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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05

the schools from now until the time
that the new levy win be available.
1t was shown eonclusively that it
would be impossible for the city eoun-
ell or the board of education tc gel
away without very large deficit.
On the suggestion of the committee
the council directed loan of $35 900
from the funds of the water company
This will be $4,000 more than was
borrowed in the preceding year, but it
is thought possible that the water COM
pany will be able to advance this sum
to help meet the actual running ex-
penses of the city. Even with this
money the council win be forced to Sc
cure money from the banks or else
have the orders issued by the city wait
for payment until after the new tax
levy is collected.
Alderman Shearer made long re-
port to the council of the mill tax
levied in fourteen of the Wisconsin
cities in the same class with Kenosha
and this indicated that the tax in Ke-
Inosha is materially lower than in the
other sister cities. The report showed
| Appleton to have mill tax of 21.26
mills, Beloit IL mills, Eau Claire 25
mills, Fond du Lac 81 mills, Green Bay
| 26.5 mills, GAINESVILLE 1914 mills, Ra-
! cine 14.48 mills and Superior % mills.
The valuation in these cities ranged
from rs per cent at Green Bay and Eau
Claire to 100 per cent in Appleton and
Beloit. Statements from the clerks Of
all of the cities indicated that the mill
tax for the coming year would be about
the same as it had been in the year
| just passed.
The finance chairman urged that the
council take up very seriously the pro-
posed bond issue of 100000 for the
building of a new school on Collins
street and he suggested that this mat
! ter be left over for submission to the
voters at the next spring election.
In connection, the old mater of dis
counting city bills bobbed up again
and the mayor again came to the de-
Tense of his pet hobby and managed to
save it from being wiped off the city
records by the appointment of "a new
committee to take it under considera-
ton. The new committee is made up of
Aldermen Shearer, Gundlach and Tuily
with the mayor as the fourth wheel.
1t is expected that this committee will
meet and report at the next meeting
of the council.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
UNITED STATES HISTORY LAD
DER PLAN.
Roll of Honor Will Give Names of
Youths Who Have Climbed
Ladder by Reading Books.

At Gilbert M. Simmons Library,
there is being displayed as supplement
tdry work with the schools, ladder in
United States history. Attached to
each round of the ladder is a list of
books dealing with various periods Of
American history, and at the top a roll
Of honor, on which win be written the
names of the boys and girls who have
climbed the ladder by reading all the
books on the list. Book marks will
be given to the children and titles
checked as they are read. In some
places where this has been tried the
children have become so interested
that they have started contests in diff
ferent rooms to see which could make
the best record. Each list has the
ehild's name at the top, SO the record
is easily kept.
Round 6.
EggIeston- First Book of American
History.
Hasbruck-Boys' Parkman.
Kieffer-Recollecti of Drum
mer Boy.
Round g.
Horton-Frozen North.
Pratt-America s Story for Ameri-
ca s Children, vs..
Revolutionary stories.
Round 4.
Draka-On Plymouth Rock
Pratt-Our Little Eskimo Cousin.
Wade-Ten Big Indians.
Round 8.
Bass-Stories of Pioneer Life.
Eggleston- Stories of American Life
and Adventure.
Judd-Wigwam stories.
Pratt-America IS Story for Ameri-
ca Is Children, V3.
Round 2.
Hustled Stories of Indian Chief
tains.
Pratt-America s Story for Ameri-
cas- Children, w.
Shaw-Discoverers and Explorers.
Moore-Pilgrims and Puritans.
Round /.
Eggleston- Stories of Great Ameri-
cans for Little Americans.
Holbrook- Hiawatha Primer.
Pratt-America S Story for Ameri
cas- Children
mphrey-Pilgrims Stories.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
DECLARES ZION KNOWS RIGHTS
Intimates That Drastic Measures Will
be Adopted if State of Illinois Insists
on Handling Smallpox Situation in a
Way Which is Opposed by Voliva.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva declared war
against the state board of health of
Illinois this morning and in telegram
filed with fire and fight he told the
Hon. E. T. Dunno, governor Of the great
state Of Illinois that Zion City knew
her rights and was prepared to enforce
them. The telegram from Voliva is
interesting and it goes straight to the
point. The telegram in full follows:
TO the Hon. Edward f. Dunno,
Governor of the State of Illinois.
Springfield, Illinois.
] have just read the kilograms sent
to you by Mayor Bidinger and After
bury Of Waukegan, regarding smallpox
situation in Zion City. These tele-
grams have been improvised by Ma
sonic windbags and dissatisfied and dis
gruntled Lake county politicians. For
the most part they are absolute lies.
DIR. Crawford came. here as a gentle
man and has been received as a gen
tleman and his instructions have been
implicitly carried out AS the head of
Zion City together with the city admin
istration, all of whom are my support
ers, we are<prepared to cooperate with
DR.. Crawford or any other one repra-
sentative that you may send here. We
are well advised by competent attor-
reys and know what our rights are
We do not propose to submit to religi-
GUS persecution at the hands of the
state board Of health nor to take any
Insults from any representative. If
they they come as gentlemen they will
'be treated as gentlemen; if they come
in any other manner they will be treat
ed accordingly. Before any one can
sit in Judgment he must know the facts
when Bidinger says there are seventy
cases and when Atterbury intimates
that youryrepresentativ has not been
recognized and that any of his instruc-
tions have been violated, they are both
internal liars. We have the entire city
administration, we know what our
rights are under the law and if neces-
sary we will take some very drastic
measures. 1t will be Iamentable for YOU
and the state board of health to be the
tools of the low down political gang
IL Lake county who are ever ready to
tell lies as numerous as lice in Egvot
against Voliva and his constituents.
Instead of Waukegan needing protec
ton from Zion City'we need protection
against Waukegan, not only from small
pox but from things good deal worse
Wilbur Glenn Voliva.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
HURTS BUSINESS OF CITIES
Farmers Are Unwilling to Walk Long
Distances and Stand in Rain to Wait
for Cars-C Commission Must Order a
Change Before Company Will Act.

