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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
PROCLAMATION.

Gov. Philip has proclaimed
May 81 Memorial day. The gov
ernor's proclamation in part
follows:
-Four anniversary years, rich
in Renaissance of a great war
and crowded with the dates of
memorable battles are drawing
to a close. During the semi
centennial of the years 1861 to
1865, momentous events have
been following each other in pro-
cession through the memory and
there has scarcely been day
that has not reminded us that it
was the anniversary Of a battle.
"The present year commemor-
ates the scene at Appomattox and
the beginning of stronger
union among our people.
"The state of Wisconsin,
whose soldiers have done their
part on many battlefelds, has
instituted Memorial day a legal
holiday and has made it one Of
those few holidays whose date is
set by statute and which is,
therefore, independent of execu-
tive proclamation. But though
it is thus independent Of procla-
nation, I have thought fit, in
order to give the day as full
observance as possible, to pro
claim it to the people.
Therefore, /, Emanuel i.
Philip, governor of the state of
Wisconsin, do hereby designate
and proclaim Monday the thirty
first day Of May, as Memorial
day and recommend it's observ-
ance by the citizens of Wis
consin.
"Of the Grand Army of the
Republic but a scattering rem
nant remains. Let the aged
veteran feel, as he leads the way
to the last camping place of so
many comrades, that he is the
honored survivor of war that is
hallowed in history.
"The people, following their
usual custom, will also decorate
on this day the graves of their
departed relatives and friends.
Elm testimony whereof, T have
hereunto set my head and caused
the great seal Of the state Of
Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at
the capitol in the city of Madi-
son this tenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord, 1915.
"E. L. Philip, Governor. y
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
MORE TRAIN SERVICE.
New Train to Western Part Of County
to be Started on May goth.

The action of the Kenosha Retailer IS
Association in getting behind plans for
jitney service to the county towns,
seems to have had immediate results as
it was announced on Friday afternoon
that the Chicago and Northwestern
road would put on the summer train y
to the west for the first time on Sat
urday, May Goth. It is to run on this
day, Memorial day and the day follow
ing, and on the following Saturday and
Sunday and after June 18th the train
will run daily. This train viii leave
Kenosha in the morning and go to the
lake districts and return to Kenosha in
the evening. The officials of the North
Western declare that the putting on of
the train was agreed to some time ago
and that the "jitney suggestion had
nothing to do with the issuance of
the order.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
JOHNNIE HAND NEAR DEATH
Old. Time Chicago Musician Very I'll
in q Chicago Hosnital

Old. Time Chicago Musician Very I'll
in Chicago Hospital.
Prof. John A. Hand (Johnnie), Chi
cago's veteran music master, widely
known in Kenosha, has laid his worn
baton aside and may WELD it no more.
At the German hospital in Chicago, he
quantity remarked in feeble voice yes
terday ''Just say that Johnnie Hand
may go today or tomorrow, and I lie
here listening to the herald angels
sing. " Johnnie" was carried to
the hospital three weeks ago after an
active career as band master and or
chestra leader in Chicago since 1850,
when he came to that city from the
Rhine section i'll Prussia, where he was
born in 1880. OIL age and an incurable
malady caused his retirement several
months ago. 'fJohnnie' Hand has
stood unique in Chicago music circles
and for generations has been held in
great affection by members of the pio-
neer families in Chicago. Tt long has
been his boast that he provided the
wedding music for the grandmothers
and grandfathers of many Chicagoans,
and in his time he has led in the sere-
nad$ of every president of the United
States from Buchanan to Taft, and it
is chief regret that he has not play
ed at similar functions in honor of
President Wilson.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

must be paid on or before arrival
at camp.
Cooks will be provided who will pre-
pare an abundance of wholesome food.
Meals are served family style, each
tent group at table. The grounds
provide plenty of pure water.
Swimming, boating, croquet, base
ball, volley ball, folk games, campfres,
quoits, hiking, stunts, music, marsh
mallow roasts, story hours, nature
study, and many other activities will
make the camp not only intensely fas-
cinating, but also educational.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

The annual sale of Kenosha county
tax titles is to be held Tuesday and the
men who deal in these titles will have
more business this year than they ever
had before, for the list is longer this
year than it has ever been in the his
tory of the county. At that it is GER
tain that every piece sold will be re-
deemed by the owner at the earliest
possible moment. Values on real estate
everywhere in the county have been ris-
ing steadily for years and any one who
has any claim on any property any
where in the county is going to- hang
on to it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
TWO YEARS FOR DUFFY.
Man Present at Holdup of J. Franey
Will Join His Pal in Prison Soon.

