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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
Whittier Truck Company
Going to Winthrop Harbor
Company Plans to Establish It's Offices
in the Southern City About the
First of July.

The Whittier Motor Truck Company
of Winthrop Harbor is preparing to
withdraw its Office staff from Kenosha
and will centralize its work at Win
throp Harbor, Illinois. M. P. Whittier,
president of the company, has let the
contract to Fred Schroeder of Kenosha
for an Office building containing thirty
five hundred feet of floor space. Work
is to begin on this addition to the
Winthrop Harbor plant at once and
this will mean that in addition to the
factory help there viii be an office
staff of about thirty people. The fac
tory itself is also being greatly i'm
proved One thousand eight hundred
feet of floor space is being laid in
concrete and the entire building having
been renovated it will be fine we'll
lighted and up-to-date plant. Negotia-
tions are being carried on with Chi
cago firm for erecting homes for the
Workmen, as it is the desire Of Mr.
Whittier to keep the help at the Har
Dor and make their surroundings
pleasant for them. To this end he has
taken an active interest in the village
affairs and has recently donated fifty.
dollars towards equipping a brass band.
The bathing beach is also to be made
attractive and goodly sum has been
subscribed by local residents for this
purpose. The Office staff of the Win
Their company is to leave Kenosha at
the end of next month so as to be in
their new quarters by July 1st. Will
liam Martinson, vice president of the
company, has purchased seventeen lots
from the Wells estate there, and he
and some of the workers will build
homes for themselves shortly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
HAVE PARK CONCERT.
Community Orchestra Will Give Free
Public Concert in Library Park at
4:15 P. NJ, Memorial Day.

Following the cosmopolitan custom of
larger cities, Kenosha is to have free
band concert at Ais o'clock Memorial
Day in Library Park. Every citizen of
Kenosha is invited to attend the con
cert. The program is one arranged to
please all musical tastes and is to be
given by the Community orchestra
which during its six months of practice
has developed into one of the institu-
tions of which the city has reason to
be proud.
The numbers to be played are:
l. "The Star Spangled Banner, =
g Funeral March, Nearer, Ny God,
to Thee
2. "The italian in Ayers, over
ture, Rossini
8. "L'Arlesienne, !" Suite N. 2, Bi-
yet; GAY Pastorale, (b) Intermezzo, Co
Menuet, (d) Farandela.
4. "Millicent," valse, Mckee.
5. Popular Medley" Arrah go on,
I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon" Hell
10 Hawaii, - "Yaaka Hula Hickey, =
"My Mothers Rosary" etc.
6. Mephistofele, (grand sciec-
flcn), Boito.
Z. " America"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
Mayor Pfennjg
Arrests Himself
Kenosha Executive Refuses to Accept
Immunity from Punishment Be-
cause He is an s'oficial.''

Mayor Charles H. Pfennig refused
to accept "oficial immunity He
went up to Racine OF Friday after
noon and into Judge Smieding's court
and insisted on being permitted to pay
a fine for speeding.
81 want to assure you that l did
exceed the speed limit, the mayor
told Judge Shielding, "and that !
was taken by your motorcycle officer.
If he failed to file complaint against
me he was not doing his official duty.
I know of no reason why the com
plant should not have been filed and
| have waited for orders to appear.
Judge Shielding smiled little and
said something about official courtesy.
The Kenosha mayor was insistent and
then his fine of ten and costs was en-
tered just like a lot of others. The
mayor promptly paid it and re-
turned to Kenosha
The mayor admitted that it was a
little hard to get himself fined and
he also suggested that he hoped that
he would not have to 60 through
the same regamarole again.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
.TOFUUNISR LIGHT And POWER
Lines viii Be Extended Along Burlins.
ton, Wilmot and Wheatland Roads
Installation May Be Completed Be
fore End of the Present Year.

