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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
THE ELECTRIC FAN
The Ice Wagon

"S i'C "usVu
To LIKE to split the sky that roofs US
down.
Break through the crystal lid of upper air,
And tap the still cool reservoirs Of heaven
I'd empty all those unseen lakes Of fresh
Down some vast funnel, through our stified
streets.
I'd like to pump away the grit, the dust,
Raw dazzle of the sun on garbage piles,
The droning troops of flies. sharp bitter
smells.
And gush that bright sweet flood of un-
used air
Down every alley where the children gasp.
And then I'd take a fleet of ice wagons
Big yellow Creaking carts, drawn by wet
horses
And drive them rumbling through the
blazing sums.
In every wagon would be blocks of cold
ness.
Pale, cleaning cubes of ice all green and
silver.
With inner veins and patterns, white and
frosty:
Great Jumps of chill would drip and steam
and simmer,
And spark like rainbows in their little
fractures.
be puddles,
A wetness and a sparkle and a GOODNESS.
My friends and l would chop and splinter
open
The blocks Of ice. Bare feet would soon
come patterin&ss
And some would wraB 1t up in Sunday
papers,
And some would stagger home with it in
baskets,
And some would be too gay for aught but
sucking.
Licking, crunching those fast melting peb-
bes.
Gulping as they slipped down unexpected
Laughing to perceive that secret numbness
Amid their small hot persons,
| At every stop would be at least one urchin
Would take a piece to cool the sweating
| horses
And hold it up against their silky noses
And they would start, and then decide
they liked it.
Down all the sun-cursed byways Of the
town
| Our wagons would be trailed by grimy tots
Their ragged shirts half of them with ex.
| element.
| Dabbling toes and fingers in our leakage,
| A lucky few up sitting with the driver,
All clambering and stretching gray -pinl
palms.
By the time the wagons were all empty
Our arms and shoulders would be lam,
with choppng,
Our backs and thighs pain-shot, our finger.
| frozen.
But how we would recall those eager faces
Red thirsty tongues with ice-chps slidins
on them,
The pinched white cheeks. and their pa
thetic gladness.
Then we would know that arms were mad,
for aching
wish 10 God that could go tomorrow
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
THE MESSENGER

THERE scared an eagle in the west ~,
L With mighty sunlight on his breast q,
And music in his wings. -
Faroff. within the ravished east, t,
He saw the vultures at their feast. u
Spread by the war Of kings. sd
-.
The very world was black and red -
With burrows of the mangled- dead, y
On whom the red dust lay.
From all the lands n wailng came,
A million homesteads passed in flame;
The vultures tore their prey. =.
He sazed and. hestant awhile. 10
Beheld the carrion horde defile
The wounded and the slain. ~
The feast grew fouler with the years; 'iis
The very heavens were gray with tears y
Above that realm of pain
no
Now, doubt and hesitation past.
The destined warroad rings at last -
With onset Of his young.
Lo. the swift eaglets follow him ~
To where all Europe's skies are dim 4
With cannon breath upfiung. 60
Freeborn, oh, soar in houndless light
Above the worlds despotic night ~
Till the new dawn advance!
Cry to the foul and feastng horde y
Our thunders follow and our sword
In loves delivevance! :"
Eternal spirit of our land, ,...
BY whom the guarded seas are spanred,.
Grant to the coming years ~
The liberty our fathers sought
The liberty by man unbought
Except by blood and tears!
George Sterling In the San Francisco
Chronicle. =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
HELPS That Much

