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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-19
PACKING CHRISTMAS BAGS.
One Dollar Will Bring Joy to Heart of
Hospital Sufferer-Will You
Contribute This Amount?

To provide Christmas cheer for $50
lonesome soldieds in far away French
hospitals may seem rather large un-
dertaking for small band of women,
but this is the contract which the Ke-
nosha branch Of the American Fund for
French Wounded committee has taken
upon itself. Nearly two months ago
these women made up their minds that
they would do their share and more to
make the suffering soldier lads as hap
ply as might be as they lie MANNED and
wounded, but still brave and hopeful,
in the poverty stricken, comfortless
hospitals at the front.
Now they have completed five humid
red and fifty bags, each one bright and
attractive, and into each bag will go
ten articles, chosen with the idea Of
usefulness and comfort. Beside the
articles, in each bag it is intended to
place a card bearing Christmas greet
ing with the name and address of the
sender, for it is said that this per-
sonal touch is one which greatly
pleases the recipients of gifts.
The ten articles are only one dollar
in the aggregate, and those in charge
Of the work suggest that anyone who
is willing to contribute one dollar will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
the donation is bringing cheer to a
wounded soldier who has little of joy
in the present and much misery in the
future to look forward to, for most of
these young men are blinded or other
wise manned so seriously that they
can have no hope for recovery Be
side this, their homes and their
fortunes have been swept away in the
face of the invading army so that they
have no encouragement to anticipate
anything but life of Indulgence help
ed out by such aid as the government,
overburdend with its weight Of war
and poverty, can give.
The members of the committee will
begin the work of packing the bags
in the Guild hall on Tuesday, so that
any contributions that are to be sent
are especially requested to be in the
hands of Mrs. Zalmon g. Simmons,
chairman of the work committee, on
Tuesday or before.
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been visiting in Salem and Trevor.

II
been visiting in Salem and Trevor.
Howard johnson spent Sunday at
his home.
Mrs. Ethel Oakfeld was the guest
Of her mother, Mrs. Eva Sherman on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Peterson of Sa-
lem, with Mr.. and Mrs. Winn Peter
son Of Burlington, motored to Madisoa
on Thursday, visiting their son, Clar-
ence and sister, Miss Anna Peterson.
The death from infantiIe paralysis
of the grandson of William Schultz has
caused great excitement, and a strict
quarantine is being enforced in hopes
to prevent the disease from spreading
Rev. W.. A. Jennings was week
end guest at the home of James Riggs.
John Evans and family were in Lake
Villa on Sunday the guests of friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perrigo of Bristol,
and Mrs. Charles Lacey of Rogers
Park, were in Salem on Sunday after
noon.
Miss Rachel Smith Of the Kenosha
hospital, was in Salem on Sunday.
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DIFFERENT SPEAKER ENGAGED.

DIFFERENT SPEAKER ENGAGED.
Mrs. I. G. Barbour, president of the
local W. G. T. U. received telegram
today from Mrs. Alex BooIe, national
W. G. T. U. vice-presidert, informing
Ler that circumstances made it neces-
sary for Mrs. Boole to attend an i'm
portant meeting of the national w. G.
I. q. board tomorrow so that she must
disappoint Kenosha as to the address
promised at the luncheon to be given
by the chapter at 1870 p. m. tomorrow,
following the reception at one clock
by the chapter.
Mrs. Boole arranged with Mrs. Mar
garet B. Pratt, past president of the
w. G. 7. U. of the state of Washington,
and now national organizer and field
worker, to be present at the luncheon,
provided the new arrangement met
with Mrs. Barbour's approval. Mrs..
Barbour Immediately telegraphed that
Mrs. Pratt would be welcome, and she
will be heard in an address and will
W HOnO4 SuOoV db OuO 4uuCuCUu bOuUE-
row.
Mrs. Peter F. Stair, soon to leave
Kenosha to live in Detroit, has prom
ised to be present and will make one
of the last addresses she is to give in
the city, at this meeting.
Miss Rella Colbourn is to provide a
musical program and among songs Sc
lected will be the Wisconsin w. G. T.
U. state song.
Reservations for the luncheon, to
which men as well as women are invited
to come, may be made by teIephoning
Mrs. I. G. Barbour, telephone number
165.
The public is especially invited to
attend the program which will follow
the luncheon and will open at $3.50
p. m.
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NEWS OF
KENOSHA COUNTY
BRISTOL.

