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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

While the large attendance at the
opening of the new commercial depart
ment at the high school may be due
in q measure to the attraction which
anything new always has for the stu
dents, it is believed by the members
of the board of education that the
commercial department is going to fill
a long felt want in the public schools
and that increasing numbers of the
pupils in the school will avail them
selves of the opportunity to acquire a
knowledge of business forms and COM
Emercial law afforded by this addition
to the courses at the high school. The
plan to install such department. has
been under discussion for a long time
and now that it has finally been taken
up it will be given thorough trial by
the board. State Superintendent of
Schools Cary recently declared that
the courses of study in many of the
puullC SCnUUAS VI tue SbdlS are design
ed to meet the needs of the minority
who intended to take the university
course and that the reason so many
students fail to finish their high school
course is that they cannot see the ad-
vantage of fitting themselves for col
lege when they expect to enter business
life on leaving the high schools. If
this is the case the advantages offered
in the commercial course should have
the effect of inducing many more stu
dents to take their full four wears in
the high school and greatly increase
the number of the graduates. I'm
questionably the new department is
popular with many of the parents of
the children in the schools on whom
the expense of giving their sons and
daughters special preparation for bust
ness life after they leave the public
schools has been heavy burden.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

The commission appointed by the
county board of supervisors to prepare
the memorial of the. Kenosha county
soldiers and sailors who served in the
war of the rebellion will spare no eff
forts to make it complete in every
particular, we are sure, but that is
as far as the committee should be
asked to go. 1t has been suggested
that the names of the men who were
living in other states at the time of
their enlistment, but who have since
moved to Kenosha, be included in the
memorial, but to do this would inaugu-
rate a work that could never be de-
clared completed until the last sur
vivor of the war had passed away.
Certainly if the names Of the veterans
from other parts of the country now
living in this county are put on the
tablets with the Kenosha county vet
Grams any veteran who moves here at
any time in the future would be en-
titled to the same honors and the work
of collecting and verifying the data
for the memorial would have to be con-
tinued indefinitely. Besides the vet
Grams from other states are quite like
ly to have their names and records
preserved in their own counties in the
same manner as those of the Kenosha
county men are to be kept here. This
idea of each county honoring the men
it sent to the front has appealed to
public sentiment all over the country
so strongly that it looks now as if it
would not be very long before these
memorials will be prepared in every
district which sent soldiers to the war.
They should be.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

1t is now reported that it is unlike
ly that the new Columbus school will
be ready to turn over to the school
board before the first of April in which
case it is improbable that the superin-
tendent will think it advisable to dis
organize the whole school system in
order to make the transfers of the
children to the new building for the
short time remaining of the school
year. In any event the children will
get little good out Of the building dur
ing this school year. When it was
first proposed to erect this building it
was given out that it was urgently
needed, but the board does not appear
to have been sufficiently impressed
with the urgency of the call for the
additional accommodations which the
new building will give to put clause
in the contract calling for it's com
pletion on certain date with the u.s.
ual penalties attached for any failure
on the part of the contractors to live
up to that part of their contract The
delays on the building and the diseov-
cry that the city can collect nothing
in the way of penalties for them has
served to call attention to the unbusi-
nesslike methods of the board in hand
ling the erection of this building all
the way through and much unfavor-
able comment has resulted. This
building was either urgently needed as
was given out to the taxpayers when
it it was proposed to erect it or it
was not. If it was urgently needed
the board should have seen to it that
it was rushed to completion in the
shortest possible time consistent with
good work and if it was not urgently
needed it should not have been built.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
ARTHUR REDEEM WAS SECOND
Seniors and Faculty Gather at a Ban
quet at the Auditorium of the School
on Friday Evening and Many Re-
spond to Toasts.

