The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-04-05
COUNCIL BUYS AUTOMOBILES.
Three Automobiles Purchased for Use
of Various Departments Newell
Street Residents Ask for Paving
Firemen to Use Council Chamber.

The members Of the City Council
gave up time which lot of men would
have spent for campaigning on Monday
night, to hear a decidedly interesting
discussion of milk conditions in Keno
sha by G. E. Lee, the assistant food
and dairy inspector who completed
work in the county on Monday. He
told the council that Kenosha had
about the poorest" and most poorly
supervised milk supply in the state
and that it was no wonder that signs
proclaiming measles and other diseases
were to be found in lot Of places in
the city. He based his statements on
the facts gathered in the inspection of
fftysix farms furnishing milk to the
city. He declared that a lot of them
were dirty and that Of the eight humid
red cows inspected but one hundred
and nineteen had been tuberculin test
ed and eighty Of this number were on
two farms. He declared that he did
not believe that the milk sold in
Kenosha would be accepted in any
other city Of Wisconsin.
He suggested pasteurization as a
secondary way of solving the matter
and declared that the first demand was
inspection of the farms on the part of
local inspectors with the understand
ing that farms which failed to observe
proper regulations for cleanliness
should be stopped from shipping milk
into Kenosha He told of the inspec-
ton of dairies in the city and declared
that many of the dairies were clean
but lacked proper facilities for hand
ling milk so as to insure its delivery
to the patrons in a clearly manner.
Hes told the council that the milk
should be guarded from the time it
left the COW until it was delivered to
the baby if the city desired to properly
guard the health Of the children of the
city. No action was taken in the mat
ter, but the statistics furnished will
figure largely in the further considera-
tions for the protection of the milk
supply Of the city
The session of the council was not
extended any more than was necessary,
but many matters of routine work
came up The people residing on
Newell street between Market street
and Grand avenue asked that the street
be paved with brick during the coming
summer. The matter was referred to
the street assessment committee. The
contract of the Petersen Construction
Company for the paving of Pomeroy
street, came up in the nature of a can
collation. of the contract by the com
pany. The matter will be taken up by
the Judiciary committee, but it is gen
orally believed that the company will
be permitted to withdraw.
The city showed a willingness to aid
in the entertainment of the annual
state convention Of the Wisconsin paid
fremen, which is to be held here the
last of July and the first two days Of
August and the fremen were given
permission to use the council chamber
in the City Hall for sessions. It is
expected that three hundred paid fire
men from different parts of the state
viii attend the convention.
The council voted to contribute a
few dollars more to the profits Of
Henry Ford by buying two more of the
fivvers for the city. One of them will
be for the use of the inspector of meats
and food products and the other for
the use of the building department.
The aldermen voted to buy Jeffrey
"car" for the use of the police de-
partment and also motorcycle to aid
in the enforcing Of speed laws during
the summer months.
The long fight over the opening of
the North Western crossing on Balm
avenue got a quieting dose from the
committee on railroads and transporta-
ton. The committee held that the cost
of opening the crossing would be pro-
hibitiye so far as the property owners
were concerned and recommended that
nothing more be done in the matter
until some change was made in the
state laws. The report Of the commit
fee was adopted. There was consider
able routine business to come up and
it was long after ten o. clock before the
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