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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
Preparing to Look His Best
Success Magazine.

Rastus: "For the love Of heben,
Sambo, what fer you got you all pants
turned wrong side before-mos'?"
Sambo: "Sh! Don't talk so loud.
You. see, rs invited to swell recep-
tion tonight, and rs gettin' de bulge
out'n de knees"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
No Feather Beds for the Babies.

A child should sleep on a mattress,
never on a feather bed, and without
too much covering, which should be of
the lightest description. though warm.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
MEN
AND
WOMEN

results use DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the grei
kidney remedy. At druggists. Sample bottle b
mail free. also pamphlet.
Address. DR.. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton. N. Y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

A country merchant in New England
writes us: My experience in compel
ing with mail-order houses leads me to
think a parcels-po would be benefit
to me rather than an injury. Quite
often, if one of my customers could
buy from mail-order house some small
article that struck his fancy and have
the article delivered cheaply by post,
that would be the extent of his mail
order purchase. But he does not want to
pay high express charges on the article,
so he and his neighbors viii pore over
the catalog and pick out enough goods
to make freight shipment. The result
is that the mail-order house, instead of
selling five pounds, sells a hundred
pounds or more
How many other country merchants
would find the same condition among
their customers with respect to mail-or-
der business2 Isn't there, in fact, a
continual drumming up of trade for
mail-order houses by purchasers, who
wish their neighbors to join them, in
order to make UP bulky shipment by
freight and avoid high express charges
So far as we know, mail-order houses
have never taken any particular inter
est in the parcels-post. Is this because
they are satisfied with a scheme that
induces purchasers to buy in bulk
This phase merits consideration.
The parcels-post, limited to rural de-
livery routes as recommended by the
President, would certainly benefit the
country merchant. We doubt that an
extension of the system would really
injure him. Saturday Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

This is the time for good resolutions
and every citizen of Kenosha can with
profit to himself and his city add an
other to his collection, one to take an
interest in the Humane Society during
the coming year and to give to the
agent of the society his financial and
moral support whenever such aid and as
sistance is needed. From choice and
because better results can be accom-
plished, the work of the society and its
agent is transacted as quietly and with
as little publicity as possible so that
comparatively few of the people of the
city realize what wide field of USE
fulness has been found for the society
in Kenosha and what a lot of good it
has accomplished. Only the worst and
most aggravated cases of cruelty to
children or animals ever get into the
courts, and so are forcibly called to
the attention of the public for the So
clety seldom takes a case into the court
unless the need of such action is very
urgent and never until after every
other resource of the society has been
exhausted, but for every case to which
attention is unavoidably called in this
way, there are dozens handled quickly
and quietly and bad conditions remedi-
ed or done away with altogether with
nobody any the wiser except those di,
rectly concerned-the agent of the So
ciety and the people at fault. The ex-
tent of the work that has been done in
Kenosha since the Humane Society was
organized and an agent put in the field
and the need for just the sort of work
that is being done, will surprise any
one who cares to investigate it and
we hope that many will do so. We
have felt that perhaps the humane So
ciety agent has not been supported in
MS worl as well as he should have
been at times during the past year but
we have also felt that the Indifference
shown was more apparent than real and
that with fuller knowledge of the
work that is being done would come
the heartiest support from the people
of the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

Now that the police and fire commits
sion has certified to the city clerk a
list OF men eligible under the, rules Of
the commission for places on the police
and fire departments it is probable that
appointments will be made within q
short time. Under present conditions
it is impossible for the chiefs of the
departments to give the people of the
city the protection to which they are
entitled with the forces at their dis
posal and while it is realized that the
city is going to be very short of money
it is believed that the people of the city
will favor the addition of more men to
these two departments even if it is
necessary to scrimp somewhere else in
order to pay them. The city is paying
enough taxes so that it should not be
necessary to cripple the two most i'm
portant departments of the city govern
ment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
OFFICIAL NOTICE.

