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The daily sentinel., 1912-04-12

PRUE BRED W. oRPINGToN and
W. Leghorn eggs. 122 Chfpeta ave.
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FOR RENT-5-room house. Call AZ
$50 Teller. or phone Hickory 6s2
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FOR RENT, A. or 5-rooms fur
nished, close in. Heflin Bros, G.
| V. Bank building.
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FOR Boarding house; we'll
located on Main street. E. n.
Case. 125 South Sixth street.
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FOR RENT-Two houses near Sew
enth and South; in fair condition.
Special rates for lease until Sep
tember l. Home Loan & Invest
ment Co. 537 Main street.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-12

FOR RENT-The Elmo boarding and
rooming house. Phone Junct. 60.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-12

FOR RENT-Small furnished house
sleeping porch. 202 Chipeta.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-12

FOR RENT-Lunch car. Fourth and
Main. Call 322 South Second St
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
CHOP DOWN SIGNS
Rain Stops Fire, but Foes of
Voliva at Zion City Use
Axes Saturday Night.
VOLIVA PROMISES new FIGHT

The drenching rain of Saturday
night was welcomed by the Voliva
forces at Zion City as sure inter-
ruption to the weekly sign burning
program carried on recently by the
independent faction which refuses to
bow to Voliva s anti-tobacco order.
The rain did stop the burning of the
signs on which the Zion City overseer
has had painted denunciations of the
tobacco skunks and stinkpots. -
But it did not stay the ardor of the
Independents. They just marched out
in mackintoshes, carrying axes, and
chopped down two of the more OBJ
noxious billboards, leaving nothing
but the stumps and two piles of kind
ling wood. They marched on a third
and daubed it with black paint.
The forces of Zion blinked as they
ed the wind had blown the remarks
about the tobacco skunks into the
lake. Closer examination showed that
not even the elements would stop the
onslaught Of the enemy So Overseer
Voliva announced new program.
81 shall construct fifty steel signs, y
he said, impressively. FTime, nor fire,
nor food shall destroy them. AS for
these skunks who abuse me, I shall
notify them that my signs are to be
guarded, and assailants may carry
buckshot away with them. That is
what they deserve"
Aside from the sign near Zion home,
the overseer showed the greatest re-
greet over the demolition of the veter-
an of all the signs, standing near the
depot and warning all newcomers that
in Zion City there should be mo to-
bacco, no whiskey, no beer, no thea
tiers, no dances, no drugs, no pork, no
oysters. "
The third sign, commenting vividly
on the low down nature of any one
who would use tobacco in Zion, stood
facing the office of William Fabry. an
independent lawyer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
WANT STREET PAVED.
People in Newly Annexed Territory
Seek improvements Early.

Ropeville, the new subdivision
recently annexed to the city, promises
to be progressive section of the city
and with the building of sewer on
its principal street, Racine avenue, the
people in that part of the city are
planning to send a petition to the coun-
ell asking for street paving. They ask
that Racine avenue be improved by
brick pavement from the north limits
Of the city to Division street. In adj
dition to this petition is being cir
culated for the paving Of Division
street from Milwaukee avenue to the
corner of Racine avenue. This would
make brick pavement all the way to
the limits of the new subdivision. The
sewer on Racine avenue is just being
put in and the property owners on the
avenue hope that the paving will be
ordered by the council so that the work
can be completed this year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
NAME DoNLEY SECRETARY.
Kenosha Man an oficial of Wisconsin
Club of Northern California.

Wisconsin men in California have
Joined in the big movement to boom the
Panama Exposition 20 be held in San
Francisco in 1915, and on Saturday
evening large number of former Wis
consin men met at Berkeley and organ
lied the Wisconsin Club of Northern
California. David S. Rose, formerly
mayor of Milwaukee, was elected presi-
dent of the organization, and Roy L..
Donley, of Knosha, Has elected sec
rotary. Senator Robert NJ LaFollette
was named as a nhonorary member of
the club. A committee was named to
appeal to the legislature of Wisconsin
to participate in the big exposition and
in addition, Secretary Donley is plan
ming to send letters to all the leading
industrial plants of the state asking.
that they take part in the exhibits at
the exposition. Twenty seven states
have already started plans for build
ings at the exposition and their com
mittees are now selecting sites. It is
thought certain that Wisconsin will be
represented and the new organization
of Wisconsin men in California hope
to make the exhibit of this state one
of the best from any state in the
Union.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
PAY TRIBUTE TO WOMANHOOD
The Rev. Peter Stair and the Rev. E. T.
Farrill Are Speakers at Observance of
Annual Anniversary in Kenosha.
Many Wear Carnations Sunday.

