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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
SHOP EARLY MOVEMENT ON.
Merchants Plan to Have Christmas
Stocks Ready for Buyers by the
First of December This Year.

Do Your Christmas Shopping
Early is going to mean something in
Kenosha this year, for the Kenosha
Retailers Association has decided to
get behind the early shopping cam
paign with a rush and plans are now
under way to make 1t matter Of real
interest for Kenosha men end women
to get rid of their Christmas money
early. Letters are being sent to every
member of the association asking them
to get their Christmas stocks in shape
earlier than ever this year and DO be
prepared for grand Christmas opening
to be held about the first Of December.
The association is going TO do its
share by giving lot of publicity to a
movement for early Christmas buying.
" For years the merchants have been
asking people to shop early in the
holiday season." said Secretary The
leen of the association this morning,
"but the merchants themselves have
been slow to put the Christmas stocks
on the market. This year it is all go
ing to be different. The Kenosha
stores are all going to be ready to sell
the Christmas trade on the first day
of December. The merchants are go
ing TO have the most complete stocks
ever offered in Kenosha ready on that
day and the people are going to be
given real incentive for early shop
ping. We mean to have every dealer
ready to accommodate them this year
and we are going to make it real OBJ
ject for people to get this class of buy
ing out of the way so that there will
not be one grand rush right at the day
before Christmas. System means
everything In buying and selling and
we are going to systematic the Christ
mas shopping this year
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21

tax for common scho4i reip1sas and
the two-tenths mill tax for the univer-
sity fund are levied against each
county and upon which the balance in
favor of or against the county in the
distribution of the school fund is
founded. Each county has a direct
financial interest in just and accurate
state assessment of every county in
the state.
The Importance of the state assess
ment is further emphasized by the fact
that the rate of taxation to be applied
to railroads and other corporations,
assessed and levied directly by the
state is determined by the valuation
placed on the general property Of the
state by the tax. commission. This
rate is ascertained by dividing the ag-
gregate of all taxes for all purposes,
state county and local Except poll
taxes and special assessments by the
aggregate valuation of all the general
property of the state as fixed by the
tax commission. The statute placing
the state assessment in the hands of
the tax commission was effective in
1901. That year the state assessment
was fixed at 1896, $4,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
DEATH OF ELIZABETH WILSON.
Kenosha Died at Her Home on
Tuesday Afternoon.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson aged ninety
three years, widow Of the late Ira
Wilson and one of the Oldest Of the
pioneers of Kenosha, died at her home
on julius street on Tuesday afternoon
following a long illness from blood
poisoning. Mrs. Wilson was resident
of Kenosha since 1874 and she was one
of the few survivors Of the old South
port day in Kenosha. She was born In
Rochester New York, In 1923 and she
came to Kenosha just after she was
twenty-one years Of age and had since
resided In Kenosha. For many wears
she was one of the most active work
ers In the First Baptist church. She
is survived by two sons, John and Ira
Wilson, and three daughters, Margaret,
Bertha and Charity. The funeral
services will be held from the family
home ON Julius street at two 'clock
Thursday afternoon and interment will
be at the family plot at Green Ridge.
Mrs. Wilson was the granddaughter
Of the late Sir Thomas Threnwith OF
England, who had large English
estates. Mrs. Wilson 3 father was q
younger brother of the heir to the es-
tate and like many other younger sous,
Rama ho Amarina.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
BONDS SOLD BEFORE DELIVERED
Active Demand for Kenosha Wates
and Breakwater Bonds Among
the Chicago Investors.