Once Of the City Clerk, city of Ken
osha.
Notice TO property owners on Lake
avenue between Milwaukee avenue and
Howe street, in the city of Kenosha,
Wisconsin.
Notice is hereby given to the owners
of real estate on Lake avenue between
Milwaukee avenue and Howe street
that a final determination has been
made and was made by the Common
Council of the city of Kenosha On the
3rd day of January A. D. 1911, of the
benefits to be assessed to the real estate
by reason of the proposed Improvement
upon the said avenue by grading the
said avenue and curbing the said avenue
with cement curb and combined con
crete gutter, and paving the said ave.
nue. by brick paving upon a concrete
foundation or an asphalt macadanl upon
concrete foundation and otherwise
improving the said avenue.
Given under my hand in the city of
Kenosha, this 9Th day of January, A,
D. 1911.
George w. Harrington,
w3S City Clerk
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
INSTALL OFFICERS.

The u. o. F. held their annual in
stallation of officers at Castle hall on
Friday evening, January 6. The follow
ing officers were installed by George O.
Blann, s. S. assisted by A. A. Riel
state organizer and the Milwaukee drill
team.
G.. R., John Eifler: P. R., George
Macintosh; v. R., John Baltes; Treas,
Albert Riel, Jr.; Sec, Lulu G. Lampe
Chaplain, Bessie Anderson; I. W., Grace
Leigler; o. w. John Gamble.
After the installation speeches were
made by Bros. Blann, Riel, Ellis, Owen,
Market and Prescott and the following
program was rendered:
Vocal SOLO Could [ But Tell''.
Mabel Lampe accompanied by Ed
ward McCatfrey.
Recitation-Just Before Christmas.
....... Master Frederick Bradley
Immediately after, supper was served
by the ladies of the court. The rest
of the evening was spent in dancing.
Music by Edward Mccartney. Many
Foresters were present from Milwaukee
and Racine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
A. NJ. Morgan Wanted for
Abandonment Located in
Federal Prison at Ft. Jay
STRIPPED OF HIS UNIFORM
Army Officials Announce That He Has
Been Dishonorably Discharged From
Service and Sent to Prison for Six
Months Term.

Albert M. Morgan former Kenosha
man and a Sergeant in the United
States army has been stripped of his
epaulets, dishonorably discharged from
the service and on Dec. 90 of last year
General Fred Grant approved the order
of general court martial by which
a penalty of dishonorable discharge,
forfeiture of all pay and allowances
and six months in the Federal prison
at TT. Jay was imposed upon Morgan.
The facts in regard to the disgrace
of the former Kenosha soldier were
given out in a letter received by Chief
of Police O'Hare this morning. The
letter was from the Adjutant Generals
office of the army and was written in
response to a letter from Chief
0 Hare in which he asked that inform
alton be given in regard to Morgan in
order that he might be arrested by the
Kenosha county officials on charges of
abandonment. Mrs. Morgan is still
living in Kenosha and some time ago
she went into the Municipal court and
secured q warrant for the arrest of her
husband on charges of abandonment.
The police of the city at once took up
the search for the soldier and they
learned that he was connected with
Company E of the Fifth Infantry in
the official capacity of Sergeant. The
request for the information in regard
to Morgan went through eight of the
departments of the army before the
facts In the case could be ascertained
and the final statement of the case is
sent out from the office of General
Grant at Governor Island in New
York. Morgan has been in the army
for number of years and had rapid
promotion. He disappeared many
months ago and his wife had been
searching for him at various army
posts. At the time of hrs arrest by
the Federal officials he was charged
with misconduct as soldier and as
an officer while doing service with the
militia of West Virginia. In the re-
ports sent out from the Adjutant Gen
eral s Office the nature of the offense
committed by Morgan is not given.
The Kenosha police officers have not
fled the officials in charge of the Fed
eral prison at TT. Jay to advise them
at the time Morgan is released and he
will then be arrested and brought to
Kenosha to answer the charges brought
against him by his wife in the courts OF
this county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
BAvARIAN GERMAN PLAYERS.
Extraordinary Fine Offering for Our
German Citizens at the Rhode.