Miss Edith Mattson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. MattsoR of
Prairie avenue, has won the high
est honor in the gift of the
faculty of the Kenosha High School
as at the annual senior banquet
held at the auditorium of the school on
Friday evening it was announced that
Miss Mattson by her superior scholar
ship during the four years. course had
won the right to represent the class as
valedictorian. Arthur Redeem was
named as salutatorian of the class, he
having won the second honors among
the class members. Other honors and
the standing of the honor students
were announced as follows:
Miss Edith Mattson ....... 95.S
arthur Redeem ................. $40
Miss Amy Pennefeather ....... 931
Glenn Spoor ..................9 O2
Miss Miriam Frost ........ COL
The five students named by the
faculty as honor students will be the
speakers at the annual commencement
exercises to be held next June. In
addition to these speakers two other
speakers will be elected by the mem
bers of the class but these selections
will not be made until some time later
in the year.
The announcement of the honors was
made at the annual banquet given by
the seniors in honor of the members
of the faculty and the honor students.
The banquet was one of the most in
teresting student gatherings ever Civ
en- at the auditorium and the tables
which were charmingly decorated with
class and school colors, were laid for
sixty guests. All the members of the
class and the faculty as well as the
school officials were present at the
banquet.
After dinner was served Richie
Purnell acted as POSTMASTER and sew
eral Of the members of the class and
the faculty responded to toasts. Prof..
Hooking was the first speaker at the
post prandial exercises and he made
the announcement of the honors and
| congratulated the class on the high
standard of scholarship which has
been shown during the year. The an
nouncement of the honors was greeted
with rounds of applause among the
members of the class and the selection
was popular one.
Superintendent P. j. Zimmers re-
sponded to the toast ''The Senior 8
Responsibility" and Miss Leila Kel-
sey, teacher of English in the High
School responded to the subject "Lau-
rels." The last of the set toasts
was given by Glenn Spoor, president
of the class who responded to the an
nouncement of the honor list
The plans for the annual commence
ment exercises will be made at once
and it is probable that they will be
announced early in March.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
Women Widely Known in Ke-
nosha and Milwaukee Nam
ed as Defendants in Suit
OUTCOME OE KEMPsTER CASE

An action for SANDER has been begun
in Milwaukee by Mrs. Kate T.. Town
send, widow of Hamilton Townsend,
against Mrs. Francis s. Kempster, to
whom a divorce on the grounds of non
support was recently granted from DR..
Walter Kempster in the courts of Mil
waukee, her sister, Mrs. Caroline S.
Quarles, wife of Judge ]. V. Quarles,
Mrs. Thomas H. Brown and Mrs. Ed
ward Ferguson.
The complaint says that the plain
tiff can not name the persons to whom
the alleged slanderous words have been
spoken and fails to give the time or
the place or what was said, except its
general tenor.
In general terms it charges that the
defendants have conspired to drive the
plaintiff out of society and to injure
her good name, and have threatened
to cause her to be expelled from two
prominent clubs of which she is a
member, and to close the door Of every
respectable home in the city against
her.
Papers have been served for the ex-
animation of Mrs. Townsend before
Court Commissioner Julius E. Roehr
in Milwaukee at 10 O'Clock Monday
morning for the purpose of ascertain
ing the exact nature of the charges
and the foundation, if any, which the
plaintiff has for her suit.
It is reported that this suit is an
outgrowth of the recent Kempster di-
vorce suit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
SUGGEST NEW PLAN
Appleton Residents Will Try Communi-
ty Plan of Buying

A communistic plan for the purchase
of meat and other food products is be-
ing discussed by people in Kenosha and
the plan is being exemplifed at Apple
ton where in single ward 400 families
have banded together with view of
opening up a butcher shop at which
meat will be sold to the members of
the community at the actual cost at
which it is purchased from the packing
houses. The people of Appleton have
agreed to purchase all their meats
from the one establishment and each
family has agreed to put up small
sum of money to make possible the
opening of the market. The market
will be community market in every
way md while it is not expected that
there will be any profits it will be up
to the people interested to pay the
losses. A man viii be employed to
take charge of the market and operate
it for the community.
The attempted meat boycott has not
had any appreciate effect on the meat
business in Kenosha and the market
men declare that the falling off in the
sales has been so small that it is
hardly worthy of mention.
Kenosha people seem to be looking
into the food supply proposition and
lit is, just possible that the Appleton
idea will be adopted in several parts
of Kenosha. The market men here
declare that they are powerless to re
duce prices ON meats and other food
products and they declare that there
is nothing in the business for them at
the prices ruling today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Several business men who cashed
checks for affable strangers lately had
their confidence in humanity rudely
Jared when the paper came back from
the bank marked N. G. 1t is probable
that every one of these business men
knew that he was taking chances on
the checks and SO none of them is en-
titled to much sympathy but all OF
them should be willing to go to some
expense and trouble to help the police
run down the men who passed the
checks on them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