bh1S1O
A number from Bristol attended the
parcel post sale given by the Priscil-
las Of Salem on Friday evening.
Mrs. Glover Of Milwaukee has been
the guest Of Mrs. DR.. f. e. Stevens.
Mrs. Leah Johnson was in Milwau-
kee on Wednesday.
Mrs. f. w. Roberts of Woodwork,
was in Bristol on Saturday.
Mrs. E. J. Zaun was called to Hart
land on Monday owning to the illness
Of her mother who died Wednesday
morning.
Rose zaun left Friday to attend the
funeral of her grandmother.
Mrs. Sirrell, who has been the guest
of the g. W. Browns, returned to her
home in Chicago on Thursday, accom-
panied by Wesley Brown.
Mrs. Miller and children of Antioch,
were the guests Of Mrs. A. j. King on
Sunday.
Frank Getchen was in Hebron with
mis- nephew, Elmer Getchen on Monday.
Mrs. Mary Whitfield Peterson and
children were the week end guests of
Mrs. Florence Kingman.
w. A. Lewis is doing some house dec
Grating for T. w. Murdoch of Kenosha
Mrs. II. r. Wolfgram is spending a
few days with relatives in GAINESVILLE.
P. E. Woodbury. was in Genoa juno
tion on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. K. Cass returned
to her home on Tuesday morning af-
ter a six weeks visit with their son
in Miller, South Dakota.
Mrs. Gibbon and children of Chicago,
returned to their home on Tuesday
morning. They were the guests of
Mrs. A. De Umpst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simmons and Mr.. and
Mrs. banks of Madison, spent the
week end at the Frank Fox home.
l.. w. Woodbury. has given up his
home at the German Methodist parson-
age, which will be occupied by the
new minister.
Mrs. B. S. Benson, who has been i'll,
is recovering.
There was a Republican rally at the
hall on Wednesday evening.
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BRISTOL.

Mr.. and Mrs. K. K. Cass have re-
turned from an extended visit with
their son in South Dakota.
The postponed meeting of the Wo-
men $ Home Mission Society will be
held at the home of Mrs. Ed Stefan,
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Charles Lacey, of Chicago, is
visiting her brother, William Perrigo.
An interesting orally Day. pro-
gram will be rendered by the members
of the M. E. Sunday school in the
church on next Sunday morning. All
are invited.
Rev, DIR. Tippert, of Appleton, was
the guest Of Rev. Stevens on Sunday
and Monday.
A most interesting illustrated lecture
on From Ocean to Ocean Through
Picturesque Canada will be given in
Bristol Hall by the Rev. and Mrs. Ste
vens, under the auspices of the M. E..
Church. The pictures are very fine and
were taken during the lecturer s trav-
els through that country.
Mr.. and Mrs. g. P. Millett and the
Rev. and Mrs. Stevens motored to An
tioeh, ILL.,, on last Tuesday.
The Queen Esther Circle will meet at
the parsonage on Friday evening Of
this week, to arrange for semi-pro-
fessional course of lectures and enter
tainments to be given during the com
ing winter. Definite announcements
will be made later.
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BOOSTS VALUE OF LANDS.
Drainage bitches in Racine and Keno
sha County Make Big Increase
to Farm Values.