Farmers of Racine and Kenosha
counties appeared before Railroad Com
missioner David Harlow at heal ng
at the city hall in Racine on Wednesday
afternoon to protest against the So
called "skip-stopo plan for the opera
ton of cars of the Milwaukee, Racine
and Kenosha Electric Railway. The
farmers showed an organized opposi-
ton to the new schedule, holding that
1t was not IN keeping with the agree
ments of the company at the time the
lires were laid through the Racine and
Kenosha county towns. They claimed
that they had been forced to walk
Icing distances in order to board cars
for Racine and Kenosha and that the
rev schedule was great Inconvenience
to them and the members of their
families. They insisted that the old
plan of stopping the cars at the cross
roads was greatly to- be preferred as
this gave the farmers chance to use
the lines of the company more. 1t was
claimed that in number of homes
along the line children had been taken
out of school on account of long walks
necessary to get cars to go to the cities
where the schools were located.
Commissioner Harlowe gave no indi-
cation as to the manner in which the
petition would be acted on by the com
mission. The skip stop schedule is be-
ing assailed all along the ]. line and
some of the cities are making objec-
lions to it. The idea of the company
If adopting the schedule was to cut
the running time between Milwaukee
and Kenosha, but it is declared that
the new plan is proving detriment
to business interests in Kenosha and
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
Chairman of Finance Com
mittee Notifies Aldermen
That Wolf is at the Door
$4,000 FROM WATER CO

A discouraging outlook for lower
taxes in Kenosha was shown to the
common council on Monday night when
Alderman Conrad Shearer, chairman of
the finance committee made a report
showing the financial condition of the
city at this time and discussed the
possible city levy for the coming year.
This report showed that the city S
balance in the banks was now exhaust
ed and that already overdrafts of more
than $4,000 had been incurred with
the understanding that more money
would be demanded within few days
to meet the payments on bonds and the
running expenses of the city. He i'm
pressed on the council the fact that
the banks were not favorable to MAX
ing large advances to the city unless
some specific provision was made to
meet these advanced funds. He showed
that the condition of the school fund
was also in discouraging tangle and
that the board had only a little over
$4,000 to meet all of the expenses of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
START NEW MOVEMENT.
Retailers. Assn. Start New Fight to Get
Decorative Lights for Kenosha.

