty. amt itT' Polly said
softly. She felt awkward and con.
strained and little overawed.
There are far more beautiful things
than that" Douglas assured her en-.
Enthusiastically as the echo Of many
such rang in his ears.
There areY' And her eyes opened
wide with wonder.
Eyes. indeed" he replied, plying
more and more the starvation Of mind
and longing to bring to it floods Of
light and enrichment.
81 guess I'd like to hear you SPIEL"
and she fell to studying him solemly.
"You would?" he asked eagerly.
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CHAPTER VII.

n ri ANDY had secretly enjoyed the
IM commotion caused by the lit
tie circus rider being left in
e. the parsonage, at first be-
cause of her Unborn love of mischief
and later because Polly had become
second in her heart only to the pastor
She went about her work, grooming
softly during the days Of Polly's con-
valescence. The deep. steady voice Of
the pastor reading aloud in the pretty
window overhead was company. She
would often climb the stairs to tell
them some bit of village gossip and
leave them laughing at quaint COM
ment about some inquisitive sister of
the church who had happened to incur
her displeasure.
As spring came on Douglas carried
Polly down to the sunlit garden be-
meath the window, and Mandy flut-
tered about arranging the cushions
with motherly solicitude.
More days slipped by and Polly began
to creep through the little, soft leaved
trees at the back Of the church and to
look for the deep, blue. sweet scented
viOlets. When she was able Douglas
took her with him to visit some Of the
outlying houses Of the poor. Her
womans instinct was quick to per-
ceive many small needs In their lives
that he had overlooked and to suggest
simple. inexpensive joys that made
them her devoted friends.
Their evenings were divided between
making plans for these unfortunates
and reading aloud from the Bible or
other books:
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"You amt got all the worst Of it."
she said. IF we tried to play dump
like this for six months. we'd starve to
death. You certainly must give 'em a
great show" she added, surveying him
with growing interest.
1T doesn't make much difference
about the show Douglas began,
but he was quickly interrupted.
"That's right; it's jes' the same with
a circus. One year you give 'em the
rottenest kind of thing. an they eat
it up; the next year you hand 'em a
knockout, an it's FROST Is that
the way it is with church show"
"Much the same" Douglas admitted,
half amusedly. half regretfully. Every
often when work the hardest seem
to do the least good"
81 guess our troubles is pretty much
alike" Polly nodded. with q motherly