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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
COUNTY COURT CALENDER,
For the Regular December Term Of the
County Court to be Held on the
End Day of December, 1918.

/. In the matter of the estate Of
Adolph r. Anderson, deceased. Final
account.
2. In the matter of the estate of
Caroline Smith, deceased. Final ac-
count.
5. In the matter of, the will of
Frank S. Bode, deceased. Final ac-
count.
4. In the matter of the will of
Frances A. Palmatier, deceased. Peti-
ton for probate.
5. In the matter of the estate
of Bertha Hanke, deceased. Final ac-
count.
6. In the matter of the will of
Frederick Nienow, deceased. Probate
of will.
Z. In the matter of the estate of
Hattie Z. Frabe, deceased. Final ac-
count.
First Claim Day.
5. In re estate of Margaret Mckin-
ney, deceased.
8. In re estate of Lorena M. Van
derbergen, deceased
10. In re will of Fred Wienke, de-
ceased.
il. In re estate Of Julia A. Smith,
deceased.
10. In re estate of Josephine NJ.
Hamilton, deceased.
Is. In re estate Of Alvin T. Herrick,
deceased.
IA In re estate of Thomas Thorsen,
deceased.
Second Claim Day.
Is. In re will of Gottlieb Koppisch,
deceased.
Last Day for Filing Claims Against.
Is. Estate of Theodore Kerst, de-
ceased.
II. Estate Of Ferdinand Bosselman,
deceased.
IS. Estate of Mary Emsley, de-
ceased.
10. Estate of Charles Marsh, de-
ceased.
20. Estate of Grace Smith, deceased.
81. Estate of Ann Booth, deceased.
%. Estate Of John Hauprich, de-
ceased.
%. Estate of George H. Booth, de-
ceased.
"A. Estate of Christiana Hahn, de
ceased.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
PILED UP FOR MANY YEARS
Unpaid Personal and Income Taxes to
be Wiped Off the Books of the City
in the Near Future-Small Amount
Lost to the City in Many Years.

Acting at the urgent request of the
city clerk and the city treasurer mem
bers of the finance committee of the
common council are to make q clean
ing up of the books Of the city and
before the treasurer begins the collec-
tion of the new tax levy lot of old
accounts which have been carried on
the city ledgers for the past six years
or less are to be disposed Of These ac.
counts are for unpaid personal and in
come taxes. The total amount from
1907 to the present time amounts to
less than $1400 and this year the
amount of delinquent personal tax was
only little over hundred dollars.
These tax lists have been gone over
carefully and the members of the COM
mittee are convinced that there is a
possibility of collecting only few
cents Of the total amount.
During the past year the treasurer
was spurred on to action and every pos
sble cent was collected. The small
amount outstanding is either assessed
against people who are no longer resi-
dents of Kenosha or against people who
have absolutely nothing that could be
sliced by the tax collector for the claim
of the city. The treasurer is willing
to take almost anything but the shirt
that the man is wearing, but there is a
limit even in the collection Of personal
property taxes.
The old accounts have been carried
on the books and every time the city
has an audit the auditor is forced to
check these old lists. There is grave
doubts if the city could legally collect
taxes over three years old if they could
get hold of the people against whom
they are assessed.
1t is not the plan of the finance com
cittee to permit delinquent taxes to
pile up in the future. The treasurer
will be instructed that all personal
property taxes must be collected or it
must be shown to the committee that
there is absolutely nothing to sieze to
secure the payment of the tax. The
same is to be true of the income tax
now being written 'up against people in
Kenosha.
There was delinquent income tax
of $3,362.07 reported after the collec-
ton of the taxes last year. The great
er part of this was the amount claimed
from the bond holders of the Wiscon-
sin Gas and Electric company and the
state commission has ruled that this
may not be collected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
mutt AND JEFF IN PANAMA
AT THE RHODE SUNDAY.