With the property owners on two
streets fighting in the courts against
paying paving assessments and the
prospect that the controversy over the
paving of Ashland avenue will event
ually land there, comes the intimation
that fight to prevent the remodeling
of the county Jail in accordance with
the plans adopted by the supervisors
may be made in the form of an in
junction enjoining the board from let
ting contract for the work All of
which goes to show that public bodies
cannot be too careful in following the
methods of procedure laid down by
law in voting for public improvements
of every kind and description. I'm
less the law is followed to the letter
any lawyer can find flaw on which
to institute suit that may delay
the improvements indefinitely and put
the city or county and the protesting
property owners to considerable ex-
pense. With regard to the protest
against the repair of the county Jail
we hope that whatever fight is to be
made will be made on the floor of the
board in open meeting and not taken
into the courts for we believe that the
great majority OF the tax payers of
the county have confidence enough in
the judgment of the majority of the
board to be willing to abide by their
decision in the matter even if certain
$ technicalities were disregarded in the
adoption of the plans. All the more
so as the decision to rebuild the old
Jail instead OF new building was
not by close vote but by big ma
iority of the board. The proposition
was mot sprung on the board sudden
ly. The members took plenty of time
to consider the matter and must be
presumed to have voted as their best
Judgment dictated. Moreover there
is another phase of the matter that
should be given careful consideration
before any of the members of the
minority faction in the board oppos-
ed to the adoption of the plans take
any action that must result in delay.
The present structure was practically
condemned by the state board of con
troll long ago and while that body has
been very patient with this county so
far it is likely that any prospect of
further indefinite delay in remedying
conditions complained of at the Jail
will result in drastic action by the
state board that viii not be pleasant
reading for the people of the county
and which viii put this county in a
bad light before the rest of the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

The government is again advertising
for bids for the proposed alterations in
the life saving station and whether
or not the work is to be done depends
entirely on how near the bids come to
the estimate of the cost of the work
made by the government architects
There is limit fixed on all government
work of this kind which cannot be ex-
ceeded and unless the bids come with
in this limit all are rejected and the
improvement plans are dropped. That
was what happened the last time an
attempt was made to repair the station
when all of the bids for the work were
far above the estimate of what it
should cost made by the architects.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
DEATH OF MRS. CYRUS CURTIS
Well Known Resident of South Bristol
Died at Her Home on Monday

Mrs. Louisa Fenske Curtis, wife of
Cyrus Curtis and one of the best
known women Of South Bristol, died
at her home in that town on Monday
after a long illness from complica-
tion of diseases. The deceased was
forty-fve years of age. She was a
daughter of the late Henry Fenske and
was born in Germany. She came to
Kenosha county when a child and had
since made her home in Bristol. Mrs.
Curtis was sister Of w. T. Fenske
and Mrs. John Boettcher of this city.
She is survived by her husband and
one daughter.
Mrs. Curtis was well known to many
people in Kenosha and her death will
come as sad shock to her friends.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

A movement has been started to Sc
cure the erection of a monument to
the memory of Joseph Sherlock, form
erly of Winnetka, ILL.,, who was one
of the men who aided in the saving of
the lives of the passengers of the i'll
fated steamer Lady Elgin. The mon
ument is to be, erected at Winnetka
near the spot where Sherlock risked his
life to save the members of the excur-
sion party.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
NEW BOOKS OF EcN-F1oTIoN

Added 70 ....-srE N. Simmons Library
During the Past Month
Bond-Handy Mans Workshop and
Laboratory.
Brereton-Literary History of the
Adelphi and its NeiGhborhood.
Butlin-Among the Danes.
Bradley-Oxford Lectures on Poetry,
Cesare-Last Days of Papal Rome.
Clarke-Astronomy from Dipper.
Collins-Design and Construction of
Induction Coils.
Crawshaw-Metal Spinning.
Davies-Frans Halls.
Dawson--Great English Lette +
Writers.
Gayley and Young-Principles and
Progress in English Poetry.
Gerhard-Sanitation Water Supply
and Sewage Disposal of Country
Houses.
Higginson - Carlyle's Laugh and
Other Surprises.
Howells-Seven English Cities.
Lipps-Navajos.
Lounsbury - English Spelling and
Spelling Reform.
Low-American People.
Lubbock-Peaee and Happiness.
Meredith-Last Poems.
Patten-Product and Climax.
Rainsford-Land of the Lion.
Rogers-American Newspaper.
chauff1er-Romantic Germany
Singleton-Dutch New York.
Stoddard-As Old as the Moon.
Taft-Political Issues and Outlook.
Thomson-Chinese.
Van Dyke--New New York.
Wise-Commonwealth of Australia.
Van Dyke--White Bees and Other
Poems.
In addition to the above general list,
are a few more books on the subject
of health and hygiene, as follows:
Cabot-Social service and the Art
of Healing.
Call-Nerves and Common Sense.
Dodd-Chemistry of the Household.
Dresser-Health and the Inner Life.
Elliott-Household Bacteriology.
Elliott-E ousehold Hygiene.
Worcester-Christian Religion as a
Healing Power.
Fiction
Austin--Lost Borders.
Craven-Price of the Graftons.
Duncan-Suitable Child.
Letts-Diana Detroned.
Lovell-7Margarita S Soul.
Lucas-One Day and Another.
Pittman-Go Forth and Find.
Stevens-The Veil.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
STAIRS

