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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
COLLECTS MORE THAN $1,000.
Assistant Chief of Police Gains Fame
as Collector Of Delinquent Taxes.

Assistant Chief of Police Joseph G.
Newhouse has been awarded the palm
as collector of delinquent personal
taxes and he has just about closed out
all the accounts held against people who
declined to pay these taxes. Some time
ago the city treasurer turned over to
the police department for collection de-
inquent personal taxes to the amount
of $1,700 covering three years. Of this
amount Assistant Chief Newhonse has
collected more than thousan ddollars
and in fact he has collected every cent
where the man against whom the tax
was assessed could be found. The ac
counts remaining with one exception
are against people who have removed
from the city or who have absolutely
nothing that can be sold for taxes.
Newhouse has handled the collection
with lot Of diplomacy and as vet he
has not been forced to seize any prop
erty. One thirty dollar item still re-
mains for collection and Newhouse
promises to bring this into the treasury
within the next twenty hours. The
assistant chief insists that all the paw
he is demanding from the city is a
new supply of shoe leather.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
SLAVES FIFTY YEARS
Billy" Dickhaut Celebrates
His Fiftieth Anniversary
as a Barber in Kenosha
DATES BACK TO PIONEER DAYS.

W. j. Dickhaut, .familiarly known to
the city as Chilly Dickhaut," cele-
brated a unique anniversary today and
there were roses at his shop on Park
street in recognition Of the fact that it
was just fifty years ago today that he
went into business in Kenosha. From
point of years Mr.. Dickhaut is one of
the oldest. if not the Oldest, business
man in Kenosha.
He has been shaving the people of
Kenosha for the full half century
and when he began the work of apply
ing the lather brush and telling the
stories of the town he was but thirteen
years of age. Since that time the Dick
haut barber shop has been the gather
ing place Of Kenosha people, the home
Of the town gossip and in the fifty years
Mr.. lDickhaut has numbered as his Gus
toners many men who became famous
not only in Kenosha, but in other parts
Of the country.
Chilly Dickhaut" was born in Ger
many in l848, but he came to this city
in the fall of 1855 and at once went
to work in the barber shop of his
brother, Adam Dickhaut. He served an
apprenticeship of six years and then
he was advanced to the man on the
first chair and he has held this position
ever since. When 'Billy'' first went
into business his shop was located at
161 Main street. just once he lost his
faith in Kenosha and in 1869 he went
to Harvard, ILL.,, where he stayed just
year and then he returned and re-
opened the shop in Kenosha. Later on
he moved his shop to the room on Park
street Just east of the Merchants and
Savings bank and with the opening of
the Hotel Kenosha he opened a shop
there. Ten years ago he built the first
building for barber shop on Park
street and since that time he has been
constantly in business there. Although
"Billy" is now well over sixty years
of age the passing year have not in
any way affected his skill as barber
and he still holds down the first chair
in the shop. In the fifty years the
shop has had for it's patrons many of
the best known men of the city and
some of them are shaving with him to-
day just as they did fifty yeras ago.
All the history Of the city is known
to the man in the first chair. From the
shop gossip of tie fifty years Mr.. Dick
haut could write an intimate history of
Kenosha which would be of deepest in
terest. Mr. Dicl1haut is still in excel
lent health and it looks as if he would
continue to rule over the first chair
for another fifty years
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
GAIN MORE THAN 100 Per CENT
Value of Products Tor Last Year is
Placed at s2s, $4,000 and the Cost
of Materials Used at over Fourteen
Million Dollars.


