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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
MOTHER SECURES RELEASE.
Mrs. Alexander Comes From Blooming
ton and VIII Settle Troubles of Son.

Walter A. Alexander, former real
estate man, who was held in the
county Jail here serving an indefinite
term on account of his failure to pay
"a board bill at one of the local hotels,
was released on Sunday thanks to the
ministrations of his mother who came
to Kenosha from Bloomington, Ill. She
held long conference with Judge
Randall and gave assurance that the
claims against her son would be paid
and after this assurance had been Civ
en- the judge consented to the release
of Alexander and he returned to Bloom
ington with his mother. The mother
claimed that she had just learned the
fact that her son had been arrested
and that she came Immediately to Sc
cure his release. It is probable that
some plan will be reached by which
all the claims against Alexander in
Kenosha will be paid in full.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
GOV. M'G0vERN INTERESTED
Many Prominent Men of Kenosha
Named as Stockholders of the New
Banking Company and the Directors
VIII be Chosen Later.
(From Monday S Daily

One of the most important financial
movements in years in Kenosha took
place this afternoon when a meeting
of leading men Of the city and state
was held at the Merchants and Savings
Bank at which time the banking com
pany was recognized. The new list
of stockholders from which the new
board of directors will be chosen in
cludes Henry B. Robinson, Governor
Francis E. McGovern, of Madison;
Harold W. Jeffrey, W. w. Vincent,
Maurice Funck, Charles Fl. Conner
mann, Fred Larsen, M. Werve, Walter
J. Frost, Christ Petersen, Clarence E.
Remer, N. A. Rowe and Joseph Funck.
No change will be made in the CAPT
tai stock of the bank at this time
and the stock which was recently in
creased to 100000 will be taken up
by the new stockholders. Governor
McGovern arrived in the city at noon
and at once went to the bank to at
tend the conference leading to the re-
organization. He was jointed later by
the prominent men who have decided
to take an interest in the institution.
The officers of the bank will be
Henry Is. Robinson, president; Harold
W. Jefery, vice president; N. A. Rowe,
cashier and Joseph Funck, assistant
cashier. The list of directors will be
elected at meeting of the stockhold-
ers to be held later in the month.
The change in the corporation will
make no change in the conduct of the
bank and the business will be continu-
ed as in the past. Recent growth Of
the bank has attracted to the institu-
tion many men of capital and influence
in the city and state and these men
have sought to secure the stock in the
bank with view of giving it q wider
influence and larger financial backing.
During the present summer the home
Of the bank has been rebuilt and when
the work is completed it will be one
of the best equipped banking houses
in the state. Formal announcement of
the change in the bank will be made
within a few days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
ARGUMENT is ADJOURNED.
Attorneys to Argue Telephone Case
Before Supreme Court Later.

City Attorney Calvin Stewart has
completed his brief on the fight be-
tween the city and the Kenosha Home
Telephone Company and it was served
on the attorneys for the company to-
day. However, the argument of the
case viii not take place until later in
the year. It was scheduled to be tax
en- up by the supreme court on Friday
of last week but by stipulation of the
attornies it was laid over until later.
The brief states fully the contention
of the city in regard to the demand
for free phones which was turned down
in the circuit court and it is expected
that the case will be bitterly contested
when it is heard by the supreme
court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
OPEN AIR SCHOOL BENEFIT.

A benefit matinee for the open air
school win be given at the Coliseum
on Saturday p. M, Oct. IA, beginning
at O'Clock. Tt is necessary that
warmer coats for the children of the
open air school be gotten ready as
soon as possible, now that the cold
weather is approaching. The sitting
out bags made last spring by the ladies
of the various church organizations
Will still be used; but coat through
which the cold cannot penetrate is
needed. In the Chicago schools an
Eskimo suit made of heavy wool blan-
ket is used. II is believed that hood
cd coat of this sort put on over the
other clothes and supplemented by a
pair of the feece-lined gloves already
supplied viii keep the children warm
in cold weather.
The raising of fund for this pur-
pose is made possible through the gem
erous offer of Mr.. Morgan, who has
planned the matinee for Saturday af-
ternoon. The program will consist of
two parts, one part to be furnished by
the stock company who give their
services free on this occasion, and a
second part to consist of moving piet-
ures. Literary and historical subjects
viii be presented in the pictures as
well as one or two familiar stories es-
pecially adapted to the small children.
The school children will have charge
of the ticket sale, the admission being
5 cents for grade children and 10 cents
for high school students, parents and
others. 1t is hoped that the entertain
ment will receive a liberal patronage.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
Milwaukee Officials Fin d
That Electric Currents Will
Purify Waters of Lake
MEANS MUCH TO LARGER CITIES