Coming to the Rhode opera house
next Thursday night, the Bavarian
Peasant Players. Their cleverness and
versatility is referred to by the Mil
waukee Sentinel of last Monday morn
ing as follows:
"'To a capacity house the Bavarian
Peasant troupe from the Berchtesgad-
ner theatre opened two weeks en-
gagement at the Pabst theatre last ev-
ening. These players are making a
tour of this country and wherever they
have appeared, have been enthusiastic
ally received. Their repertoire is large
ly made up of those plays wherein there
is ample opportunity for the portrayal
of real peasant types, and these artists
they deserve the name-in their nat
ural, unaffected manner, bring with
them and surround their characters
with the FRESHNESS and fresh and whole
some atmosphere of the Bavarian Alps.
This extraordinary engagement brings
to the Pabst theatre, as a concrere
whole, a provincial village, including a
peasant orchestra of no mean ability,
and singers, dancers and yodelers of
the highest quality. The troupe in
cludes several high class actors and ac-
tresses that would be at home and win
appreciation upon any stage"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

About the first business of the legis-
lature will be the repeal Of what is
known as the percentage election law
which requires a political party to cast
twenty per cent of its vote at the last
preceding election at the primaries in
order to get the names of it's candidates
ON the ballot for the regular election
under the party designation. The OPP
Grafton of this law prevented many
candidates from qualifying for places
ON the party tickets at the last election
aud the leaders of all parties have de-
clared for its repeal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
EFENSE|ASK FOR MORE PAY FIND MAN IN PRISON
Express Messengers on West
ern Railways to Demand
Big Increase in Salaries
DUTIES ARE TOO ARDUOus

Employees of express companies op-
Grating on railroads west of Chicago
are to make demand for increased
wages. 1t is expected that the de-
mand will be made some time this
month, as the matter is now in the
hands of a committee and such com
! mittee has full power to act. These
employees are not members of an or
| gained body such as the locomotive
engineers and trainmen are.
Every effort had been made to keep
the proposed action of the employees
a secret until the demand was made to
the general managers of the express
companies but there was leak and to-
day News reporter had the report
confirmed by one of the employees of an
express company and who stated that
| it was the intention to not make the
matter public or have the officials of
express companies know of the pro-
posed action until everything was in
readiness to make the demand.
The employees who will ask for in
crease In wages are employed by the
express companies as express messen-
gers and who also do the work of the
baggagemen aboard trains. If their
demands are granted it is the intention
of all express messengers to make sim
liar demands. The express messengers
who also are baggagemen are employed
| jointly by the railroad and express
companies and have full charge of the
combination express and baggage car.
| They receive a certain salary each
month from the railroad company and
an equal amount was paid by the ex-
press company operating on that line.
When the managers of western rail
roads agreed to increase the wages of
the trainmen the baggagemen received
an increase and such increase was also
given the men who acted as express
messengers as we'll as baggagemen.
These employees now believe that as the
railroad companies by which they were
employed had increased the salaries the
express companies should also agree to
make an increase as they do as much
work and possibly more for the express
company than they do for the railroad
company. To this labor should be add
ed the great responsible placed on
each messenger. He is held responsible
for every article placed in his car and
should any article not be delivered at
the station to which it is consigned
but is carried through and later re-
fused by the person to whom shipped,
then the messenger must pay the cost
of the article, it being his property to
dispose of as he sees fit. If perishable
goods are carried through the messen-
ger suffers big loss.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

