The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-30

Dealers Must Comply Strictly With
the Provisions of the State Law
and People With the Ordinances of
the City.

Kenosha is going to have just as
sane a Fourth of July week from
Monday as it is possible for the police
Of the city to make it and Chief of
Police o Hare has issued formal no.
tice to the people of the city and the
dealers in fireworks advising them as
to just how far they may go in the
celebration of the independence of the
nation. The lid will be clamped down
as far as possible on dangerous fire
works and the celebration will be
limited to the one day declared Mayor
Scholey in his annual proclamation.
People will not be permitted to put
torpedoes on the railway tracks or to
begin the celebration with fireworks
for several days before Independence
Day. All celebrating must be done
on the one day and anticipation of the
event will be cause for arrest and pun
ishment. In order that the dealers
may know just where they are the
chief of police has issued a formal
notice which follows
To the People of Kenosha
The people Of the city and all deal
ers in fireworks are hereby notified
that the laws of the state of Wis
consin and the ordinances of the city
of Kenosha relating to the sale and
use of firearms and fireworks in the
state and city will be strictly enforced
by this department. Any violation of
the laws will meet with prompt and
vigorous prosecution. For the infor
nation Of people interested the state
law and the city ordinance in regard
to the sale and use Of fireworks is
hereby published
The state law in regard to the sale
of fireworks is as follows:
Section 4398, Chapter 14O of the Laws
of 1905. No person shall sell or keep
for sale, or manufacture or bring into
this state for use therein ANY fire
crackers containing dynamite, chlorate
of potash, or any explosive except or
binary gun powder, composed of salt
peter, sulphur and charcoal. No fire
crackers composed of ordinary gun
powder shall be sold or kept for sale
unless the same shall be FIVE inches in
length or less and not more than seven
Fights of, an inch in diameter
Any person violating the provisions
Of this section shall be subject to be
punished by a fine of not less than
fifty dollars and not more than one
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
in the county Jail for a term of not
less than six months, nor more than
one year or both, in the discretion
of the court.
The city ordinance in regard to the
discharge of firearms and fireworks is
as follows:
Ordinance No. 207
"No person shall fire or discharge
any cannon, rife, gun, pistol or fire.
arms of any description, or fire, ex-
plode, or set off any squib, cracker,
or other thing containing powder or
other eombustible or explosive material
in any street, alley, or public ground
within the city limits or corporate
limits of the city of Kenosha, Wiscon-
sin, without the permission of the com
mon council or the written permission
of the mayor, which permission shall
limit the time of such firing and shall
be subject to be revoked by the mayor
or common council at any time after it
has been granted
Any person who shall violate this
section shall for each offense forfeit
and pay penalty of three dollars and
in default of the payment of such
penalty shall be imprisoned in the
county Jail for a term of ten days and
one half of each fine imposed in such
cases, when collected, shall be paid to
the person who shall make complaint
before any justice of the peace.
Owen O'Hare,