The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-23
Local Items

Childrens books at Glerum IS Book
Store. advd24
The telephone company is at work
on new directory for Kenosha to be
issued with the opening of the new
year.
Kenosha boys and girls attending
schools in different parts of the country
are returning home for the Christmas
holidays.
Walter j. Cavanagh of Toledo, O.,
will come on Saturday to spend short
Christmas visit with friends and rela-
tives here.
The work on Willowbrook Sana-
forum is nearing completion. The
work is being delayed by lack of light
in the building.
William Senne has returned home
after business trip to Lansing, Mich.
He will spend the holidays with his
family in Kenosha.
Turkeys are plentiful for the Christ
mas holidays and the Kenosha county
turkey promises to supplant the Water
town goose this season.
The emergency windows are in use
at the postofice to take care of the
Christmas rush. People seem to be
mailing parcels early this year
The charitable organizations in the
city are planning to make the distri-
button of the Christmas baskets on
next Friday afternoon and evening.
Only twenty counties in the
state have made appropriations under
the "Mother Is Pension Law" Keno
sha county has appropriated $4,000 for
The purpose.
The steamer Eastland, which sank
IN the Chicago haFbor with frightful
Joss OF lie, has been sold to tho Illinois
Naval riIltia and will be used as a
training ship.
The Milwaukee Sentinel on Sunday
published q picture Of the mayor aud
the trophy which His Honor has DO
mated for che coming state tourna-
ment In Kenosha,
WaulEegan is threatened with a real
boom. A motor concern employing four
hundred men, is planning to locate
there. The name of the company has
mot been made public
The fremenSare having real Christ
mas present from the city this year.
the rooms In all Of the fire houses have
been refurnished and they present a
very charming appearance.
Col. A. L. Foster of Racine, spent
Saturday and Sunday in Kenosha dis,
cussing with local mon the probabili-
ties of organizing company of the
state militia for the two cities.
Ten students of Lawrence College
were suspended on last Saturday and
as many more put on probation as a
result OF college riot. None of the
Kenoshas boys were included in the
number.
Tho Northwestern railway company
has found the train to the west and
from the east a decidedly paying propo-
sltlon this week. Hundreds of shoppers
from the rural districts have come to
the city to trade.
The city council directed the street
committee to take charge of the work
of keeping the walks in the parks free
from snow and ice and this work will
be In charge of the street commission
ers in the future.
Among the applications received for
the position of Superintendent of the
IWillowbrook Sanatorium is one from
one of the Red Cross nurses who served
in Russia until lack of funds forced
the recall O. all the American workers.
"The Power of the Penny the NOV
ing picture used in the battle against
the white plague will be seen in Keno
sha later. 1t is now being shown in Mil
Waukee to crowded houses. A number
of the scenes in the picture are laid in
Kenosha county
For the first time in many years Ke-
nosha county grown Christmas trees
are being offered in local stores. They
were cut in the big woods about Twin
Lakes. Many people are buying them
in preference to the trees shipped in
> from other states.
Captain Fountain of the Kenosha
coast guard, is still waiting COR orders
from Washington to close for the
season. 1t is expected th,.o the order
will be here in time to permit members
of the crew living in other cities to
spend their Christmas at home.
The new dye plant at the Chicago
Kenosha Hosiery Company's plant is
being worked to its capacity and more
than thousand pounds of dye is being
turned out daily. Much of this is being
used in the plant here but little IS
being sold to other companioc