The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
GOOD ROADS FAVORITE TOPIC
New Munster Has Honor of Extending
Most Notable Welcome TO Trade Mis-
sionaries But All Villages Give Cor
dial Greeting-No Accidents.

The 1917 booster trip was a success0
This was the universal decision of the
tired Kenosha boosters who reached
Kenosha just after night-fall on Thurs
day night and "real success" was
echoed from dozen villages in Keno
sha county at which stops were made
during the day. All along the route
of the trip the Kenosha missionaries
were met by large crowds of people,
but the palm for receptions during the
day must be awarded to New Munster.
The western village with its traditions
for hospitality, kept up its record.
Great welcome signs were stretched
across the streets and the entire popu-
lation of the village turned out to well
come and speed away the Kenosha WIS.,
itors. Flags and banners were waving
in many of the cross roads and villages
visited by the boosters and the COM
mittee in charge was well satisfied with
the reception given by the people of
the county to the people of the city.
Good fellowship reigned supreme and
the booster trip left a lot of seed for
future development.
It was a sort of a "Good Roads u
day for the county, for at every stop
made there were addresses On good.
roads. It proved a matter of interest.
to the people in the towns and villages
and they cheered Justify the sugges-I
ton that Kenosha county get together
with Kenosha city and make this the
banner county of Wisconsin In the
matter of building real highways.
It is estimated that no less than fouri
thousand people were on hand to greet
the Kenosha visitors at the variousI
stops made during the day. The bandt
held out to the finish and there was al
band concert at every stop and as AM
added attraction there was an exhibi-l
ton of juggling at every stop. This,
proved one of the happy hits of the day..
Of course one of the big featuresl
of the day was the dinner at Salem.
The women of Salem had put on thei
best dinner ever arranged for the Ke-
nosha boosters and more than three
hundred sat down at the tables.
Speaking of eats, there was one other
stop on the run that proved a reall
bright spot on the trip and this was at
Brighton where Mine Host Jackley had
planned for the coming of the hungryI
tourists. They reached Brighton just
about five O'Clock and although Jack
ley had all the delicacies of the season.
and lots of them, the Kenosha boostersl
swept the platter clean.
There were notable greetings to thei
Kenosha party at Bristol, Pleasant Prai- |
RE and Wilmot, while there were bigj
turn-outs at every point along the road.
There was lots of speech making. |
Mayor Pfennig proved the real mara
thon orator and he managed to get rid
of five perfectly good speeches during
the day and every one of them seemed
to take better than the one that went
before it. Tom Sullivan was the sec;
ond best speech maker as his throat
withstood the dust long enough for
him to make two real speeches. Then
there was Ed. Dayton, Bert Ames, Sim
on Gottlieb, Charles Fl. Goodman, Nike
Tsermann, E. T. O'Brien and Conrad
Shearer who let go of some of their
associated knowledge and oratory to
boost good fellowship between the city
and the people of the county.
Of course there was one real big
event-there always is. This was the
PIP eating contest between Tom Scott
a1d Charley Defry, which was staged
at Powers Lake, with all the honors
and the money going to Deffry.
Not single accident marred the trip
and only three of the ffty-fve automo-
biles were laid out along the road for
punctures. Nearly all of the cars
starting made the entire trip.
cit was a real success" said w. Fl.
Robinson, who acted as master of
ceremonies during the day. "The
annual booster trip must be fixed day
on the Kenosha calendar. Our friends
out in the country are getting more
cordial every day and they are look
ing forward to this day for months.
It is certain that the trip went long
ways toward bringing a better feeling
between the city and the county,