The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-03

Lois Wright and Anna Butcher win
honors in school contest
9-Kenosha High school debaters de-
feat West Bend Will of Thomas Glib
bons gives $4,000 to charity. Harry
Hays, forger and post Office robber,
arrested in Kenosha.
11-Sam Powell accidentally shot by
Mrs. Mary Omarzo. Death of Joseph
J. Myrick, formerly of town of Paris.
Death of Mrs. Joseph Weissenstein.
| 13-March blizzard leaves tangle
of wires in Kenosha and disrupts pub
lie utility company service.
14--Community institute and annual
automobile show opened in Kenosha.
Orrin F. Carpenter, father of Fred IL.
Carpenter, dies suddenly in Chicago.
J. w. DeCou resigns from Kenosha
Health Board. "Real Live BABY
squeals as it is given away at opening
of automobile show
15-State inspectors find Kenosha
milk supply "dirty." Death of Mrs.
Peter Grob. Kenosha "dryso organize
for most spectacular campaign ever
held in Kenosha.
| 17-New Butterfly Theatre is opened.
Marriage of Miss Helen Hoff and Ed
ward Nelson. Kenosha has annual
celebration Of ST. Patrick q Day with
| observance Of Irish Fellowship Club
with Father Thomas F. Burke, Chica-
go, as orator. Horace G. Johnson elect
Club. Death of Miss Clara Borkenhagen.
19-Old Wulff building at corner of
Wisconsin and Church streets, wealth
ers another fire. Petition to submit
license question with 755 signatures
filed with city clerk. Abe Prince ar
rested on charge of assaulting Louis
Hansmann. Council orders digging
Of Broad street channel Death of
Roy Holstein.
20--Annual primary election held
with few surprises in candidates nam
ed Death Of Mrs. Margaret Roders.
Wisconsin telephone report shows Ke
nosha is destined to have 10000 people
in 1885. Death of Mrs. Anna Peat-Fink
21-Marriage of Miss Eunice L..
Drury and Albert Gfroerer. Black Cat
Textiles Company offers entire output
of three big plants to the President
to aid win the war. Thrce hundred
women pledge their aid to no-license
| fight in Kenosha. Archie Grow terri
bly, beaten by hold-up men. j. j. Stein
bach charged with arson in connection
with burning of ice house, acquitted
by jury. Marriage Of Miss Genevieve
Shotlieff and Ward G. Bryant in Bristol
22-Death of George Pfaller. Post
office inspectors turn down Kenosha 8
plea for west side postal branch
23-Dr. Preston Bradley, Chicago,
lectures in Kenosha.
24--Two hundred Kenoshans aid in
dedicating new "Black Cat' plant at
| Sheboygan. Death of Mrs. Bertha Eng
| lert. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Wills.
| 25-St. Marks Church in Denver
calls Rev. Fred Ingley, rector of st.
Matthew's Church and he accepts the
call Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Timme cele-
brate their "golden wedding"
26-Thomas Geogapoulas killed when
speeder turned over on railway bridge
near Pleasant Prairie. Frederick w.
Dibble, Chicago manufacturer, commits
suicide here by slashng his throat with
a razor. Kenosha Evenings News joins
the United Press. Mrs. Nell Scott
Petit dies at Toledo, Ohio.
27-Captain Hobson, hero Of the
Merrimac, visits Kenosha
28-Death of Edward Frandsen.
Eric Erickson, Kenosha recruit for
navy, dies at Great Lakes Station.
Many debates with G. A. Windle at
Eagle g Hall. Famous Karnes condem-
nation suit ends in Circuit Court. A.
| L. Drury and Arthur Albrecht form law
partnership. Death of Mrs. j. J..
Kohlman.
29-George H. Allen is elected presi-
dent of Kenosha Manufacturers Assoc
citation. William Koene, man long
sought by relatives, located. Alfred
Terrell asks state to organize cavalry
troop in Kenosha.
| 30--Directors of Y. NJ. G. A. lay over
campaign for building on account
| of war.
31-Death of Fred S. Cropley at
Pleasant Prairie.
APRIL.
1.-The Rev. Father Hogan of Osh-
kosh urges "dry Kenosha' at mass
meeting at Coliseum. Vernon Rose
pleads for vets at Eagles Hall. Harry
Crow dies at st, Anne's hospital.
| 2-Hon. Charles B. Lands and Chief
Rose end wet and dry campaign in adj
dresses at Coliseum and Germania Hall.
Stranger hangs himself at Moses John
son farm. Body of abandoned baby
found under platform of Lake Elizabeth
station. Meeting at Guild Hall to or
| ganize cavalry troop in Kenosha.
3-Record vote cast in wet and dry
election. Kenosha remains in wet
column by 1917 majority. James E.