A preliminary statement of the gen
eral results of the thirteenth United
States census of manufacturers of the
city of Kenosha, Wis, was issued today
by Census Director Durand. It con
,tains summary comparing the figures
for 1904 and 1900, by city totals, pre-
pared under the direction of William
M. Steuart, chief statistician for manu-
features, bureau of the census. The
figures are subject to such revision as
may be necessary after further ex-
animation of the original reports.
The summary shows percentages of
increase, as follows: 1873 per cent in
the capital invested; 124 per cent in
the number of salaried officials and
clerks; 100 per cent in the cost of ma
terials used; So per cent in the value
of products; 81 per cent in the salaries
and wages paid; SO per cent in the
value added by manufacture; 4S per
cent in the average number of wage
earners employed; SO per cent in the
number of establishments; and IL per
cent in the miscellaneous expenses.
There were 81 establishments in
1909, as compared with As in 1904, an
increase of II, or SO per cent.
The value of products in 1909 was
$23,lS2, 900 and $12,363,OOO in 1904, an
increase of $10,819,0O0 or SO per cent.
The average per establishment was ap-
proximately $374,0OO in 1909 and
about $275,000 in 1904.
The value Of products represents
their selling value or price at the plants
as actually turned out by the factories
during the census year, and does not
necessarily have any relation to the
amount of sales for that year. The
values under this head also include the
amount received for work done on ma
terials furnished by others.
Further details can be drawn from
the tabular summary which follows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
TO CHARGE EXCESS FARES.
Passengers Failing to Purchase Tickets
Must Pay Ten Gents Extra on Trains.

On and after August IL, if you don 4
buy ticket before getting on rail
road train, your ride will cost you 10
cents more than it would otherwise,
The reason is that on that dav a law
passed by the last legislature, provId-
ing for this extra payment, will 90
into effect.
"The practice of charging 10 cents
extra for rides when paid for on trains
has been in vogue for some time, but
heretofore the money has been return
ed at the passengers destination,'' said
Mr. Hettinger, agent of the Northwest.
err read, today "Under tn enew law
this will not be permissible.
~ expect that the change will result
in tightening the burdens of the conduc-
tors, who have been compelled to de
vote so much of their time to takino
fares that their regular duties have
suffered. =
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
SCOPE HAS BEEN WIDENED.
Plans are Announced for Embracing the
University Freshman Work.

The board of normal regents has is
sued statement regarding the two
years of college work that will be offer
ed at the eight state normal schools and
regarding the department of fine and
applied arts at the Milwaukee normal
school, the department of manual
training at Platteville and Oshkosh and
the department of domestic science at
Stevens Point.
The legislature of 1911 authorized
the board to offer two years of college
or university work in the various nor
NAL schools The board has decided to
offer at once the first, or freshman year
of the college of letters and science
as given at the university in each of
the eight schools. In September, 1912,
the work of the sophomore year will
be added.
The first obvious advantage of Of
fering two years Of college work in the
normal Schools says the board, ''is
that it will bring college education near
er to the homes Of the state Instead
OF one state school where young. men
and women may begin a college course,
there will now be nine-the university
and the eight normal schools. These
nine schools viii bring the opportunity
for higher education within a few
hours ride of every Wisconsin home.
Many students will now be able to live
at home during half of their college
course, and it will be possible for the
home to retain a more direct supervi.
sion over the lives of its young people
during the most critical period of col
lege life. =
The board also points to the reduced
cost of education. The expense of
travel would be reduced and the cost
of living made lower.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
Jeffrey Co. Plans to Erect
Great Sales Centers in Big
Cities of the Country
CH|CAGOBU|LD|NGT TO Be model

At the annual conference of the Ram
bier sales and service organization held
during The past week at the factory
of The Thomas B, Jeffrey company, an
nouncement was made by President
Charles T. Jeffery of plans for the erec-
tion of large service buildings and the
establishment of the most complete
sales and service facilities in some of
the largest cities of the country. s
Boston will have big building on
Commonwealth avenue; New York head
quarters will probably be located on
Broadway; Chicago will have a new
building riyaling anything of it's kind in
the country, while San Francisco's new
sales and service headquarters are to
be located on Geary and Mission streets.
Z The Rambler announcement for 1912
has not yet been made, but the trade is
expecting something unusual as this
concern has, within the past year, add
ed &c us Factory organization some
Of the best automobile engineering tai
ent in the country. 70 the already
competent staff has been added Robert
Jardine, of national reputation, George
Braithwaite, formerly factory manager
for the Stevens-Duryea; and f. G.
Mock, formerly assistant engineer for
the Stoddard- Dayton.
Sixty-fi1e representatives were in
conference at the Rambler factory for
three days, formulating plans for the
1912 campaign and inspecting the new
cars, which are now being exhibited
only to dealers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
APPLIES TO EUROPE.
Chancellor of Milwaukee Archdiocese
Discusses Recent Order.