Can you imagine Mutt and Jeff, y
those two well known characters of car
toon fame, in Panama endeavoring to
corral villainess and william who have
stolen plans for new fort which the
United States government is contemp-
lating erecting on the new Panama
Canal? Can you also stretch your
fancy to these same individuals endea-
voring, through the aid of divers dis
guises, such as sailors, walters, insur-
rectlonists, insurgents, pseudo detec-
tives, etc, emerging through a series
of melodramatic and thrilling situations
and not tickling the risibilities of their
millions Of admirers and friends? If
You can you will get f&ir idea of the
attraction underlined at the Rhode next
Sunday, matinee and night. 1t is en-
The offering IS divided into three acts
and three scenes and is by that ver-
satile author, Owen Davis, with lyrics
and clusic by VIII Ii. Cobb and Leo
Edwards. The production is as usual
sponsored by Manager Gus Hill, who
was the first 20 see the possibilities of
Mutt and JEFF" in stagedom. The
company this year is exceptionally
strong, harboring as it does over fifty
people, all capable in their respective
fields Of endeavor There are pretty
eirls comediruS who can rousa inces.
SAINT laughter, performers who can en-
gross and entertain and scenic inves-
titure out Of the beaten path. Seats
are now on sale. adv
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
TOMORROW AT TIL RHODE.
Opening Of Three Deys' Engagement at
the RhoGe of Blindness of Virtue. y

Opening of Three Rs@ys' Engagement at
the RhoGe of Blindness of Virtue. r
1t is said that the " Blindness of Vir-
tue" by Cosmo Hamilton, the play that
comes to the Rhode Opera House three
days this week, beginning tomorrow
matinee and night, has the strongest
endorsement from ministers and judges
than any play produced in modern
times as one that solves the delicate
question of sociology.
1t is the story of a young girl blind
ed by ignorance, but fortunately before
she arrives at the point of indiscretion
her father, a clergyman, arrive at the
opportune time, his eyes are opened to
the fact that all his former teachings
have been wasted in the wrong chan
mel. That fathers and mothers do not
instruct their children of the pitfalls en-
countered by the wiles of the world.
1t is q beautiful moral story told in
such forcable manner that every
man and woman in al. walks of life
that has the young interest at heart
should attend and profit by its teach
ing. Special matinee tomorrow Thanks
giving day, also matinee on Saturday.
Prices are 25, 35, and soc for matinees;
25, 35, so and Use for evening perform
ances. advdw
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
CHARGED WITH LARCENY.
Chief Hare Arrests Walter Harbaugh
in Western Part of County.

Walter Harbaugh, wanted by the po-
lice on a charge of larceny, was arrest
ed by Chief of Police O'Hare in the
town of Bristol this morning and he is
now in the county Jail awaiting hear
ing. 1t is alleged that, about three
weeks ago Harbaugh, who was board
er at hotel on West Prairie avenue.
went through the rooms of the other
dodgers and secured considerable
amount of clothing and money. Har-
baugh disappeared from the city and
had not been heard of until the chief
got track of him in the western part
OF the county. Harbaugh is a graduate
OF the reform school, having already
done two years in that Institution. He
will probably be arraigned late this
afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
ST. THOMAS BAZAAR OPENS.

The bazaar being held by the St.
Thomas congregation at Knights of
Columbus hall, started off with rush
Tuesday evening and with every indica-
ton of proving one of the most sue
cessfuI affairs of the kind ever held in
the city. The hall was beautifully
decorated and the various booths with
their attractive displays of useful and
fancy articles, did rushing business
all the evening. The fair will continue
the rest of the week and supper will
be served by the ladies of the congre-
CATION every evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
WILL OF STEPHEN BULL.
Racine Millionaire Leaves Bulk of
Property to Children.

The last will and testament of
Stephen Bull, deceased, was offered for
probate in the Racine county court on
Tuesday. 1t disposes of the entire
estate and daughters and son are the
principal benefciaries. Frank K. Bull
and Charles H. Lee are named as exc
cutors to serve without bond. The
amount of $4,000 is bequeathed to the
Taylor Orphan Asylum, the bequest be-
ing made without restrictions Mr..
Bull during his life time gave much
financial support to the Taylor Orphan
Asylum and to the children of the in
stitution. 1t is understood that the be-
quest of $4,000 will be placed for GER
tain purposes The value of the es-
tate of Mr.. Bull is not made public.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
SEEK BETTER SANITATION
Parents are Urged to Take More Pains
in Protecting the Health of Children
and in Preventing the Spread of Cons
tagious Diseases.

