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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
County Board Back Again.

The County Board is coming back to
henosha tomorrow for the regular fall
session and the event is one of inter
est to the people of the whole county.
lime was when the coming of the
county board heralded procession of
easy threeso and with them few
squabbles over which one of the ter
rltorlal divisions of the county would
have to pay the least percentage of the
taxes.
The wand of progress has touched
the county board and new order
relgns. The members of the county
board may still be jealous to protect
their constituents from bearing more
than their share of the state and coun-
ty taxes but at that they are just as
jealous to see that things which Keno
sha county needs are made things that
Kenosha county will have. There is
no longer lack of interest in the work
of the county board. 1t has become
real organization with a real function
to perform. The members of the board
realize this fact and every year the
men who come to the city as members
of the board and those who go to the
court house to represent the city wards
are being selected with greater care.
The people are beginning to learn that
running Kenosha county is getting to
be a matter of interest. Building roads
may have started the people into a
greater interest in the work of the
county board. Building up the county
along lot of lines is keeping this in
terest up. The county board has
taken hold of the road problem
with business-like method that
argues the proper handling of other
questions just as large. There is moth
ing in the county that so breaches the
new cooperation between the city and
the county as the county board. Time
was when the members from the city
caucused in one room to make an eff.
fort to beat the members from the town
who caucused in another room to
skim the men from the city. Most
of the time the city and the county
members were at loggerheads. This is
all part of the forgotten past. The
men in the county who are big enough
to be town chairmen and ward super
visors have learned the lesson that the
interests of Kenoshsa city and Kenosha
county are identical. The old idea of
sectionalism has been erased just as
surely as the civil war wiped out the
Mason and Dixon line. This feeling of
cooperation on the part of the mem
bers of the county board promises to be
felt in keeping Kenosha county right
up among the progressive counties of
the state. It was expressed in the
building for the county of the best
sanatorium in any Of the Wisconsin
counties and it is going to be expressed
in the solution Of the other problems
of just as much interest. The new
laws Of the state have placed more than
ever into the hands of the county
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
GETS BIDS FOR EQUIPMENT.
County Agent Jones Closing Up Con-
tracts for Equipment o. Willow
Brook This Afternoon.

County Agent Russell H. Jones is
digging himself out from under a
mass of bids offered by local dealers
for the contracts for equipment for
the new Willow Brook Sanatorium.
The bids were received on Saturday
and it is expected that the contracts
will be let during the day. These
contracts do not include all of the
equipment for the sanatorium and for
this reason it is not possible to give
out complete figures on the cost of the
furnishing of the building. The low
bids for various contracts for equip
ment are announced as followes: Mat
tzasses and pillows, Bode Brothers
company, $213.00; furniture, Bode Bros.
company, $415; table linen, Thomas
Sulliven, $50; bedding, The Barden
Store company, $726.50; silverware,
Gottfredsen and Nicoll, 5000; china,
Western Hotel and Supply company,
Milwaukee, $14s.96; kitchenware, John
J. English, $I35.9S. Wherever the
equipment could be purchased from To-
cal dealers the contracts have been
left in Kenosha. The contracts provide
for the delivery of the equipment be-
fore the first of next January.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
School House Sanitation.