Kenosha municipal bonds are easy to
dispose of. This was shown by the
fact that bonds totaling one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars issued by
the city to provide funds for the build
ing of the new water plant and for the
building of the Lake avenue break
water were all sold before the city
could deliver them. On Tuesday the
bonds were formally delivered to
Mccoy and Company Of Chicago. The
bankers announced that they would
be sent out at once as all Of them had
been sold and what is more, they were
sold with good profit to the bond
company. It is declared that all bonds
issued by Kenosha in the past two
years have found a ready market and
that there is an active demand for
them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21

Does Kenosha want ito locate an
eleven million dollar government indus
tryq If she does the men who are GO
ing to build ii are anxious to hear what
the city has to offer The big industry
is the proposed plant for the manufact-
ure of munitions for the United States
government. Congressman Cooper an
nounced that he is ready to use his in-
fuence to secure the location of the
big government plant in this district
provided the people want it. Wauke-
gan and Racine have both started
things to get consideration for these
cities as site Tor the government
plant AS Kenosha has had powder
mill out in Pleasant Prairie and felt
the force Of the argument against such
plants there is grave doubts if any of
the arguments in favor of the location
of the plant will appeal very strongly
here. It is said that the government
agents are favorable to locating the
plant somewhere in the neighborhood
of Chicago and that site up along
the north shore is preferred.
There are lot of vacant lake shore
sites about Kenosha which would
furnish an excellent location for the
plant, but none of them have been Of
fered Some cities have suggested
that thev would be wiling t. give q
site and lot of other things to secure
location of the plant. just how far
Kenosha people would be willing to go
remains to be seen. 1t is pretty GER
tain that if vote of the people Of
the city were taken that they would
decided to have the plant located just
as far from Kenosha as possible.
It is understood that government
agents will in the near future make a
trip to all the cities along the lake
shore seeking sites for the big plant.
It is improbable that the government
will ask for any "gifts" in the loca-
tion of the plant, but that the site
when selected will be bought and paid
for at a market price.
The plant is to cost close to eleven
million dollars and every large city in
the eastern half of the country is after
it. At Alexandria, short distance from
the city of Washington, there is under
stood to be well formed plan to To-
cate the plant there. There is soma
opposition to that plan as it is feared
Alexandria might be subject to attack
by foreign fleet in event of war.
The officials of Alexandria, however,
insist the river is entirely too shall
low for large battleships to enter and
for that reason the city is safe from
successful attack. It is located close
to the raw material supply, also, and
it is expected that Congress viii take
that feature of all proposed sites into
consideration.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
CALLS DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
County Chairman Slater Sends Formal
Call for Meeting to be Held on
Saturday Afternoon.

John G. Slater, chairman of the
Democratic committee, this afternoon
sent out the formal call for meeting
of the committee to be held on Satur-
day afternoon at which time the com
mittee will be re-organized for the
coming campaign. Secretary Tully is
sending out the notices of the meeting
this afternoon. Tt is declared that the
Democracy Of the county is united this
year and that strenuous efforts will be
made to make the campaign the most
vigorous in the history of the county.
When asked if he would be a candi-
date for reelection as head of tie
county Democracy Judge Slater said:
THAT is a mater for the members of
the committee to decide upon and I
have nothing to do with their choice. y
It is declared that the Democracy has
high hopes that Chairman Slater will
continue in office as the active head of
the party in Kenosha county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
BOOSTS SALOON LICENSE.
BY Small Vote Pleasant Prairie IN
creases License from S400 to
$500 on Tuesday,

Pleasant Prairie voted for thigh
license on Tuesday and with a vote
Of less than forty the people of the
town elected TO change the present sa-
loon license of four hundred dollars to
FIVE hundred dollars. No interest was
taken in the election. The saloon men
seemed to be of the opinion that it was
a foregone conclusion that the license
would be boosted and they made no
effort to pack the voting place. The
friends of the increase had their
fingers on the throttle all the time and
as the count of noses showed a big ma
jority of small vote for the increase
in license there was no special effort
made to get the voter out. But ten
votes were cast against the proposed
increase. The new license fee will go
into effect when licenses are issued on
the first Of July in 1917.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
FELL EIGHTY FEET-LTvEs.
Milwaukee Man Plunges from the Top
of Tower at the New Water
Plant This Morning.

Philip Mirine, a Milwaukee man,
employed as a helper in the concrete
work on buildings for the Keno
sha Water Company over on Washing
ton Island, fell eighty feet from the
concrete tower just before noon today.
He is now in the Kenosha hospital suf-
fering from severe bruises and it is
feared internal injuries. The man was
working near the top of the tower and
slipped and fell. An examination
showed that he had no broken bones.
The ambulance was returning from
taking this man to the hospital when
it had a call to the buildings being
erected for the Nash Motors Company.
Edward Tilliman living at 805 Market
street, was crushed under some falling
window frames. It is feared that he
was internally injured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
KENosHA DOUBLE CROSSED.
Hughes Special Passed Through the
City Going Sixty Miles an Hour
and Never Hesitated.