The Congregational and Methodist
people met last evening in most hap
Ply fellowship, observing together the
anniversary of Mothers Day. Rev.
Peter Stair, pastor of the Methodist
church, and Rev. Edgar Farrill, pas
tor of the Congregational church both
gave short addresses; the former
emphasizing the value Of human af-
fections, particularly that Of love
which is the queen of them all, and
showing how this queenly affection
finds it most splendid, most powerful
and most enduring expression in the
life Of mother.
Mr.. Farrill based his remarks on the
Old Testament tragic story of Rizpah,
the Mother of Sorrows of the Old
Testament as Mary the Mother Of
Jesus is the Mother of Sorrows of
the New Testament. The speaker
strongly urged the need of the boys
ard the girls today of the very best
of mothering possible for motherhood
to give, and made a very earnest
appeal to the womanhood and the
motherhood of Kenosha to answer eff
fectively this crying need Of the hour,
and to make the most of the greatest
power offered by the twentieth cent
ury home, when rightly ordered, as
Heavens ordained agency to save the
youth to the realization of the best
there is in them.
The music was especially effective
as it was made up Of selections ar
ranged for Mothers Day. These Sc
lections were rendered by the male
quartette of the Methodist church and
by Miss Harriet Lewis and E. E. Ell
kerton, representing the choir of the
Congregational church.
Taken altogether the service was
one of far more than ordinary interest
and at times was deeply impressive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
ORDERS RECEIVED BY sEALER.
Amended Weights and Measures Law
Now in Force

Now that the amended weights and
measures law has gone into effect,
Dairy and Pure Food Commissioners
j. @. Emery is determined upon its
strict enforcement and has sent in
structions to all his field men to look
closely to that end.
City Sealer Felix G. Mayer has re-
ceived notice also from Madison call
ing attention to the special amend
ments made by the legislature at the
special session relating to the sale Of
berries in short measure boxes.
Berries in less than one bushel guam
titles must be sold by the. standard
quart, pint end half pint, dry meas
nre. If any boxes are found to be be-
low the required measurement pre-
scribed by the law, the exact hold
ing quantity of the box will hereaf-
ter have to be stamped on its exterior
and to this end sealers of weights and
measures have been notified that the
law must be strictly enforced. Ber-
ries may also be net avoirdupois
weight if in other than standard
containers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
HAD DESPERATE BATTLE.
One Man in Hospital and Another in
Jail as Result Of Fight.

One Man in Hospital and Another in
Jail as Result Of Fight.
One man is in the hospital and an
other in jail as the result of fight
at the corner of Pearl and Market
street on Sunday afternoon. The man
in the hospital is Peter Kotewski, 613
Grover street and he is suffering from
a terribly gashed face. His right
cheek is laid open and a portion of his
nose is severed. The other man is
Louis Fartzeno, an Italian, and he
has a great wound in the head caused
by being struck by a stone. The fight
is said to have started In a saloon on
Vest Market street and when the
men were arrested by Assistant Chief
of Police Newhouse both of them were
bleeding profusely. DIR. Thompson is
i'll charge of both the men and it is
expected that they viii be able to
be in the municipal court late this af-
ternoon at which time they will be
arraigned for breaking the city ordi-
nances.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
PETITIONS SEND TO COUNCIL
Ready to Ask the Council TO Order the
Demolishing of Barn on Grand Ave
nue. and House on Ashland Avenue.
Thirty Old Places on City List.