Edward Dufy-also of Brooklyn
who was arrested on charge of being
implicated with Mike O'Brien in the
holdup of Joseph Franey on the night
of May LIST, came into the municipal
court this morning and changed his
plea from one Of not guilty to one of
guilty of the charges of larceny from
the person. Duffy declared that this
was the first time that he had been ar
rested and charged with a crime and
he made strong plea for mercy In
sentencing Duffy, Judge Randall held
him guilty with O'Brien in the crime
and gave him the same sentence, two
years in the state prison at Waupun.
Duffy will join his "pal" at Waupun
the first of the week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

Racine had hold up on Thursday
night similar to the hold up of the
Mountain House Inn here on Tuesday
evening. Two masked men held up the
saloon of George Hansen and secured
some fifty dollars in money. Racine
could be expected to be couple Of
days behind Kenosha in anything and
it is just possible that the men who
worked in Kenosha travelled along to
Racine. The police force of Racine
failed to arrest anyone in connection
with the crime.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
WARRANT FOR MISSING MAN
Silla Porfico Who Disappeared in Ap
Ri Charged as Wife Deserter


For nearly a month the police in Ke-
nosha have been making an effort to
get some trace of Silla Porfieo, an Ita1-
ian who disappeared from Kenosha I'M
der mysterious circumstances on the af-
ternoon of April Goth. For a time it
was suspected that the man might have
met with foul play but this theory has
been pretty well disposed of by the
wife of the man who on Thursday Sc
cured warrant for his arrest on
charges of abandonment. 1t is declared
that the italian has been seen in Rock
ford, ILL.,, and that he has made no eff
fort to communicate with his wife or
other relatives in Kenosha. IF he can
be located he will be arrested and
brought back to Kenosha to answer
charges brought against him by his
wife.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

The Balm Wagon Company on Fri
day completed the shipment of wagons
and parts Of wagons to the war zone.
The order consisted Of FIVE hundred
completed wagons and ten thousand
poles. The local company delivered the
manufactured articles to the Atlantic
seaport and the companies purchasing
them had the task of delivering them
to the war zones.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
OLD PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.
G. H. Bullamore Retires from Interest
in the Kenosha Laundry on Friday.

Tt was announcedeon Friday that the
partnership which has continued for
the past ten years, between Charles H.
Bullamore ana L. R. Fink, in the man
agement of the Kenosha Laundry. had
been dissolved. Mr.. Fink has taken
over the interest of Mr.. Bullamore and
in the future will be the sole proprie-
tor of the laundry For the past two
years Mr.. Bullamore has been in poor
health and in selling out his share of
the business he is planning to 90 in
search Of health. The most friendly
relations have always existed between
the partners and they both regretted
the necessity of severing the old time
business alliance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

Judge Belden came to Kenosha on
Friday evening and held short night
session of the circuit court to hear the
evidence in the Flynn partition suit
no decision was given in the case.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

The Kenosha Lodge of Elks has an
nouneed a card party and dance to be
given at the club rooms on next Friday
evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

A number Of Racine young people
came to Kenosha on Friday evening to
attend the Junior Prom.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Hansen spent
Friday afternoon with friends in Wau-
kegan.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

Attorney W. NJ Cowell of Chicago
transacted business in Kenosha today.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
ANCIENT HOUSE OF WORSHIP
Church In New Hanover County,
North Carolina, One of the Coun-
try's Landmarks.