That the Wisconsin Gas and Electric
Company is planning to extend its SER
vice to the people living out in the
western part of Kenosha county so far
as electric lights and power is con
cerned, was shown ON Thursday when
some thirty easements, signed by prop
erty owners in the towns of Salem,
Wheatland and Brighton, were filed for
record with the register of deeds.
The easements give the company the
right to put in pole line in front of
the property of the grantors along the
Wilmot, Burlington and Wheatland
roads The consideration in each case
is given as Zone dollar In the for
NAL contracts for use Of the roadway,
the company agrees to trim trees and
to keep them trimmed and to have the
wires Of the line at least twenty-five
feet above the surface of the roadway.
81 am not able to give you any
great amount of information in regard
to the company's plan to supply cleo
trio light and power to these western
villages, :" said George II. Cook, man
ager of the Kenosha plant of the COM
pany, today. "The matter has not
been handled from this Office, but from
the Milwaukee Office, and do not
know just what the plan may be. You
know the Wisconsin Gas and Electric
Company now owns the little plant at
Bristol and these lines will make posi-
BILE an extension
The lines of wires as outlined viii
make it possible for hundreds of farm
ers along the roads named to bring the
wand of progress to farm homes and
it is expected that within year four
ffths of the houses in that section of
the county will be lighted with cleo
tricity and that the barns will be
lighted as well.
The coming of the electric circuit is
going to sound the death knell of the
old kerosene lantern which has been
used in the milk houses for so many
years and the farmers are going to re-
place it with blazing electric lights.
It is expected that power for the big
circuit of lights will be furnished from
the new power plant of the company
up near South Milwaukee. This is one
of the largest plants ever erected in
the country and it is understood that
it will have equipment to take care of
a very heavy load and it may ultimate
" be used to supply practically all of
the electric current used in this section
of the state.
It is declared that the people living
in the western part of the county have
shown willingness to give every aid
to the extension of the service of the
company and that many OF them have
given assurance that they will patron
ize the company by buying both light
and power. 1t is expected that all Of
these lines will be put in during the
coming summer, provided, of course, if
it is possible for the company to secure
the materials necessary to complete the
circuits.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
FORTY OTHER FIGHTS ON
Kenosha Is In Circuit No. 2 - Co. In
cludes City With Evanston, Rock
Island, Evansville, Oshkosh, Quincy,
Decatur and New Albany, Ind.

Like Heinz who made the fifty-seven
varieties, Ira Jewell has forty varieties
of suits in hopes of protecting his
claim to the patents under which the
filtration plants in Kenosha and other
cities are located. City Attorney John
G. Slater this morning received a letter
from the New York Continental Jewell
Filtration Company in which it is an
nounced that the company is planning
to fight the battle of Kenosha against
the claims of jewell Kenosha is not
especially favored, as the company is
also fighting similar battles in some
forty other cities of the country.
Kenosha is i'll District No. along with
Evanston, ILL.,, Rock Island, Evans
vile, Ind, Oshkosh-B Gosh, Quincy,
Decatur and New Albany, Indiana
All of these thriving and pushing cities
have installed filtration plants similar
to the one in Kenosha and all of
them are being forced to fight just
the same as Kenosha.
The New York company has sent to
City Attorney Slater the preliminary
letter of advice" in regard to answer
ing the Jewell demand and the New
York company's legal department is
busy getting out answers in the case.
The attorneys for the company declare
that there are slight variations in the
list of forty suits but for the most
part the cases are similar.
"Some of the suits appear to have
been brought against plants having no
semblance whatever Ct the devices al
legged to have been infringed, says the
letter, 'Eand the whole matter appears
to have been a haphazard and indis
criminate serving of notice of suit y
The attorneys for the company de-
clare that they do not believe that the
action brought by Jewell will get any
recognition in court but even with this
idea in view the company will prepare
to defend it. AS yet no formal injunc-
ton has been issued to Jewell in his
demand against the city of Kenosha.
The city was given twenty days in
which to answer the suit in the United
States Court, and on the appointed day
the city attorney will appear and ask
for continuance in order that the
matter may be more fully taken up with
the filtration company having the con-
tract with Kenosha. The bond of
$4,000 held against the contracting
company is -egarded as large enough to
pay any damages which might be col
lected against the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
HAVE ENTERTAINING PAPER.
Pretty Blind Songstress Sings Saint
Saens Selections to Schubert
Club Members.

