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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

MY Y friend, Hep Hardy, presented
AVA me with a neat little gold ham,
mer day before yesterday. Why l
don't know.
Hut now that l have 1t might as
well use it.
Every time hop into one OF those
Toomy, comfortable street cars in a
city Of the second, third or even
fourth class Immediately contrast It
with the wood boxes we use in New
York. and l find myself growing red
In the face and biting my nails.
Those Squeezer cars that prowl the
streets of New York are surely the
ereathless limit. aren't they?
The Squeezer car is the best genteel
imitation OF a rOugh-house that has
ever been invented.
They are called Squeezers because
the conductor has to let the passen-
gers out with can opener.
Brave and strong men climb into
. street car, and they are full of health
and life and vigor. but a few blocks
Of the road they fall out backward and
inquire feebly for a sanitarium.
To ride on a Broadway street car.
Tar instance, about eight o'clock of an
evening brings out all that is in a
man, including lot of loud words he
didn't know he had.
The last census shows us that the
street cars in the city of New York
have more ways of producing nervous
prostration and palpitation of the
brain to the square inch than the
combined population of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Tinkerdam and Gotterdam-
merung.
To get in some of the street cars
about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is an assassination.
One evening recently l rode from
Forty-second street to Fifty-ninth
street without once touching the floor
With my feet.
Some of the New York street cars
lead a double life, because they are
used all winter to act the part of re
frigerators.
1t is a cold day when we cannot
lind IT colder in the street cars.
The germs In our street cars are ex
tremely sociable and will follow g
stranger all the way home.
Often while riding in the New YorI
street cars have felt a germ rubbing
against my ankle like kitten. Belnl
a gentleman. at least superficially.
did not reach down and kick 1t away
because the law says we must not b,
disrespectful to dumb brutes.
Many of these street cars are bull
on the same general plan as a car
Of condensed milk.
When you get out you cannot get in
and when you get in you cannot ge
out, because you hate to disturb tn,
strange gentleman that is using you
knee to lean over.
Between the seats there is a spac,
Of two feet, but in that space yol
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will always find four feet, and their
owners. unless one of them happens to
have a wooden leg.
Under ordinary circumstances four
into two won't go, but the Squeezer
cars defy the laws of gravitation.
A Squeezer conductor can put twen-
ty-six into nine, and still have four
to carry.
For man with a small dining room
the Squeezer car has its advantage,
but when a stout man rides in them
he finds himself supporting a lot Of
strangers he never met before.
One morning l jumped on one of
those Squeezers feeling just like a
two year old. full of health and hap
Diness.
During the first seven blocks three
men, fresh from a distillery, grew up
in front Of me and removed the
scenery.
One of them had to get out in a
hurry, so he kicked me on the shins
to show how sorry he was to leave
me.
One of the other two must have
been in the distillery a long time, be-
cause pretty soon he neglected to use
his memory and sat down in my lap.
When demonstrated with him, he
replied that this is free country, and
# he wished to sit down | had no
business to stop him.
Then his friend pulled us apart, and
/ resumed the use of my lap.
During the next twenty blocks |
had one of the worst daylight night
mares ever rode behind.
The party who had been studying
the exhibits of the distillery became
Obsessed with the idea that my foot
was the loud pedal on a piano and he
started to play the BLUE Danube
Waltzes.'
That man was such a hard drinker
that he gave me the gout just from
standing on my feet.
Then l jumped of and swore OF
and swore at and walked home.
II the man who invented the idea
Of standing up between seats In q
saueezer is alive he should have a
monument
MY idea would be to catch him alive
and place a monument on him, and
have the conductor come around
svery ten minutes for his fare.
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What He Meant.

The Sultan-I want to speak to you
about the light Of the harem.
Grand Vizier-The beautiful Fati.
ma?
The Sultan-No, the gas bills.
They're getting too high. = Boston
Globe.
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An Ancient FrIeze.

