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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
IN BUSINESS So YEARS.
Billy" Dickhaut Receives Friends
on Notable Anniversary Today.

William ]. Dickhaut-pardon me-
"Billy" Dickhaut-kept open house
at his barber shop on Park street to-
day in observance of the fifty third an
niversary Of his becoming a barber in
Kenosha. There were flowers and cor
dial greetings to the dean of the ton
serial artists in the city and during the
day many people who had been patrons
of the shop for more than fifty years
called to extend greetings. Mr.. Dick
haut is one of the real landmarks of
Kenosha. His long life in the city has
brought him into intimate relations
with many men who have been promi-
nent in the city and while he was to
these men their favorite barber he
was to every one close friend. There
are half dozen old timers who have
been regular customers of Chilly
Dickhaut for more than fifty years and
the shop on Park street is one Of the
historical centers of Kenosha. Mr.
Dickhaut has not been in the best Of
health for the past few months but he
is now greatly improved and he be-
Heyes that he will be able to stave off
old Father Time and be ready for the
celebration of his sixtieth anniversary
seven years from now
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
Man Who Entered Union
Dye Works and Robbed
Register Left no Trace.
MAY HAVE HIDDEN IN BUILDING

The Office of the Union Dye Works
at the corner of Market and Exchange
street, was entered by burglars some
time Saturday night or early Sunday
morning and the cash drawer of the
company was rifed. 1t is declared that
the thieves got away with cash to the
amount of 5000. So far as has been
ascertained no clothing or anything
else of value was taken from the plant.
The plant had been closed up late Sat
Urday night and doors and windows
carefully locked, but when Louis Plous
went to the Office this morning he
found the cash register open and the
money missing. There is considera-
BILE mystery attending the robbery of
the register. So far as could be found
there were no broken locks or windows
and the doors appeared to be closed
just as they were when the plant was
closed up on Saturday night. This
morning pocket book which had been
taken from the drawer of the cash
AoSAoUC1 was 1Uuhu III Tile ydEu aC Inc
rear of the plant. 1t is thought posi-
BILE that the thief had hidden himself
somewhere in the plant on Saturday af-
ternoon and that he invaded the Of
fees after they were closed on Satur-
day night and then slipped out at the
front door leaving no trace behind him.
No suspicious characters were seen
about the plant esther Saturday night
or Sunday morning and the case is
proving hard one for solution by the
police department.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
CHARCOAL AT HANNAH PARK.
Unique Industry Attracts Attention
from Many Kenosha County People.

Unique Industry Attracts Attention
from Many Kenosha County People.
Hannah Park on Prairie avenue, at
the west limits Of the city, has new
industry which is attracting a lot of
attention. Mrs. James Hannah has
found use for the wood in the famous
old oak trees of Hannah Park and
lot of them which have been cut on ac-'
count of the laying of streets and al
leys in the subdivision are being con-
verified into charcoal. There was no
market for wood in Kenosha and Mrs.
Hannah sought to find some way to
dispose of the hundreds of cords of
wood and hit upon the plan of making
charcoal of it. An expert in burning
charcoal was secured and as result of
his work several tons of the charcoal
have already been burned. The char
coal is being made with what is known
as the Italian method and the method
is so novel that it is attracting atten-
ton from all over the county. It is
declared that following the experiment
of Mrs. Hannah other people in the
county will 60 into the business of
burning charcoal It is said that
ready market for the product is found
in Chicago and other large cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
GRAND CLEAN UP is PLANNED
City Will Let Contracts For Building
of Many Walks Where the Property
Owners Have Failed to Obey Order
Cost to be Charged on Tax Roll.