Some one in the Republican state or
ganization double crossed Kenosha for
at exactly at 1885 this morning the
special train bearing the Hon. Charles
Evans Hughes, Republican candidate
for president, and a train load of dis
tinguished Republicans, passed through
Kenosha. It passed through and even
broke all speed laws, never hesitating
for a second at the Kenosha station
and running right along at rate Of
some sixty miles an hour. It went
through the city so fast that it was
hard for the people to even see the
smoke Of the engine and the flags on the
train looked like a blur Of patriotism.
Up in Milwaukee it was declared that
at the last minute it was found advis-
able to send the train through Keno
sha but that when this decision was
made it was too late to arrange for a
meeting at Kenosha with even plat
form speech. The train went through
Racine with just as much Of hesita-
ton as it made at Kenosha and it was
not stopped until it pulled into the
sheds at Mwilwaukee and there only
for minute before it went on to She
boygan. Even at that there were
few loyal Republicans in Kenosha who
We're at the station and a resembling
cheer was given for the candidate
when he went along at the record
breaking speed. It is declared that
there was vision of the justice at the
rear window of the observation coach
but the train went so fast that he did
not have a chance to even say HHail
and FAREWELL
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
UPWARD TREND IN The STATE
Big Increase Is Given to the Value Of
Real Estate in This County While
Personal Property Valuation Falls
Below Figures of Former Year.

The value of all property in Keno
sha county is fixed in the state assess
ment announced by the State Tax Com
mission today at So, 559,913. The
total assessment of all property in
Kenosha county last year by the COM
mission was $55,496,930. There has
been a substantial increase in the
assessment.
The value of all real estate in Ke-
nosha county as fixed by the commits
sion today is $44,090,720 as compared
with real estate assessment last year
for the county of $41, 697 ,040. The
personal property of the county is
valued by the commission today at
$13, 469, 1913 as compared with $780,
800 last year.
The State Tax Commission announc-
ed that the state assessment of all
property, all counties, in the state was
So, 426, 1877 ,220. This is an increase of
$197,063,8 12 over the state assessment
last year. In 1915 the commission as
sessed all property at S3,299, i5l ,4U5.
In the state assessment announced
today the real estate of the state is
assessed at $2,819,280,345 as compar-
ed with $2,7o2, 1882 ,oo5. This year the
personal property is assessed at $6O7,-
516,875 as compared with 1896, 749, 403.
The largest assessment of all prop
erty is made against the city and
county of Milwaukee, where the real
estate is valued by the commission to-
day at S518,130,410 and the personal
property at s13e,567, 957 making the
total assessment Of all property $685.
698,367 as compared with $632, $40, 704.
The state assessment is the basis mp
on which the present seven-tenths mill
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
Menu Of State Politics
Republican Democratic Parties Wisconsin in Convention
Tuesday Platforms the State
Campaign Pertinent Points Platforms Follow:

Relative to the national ticket,
the Philip administration and Re
publican candidates nominated In
the primary, the platform says:
eve adhere to the principles
of the Republican party as ex-
pressed in the national platform
adopted by the national Republi-
can convention held at Chicago
IN June.
"We unqualifedly indorse the
nominees of that convention, the
Hon. Charles E. Hughes for pres
ident and Charles w. Fairbanks
for vice president, as eminently
fitted to efficiently administer
those principles for the welfare
of the nation.
"We heartily indorse the can
didates nominated at the recent
Republican primary, and commend
them to the electorate of Wiscon-
sin.
GIVE heartily indorse the effec-
tive efforts of Gov. Emanuel L.
Philip and his supporters in both
houses of the legislature in their
efforts, which resulted in ma
terial reduction in the cost Of
state government.
Favor Real Progress.
"We favor all real progress in
government and liberal support
of institutions that make govern
ment serviceable to the people and
advance the cause of humanity.
GIVE recognize that there must
be continued progress, but we also
believe in establishing new aetivi-
ties, the cost must be taken into
consideration in order that the
taxes shall not become burden
some to the people.
eve believe in constitutional
government and in concentrating
responsibility for government in
the hands Of the constitutional
officers elected by and directly
responsible to the people. During
Governor Philips administration
progress has been made in the
consolidation of commissions, and
in lessening their expense, while
increasing their efficiency, but we
demand that there be further
steps in this direction, and also
that increased expen.1 itures for
the extension of activities be sub
ject to the approval of the re
sponsible constitutional officers of
the state.''
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21