Forty states of the union have taken
some legal action toward safeguarding
the sanitation of public school build
ings according to bulletin on School
House Sanitation just issued by the
Bureau of Education of the United
States Department of the Interior.
Probably nine-tenths of the exist
ing regulation of this sort has come
within the past decade, = declares the
bulletin. "Each state profits by the
experience of forty-seven others. A
law passed in one extreme Of the
country today is copied next month or
next year by state two thousand or
three thousand miles distant
Thirty-eight states have some legal
provision regarding the school site &C
cording to the bulletin. Nearly all of
these provisions are statewide in their
application, and are mandatory in
character These provisions include
the proximity of "nuisances, avail
ability Of the site, and size Of the site.
Nineteen states have laws prohibiting
the location Of school buildings within
a specified distance from places where
liquor is sold, from gambling houses,
houses of prostitution, and noisy or
smoky factories.
Thirty Of the states, have sought to
regulate the water supply of the public
school. "SThe revolt against the COM
mon drinking cup says the bulletin,
''has come within the past five years.
Kansas was the pioneer, but other
states followed rapidly, so that now
half Of the entire number have either
law or q regulation regarding drink
ing cups"
Some form of protection against fire
and panic is found in thirty-six states.
Blanket regulations, or the power to
make such regulations, exist in twelve
states. General or special construc
ton with view to fire prevention is
dealt with in ten states. Thirteen of
the states have something to say as to
corridors and inner stairways; twenty
four have regulations as to exists, and
twenty-five as to exterior escapes; ten
mention alarm and fre-fghting appara-
tus; and eleven states provide by law
or regulations for fire drills. Less than
half the states, according to the bulle-
tin, have any legal word on ventila-
ton. Thirty cubic feet Of fresh air
per pupil per minute is the convention
al amount specified.
In the matter of cleaning and disin-
fecting, slightly more than one-fourth
of the states have regulations which
control conditions to any degree out
side the districts themselves. Some of
the laws and regulations. are almost
model; others are wholly inadequate.
A few state boards Of health have
done notable work in this particular.
Special cleaning and disinfecting fol
low in seven states Immediately upon
discovery in any school of any of a
certain class of diseases. "Three of
the states have special list of speci-
fic diseases that call at once for action.
This list includes scarlet fever small
pox, and diphtheria in all three states,
measels in two, and infantile paraly-
sis, epidemic spinal-meningitis, and
bubonic plague in one each.''
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Postmaster General Burleson an
nounces that the parcel post is paying
a profit. While that is merely his
opinion, given in the absence of any
definite acts upon which safe con-
clusion could be based, it furnishes a
proper occasion to remark that the
postmaster general placed an addi-
tional pay when he required them to
transport, as parcel post matter,
money which had previously been car
ried by the railroads as express mat
ter. In various other ways he increas-
ed the amount of parcel post matter
transported without increasing the
pay of the railroads. Perhaps litiga-
ton or an investigation will sometime
show the extent of this additional
service required without corresponding
compensation, but until that is shown
it will not be possible for anyone to
say whether the parcel post pays a
profit above all rightful charges
against it. 1t is good bet that it
doesn't under the Burleson rates and
weights.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Of course it was not expected that
every one would be satisfied with the
action of the commission on selecting
the most distinguished Badger -
Praise or blame for the commission is
largely decided by the side of the DO
litical fence that the other man has
been on. 1t can be said, however, that
it would be decidedly hard to find a
more distinguished Badger than "Gov-
ernoro Hoard or one who had done
more to entitle him to honor at the
hands of his fellow citizens in a great
commonwealth.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
CATCH YOUNG GIRLS HERE

Elizabeth Yarkon, aged thirteen
and Lillian Walton, aged sixteen
years, who escaped from the Illinois
Industrial School for Girls on last
Friday night, were arrested Saturday
night at the Garfield House on West
Main street by Police Officer William
Biennemann. The girls, who still wore
the dress of the Geneva institution,
had applied at the hotel for rooms and
Manager McClusky, seeing that they
were pretty young and also that they
wore the garb of an institution, al
once notified the police The two girls
declared that they had scaled the wal
at the industrial school on last FRIDAY
night and had walked all the way tc
Aurora. Here they claimed they ha6
met a friend who had "staked" then
to carefare to Kenosha. They had at
tempted to hide their school garb un
der long sweaters. Both of the girls
were taken to the county Jail and they
told the same story there that they had
told to the police officers. They are
being held pending the arrival of men
from the Illinois institution. The of
fcials of the school, declared that they
were convinced that the young womer
had been given outside aid in their
escape and they seem to think tina,
possibly some Kenosha person wai
connected with the daring leap over
the walls.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11


