The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-27
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LII h0HOSHd. III WAS uolu Uu II fludy
night when the Cooper Underwear
Company, an organization which has
featured its entire industrial history
BY doing things and doing real things,
dedicated its new factory bui lding.
It is one of the biggest factory build
lngs in Kenosha and the dedication of
it, participated in by more than a
thousand of the employees, former en-
ployees and friends Of the company,
proved the biggest function of the
kind ever known in Kenosha and the
most unique event in the industrial
history Of the city.
All that kindly feeling between EN-
ployer and employees which haa beer.
Featured in the history Of til syootat
company, expressed itself to the fullest
extent and the great gathering was
more than party. Tt was reception,
a dance banquet, moving picture
show, home coming and family re-
union, all in one with all the delight
full pleasures that follow each Of them.
It was real festival Of good cheer
and good fellowship such as had never
been seen in Kenosha before.
There were no formal committees in
tfbiled shirts and spike tailed
coats, = but every one of the thousand
people there seemed to think i'll was
his own party and he went to the full
limit to secure his own pleasure and
give back just as much pleasure to
the others.
They came in great punches, start
ing early in the evening. Every per
son who was employed in the big plant
was on hand. The boys and girls
brought their sweethearts, the older
men brought their wives, and some who
had passed farther along in the list of
years had their children toddling at
their heels. 1t was great happy
crowd of men, women and children who
seemed to believe that they were in
their own new home for night dedi-
Gated to pleasure. 1t was a real revel
and it was not until the day began to
break this morning that the members
of the merry party deserted the big
building.
There is sixty thousand feet of floor
space in the new Cooper service ware
house and every foot of it was devoted
last night and during the early hours
Of this morning to unalloyed pleasure.
IT was the right kind of pleasure, the
pleasure which comes with hearty good
fellowship and forty years from now
boys and girls who are shop workers
today will tell over to the children
grown to working days, the story of
the wonderful night when the Cooper
service warehouse was dedicated
IT followed the rule Of Cooper
Quality since 1876, and there Was no
skipping Of the material that went in
to the fabric of pleasure for the even
ing. All Of the entire building was
turned over to the great crowd of peo-
pie. From the basement to the roof
there was something to charm and
amuse. Featured of course WAS the
great dance hall located on the third
floor of the building. Tt was the big
gest dance hall ever called into service
In Kenosha and the most beautiful one.
The girls and boys in the plant had
decorated it until it was a veirable
bower of beauty. Hundreds of festoons
of white and yellow were hung about
the walls and dropped. from the cell.
ings Of the big hall. There were flow
ers and ferns and blooming plants in
abundance and over in the corner of
the room was as a coy nook, all bright
with flags and ported plants. This was
place for the "wall fiowers,1' but
there were no wall flowers, for the
happy merry party found no time for
inactivity, There were so many amuse-
ments provided that everybody was
busy all the time. In the center Of the
great hall there was q raised platform
for the musicians and the biggest or
chestra that could be secured in the
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