These Egyptian friezes tell a story
If We could but read them. Now, look
at tho driver of this chariot. He is
holding up five fingers. wonder what
that signihes?"
I judge he was operating jitney
chariot kansas City Journal.
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Not That k,nA

Don't you think. my son. you need
a tutor?"
mo, indeed. dad. That new auto
horn of mine is tooter that beats
the road"
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ParadOxIcal crIme.

There's a queer case in court this
morning."
''What is it?"
"A dumb man arrested for utterius
forged notes."
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ADDS TO CLTY's APPEARANCE
Form OF Street Lamp That Is Coming
Into General Use Throughout
the Country.

Besides forming a very attractive
support for street lamp, this re-en.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

The earliest work on shorthand
writing was compiled by Or. Timothy
Bright Of Can -asu 159Sl n
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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
INTERNATIONAL
SUNNGSGIOOL
LESSON
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER S
ELIJAH AND THE PROPHETS OF
BAAL.
(By o. e. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course OF the Moody
Bible Institute.)

LESSON TEXT Kings 1s:SO-So.
GOLDEN TExT-Jehovah is far from
the wicked; but he heareth the prayer OF
the righteous. Prov. 1923 r. V.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
CHICKENS AND BICYCLES.
Police are Given Orders to Get After
Owners of Both of Them in Kenosha

Chickens and bicycles have been
placed in the same category by the 20
lice of Kenosha and an order from the
chief has directed the arrest of owners
of both. These arrests are to be on
charges Of trespassing. The bicycles
are more blamed than the chickens. but
both are declared to be nuisances to a
lot of people. Chickens invading yards
Of the neighbors of owners have caused
many complaints to come to the police
office and the action of high school BOYS
in riding bicycles over lawns have
brought even more complaints from
property owners. We will have to oct
after the boys who own the bikes and
the people who own the chickens, - was
the order Of the chief. Arrest the
boys and take the bikes for security
and If necessary nab the chickens until
the owners pay for the damage they
do was the rest Of the order. It Is
probable that there will be a lot Of ar
rests under the new order within the
next few days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
rs HELD FOR TRIAL.
Frank Falbo Must Stand Trial OF
Charge of Attempted Murder,

Frank Falbo, arrested on March 23,
on charge of attempting to murder
Gregoria Gallo .on the previous even
ing, must stand trial on charge of
attempted murder in. the circuit court
at the September term. He was ar
raigned before Judge Randall in the
municipal court this morning and after
long hearing the court bound him
over for trial. Falbo did not take the
stand in his own defense and Gallo was
the only witness sworn at the hearing.
At the close of the testimony of Gallo
the attorney for the state rested his
case and Attorney E. S. Symmonds.
who appeared for the defendant. de-
clared that he had no evidence to Of
fer. No bond was fixed in the case.
this being left open until such a time
as the friends of Falbo make some ar
rangements for his release. He had
been held in bonds of $1,000 pending
the hearing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01

Bernard f. Hoffman, former proprie,
tor of pool room at the corner of
Main and Wisconsin street but who
sold out his pool room last Monday
morning and left Kenosha with his
family after shipping his household
goods within a few hours after the sale
was consummated, was arrested at Lo-
mira, Wis, on Tuesday afternoon and
is being held there pending the arrival
of Kenosha officials. Hoffman was
taken on orders from the Kenosha POI
lice department and Chief of Police
o Hare left at noon for Lomira armed
with warrant for the arrest of Holt
man on charges Of issuing a worth
less check with intent to defraud,
Hoffman had been in charge of the
Main street pool room for. some years
and he was widely known among sport
ing men in the city. He came to Ke-
nosha from Madison and it was declar-
ed that he was a member of well
known Madison family Last Monday
morning agents of the Vinegrad and
Sher Cigar Company of Milwaukee,
came to Kenosha and turned over to
the district attorney check which had
been sent to the company by Hoffman
in payment for cigars which had been
purchased for the billiard and pool hall.
The check which was for an amount
ef nesrs fifty dollars, had kesn drawn
on the First National Bank. The Mil
waukee con nany sent the check through
one Of the Milwaukee banks and early
Monday It was returned marked "N.
S. FL which in the rubber stamp d.
rectors of the bank means not sufficient
funds. The agents of the Milwaukee
company reached Kenosha with the
check only a few minutes before Holt
man left the city. In fact the district
attorney had notified the police to hold
Holman and his goods and a police
officer sent to arrest Hoffman reached
the Northwestern station just after he
had taken north bound train.
Hoffman was traced to Lomira where
it is declared he was visiting with
friends at the time of his arrest. The
charge. of issuing the worthless check
came as a surprise to many people who
had known Hoffman during the years
he had been in business in Kenosha
and it was declared that he had always
been careful of financial obligations.
Hoffman will be brought to Kenosha
some time late this evening and he
will be arraigned in the municipal
court tomorrow. 1t is probable that
arrangements can be made to settle up
the financial tangle so that the criminal
charge will not be pushed against him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
White Plague Fighters See
Need of Larger Appropri-
atoms From the State.
CRUSADER POINTS THE WAY