The motu proprio just issued by Pope
Plus <. in the interest of uniformity
in the observance of holy days of obi
CATION in the Catholic church applies
chiefly to European countries, and will
not make marked difference in the
number of such days observed in this
country, according to Rev. Bernard
Traudt, Milwaukee, chancellor of the
archdiocese.
lowing to the difference in our con-
ditions here, the number of days of OBJ
legation has long been less in the Unit
ed States than abroad" said Father
Traudt.
The motu proprio gives as the reason
for the action the special circumstances
of the age, saying, Increased COM
merce and the additional demands of
business seem to suffer loss from the
delay caused by frequent feast days."
and also "The daily increasing cost Of
the necessaries of life make it add
tionally desirable that the servile work
of those who gain their living by labor
may not be too often interrupted
Henceforth, according to the motu
proprio, there are to be no weekday
holidays of obligation throughout the
church except those of Christmas day,
the Circumsion, Epiphany, Ascension,
Immaculate Conception Assumption, IS.
Peter and Paul and All Saints, and in
countries where any of these have been
legitimately suppressed or transferred
by ecclesiastical authority, they are to
remain transferred or suppressed until
the Holy See, decides otherwise.
The feasts of patron saints are no
longer holidays of obligation, but per-
mission is given to the ordinaries to
transfer the external solemnity of them
to the following Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
NOTED Av|AT0RS ON THE LIST
Three Events are to be Arranged for
Each Day of the Aviation Meet and
Kenosha is to be Given Sensational
Trials.
- si sszis-a.s.@

Kenosha not TO be outdone by Chi
eago, is to have an aviation meet of
it's own, arrangements having been
completed Wednesday between G. L.
Worthington, manager of the Curtiss
flyers and Milton Kent, secretary
treasurer of the Kenosha Motordrome
company whereby two or perhaps three
Of the famous Curtiss flyers will appear
at the Kenosha Motordrome in series
of fights on Saturday and Sunday, Aug.
rs and 27, coming here direct from the
Chicago meet. The aviators for the
meet will be selected from the follow
ing list of world famous birdmen: Lin
coin Beachey, Eugene Ely, G. G. Wet
NOR, Jimmy Ward, Beckwith Havens,
Earl Ovington, Chas. K. Hamilton,
Hugh Robinson, and will be personally
conducted by G. L. Worthington, who
has had charge of all the large meets
in which the Curtiss flyers have enter
ed. He is Mr.. Curtiss representative
at the Chicago meet, and his presence
here insures the success of the Kenosha
meet.
Mr.. Worthington said, in seeing the
Motordrome track: "This is the finest
field for flying I have seen. Tt is far
ahead Of the Grant Park field in Chi
cago or the Belmont track in New York
and with the possible exception of the
Los Angeles aviation field, which is
little large, it is the greatest in the
country. I am glad that our aviators
will have a chance to show the Kenosha
public what real flying is and how
aviation has been perfected in the last
year. In field like this we can do
stunts that could not be attempted at
Chicago such as passenger carrying for
instance, which would be impossible
at Chicago, owing to the rough
grounds. intend to make the prices
here within the reach of al and in
stead Of charging $1.00. as usual will
make charge of. SOC and an extra
charge Of Zoe for the grand stand and
by the way, the grand stand is perfect
for the meet as it, has no roof and it
might rightfuly be called an aviation
grand stand. am now in communi-
cation with Mr.. Carnes, G.. P. A., of
G. & N. w. R. r., to put on an extra
train on the Harvard branch for the
accommodation of the country people
along that line and expect favorable
reply from him and I really expect to
see more people in Kenosha on that
date than any circus has ever attract
ed. In Lafayette, Ind, on our date
there it was claimed that over $4,000
strangers were in town, in fact the
grounds there were not nearly large
enough for the crowds and hundreds
were turned away and I look for Ke-
nosha to do as well. I expect to stay
here until the meet and do everything
in my power to make the meet a sue
cess and to have the Goth and 9th of
August go down in history as the
greatest day of Kenosha.
In connection with the aviation other
events will be arranged for and viii
be announced later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
FORM EXCLUSIVE CLUB.
sportslnen at Powers Lake Organize
Hickory Club Under State Laws.