The men in the city engineer Office
are busy getting out notices for the
building of sidewalks and within the
next thirty days notices will be served
on property owners demanding the
laying of several miles of walks and all
of these are expected to be completed
before the close of the building season
of the present year. Aldermen in all
of the wards of the city have been
ordered to send to the engineer lists
of walks which should be built and as
conditions are now exceptionally fav-
orable to the building Of the walks an
effort will be made to make a grand
clean up of all this work and secure the
construction of walks in all of the
older territory of the city.
No effort will be made to enforce
the building of walks in the new terri
tory recently annexed to the city, as
it is held that the city must wait
on these walks until other benefits of
city rule have been extended to the
people in the new territory. Technic-
ally the city has a perfect right to
force the building of sidewalks in the
new territory and already the council
is being flooded with petitions demand
ing the building of these walks, but the
aldermen hold that it would be unfair
to property owners to order them to lay
walks and at the same time deny them
other benefits in the line of sewers and
the grading of streets. The city could
not make special assessments against
the property for walks without great
deal of trouble.
Just at the present time there are
many contractors little slack of work
and these men will welcome the deci-
SIGN Of the city to clean up the side
walk problem. It is not at all improb-
able that the property owners will be
able to secure tho walks at lower
figure than in other years.
Efforts to secure the building of side
walks on all streets within the limits
of the city have been made for several
years, but each year there have been
a large number of walks laid over on
account of the alleged inability to Sc
cure men to do the work There can
be no such a defense this season and
the city officials feel that the time is
ripe for a grand clean up. On many of
the streets formal notice to build walks
was served on the property owners y
year ago and the city will go ahead ana
let contracts for these walks without
any further notice and the cost of the
building of the walks will be charged
to property owners in their annual tax
bill. All differences of right of the
city to build the walks have been re-
ferred to the city attorney and he will
have an opinion ready to make the
grand clean up an assured fact.
Kenosha is pretty well supplied with
cement sidewalks at this time, but
there are lot of spots in the older
districts of the city where the old wood
walks have not been taken out and re-
placed and an effort will be made TO
have every one of these walks put in
according to the city ordinance before
the end of the present year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
GOLD BUG COMES BACK AGAIN.
DR.. e. f. Rowell's Offices Entered and
$50 Worth OF Gold Leaf Taken.

One of the most interesting of the
robberies of Saturday night and Sun
day took place at the dental Offices of
DR.. E. F. Rowell in the Krebs building.
/" Gold bugs as travelling thieves steal
ing gold leaf are known to the police
forced their way into the office and
forced the safe and secured $50 worth
of gold leaf. The police assert that the
men got into the Office by :" .iimmying
a second story window, but it is diff
cult to see how this could have been
done without someone seeing them at
work. The door to the Office had also
been opened. Periodic gold thefts have
been reported In Kenosha and for this
reason Kenosha dentists almost without
exception have sought to make them
selves safe by keeping all gold leaf on
hand in safes. This is the first time
that the gold thieves have opened
safe. Nothing else Of value was taken
from the offices of DR.. Rowe1. The
gold thieves have been operating in
lake shore cities for the past SEVEN
years and in that time but one of them
has been arrested. They seem to be
entirely too clever for the police of the
north shore cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
Women Near EicheIman
Park Say Body Was Float
ing Near Shore Saturday.
LIFE SAVERS DO NOT GO OUT

People residing in the neighborhood
of Eichelman Park were considerably
excited just after eleven O'Clock Sat
urday night when a report was spread
about that a body had been SC n float
ing in the lake off the park. A call
was sent to the life saving station and
when the life savers did not turn out
the people to the number of score
gathered along the breakwater and
watched the floating object for more
than an hour before it was carried out
into the lake and disappeared One of
the women OF the party discovered the
floating object just after ten O'Clock
and she was so convinced that the OBJ
ject was the body of a human being
that she called the life savers. Other
women in the neighborhood declared
that they felt convinced that they had
seen body floating in the lake. Auto
mobile and bicycle lamps were called
into service by the women in an eff
fort to trace the course of the febody'
while they waited for the coming of
the life savers.
In discussing the matter this morn
ing Captain Frank Fountain of the
crew said: Gone of the boys received
report that body was seen floating
in the lake off the park about eleven
O'Clock Saturday night. We did not
go out. These reports are coming in
all the time and if we went out every
time there was a report that an object
resembling a body was seen floating in
the lake we would be on the jump all
the time. 1t is probable that the OBJ
ject seen was a log. At that time of
night it would be very difficult for any
one to see body floating at any great
distance from the beach and the men
who got the call felt certain that there
was no body to go out after"
Notwithstanding the statement of
the captain there are a lot of women
in the Eichelman Park neighborhood
who still insist that they saw BODY
floating in the lake. Search was made
along the beach this morning, but there
was no sign of any body.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
PUTS QUIETUs ON SKIN GAMES
Alderman Found Bars Running ana
Men in Charge Declared That They
Had Permission-Mayor Insists He
Gave No Permit to Violate Laws.