Property and prosperity must be
conserved through, and not at the ex-
pense of, physically strong and com
petent citizenship displayed in bold
letters on the front cover expresses the
theme Of the last number of the
" Crusader published by the. Wiscon-
sin Anti tuberculosis Association. In
the leading editorial, our last two leg
lslatures are commended for the splen-
did programme Of tuberculosis legisla.
tion which has aroused the admiration
OF the whole country land confidence
expressed in the intention Of our pres
emit Legislature to make whatever req
sonable provision may be necessary to
carry it out.
The most important thing will be to
appropriate a sum necessary to meet
the needs under our law now in force
providing state aid to counties in car
ing for their INDECENT tubercular, the
county sanatorium capacity having been
greatly increased during the last year
by the charging Of existing institu.
tions and the establishment of new
ones. Small appropriations for com
pleting and maintaining the conval-
escent camp on the state forest reserve
are also expected. Two new bills
slightly amending the present laws, one
changing the, classification of patients
the other providing that two or three
counties may 60 together in building
q sanatorium.
"There seems to be little doubt
about the outcome of these measures. I:
according to the Crusader 1--WE con-
fidently expect that the present legisla-
ture will make whatever provision is
necessary to carry out for the next
two years this program, which, though
advanced, is decidedly conservative. y
A report Of the Christmas Seal sale
In this issue shows an actual increase
for the state of about $4,000, or twenty
two per cent over last year. This in.
crease exceeds any of the estimates
formerly given out
A cartoon on the back cover reals.
tically portrays the contrast between
work in a closed school room and in
one well ventilated. ssStuffy Air
STILES Study and Stunts Stature, y and
Pure Air Promotes PHYSICAL and Psv.
chial Perfection are the legends to
Illustrations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
10 IMPROVE The HIGHWAYS
Commissioners Of Two Counties Discuss
Plans at the Annual Road School at
the Court House on Tuesday and See
Chance of Saving Money.

Cooperation in the work of securing
rood permanent raods for the rural dis
tricts of Racine and Kenosha counties
was the keynote Of the road school held
in Kenosha on Tuesday afternoon. Com
missioner Mutter of the Racine County
Highway committee and Commissioner
Herzog of Kenosha had at the school
more than twenty men who will be ac-
lively engaged in road work during the
coming summer months. Racine and
Kenosha counties have lot of connect
ing roads and uniform Improvement Of
these roads is greatly to be desired.
Commissioner Mutter at the school on
Tuesday declared that Racine county
was anxious to solve its road problems
in way that would meet with the de-
mands of the connecting roads in Keno
sha county and similar spirit has been
shown by the town chairmen of the va
rious towns in this county and by the
highway commissioner. 1t has even been
suggested that joint county plan for
highway work be laid out. Out in the
western part of the county the people
have shown themselves to be favorable
to the building of gravel roads. This
is also the plan of the Racine town
chairmen and it is thought that con-
siderable amount can be saved the two
counties by cooperation in this sort of
road work The cost of getting materi-
ais on the job has always been one Of
the big problems for the road workers
to solve and it is thought that with we'll
directed cooperation both of the coun-
ties can save considerable money in a
season IS work. On the the eastern side
of Racine and Kenosha counties ener-
gies are being directed for the improve
lnent of the lake shore road. In both
counties the work is to be of concrete
and it is expected that if this work is
not completed in the summer of 1915
that the money will be forthcoming for
the improvement Of the road by the end
of 1916.
Engineer DeBerard of the Wisconsin
State Highway Commission was in
charge OF the school at the court house
on Tuesday afternoon and many plans
getting the most out of the money ex-
pended Were discussed. Practical prob
lens of working foremen and of the
Highway Commissioners were taken up
at length and it is certain that the
school will result in the foremen and
the commissioners being brought into
closer touch for the work that is to be
done in the two counties during the
coming road building season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
HITS LAWS DELAY.
Judge Refuses to Grant Postponment
Of Parsnnal Damaoe Cases