Down town merchants want the dec
orative street lights. This was plainly
shown at a meeting of the Retailers
Association held last evening, when a
movement was started to secure the
immediate installation of the proposed
system. Each member present has been
delegated as committee ofsone to call
on his neighboring merchant or land
lord to find if they will consent, to the
plan going through on the original petit
tlons, even though the bid submitted Ly
the lighting company is considerably
away from the estimated price. The
lighting committee Of the retailers
has not given upsthe idea of decorative
street lights by any means, although
it may be impossible to have the work
done this side of Christmas.
The international Industrialogs. un-
der the auspices of the association, are
scheduled for November 10, IT, and
18th. Reserved seat ickets are to be
distributed among the merchants of
the city at the regular admission
price. Several of the members have
decided to take blocks of seats. to be
presented to their customers both in
Ehe city and throughout the county.
The Industrialogs are being adver-
hsed through the county, and will I'm
aoubtedly attract several hundred
farmers forS the three days enter
Esinment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
Supreme Court Invalidates
Many Weddings Of For
mer Divorced Parties.
kENOSHA PEOPLE AFFECTED

The supreme court in decision
handed down on Tuesday, declared
that when couples, divorced under the
1909 divorce law, were married again
after year had expired but before
the final decree was entered by the
court in which the divorce was grant
ed, the marriage was null and void
IL is believed this ruling will affect
hundreds of marriage.
Emma Vielbaum was granted an in.
terlocutory decree of divorce on Nov.
=. 1910. On Feb. Is, 1912, she married
Robert Dallmann in Milwaukee. I'm
der the divorce law prevailing at that
time she could not have married even
at the expiration of the year, unless
the final decree was entered The final
decree was not entered until March IL,
1913, although she had been divorced
more than the year required by law.
On April p, 1913, Dallmann began an
action for divorce, alleging that his
marriage was not valid. His wife de-
INJURED to his complaint and the court
sustained her demurrer. Dallmann
then appealed to the supreme court.
According to Dallmann s ATTORNEYS
in their arguments, this was an i'm
portant decision, as it will have to do
with the most sacred relations in life.
They declared it would involve a CON
siderable number of persons-innocent
people who have married after a di-
vorce without having final decree en-
tered. The attorneys held that if
decision were given favoring the hus-
band, sit would have the tendency to
have husbands who grew tired of their
wives resort to legal technicalities of
this kind to become free. The decision
of the court affects thirty two divorces
in this county in which interlocutory
DEGREES have been granted. but in
which final DEGREES have never been
entered.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
FREE POTATOES.

Weaare giving away samples to con-
vince you that we are selling the best
cooking potatoes you ever ate. These
potatoes are ripe, free from frost or
rot Try them. The steamer McVea
has arrived with $500 bushels. This
Is the fifth boat load within 10 DAYS,
r'aking $4,000 bushels in all. On ac-
count of the hard times we will sell
this last cargo for soc per bushel in
lots of five bushels or more, delivered.
The Dunnebacke Co. Phone S01-S02,
corners Market and W.tMain st. advtf
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
BARGAIN SALE.

In coal now going on. Prices reduc.
ed, Look and take notice: Blue vein
lump $5.25, nut coal $3.50, ton de-
Hvered. Coke and wood also reduced
ID prices. Seaver Coal Co. Office ia
W Main street, opposite G. 6 N. w.
passenger depot. Telephone So. Order
now Tor future delivery. *advn7
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05

The funeral Of the late Mrs. Joseph
Dunnebacke was held from st. George
church this morning. 1t was largely
attended and large cortege followed
the remains to their last resting place
il the family plot at ST. George
cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05
APPLES.

