The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-07-28

from the grain elevators. ] notice Der
byshire, and Dowse and Turk, from
Pleasant Prairie; jim Kellogg, Dudly
Cass, and Tom Minor from Salem;
futile, Rhodes and others.
There drives Nick Ehle behind his
line team of bays, and there comes Lew
Balm with his trotter. There are some
fine roadsters owned here. Harry Dur
kee. there, drives several good horses.
Let US drop into Carey Bronson s and
have lemonade; everybody visits
Carey. Do you see that weather beaten
old fellow just ahead of usa That is
Dave Whitcomb the Fiddler. Didn'
you ever hear of Dave? Why, he's
known all over southern Wisconsin and
northern Illinois, and was here long be-
fore the red skins vacated this region.
I've heard him tell of camping with
the Winnebago s, and fiddling for the
squaWs, and of being chased through
Pike woods by the timber wolves. Once
he said, they run him into the lake,
where he stood in the water up to his
arrm-pits, and fddled to the "var-
minis = as they stood guard on the
beach. Old Dave still fddles at coun-
try dances, but he's getting old now,
and won't be here much longer.
There comes Prof. Coe, who they say
is to have charge of the high school
next term. He is a lawyer from the
east. By the way; that high school is
the biggest thing they have in South
port. 1t is free institution, and is
established on the most liberal, practi-
cal, and sensible lines. In fact it's a
model, and leading educators from all
over the east, have come here to catch on
to its methods. Well, it was just an
inspiration / guess. Col Frank, Father
Dening, DR.. Mckinley, H. B. Hins-
dale, Charley Durkee, and men of that
stripe are responsible for it, and it has
set the pegs for the whole system of
Free school education. Horace Mann,
Edward Everett and Wendall Phillips,
have all visited and declared it most
complete.
This is Seth Doan's dry goods store,
and next is Will Reed IS jewelry house,
and up those stairs is place where
they take "sun pictures" or Gam
brotypes, which are very natural
But here come lot Of my chums
they are all schoolmates of mine. They
will be out in force tomorrow. There
is Clare Rundals, and George Nichols,
Phil and George Aver, Den Hynes,
Charly Hale, Irwin Blish, Levi How
land, Jerome White, Jim Bridgman,
Marsh Ehle, Octave Newell, and those
little kids are Joe Quarles, Charly
Dana, Walt Stebbins, Henry Durkee
and Henry Lines and Others. But say,
there is old Ike George, the gunsmith,
and that is Sam Francis talking with
him, and Jim Glover. There is more
fun in that crowd than in a whole cage
of monkeys. Here is English Bros
meat shop There are four Of them;
Pat, John, William and Edward, and
they have harness store just across
the street, and here is Dan Knapp's
hat store. Dan is the champion check
er player and champion rife shot of the
county. They most always handicap
Dan at all games and shoots.
Here is the telegraph Office and that
man working the instrument is G. G..
Sholes, operator. This telegraph, they
say is a great scheme, and they can
send messages by lightning to Chicago
or to New York. That is George Bald
win in the Office and Jimmy Petit
No, / don It understand it.
That man just getting out Of his
spring wagon is Nathan r. Allen; he
has just come from his little tannery
on Jerome Creek, and that pleasant