to Farm Values.
When the weekly issue of the Wis
consin Agriculturist, published in Ra-
cine, is off the press for circulation
next Thursday, it will contain an in
teresting account Of the sessions of the
Wisconsin State Drainage Association
held in Racine last Tuesday and We'd
nesday, when leaders in drainage work
of this state gathered here to discuss
the subject in general and more par
ticularly the proposed changes in the
drainage district laws and of profits to
be gained by such drainage.
One feature of the convention was
the inspection trip made last Wednes-
day morning through the drainage dis
tricts of Racine and Kenosha counties.
The Wisconsin Agriculturist IS account
of this trip is as follows:
Wednesday morning the visitors
and members of the association started
on an automobile trip around the drain
age districts of Racine and Kenosha
counties, where upwards of $4,000 acres
of high priced land is soon to be under
complete drainage and more than twice
that area will be benefited more or less
by the work of these systems. Sixty
five visitors were in the company. They
saw land which was merely cat-tail
swamp a few years ago, and which is
worth now 5000 to $500 per acre.
"This land will now produce twenty
tons of silage per acre or other crop of
even greater value. There are 3,00O,O 900
acres Of swamp land in Wisconsin, some
of the owners of which have hesitated
to make the investment because they
were not certain the returns would be
great enough to warrant the necessary
outlay.
Action in many drainage districts
has been postponed because swamp
land owners have feared that the soils
there would never be able to support
anything but marsh vegetation. These
men who saw the crops in the south
eastern districts were thoroughly con-
WINGED.
"The Mt. Pleasant and Somers dis
trict, the Root River district, the large
Yorkville and Raymond districts, where
lands show the good effects of the
work already done, and the Norway
and Dover district, where all stages of
work were seen, formed the four main
objective points Of the trip.
Many visitors were out to be
shown. They had been doubtful as to
whether large expenditure of 100000
or $4,000 would bring returns great
enough to warrant that expense. They
were shown. AS w. J. Hansche de-
clared in his address, his was an invest
ment yielding 100 per cent. In all
cases the increase in productive value
OF the land is enormous.
Secretary E. r. Jones, Of the asso-
citation, who has gone over most of the
district drained land in Wisconsin, can
give inquirers volume Of information
on the benefits of this work. His prac-
tical experience in surveying and lay
ing these systems is most valuable.
There are 100000 acres that ought
to be drained in Wisconsin today. It
is expensive work, but no work that
pays so well is too expensive. Besides
the large areas, thousands of our large
farms in both north and south counties
have small tracts which ought to be
producing. Often they are found to
contain the best land on those FARMS,
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SOMERS.


On Saturday evening of this week
Somers Camp Royal Neighbors of
America No. 4O52 will give a card party
at Woodman hall to which everybody
is cordially invited. Refreshments
will be served and royal good time
is promised.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. g. Ozanne spent Sum
day in Racine the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ryder.
William Wendtlandt has purchased
new automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Rasmussen enter
tanned relatives from Racine on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George P. Leet and
children, Fred w. Leet, Mr.. and Mrs
Chris A. Jensen and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lydia Benjamin Bishop and daugh-
ter, Lydia, and Mrs. Albert Bishop
and sons, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jay W.
Rhodes and son, Wendell, motored to
Sussex on Sunday and spent the day
with Rev. and Mrs. William P. Hulen
Rev. Mr.. Hulen was pastor fof the
Methodist church at this place last
year.
Mrs. Myron A. Gould spent the past
week with her daughter, Mrs. Otto Tab
bert, in Chicago.
Clinton 0. Hitler Of Racine has been
called home on account of the serious i'll
ness of his mother, Mrs. Helena Hitler.
Everett Yule of Minnesota, is spend
ing some time at the home of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Frank Yule.
Mrs. Ozanne spent Tuesday with Mrs.
George w. McAdams, Racine.
John Yunk transacted business in
Chicago ON Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Bullamore
spent Sunday with friends in Racine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Pierce of Kenosha
spent the past week at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. P. Bailey.
August Bohm who has purchased the
Stitler property in the village expects
to move into it the first of the month. |
The marriage of Earl Yule to Miss
Lillian Turkelsen of Kenosha was cele-
brated at the home of the bride IS par
ents on Tuesday evening, October 10.
The groom is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. B. |
Frank Yule and one of Somers' most |
popular and enterprising young men.
After a short wedding trip the young
couple are at home on the P. M. Ander- |
son farm at the village. Congratula- |
lions and best wishes are extended by a |
host Of friends. Among those from
f5omers who attended the wedding were:
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Frank Yule, Everett |
Yule, Mr.. and Mrs Edward M. Long
more and son, Floyd; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Jensen and family, and Mrs.
James Thorn and daughter of North |
Bend, Nebraska.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wendtlandt and
daughter, Elsie, accompanied by Jacob |
7. Barrows motored to GAINESVILLE, Sat
urday.
Mrs. Jessie A. Leet is visiting at the
heme of her son in Milwaukee.
P. M. Anderson spent Monday and
Tuesday in Chicago.
August Bohm met with serious acct
dent one day last week, while leading a
young horse.
A. P. Bailey who was kicked by a /
horse while cutting corn for his son
recently, is improving as rapidly as
can be expected.
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A number attended the play given
by the Knights of Columbus at Burl-
lngton on Tuesday evening.
Mary Mccormick was the guest of
Mrs. Ralph Harry on Wednesday.
Peter Hotz and family attended the
Baker-Hotz wedding at aSomers last
Wednesday. Matte Hotz was the
groomsman.
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BRIGHTON.

