The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-13
Local Items

Arthur Walsh spent Tuesday after
| noon in Milwaukee.
|. M. Bell of Newton, Iowa, spent
Tuesday afternoon in Kenosha.
Mrs. Edward G.. Alleman entertained
the Whist Club at her home on Durkee
avenue this afternoon.
Lawrence Slater and Miss Rose
Stein, both Of Kenosha, have been
granted a license to marry.
The officials Of the Austin Westin
Road Machinery Company, were in Ke-
nosha on Tuesday making pictures of
the new road oiler delivered to Keno
sha county.
The May dance given by the Mystic
Workers on Tuesday evening was
real success from every standpoint.
Miss Anna McCabe was given the Nav
Queen honors.
The funeral of the late August Kres-
sin will be held from the German Luth-
eran church at half past two O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. Interment will be
at the Kenosha City Cemetery.
Women at prize fights evidently have
become a fixture in Kenosha. 1t is re-
ally remarkable but the women who
come up from Chicago seem to like to
be nearest the place where the blood
is flowing.
J. P. Bruins went to Milwaukee to-
day to sit as a member Of the federal
grand jury. Mr.. Bruins side stepped on
the Darnell case and it is improbable
that any other case will be called in
the court this week.
Work was started on Tuesday on the
installation of two new clay tennis
courts on the grounds of the Kenosha
Country Club. The courts will be
| ready by the date set for the formal
opening of the club season.
G. w. Doctor, former Kenosha pho
tographer, but now of Mayville, spent
the day in Kenosha. Mr. Doctor I'M
blushingly admitted that he was not the
agent of Senator Husting in looking
up a postmaster for Kenosha and de-
clared that his visit to Kenosha was
wholly on private business.
Announcement has been made of the
approaching marriage Of Miss Marie
Boushard Of Green Bay and Edward
| "a he
to take place on the morning of May
22nd. Mr.. Haag is the junior member
Of the DriscoH and Haag Publicity
Company.
FL. F. Preston met Emil Clausen on
the Kenosha streets this morning.
Preston comes from Chicago and failed
to believe it possible that any city
along the lake shore could limit the
speed of automobiles. He was advised
in the municipal court and the cost
of the advice was little over ten dol
lars.
Announcement has been made of the
approaching marriage of Miss Anabel
Mary Gafney, daughter of John Gaf-
ney of this city and Michael j. Kane
of Philadelphia. The ceremony will
take place at the Cathedral of st. Peter
and st. Paul in Philadelphia on the
morning of May 10Th. Miss Gaffney
has for number of years held official
positions with the city and county.
One of the reasons given by the
Christian Science Monitor for the pop-
ularity of the jitney will receive gen
eral endorsement and nowhere more
than in Kenosha where the street rail
way is the reverse Of popular. It saws:
Judges of the Virginia supreme court
have just refused to issue an iniunc-
ton sought by the Virginia Railway
and Power Company to restrain iitney
or 5-cent-fare buses, from operating on
the streets of Richmond without fran
chises. One of the reasons why iitneys
have become so popular in the United
States is that they operate without
franchises, and therefore do not act at
fiY1nnc If fhnu oVunal