And it can't be denied that the war has
eliminated the corpulent German comedian1
with the dnky derby who used to set th6'
house in uproars by his inimitabe way of :
coming back at his partner with some choice7
repartee brought over in the Mayfower. oet
maybe it was the Ark.--Macon TelegrapEs =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Isadore Stern testifes that Lieutenant
Bennett got mad because he called him
.leftenant" What would Bennett have said
~ Stern had demanded tho schedules" of
the voting list? The Civil Service Commits
eion ought to make note of this and put
some questions about pronunciation in the
next examination for egibles
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The Mayor seems to think it more i'm
pcrtant that Gudehus should be supervisor
! Of Fairgrounds than that men and women
who have served the city faithfully on the
secreation board should continue to exercise
Y their functions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Uncle Sam has or
They're Rabbit Hunt dered that the soldiers
ing In France at Camp Dix shall not
perfect their aim by
Dracticing shooting at harmless rabbits on
the pretense that they are Huns. The camp
reservation is to be a game preserve for the
enjoyment Of the soldiers when they have
become really good shots after much prac.
tice in the trenches in France
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The resolution empowering the President
to take over the wire lines does not refer
to the grapevine telegraph over which the
country newspapers used to receive many
dispatches"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Bismarck, North Dakota, is dissatisfied
with its name And the Kaiser was dissatis-
fed with Bismarck. The dissatisfaction thus
covers both hemispheres after lapse of a
generation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The way of the political henchman may
not be all playground. as F.. r. Gudehus,
Ware protege. is apparently learning. Nor Of
recreation boards all recreation
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
That hundred North Philaf

That hundred North Philadelphia busl-
ness men who have volunteered TO weed a
big nursery whose proprietor cannot get help
have set a good example. In the early DAYS
Of the country the farmers used to make
bees to help one another Conditions are
such now that the custom could be revived
With profit and extended to cooperation be-
tween the men in the city and men in the
.nnllntrY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The Bolsheviki are losing their hold on
Russia Now perhaps, Russia can get hold
upon the Bol3heviki
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Baltimores postoface must receive the
palm for deiberation. Two postal cards
mailed in this city ten years ago nave just
been found there and delivered
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
COUNT YOUR WAR BLESSINGS

The girl next door has given up her vocal
lessons for Red Cross work.
The political situation is no longer prime
cause Of conversational convu.sions.
The Dutch comedian" has departed from
the vaudeville stage, with his budget Of
sepulchral jokes from the tombs Of ancient
Egypt.
The man who wears a wrist watch isn't
necessarily regarded freak of nature
any longer
"Kultur' and deficiency" have made 1t pos
sibie for the Ford joke to get at least
partial vacation
We do not have to go to school again to
learn the geography Of Europe,
Indigestion has applied for admission to
the old folks home
American girls have learned how attrac-
tive khaki really is-when worn by sturdy
masculine forms.
1t isn't wanton profanity to say POTS
dammit" when the Kaisers name Is men,
toned In polite circles today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

In Munich they have formed the German
Mexican Society. The soul of the German
American Alliance needs q home
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The chemists in Germany aren't staying
up nights to discover a trouble substitute.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
BY A HAIR

AYO. WE really are not Russian.
IN Yet we worry not a bit,
That In warring OH the Prussian.
The train barber has been hit
That he must hnd more useful task
q. NAY make eome ffellowo rave;
( 1T cnte1tno ~ o:q}, ~ q, ),
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
Tactics

Apparently the Ger
Tactics mans are not too
naughty to learn tao
tics from their vassal allies. the Austrians.
They appear to be conducting their new Of
fensive on the Marne after the manner of
the recent Austrian Offensive on the
Piave
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Perhaps the Germans will now stop
sneering at the American army.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

There's Woodrow
Soon! soon! Wilson bridge across
the Rhone. Now Row
soon will the Rhine follow suit?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Foreign Secretary Bu-
OF Course rian says he favors
MIR. wilson's peace
terms as expressed on July 4. apart from
certain exaggerations." Does he mean tha,
the Presidents demand for the reign Of law
Is an exaggeration?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

The fuel administra-
Advance. Firing ton threatens to seize
squad! all boarded coal. But,
by way of compersa-
ton 1t will try TO keep things sufficiently
warm for the hoarders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

Just suppose the
Horrors Avertcd Treasury Department
had proposed war
ing and spooning!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17

half as faithful and half as steadfast as
they, this nation may be said to be ap-
preaching the era OF its true greatness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
The Grip Th.,'ll C., tn. K.i.er