Saint Saens was wonder child, -
Mrs. J. R. Green told the Schubert
club yesterday in her talk on the COM
poser. ellis first efforts in composition
We're made at the age of five years and
when he was seven he was studying the
organ. His first public appearance as
a pianist took place when he was ten
years old and at that time he interpreted
the works of Handel, Bach, Mozart and
Beethoven.
Mrs. Green gave many interesting in
cidents in the life of the great music
ian, one being the recounting of his I'M
successful competition for the Prize of
Rome, the ambition of all Conservatoire
pupils. He was but sixteen and one
of the Conservatoire pupils when he
entered the contest.
Mrs. Green called Saint-Saens an ex-
pert amateur astronomer, and said that
when he wishes to indulge in this fad
he HES him to the Canary Islands where
he has had erected an observatory for
his use. He is fond of travel, and
divides with royalty penchant for
touring about incognito. Once after
the publication of one of his newly-writ-
ten operas he disappeared, apparently
from the face of the earth, and neither
friend nor critic knew where he had
gone, until at last stories of foul play
began to take root and grow. About
this time he was discovered by chance
living a earefree existence in the Can
airy Islands under an assumed name,
far from the maddening crowd.
Miss Sara Van Valid sang a partieu-
larly pleasing series of selections from
Samson and Della, and was quite lion
lied Cor perhaps one should say lioness-
ized) after her performance, by the
group who gatherd about to praise the
pretty blind singer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

A Chicago Tribune of this week car
ries under a picture of Jessel Stuart
Whyte of this city an interesting re-
counting of incidents in his life at Cor
nell, from which he was graduated in
the class of 10. It notes his prowess
when as center rush and captain of the
Cornell. football team he made an in
tercollegiate reputation for himself,
and the article tells Of his leaving his
comfortable and secure position as SUI
perintendent of the Macomber and
Whyte Rope Company of this city to
give his services to his flag.
He is now at Ft. Sheridan in Company
E, Wisconsin and Michigan division.
He has passed the examination for en-
gineer and has been recommended for
first lieutenant.
The article does not add that he has
been married slightly less than two
years and that he has beautiful little
daughter some mo1fths of age, which
facts add to the self sacrifice he has
practiced in coming to the front and
volunteering. Many who have less to
keep them at home are tagging back
while such boys as he offer their all for
their colors.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
CLERK EXPLAINS NEW DUTY
Members of Boards Must Make Regis
trations in Duplicate, One Copy to
Be Retained Here and One to
Be Sent to Madison.

The men who will have charge of
registration for selective CONSUMPTION
In Kenosha county got together for the
first time this afternoon at he court
house. They met at the call Of the
city and county clerks to be instructed
in the big work of registering from
seven to eight thousand Kenosha men
who are subject to military duty under
the new law. Long instructions sent
out from the war department. and from
the secretary Of state, were read to the
officials and they were given lot of
practical suggestions as to the best
way to handle the work of registra-
ton. The new thing brought out in
this instruction was the fact that all
registrations must be made in dupI-
cate. One copy of the registration
card will be kept in Kenosha and the
other one will be sent to Madison to
be filed in the office Of the secretary
of state. This will give the state a
complete check on every man of mill
tary age in the city and county.
"This is the first time that men have
been called for exactly this kind of
service, = County Clerk Jones told
the seventy men who are to register
the men "and it is going to be neces-
sary for you to- use your own
intelligence and seek to follow vas
near as possible the letter of these in
structions laid down for you.'
The men who are to act as registrars
were advised that they had nothing to
do with exempting men from military
service and that their full duty was
done when they had answered the
questions on the registration cards.
The duplicate registration cards have
not as yet arrived from Washington,
but the county clerk and the mayor
have both been notified that these
duplicates will be in Kenosha a
long time before June 5th, the date
set for registration.
1t was impressed on the men that
but one day would be given over to
registration and that every man in the
election precinct who is subject to
service must be registered The only
exception to the rule is made for men
who have enlisted as part of the
militia or other organizations of the
army and navy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
MISS HEGG MARRIES.