The state Democracy IL eonven-
ton assembled:
Endorsed the Democratic candi-
dates for president and vice presi-
dent and acknowledged with pride
the inspiring leadership of President
Wilson.
Demanded the withdrawal of
"big business which it alleged is
entrenched at the capital at Madison.
The elimination of railway men
from the Railroad Commission of
the state.
Revision of the workmen IS COM
pensation act to increase the COM
pensation for injuries.
Encouragement of cooperative
movements among farmers.
Educational advancement to serve
every person in the state.
Demands shorter legislative ses-
sions.
Takes decided stand for good
roads.
Declares for strengthening of laws
for industrial education.
Afirms faith of Democracy In the
principal of primary elections.
Favors merit principal in public
service.
Calls for stringent child labor
laws and better sanitary conditions
for working people.
Demands that state fix fire insur-
ance rates.
Demands legislation for promo
tion Of human welfare.
In the endorsement of the nation
al administration the candidates
went on record in the following
language: "The Democratic candi.
dates for state Office in convention
assembled acknowledge with pride
the inspiring leadership of that
great American, Woodrow Wilson.
We applaud and commend his great
service in conducting our interna-
tional affairs in accordance with our
historic position of neutrality The
state leaders also commended Viii
son for securing recognition of the
fundamental principles of interna-
tional law, for upholding the honor
of the nation and securing interna-
tional respect and for preserving
peace and prosperity. They indorse
the national Democratic platform
inasmuch as it upholds human rights
and gives Democrats a claim to
progressiveism.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
JURORS FOR OCTOBER TERM.
Regular Term of the MUM
cipal Court.

The Jury Commission has drawn the
the hearing of cases in the Municipal
Court during the October term set for
the first Monday in October, but it is
improbable that any cases will be
heard until later in the month and pos
sibly until after the regular October
term of the Circuit Court has been dis
posed of. There are a number of cases
for trial by jury in the Municipal
Court at the October term and it is
possible that the term will be the bust
est in the history of this court. AS yet
the calendar has not been made up. Tt
viii be announced within the next
week or ten days. The list of
jurors follows:
Kenosha-Albert Franzway, William
Koos, J. A. Karnes, G. NJ. Sharpe, H.
FL. Vanderberg, Ivor Jessen, Richard
Larner, W. T. Hamlet, Fred johnson,
John Mischler, Julius Hoffman, A. G.
Grosvenor, Frank Fenker, Harold
Wells, John Rock, Jr., J. E. Nelson.
Bristol-Edward Firchow, F. o. Row
bottom, David Griffith, Paul Woodbury..
Paris = Charles Sumpter, Herman
Swantz, Charles Bohn, Edward Gunter.
Pleasant Prairie = George Barter,
W. L. Dexter.
Randall William Fl. Clark, Ben
Litzenberger.
Salem-Frank Hahn, Clarence Row
ley, Joseph Hartnel, f. j. Smith.
Wheatland-Ben Newman, William
Luke, William Zeben, Ben Kester.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21

Chicago, Sept. 2O-Mrs. Charles
W. Moody is in the Henrotin hos
pital suffering from serious in
juries sustained when brick was
thrown through the window of the
automobile in which she was rid
ing with her husband as they
started on their honeymoon trip.
Mrs. Moody was Miss Hazel Wells,
a daughter of Charles Edwin Wells
Of Wilmette. The brick is believed
to have been hurled by striking
chauffeur of the Atlas Motor
Company, or sympathizer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
MODERN CLUB ARRANGED
Frank G. Isermann Is REFLECTED as
Grand Knight at Annual Meeting
Held Tuesday Evening Make Plans
for Five Day ''Society Circus