Articles of incorporation were filed
with the register Of deeds this morn
ing for the incorporation of the Chick
DRY Club of Powers Lake. The club
is the most exclusive organization in
the county and its membership is limit
ed to ten people. The members must
be elected by threefourths vote of
the present membership. The promo
tiers of the club will eerct a club house
at Powers Lake at once. It is under
stood that the membership will be linn
tied to Chicago people. The erganiza-
ton is incorporated without capital
stock and it is declared that no divi-
dends are to be paid. The incorpora-
tors are Henry Roam, William Gennens
and Fritz Rorck. The first meeting of
the incorporation was held at Powers
Lake on Tuesday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
CUTS THROAT WITH A RAZOR
Husband of Former Kenosha Woman
Finds Her Dead in the Bath Room
of Their Home Heat May Have
Affected Her Mind.

Mrs. Melvina Hills Bookwalter of
Chicago and formerly well known
woman of Kenosha, committed suicide
in Chicago Tuesday afternoon cutting
her throat with a razor. Mrs. Book
walter was found dead in the family
residence at 920 Windsor avenue by her
husband and when the body was found
it was thought that she had been the
victim of sensational murder. Later
letters were found which showed with
ont doubt that the woman had taken
her own life.
Mrs. Bookwalter was 81 years Of
ege and was daughter of the late
Frank G. Hills, formerly one of the best
known residents Of Ker sha. She was
noted for her beauty and was at one
time considered one of the most beau
tiful women in Kenosha. Many years
ago she was married to man by the
name Of Waldron, who was a resident
of New York, but this marriage proved
ar unhappy one and a divorce follow
ed After her divorce Mrs. Book
walter returned to Kenosha where she
resided until she went to Chicago some
nine years ago. A year later she
eloped with Enos Bookwalter to Val
paraiso, Ind.
The Kenosha friends of Mrs. Book
walter supposed that her marriage was
a happy one and after the finding Of
the body her husband declared that he
could give no reason for her actions.
Mrs. Bookwalter had been called up
on the telephone by her husband just
short time before her tragic death
and he had arranged to go with her
to Ravinia Park fol dinner in the af-
ternoon. At this time the wife seemed
to be perfectly rational. She declared
that she was busy writing letters, but
that she would be ready to start for
the park about three O'Clock in the
afternoon. The husband went to the
house just before this time and failing
to find her in any of the living rooms
went to the bath room and found the
body laying on the floor. The razor,
covered with blood, was near the dead
woman S hand.
The inquest was held on Wednesday
afternoon and the evidence brought
cut the fact that Mrs. Bool1walter had
suffered terribly from the heat on Tues
day morning and it is thought that her
mind became affected. The husband
admitted that she had complained of in
tense pains in the head and seemed to
be tightly but he did not have any
reason to suspect that she might at
tempt her life.
Mrs. Bookwalter is survived by her
husband, her mother, Mrs. Ellen Hills,
who is now living in Montana, and three
sisters, Mrs. Robinson of Dallas, Tex;
Mrs. Fenski of Livingston, Montana,
ana Miss Frances Hills of San Francis
CO. The funeral will be held from the
chapel at Graceland cemetery in Chi
cage at two o'clock Saturday afternoon:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
Summary for Steam Laundries.

The preliminary totals for steam
laundries for Kenosha in 1909, are not
included in the foregoing table, as the
thirteenth census was the first at which
they were canvassed, and therefore
they are here given separately, as fol
lows: Number of establishments, A;
capital, $41, 600; cost of materials used,
$4,000; salaries and wages, $4,000;
miscellaneous expenses, $4,000; value Of
products, $4,000; number of sa1aried
officials and clerks, 2; and average num-
Der of wage earners employed during
the year, so.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
NEW BOOKS.
Added to the Gilbert M. Simmons
Library.

Fiction.
Barr-Sheila Vedder.
Bosher-Miss Gibbie Gault.
Crawford Wandering Ghosts.
CurWood- Honor of the Big Shows.
Dillon--Miss Livingston S Companion.
Fuller-Later Pratt Portraits.
Hall-To Love and to Cherish.
Harland--Grey Roses.
Hornung-Camera Fiend.
MacNaughtan-
Willianlson-Golden Silence.
Non Fiction.
Bennett-Human Machine.
observation-disclosures and Discussions
Observation-Disclosures of a Music
Lover.
Dillon-Porcelain and How to Col
1ect It.
Ely-Practical Flower Garden.
Grihis China s Story in Myth
Legend Art and Annals.
Hart Obvious Orient.
Henderson-Some F'orerunners of the
italian Opera.
Howe-At Sunset.
Larned-Study of Greatness in Men.
Osborne-Family House.
stowe--Life of Harriet B. Stowe.
Taber-Garden Primer.
White-The Cabin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
GRADE rRorrrp