The new rules relating to the sani<
tary care of schools, as laid down by
the state board of health, January 90,
1913, have been sent to the local high
school from Madison for distribution.
among the teachers of the city schools.
The object is to urge all pedagogues
to pay more attention to the sanitary
methods as they should be attended to.
One important measure, as adopted,
is as follows: All teachers, school an.
thorities, and health officers, having
jurisdiction, shall not permit the at
tendance in any private, parochial or
public school of any pupil afflicted with
a severe cough, q severe cold, itch, lice
or other vermin, or any contagious skin
disease. The teachers in all schools
SHALL without delay, send home any pu-
pill who is obviously sick, even if the
ailment is unknown, and said teacher
shall inform the parents or guardians
of said pupil and also the local health
officer as speedily as possible, and said
health officer shall examine into the
case, take such action as is reasonable
and necessary for the benefit of the
pupils and to prevent the spread of in-
lection.
The parents are obliged to keep their
children home in case of sickness.
Teachers should remain at home also
when afflicted with such diseases. Air
and Floor Space, Duty of Health Off
GERS, Ven11iation, Heating, Sweeping
and Cleaning Drinking Water, and
Toilets, are the subjects discussed in
the pamphlet on rules.
Characteristics of the infectious dis
eases are carefully explained, including
tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
measles, whooping-cough, typhoid fe-
yer, small pox, German measles, Group
and chickenpox.
The general opinion is that many of
these rules are very stringent. Every
year there are perhaps from fifty per
cent to eighty per cent of the popula-
ton of the schools who have coughs,
some very severe and some not so bad.
IF this rule were obeyed to the limit,
it would mean that perhaps for a
week s time, about one-quarter 10 one
half of the students would be attending
school regularly.
The parents should take more pains
with their children, and see that they
take no severe colds. A cold will de&
veIop in short time into many Inc
fictitious diseases. These rules should
be obeyed, and there is no other way
out of it, but the parents are largely
to blame for their children catching
colds, when warmer wrap, or pair
of rubbers, brought out of the closet in
a jiffy, would perhaps prevent the very
beginning of hoarseness.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
VOTE DOWN TRAINING SCHOOL
Members of the Board from the Rural
Towns Fail to Give United Support
to Temporary School for Teachers
and Plan is Lost by Vote of to Z.

The county board brought its long
November session to a close late Tues
day afternoon and with the coming
down of Chairman Yule's gavel to de-
clare the adjournment of the afternoon
session the board took a recess until
January 10, 1914, when it will meet
for the regular January session.
There was not great deal Of ex-
element at the closing session of the
board. The report of the finance COM
mittee was presented and notWithstand-
ing the fact that it recommended a
record tax levy for the year it was
adopted by a unanimous vote of the
board and County Clerk Jones is today
sending out to the city and town clerks
the amounts of the state and county
taxes apportioned to them.
At the last session Of the board an
effort was made to revive the plan for
a teachers training school, but it met
with slaughter. Supervisor Herzog
brought the question w in new guise
suggesting that the board name COM
mittee to consider some plan for rent
ing temporary school with view Of
testing its value. When the question
finally reached vote it was lost by a
vote of nine to seven. Supervisor Scott
of the third ward, voted in favor of
the'school, but it was lost by the failure
Of the rural members to give it united
support. Both Supervisors Eppers Of
Brighton and Luke of Wheatland voted
against the proposed school.
The report of the finance committee
which shows the various amounts levied
as state and county taxes is as follows
GIVE, your committee on finance, re-
spectfully recommend that the sum of
$133,931.S5 be raised and levied against
the taxable property of Kenosha
county as state, school fund, and
special tax upon Kenosha county and
school Districts and IL Of the Town
of Salem as per statement of the secre-
tary of state of October 81, 1913, and
the further sum of 81 $50 be raised and
levied against the several towns of the
county for county superintendent S sal
airy and expense tax, and the further
sum of $711.26 be raised and levied
against the several towns of the county
as special bridge tax, and the further
sum of 81, 14041 be raised and levied
against Kenosha county as soldier s re-
lief tax, and the further sum of
$50, 65o.S5 be raised and levied against
the taxable property of Kenosha county
as county tax and the further sum OF
ST., 240 be raised and levied againss the
taxable property of Kenosha county as
county highway tax and the further
sum of $6S4.25 be raised and levied
against the taxable property of Keno
sha county as blind relief tax. And
the county clerk be and he is hereby
empowered to apportion the several
amounts herein specified and recon-
mend as provided by law
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
CONCERT AND DANCE.
Elks and Their Families to Have Inter-
esting Program Thursday Night.