Judge Refuses to Grant Postponment
of Personal Damape Gases
Judge Belden took swat at the
laws delay this morning when he re-
fused to grant an indefinite adjourn
ment of the hearing Of the suits
brought by Michael Gallo against the
orthWestern Railway Company. The
suits, which are actions for personal in
jury, were to have been called for trial
in the circuit court on Thursday morn
ing. Attorneys for the railway com
pany appeared this morning and asked
that the trials be postponed on account
of the illness Of E. M. Smart, general
counsel for the North Western road.
Judge Belden after considerable ar
gument declared that he would grant a
postponment until next Wednesday
morning and that if Mr.. Smart was not
ready to appear in the cases at that
time that the defendant company would
have to make arrangements to have an
other attorney try the cases. The Ra-
cine circuit court sessions open week
from next Monday and after that term
opens Judge Belden does not expect to
be back in Kenosha until some time in
June. He declared that he was very
much opposed to calling a jury compos-
ed largely Of farmers in the middle of
the busiest season of the year for the
farmers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
Improvement of the City
Through Ward Organiza-
ton Being Suggested.
INTEREST PEOPLE IN HOMES

An extension of the social. center
work in Kenosha is being urged by
superintendent David Fogwell with q
view Of making this work of more
practical interest to many people of
the city. The line of extension now
being urged is along the. line of
Ward Improvements socfeties.ii' The
social center work has been found to
De most successful in interesting the
people in the work of the schools and
the men and women who have promoted
this phase of educational work in the
city see no reason why it should not
be made power for improvement of
the city in many ways. In other cities
there has grown out of social center
work ward organizations which have
been instrumental in securing the i'm
provement of streets, in securing resi-
Dental districts and in securing the
passage Of ordinances which have made
these particular sections better places
to live in.
The ward organizations have always
brought the people of the various dis
tricts in the cities into closer touch
with the work being done by the city
as municipality and it has given the
people new understanding and new
interest in big problems of the cities.
In cities where the ward plan has
been carried out it is found fiat the
wards where such organizations have
BEEN formed are progressive and that
the people learn early the value Of pub
lie sentiment in securing public i'm
provement. These organizations have
also been instrumental in bringing to
the city council and to the board of
educatiof men who are in close touch
with the uses of the people.
'FThe plan has been used with such
success in other cities that I feel deep
ly the need Of its being taken up in
Kenosha, !" said Supervisor Fogwell
this morning. fThe little communities
all over the city have problems of their
own to solve and the best possible way
for the people to solve these problems
IS TO nave Ihem get together IN Trend
ly sessions. The views of every prop
erty owner may be heard at these lit
tie meetings and the property owners
are given the chance to have a real
voice in everything that is being dore
for the advancement Of the ward or
community. It would be an easy mat
ter to develop these ward clubs in Ke-
nosha in connection with the social
center work and the development Of
them would bring to Kenosha more
neighborly feeling among its smaller
communities. ] am enthusiastic over
the plan and I feel certain that people
who have been active in advancing the
social center work will give the same,
interest to the proposed ward or com
munity clubs
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01

