The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-07-18
MANY DELEGATES EXPECTED
More Than 100 Societies il All Parts
of the Country to Send Delegates to
the Three Days Meeting In Kenosha.
Committees Now Being Named.


in Kenosha beginning September 10th
and continuing for three days. The
convention is expected to be one of the
greatest gatherings of the Polish peo-
pie ever held in the country and it Is
expected that fully three hundred dele
gates will be in attendance. The con-
vention will be under the auspices of
the members of St. Joseph's Society
and the Sacred Heart of st. Mary
Society, the two leading Polish socie-
ties of Kenosha and many men promi-
nent in the two organizations will be
connected with the entertainment of
the delegates.
It is expected that one hundred and
thirty nine societies from the various
states in the union. will send delegates
to the Kenosha meeting and the atten-
dance is certain to be greater than any
reunion of the Polish societies ever held
in the country.
The committee in charge of the en-
tertainment of the visitors has for its
officers, president, Michael Kolowski;
vice president, Matthias j. Scholey;
secretary, Frank Mensfeldowski, and
treasurer, Anton LaNendowski. This
committee named at joint meeting of
the societies will name many others
to have charge of the various features
of the program for the convention.
One of the big features of the con-
vention will be the parade to take place
on the opening day Of the meeting. 1t
is expected that many Polish societies
from various parts of Wisconsin will
come in a body to take part in the
parade and all of the Catholic societies
in Kenosha have been invited to par
ticipate.
The members of the city council and
the officials Of the city have been in
vited to take part in the parade and
Mayor Dan o. Head will make the ad.
dress of welcome to the delegates at
the formal opening Of the convention.
All sessions of the convention will
be held at Germania Hall and during
the three days special church services
will be held for the delegates at st.
Kasimer s. church.
The coming of the convention will be
great time for the Polish people of
Kenosha and it is expected that notable
plans will be made for the welcome of
the delegates. Kenosha is recognized
as one of the "Polish'' cities of the
country and it is declared that the
Polish colony in this city is one of the
largest found among the smaller cities
of the country. Members of the COM
mittee in charge of the convention be
lieve that the convention will attract
to the city more than thousand people.
The telephone service is not what it
should be by long way, but the off,
Gals of the company have plenty of
excuses to offer for any annoyances
and delays suffered by5its patrons. The
company has been more or less Grip
pied for months by succession Of the
severest storms in the history Of the
business in Kenosha and there has
never been day since last March
that there has not been extra repair
gangs at work somewhere in the city.
Before the damage from one storm is
cleared away the lines are hit by an
other The complaints of poor service
are becoming more numerous daily,
but the officials of the company de-
clare that they can still give the city
as good service as it ever had If
there ever comes a time again when
the company has only the ordinary
difficulties of the business to cope
with: that ninety percent of the
trouble and complaints are caused by
conditions over which they have no
control and which it is impossible for
any company to guard against
The legislator who attempts to modi-
fy the present weights and measures
law with a view Of making it less dras-
tic viii have the influence of the WON
en- of the state solidly against him.
The better half of the house who does
the family marketing is strong for the
new law and the only amendments che
women are looking for in the law are
those which will bring everything in
the state offered for sale more fully
under its provisions. They may not be
getting any more. for their money than
they did under the old system. In most
cases prices have been changed to COW
er full weights and measures, but there
is no question but that trading condi-
tons arc great deal more satisfactory
all around. PAY for what you get
and get what you pay for is going to
be the rule in Wisconsin from this time
on and no honest merchant or his Gus
toners can take exception to it.