Experiments are being made in Mil
waukee at the present time and are
proving so satisfactory that they are
of more than ordinary interest to Ke-
nosha and other cities bordering on
Lake Michigan.
Ii the plan works out as successfully
as experts believe that it will it will
mean that one Of the greatest prob
lemst that now confronts Kenosha and
scores of other cities will be solved
the problem of sewage disposal.
Ii theories on which they are work
ing prove anywhere near as success
full in practice as in contemplation,
there need not be necessarily issued
that federal government edict, fire.
quently discussed as remote sanitary
necessity, forbidding all cities and
towns from dumping their sewage into
the lake, and compelling them to pro
vide other methods of sewage disposal.
The plan in short is to have electri-
city purify the water as it is drawn
from the lake. Experts hold that in
tests which have been made it has
shown that water which has been
electrically treated was absolutely free
from any deleterious material
The cost of this treatment of the
water is said to be quite small in com
parison to some of the other methods
in use. 1t is said that it would cost
but fraction of the cost of filter beds
or the expense of installing sewage
system which would not carry the sew
age into the lake.
If water from the lake could be puri-
fed in this manner and at compare
lively small cost it would not make so
much difference about the pollution of
the lake, it is pointed out, as the
water that was drawn into the mains
would be purified in satisfactory
manner
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12

Kenosha has had one experience
with a competing telephone system
and it will take mighty good argu-
ments to make the people of the city
receive the idea Of another competing
line in Kenosha with any great enthu-
siasm. The two telephone system was
an unmitigated nuisance to the bust
ness and professional men Of the city
and to telephone subscribers generally
and the temporary lower rate enjoyed
by the telephone subscribers who were
not forced to maintain both phones
while the fight for business was on
between the competing companies has
been more than discounted since by the
raise Of fifty per cent in rates which
followed the absorption of one OF the
companies. It is Of course the conten-
ton Of the managers of the company
now in possession of this field that
the raise in rates following the con-
solidation of the companies was and is
justified by the expensive equipment
installed and the better service given
and while this may have been true to
a certain extent for a period immedi-
ately following the consolidation of
the companies it is not true now and
many Of the telephone subscribers be-
leve that they are still paying the
expenses of the fight between the con
peting companies for the business of
the city in the higher rates. The auto
matte telephone system which is said
to be seeking an entrance into Keno
sha has distinct advantages over the
present system in the elimination of
most Of the troubles with Central
but it will be a question with most of
the telephone subscribers Of the city
whether the advantage offered by the
new company viii outweigh the nui-
sance of a double system. 1t this city
had not had one experience with com
petition in this branch of public serv-
ice the proposition of the new com
pany would probably be received with
enthusiasm, but the telephone users
are apt now to adopt the "show me-
attitude and refuse to commit them
selves until they know a great deal
more about the new system than they
do at present.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
DEATH OF MRS. cHAs Mce1vERN

Mrs. Elizabeth Weller McGivern,
wife of Charles MeGivern and well
known matron Of the city, died at an
early hour this morning at the home
of her mother, All Durkee avenue, af-
ter long illness from q complication
of diseases. Mrs. McGivern was a
native of Prussia where she was born
Nov. 5, 1867. She had resided in Ke-
nosha for many years and had a large
circle of friends to whom the announce
meut of her death will come as a per-
sonal sorrow Mrs. McGivern is sur
vived by her husband, her mother and
five sisters, Mrs. William Donley, Mrs.
John Cornwall, Mrs. H. H. Siggafoos,
Mrs. O. G. Martin and Miss Mamie
Weller
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
State University WillSupply
Anti Typhoid Vaccine to
Cities of the State Free
PHYSICIANS AS DISTRIBUTORS