Mrs. Anton Rollinger and her mother
in-law of Lomira, Wis, are the guests
of Mrs. Kemen.
Mrs. Winnifred Perry was called to
Union Grove last week, owing to the
death of her sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Dun
kirk.
Messrs. Weber, Nelson, Jackley and
Arthur Vohs were guests at the Vohs
home on Sunday.
Luella Jackley was a weekend guest
i'm Racine.
Mrs. Bowden who has been ill is rap
idly recovering.
Mr. and Mrs F. Thorn and baby of
Clark, S. Oak, have arrived in Brighton
and will be the guests of their parents.
Nick Daniels of Burlington, spent
Saturday with his son, Paul, on the
farm.
Miss Hicks of Chicago, was the guest
OF Mr. anu MIS-. MAUI helCer.
Lily Ludwig attended the funeral Of
Mrs. Henry Schultz at Racine on
Saturday.
Mrs. Mike Schlax and daughter of
Kenosha, spent Sunday with her
mother, Mrs. Newman.
H. Zeitler and Mr.. and Mrs. J. Sci
vert of Kenosha, autoed out Sunday
afternoon to visit with Mrs. M Weber.
Mrs. zeitler, who had spent the last of
the week with her sister, returned to
Kenosha.
Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee,
was in Brighton on business on Friday
afternoon.
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Temperance Union has been active in
its behalf and given of her time and
money to further the cause. The young
est member present was the beautiful
little child of Mrs. Eckert, the soloiss,
who sat and smiled at the assembly and
behaved in SO exemplary a manner as
to become a model for all six months
old w. G. T. U. visitors.
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though for moment or two by forcing
the heart S action they seem to be OF
aid. Even in typhoid fever where
years ago doctors felt alcohol was a
necessity during the convalescent per-
iod, it is now generally acknowledged
by the profession to be not only of no
good but a positive harm.
Drinkers Not Employed.
Business employers have put their
ban on drunkenness and drinking in ev-
cry line. Railroads will not take man
into their employee who is known to
drink. Once employed they are prompt
" discharged if they are found to visit
saloons. The street railways are SINH
larly strict. Owners of factories and
other plants employing labor, since the
employers liability laws have gone in
to effect must, as a matter of self pro-
lection, refuse, and they do so refuse,
to employ men who drink because a
man whose nerves are unsteady is much
more liable to accident than others and
the employer is liable for the loss of
life or limb to the employee under the
law.'
Let Children Know Dangers.
The speaker urged the teaching of
the effects of alconoi upon the system
to Sunday school and private school
pupils. She said she did not advocate
trying to disseminate prohibition prop
uganda among children. but merely to
let them know facts as to what the
results Of drunkenness and even slight
indulgence in alcoholic drinks are. and
the children themselves, she believes,
Will decide in favor of abstinence and
when nation of abstainers is produced,
prohibitions she is certain, will take
care of itself without any trouble.
She said there is little chance of sue
cess in bringing campaign for prohi-
b1tory statutes before, by education,
the populace is ready for the camaign.
She told of the educatory campaign the
women of Washington and other anti
saloon powers waged before the ques-
ton of going dry was submitted to the
people.
She told of cartoons which played
great part in the campaign, and spoke
OF one which was particularly telling.
1t showed the working of the ma.
chine. = At one side was a sturdy lad.
In the center was the pictured saloon
with brewery in the background emit
tied 'The Machine.' The third sec
ton of the picture was called "The
Finished Product and a besotted
man, ragged, dirty and repulsive, stag
gerlng in drunken impotency was
shown.
She said this cartoon, by the thou
sands, was tackled to tree stumps or
trunks or put on fences or telephone
posts through the state.
The meeting was one of the most en-
thusiastic and successful which the To-
cal union has held, although it was said
that sixty-seven, the entire member
ship, were present at the last preceding
meeting.
Behaved Very Well, Thank You.
The oldest member and one of the
most interesting women present was
Mrs. III. j. Stalker who, ever since the
formation of the Women IS Christian
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SALEM.

