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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

Kenosha has a new claim to distineN
tion. Some time early this morning
while the mercury was lowering about
the zero mark bold marauder invaded
the City Hall. Maybe it was woman.
The police are uncertain as to the sex,
color of former condition of servitude
of the bold bad burglar who showed so
little consideration for the fact that
within few feet of the working place
was police office. The office of the
city engineer was forced open, one
of the closets used by the janitor for
storage purpose was opened, and an
effort was made to enter the supply
room of the janitor in the basement of
the building. The bolts were pulled
from the hinges, but evidently the
burglar was frightened BEFORE the door
was removed. 1t is just possible that
the work was the work of some one
who wanted to fire up the boilers and
keep the City Hall warm.
Tt was just after two o'clock this
morning that the captain at the desk
in the police office heard some one
walking about on the first floor of tho
building. He started to make IN in
vestigation and as re reached the
landing be heard sons one zip out of
the womaLfs toilet room and run cut
the west door Of the building. He hur-
ried but when he looked for the person
no trace of "it' could be found.
One of the officials of the city had
left a bunch of keys sticking in the
door of the ladies' toilet room and it
is thought that this bunch of keys
furnished the suggestion of the burg
larry These keys were all for rooms
on the second floor of the building, but
in some way one Of them was made
to open the Office of the city engineer.
Nothing had been taken from the Office
so far as City Engineer Brennan could
report this morning and Janitor Sidney
claimed that there was nothing missing
from his department, either on the first
floor or on the basement floor.
The bunch of keys disappeared with
the burglar and it is thought possible
that these may offer the suggestion for
return engagement and when Mr.. or
Mrs. Burglar comes back there is going
to be a police officer on hand to
grab them.
The officers declare that this shows
the demand for night janitor service at
the City Hall. The night was a quiet
one for the police officers and not once
during the night was there occasion for
any of the patrolmen to come in off
their beats so that the field was left
clear for the working of the burglar.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
DR.. H. w. HARVEY DEAD.
Husband of Winifred Miller, Former
Well Known Teacher Here, Dies
in Battle Creek.

Letters have been received in Keno
sha announcing the death of DR.. HI. w.
Harvey of Battle Greek, Mich, well
known to many. people in this city.
Fourteen years ago Dr. Harvey was
married to Miss Winifred Mixer, one
of the most popular teachers ever EN-
ployed in the High school in Kenosha.
Since their marriage they had made
their home in Battle Creek where the
doctor was widely known as prac-
tieing physician. DR.. Harvey was forty
years of age and be is survived BY his
widow and three children. The fun
eral services We're held at Battle Creek.
1t is probable that Mrs. Harvey and
the children will return to the old home
at LAGRANGE. ILL.,. to reside.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
FoNDNEss MISSING SOMEWHERE.
Elizabeth LaFond Makes Sensational
Charges Against Her Husband
in Divorce Bill Filed Today.

Mrs. Elizabeth LaFond makes serious
charges against her husband Samuel
LaFond In an action for divorce in the
Municipal Court today. She charges
her husband with failure to provide,
desertion and adds that at one time
he drove her from their home under
threats to kill. The couple entered the
marriage bonds at Ludington, Mich,
August &c, 1902, and they have lived
III Kenosha for some time. Mrs. La
Fond declares that her husband forced
her to leave the house in January Of
1915 and that while she was gone he
took their little son, Harold, and went
to Massachusetts. She declares that
they are now living at Glouschester.
She has the little daughter of the
family with her in Kenoha and in her
complaint she asserts that the husband
Is not q fit person to have the custody
of the children and asks a court writ
demanding the return of the son to
Kenosha. 1t is alleged that the son
is now at the home of his grand
mother st the eastern city. AS La
Fond has not been in Kenosha since
the alleged desertion and his wife has
heard nothing from him summons of the
complaint in the case is being made
by publication.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
GERMANS NOT STARVING.
Letter to Kenosha Woman Tells of
Plenty of Food for All in Cities
and Towns in German Empire.