Anti-typhoid vaccine will be supplied
to Wisconsin physicians free of charge
by the state hygienic laboratory at the
University Of Wisconsin beginning De-
cernber l, according to the announce
ment just made by DR.. FL. P. Ravenal,
head Of the department. of bacteriology
at the state university and director of
the laboratory,
When the vaccine is ready for distri-
button at that time full directions for
it's use will be issued, the only condi-
tions being that the requests must
come from registered physicians in
Wisconsin, and that such physicians
agree to make report of the results
to the laboratory
TO prevent the spread of typhoid it
is recommended that where one case of
| typhoid fever occurs in a family, the
other members be vaccinated prompt
". In the distribution of the vaccine
the authorities of the hygienic labora
tory desire to secure the cooperation
of physicians generally, and with that
end in view are requesting that sug-
gestions be made by practicing physi-
clans before the distribution begins,
| December l.
The decision of the director Of the
hygienic laboratory, to furnish anti
typhoid vaccine grows out of the sue
cess which has attended its use in the
United States army where the results
have been so striking that the secre-
tary Of war, acting on the advice of
the surgeon general has made anti
typhoid vaccination compulsory for all
officers and enlisted men under 45
years Of age. Before it was made COM
pulsory, 1900 officers and enlisted
men had been vaccinated voluntarily.
During the recent mobilization Of
troops in Texas, when the men were in
camp for more than two months, under
war conditions, only one case of
typhoid resulted, that of teamster
who had not been vaccinated. This
was in striking contrast to the Spanish
American war when within period of
three and one-half months there were
20,068 eases with 1880 deaths.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
BITTEN BY A DOG.


Roger Wickstrand of Kenosha Heights
Attacked by Deg on Sunday.
Roger Wickstrand, aged years, son
eff Carl Wickstrand of Kenosha Heights
was bitten by a dog on Sunday after
noon and badly injured, The boy was
running along the street when the dog
attacked him and planted his teeth in
the flesh of the boy in several places.
DIR. Munro was called to attend the
boy and cauterized the wound and lat
er he was taken to an institute for
treatment. The dog was captured and
has been tied up for observation. It
is claimed that a number of the dogs
in Kenosha Heights have shown signs
of rabies and they are being closely
watched.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12

We are the only exclusive piano
store in the city. The only place you
can buy a piano direct from factory to
home, thereby saving agents and mid
clemens profits. Kimball is the pref
erence of every artist of note today.
They are used in all great musical col
leges and converts, because of their
mechanical construction and tone
quality. VIII last life time. They
are in the homes of over two hundred
and thirty thousand satisfied customers.
Sold at a one fixed price. Easy pay
ments. Kimball Piano Store, $50 Park
st. Phone 24S. John McKune, factory
representative, Kenosha, Wis. #o9-12-14
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
HARD FOR FREEDOM
Woman is Released but Two Recruits
from the Naval Training Station
Arrested With Her Go to Jail for
Twenty Days.