Just received a car of fancy ap-
pies, Baldwins, Greetings and Northern
Spies. Csc a bu. or $175 a Dbl. de-
hvered to all parts of the city. Leave
your orders at the car on Gxand Ave-,
or Phone 1867 or 1874. ada7
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05

The night before election was "a
quiet one. But one arrest was report
cd by the police and that was a woman
who was charged with making a dis
turbanee at the home of relative.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-05

A license has been issued for the
marriage Of Benjamin Nett of the
town Of Wheatland and Miss Veronica
LEM of the town of Randall.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
Pictures In Parka

Before anybody comes forward with
the suggestion that the park connie
sioner's plan for moving pictures In
the parks or Fairgrounds is whimsical
or that II would involve the city In
extravagance II is to be hoped that
the proposition win be studied from
all its aspects. The most eItravagant
course a city can pursue is to permit
its children to go wrong. There are
the public schools. of course; but de-
spite the existence of these safeguards
there are large numbers OF sadly I'M
schooled children in the city-children
whose parents appear to lack either
the ability or the will to attract young
peoples interests. Anything the city
can do to attract the interest Of these
children In harmless or wholesome
things is well worth doing. Children
who are interested in moving pictures
are not contemplating mischief OF any
kind. Young people who are capable
OF realizing that the city Is Interested
IN them are sure to become interested
in the city. II they are endowed with
normal reasoning power.-St Louis
Times.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
TENREC OF MADAGASCAR

One OF the strongest animals ever
seen In this country was recently
brought from Madagascar. II Is the
tenrec, an insect-eater. and is sup
posed TO represent a very ancient
type OF animal, now almost extinct
and occurs nowhere else except on
that great island AS far back as the
early middle ages, Arab traders made
their way In sailing vessels south
ward along the African coast OF NADIA
gascar where they saw the giant bird
which came to be known. through the
stories they told about II, and later
celebrated in the ARABIAN Nights" as
the roc. Scientists today call II the
aepyornis. and are able TO describe II
pretty accurately from It's bones But
only within recent years has II been
understood that Madagascar, original.
ly a part OF the mainland OF Africa.
must have been separated therefrom
a very long time ago-a consequence
being that II developed a fauna pecu-
liarly Its own. Among its oddities
were the roc and the tenrec, one long
since past and the other passing.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
Beauty Need Of America

Comparing the growth Of the Ameri-
can people with the growth OF a blade
of grass, Rabbi Abram Simon spoke
at Philadelphia The Story OF a
Blade OF Grass" was his topic.
so small a thing as a blade OF
grass carries a message to the Ameri-
can people" said Rabbi Simon. From
the life OF a blade of grass the people
can take a message OF life. industry.
democracy, service, and beauty.
Speaking on the last OF these, he
said: Beauty is the need OF our
country Americans have not realized
the lesson taught by the blade OF
grass They have not learned TO beau
tify everything. hate dirt and filth.
abolish things unlovely and rude II
they had we would have no tenement
districts, no crowded rookeries, no
smoky manufacturing cities. and no
garbage drama A blade Of grass
is world all its own II II inspires the
American people 70 desire beauty"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
EVERY TOWN NEEDS CLEANING
There 10 Always Good Work for .
Village improvement Society
70 Do.

Even II you live In a well-kept town
there Ia much that can be done to
make II still more attractive, says the
Kansas Industrialist. Work that you
do with trees, shrubs. grass and the
tin cans back in your alley will In
crease the value Of your property and
give you a good appetite.
For village Improvement to be
most successful the city government
and the private citizens must CO.
operate" says M. F. Ahearn. assist
ant professor OF horticulture at the
Kansas agricultural college. Let the
civic Improvement clubs. together
with the municipal government, offer
prizes for the best appearing lawn
and the lawn showing the greatest
improvement in looks. Garden con-
tests should be started and the pro-
Queer helped in selling his products.
Get everyone interested in the work
Try to develop a community spirit and
make each citizen feel that his aid
is essential In carrying out the plans
for the betterment OF his municipality.
Have a cleanup day to begin with.
Get the people interested In keeping
the streets and especially the alleys
slean. Dirty alleys breed flies and
disease. Plant shrubs and trees and
SOW grass seed in the parkings. Prune
the trees and fight the tent caterpil-
lars and other troublesome insects
and tree diseases. Doctor those trees
that are injured. Houses should be
painted and the building of cement
walks and paving Of streets started.
"A village improvement society can
be organized to look after the differ
ent phases OF the work. Encouraging
the better cultivation OF flowers. fruits
and vegetables will be one of Its du-
ties. The society can give an annual
flower show and demonstrate the ar
tistic possibilities OF each flower Lee
lures given by the organization will
be useful. also. A great deal can be
done in cleaning up and beautifying
the school grounds and When Arbor
day comes let II be observed by plant
ing some properly selected shade
trees, the work to be under municipal
control instead OF being done wholly
by individual landowners"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
TREES IN SCHOOL GROUNDS
Studies, az Well a. Pleasing
TO the Eye.