Something of the conditions existing
in Germany, at the time that the kaiser
is making the suggestion of peace, is
told in letter received by Miss Louise
Radatz who resides on Jenne street.
The letter is from one of her near rela-
tives and it tells of relatives of the
Radatz family being decorated with
the Iron Cross by the kaiser for BRAY
cry on the field Of battle. IT tells of
the Germans battle to provide food
for the men in the war and it shows
the fighting spirit Of the German peo-
pie. In her letter the jcousin of Miss
Radatz says, "Two and half years
this terrible war has ragged with as yet
no thought of the end.
William, my brother, has son who
has been in the field since the begin
ming of the war. He is, with the help
of God, still well, and also son-in-law
in the war, both are well and have re-
ceived the Iron Cross. l too now have
son who has been in the war for five
weeks in the First Guard 1t is the
regiment Of our kaiser. [ pray that
the dear God Will guard him and keep
him well and happy. If this terrible
war would only find an end, this awful
bloodshed could be stopped.
This month our youngest son also
must be mustered in. Perhaps he also
will get in the guard regiment for
he is one meter and eighty six cent?
meters tall.
Otherwise all goes well with us.
We have not suffered from hunger be-
cause last year we killed two of the
largest pigs and now again we have
killed one, so that can always send
my sons in the field something. In the
big cities like Berlin it is tighter, but
nobody is starving. Last week I was
at my sister s home in the country.
There they have everything in abund-
ance and have as yet not noticed the
war
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
ICE HARVEST rs ON.
Tewes Company is the First to Enter
the Fields in Kenosha County
This Morning.

The ice harvest is on in Kenosha
county. The Tewes Company, which
cuts the supply for the city of Wauke-
gan from Paddocks Lake, was the first
company to start operation and Pad
docks Lake was opened this morning
and twelve inch ice of excellent quality
is being harvested. Much of the ice
is being harvested. Much of the lee is
being shipped to houses in Waukegan
and for immediate sale in that city.
The lodging houses maintained by the
Tewes company, as in other years, are
in excellent condition and the assur-
ance is given that they will be kept
clean and free of Objectionable features
during the entire cutting season. Tt is
expected that the big Chicago com
panies viii begin opening other lakes
in the western part of the county be-
fore the end of the present week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
GET $3.50 CITY TAXES FIRST DAY.
Mrs John Gibson Has the Honor Of
Being the First Individual Tax
payer in the lily.

The stream of gold, coming from the
collection of the annual tax levy, has
started on it's way to the city treasury.
Mrs. John Gibson had the honor of
letting down the bars on Tuesday" af-
ternoon and her check for the year s
taxes was the first to be received from
any individual in the city. On the first
afternoon Of work the city treasurer
received $4,000 IN taxes. It is ex-
pected that there will be lot of col
lections between now and Christmas
and in lot of homes tax receipts will
serve as Christmas presents.
"We are not going to send out state
ments for the taxes this year." said
the treasurer this morning. $50 many
of these bills are lost that the work
of making out the receipts is pretty
nearly doubled under that plan. How
ever, any one wanting a bill of his
taxes may have it by calling at the
office and we shall expect him to return
the bill when he comes to pay"
1t is expected that at least fifty
thousand dollars in taxes will be
collected before the opening of the
new year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
FAM GIRLS WIN.

A great deal of enthusiasm and plen-
tv Of that Kenosha High school spirit
was shown last night when the girls
indoor baseball team of the High school
played the Social Center girls of the
Balm school. The teams were evenly
matched and the game was hotly con
tested for on both sides up till the
seventh and last inning when three OF
the High school girls struck out in
rapid succession and the game ended
with the score 80 TO % in favor of the
Balm Social Center girls. Much credit
is due the High school girls as most
Of them are underclassmen and this
vas their first game of baseball
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
STATISTICS ON CRIME.
State Board of Control Making an Tn-
vestigation of Demand for Re-
formatory for Women.