Mrs. Jennie Charles, Zion City
woman, thirty years Of age and de-
cidedly pretty spent Saturday and Sun
day nights in the county Jail after she
had taken part in a sensational attack
on Chief Of Police Owen O'Eare i'll a
Main street saloon Accompanied by a
boy four years old the woman had
come to Kenosha Oh Saturday afternoon
and Saturday she met two of the re-
cruits from the Naval Training School
at Lake Bluff Dragging the little boy
by the hand the woman and the two
recruits went into Main street sa
loon and here they were found by
Chief O'Hare just after nine O'Clock
Saturday night. When the chief went
to arrest the trio the woman showed
fight. She struck out with left and
right landing on the chief s face and
leaving mark under one of his eyes.
Then the chief was forced to use force
and he took the woman to the county
Jail In the meantime the little boy
who cried as if his heart would break
was kept at the police station until
his father came up from Zion City.
The woman when arrigned before
Judge Randall this morning was deeply
penitent. She admitted that she was
intoxicated but insisted that this was
the first time in her life that she had
been in such condition. She apologize
ed profusely to Chief O'Hare for hav
ing struck him and she declared to
the court that if released she would
make good wife and mother and for
ever keep away from the use of in
toxicants.
Under such a promise the court told
her to go home and she left the court
in company with her husband and the
little boy The husband declared that
he was willing to take his wife home
again and would seek to reform her.
The two recruits did not fare so
well. They gave their names as Harry
Blanchard and George 7. Bohart.
Blanchard at first declared willing
ness to fight the charges against him,
but later he changed his plea to guilty
and was fined SIS and costs. The same
fine was assessed against the other
representative Of the navy. Judge
Randall gave the two a severe lecture
and remanded them to Jail for nom
payment Of the fines. He promised to
go farther and take up the matter with
the conmandant at the Naval Training
Station and Let the government officials
understand that these men are not
wanted IN Kenosha. Commander Ross
in charge of the Naval Training Sta
tion has had some correspondence with
Chief 0'Hare and it is thought that
before another week the commandment
will issue an order which will keep
the recruits out Of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
The FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY
Firemen Manage to Extinguish Them
After the Loss of $1,000 and Fire
Chief Demands the Fullest Investi-
cation of Origin of the Fire

As q result of a mysterious fire
which Quilted the old Jensen building
at the corner of Milwaukee avenue
and Orange street just before four
o clock Friday afternoon B. Down
aroWloz, photographer and PetV
Iiecosky, carpenter, are locked up
awaiting an investigation into the fire
by the state fire marshal and the local
police department. The conditions
surrounding the blaze which destroyed
the old landmark of Milwaukee aven-
ue, are decidedly suspicious to say the
least and Chief Isermann, Chief
0 Hare and the other city and county
officials will demand that the fullest
investigation of the facts in the case
be made. The fire broke out in the
dark room of the photograph galley
and was discovered by Frank Scholey
and the carpenter. Scholey had work
ed as an assistant in the photograph
gallery and the carpenter had been
using a part of the building for a
shop. Tue flames seemed to break out
in all parts of the building at once
and Notwithstanding the fact that the
place was within stone throw of
the north side fire station the iremen
were unable to get the fire under con-
troll until after a loss Of nearly a
thousand dollars had resulted. The
photographer had insurance to the
amount of 800 on his property in the
place and the loss OH the building is
thought to be fully covered.
Downrowicz came to Kenosha from
Chicago about three months ago and
| it is alleged that he purchased his
stock for cost Of $3.50. He had been
in business since that time and the of
fcials claim that the business had not
been a paying venture. Downrowicz
had left the place five minutes before
the fire broke out and when police
UnlC6I uul1lSu W ASdAOy oalOOl f1hu
notified him that the gallery was in
flames he showed little or no interest
in the matter and declared that he
would not go out of his way to save it.
The fire broke out in the dark room
and while there was no odor of kere-
scene or other imfammable materials
the firemen declare that it would have
been impossible for the fire to spread
so rapidly without it having been de-
liberately started. Scholey declared
that the first he and his companion
know of the fire the entire interior of
the building seemed to be in flames.
After the men had been taken into
custody they declined to make any
statement in regard to the fire. The
chief of the department. declared that
no action to give the men a hearing
would be taken today, but that he
would insist on the fullest investiga-
| ton.
The building destroyed was one of
the first buildings on Milwaukee aven-
ne and it had been rebuilt several
times. Up to the time it was rented
as a photograph gallery it had been
used as store by the owner. It is
probable that the building will be re-
placed by modern store building.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
REPAIRING FOR 1912 WORK.
Highway Commission to Make Early
Start on State Aid for Highways