Demand has been made upon the
chief OF the fire department and the
members of the common council for
the enforcement of the ordinance re-
Gently enacted in the city providing
for the destruction of old and I'M
slightly buildings and two petitions
demanding action along these lines
have been fled with Alderman James
tilbin, chairman of the Ecommittee on
buildings of the council. The first
demands the tearing down of an old
house owned by James johnson and
located on Ashland avenue just north
OF julius street. The second calls for
the tearing down of barn on Grand
avenue just opposite the Balm school,
Both of these buildings are in a bad
state of decay and the owners of
them have refused to either build or
remove them. Chief Isermann of the
ire department has made an examina-
ton OF both of the buildings and has
declared them to be menace to other
buildings in the neighborhood. The
Ashland avenue house is said to be a
resort for Migrants and several com
plants have been lodged against it by
the people residing in the neighbor-
hood.
This is the first time that an effort
has been made to enforce the ordi-
nance and the action of the council
will De watched with good deal of
interest by people interested in the
razing of other old buildings in the
city. It is expected that the owner
of one Of the, buildings put under the
ban by the committee will contest Che
right OF the city to demolish it and
this will make possible formal test
of the ordinance in the courts.
The ordinance was drawn by from
Ter City Attorney Calvin Stewart and
he declared that there was no doubt
but that the ordinance will stand the
test of the courts. More than twenty
old buildings located in the down town
districts have been listed for removal
by the chief of the fire department and
the committee of the council. Some Of
these have already been condemned
by members of the staff of the state
fire marshal, but it will be necessary
for the council to take formal action
to condemn them before they may be
demolished under the ordinance.
Notices have been served on many
Of the owners of these buildings by
the state and most Of these people
have paid no attention to the notices
and have declared that they will con-
test the right of the city or the state
to tear down these buildings. The
buildings condemned by the state were
declared to be fire menace to other
property in the districts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
NEW OFFICE OPENED
City Sealer Mayer Starts
Working Testing Meas
ures and Balances.
TO GIVE WORK ENTIRE TIME

City Sealer Of Weights and Meas
ures Felix G. Mayer, began the formal
duties of his new Office this morning
and the office is located on the. first
floor OF. the city hall just north of the
Offices Of the city engineer and the
water department The committee on
buildings has equipped the Office with
furniture and the equipment recently
purchased by the city has been install
ed and is ready for use. The equip
ment has all been tested by the state
officials and has been stamped as
g standard The first field work was
started by Sealer Mayer this after
noon and he plans to give quite a lit
tie of his time to this kind of work
He will make personal visits to all the
places of business in the city where
weights and measures are in use and
will make a personal test of all
scales. Such as are found to be cor
rect will be sealed with the city seal
and the men who used them will be
thus far immune from prosecution.
Scales failing to meet the require
ments of the department must be dis
carded and under the law the sealer
has the right to confscate false
weights and measures and destroy
them. The Kenosha official does not
intend to start any big crusade at this
time, but he hopes to be able to be
helpful to the merchants as well as
to the people of the city, After the
first trip Of inspection the sealer will
not give merchants any further warn
ing and any one found guilty of using
a false balance or an Illegal measure
will be promptly arrested and prose
cuted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
CLERK MUST GIVE HIS TIME
Supervisor Holds That Examination of
Schedules as Member of Board of Re-
view Must Be Attended by Clerk
Himself-seef More Dope