With view Of discovering the ex.
act demand of the state of Wisconsin
for reformatory for women the State
Board of Control has asked the NUM-
cipaI judge of this county to furnish it
statistics relating to charges made
against women in the courts of this
county. The records indicate that
about twenty cases in which women
were charged with crimes have been
heard in the Municipal Court during
the past twelve months.
"I feel deeply the need of a state
feformatory for women" said Judgs
Randall this morning. eve have no
humane way of seeking the reform of
women. Of course if they are under
sixteen years of age they may be sent
to the state industrial school, but when
they are over that age it is necessary
for US either to parole them or send
them to the state prison at Waupun.
Some other institution would undoubt-
edly be a great help in solving the
problem of the erring women
Tt is understood that the state board
is making these investigations in every
county in the state and that the re-
suits of them will be submitted to the
legislature as basis for provision
for a new state institution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
TO HAVE HEARING TODAY.
Flint, Michigan, Men Who Had Danger
Gus Weapons, Decline to Make
ANY Statement to officers.

Earl Wentworth and William II.
Simons, the two Flint, Mich, boys ar
rested on Tuesday afternoon on charges
of carrying concealed weapons by Pc
lice Officer Kramer, will probably have
hearing IN the Municipal Court late
this afternoon. No charge other than
that Of carrying the weapons will be
put against them here. Chief of Police
Hare received telegram from Flint
this morning stating that Simons was
well known in that city. He left Flint
a few days ago after selling a bank
book. 1t was declared that the Flint
officials were not interested in the
future of the two men. The two men
have steadily refused to make any
statement to the police officers and al
though kilograms We're sent to Chicago
detectives they have shown no inter
est in the arrest. Chief O'Hare de-
cided today to arraign the men for
violating the local ordinance unless de-
tectives from other cities came before
late this afternoon. If the two are
found guilty they will probably be held
in Kenosha for a considerable time
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
SAY FEED COSTS TOO MUCH
Producers Claim That Demand for SAM.
tary Arrangements Is Such AS to
Largely Reduce Profits on Milk
Sold to the City Retailers.

The KenoSha county milk producers
are going to insist that they have their
bite out of the soaring prices for food
products and in a formal notice issued
today the Milk Producer s Association
announces that after the first of Janu-
airy the price of milk is going to be
boosted twenty-five cents on each eight
gallon can. At the present time the
price being charged Kenosha milk deal
ers is $1.25 per can of eight gallons.
This milk is retailed in the city at
prices Of eight or nine cents a quart.
The milk peddlers who get the eight.
cent rate are netting $1.31 fer each
can Of milk delivered, but they clai n
that the job of handling the milk has
become so great that they are not roll
ing in profits at the prices at pres
emit prevailing. =
The farmers regulating the supply
to the milk men claim that higher
"can" prices are being paid in both
Racine and Chicago than in Kenosha
and that under existing costs of feed
and farm labor it is necessary for them
to get higher price or go out of the
business. Milk men have not as yet
been notified of the advance, but it is
probable that with the advance will
feome an advance Of cent q quart on
the delivered product. Many of the
milk dealers claim that with an addi-
ton of a cent quart to the price
charged the ultimate consumers in Ke-
nosha that it will be difficult for them
to break even. They declare that the
cost Of handing the milk has in
creased more than twenty five per
cent in the year.
In the formal notice given by the
Milk Producers Association the farm
claims that the cost of feed is not the
only reason for advancing the cost -of
milk for Kenosha retail dealers. They
insist that sanitary demands of the
city has largely increased the cost
of housing the cattde and taking
care Of the milk before it is delivered
to the dealers.
It is expected that the dealers will
meet the demand for an increased price
for the can milk without any great
fight. At present nearly all of the
producers supplying milk to retail
| dealers in Kenosha are members of the
Milk Producers Association and it is
expected that all Of them will be ready
to stand for the new price demands.
The city is planning now to demand
stricter examinations Of all milk sold
in Kenosha and with these examinations
will undoubtedly come demands from the
city for cleaner milk and cleaner places
for the housing of the cattle.
The milk producers in Kenosha
county have been ready in the past to
meet all of the demands of the City
Health Department and it is not ex-
pected that there will be any trouble
over the new order provided the deal
ers consent to pay the added twenty
five cents a can for milk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
PAST MASTERS TO BRISTOL.
Kenosha Masons to Initiate New Bris-
toll Master at Session Held on
Friday Evening