Seeing America first and keeping
moving at a rate that was pretty near
ly as fast as an express train Frank
Krah, sixteen year old boy, revealed
to the officials of the Municipal Court
this morning what real bright and
quick boy could do IN getting over the
country. Frank is not liable to get
over great deal more country and his
next run out of Kenosha is going to
only as far as Waukesha. Judge Ran
dali directed that Frank be committed
to the Industrial School for Boys this
morning after he had entered plea of
guilty to charges of larceny. The boy
was charge with stealing SIS from his
father and the father told to police Of
fcials and the court that the boy was
incorrigible. 1t was not the first time
that young Krah had been in the court
He. had been arrested on former oc-
casion charged with theft from a local
industrial concern and at that time he
had been paroled to one of the T~enosha
organizations. All of this has nothing
to do with the record of young Krah as
a traveller. His trip covering just ten
days excited wonder among the court
officials. Here is the way young Krah
went about seeing America first. On
the 10th day of March he took French
leave from his job at the plant of the
Simmons Manufacturing company and
went to his home where he managed to
get hold of the $l8 belonging to his ia
Their and then he started to travel. He
left Kenosha on an evening train, tax
ing the blind baggage car and reaching
Chicago he went from there to Savan-
all, ILL.,, and from Savannah to Clinton,
Iowa, then he hoped over to Sedalia,
Mo-, and from Sedalia to Kansas CITY,
and from Kansas City he went on to
Ogden, Utah, and landed at Cheyenne.
Here he sought work, but Cheyenne was
not any too pleasing and he started
to retrace his steps He got back to
Ogden, caught a fast mail train to Oma-
ha and from Omaha on back to Chicago.
He did walk from Chicago to Evanston
and then caught a fast freight.as far
north as Waukegan. Frank had no idea
of coming back from his world-seeing
trip on freight train and he waited at
Waukegan until he could catch a pass
enger train. He landed here on Monday
night and Tuesday he was arrested The
most interesting. fact in Connection with
the. long trip OF the Kenosha boy was
that he had solved the difficulty of trav-
cling thousands of miles without a cent
Of expense for transportation He was
not even forced to slip a jitney to any.
OF the brakemen on the long trip Krah
had travelled air with him in court,
but he showed signs of losing his bra
vado when he was advised that he had
lost his opportunity to make good and
that he must go to the Waukesha
school
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
WED THIS AFTERNOON.
Former Senator Bishop to Take Mrs.
Harriet Tanis as His Bride Today

J
Somers is to have the most interest.
ing wedding ceremony Of its history
late this afternoon when former State
Senator Isaac T. Bishop, who for years
represented the Racine and Kenosha
county district in the state senate, is to
be married to Mrs Harriet Tanis Of
Chicago. The ceremony is to be quiet
one and the service will be read by the
Rev. Richard T. Geiger, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Somers Only
members of the families of the bride
and groom will be present at the cere-
mony which is to take place at the
church parsonage. Former State SEN
ator Bishop and his bride will leave
this evening for an extended honey
moon trip and on their return they viii
make their home at the Bishop farm
in the town of Somers. Since an
nouncement was made of the approach
ing marriage Mr.. Bishop has received
many letters and kilograms of eongrat-
ulations from his former political as
sociates in the state. Just as soon as
the former senator and his BRIDE re-
turn from their wedding trip they are
to be given a real reception by their
friends and neighbors in Somers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
Law rs IN DOUBT.
City Attorney Not Certain That hide
pendent Candidates May Run.

Men who wanted to be independent
candidates for aldermen at the coming
city election were under fire today and
they had lot of troubles of their own.
One of them appealed to the city attor-
ney for a decision as to just how he
could get on the ballot and ATTORNEY
Slater declared that the non-partisan
law and the law providing for indepen-
dent candidates were so conflictinc
that he was decidedly uncertain as to
whether or not it would be possible to
get an independent candidate on the
ticket. In the ninth ward it is doclar-
ed that petitions have been signed
for one independent candidate and that
the papers will be filed on Friday.
Then the question will be up to the
city attorney to decide. In the mean
time it is probable that tbs attorney
general will be asked to send along an
other opinion.