The charges of mistreatment OF In
sane patients in the state asylum at
Mendoza made by county judge be
fore the Wisconsin County Judges AS
ISOLATION in session at Milwaukee re-
Gently will doubtless be taken up by
the state board zof control and an IN
vestigation made and the results OF
the investigation should be given to the
public as soon as possible. AS was
pointed out at the time these sensation
all charges were made before the judges
association, the state board is the pro-
per tribunal to consider them and the
matter should have been taken up
quietly with the members of the board
before any publicity was given the
charges of i'll treatment. Had that
course been taken the friends and rela-
tives of the patients being treated
there would have been spared great
deal of unnecessary anxiety and worry.
The board of control would doubtless
have taken the matter up at once with
the heads of the institution and any
conditions found at the asylum which
could justly be complained o. would
doubtless have been remedied in short
order by the authorities and to the sat
isfaction of the judge who entered the
complaint. 1t would have been easy
enough to have handled the matter
quietly and the judge who brought the
matter to the attention of the associa-
tion could have made his charges pub
iicly had the state board of control re-
fused to act in the matter at his re-
quest or if he was not satisfied with
conditions at the asylum after the
board had acted In nine cases out of
ten these public attacks on the man
agement of state institutions are found
to have been unwarranted when the
facts are brought cut on investigation
and often times they do more harm
than good In this case it will take
more evidence than has yet been pro-
duced to convince Wisconsin people
that there is anything radically wrong
with the management of the M endota
asylum but the state board should give
out some statement that will quiet the
natural anxiety of those who have rel.
atives and friends among the inmates.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
PUTS KENosHA FIRST.
Correction Of Figures in Census Stats
tics Gives Kenosha Greatest Growth.

The city of Kenosha has the highest
percentage of growth among the cities
of Wisconsin during the last ten years.
When the figures were sent out on
Friday they indicated that the little
city of Merrill had distanced Kenosha
in percentage of growth but this morn
ing correction of the figures for Mer-
rill is made which shows that Kenosha
with growth of SAL per cent is first
in the state. The population Of Merrill
ten years was 1857 and this year it is
given as $3.50. These amended figures
show that the per cent of growth in
Merrill is decidedly small. The figures
show that Kenosha has the largest num-
erical growth in any city in the state
with the exception of Milwaukee and
its percentage of growth is nearly
double that Of any of the cities in its
class in the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
State Federation of Labor Pc
titions Legislature for Pas
sage of Many New Acts
HIT At PADR0NE SYSTEM

Members of all labor unions of the
state are to receive copies of bills pre-
pared by the state executive commit
tee of the Wisconsin State Federation
OF Labor and which will be offered for
passage during the coming session OF
the legislature. The several labor un-
ions are requested to take action or
the bills and the members and all lab
oring men are urged to write to the
assemblymen and senators demanding
that they support these bills backed by
organized labor.
Among the bills which the commit
tee has already agreed on are the fol
lowing:
For several weeks the executive com
mittee Of the Wisconsin State Fedora
tion of Labor has been at work prepar-
ing bills for introduction in the next
legislature and the committee now re-
ports that the state federation would
introduce twenty-five labor bills, most
of which would be put in on the open.
ing day of the session. The bills deal
almost entirely with the laboring class
es.
Limiting the hours Of employment
for females in mechanical and mercan-
tile establishments, and in laundries,
hotels and restaurants.
Relating to the employment of pri-
waite detectives in labor trouble.
Relating to rest of thirty-six hours
in each seven days of work.
Relating to court fees, enabling la
boring men to get these fees cut OUT
Relating to the ventilation of me-
chanical and mercantile establishments
and other places where labor was en-
ployed.
Relating to wages and hours of la
Dor in public service corporations.
Relating to hours of consecutive la
Dor.
Relating to the safety of workmen
employed on buildings.
Relating to hours of labor on pub
lie buildings and works.
Relating to the survival of action for
damages.
Relating to the publication of con-
tracts between employers and employ
ed.
Relating to the padrone system, with
view of breaking up this system,
whereby one man secures gangs of men
and contracts them to some railroad
or corporations at less than the market
rate, taking a commission for so doing.
Relating to trades disputes, restrain
ing orders.
Taking away all defenses of employ
ers.
Relating to the industrial insurance
compensation act.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12

1t will take a year or two to ascer.
tain exactly how the county is coming
out with all of the county officers work
ing under the salary system with all
fees paid in to the county but while
there will probably be some complaint
from individuals who will now be fore
ed to pay fees to the county which the
officials have been accustomed to remit
IN the past on their own responsibility,
the new order of doing business prom
Uses to be more satisfactory all around.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
Installation of Officers of the
Eastern Star Draws Large
Crowded. Masonic Temple
GIFTS FOR RETIRING LEADERS

