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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
IT'S A HURDY-G URDY.
New York Song Writers Singing Their
Way to Frisco are Furnishing
Street Music in Kenosha

If you should suddenly discover
Emusic in the air" as you walk down
Main street or across Market Square
don't get excited. IT'S nothing
'spooky' or dangerous. It's just a
hurdy- gurdy, manned by Charles Cole
man, song writer, and his partner
Louis Schaeffer, who are spending a
few days in Kenosha.
The young men have wagered $4,000
with the Harmony Singing Club of
New York City that they can sing
their way from Broadway to Frisco and
in the process use only their own com
positions. That they are succeeding
is evidenced by the fact that they are
in Ke1osha. This alone proves that
they are Ffmoving westward and
will greet the spring on the western
slopes of the Rockies.
The "heart-songs" they are sing
ing to their music of hurdy -gurdy
include "Your Mother is Your Best
Friend After All, - You re the Mic
est Little Girl I Ever Knew" and
"Where is My Mama" They re not
exactly classical as to their words or
music, but they "get over' with a
dash and swing that reflect credit upon
the singer-composers and adventures.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
LOCAL CLUB GETS PRIZE.
Fisk Bicycle Club, Headed by Grin
Head, Notified That it Has Been
Recognized.

Grin Head, COS Prairie avenue, sec
rotary of the Fisk Club of Southeastern
Wisconsin of the Fisk Bicycle Clubs of
America, has this week received Motif
cation from the Fisk Club Chief, whose
headquarters are located in the home
office of the Fisk Rubber Company at
Chicopee Falls, Mass, to the effect that
his club has been awarded a prize as
one Of the one hundred best Fisk clubs
in the entire country.
Needless to say the local boys are
highly elated over the honor thus be-
slowed. There are over 10000 boys en-
rolled in Fisk bicycle clubs throughout
the United States and Canada and it
is considered ereditable performance
for this club to be adjudged one of the
best in the entire country, especially in
view of the fact that there are over
1900 clubs in the organization.
The motives Of the Fisk clubs are to
promote bicycling and other outdoor ae-
tivities among. the boys of America.
The only requisite to membership is the
ownership of bicycle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
EMERGENCY COURSE ATTRACTS.
Night School Pupils Enroll in Glass
Which Teaches Wartime Meth
DDS of Conservation.

Southern ermine' was one of the
traditions of the Civil War and some
such plan of conservation may be in
volved in Kenosha by the class which
is being enrolled at the night school
under the name of the Emergency
Course for the second unit of fourteen
lessons. Wartime needs is to be the
basis of the work given with lessons
in the conservation of both food and
textiles. The shortage of certain food
stutfs IN our country at the present
time will be explained and the best
methods of using the plentiful mater
lals. There is also a shortage in sight
for the supply of wool and members
OF the course will be taught to remodel
the skirt, suit or dress into children 8
clothes. By these conservation meth
DDS the womenY who take the course,
may learn to help both themselves and
their country in this crisis. This
course will open on Tuesday evening,
December the fourth, if sufficient
number will avail themselves of
this opportunity.
The second short unit term of fifteen
lessons in the free evening school be-
gan Thursday evening. There was
large enrolment in all branches, but
more students can be arranged for and
are urged to enroll at the next ses-
sion Tuesday. There is room especially
in the manual training, Spanish, card
and sign writing and in the elementary
arithmetic classes.
The holiday season makes the
courses especially attractive. For
clerks and merchants the course will
teach them to make their holiday win
dows better statesmen for the Xmas
trade. For the rank and file the man
ualA training class will give an oppor-
unity to make something "all by
ones lonesome to give as a Xmas
present really worth while.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
Red Cross Fire
Fluff for Pillows.

In a new drive for conservation the
Red Gross officials are making scraps
from bath-robes, pajamas, and conval-
escing robes, into fluff for pillows and
need recruits to aid in cutting. They
are anxious to have the school-children
help and report that the latter may
either take the work from the head
quarters and do it at home or do it at
the seWing-rooms provided they use
their own scissors. It is thought that
the call will meet with an immediate
response from the "kiddies' and that
hereafter they will spend the "after-
SCHOOL, hours at the Red Cross rooms
snip-snip-snippiEg for the Sammies.
In the same connection bits of lowered
cretonne and denim at least 12x1S
inches in dimensions are needed in
making covers for pillows. People in
Kenosha who have scraps Of this sort
are kindly asked to donate them to
the Red Cross Association and so
provide a little comfort for wound
ed soldiers al the front.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
wAR-WIFE WITH HERo-HUsBAND.
Mrs Knyvett is Interested Auditor and
"Goes Over the Top With the
Grace and Ease of a Veteran.