Miss Hannah Hegg, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Hegg of Phillips, Wis,
and sister of Mrs. Ralph Karnes OF
Kenosba, was married in Chicago this
morning to Halvor Anderson, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson of this
city, by the Rev. A M. Hilman, pastor
of the Grace English Lutheran Church
A wedding dinner was served at the
Hotel Morrison.
Mr.. Anderson is designer in the
Western Electric Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson have gone
on honeymoon to the northern part
of Wisconsin. They will be at home
after June Is, in Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
BOOSTERPUMP FOR WEST SIDE
Commissioners and Aldermen Coufer on
Best Plan for Placing Apparatus of
Department Robinson Named Pres
ident of the Board Again.

The Police and Fire Commission at
its meeting at the City Hall on Friday
night did not elect new chief en-
gineer of the fire department. In a
meeting which lasted for several hours,
the matter of the new chief of the de-
partment was discussed at some length,
but the members were not ready to
take definite action and the whole
question was laid over for an indefinite
time. 1t may be taken up at the next
meeting of the commission and things
may be allowed to run along as they
are for an indefinite period-probably
until the end of the summer.
It was the annual meeting of the
commission, the reorganization meet
ing, and the harmony program which
has so marked the proceedings of the
commission for several years was much
in evidence. The officers of the com
mission including President Henry B.
Robinson, Vice President John Priddis
and Secretary Joseph G. Rhode,
were reelected for the new year
by the unanimous vote Of the mem
bers of the commission.
The commission had as its guests the
members Of the fire department COM
mittee of the city council. The alder
men did not come to recommend some
one for election as chief Of the depart
ment, but to seek the cooperation Of
the commission in the proper placing
of fire apparatus. A feeling of CO.
operation was shown between the
members Of the council commit
tee and the commission.
The placing of she new booster fire
pump was the matter at interest and
it is probable that later on this splen-
did new piece Of fire fighting appara-
tus will be sent to one or the other of
the stations to the west of the North
Western racks. While the original
idea was to have this engine installed
in the Central station, members of the
commission and the committee agreed
that the greatest need for boosting
pressure on the water mains would be
felt on the west side Of the city. The
location of great industrial plants on
that side of the city and the fact that
many of these planst are located near
the end Of water mains may be the
controlling factor in the final placing
of the new equipment.
No final action was taken in the
matter and the booster pump will re-
main at the Central station until the
new Grand avenue house is ready for
the occupancy by the fremen at which
time a new division Of the equipment
of the department. will be made.
There was no examination of can
didates for police and fire jobs on
Friday night and much Of the time of
the commissioners was spent in dis
cussing for the betterment of the
two departments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
WERE YOU ONCE A BOY scouTq
I. g America.

If you were, have you Scout uniform
lying around you would like to sell9
David R. Fogwell will be glad to hear
from you if you have as he finds a
number of his Scout candidates would
prefer a secondhand suit to paying full
price for one. IF you communicate
with him describe the condition Of the
uniform and the size. Also name fig
ure at which you would be willing to
pass it on to the next Wearer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
ARE LICENSED TO MARRY.

County Clerk Jones on Friday after
noon and today issued the following
marriage licenses: Roy G. Gerber
Burlington, and Miss Florence Selby
Silver Lake; John r. Priddis, Racine,
and Miss Myrtle Sehmelling, Kenosha;
Emil w. Burmeister, Lyons. Wis, and
Miss Alma Bosse, Wheatland; Serafna
Angotti and Mrs. Josephine Cairo,
both Of Kenosha; George f. eraser
and Miss Lucy Werner, both Of
Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
DOUBTLESS, DOUBTS ARE LAID