70 the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir
The Kaiser's got the Spanish grip"
But we know one more certain.
Walt TIL he gets that Yankee grip.
It's time then for the curtain.
\ s. 0EoRGE W pHlI>l~IPD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
when Kings Are Kin

Kaiser Wilhelm has the Spanish influenza,
1t would be an act In the return courtesy of
royalty for King Alfonso 10 contract a casA
oe Geraa1 m>eSles, A. 1<n1Q1r x1yl o2(A
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley

tinted water. Everywhere children were play
ing merrily in tie overflow. And there we're
window boxes with bright flowers
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
PHILADELPHIA ADOPTS
THE KEN0SHA PLAN
Great Eastern City Takes Over Plan
Almost Without q Change and
Will Collect Millions.

The "Kenosha Plan'' has been en-
dorsed by the third largest city in the
nation, as kilograms received in Keno
sha today announce that this plan of
Kenosha for the collection of money
for big war movements has been adopt
ed by the city of Philadelphia and that
the idea worked out in Kenosha has
been taken over almost without a
change by this great city.
More than half million people will
contribute to the plan in the Quaker
city at the start and it is expected that
before the end of the year the number
will be increased by fifty per cent. 1t
is impossible to estimate the total that
will be paid in under the plan in Phil
adelphia, but it will be many millions
Of dollars annually
1t is interesting to note that the en-
dorsement of the plan in Philadelphia
was brought about largely by the cor
dial endorsement which has been given
the plan by officials of the United
States government.
Tt is declared that the plan is now
in operation in more than three hundred
American cities and hundreds Of
others are considering its adoption for
the coming year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
kenosha Lodge to Entertain Racine
and Milwaukee Chapters
at Castle Hall

The Kenosha Knights of Pythias
will entertain the Racine and Milwau-
kee Lodges in full force at special
meeting to be held at Castle Hall We'd
nesday night. About 800 guests are
expected and the local members are
doing all in their power to make it a
wonderful affair.
AL Meis is getting special theatrical
talent from Chicago for the occasion
and Mrs. Grace Herzog who has charge
of the local entertainment promises
something especially attractive.
Later in the evening a banquet will
be held at which Judge Randall will
preside as POSTMASTER.
This is the fourth Of series Of K. P.
get-to-gether entertainments, the first
being given by the Kanosha Lodge
with the Racine and Milwaukee
Chapters reeiprocating in turn. The
committees in charge hope to make
this the biggest event on the K. P.
calender.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
MANY ALIENS TO
GET CITIZENSHIP

More than two hundred Kenosha men
who marched away from this city as
aliens to join the National Army and
other army units are coming back as
citizens as the Federal Departments
have started in motion the machinery
which will make every alien serving IN
the army a citizen. The action will be
automatic and these men will not be
required to file any petitions for sec
ond papers. The fact that they are
in the army Of the nation will make
them citizens of the nation. Formal
reports of the granting of citizenship
to the men who were willing to fight
for the United States will be forward
ed to the proper recording officials in
this and other counties of the nation
and the men will find that these papers
have all been recorded before their
return from the service. The natura-
lization Of these men will also natnra-
lie their wives and their children, who
may have been born in foreign coun-
tries.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
COPPER THIEVES
WORK IN THE COUNTY
ST. Paul Railway Company Notifies the
Local Police that Poles were
Stripped Monday Night.

Copper thieves are busy in Keno
sha county again and early today the
officials of the Chicago and st. Paul
road reported to the city police that
poles along the lines of the company
between Somers and Corliss had been
stripped early last night and the
thieves got away with 400 feet Of
copper wire. Junk yards in Kenosha
were searched today but it. was de-
clared that no one had offered any
copper wire for sale in Kenosha. Two
weeks ago more than two thousand
feet Of the wire was stolen from the
lines Of the American Telegraph and
Telephone Company near TruesdeI. Tt
is believed that the old gang which
some time ago secured thousands of
dollars worth Of copper wire from lines
in this section has opened operations
again Officers of many cities ~have
sought to find tie headquarters of this
gang of wire thieves without result.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
PAY CASH OR
PAY INTEREST
Water Commissioners Decide That
Service Must be Paid When Rend-
ered@Talk of Hydrant Rentals.