One Of the oldest historical land.
marks in New Hanover county, North
Carolina, and among the eldest in
the country is st. Philips church, To-
Gated 10 miles below Wilmington on
the historic Cape Fear river. It was
built by the settlers in 1740. It was
then, and for long time afterward,
the only dedicated house of worship
in the first settlement in North Caro-
lima. Stirring scenes of the Revolu-
tionary war centered around this old
church, the English troops at one
time riddling the walls of the build
ing with shot and shell while the col
onists were at worship within. A Lon
don magazine of 1891 relates that a
storm occurred in North Carolina
which began on Monday, December
&c, and continued until Friday. Dur
ing this storm many houses were
blown ashore. This storm forced open
a new channel at the mouth of the
Cape Fear eighteen feet deep and
nearly half a mile wide.
The Colonial Danes of America,
Ncrth Carolina division, have annual
pilgrimages to the ruins of old St.
Philips every year, at which times
picturesque and quaint exercises are
reproduced year after year.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
DISCOVERY OF GREAT VALUE
Work of Pittsburgh Men Means Much
in the Future of Aluminium
Manufactures.

G. e. Skinner and l.. w. Chubb of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu-.
featuring company of Pittsburgh have
perfected an insulating skin for alumi-
mum so thin and flexible as to make
small aluminium wire as economical of
space in coils as copper. According
to the Engineering News, they have
produced two kinds of films. One is
smooth and iridescent; the other,
white and abrasive. OF these, the
second is the better, for it is only
.0O01 to .0004 of an inch thick, and
stands from 200 to 500 volts. Two
wires can be pressed together until
they are indented without breaking
the film; but rubbing will expose the
metal, and make a short circuit. The
film is fireproof, and has mechanical
strength enough to support the wire
in small coils above the melting point.
To coat the wire with the film, 1t is
passed through electrolytic baths (so-
lutions of borax, ammonium borate,
or sodium silicate)-a process in
which the wire itself acts as the
anode.-Youth's Companion.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09

Every foreign Office Of Europe acts
on the principle that an army of spies
is constantly on the alert to steal it's
secrets, and infinite precautions are
taken to battle their efforts. Very
shortly after the use of blotting paper
1t was discovered that it was quite
possible to cause blotting paper to
give up a jealously guarded secret by
simply holding it in front of a mirror
Long after the commercial world had
forgotten such thing, the British for.
eign office used sand shaker to dry
it's important documents. Then spe.
icially manufactured black blotting pa.
per was used, but this was not found
to be absolutely spy proof, and re-
turn to the sand shaker was contem.
plated. Then someone suggested the
simple expedient of a small absorbent
roller. When such a roller was run
up and down and across a document
once or twice the cleverest spy in the
world is at liberty to try his hand at
deciphering the impressions.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
TO HONOR WIFE OF BOONE
Daughters Of American Revolution
Will Place Tablet at Grave
Of Pioneers Wife.

The state conference of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution OF
Missouri will be held in St. Louis the
last week in October and directly aft
erward, on October 20, the Daughters
will place a marker on the site in
Warren county, where Daniel Boone
and his wife, Rebecca, were buried.
The daughters have been inde-
fatigable in their efforts to place
markers at all historic spots in the
state, and will continue the good
work. 1t is all very well for the men
who blazed the way and the men who
fought for their country's honor and
well-being to be remembered in this
way, but sometimes it-seems as If one
would like to hear of a society, a
vanguard of peace, as it were, that
would mark the deeds of the real he.
roes of the world, those kindly, unpre.
tentious persons in the modern equiv
alent of fustian, who never blazon
forth their heroic efforts in any way.
There are thousands of mothers, de-
priving themselves of all the good
things in life that their children may
have an education. The president of
a college told me once that in a tar
away New England town his mother
had just died. He could not go &c
the funeral, and, while it possibly was
being held he told me something OF
what his mother had been to him.
"She was left with poor little New
England farm" he said, "and four
sons. She sent each of us to college
and l don't understand to this day
how she did it."
Every woman can imagine how she
did it, how she worked and slaved
early and late, and saved the money
that was the means Of giving each of
her boys what the proud New England
woman considered the greatest thing
she could give them, an education,
and a real one, with a college degree
as its goal There will be no mark.
ers on the graves Of such women, and
it is just as well.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
WONDERS OF GRAND CANYON
No Other Spot on Earth Is Believed
70 Possess the Same interesting
Formations.