Alderman August Kisten of the II.
cense committee of the common coun-
Gil got into the imelight again on Sun
day night when he closed down the
bars at Anderson Park. He acted af-
ter the park bars had violated the clos
ing regulations by more than an hour
and although some of the Germans at
the park were considerably incensed
when the supply of beer was cut off at
half past nine O'Clock the alderman
from the fifth managed to get away
without being assaulted.
Some time ago the city council was
asked to grant permission for over
time operation of the bars at the park,
but the council refused to take any
action IN the matter. Complaints be-
gan to reach Alderman Kisten lust af-
ter eight O'Clock that the bars at the
park were running. The alderman
went to the park at once and found
three bars in operation, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the main saloon at the
park had been closed shortly after
eight O'Clock. When Kisten started to
make an investigation the men behind
the bar insisted that they had permits
sion to keep open after hours and hint
ed that the PERMISSION had been i've
by the mayor. Kisten took a look
about the grounds and put an end to
the operation of couple Of games
which he characterized as skin
games' and then came back and di-
rected the bars to close up.
This morning Alderman Kisten and
the mayor met at the police office and
the alderman demanded that the MAYOR
declare himself in regard to giving any
permission for violations of the law at
the park. 81 gave no permission to
any one,' declared the mayor. "I did
tell them that so far as I was concern
ed had no objections to them keep
ing open for an extra hour or so pro-
viding they could get the permission
from other city officials, but I gave no
positive permission
The mayor declared that he had left
the park just after five O'Clock and
that he had no idea what was done af-
ter this time Alderman Kisten de-
clared that he had been repeatedly
told at the park that the permission
to violate the regulations had been
given by the mayor and he declined
to get out warrant. Just before noon
Chief of Police O'Hare appeared in the
municipal court and asked for war
rant for the arrest of Andrew Ander-
son charged with violating the early
closing statute. The warrant was
issued.
1t is expected that all facts in re
gard to the alleged permits will be
brought out when the charge against
Anderson is called for hearing. 1t is
probable that the case will be taken up
in court some time this afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
PASSED WORTHLESS CHECK.
Police Asked to Search for Otto Rain
of Chicago Former Guest at Borup. !

Another passer of worthless checks
has been at work in Kenosha and this
morning the police were asked to
make an effort to secure the arrest Of
a man who gave his name as Otto
Rain and who was recently a guest
at the Hotel Borup. When Rain left
Kenosha he pulled out his check book
and drew small check and offered it
to Proprietor Borup in payment of his
bill. 1t was all done so cleverly that
Borup cashed the check and gave Rain
the change. This morning the check
came back worthless. Rain had repre-
scented himself as commercial travel
er, but letters sent to companies with
which he was supposed to have been
connected came back unopened.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
EDUCATION OF DEAF MUTEs.
State School for the Deaf at Delavan
Teaches Speech and Lip Reading.