With returns in from all county
clerks, it is assumed that there will
be constructed next year under the
new state aid law, about 100000
worth of permanent roads and bridges.
This work will be done in IS of the
II counties in the state, only six
counties having failed to make any
provision for state aid work.
The State Highway Commission has
decided to make surveys and plans for
all road and bridge work done under
the new law, free Of cost to the towns
or counties if the forces at it's COM
mand will allow doing so.
The commission realizes the immen-
sity of the task confronting it and in
order that there may be as little de-
lay as possible in starting construc-
ton next spring, it wishes to make as
many road surveys and bridge inspec-
lions this fall as can be arranged for.
Those towns and counties which
have decided where their state aid
roads or bridges are to be built in
1912 should apply Immediately to the
highway commission for their surveys.
In this event plans can be completed
during the winter and contracts or
other arrangements made so that work
may be started as soon as spring opens
up. Blank applications for road sur.
veys or bridge inspection may be OBJ
tanned by writing the Wisconsin High
way Commission at Madison.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
Pots and Kettles.

/ saw friend impatiently cleaning
bean pot. I SAID to her: Fill that
with cold water; put in a teaspoonfui
of baking soda; cover and set In the
oven. When 1t has boiled half an hour
it will be as easy to wash as a coffee
cup" Clean fish and meat roasting
pans in the same way.-Good House
keeping.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
CARVER GRADE TRoTTER.

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. 1874. Terms: $40 to insure a live
foal. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12

Among the guests at an Indian
dance were Mr.. and Mrs. Walsingham
Kick-a-h ole-in-the-T epee, Misses Gwen
doyn and Cleopatra Buffalo-Fat, Miss
Hayzelle Saw-the-B Bear o-Into-a-Hole
and her brother, Algernon, and Char
ley Fell-Off-the- Bridge, and his sisters,
Claudia and Observation-Disclosures
Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-12
LAW OPENS WAY FOR ACTION
Chairman Miles of Racine Plans to
Come to Kenosha and Lay the Mat
ter of These Schools Before the
People of the City.

Local employers Of labor and many
iaboring men of the city have received
letters from the Wisconsin State In
dustrial Commission calling their at
tention to the new state law providing
for the establishment Of industrial or
trade schools under state aid and it
is probable that a demand will be
mace upon the board of education at
an early date asking that some steps
Kenosha. For some time the members
of the school board have had this mat
ter under consideration and the mat
ter is now being taken up with the
managers of big factories in the city
with view Of ha-ing the factories
aid in the practical instruction of the
young men Of the city. FL. 2. Miles Of
Racine, chairman of the industrial com
mission, is planning to come to Keno
sha in a short time and lay the mat
ter formally before the members of
The board Of education aud interested
citizens and he feels that Kenosha
will be one Of the first cities in the
state to seek state aid for the educa-
tion of the boys in useful crafts.
Here are a few of the provisions
and requirements of the industrial ed
ucation law:
The petitions of twenty-five freehold
ers to the board of education makes
it mandatory for that body to estab-
fish an industrial education commits
sion.
This commission shall be composed
of two employers of labor, two en-
ployes and the superintendent of
schools
The commission shall have charge
Of all trade schools, night schools, con
tinuation schools and commercial
schools publicly conducted.
Children between the ages of four
teen and sixteen years not attending
other schools must attend the indus
trial school at least six hours each
week, the time to be divided between
not les sthan two periods.
Attendance of older people is OPP
tional
Eemployers are bound to give their
employees the required time for indus
trial school attedance, without loss
of wages for the time so spent.
For the maintenance of such schools
the state will appropriate $4,000 for
each community, but not more than
$4,000 for any one school and not
more than one-half Of what the city
anpropriates for the purpose stated,
provided that no community shall be
required to levy for industrial eduea-
ton tax of more than one-half of
one mill.
General direction Of the industrial
education movement under the new
iaw throughout the state is given to a
commission composed of three employ
ers of labor three employees, the dean
of The Wisconsin college of engineer
ing, the state superintendent of schools
and superintendent to be elected by
the commission.
Local officials shall serve without
monetary remuneration.