Many people still living can remem-
Der a thrill of wonder and admiration
that ran through the world in reading
of the daring exploit of Major Powell
in 1859 in navigating the rapids of
the Grand Canyon of Arizona in a
small boat 1t was his account of his
trip more than anything else up to
that time that called the attention of
the world to the magnificence of that
wonderful gorge and to the brilliancy
of the coloring on its rocks.
The United States has recently pub
lished bulletin, No. SAC, a report on
the geology of a portion of the Grand
Canyon by L. F. Noble. This gorge
offers an opportunity of studying the
history of the formation of our globe
presented in no other spot now
known. On the top are deposits of
the Carboniferous period, and below
this strata, some of them of immense
thickness, ranging down to the Cam.
brian period at the base In the Grand
Canyon we come to the basic rocks
of the earth, the granite and gneiss.
This panorama is described as prob
ably the most complete geological rec
ord Of the world revealed to the eyes
of man.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
She Cured Him.

Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney, who
is to dress manikins in all the latest
creations and have a regular daily
fashion show at the Hudson theater,
in speaking Of economy in dress the
other day said: Il know a man who
was so stingy he grumbled every time
his wife bought new gown. Deter
mined to cure him of this habit, his
wife for one month stayed away from
the shopping district and the stores,
and succeeded in not buying a single
cents worth of clothes. When the
next months bills arrived the husband
noted there was a memorandum for
about thirty Turkish baths. He in
quired if there was real necessity for
such large number of Turkish baths
in one month. Certainly replied the
wife. You told me not to spend any
more money on clothes, and Turkish
bath is about the only place can go
and not wear Clothes All of which
proves that when a woman makes up
her mind she wants that $50 suit,
marked down to $299S, she is going
to scheme until she owns it, contrary
notwithstanding" ng."-New York Tele.
gram.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
British Museum Treasures Guarded

According to the annual report pre-
sented to parliament, special precau.
tions have been taken to protect the
British museum collections in the
event of raids by hostile aircraft. At
an early stage Of the war large num-
Der of tre more portable objects of
special value were removed to posi-
tions of greater security in safes or in
strong rooms, their places in the ex-
hibition galleries being taken by OBJ
1ects of lesser value or by facsimiles.
Additional measures, including the
protection of certain objects which
cannot safely be removed, have been
taken since the close of the year to
which the report relates.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
Bible Saved Him.

How the captain in tho Coldstream
guards was saved from death was told
by Bishop Taylor Smith.
The captain, he said, was wounded,
and the men who examin ed him found
in his hip pocket a Bible given him by
his father. who had written in the fly
leaf from the ninety1first Psalm:
Thou, Lord, art my refuge. There
shall no evil happen unto thee" The
she'll had struck the Bible, cut through
the leather cover. had gone through
the pages as far as the ninety-flrst
Psalm, and had then cut of at tan
gent. The doctor said that but for the
Bible the man would have been killed.
He had since gone back to the front
Drank the Soldiers Tea.
British soldiers, wanting flavor for
their tea, milked a stray goat by the
roadside. Then, while they were look
ing for something in which to strain
the milk. Nanny drank up the tea.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
NOT HARMFUL TO THE BIRDS
Spraying Fluids Have No III Effect, Is
the Assertion Made by Eminent
Zoologist.

Spraying fluids used on orchard
trees do not kill the birds as well
as the bugs, Prof. H. A. Surface, state
zoologist of Pennsylvania, recently de-
clared in an effort to upset theory
encouraged in some important circles.
This authoritative statement from
Professor Surface ought to be regard
ed as conclusive and set at rest the
doubts of many readers of this page.
Il have watched this subject with
the greatest care in thousands of
sprayed orchards in Pennsylvania"
the noted zoologist said, land l am
prepared to say with certainty that
l never have known of case of
bird being killed by spraying or hav-
ing been found dead under circum-
stances that justify the suspicion that
this was the cause of its death.
I'VE have examined the stomach OF
dead birds and have found no evidence
of arsenic to which their death could
be attributed.
Il live in the midst of one of the
largest orchards in Pennsylvania,
which has been sprayed frequently,
and it is full of birds nests. l am
sure that if spraying were destructive
to birds they would not be nesting in
this orchard.
1T is we'll known that the amount
of arsenic necessary to kill an insect
will not affect or kill bird, and also
the birds will not eat dead insects. 1t
would be necessary for the bird to eat
great many beetles to take enough
poison to affect it in the least"
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
SIMPLICITY.