DOUBTLESS, DOUBTS ARE LAID.
Down in Washington, D. c., there is
a doubling organization who through
newspaper clippings read of Mrs. Louisa
Theirs Of Milwaukee and the interest
ing feats she has accomplished, of her
keen intellect and her unusual physical
activity at the advanced age of 102.
This society which is historical and pa
striotic, both, in its trend, is so doubt
ing in disposition that it believed the
stories to be but idle vagaries of news
paper imaginations, nevertheless, being
consistently doubling, it doubted
whether, after all, there might not be
doubt that the stories wern It true.
Therefore they wrote Nine. Theirs her.
self who replied in her own handwrit-
ing, exhibitirc so unusual ehirography
and mentality for an individual Of her
years, that the society Immediately be-
came doubtful that she could possibly
have written the epistle and maintained
that someone had forgehher name and
also composed the letter. NHaying read
>the address of her Kenosha sons in some
article, the society wrote here to L. NJ.
Theirs and asked for more proofs, sug.
costing photograph of the family Bible
leaf recording her age, the tombstone
marked with the date of death of her
mother, and statements sworn to before
notary that facts given in Nine.
Theirs letter were correct. The decu-
ments requested were forwarded.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

John Barnett, arrested as a pick
pocket at Waukegan after he had been
charged with being a participant in a
squeeze robbery at the Northwest
ern station here, was released on writ
of habeas corpus. He left Waukegan
at once and it is not expected that he
will return. Kenosha police officers
were planning to bring him to Kenosha
for trial when he secured the writ.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

Clarence Keneweg, arrested on a
charge of malicious mischief after he
had wrecked gum slot machine,
pleaded not guilty in the Municipal
Court and the hearing was adjourned
until June 9Th. In the meantime the
police will make an investigation
to see whether or not the machine is
violating the laws.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

Everett Vance and Richard Rhode
arose at an early hour this morning and
at $50 were on their way to Fl Sheri-
dan where they are to serve in the Boy
Scout squad. Returning from Ft. sher-
idan today are Gordon Anderson and
Grin Head who have been in the squad
for nearly two weeks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

Otto Windorf has been named as in
spector on the new Elks' club house.
The work of putting in the foundations
is now well underway and it is ex-
pected that the corner Of the building
will be laid about the first of July.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
Mot a Drafted Man
I'm the Company
Enthusiastic Drill Of Infantry Company
eliminates in the Acceptance Of
Five Recruits.
Roll of Honor

Accepted for. Infantry Co., w. N. G..
Frank s. Singer
Henry Knautz
Ray Stephenson
Philip w. Unit
Austin Lee
That neither the cavalry nor infantry
companies representing Kenosha in the
Wisconsin National Guard should find
it necessary to have a single drafted
nan, is the aim of the members of the
organizations and they are bending ev-
cry effort to accomplish this before
June 5, and results are coming, and in
punches, too.
The recruiting hall of the infantry
company in the Chamber of Commerce
building re-echoed with the cheers of
the enthusiastic recruits Thursday
night as five more, whose names ap-
pear in the Honor Roll y today, were
accepted for service. There were three
reflections, but the examiner held out
hope to two of these that the refusal
might only be temporary.
g I am anxious to fight shoulder to
shoulder with comrades from Keno
sha, said Stephenson, one of the latest
additions and that seems to be the sem
timent that has drawn so many to the
colors in the last two or three days.
The regular Friday night drill of the
company last night was very well at
tended, evidencing the increasing in
terest in the company as it is becoming
better organized
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

The local recruiting station reports
the following recruits today: For the
army, J. NJ. Pitts; for the navy, S.
Korn, Joe Nareek, Anthonk Tanek.
All of them have been sent to Mil
waukee for examination.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

The Marinette Eagle Star suggests,
Gwen if you don't take any stock
in the wa there is nothing to hinder
you buying a liberty bono"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31

Mr. and Mrs. II. F. Brown and Miss
Janet Brown attended recital given
in Evanston Friday night by Wesley
LaViolette.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
BORN.

To Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Miller, 667
Quinton street, a daughter Friday af-
ternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
PRAISES KENosHA BOY.
Chicago Tribune Prints Photograph of
Jessel Stuart Whytes Recalling His
Cornell Football Prowess.

"They re rallying from the hillside,
"They re gathering from the plain,
"shouting the Battle Cry of
Freedomi''