Past Masters of Kenosha Lodge No.
At, Free and Accepted Masons have
been invited to come out to Bristol
on Friday afternoon and confer the
Past Masters degree on Gilbert Os-
borne, the. newly elected Master of
Washburn lodge II is expected that
twenty-five membCz of the Kenosha
lodge will make the trip to Bristol.
The members of the party will leave
on an early afternoon train and sup
per will be served at the Bristol lodge
rooms at five o'clock after which the
Kenosha Past Masters will confer the
degree under the leadership of Past
Master Henry J. Hastings, one of the
veterans of Masonry in Kenosha
county. The work is to be timed so
that the members Of the party will be
able to reach Kenosha on the return
trip just after eight O'Clock in the
evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
HAD JOLLY MEETING

A full meeting of Knights of Column
bus was held Tuesday night in Knights
of Columbus Hall to be entertained
with vaudeville performance in which
the star parts were assigned to the
Wells Twins Francis and Joseph,
and Howard Shershon, Tony Cross, Jug
gler, and Gianunzio, player Of the con
certina, who did some quite marvellous
things with his glitteringly new instru-
ment. He did not hesitate to play
grand opera music on his concertina
and he did it so well that his hearers
were delighted
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
VICTIM OF MENINGITIS.
sha Hospital After Short Ill
ness from the Disease.

Spinal meningitis claimed a victim
in Kenosha on Monday night when Ell
mer David Jensen, aged twenty five
years and well known carpenter of
the city, died after a four days illness
from the disease. He had been taken
i'll on last Thursday and he was taken
to the hospital on Sunday evening
The deceased was native of Wau-
paca where he was born November %,
1891. He is survived by his widow
and one son. Funeral services will be
held at the family residence at two
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon with in
terment at Green RIDGE.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
INSTALL NEW MACHINES.

Manager Chas. Pacini of the New
Majestic, has just received two new
motion picture machines which are now
being installed and will be ready by
January 1st. These machines are the
very latest models and are the best
word in motion picture showing. They
produce pictures the like of which are
not seen in the ordinary motion picture
theatre. Two of these machines will
also be installed in the Butterfly on
Milwaukee avenue which will be ready
for 0nenin0 about Jannarr 15. adv
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

Washington, Dec. 20,-The opin-
ion prevails here that in answer to
the demand of the entente allies
Germany will at once make prop
sitions of terms on which peace
may be considered. Tt is declared
that Germany is not ready to make
public her terms for peace but that
they will be submitted to any con-
fidential body which may be ar
ranged for between the entente al
lies and the German nation and her
allies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
EXIR
BULLETIN.

Special to the Kenosha Evening News.
Washington, Dec. 20.-Exports
from the United States of paper
and paper goods this year will
reach the high mark of $40,O00,O00,
doubling those of any previous
year. This was shown today by a
report of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce. The vast
increase in export business has
been one of the factors in increas-
ing the cost to home publishers.
News print paper exports this year
have reached the total value of
$3,430,000 against $2,26O,O00 last
year and about half of the export
ed paper has gone to Latin-Ameri-
ca.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
LICENSED TO WED

licenses have been issued for the
marriage Of Miss Ethel Harriet Gold
berg. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
i. Goldberg, and DR.. Samuel Irwin
Russakov; and also for the marriage
Of Miss Winnie M. Randall of Pleasant
sEairie and William Mau of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

Boston, Mass, Dec. 20.-Billy
Sunday has failed to clamp down
the lid on wet old Boston and final
returns of the license election
available today show that Boston
is going to stay wet by the sur
prising majority of more than
$4,000 votes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
NOTICE T. AND A. M.

Special communication, Kenosha
Lodge No. AT, F. and A. NJ, Friday,
December 22nd at 80 p. m. Work in
in the NJ. NJ. degree. By order of the
Worshipful Master.
d22adv Benz. Rundel SecY.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
ICE SKATERS.

