The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-14
ALL WILL OBSERVE HOLIDAY
Business Men Claim That EARLY Buying
In Kenosha Has Set High Record and
Expect Big Proportion of Christmas
Purchases to Be Over This Week.

One historic old Santa CLAUS is GO
ing to be missing this year. The fun
that Kenosha Riddles have had in past
years opening the packages from other
cities brought by the mail carrier on
Christmas morning, is going to be a
forgotten pleasure as a formal order
received by the postmaster this morn
ing DEGREES that there shall be no de-
livery of the mails on Christmas Day.
Ever since the inauguration Of the
free delivery service in Kenosha the
men who wear the gray uniforms and
carry the big mail bags have looked
forward to Christmas Day-not with
the idea eff it being day of good
cheer and pleasure, but with the idea
that it was going to be the hardest day
of the year:
Now mail carrier is going to have
Christmas just like anyone else. He
can romp about the Christmas tree
with the children. Uncle Sam is not
grouchy or anything of the kind but
he is going to see to it that mail
carrier has the same privileges as other
people and on this account there will
be no mail deliveries after the after
noon Of December % until the morn
ing of December 90. The men who
work at the post Office are rejoicing
over the new order.
Of course there will be the usual box
delivery of the mails on Sunday and
Christmas Day. Liberal provision IS
being made to take care of the Ch4ist4
mas business of the post Office in Ke-
nosha. The department. has instructed
Postmaster Gorluan to hire five wagons
it necessary to keep the mails moving
outsof thssoficeshere and with a nation
wide crusade for early mailing Of
Christmas packages it is hoped that
there will be no great congestion in
the Christmas mail on account of the
fact that the deliveries for Christmas
Day have been called off.
This year people are mailing their
parcels early said the postmaster.
Of course there is going to be the
usual number of people in Kenosha and
all the other towns who will wait un-
til the night before Christmas to mail
parcel and these people will find that
their friends will be disappointed. We
are ready right now to get these par
cells agoing and while we would not
take away one single bit of the senti-
ment of opening up presents on Christ
mas Day we feel that the people can
be trusted to hold the packages until
Christmas if they are mailed now.''
The express companies have not as
yet announced the schedule for Christ
mas week, but it is probable that these
companies will make arrangements to
have deliveries on Christmas morning
and IN this manner the companies may
get lot of business which would I'M
der normal circumstances go by parcel
post.
Most of the Christmas entertain
ments in Kenosha are being planned
for the Saturday afternoon before the
holiday. Many of the churches in the
city will however have special Christ
mas services on the Sunday before
Christmas and other services on Christ
mas Monday.
Men in business in the city declare
that the indications are favorable to
the biggest Christmas business in the
history of Kenosha. People have been
buying early and already in man. of
the stores there are lot of vacant
shelves and rush orders are being sent
to big distributing concerns to secure
goods to fill up the holes in the stock.
Some of the merchants predicting that
four-ffths of the Christmas business of
Kenosha will be done before the end
OF the present week. These people do
not expect dull business for next week
as they feel assured that there will be
the usual rush on the last two DAYS be-
fore Christmas.
None of the factories in the CITY
have as yet announced Christmas pres
ents to their men, but it is certain that
Christmas in Kenosha will be notable
on account of this distribution.