Kenosha Elks and their families are,
going to have an unique entertainment
on Thanksgiving night when the Trou'
badors will be the guests of the local
lodge. During the early hours of the
evening beginning at 8:15 a decidedly
charming musical program will be
rendered after which there will be a.
luncheon to be followed by an informal
dance. The program for the musicale
is as follows:
Program.
March-Selected >. :. :. .......s
Orchestra.
~ Poet and Peasant Overture. .Suppe
Orchestra.
representation" Mrs. Harrigaa Bor-
rows Pie' ................
Miss Ruth Pancost.
Sextette from Lucia" -. .Donizet3
Orchestra.
Solo-'EMy Old Kentucky Home"
with variations) -. Edward Boyer
Reading" Sally AIMS Experience"
Miss Paneost.
Solo" The Last Rose of Summer"
-. =. -. =. 49,. 0. B.Dussek
Violin Solo -"No. 5, Hungarian
Dance" ..............J John Brahms
Michael Briglia.
Reading-"By Messenger" ........
Miss Pancost.
{ Eureka Overture ... E. BaettgeE
Orchestra.
advn2s
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
TEACHERS, INSTITUTE.

A teachers institute will be held in
the Kenosha high school, Saturday,
Nov. goth. Prof. w. H. Cheever will
be the conductor.
/. Rural Economics.
.. Rural Sociology.
3. The New Laws Relative to the
Compulsory Teaching of Morality and
Prevention of Accident.
4. A Conference of State Graded
Teachers as the Best Means of Secur-
ing the State Aid for Teaching Agri-
culture, Manual Training and Domes-
tic Science.
5. Social Geography.
Let each teacher bring to the insti-
tute one article which her pupils have
made this year.
J. J. Kerwin,
w31adv so. Supt. of Schools.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
COVER NMENT STAKES LEFT
County Board is Urged to Take Some
Action to have Government Land
Corners Relocated But People of the
Towns Must Act on the Question.

Government land marks set more
than 70 years ago when Wisconsin and
Kenosha county were opened for settle
ment have been largely obliterated and
County Surveyor William E. O'Brien
has filed a statement with the county
board showing that it will be necessary
for every town in the county to take
some action to have new surveys made
and these corners located if the future
generations of the county are to have
any definite ideas as to the limits of
their lands. These conditions exist not
only in the rural towns of the county
but also in the city and if anything the
condition is worse in the city than in
the county.
In the years that have passed since
the original government survey was
made of the land in Kenosha and Ra-
cine counties little or no effort has been
made, to pereptuate the original marks
as set by the government engineers and
surveyors. The report of the surveyor
shows that surveys have been made in
the county by John M. Jones, M. How
land, Jason Lothrop, D. A. Sovereign,
w. A. McKesson, A. H. Blood and J. S.
Williams, but none of these surveyors
have left copies of their field notes as
the law demands and the present con-
dition of the records of the surveyor s
office are decidedly chaotical.
An investigation made by the county
surveyor shows that Sc per cent of the
original corner marks for sections set
by the government surveyors have been
lost while more than 81 per cent of
the quarter section corners have been
lost. The percentage of lost section
and quarter section markers is decided
ly large in all Of the towns. In the
town of Wheatland not one of the 100
land marks originally set by the gov
eminent to mark the quarter sections
can be found and but one of the sec
tion corners. Conditions are nearly as
bad in the towns of Brighton and
Paris, while in all of the towns the
percentage of lost corners of sections
and quarter sections is above rs per
cent.
Impossibility of locating these cor
ners is certain to result in grave COM
plications in the near future in connec-
ton with the sales of land. The sur
veyor has urged the members of the
county board to take some action to
have corners relocated and permanently
marked before the existing corners are
lost.
The members of the board took up
the matter as a very important one but
it was held that under the law this
would be work for the towns to take
up individually. Under the law the
people of the different sections in the
county must file petitions with the town
board and when the work is completed
the cost Of it must be assessed proper
tionately against the property included
in the survey.
Conditions in the city are such that it
is possible that a general petition will
be circulated asking for general sur
vey of the entire city and the replac-
ing of all the old landmarks with per-
manent marks, the entire cost of this
work to be borne by the city from the
general fund.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
CELEBRATE PAST MASTERS NIGHT