The crowd at the Coliseum on Mon
day evening, although it numbered well
into tne thousands, held but one face
for Captain Knyvette and that the face
Of the little war-wife whom he married
less than a week ago in Los Angeles,
California. With alteration beaming
from her eyes she hung upon every
word that fell from the captain IS lips
and by her half-concealed smile of pride
seemed to say: "Hes my husband
he s my husband.''
Before the arrival of the hero Mrs.
Knyvette sat on the second row at the
Coliseum and enthusiastically explained
the English flag to her hosts, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. FL. Lance. Since she had mar
ried man who had won distinction
beneath its folds she knew all about it
and told it too with a dash and spirit
that held her listeners charmed by her
patriotism and the 1ove-light in her
eyes.
And then-enter: the captain. Mrs.
Knyvette watched him from the mo-
ment he reached the front until he took
his seat on the platform and turned a
furtive smile in her direction. Did she
smile back ?-well rather and with a
charm that made the hero of many bat
ties blush-yes, just a little bit-when
he saw that someone else had seen the
little greeting that she had meant for
him and him alone.
Thereafter there was a speech to be
made and the captain made it too. He
was tired, but she was expecting him
to make good," and he wanted to
prove to her that he was worthy'' of
his War-wife. Incidentally he did it
that is it rapt attention and little flush
es OF pride, when the crowd applauded
forceful phrase, are any index to a
woman g feeling. Plainly she was fond
OF him and not bit ashamed to let
the whole world know the way she felt
about it.
And then, when the great address
was over, someone suggested that she
emulate the captain and ego to the
front. Z Of course it took courage but
she did it in true military fashion.
Ihere We're steps to the platform but
she went over the top" and in few
seconds was at the side of her hero
husband war-wife, proud of her
country and even more of the man who
mad fought so CALAMITY to save it..
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
BOXES BOUGHT BY MANY
List of Purchasers Of Boxes for Dance
Reveals Intense Interest of Society In
the Affair-De Decorating Committee
Begins In the Morning.

Mirth and a touch of the military
spirit of the times are the attractions
which are leading hundreds of Keno
shans to purchase tickets for the grand
military ball given Thanksgiving eve,
Wednesday, at the Coliseum for the
benefit of the Kenosha Provisional
Battalion. The military part of the
program is to be furnished by the bat
talon who will attend the ball to a
man and who will line up for inspec-
tion and short drill preceding the
grand march. The ready response
which has been found for the sale of
the tickets is indication enough that
there will be mirth and world
of it in store for the dancers on
Wednesday evening.
The boxes for the ball, which will
be decorated fitting to the occasion,
have been in great demand and par
tial list of the purchasers is enough to
convince the most pessimistic observer
of the social success of the battalion
ball. Among those who have purchas-
ed these are: Major and Mrs. H. j.
Mellum, Mrs. H. M. Vale, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. j. Birmingham, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dan O. Head, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Lance, Mr.. and Mrs. w, j. Frost, H.
e. Barden, Mr.. and Mrs. George FL.
Eddy, Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Robinson,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Afford and Judge
and Mrs. George W. Taylor. Tickets
by the hundred have been sold for
the ball and all Kenosha society
will be present
TO allay all misunderstanding the
committee is again announcing that
the dance is to be informal. The bat
will be as guests several soldiers and
officers from the nearby camps, but
with this exception, civilian clothes
will be the rule. Several special num-
bers have been placed upon the pro-
gram, some of them to be kept as a
surprise until the night of the dance.
One of the leading specialties will be
singing by the Elks Quartette, which
by its melody and life, has won place
in the musical world of Kenosha. The
dancing will start Immediately after
the short drill which according to ar
rangements, is for nine-fifteen.
There is a real surprise in store for
the dancers in the way of decorations.
"It's to be all 'Old Glory, - said
the chairman this morning, "but there
will be such a blaze of it as has never
before frightened the Coliseum.
The committee and those who have Of
fered to help will begin work We'd
nesday morning at nine. The commit
tee is requesting that all who have
flags which they are willing to loan for
the evening should either leave them
at the Palica Cigar Store or call Cap
tain Thomas Temple, who is chairman
Of the decorating committee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
MANY SENSIBLE BARGAINS
Stores of City to BE Kept Open Every
Night After Tenth Of December
Campaign Starts Saturday With
Display of Christmas Offerings.