Notwithstanding the manipulation of
the daily treasury statement, by which
the net balance in the United States
general fund was made to show an in
crease of $4o,89S,S 1914 on September 30
to $l28,o63,545 on the following day,
the trend of government business is
such that the net balance is gradually
dropping On October IL, it had gone
down to $119,819,746, even under the
new method of book-keeping-a de-
crease of $S,243,799 in ten days, or an
average of $S24,OOo per day. It will
be interesting to see what the next
device of the treasury department will
be to cover up its deplorable financial
condition.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

OF course there may be humorous
limit reached in boosting the home
town. Here is the one they are telling
on distinguished Kenoshan who made
his first trip to New York short time
ago. The fellows down there showed
him the city from the bowery to the
battery and when they got back in
bucolic simplicity this real Kenosha
booster handed 'em this: "You got to
hand it to this town, it's the Kenosha
of the east"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
Little sermon on Character.

The possession of character which
permits one to be big enough to frankly
acknowledge an error, or to express re-
greet for an injury done, either person
ally or professionally, is a most admir-
able trait; but the most despicable trait
to be found in the numerous sins of
humanity is shown in that character
which, being caught in wilful false
hood, refuses to admit it's error but at
tempts to cover up its evil designs by
an utter evasion of the charges in a
puny attempt at humor. No individual
can lift himself above the limits of his
character, and no newspaper has ever
yet been able to rise higher than the
confines of its policy, which after all is
its real character. IF it's vision is
warped by limited Judgment of head
and heart this fact serves to influence
its policy on all matters. If there is
honesty and breadth of character in its
policy this will manifest itself in its
every deed. There are small newspapers
just as there are small men, each being
wholly incapable of doing the manly
thing when the opportunity presents
itself. The small caliber man occupies
very limited position of influence
among his fellowmen. The newspaper
possessing the same trait is judged in the
same light by members of the frater-
nifty. Each seems necessary in making
up the sum total of the evils of the
world. This brief sermon on character
seems especially opportune just at this
time.--Kentucky Paper.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Over IN Delavan they have passed an
ordinance forcing automobile drivers to
back up to the curb end wise with their
automobiles in order to make room to
get them all on the street. That s
optimism for you.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Over in Beloit they have put the
saloon men on their honor and it is
declared that it is easier for camel
to go through the eye of needle than
for man to get drink in Beloit on
Sunday. Some Honor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

At last reports Mr.. McGovern had
not decided whether it would be ssSen-
ator0 or Governor to be added to
his name. It is just possible that the
former governor is in the class taking
themselves too seriously.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
FOOT BADLY CRUSHED.
J. S. Williams Is Hurt at Freight
House-Son Robert was Operated
at Hospital Week Ago.

J. E. Williams was seriously injured
this morning in the Chicago and
North Western freight house when a
heavy piece of metal fell on his foot,
crushing it. His son, Robert Williams,
was operated upon for appendicitis
in the Kenosha hospital g week ago.
He is gaining rapidly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

If putting men back to work is
promise Of continued prosperity Ke-
nosha is evidently in the first rank
of Prosperity Row. The pay rolls are
beginning to indicate return to Re.
publican times.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Every time one goes away from Ke-
n sha and sees a town with wide bust
ness streets and adequate sidewalks
along them there comes that desire to
make Kenosha over and make it more
IN keeping with the demands of the
real city that it is.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

The finance committee seems to be
finding lots of stumbling blocks in the
way of getting away with fifteen
mill levy. What's the use of worrying
though. The council won It vote for
any bigger levy and nobody wants them
to.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

This much can be said in favor of
municipal ownership. It isn't neces-
sary to have press bureau working
overtime to impress it's value on some
communities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Cleaning up Kenosha is getting to
be regular feature of the program
Of great health meetings in the state.
o very well, there are lot worse ways
to advertise a town.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