The members of the Kenosha Chap
ter of the Eastern Star had red let
ter night on Thursday evening when
the annual installation of officers was
held. Notwithstanding the storm that
prevailed there was a large attendance
among the members Of the chapter and
the event proved to be most inter
esting one. The installation ceremonies
were in charge of Mrs. Stratton, a
Past Worthy Matron of the Hebron,
Illinois Chapter of the Eastern Star.
Following the induction of the officers
into their chairs there were presenta-
ton speeches and the retiring officers
were presented with pretty souvenirs
of their service during the year Just
closed. Following this pretty ceremony
there was musical program in which
selections were given by Harry T. Nor
gan, Mrs. Edith Sherwood Cleveland,
Mrs. Charles Miller, Mrs. Richard Haw-
kins and Miss Margaret Becker. The
list of the officers as installed is as
follows:
Worthy Matron, Mrs. F. E. McKen-
zie; Worthy Patron Frank Marx; AS
sociate Matron, Mrs. F. E. Rutledge /;
Secretary, Mrs. Jessie Maloney; Treas
urer Mrs Eliza Randall. Couductress
Mrs. Bertha Hawkins; Associate Con-
ductress, Mrs. Emma Kusterle; Ward
er, Laura samons; Chaplain, Mrs. Liz
zie Rudd; organist, Mrs. Carrie Stat
er; Adah, Mrs. Mary Millager; Ruth,
Miss Amelia Pabst; Esther, Mrs. Ruby
Stephens; Martha, Mrs. Mary Krei-
men; Sentinel, Henry ]. Hastings.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
SHOWS GREAT WORK OF COURT
More Than 800 Criminal Cases Disposed
of III the First Full Years Work of
the Court. Assault and Battery
Leads List.


pal court this morning forwarded to
Governor McGovern at Madison the
first annual report of criminal eases
tried and disposed of in the Municipal
court Of Kenosha county. The report
will be of great interest in the city
and county as it shows the large
amount OF work that has been disposed
Of in the court during the first full year
of it's existence. The report in full
follows:
To His Excellency, the Governor of the
State Of Wisconsin,:
I, James E. Tully, Clerk of the Mu-
nicipal court of Kenosha county, Wis
consin, do hereby make report of the
number of persons convicted by juries
Of criminal offenses and the number of
those who have pleaded guilty therein
to criminal charges from the first day
of January, A. D. 1910, to the 31st day
of December, A. D. 1910, both inclusive
as provided by Section 1920 of the stat
utes of the State of Wisconsin, as fol
lows:
The following shows the number of
persons who have been convicted by
jury in said court and the nature of
the offense, during said period.
Assault with intent to do great bod
lily harm /
Selling liquor without license. 49,. 2
The following shows the number of
persons who have pleaded guilty to
criminal charges and the nature Of such
charges, during said period.
Assault 2
Assault and Battery 80
Using obscene and abusive language .27
Fagrancy ................. .36
Larceny .s....'....s.'. .ol
Assault with intent to do great bod 2
lily harm OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Adultery 4
Selling liquor to minor. ............ 8
Gambling .28
Violation Of Game laws. .25
Violation Of State Factory laws. 49,.
Extort1on ................ l
Cruelty to animals. 49,. minimum.
burglary .'....... .....'......'''.N .
Purchasing stolen property ......... 3
Failure to send child to school. -. /
Carrying concealed weapons. IL
Violation of state pure food laws. -.
Indecent exposure of person. ........ l
Larceny of a horse. ............... /
Obtaining goods under false pretens-
es '''..''''....'s.. .....s L
Obtaining money under false pre-
lenses .............
Keeping gaming house. ........... l
fornlcaIlon .................. 3
Accessory before the fact to adult
cry .........s.
Keeping slot machine for gambling
purposes ................... /
Aiming and pointing revolver at an
Otn2r ....... i
Ofense indictable at common law
against deceny and good morals. l
The following shows the number of
persons who were found guilty by court
to criminal charges and the nature of
such charges during said period.
Assault and battery ...............
Intpxication ......................
Using obscene and abusive language.
Dated at Kenosha, Wisconsin, December
81. 1910.
James E. Tully,
Clerk Of Municipal Court of Kenesha,