"Shop Early" the slogan which
when followed is saving to both mer-
chants and purchasers lis making it's an
nual visit to Kenosha this week. On
Saturday cards will be displayed in all
the store windows of the city urging
patrons to ge on the band wagon and
help avoid the rush at the end Of the
season which once made Christmas a
nightmare to the merchants, clerks
and the forgetful ones who waited until
the last moment.
The customary brilliancy of the Shop
Early campaign is not to be found in
Kenosha this year according to the de-
cision of the committee at it's last meet
ing. The County Council Of Defense
has urged that electric signs, streamers
and such exhibitions, as have been used
in the past to initiate the Christmas
shopping plan in the city, shall be Ia
booed this year for conservation rea-
sons. This will not, however, inter
fere with an early display of Christmas
gifts by the merchants and window
cards and newspaper advertising will
be relied upon to warn the public of the
advantage of buying their gifts early.
The campaign proper will start on next
Saturday when every member of the
Retailers Association and other mer-
chants as we'll will make the initial dis
play of their offerings. This will be
preceded on Friday by the "Shop
Early edition of the Kenosha Evening
News, where progressive merchants will
advertise some of their specialties for
Christmas shopping.
Another Innovation in the campaign
will be the fact that the Christmas
trees Of other years will not be seen
on the streets or in the shop windows
of Kenosha merchants. This was also
adopted by the committee as a conser-
walton plan and will result in a saving
both to, the purchasing public and to
the merchant at a time when every
sort of conservation is needed. The
merchants declare that the money saved
in this way will be contributed to their
share in the support of the Patriots
Fund. The cutting down Of the ex-
pense in publicity for the campaign is
not at all indicative Of smaller stock
on the shelves of the merchants. Ks-
nosha merchants are expecting bumper
Xmas trade and early indications show
that they will not be disappointed.
Shoppers are warned that Fthe early
BIRD gets''-the pick of the merchan-
disc and that there will be no time like
the present after December first.
The campaign will be in full swing
after December 10th, when the mer-
chants will begin to keep their stores
open every night till Christmas. In
teresting in the displays which will
make their advent on Saturday will be
the prominence paid to those gifts which
are calculated to delight the hearts of
soldiers. Every store is full Of them
and it will make an added attraction
for those who wish to send Yuletide
cheer to the Kenosha lads in the camps.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
GIN FLANDERS FIELDS. .

In Flanders fields, the poppies groa0
BetWees the crosses, roa0 on r0tc,
That 0eGf'lc our place; a0Itile in the skg
The lGrEs, still brGUe1y singing, flg
UsaheGrd amid the guns.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We HUed, felt dGl01s, sGa0 sunsets gloqo,
LoUed and s1ere loUed, and ,aoao a1e lie
In FLANDERS fields.
Take up oar quarrel qoitb the foe
To gON from, failing hands, aoe throe1
The torch; be yours to bear 1T high.
If ge break faith a0itb as a0bo die
We shall not sleep, though peoples blotC
In Flanders fields.
Col. McCrae of the Canadians.
With this appeal from the brave dead
Captain R. Hugh Knyvett closed his
address Monday evening at the Colise-
UNI when he urged Kenoshans to strive
on to victory and keep faith with the
dead.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
Mrs. A1nes Commends Kenosha.

Zone million new surgical dressings
are requested By the Washington au-
thorities of the Red Cross. They must
be on the wharf of an Atlantic port
before January L. Of these the Chicago
chapter is required to furnish two
hundred and thirty thousand.
This statement from the Chicago
Tribune suggests work for the local
committee on the preparation of sur
gical dressings. The Kenosha chapter
is affiliated with the Chicago associa-
ton and consequently must furnish
their apportionment of the two hund-
red and thirty thousand dressings. To
do this volunteers in large numbers
are needed and needed at once.
Mrs. Arthur Fisher reports that Mrs.
Ames on the occasion of her recent
visit to Kenosha commended the local
women very highly upon their work
in this department of service. This is
evidence that the Kenosha committee
is properly managed and needs only
few more volunteer patriots to
complete its quota of dressings for
the next consignment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
How's HoWE?-G GREAT.
Travel Pictures at the Rhode Please
Large Crowds With Their Real
Wartime Presentations.

Humor, horror, and beauty, brought
alternate laughs and thrills to the
crowds attending the Lyman H. Howe
Travel Festival at the Rhode Opera
House on Monday evening. Cartoons,
both clever and amusing, motion
sketches of a Zeppelin raid over Lon
don, views of the cascades in the Cont
mental Divide, ant-life and ant-lions,
and a grand panorama of patriotism,
portraying Uncle Sans navy "Some-
where in Mid-Atlantic, were few
of the offerings of the bill that kept
the house fascinated by the wild beauty
and infinite variety of life in their own
United States. The pictures were es-
pecially clear and shimmerless and con-
sequently provided an evening of enter
tainment and profit for all who were
wise enough and patriotic enough to
attend the Travel Festival.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
"THE coNQUERoR" WINS.
William Farnum, in Drama of History
and Romance, Wins Appreciation
at Majestic Theatre Monday.