Mrs. Matt Loescher is visiting rela-
tives in Penfeld, ILL.,
Mrs. Clarence Conwell and Mrs.
Charles Hermance have returned to
Richmond. They were the guests of
their father, M. w. Acker during their
stay in Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Cornwell have
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NOTICE.

The Liberty Cemetery Helpers will
meet with Mrs. George Faulkner, Tues
day noon, October "a, 1916. Dinner
served. All cordially invited.
adv Luanah Patrick, Sec y.
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Miss Madeleine Drake, $50 Maiden
Lane, underwent an operation in Keno
sha Hospital this morning. No fears
are entertained as to her rapid recov-
err
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Bulbs for fall planting have just ar
rived. L. Turner & Sons, florists. WIZ
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Bulbs for fall planting have just ar
rived. L. Turner & Sons. florists. WIZ
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BARGAIN COLUMN

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WANTED no BUY--3,000 BUSHELS OF
oats. FRANC Nelson Livery, West Main
street. DIV If
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-11
WOULD PUT SUNDAY ON SALARY.
Federal Council of Churches viii
Criticize EvangeIist's Offering.

It is learned on unquestioned author
ity that the commission on evange-
lism of the Federal Council of churches
will say some very plain things con-
corning the Rev. William A. Sundays
free Will' offering in it's report to be
made to the council at its forthcoming
meeting in st. Louis. More than that,
the commission will recommend, it is
said, that all evangelists, Sunday with
the others, be taken charge of by the
churches themselves according to re-
ligious bodies to which they belong,
their finances regulated and super
vised, and that the evangelists be paid
salaries.
The commission will tell the council
1t is said, that almost all professional
evangelists have united in expression
of desire that they be putfon an of
ficia1 basis, as are ministers, and
money matters be taken off their
hands. The commission does not say
whether Sunday has himself Joined
in the appeal. but 1t y informally said
that he has not done so. The COM
mission Will say. it is known, that
some measure of harm Is done by the
Sunday free Will offering plan Pub
lie criticism of it is known to be gen.
eral. and it is not mitigated by the
fact that Sunday gives much of It
away. 1t seems certain that the coun-
Gil will adopt the recommendations of
its commission.-Boston Transcript.
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YOU CAN BE A WINNER BY
WORK.


WORK.
No matter what your present position
in the race, YOU CAN BE A WIN
NER BY YOUR EFFORTS THIS
WEEK. Stop and look over the scale
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your work now has the greatest value
it can ever have for you, and no mat
ter where you stand, you CAN WIN
THIS WEEK. Hard and persevering
work is being done by the energetic
candidates and those who do not dc
their best this week cannot expect to
be declared winners a week from next
Wednesday.
DO you realize how close the fin
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SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL CANDIDATES.

During this week every subscription turned in will be
fled, and ANY VOTES SECURED ON SUBSCRIPTIONS
TURNED IN AS NEW, WHICH ARE REALLY OLD"
ACCORDING TO OUR RULING, WILL BE CANCELLED
This sufficient warning every candidate Close
this important detail and the finding of whether sub
scripton new odd before turning n will keep you
from losing votes. REMEMBER, ALL VOTES SECURED
ON OLD SUBSCRIPTIONS TURNED IN AS NEW WILL
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