Licenses have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Emma Rolls and
Frank B. Bonner and Miss Alma Rolls
and George D. Anderson. The brides
are sisters and the grooms are both
soldiers at Ft. Sheridan. The we'd
ding will take place at the Rolls home
on Grand avenue on February 10.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

We gather from few remarks made
by the esteemed Lacrosse Tribune that
the loud call which Mr.. McGovern says
induced him to enter the race for the
gubernatorial nomination has not been
heard down that way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Mrs. Carolyn Dever and John G.
Kupfer left this morning for New
York and in few days will sail for
a years trip abroad. They plan Wis
iting the Holy Land and portions Of
Europe.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
ATTENTION G.. A. r.

At our next regular meeting to be
held Monday evening, February 7th,
the department commander and staff
viii visit the post. All comrades are
requested to make special effort to
be present. A smoker and good
time is expected. All come. By
order of c. E. Likes, Comdr., J. Cos
hun, adjt dwf5
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Miss Cora Graves, who recently re-
signed her position as teacher of ma
thematics in the Kenosha High School,
has consented to continue the work for
another week in order to give the
board of education chance to secure
a successor for the work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

The members of the D. n. K. K. gave
pleasant surprise party on Mrs. Will
liam Senne at her home on Exchange
street on Monday afternoon. A large
crowd was in attendance and a pleas
ant time is reported by all.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

ihe Peopie are not taking any great
interest in the coming primaries as yet,
but there are enough :s~4-- -
ing out to warm things up nlo-l 49,
actual campaigning commences.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

The Misses Ida Rafferty, and Mar
garet Zieyers entertained their friends
at skating party at the auditorium
on Saturday evening. A jolly time
is reported by all present.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

The Ohio and Mississippi should be
content to rest satisfied with their past
performances and not try to break the
records of those French rivers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

John J. Langan has taken out petit
tions as a Democratic candidate for
assessor. As yet no Republican can
didates for this Office have come into
the field
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Those Somers cows give up as free
" as candidate just before the Prl-
maries. All they have, in both cases.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Mr.. and Mrs. John Brown and Mrs.
Mcnamara of Milwaukee, spent Sun
sday afternoon in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Mrs. Elizabeth Hegeman and John
Hegeman of Chicago, spent Sunday
with their parents in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03
NIGHT HAWKS WIN THREE
Defeat the Stars Three Games at the
Petersen Alleys on Monday Night

The Night Hawks took another adj
vance in the Kenosha Bowling League
on Monday evening when they defeat
ed the STAIRS three games at the Peter
sen alleys. The score Of the match
follows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

Miss Florence Nicely, Luke Swarm
and Lester Samson of Waukegan, Wis
tied friends in Kenosha Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-02-03

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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-08-16
REGISTRATION NOTICE
Primary Election

Notice is hereby given that the
registry books for the primary cleo
ton to be held on the first Tuesday
in September, 1910, are now open at
the Office of the registry agent for
Empire precinct, Ormsby coun
ty, State of Nevada, at the Office OF
the said registry agent, at Carson
City and will remain open daily on
all legal days from ~ a III to 3 m,
from the I'd day OF July, 1910, up to
the goth day of August, 1910, and for
ten days preceding the day set for
the closing of the books they shall
be open at the Office OF the registry
agent between the hours OF ! o'clock
III and 9 o'clock p m in addition
to the hours heretofore mentioned.
The books will close at the hour
of 9 o'clock p III on the Goth day of
August, 1910.
General Election
Notice is hereby given that the
books for the general election, to be
held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday. 1910, viz: November
6, 1910. will be open at the office OF
the registry agent for Empire pre-
cinct Ormsby county, State OF Ne
vada, at the Office of the said regis
try agent at Carson City. Nevada,
and will remain open daily on all
legal days, from 10 m to p m
from the lst day of august, 1910,
up to the Goth day of October, 1910,
and for ten days preceding the day
set for the closing of the books they
shall be open at the Office of the reg
istry agent between the hours of ]
m and 9 o'clock p m in addition
to the hours hereinbefore mentioned
The books will close at the hour
OF 9 p m on the Goth day of October.
1919.
Naturalized citizens will be requir-
ed to present their naturalization pa
pers for inspection of the registry
agent at the time they appear and
request their names to be registered.
(Signed) r G DICKSON,
Registry Agent for Empire Precinct,
Ormsby county, Nevada.