at Majestic Theatre Monday.
How love and ambition carried Sam
Houston from cracker Scholar and
a companion of the Cherokees to the
governorship of Tennessee and the pres
idency of the Lone Star Republic, is
the story of history and romance which
held large crowds interested from start
to finish at the Majestic Theatre Mon
day "The Conqueror' is film which
is filed with the spirit of the pioneer
and the romance of the southland. In
the leading role William Farnum has
cleverly displayed his. ability to enact
all the culture and the refinement of a
southern gentleman and all of the
bravery and strength of character
which created the great southwest Of
our nation. Running through the story
is the chain of love which lead him
from one position of honor to another
ard which by its winding path of dis
appointment, brought him finally to his
destiny IN Texas. Incidentally the pic
ture portrays as well how he defeated
the Mexicans by summoning his red
skinned Cherokees to his assistance.
There is humor, romance, history and
tragedy all blended in this splendid
production which is being shown at the
Majestic Monday and Tuesday of this
week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29

''No people have the right to enjoy.
liberty unless they fight for it.
"In these wonderful days there is
given to you and me the marvellous
privilege of paying for the liberty that
we enjoy. You may not be able to
pay in Hfe-blood, you may not be able
to pay in money, but if you do not pay
in the coin you have, you win never
be able to look into pure woman Is eyes
without feeling yourself coward =
II am glad that I have had the OPP
portunity to come to your country and
learn that you are a people that not
only talk of peace and pray for peace,
but also do whatever is necessary to
secure that peace"
eff we do not win then we are liv-
ing today in the presence of the dark
est cloud that has ever threatened the
world; we are living in the saddest
time that history has ever known. If
we do not gain victory homes with no
men will have given their blood in
vain-bones will rot in an enemy
country and all in vain--we will have
thrown the most precious, the most
priceless things we have into the breach
and all to no purpose.
'FThe only monument that we dare
erect to our fallen dead, the only
monument which would not be dis
honor to them and shame to us, is
monument of victory"
Retirement is disastrous. The
Somme country is devastated for all
time. There is only a heap of brick
dust of what was once thriving town
and only stretch of blackened earth
of what were once fertile fields and
blossoming meadows"
Your country never had such an
opportunity as is given to it today. It
would have been the greatest calamity
of history had this war closed before
American youths had had the chance
to participate in this war and prove
to themselves and the world that they
are as heroic as their fathers.''
"There were never bred men Of such
large and heroic mold as the men of
today. What chance man has to be
like God. Greater love hath no man
than that he give his life for his
friend and they are doing it by the
millions fover there.'''
"a
cit has not been the lack of will of
the Germans which has saved you from
German atrocities. [ have heard how
American girls were ravished in Bel
gium and their nationality did not pro-
tect them. You have had peace and
protection because you have had a
rampant of flesh and blood between you
dAu CAO OO4 HcA p0UplOs Il you utu
lived on the other side of that ram
part your daughter might have been
taken with the girls of Lille-God
knows where. -
"The German first used savagery
an dbarbarism as a deliberate policy
and now it has mastered them It is
no longer a national policy. 1t is
personal passion.'
ct talked to a little slip of a
French girl who said to me with tears
in her eyes: 'There is a baby coming.
1t is boche. When it is born, T will
cut it's throat.'
'Did I not have the word of Ger
man officer who told me that the tongue
of French girl who Knocked German
officer was torn into shreds and thrown
to the dogs in the Streets"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29

Word from Leo Rochnowski, one of
the Kenosha men to GO in the last quota
to Camp Custer, relates how he has
taken up enthusiastically with the sol
der life and is now q member Of the
Machine Gun Company of the 34Oth
Infantry. He praises soldier fare and
looks forward to the time when the Ke-
posha men will be Edsoldierized ;,
enough to be sent on guard duty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29

The carload shippers of Kenosha
will meet Wednesday afternoon at two
thirty O'Clock in the Elks club rooms
on Wisconsin street, when they will
discuss with high officials of the
Northwestern railroad various plans
for lettering the shipping regulations
for Kenosha. These officials have Just
finished a tour of the Fox River Valley
and bring to the city information Of
rsst inpstance to large shipporA
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
Flying Squadron at Paris.

The Flying Squadron are "going
over" to Paris-this state-this even
ing to establish Red Cross branch
association in that community. The
action Of the committee is taken in re-
spouse to an urgent request from the
people of Paris and will consequently
receive ready cooperation from the
neighboring citizens. Special music
and Red Cross speeches will provide
the program for the evening after
which temporary officers will be elect
ed for the newly established branch.