Teaches Speech and Lip Reading.
The Wisconsin State School for the
Deaf at Delavan, Wis, opens its next
term on Wednesday, Sept. 8. The OPP
portunities offered to deaf boys and
girls by this school are free to all deaf
boys and girls in Wisconsin. Among
those advantages are:
l. A good academic education in
Guiding an English course and high
school course preparatory for college.
2. Excellent domestic science and
manual training facilities together
with various shops for industrial train
ing.
8. Great attention is paid to speech
and lip reading.
4. Careful supervision of habits and
morals. Nowhere is there collected a
cleaner minded lot of students than
are at this school.
5. Medical attendance is constantly
at hand for those who need it.
6. Board, washing, light, heat and
medical service are all furnished free
to deaf boys and girls in Wisconsin.
For further particulars apply to E.
w. Walker, Superintendent, Wisconsin
School for the. Deaf, Delavan, Wis.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
GET AWAY WITH RICH BOOTY
One Man Touched For $500 and -Four
Others Robbed of Smaller Amounts
Pocket Books Reported Lost
May Have Gone Into Thieves Hands

Pick pockets reaped a harvest in Ke-
nosha on Sunday during the German
picnic and they evidently continued
their work on trains which went out of
Kenosha late Sunday afternoon. Five
cases of robbery from the person were
reported to the police and nearly as
many other eported pocketbooks lost or
stolen. The pick pockets got away
as only three suspects were arrested BY
the police and these were all released
after they had been searched and
questioned. Not one of the suspects
arrested had any considerable amount
of money on his person. Robberies
were reported from both the north and
south sides and the thieves seem TO
have been active in the crowds at the
North Western station late in the aft
ernoon.
W. E. Roberts, residing at 1913 Ex-
change street, reported to the police
that he had been robbed of pocket
book containing $50 in cash and lot
of valuables. He declared that the
crime took place at the North Western
station and he gave the police a de-
scription of three men who kept pretty
close to him before the robbery and
who disappeared after the robbery was
discovered.
Herman Ronquist reported that he
had been robbed of pocketbook con-
tanning So in money. He declared that
he believed that the robbery was com
mitted by woman. The woman had
pressed up close to him just before he
discovered the loss of his wallet and
money. Emil Heusser of Milwaukee
lost pocket book containing SIS and
some valuable papers. He believed that
he was touched at Anderson Is park
G. R. Kreider had a pocket book con-
tanning 81 in money and valuable
ruby ring lifted during the day. VIM.
j. Dickhaut, the Park street barber, re-
ported the loss or theft of his pocket
book containing small sum of money
and two other reports of losses or rob-
berries either on the street or at rail
way stations were reported. Just after
the train left Kenosha for the south
at AIS Sunday afternoon report was
received from Zion City declaring that
a passenger on the train had been rob-
bed of a pocket book containing $500
and it was alleged that the robbery
took place either on the train or at
the North Western station in Kenosha.
The police made a hurried search for
suspects after this report was received
but no arrests were made.
There were hundreds of strangers in
Kenosha on Sunday and it is thought
that the smooth fingered gentry came
with the visitors on trains from Mil
waukee. Careful police supervision
was given to the big crowd at Ander-
son park and most Of the robberies re-
ported are alleged to have taken place
on the streets.
1t is not improbable that the men
responsible for the thefts worked
among the crowds and got out of the
city with the crowds and the police
have little reason to believe that they
will be captured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
SEEK MISSING BOY HERE.
Police Asked to Search for Arthur S.
Ellis Missing from Endeavor, Wis.

The police of Kenosha have received
letter from Endeayor, Wis, asking
them to make an effort to find Arthur
5. Ellis, a seventeen year old 10y, who
disappeared from that town on the af-
ternoon of May 25th. Nothing has
been seen or heard of him since that
time. Young Ellis is said to have been
a boy scout and he had boy scout
bag with him when he left his home.
His father is of the opinion that he
has become mentally deranged and
that he is wandering somewhere about
the state. There is no charge of any
kind against the young man and his
parents are making every possible eff
fort to get some trace of him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Mrs. William Stretch, who resides at
All Grover street, met with severe in
juries at Salem on Sunday when she
tainted and fell from wagon, strik-
ing on her head. She was unconscious
for several hours, but it is declared
that her condition is greatly improved
today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Martin William Krause, aged three
months, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Krause, died at the family residence
on Edward street on Saturday. The
funeral was held from the home this
afternoon with interment at the Keno
sha City cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