In the grounds Of every school there
should be a collection Of both fruit
and ornamental trees. and all the for
mer should have at least one other
warrant for use, aside from the fruit
crop. Trees should be planted for
both ornament and material for In
struction. and these should be Of
standard commercial sorts. No spe-
cial plea Is made for apples. peaches,
apricots, etc, but . walnut and .
chestnut both make grand shade trees
in summer and are instructive types
OF deciduous trees.
As material from which to draw
upon for the use OF classes In botany,
etc, these trees would not only be
always close at hand. removing the
necessity Of using valuable school
hours for collecting trips afield. but
would be available when OF greatest
value and interest-when blooming.
fruiting, seeding, etc. II would also
give the entire student body some
knowledge concerning the native vege-
tation OF the state. OF which he should
have a good general idea before study
ing that from foreign lands. With
school yards so planted education
could never be confined to the four
walls OF classrooms nor narrowed 20
a consideration - the three RS and
closely allied studies
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14

Ecc05pnshed n06fe w0rE- BUt the
youngest workers, and probably the
most enthusiastic In this sphere, are
the members OF the high school for
boys, who belong to the civic classes,
and who are under the instruction and
direction OF Prof s. II. Ziegler. one
Of the city's greatest enthusiasts for
q more beautiful Reading. a cleaner.
better, larger city. He has been teach
ing and preaching at almost every
recitation civic pride. until the noble
work OF the boys has been recognized
by the former board Of trade, and
the state board OF education has taken
an interest in what they have accom-
plished and set out to accomplish.
City ofricials and the chamber OF com
merce give them encouragement, so
that there are almost 100 boys from
freshman to seniors who are peeping
into every nook and corner OF the city.
into alleys and byways and around
corners and over fences to see II they
can fnd something that ought to be
removed
Practically every member has a pa
per pad in his inside coat pocket and
a kodak in the outer pocket when they
make their trips of investigation. and
az things appear before their eyes
they are noted In the book or pictured
on the flm. so that they have a two
fold record which will bear them out
when they make reports a. to the
necessity for immediate remedies or
improvements.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-05-14
ACTS AS COMMUNITIES AID
Somewhat Novel But Useful Position
Has Been Created by UNI
versity Of Illinois

Cities, towns, villages and country
neighborhoods in Illinois which want
to better themselves have a new in
strument to aid-the services of the
community adviser. a novel position
just created by the University OF III
nois DR. Robert F. Hieronymus. for
merly president OF Eureka college and
until recently secretary OF the educa-
tional commission OF Illinois. has been
appointed to the position and has be-
gun his duties.
While the university formerly was
more than anxious to aid all commun-
tiles in their betterment work, II was
necessary for them to come to the uni
versity. Now the university goes to
the community, for practically all OF
the advisers time viii be occupied In
travelling over the state. The position
is said TO be a new one In the United
States.
The whole idea is based on the prin-
ciple that every community contains
within itself the means OF its own bet
terment and that social welfare Is to
be evolved from within. not laid on
from without The first step in OBJ
tanning those betterments which can
not come from individual enterprises
alone. will be the attempt to develop
a community consciousness. There Is
to be nothing of the "highbrow" In the
movement-it is designed to be in
l.. haf
one can understand.
The adviser will cooperate by visits
and by correspondence with local or
s-agricultural, commercial.
social and civic-in utilizing their To-
cal education resources for the promo
ton OF vocational education, especial
ly in the new fields. Local school
boards and teachers will be enlisted
In this campaign.