The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-03
SOAERS.

OF this week at the home of Miss Eli
zabeth Maurer.
! Mrs. B. F. Yule visited with her sis
ter, Mrs. w. e. Balm of Racine during
the past week.
| Miss Kate Z. Schaeffer went to RAJ
lclne on Saturday.
Miss schaeffer is arranging her plans
for her return journey to her work in
Hauian, China, in November.
Mrs. Theodore Tabbert of Racine,
! spent Thursday with friends in
Somers.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Spencer have
moved into the Methodist parsonage
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Tabbert
1 have moved into the house they vacated.
/ Elmer Mutchie has been very i'll for
1some days. DR.. Peehn of Corliss, is
lattending
Simeon Dutton Of Racine, spent Sat
urday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Lyle.
2. G. Ozanne spent Sunday with +.
/ W Kosterman of Racine
Mrs. Charles Cent? has been very i'll
for several days.
| Louis Markusen has sold his farm to
John ConneH of Kenosha
Mr.. and Mrs. Markusen expects to
make their home in Racine.
Miss Elsie Gibbon of Kenosha, visit
ed With Miss Maude NJ Gibbon dur
ling the past week.
a large number of our people attend
ed the great Liberty Loan meeting in
Kenosha on Saturday evening and list
ened to the famous fighter signaller
Tom Skeyhill.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Woll have re-
ceived word of the safe arrival over
seas Of their son, Frank of the seth
| Division.
/ Misses Edith and Mildred Haigs
ihave entered the Racine * enosha joint
training school at Union Grove.
/ Mrs. August Bohm was called to
i Kenosha this week on account of the
illness Of her sons, George and Robert.
Bohm.
Paul Fink of Marquette College, Mil
waukee, spent the week end with his
Iparents, Mr. and Mrs. John w. Fink.
| n. E. Thompson spent Wednesday
lin Milwaukee.
M. A. Rasmussen transacted busi
ness in Chicago on Wednesday.
Miss Harriet NJ. Spence spent w
Inesday in Racine
i Chris A. Jensen transacted business
in Racine on Thursday.
Tho JNonJrpa,,
a concrete approach to the hail.
Mrs. James III. Bullamore visited
with friends in Racine Wednesday
A large amount Of Overseas
mail arrived at the somers post office
this week.
! Extracts from couple Of letters re-
lceived by Mr.. and Mrs Chris Rasmus
sen from their son, Cook Axel Rasmus-
sen Of the 34Oeh company.
Somewhere in France.
Aug. $3.50, 1918.
Dear Parents and Brother:
Many thanks for your letters and
card received, also for money order.
Do not need money so long as we get
Iplenty to eat and drink. We also get
tobacco and matches. The government
issues us Bull Durham every two days
Say but this is fine country. We
have our camp in a pretty little village
Some men are sleeping in barns. Our
lstoves are set up under some large
chestnut trees. This is the life I'll
soon be as brown as an Indian. The
evenings here are lovely, we can see
IT'LL nine clock in this country. I
Isaw Soren Sorensen yesterday on a
hike. It is nothing for me to hike ten
to twelve miles with full pack When
you write tell me all about the war, as
we are SO far away from it that we
do not know what is going on. I like
this country. Farmers are shocking
/ Mccormick grain binders. Have Just
come from taking bath We walked
about two miles to a creek. Seventy
men Of US washed our clothes and hung
them on the fences We are getting
quite expert in this line. When we
came back the dear old JournalNews
was waiting for me, though a. month
old it was full Of news for me and the
other Racine boys. Am busy cooking
and drilling. Gravel and limestone is
found to a depth Of ten feet A great
deal of alfalfa is raised but the main
II crops is grapes. Just think, ! have
soon been IN service one year. The
,lyear has gone fast and I am proud to
be with the boys. The best education
a man can get. Give regards to all
nv friends-Axel Rasmussen.
A Mrs. Herman Tabbert has received
two newspapers "Witl the A. E. F. y