The wand of progress has touched the
Kenosha council Of the Knights Of
Columbus and at the annual meeting
of the council held on Tuesday evening
plans were started for a rebuilding Of
the property OF the council on Main
street with view Of giving the Ke-
n0sha Knights one of the most modern
and convenient club homes to be found
in the states The movement is still in
It's infancy, but the plans include the
rebuilding Of the front of the build
ing with view of making it modern
in every way; the installation of a
heating plant to take care Of the entire
building and the arranging Of luxurious
club and assembly rooms on the second
and third floor of the building
The finances of the Knights OF Colum-
bus Building Association are in excel
lent condition and it will be an easy
matter for the organization to provide
for any reasonable expenditure which
may be desired for the improvement of
the building. A handsome stone front
for the building has been suggested.
Only small portion of the room on the
second and third floors Of the building
is now used by the organization and
the large space on these floors offers
chance for the opening of one of the
finest clubs to be found anywhere in
Wisconsin. It has been suggested that
the entire second floor of the building
be used for club parlors, libraries and
reception room, with the upper. floor
being used as card, billiard, assembly
rooms and the lodge hall The Grand
Knight was named as committee to,
confer with the officials of the building
association in an effort to have plans
for the improvement of the building
worked out at once with the under
standing that the plans be carried out
during the winter months. The rapid
growth of the Kenosha council has
brought a demand for better facili-
ties for the activities of the organi-
cation and these will be provided I'M
der the new plan.
s ~ 10 SO1L5 W w q Uucy W111pC1 lo1
the Knights. Plans were made last
night for the annual Landing Day ban
quet to be held on October 18th and
as in other years, this will be made the
most notable event Of the year among
the members of the order. Later in
the winter the Knights of Columbus
are going to put on "Society Circus"
which is to last for five days. 1t is go
ing to be under the direction of Ed.
Dayton and he is already recruiting
"big acts'' for it.
The members of the council paid tri-
butte to the excellent work of Grand
Knight Frank Isermann by electing
him to head the order for another
year. The full list of officers for
the new year follows:
Grand Knight-Frank G. Isermann.
Deputy Grand Knight-Joseph Tully.
Chancellor-Walter Cunminsky.
Warden-William Meyer.
Financial Secy.-James A. Crossin.
Recorder-Elmer Smith.
Treasurer Dayton.
Trustee g ears)-John Zens.
Inside Guard. Milligan.
Outside Guard-G. Sullivan.
Advocate-William O'Donnell.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
HOW TO VISIT THE SICK.
(STAY AT HOME)

: just at the present time it is
a very dangerous thing for a
mother to take her child into a
house where there is sick
child, until it is known just
what the disease is, and many
times the sick child or person
; would be better off if the visitor
would simply call at the back
door, ask questions, offer assist
ance if needed, then go back
home and stay there, ESQ far as
the sick friend is concerned)
until called for.
The good intentions Of those
calling on the sick are not ques-
toned by the writer, but the re-
suits are quite often disastrous
and in many cases some inno-
cent, helpless child is the one
who actually suffers as we have
witnessed on more than one
occasion.
To some people it seems to
be quite a puzzle as to why
physicians and nurses can go
into houses where there are cases
of contagion when Others are
not permitted by law to do SO.
1t LIS necessary for physicians
: and nurses TO go anywhere
where there is sickness, and do
not think for one minute that
they do not take their chances
and very desperate chances at
that, and many times pay the
price, as was the case recently
in one Of the eastern hospitals,
where tWenty-seven nurses and
several physicians developed
diphtheria, and a large number
: of both physicians and nurses
have lost their lives from com
ing into such close contact with
the communicable diseases as
they are compelled to do In
the performance Of their duties,
: and while they usually go with
out a murmur, just as the soldier
: marches forward knowing he is
: to meet a foe they too are not
unmindful Of the dangers.
n. l.. Wright, M. d.
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