"Pay cash or pay interest is the
new order of the Board of Water Com
missioners promulgated following the
meeting held on Monday evening
The new rule is in regard to service
connections to houses which may be
installed in the future under the
direction of the board.
In the past the cost of these services
has been charged to the property own
err on the tax roll with the understand
ing that they could be paid with the
annual taxes. This plan may yet be
followed but interest on the amount is
to be charged at a rate of six per cent.
The board had conference with the
council committee on buildings and
water works in regard to an increase
charge for hydrant rentals. The city
at the present time pays ten thousand
dollars a year. The railroad commits
sion in its recent order declared that
the amount should be somewhere be-
tween fourteen thousand dollars and
fifteen thousand dollars. The commit
tee is expected to make some recon-
mendation to the council at the meet
ing on next Monday evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
FEDERAL AGENTS
GET SIX In NET
Men Charged With Seditious Talking
to Have q Hearing Before Govern
ment Officials Wednesday Night.

Kenosha is going to be branch of
the federal offices in Milwaukee on
Wednesday evening when trained in
vestigators will come to the city to
make an examination Of six men who
have been caught in the government
net charged with seditious talking.
The names of the men have not been
made public and while they have been
ordered to appear for the hearing they
have not been placed under arrest. 1t
is declared that all of the men are
working in factories in the city and
that they are not alien enemies.
1t is admitted that some effort has
been made to interfere with war pro-
duction in one or more of the Kenosha
factories, but the government agents
who have been working in Kenosha
have declared that no facts in regard
to such cases will be made public I'M
til after the defendants have been in
dicted by the federal grand jury.
1t is declared that this drive is be-
ing made to teach Kenosha people that
seditious talking must be stopped. 1t
is expected that all of the men will
be taken to Milwaukee for trial in the
United States Court there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
First Publication, May 8. 1918.
SHERTFF'S SALE.

SHER1EFsS SALE.
STATE OF WISCONSIN - IN MUNICH
PAL COURT FOR KENOSHA COUNTY.
Charles Zingler, Plaintiff. vs.. Sophie
Malzahn and Freda MaIzahn, an infant.
Defendants.
BY virtue and in pursuance of D Judg-
ment of foreclosure and sale rendered by
the above named court in the above en-
titled action on the 3rd day of May, a. d.
1917, in favor of the above named plaintiff
and against the above named defendants,
the undersigned, sheriff of Kenosha
county, Wisconsin, shall offer for sale and
sell at public auction and vendue at the
front door OF the court house in the city
and county of kenosha, state of Wiscon-
sin, on the 22nd day of June, A. ID. 1918,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of that day,
the following described mortgaged prem
ises. directed in said Judgment to be sold,
or so much thereof as may be sufficient
to pay the amount due to the plaintiff
upon said Judgment for principal, inter-
est and costs. together with the expenses
of such sale, which said premises are de-
scribed in said Judgment as follows, to-
wit:
Ten (10) rods wide off of the entire
south side of the west half of the
northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section sixteen (16), town
ship one I'd north, range nineteen t19)
east, containing two and one-half (215l
acres of land. and lying and being in
the town of Randall, in the county of
Kenosha, and state of Wisconsin.
Dated Sheriff's Office, Kenosha, Wiscon-
sin. May 4th, A. D. 1918.
JACOB NJ HERMANN,
Sheriff kenoSha County. Wisconsin.
CAVANAGH. BARNES & CAVANAGH.
Plaintiffs Attorneys. We
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
SOME SUFFRAGE GLEAN1Ncs.
Interesting Doings of Wisconsin women
Who Are Fighting for Equal Rights
for Women In the State.