If we had a few more of the old
fashioned round-steak Founders in the
kitchens there would not be nearly
so many kicks on the high cost of liv-
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Just about the time things get going
we'll again the Democratic congress
will probably reach the decision that
it is time to clamp on a war tax =
or some other fool thing. Not being
able to stand for the real prosperity
is one of the real characteristics of
Democracy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

No. Mr.. Root is not the ideal candi-
date for President. If we are going to
have new ideal in the Republican
party let's dish all of the old time fac
tional fighters and pick out real Re-
publican who can unite the entire
party for victory.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

We wouldn't seem to be insistent
but, Mr.. Railway man, don It you really
think that it would pay to slip back the
conductors on the local cars?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

It isn't at all necessary to hand
members of the County Board a key
to the city. They have all been here
before.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

If that sewer contractor continues to
show pep there will be a lot Of other
people looking for cellar drains before
spring opens.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Some of the dark corners out in the
newly annexed territory are calling out
for street lights. They ought to have
them-just as soon as the tax is col
lected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

This is the open season for the
"penny to get in" and "dollar to get
out" church sociable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Has any one ever said to those fell
lows over in Europe "Make it
snappy.'
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Just at present the turkeys are
roosting high and keeping their fin
gers crossed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Maryland just naturally had to be
ContrarE
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11

Paid your gas bill vets
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21
WHEN YOU WASH YOUR
HAIR DON'T USE SOAP

Most soaps and prepared sham
poos contain too much alkah,
which is very injurious, as it dries
the scalp and makes the hair
brittle.
The best thing to use is just
plain mulsified cocoanut oil, for
this is pure and entirely grease
less. 1t's very cheap, and beats
soaps or anything elise all to
pieces. You can get this at any
drug store, and a few ounces will
last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub 1t In, about a tea
spoonful is all that Is required.
1t makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, cleanses thorough
ly, and rinses out easily. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and is
soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy,
wavy and easy to handle. Besides,
It loosens and takes out every par
ticle of dust, dirt and dandruff.
"adv."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21
TODAY'S BEAUTY
SUGGESTIONS

Face powder simply covers up
an unattractive complexion and
leaves no lasting benefits. Those
who have tried a simple spurmax
face lotion find 1t much better, az
1t removes skin discolorations,
such as freckles and tan, and
makes the skin smooth, white and
velvety. This lotion Is made by
dlssolving four ounces of spurmax
in one-half pint hot water, then
adding two teaspoonfuls glycerin.
This complexion beautifier does
not rub off or show like powder,
and gives a more refined appear
ance. 1t removes both shininess
and sallowness, rapidly giving the
skin a permanent healthy, youth
full appearance.
An especially fine shampoo for
this weather can be had at trifling
expense by dissolving a teaspoon
full of canthrox in O cup of hot
water. Pour slowly on scalp and
massage briskly. This creates q.
soothing, cooling lather that dis
solves and removes all dandruff,
excess oil and dirt. Rinsing leaves
the scalp spotlessly clean, soft and
plant, while the hair takes on Q
glossy richness of natural color,
also q fluffiness which makes Il
seem very much heavier than II H.
After canthrox shampoo arrang-
ing the hair is a pleasure.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21
Copyright, 1915, by Newspaper
Enterprise Association.b

