The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-04
CROWDS ON DOWN TOWN SITS.
Many Celebrators Go to Churches for the
Evening While Others Find the New
Year Watching the Moving Pictures
Revolver Shooters Sought.

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on schedule time in Kenosha on Sunday
night and the youngster in the long
book of years was welcomed with cor
diality such as no one ever suspected
could come from the dry gullet of a
town of thirty-five thousand people.
There was no fitting of the lid and the
welcome which Kenosha gave to the
New Year was decidedly dry. The
whistles blew just as LOUD and just as
long as in other years, merry crowds
paraded the streets and many devout
people knelt in shrines in the churches
and the only thing that there was in it
all that was different from other wears
was the fact that the saloons and other
bar rooms of the city were closed. Ke-
nosha saloon men did not in single
instance seek to break the Grid spell
for the new year. Every place in the
city closed up at the customary time
and it was not until early Monday
morning-long about sun up that the
first toast to the new year was drunk
in the enticing Tom and Jerry or New
Year $ Punch. Police officers had a
clean sheet for the first day of the year
so far as violations of the saloon regula-
tions were concerned, Not one Of the
saloon men asked permission to keep
open and none was volunteered by any
of the officials. The dryness of the
night was reflected in the Fact that
there was no annual trip OF the "water
wagon" Several perfectly air tight
water wagons were on hand for the oc-
casion but there was no one sorry
enough to drive it and the time honored
custom went to the discard along with
the toast of the flowing bowl which had
been so common in other years. Less
than a half dozen arrests were made in
Kenosha on the last night of the old
year and the first night of the new and
these were all on account of rights in
some of the foreign quarters of the
city.
Some people believed that it was nee
essary to blaze the way for the coming
of the new year with fusilade of
revolver shots and as the whistles were
tied down at midnight some enthusiasts
over on the Northwest side of the city
started in shooting. Bullets were fired
through windows on Park street, Grand
avenue and Jenne street. One of them
struck rocking chair in a house on
Gco, M ox-an,1o I,1+ for411p o1ry tho m oYI1
bers Of the household had all retired
before the noisy welcome to the new
year started and no one was injured.
The police are still searching for these
enthusiastic celebrators and if they
can be located they will be charged with
violating the city ordinance against
shooting within the limits of the city.
Many private parties were held about
the city on Sunday night and at these
parties it is possible that there was a
little fitting of the lid but none of them
were of a public nature and the process
of liquidating had all been arranged for
long before the time set in the resolu-
lions for the closing Of the places where
into1 icants are sold.
Large crowds of Kenosha people at
tende<. services in the churches on Sun
day night and at nearly every church
in the city late services were held to
mark the ending of one year and the
coming Of another. At some of the
churches musical programs were offered
and special sermons were preached from
many Of the pulpits in the city.
The crowd on the down town streets
was not as noisy as in other years.
Many of the people attended the late
performances at the theatres and others
walked up and down the street singing
and having a general good time.
The noise had nearly all subsidized by
the time the new year was an hour old
and Kenosha was tucked away in it's
be-.
Most people seemed to be of the opin-
ion that the manner of greeting the new
year was a decided improvement but
tn re were lot of them who pinned for
the good old days of the flowing bowl
a, j all that went with it.