Over eighty members of Kenosha
Chapter, No 3, R. A. NJ, gathered at
the Masonic Temple last evening in
honor of Past High Priest IS night. All
official chairs were filed by Past High
Priests of the order and they conferred
the Royal Arch degree upon three can
didates. The ritualistic work, which
lasted until 1890, was very creditably
done, showing that the "old guard y
can drop back into the harness at any
time. After the initiation all retired
to the banquet room where dinner was
served by members of the Order East
ern Star. DR.. V H. Carson acted in
the capacity of POSTMASTER and re-
sponses were made by Col. W. W..
Strong, Judge G. E. Randall, DR.. E. f.
Rowell, r. E. Wilson, H. o. Whitbeck,
Fred J Fisher and the newly elected
members, Messrs. Karcher, Hull and
Anderson. Judged from all sides the
gathering was one of the best ever held
under the auspices of the local chapter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27

Watch for the notice next week
about the annual oyster dinner to be
given by. the Salem Mound Cemetery
Helpers at the Tewes Boarding House
0n Thursday, December H. advw31
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27

The way to have a friend is to be
one; that explains why the Ford has
more friends then any other car. advw3o
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27

Mrs. E. S. Jordan will leave on Fri
day evening to attend the annual con-
vention of the National Woman S Suf-
frage Association at Washington. Mrs.
Jordan will accompany Mrs. Youmans.
state president of the Equal Suffrage
Association and they will have reser-
vations in the special Ger of the Illinois
delegation. While in Washington Mrs.
Jordan will make special study of
financial problems as she is the chair
man of the finance committee of the
Wisconsin association.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27

The barber shops of the city will OBJ
serve Thanksgiving day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27

The wise man buys Ford and puts
the q difference in the bank. advwS0
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-04-01
RIVERS OF THE MOON.
From Harner,s MeeklvN

(From Harper's Weekly)
The sO-called craters. mountains
and empty sea beds of the moon are
not the only interesting phenomena
which our satellite presents to the
view. There are on many parts of
the moons surface long, narrow lines
called 'rills," evidently much below
the general level of the ground, some
of them comparable in breath and
depth ito the great canyons of our
Western country.
Certain astronomers have been dis
posed TO regard these rills as cracks
AMI rents in the crust of the moon
but others have adopted the sugges-
Ition, made long ago, that they are river
channels.
1t may be remarked of these an
cient lunar river channels, if such
they really are. that their wider ends
always terminate in pear-shape hol-
lows like little craters, and this end is
nearly always higher than the other,
q that if the craters We're once lakes,
Neir waters must have flowed out in
1" the rivers instead of the waters OF
the rivers emptying into the lakes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-04-01

after s o'clock. In Pennsylvania en-
ployers may work women all night
long. and many OF them do so.
1t is advantages such as these en-
joyed by Pennsylvania mill owners
over industrial rivals in New England
that Mr.. Grundy is striving to keep
by his opposition to the bills now in
the legislature regulating the conditi-
ons of labor OF women md children,
who comprise nearly all the workers
in his Bristol mills
Now let us examine these measures
which Mr.. Gruniy is taking such pains
TO defeat.
That affecting women would limit
their employment to six days a week;
there is now no restriction. II would
make the maximum labor 10 hours a
/ day and 55 hours a week after Sep
tember 1918, and nine hours a day
Iand so hours a week after September,
1914; the present law permits IL
hours day and 60 hours week for
those more than Is years old
As to night work. those more than
is may now work until any hour or
all night long; the proposed law would
prohibit factory work after 10 o'clock
for those more than 81 years old, and
work in any establishment after 9
io'clock for those younger.
Twenty-Five states have a legal
iworkday of 10 hours or less for wo-
men. Eleven states have eight hour
bUls now pending. If Mr.. Grundy ha:
his way, Pennsylvania will rem air
the infamous celebrity of being the
only state permitting-that is, fore,
ing-women TO labor 12 hours a day