Special bargain in Conron ADJUST
able Ice Skaters, $3.50 value only
$1.79. This skate fits any foot and is
an exceptional snap at this price. Jos.
Pitts 210-212 Main street. sdvd22
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

The Balm School social center indoor
baseball team defeated with score of
Sc to "a the High School team at a
game in the Balm School auditorium
last night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

Washington, Dec. 20-The lower
house of congress today voted to
make an appropriation for main
tanning the sub treasures at Bos-
ton and Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21

London. Dec. 2o.-Tn London
odds of four to one were offered
today against the possibility of
peace within the next six months.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
Marauder Finds Keys in One
of the Toilet Rooms and
Proceeds to Get Busy
Early This Morning.
TWO OFFICES ARE OPENED

Police on Second Floor of the Building
Hear Commotion Just After Two
O'Clock But Person Who Fled from
Toilet Room Is Not Captured.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
Not Available This Year.

The Rev. W. H. Book, pastor of
the Tabernacle Christian church of
Columbus, is telling a story told him
by a schoolteacher in a county not
far from Bartholomew. The teach
er and the township trustee we're
talking over plans for the annual
school commencement The ques-
ton Of q speaker for commencement
arose.
Lets get this here Rip Van Win
kle to make the speech suggested
the township trustee.
"Who?" asked the surprised
teacher.
why, this here Rip Van Wrinkle. -
the trustee replied. I've heard q
good deal about him and 1 thought
maybe he might make a right smart
speech"
The teacher had to tell the trustee
that Rip was not available for com
mencement addresses this year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
BILLY sUNDAYIsMs

A church that is evangelical is a
church on ice. A church that is
evangelistic is a church on fire.
We've got too many icehouses with
a church sign on them.
All the food you can give a goat
won't change him into a sheep.
Religion is just as external as the
air you breathe, as the food you eat,
as the water you drink.
All the law-statutory, common and
divine-cannot make people pure.
When you see a man on the noun
tain top you can bet your life he didn't
light there-he climbed up.
You get out of life just what you
look for. A spider gets its poison out
of the same flower from which bee
sucks its honey.
Some politicians see no more good
in life than the money they can fleh
from the public crib
Don't ride blind baggage on the
Gospel train-pay your fare like the
rest of the passengers or get OF and
walk.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
FuRRED TONGUE NO PROOF
Why It Is Supposed to Indicate Diges-
tive Disturbance Never Has Been
Explained.

Just why a furred tongue is sup
posed to be an indication OF a dis
turbance Of the digestive apparatus
has never been explained. The Medi-
cal Record calls to mind the respected
tand feared) spinster in our commu-
nifty a good many years ago who had
her own opinion about doctors. Urged
to consult one Of their fraternity
when little indisposed. she would re-
pei the suggestion with scorn- All
they do she would say. is to say.
Let's see your tongue HOw's your
bowels? Two dollars, please.
The editor says he has known physi-
clans OF the old school who could di-
agnose a case by looking at the
tongue, just as he has known physi-
clan who could diagnose" a case
Of pneumonia in a child he had never
seen before when he got ten feet away
from the bed. And what is more, he
could tell which side it was on and
even designate the lobe affected in
some cases.
OF course this is sarcasm. The ed
itor is ridiculing the furred tongue as
a symptom Of trouble in the digestive
apparatus.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
Activities of women.

New York city is in need OF at least
fifty thousand servant girls.
Typewriter girls are found even
among the kimono-clad women OF ia
pan.
There are today probably seven
thousand women in the United States
practicing medicine
The great Mexican estate of Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst of California, compris-
ing over three million acres. probably
will be broken up by President Car
rama, who has announced that he in
tends to drive all foreign land holders
from that country.
Miss Louise l. Thomas of St. Louis
turned her back on society to become
a volunteer kindergarten teacher in a
settlement in the foothills of the Cum
beriand mountains.
Demanding that they be sent to the
battle front, a group of French women.
wearing uniforms, recently attempted
to enter the chamber of deputies in
Paris, but were turned back.