IS. K. KEENAN, of Milwaukee, the
real "pooh bak'' of the income tax
legislation in the state who bears the
title of supervisor of income taxation,
was in Kenosha on Friday afternoon
making the first investigation of the
schedules returned in this county. Mr..
hennan is a member of the Wisconsin
State Tax Commission and he is giving
his entire time to looking after the
schedules of incomes filed in the vari-
GUS counties of the state. His visit
to Kenosha on Friday was of a pre-
liminary nature and he was long in
conference with Assessor of Incomes
Joseph E. Dalton and mapped out for
him and the board OF review the course
that is to be taken to force the men
who have failed to respond to the call
for schedules to make proper returns
to the officials. In short time a let
ter will be sent out to all delinquents
and from the examination of the
schedules there will be close to thous-
and of them in the county.
Supervisor KEENAN, admits that the
income tax legislation is not popular
In fact his statement shows that it is
about the most unpopular piece of leg
islation ever passed in the state. He
admitted that he had been called up
on to answer 10000 letters in the past
two months and that a lot of these
letters were of sassy nature. He
is of the opinion that further light is
needed on income tax matters in the
state and in August he will fly away
to Germany to make further study
of the methods employed in that ma
ton in the enforcement Of the Ger
man laws
Mr.. KEENAN, stated that no action
had as yet been taken for the ap-
pointment Of the Kenosha County
Board Of Review or the boards in other
counties. He held that the trouble
was that the applications being receiv-
ed were not from people who were suit
ed for the positions. Two applications
have gone to the tax commission from
this county, but the names of the ap-
nj +c
Supervisor KEENAN, insisted that the
county clerk must be clerk of the
board Of review and must give his per-
sonal service to this work. He held
that the work must be Of highly
confidential nature and that for this
reason it would not be fair to permit
the clerk to name deputy for the
work
Supervisor KEENAN, had no new ar
guments in support of the income tax
legislature and he admitted with his
chief, Mr.. Haugen, that the state had
things yet to learn in the income tax
line. He stated, however that the as
SCISSORS of income in the various parts
of the state were doing good work in
their efforts to enforce the law and
seemed to be well satisfied with the
work that has been done by Joseph E.
Dalton, the assessor for Kenosha
county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
CONDITIONS EXCITE COMMENT
We'll Known Swedish Resident Goes to
New Richmond for Treatment for
Rheumatism and Dies Under Strange
Circums 5alces on Homeward Trip.

Eluf HORT, aged Al years and wide
ly known among the Swedish people of
KenOsha, died at the county hospital
in Milwaukee on Sunday under cir
cumstances that have caused the police
of Milwaukee and Kenosha to make
q most determined examination into
the case HORT was found wandering
aimlessly about the streets of Cudahy
on Friday and taken TO the hospital.
From letters found in his pockets his
identity was discovered and his wife
who resides on South Park avenue
was called to the Milwaukee hospital
on Saturday afternoon but at that
time the husband was unconscious
and could give no connected story of
the circumstances which led to his be-
ing found at Cudahy.
Mr.. HORT was a man of excellent
reputation and he had been employed
for long time by the Kenosha Gene
terry Association. For some time he
had been suffering from infammatory
rheumatism. Two weeks ago he went
to New Richmond, Wis, to consult a
specialist there and on Friday his wife
received telegram asking her to meet
him at Waukesha. Mrs. Hort went
to meet her husband but found no
trace Of him. Later it was learned
that he had registered for treatment
at the Grandview Sanitarium at Wau-
kesha, but had left there for his home
on Friday. The condition of the man
was such that ne could not have been
able to travel. His limbs were badly
swollen and it is declared that physi-
time to live. The manner in which he
reached Cudahy and how he happened
to be wandering about the streets
there is a complete mystery. Mrs.
Hjort heard nothing of her husband
al ISI ouG lGCGlNtu buS b6IGSIdH duu
until she received a letter from Sheriff
Arnold of Milwaukee county inform
ing her that he was in the hospital at
Milwaukee and in a very serious
condition.
Mr.. Hjort was well supplied with
money when he left Kenosha and when
he left New Richmond. He also had
a suit case filled with clothing. When
he was found at Cudahy he had Meth
er clothes nor money and his friends
believe that lie was the victim of
foul play.
Many witnesses have been summon
ed to the inquest in Milwaukee today
and it is thought that these people
will be able to clear up the mystery
attending the death of the man.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16

Statistics of illiteracy show that
Iowa is the first state in the Union as
regards the ability Of its inhabitants
to write, the census test of literacy or
That state, mainly settled
by pioneers from eastern states, had
in 1910 only IT per cent illiterate of
its population, against an average OF
20 per cent in the west north central
states Next to it comes Indiana, with
81 per cent illiterate. Wisconsin has
80 per cent, Michigan 3.3 per cent and
Illinois 81 per cent in the census re-.
turns. The greatest illiteracy appears
among the mountains of the east south
central states, where it is la per
cent, against 24.9 per cent in 1900.
The old New England states have been
affected by the horde of illiterate i'm
migrants to such an extent that such
states as Massachusetts, and Connect
cut show nearly the same percentages
as a decade ago-the former % per
cent in 1910, against SO per cent in
1900, and the latter so per cent in
1910, against SO per cent ten years
previously. New York, in which many
immigrants settle, has the same per-
centage for both censuses, 5.5. We
have still far to go to make our per-
centage Of illiteracy as low as that
of the most advanced European states,
but, considering our immigration, the
public school system works wonders.
Record Herald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16