A team left standing in front of the
Brassville House on Saturday night
when the man in charge was in the
bar-room, became frightened and ran
away. 1t ran into delivery horse be-
longing to A. H. Peterson, the grocer.
The pole of the wagon punchered the
ribs of the delivery horse and il. was
so badly injured that DR.. Achen was
called to kill it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

The Gillian W." the latest addi-
ton to the motor craft in the Kenosha
harbor, was formally launched on Sat-
urday afternoon. The trim little craft
is the property of W. G. Whitcher of
Prairie avenue and it is one of the
speediest of the power boats in Keno
sha waters.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Minnie Hamilton, who claims Keno
sha as her home, was arraigned before
Judge Randall this morning on charges
OF making disturbance on the street.
She was sent back to Jail to await an
adjourned hearing on Friday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Licenses have been issued for the
marriage of Stanley stankiewicz and
Miss Ionna Kornecka, and Brobislav
Kokor and Miss Leonardo Zarkovska,
all of Kenosha,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

City Clerk George w. Harrington, re-
Gently operated on for appendicitis, re-
turned to his home on Saturday after
noon. He expects to be able to be at
his Office before the end of the week,
but he will not be able to take up
his regular work for some time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Tannrath and
daughter Lucille of Elgin, H., is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Carl J. Hanson Of
this city for few days before leav-
ing for Los Angeles, California, where
they win join Mrs. Tannrath s sister
Miss Laura Mcnamara of that city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

The Moose drill team which recently
won first honors at the Milwaukee ma
tionaI convention, gave an exhibition
drill on Market Square or Saturday
night. Two thousand people cheered
the prize winners. The drill, under the
direction Of Captain Bert Fowler, was
the best thing of the kind ever seen
i'm -Kanosha..
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

The funeral Of the late Mrs. Esther
Stebbins was held from the family
residence on Park avenue on Sunday
afternoon. The services were largely
attended and large cortege followed
the remains to their last resting place
in the Kenosha City cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Leute of Ke.
nosha, have filed petition in the
county court asking that they be-
granted leave to adopt Vera Martin,
an infant daughter of Frederick and
Rose Martin of Red Wing, MINI.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Anderson Of
Chicago, spent Sunday afternoon with
Kenosha friendf
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bieggs of Auro.
ra, I'll, S~n sp"dav afternoon IN
.Kenosha
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Try a Wan. Ad.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-27
STELZLE TALKS TO
G.. II. SHOP FORCE

Charles Stelzle- as a shOpman talk
ing to shOpmen, told the workers in
metal Friday that It'll did not pay to so to
the scrap heap or to put a cracked cog
into the engine of their character, for
the soul could not be strapped when it
broke down, but must continue forever
with its defects.
Sickle was for eight years master
mechanic in a New York shop and he
told the machinists' apprentices and
helpers at the c. H & S. A. shops
Friday at noon that they could apply
the mechanical principles which they
had learned in. the shop work to char
acter making, and could disregard the
logical theories and stick to the basic
facts: that men must obey certain laws
of life in order to get a perfect pro-
duct, just as they must follow the six
mechanical principles in order to get
the perfect machine part. The talk
was attended by more than 100 from
the back shops, the car shops. the Of
fees and yards of the c. H They lis
tened to the New York sociological
lecturer, who talked from a bench in
the north end of the back shop and
who illustrated his points with figures
taken from the experience he had IS q
machinist and which the men under
stood well. He was introduced by II.
B. Durkee, of the Y. II c. A.. ard was
ACCOMPANIED to the shoDs by Rev. Ken
meth Brown, Rev. J. F. Williams and
other local ministers