wonder, little book, II Mollie
knows that Chadwick Hatton's
wife Is dead. Yesterday after
noon Pat Sullivan came over to
my house to tell me of the news.
you of course know, my dear
Mrs. Waverly," he said, that l,
too, am In love with Mollie.
have asked her to be my wife,
and although she has not abso-
lutely said yes, she has given me
the hope that she will do SO.
II know | have nothing to
offer such a wonderful girl as
Mollie in comparison with what
Chad can bring her." he said
simply, but l don't believe Chad
loves her any more than l do.
You must know that Chad, who is
one of the best men in the world
and my dearest friend. and 1 were
rivals for his first wife's hand.
He won out, and instead Of hap
piness was plunged into the deep
est hell that mortal man can
imagine.
Before he went away, l knew
that he loved Mollie, and l think
he knew that I also loved her, but
we did not speak of it to each
other.
Now he Is coming back.
what will be the outcome? II
Mollie loves him best, / will give
her up to him, for l know he is
worthy of her-but oh. Mrs. Wav-
erly IL will break my hearth"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21

should be sent to the Hatton
vault in - until Chad re-
turned. went down to the quiet
ceremony that was held over the
remains. II was very sad, Mrs
Waverly, that |, whom she Tilted
for Chad, should be the only
mourner at her bier. She was a
brilliant and beautiful woman be.
fore she lost her reason"
did you never think, Pat, that
perhaps she became insane be-
cause she married Mr.. Hatton for
his money. all the time loving
you!"
ooh, Mrs. Waverly," exclaimed
honest Pat, genuinely surprised
at the idea, you know that out.
side of his money Chad has
everything that might appeal to O
woman-good looks, education.
culture, birth and breeding-and
l am only mother Nora's boy,
who would probably still be work
Ing for wages instead of salary
II Chad had not taken a notice
to us. All that | am | owe to
Chad. There is nothing l would
not give him, except an unloving
wife. What makes you think
that such a state Of affairs ex-
isted?"
MIR. Hatton told Mollie that
his wife told him very soon after
marriage that you we're the only
man she loved"
Poor Chad" murmured Pat
what a great soul to never have
told mel"
What a sincere. simple SOUL
! interpolated, never to have sus-
pected 1t.
II have told you this, Pat. SC
that you will not make the same
mistake again. You have quite
as much with your sturdy hon.
esty, great loyalty and sincere
sympathy to recommend you to 9
woman as has Chadwick Hatton
Besides, you are good to look at. >
Pat blushed clear to the roots
of his red hair, but his wide Irish
mouth opened with a grin and
showed his beautiful white teeth
Yes, little book, he was in my es
timation better looking than Hat.
ton.
II expect Chad will be back al
soon as he gets my cable. / tele'
graphed Mollie this morning
When he gets back the first thing
| shall say to him is that l love
Mollie and have reason to believe
that he also loves her, and pro-
claim a fair field and no favor
this time"
THAT will be the best way,
Pat, and then you see 1t will be
up to Mollie.",
81 can't help thinking little
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21

book. of what the introducing OF
Jim Edie into the game is going
to do. Mollie is queer sort OF
a girl. Just now she IL In love
with her independence and sue
cessful ability to turn her brain
into money. Except for the pass
ing passion for Chadwick Hatton.
which because of its seeming
hopelessness carried her Off her
feet, do not think she is at all
DESTROYS of marrying any man.
But the question is now, little
book. WHO WILL MOLLIE
MARRY?
CONTINUED Tomorrow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-21
LOTS OF KNOWS

LOTS OF KNOWS
Miss Ella Hancock visited her
grandmother, Mrs. Martha Know,
a few days last week.
Miss Joan ana Miss Joy Lee
visited Mrs. Kate Knoy Friday.
Ellis Alley visited at Thomas
Coles, Sunday.
Mrs. Tena Knoy visited J. c..
Lees, Tuesday.
Joseph Lee and family and
Mrs. Mary Knoy visited at Ben
KNOWS Sunday.
Homer Knoy and family Wis
tied at John Knoy's Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Knoys of Wakeland
visited at Charles Hancock s
Sunday night.
Hurricane Hill Co., Martins
Vile (Bo.) Reporter.
Many a man can stay sober at
banquet while his health is
drunk.
PROVIDING
Father, I've decided to be-
come an artist. Have you any
objection?"
mo - providing you don't
draw on me-"