Simplicity is art, understood by the
ignorant and appreciated by the intel
ligent.
Great men are simple, and their
tastes are simple. They dress simply,
never ostentatiously; their watch
chains, If they have any, are never
large and conspicuous. Occasionally
they wear a ring, but only one ring.
Their natural appetites crave simple
food. and not the rich viands and the
mysterious sauces which can tickle
only the palate of the epicure, who
lives to eat rather than eats to live.
The great authors, those who have
written the living words which never
die, write in simple diction, use Ian
guage as a means to an end, not to
make a display of it.
Many years ago, a then somewhat
unknown man, by the name of Dan
iel DeFoe, made a story out of the
experiences of a shipwrecked sailor
and called his hero Robinson Crusoe."
For a generation this narrative was
read by youngsters, and it was looked
upon as a children's book. Today it
has passed beyond the juvenile class
and is considered one Of the finest ex-
amples of simple English narrative,
having place in the libraries of the
world.
Lincoln was not the only orator at
Gettysburg. Competing with him-if
l may put it that way-was one Of
Americas greatest scholars; yet the
simple words of Lincoln have become
an English classic, and millions Of
people can recite the whole speech
from memory, while the words of the
scholar are almost forgotten, and not
one in ten thousand of the men Of
today know what he said; in fact,
most of them do not know that he
spoke at ell.
Simplicity lives, it's opposite dies
young. Great men Of every class
have been simple and their reputa-
tions have been built upon simplicity.
They not only understand what they
say, but they say it so that others I'M
derstand it,
Education by itself does not produce
an educated man. Education is sim.
ply one of the elements which go to
round out a man and make him bet,
ter citizen, enabling him to accomplish
better results. Education, academic
ally speaking, is not necessarily sim
pie. 1t is more or less complex. There.
fore, the educated man of use in the
world has mixed simplicity with his
learning that it may be in a condition
to be assimilated.
Not what we know. but what we dc
with what we know, counts; and we
cannot distribute either learning OF
experience, or use them to advantage
unless we have prepared them to meet
the exigencies of the times, made
them SO that they are Of use.
The greatest leFelirg power in the
world, that which makes things good
for something, is COMMON simplicity
mixed with common sense. The two
are practically synonymous, for one
cannot exist without the other. Where
they con't exist. all the learning in
the world, ard all the experience pos
sible' for one tc obtain, are like sc
much gold buried beyond the reach oi
man.
Be simple, be clear. Don't swallow
a dictionary and exhale words, which
like dust, blind the eye and clog the
ear.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-09
A THEORY EXPLODED.

For several years laymen whose
early opportunities for the study of
astronomy were limited, but who are
yet interested in the mysteries of the
starry universe, have been regaled
with stories of the innumerable me-
teors which pass through the field of
the gigantic solar telescopes, when
several degrees from the sun. One
prominent astronomer counted sew
eral hundred spots, having the appar-
ent diameter of the little planet Mer-
curry, following one another across the
solar disk, during an observation of
three hours. 1t now appears, accord
ing to observations made recently by
Professor Barnard at the Yerkes OBJ
servatory, and also by Doctor Denning,
that, instead of being meteors, these
objects are clouds of pollen dust or
grains, carried along by the wind in
the earth's atmosphere. Hasty and
unwarranted conclusions drawn by
laymen in matters pertaining strictly
to the realm of scientific research are
not infrequently treated with sarcasm
by experts. Yet it would appear to be
unkind, even upon their own testi-
mony, to remind the astronomical ex-
perts that they are also human, and
may innocently conclude that a fiy's
eyelash on the lens of a telescope may,
under certain favorable sidelights, be
mistaken for the tail of comet.