Formerly owned by Ed. G. Shepard
of Kenosha, now the property of A.
f. Mcneil Of South Bristol, Kenosha,
Co., Wis. Carver will make the sea
son at the stables on the Barker Pic
kens farm in South Bristol. Registered
No. 1914. Terms: SO TO insure live
soal. wifi
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
First publication July II, 1911.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In probate
N In the matter of the estate of Lizzie
De Croft, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de-
mands of all persons against Lizzie De Croft,
deceased, late of the city of Kenosha
in said county of Kenosha, will be examined
and adjusted by the county court of Kenosha
county at the regular terms of said court to be
holden at the county court room, in the city
Of Kenosha, in and for said county on the first
Tuesday of October A. ID. 1911, and on The
first Tuesday of March A. D. 1912, at ten
O'Clock a. Ii. of those days; also that the time
until and including the first Tuesday of Febru-
airy, A. D. 1912, is the time allowed ana limited
to present their claims for examination and ale
lowance.
Dated at Kenosha the goth day of July.
A. D. 1911. By the Court
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Wit County Judge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
First publication June II 1911.
NOTICE To CREDITORS

HENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate.
IN In the matter of the estate of Henry Bose,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de-
mands of all persons against Henry Bose, de-
ceased, late of the town of Somers, in said
county of Kenosha, will be examined and adjust
ed by the County Court of Kenosha County at
the regular terms Of said Court to be holden at
the County Court Room, in the city of Kenosha,
in and for said county, on the first Tuesday of
October, A. d. 1911, and on the first Tuesday
of March, A. D. 1912, at ten o'clock A. M. of
those days; also that the time until aud including
the first Tuesday of February, A. D. 1912, is the
time allowed and limited for creditors of said
Henry Bose deceased, to present their claims
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the Doth day of July, A. D..
1911. By the Court.
GEO. w. TAYLOR,
viii County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
First publication July II, 1911.
NOTICE To cpE0TTo1c

HENQSHA COUNTY. CoURT-Iu Probate
N In the matter of the last will aud
testament of James n. Wilson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims auS.
demands OF all persons against James Il
Wilson, deceased, late of the city of Keno.
sha, in said county of Kenosha, will he
examined and adjusted by the County Court
OF kenosha County at the regular terms OF said
Court to be holden at the County Court room.
in the City of kenosha, in and for said County
on the first Tuesday of September A. D. 1911.
and the first Tuesday of March A. ID
1912, at ten o'clock A. NJ. of those days: also
that the time until and including the first
Tuesday of February, A. D. 1912, is the time al.
lowed and limited for creditors of said James
Il. Wilson, deceased. to present their claims
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Keuosha, the 18th day of July
A. d. 1911.
BY the Court.
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
VII County Judge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
BUILDING MATERIALS.

The Dunnebacke company, corner
of Market and West Main streets han
die building materials such as brick.
lime, cement, hair, plaster and all sizes
Of farm drain tile, sewer pipe and con
nections, also sand and gravel. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
LEGAL NOTICES
First publication August 10, 1911.
SUMMONS

First publication August 10, 1911.
SUMMONS
CTATE OF WISCoNSIN-ln Municipal Court
y of Kenosha County.
Caroline Haestrup, Plaintiff, VS.. William c.
Haestrup, Defendant.
The State of Wisconsin to the said Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons, exclu-
sive of the day of service, and defend the above
entitled action in the court aforesad and in case
dered against you according to the demand of
the compliant, of which copy is herewith
served npon you.
FISHER 81 FISHER,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. Q. Address, 2l2 Market street Kenosha,
Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Wi
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR
FARM-WE CAN DO 1T.

Farms bought, sold or exchanged.
Rice & Thompson, -. .-~------
Kenosha, Wis. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17

Presto Lite Gas Tanks-Recnarges
always on hand. 1926 for size B. C.
E. Dewey. 254 Main street If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17

See the removal sale ad Of the kim
ball Piano Col awa31