The working out Of the new saloon
regulations is demonstrating pretty
effectually that the great majority of
the saloon men prefer to conduct their
business in strict conformity with the
law and the men who have SO far been
called to account for violation of the
regulations are getting no sympathy
or support from the other men in the
business or from their organization.
It shows also the truth Of what many
saloon men have all along contended,
that much of the law violation which
was so marked in the last two or three
years was actually forced by condi-
lions over which the saloon men had
no control.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
MAY PARTY.

At the home of Mrs. Geo. Fried,
100 Northwest Main street, a May
party was given on Saturday evening,
May 18th. Miss Theresa Leuck was
elected May Queen. Luncheon was
served for about sixty guests of which
a large number Were from out of
town. The rooms were beautifully
decorated with chysanthemums and
lilies of the valley. A good time is
reported by au present.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
SEEK FORMER KENosHA MAN.
Geo. I'll. Kimberly, Formerly of Thi:
City is Sought at Stella, Neb.

County Clerk Russell I'll. Jones has
received a letter from w. B. Williams
of Stella, Neb., asking that he make
an effort to get some information In
regard to George H. Kimberly, Al
wears of age, a former resident of Ke-
osha. Kimberly lived in this city
in 1900, but since he left here his
relatives have not been able to get
any trace OF him. At the time he was
here he is supposed to have. been
working as cook on a lake vessel.
Kimberly is not wanted for any crime
but his presence is badly needed in
connection with the settlement of an
estate to which he and his children
are heirs. So far as can be learned
Kimberly is not known in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
CELEBRATE SILVER WEDDING.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Richter Observe
Twenty fifth Anniversary Sunday.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Richter enter
tanned large party of their friends
at their home, 500 Fremont avenue on
Sunday in honor of the twenty fifth an
niversary of their marriage, which was
celebrated in Milwaukee, May -, 1887.
In honor of the event the home was
beautifully decorated with flowers and
plants. Dinner was served at noon and
after dinner there was social after
noon. Mr.. and Mrs. Richter receiv-
ed hearty congratulations from their
many friends. They received many
beautiful gifts which will serve as
souvenirs of the celebration.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16

It looks now as if the bill prevent
ing the raising Of rates of the Modern
Woodmen of America would be killed
in the Illinois senate the committee
having reported unfavorably on it.
The action of the committee was in
fuenced largely by the protests of the
insurance commissioners of several
states, some of them even going so
far as to threaten to bar the organi-
cation from doing business in their
states if the Illinois legislature inter
fered with the raising of the rates.
The real friends of the order hope that
with the action of the Illinois senate
the controversy will die down. They
realize that the bitterness aroused by
the fight over the rates is bound to
hurt the order and they want no
more of it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16

1t is becoming the fashion to put
everything up to the state railroad COM
mission, so why not have the attention
of the commission called to the danger
Gus street crossings that are maintained
in this city by the street railway COM
pany. There is continual complaint
against these crossings and narrow es-
capes from death or serious injury are
Of daily occurrence, but up tc date the
city council has not been able to Sc
cure any relief for the people. Perhaps
the state commission might do some
thing. There are two or three crossings
in this city that are as dangerous as
any that can be found in the state and
it is only question Of time when a
serious accident, attended by loss of
life, will call attention to the need of
some kind of safeguards for the pub
lie. No one who has watched the way
the cars are operated and the entire
absence Of all precautions can under
stand why there is not an accident of
some kind every day or two or three
times dav. It is just sheer luck that
there has been none of much conse-
quence, but the luck cannot hold for
ever. And why trust to luck anyway