4CL WUIuCA LII Tile State.
A new department of patriotic serv-
ice, that of Child Welfare, has been
added to the committees of the Wiscon-
sin Woman s Suffrage Association.
Mrs. Harvey J. Frame of Waukehsa
is named as chairman.
Mrs. Ben Hooper is speaking on Food
Conservation for the Woman s Commit
tee Of the State Council of Defense.
She spoke at Oconto and Marinette
May 8 and 4 and this past week has
been in Waushara county.
Mrs. Henry M. Youmans spoke on
Americanization at a Parent-Teacher s
meeting in Waukesha Thursday and at
meeting Of the Woman Committee
of the County Council of Defense in
Wood County Saturday afternoon.
Miss Harriet F. Balm, Kenosha. who
has been. absent from home since early
December, part of the time in Wash
ington, D. c., and the rest of the time
at her orange grove in Florida, has
returned home. Miss Balm is chairman
of the Organization Committee of the
Wisconsin Woman s Suffrage Associa-
tion and plans an active campaign.
While in Florida, Miss Balm went, in
company with Mrs. Broward, wife of a
former governor of Florida, to call on
Governor Cats. He expressed himself
as in full favor of the Federal Amend
ment Miss Balm found that the suf-
fragists of Florida as in Wisconsin and
other parts of the country are among
the leaders in War work in their state.
Miss Emma E. Robinson, Kenosha,
Vice President of the Wisconsin Wo-
man Suffrage Association, who has also
been in Florida for the winter is ex-
pected home the end of this month
The biennial convention of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs,
which just closed its session at Hot
Springs, Arkansa, passed a resolution
in favor of the Federal Amendment for
woman suffrage and sent memorial
to the Senate of the United States, urg-
ing the passage Of the amendment. It
was four years ago at Chicago that
the General Federation of Women s
Clubs first went on record in favor of
woman suffrage.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-16
MAKE IT NORTH SHORE MODEL
Splendid Provisions Made to Take Care
of Wants Of Men and Women and
Children Is to BE Ready for Occu-
pancy on or Before First of July.

The park commission on Monday af-
ternoon let contracts to close up for
the equipment Of the new bath house
on Simmons Play Ground. These con
tracts provide for the installation Of
seven hundred steel lockers at the bath
house with liberal provision for men,
women and children. The contract pro-
vides that the lockers be delivered and
SET up in Kenosha within the next three
weeks and Chairman Buenger Of the
park commission gives assurance that
the new bath rouse will be ready for
the people of the city on or before
the Fourth of July.
It is going to be one of the most com
plete bathing pavilions to be found
anywhere along the north shore.
Workmen under the direction Of the
park board have torn away all Of the
old buildings on the beach and the only
building remaining will be the big pa
vilion formerly used as skating rink.
The plans for the remodeling of this
building are now well under way. They
include the building of porch on the
front of the building facing the lake.
This porch will be large enough to ac-
commodate large number of people
who may desire to watch the bathers in
the surf during the summer months.
Just inside the door from the porch
will be refreshment booth. 1t will
be thirty-fve by seventyive feet and
it will be made most attractive.
The lockers for the men, women and
children will be placed in the main por-
tion Of the building. Separate en-
frances are provided for each class and
the lockers will be arranged so as to
make it possible to accommodate a
very large number of bathers. The
seven hundred and twenty lockers
will be divided about equally between
men, women and children.
AS further equipment of the bath
house the plans provide for the in
stallation Of series Of shower baths.
There will be FIVE showers for the men
and an equal number of the women
with liberal provision in the shower
bath line made by the children.
The entrances to the bath house to
be used by the bathers will be on the
sides of the building. Special walks
will be provided to connect these en-
frances with the lake front.
"We are going to make this a real
bathing pavilion, declared Chairman
Buenger this morning. cit is not go
ing to be ornamental, but it is going
to be useful and it is going to offer
more facilities for bathers than have
ever been offered before. The old
buildings have been cleared away and
the old dance pavilion will be taken
away from the bath house and moved
up on the island to be used as pa
vilion in connection with the baby
camp. We expect to have the re-
modelled building ready for opening
by the first of july"