The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-20
NEAT sum FOR sAMNIEs
Celebration Brings Nearly Thousand
Dollars for Mess Fund Diversions
Are Varied Whiskered Judge
Does Big Business.

Everybody smiled-even the weather
man--at Jeffrey Park on Saturday
afternoon and as consequence the
boys of Troop "E'' and Company "M"
have neat little mess fund provided
by the folks back home. There was no
coaxing either. Men, women and
children ungrudgingly paid admission
and reservation fees and saved enough
to buy an ice cream cone, bottle of
pop, or sack of peanuts from Boy
Scouts in khaki or girl-patriots in
we'll / don't know what they were,
but they looked like million dollars.
There was patriotism, too, as well as
generosity. The Stars and Stripes
waved from fag-poles and boxes while
the Highland plaid fared out war
time message from the shawls Of bag
pipers and the kits of Sergeant Major
Mitchell, late Of the firing line in
France but now recruiting for the king
among the Britons of the U. S. A.
The Masqueraders
Santa Claus in baseball togs, Hobo
Hank with clump of white angora
on hat of conventional black, and a
feminine star in striped skirt--these
were only few Of the jewellers that
made the afternoon a brilliant affair
in every sense of the word. The color
display was futuristic. Daubs Of green
and black gplashed out from wide ex-
panses Of orange, blue, and scarlet,
while occasional dashes of white and
, characters of every description were
everywhere at once-counts in pink
tights and silk hats, clowns in pon-pons
and pajamas, and innumerable J. w.
WIS - indecently walking women.
Conspicuous among the latter was a
petite little maiden of some two hund,
red pounds-it is rumorel that she was
E. l.. Ketcham--in a silhouette gown
of baby pink that simply could not
hide a tree-like limb above a none too
dainty ankle. Yes it was all fantastic,
or even ridiculous, but it furnished a
good laugh for warn-worn Kenoshans
and better mess-fund for the local
patriots now stationed at Waco and
Camp Douglas.
We Canny Scots.
When the parade arrived diver
sion was added in the person of the
canny-or is it uncarny?-Scots of
the Kilties Band. With feathered glen
CARRIES on their heads and flaming
shawls on their shoulders, they played
the bag pipes heroically and won
rounds of applause from patriotic pub
lie. Applause and something else, too
Olt on the diamond some several cou-
pies of men-women or women-men
couldn' It reist the Scottish melodies
and INDUCED in "Highland Fling"
that amused both spectators and bag
pipers. 1t was not exactly graceful
but it was funny and the debonair
dancers received a real hand at the
end of the comic measure.
Punched.
Out on the side lines the "whiskered
Judge" who, by the way, was Matt
Werve in cap and gown, was doing big
business. A corps of policemen with
pink whiskers secured grand-stand and
tield and brought disturbers to doubt
full Judgment in court whose verdicts
always read the same. There were no
acquittals. Although the prisoners and
the charges were rather varied the de-
clslon always ran ....... dollars and
COSTS Very few men were bold
enough to protest and none more than
once. Bickering of any sort was called
contempt of court and punished with
an added fine ranging in amount from
one dollar to eighteen or even twenty
five. Conspicuous among the victims
were Mayor Pfennig, who was fined on
general principles, George Faris.
who got five dollars "for being lady
and smoking in public,'' E. L. Ketcham
who was slated for fsimproper dress
ing 1T was the silhouette gown of
baby pink, Governor Philip, who
cohCllouCed dollar tor every hour
that he was late, and c. w. Nash, who
paid dearly for association with the
governor" Yes, Judge Werve had a
full day, but he enjoyed every
moment of it and incidentally cor
raled hundreds of dollars to feed the
Sammies at Waco and Camp Douglas
The Grand March.
At the appointed moment the grand
march began Led by the Kilties
Band and the park police force, the
strange procession moved in column
about the baseball diamond. In the
vanguard was the Jumps" disguised
as Happy Harry and Dave" Fogwell
austerely dignifed in civilian s clothes