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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
MAY GO TO WAR AND
STILL RETAIN RANK

Members of the police and fire de-
partments may go to war with the as
surance that some one is not going to
grab their jobs back home, as the Com
mon Council at its meeting on Monday
night went on record as being willing
to grant indefinite leaves of absence
to all men in these departments who
may go to serve in the army or navy.
More than this, it was announced by
the council that the time of service in
the army or navy is to be considered
the same as service in the departm ents
at home. The returning member of
either department. will be entitled not
only to his place but al well to all the
benefits which would have accrued to
him by the years of service. The mat
ter came up in connection with the
application Of Nicholas Loef of the fire
department for leave of absence. He
had not as yet served three years in
the department and under strict read
ing Of the regulations would not been
permitted to claim a leave. The coun-
Gil held that war times put all regula-
tions Of this sort out of business and
granted the leave.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
RACINE MAN is
NAMED OIL INSPECTOR
Charles Wichern Named as Deputy Oil
Inspector for the Racine Kenosha
County District.

Kenosha applicants for the Office of
Deputy Oil Inspector must continue
to lick their political chops in vain
as announcement from Madison says
that Charles Wichern a Racine drug
gist has been named as inspector for
the Raeine-Kenosha County Districts
and he has already taken up the du-
ties of his new office. There was an
understanding that Kenosha was to get
this appointment but evidently this I'M
derstanding was forgotten when it
came time to make the appointment.
There had been large number of APP
plieants for the position from Keno
sha and it is known that several of
them had stood very high in the civil
service examinations held recently.
The report Of these examinations have
not been made public in Kenosha.
Inspector Wichern will have charge
of the inspection of all oils sold in
Racine and Kenosha county. The Of
flee is supposed to pay salary in the
neighborhood of $1,000 year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
DEATH OF BURR F. BEACHEL.

Messages received in Kenosha on
Monday afternoon announced the death
Of Burr F. Beachel, thirty-nine years
of age and former well known resident
of Kenosha, which occurred on Sunday
evening at Newark, New Jersey. Mr.
Beachel had been in the real estate
business at Newark for the past two
years and he was stricken with pneu-
monia just week before his death.
He was son of the late Louis
Beachel, one of the old residents of
Kenosha and he was born in Kenosha
July 9, 1878. He was educated IN the
schools of the city and resided here I'M
til he reached young manhood.
Mr.. Beachel is survived by his widow
and one child.
The remains will be brought to Ke-
nosha on Wednesday afternoon. The
funeral services will be held at 1000
a. n. Thursday from his mother 5 home
with interment at the Beachel family
plot at Green Ridge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
CHILD HERO SAVES BROTHER
Victim of First Lake Tragedy of the
Season Blown Off the Breakwater by
Heavy Wind - Tragedy Comes as
Ending TO Children's Party.

Lake Michigan claimed it's first VIC
tim of the year in Kenosha this morn
ing when Marie Rose Smith, nine year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Smith of South Main street, was drown
ed in the treacherous waters of the
lake off the Lake avenue park at the
north limits of the city.
Dominick Leinenweber, ten years of
age and cousin of the victim Of the
accident, also had a narrow escape
from death, but he was saved by his
sister, Margaret Leinenweber, aged
twelve who also made an effort to save
the life Of her cousin but failed.
The two children were playing along
the breakwater when the high north
wind caught the skirts of the little girl
and forced her from the breakwater
into the lake. The boy with her clutch
ed at her clothing in an effort to save
her and he also fell into the lake.
The body of the little girl was re-
covered by Captain Fountain and mem
bers of the Coast Guard within short
time after she had fallen into the water
and the Coast Guard men worked for
more than an hour in a vain effort to
restore her life. The body was taken
to the Crossin undertaking parlors.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were overcome
when the news of the tragedy was TAX
en- to them at their home
Little Marie was a member of hap
Ply party of children who had gone to
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Ep-
pers, just a stone IS throw from the
breakwater, on Friday evening and the
day was to have been spent celebrating
the birthday of little Marie Eppers.
Just after breakfast this morning
Dominick Leinenweber and Marie Smith
went over to play along the lake. The
spanking breeze invited the children to
crawl up on the breakwater and a
minute later people at the Eppers home
heard the agonizing cries for help.
The fire department had sent pull
motor to aid in the efforts to revive the
little girl, but it was not used.
Marie Smith was born in Kenosha
July %, 1909 and she had spent all her
life here. She was a student at st.
James school and one Of the most pop
ula2 children of the school.
The tragic death of the little girl
brought intense sorrow in the city,
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A. G. Pacey, Long Prorni-
nent in KenOsha County,
Died in Wilmot on Fri
day Afternoon.
Was VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR

Alfred G. Pacey, aged II years
former chairman of the Kenosha Coun-
ty Board of Supervisors and one of
the most prominent men of Keaosha
county died at his home in the village
OF Wilmot on Friday afternoon follow
ing long illness from complication
of diseases. Mr.. Pacey had been in
feeble health for the past five years
and for many months he had been con-
fined to his home.
Few men in the county were more
widely known or more universally re-
spected. A. G. Pacey was a son of the
late Thomas Pacey one of the earliest
of the settlers of Randall Township.
He was born in that town June 6, 1S47
and he had lived his entire life in the
Western part of Kenosha county.
He was educated in the schools of
the county and gave much of his life
t the work of the farm in Randall.
Some years ago he removed to the vii
lage of Wilmot where he had since
Iudu6 MS ROME.
Mr.. Pacey saw much work in the
service of the public. He served as
town treasurer for. two years, was a
member of the County Board of SUI
pe1visors and served as chairman of
+ Board, he was Town Chairman of
the village of Wilmot for four years.
On the organization of the County
School Board he was named as Presi-
dent of the Board and later he was
named as Chairman of the County
School Committee which Office he held
at the time of his death. Only a short
time ago he was named by Judge E.
B. Belden as a member of the Kenosha
County Jury commission,
In 1865 when but eighteen years of
age he enlisted as member of Company
K. of the one hundred fifty third IL
l1nois infantry and he served to the
close of the war.
He was one of the most active mem
hers of the Wilmot Lodge of Maso1s
and he had been one of the leading
ner bers of the Methodist Church at
Wilmot. On May 18th, 1870 Mr.. Pac-
ey was married to Miss Susan B. Dol
by Of the town of Pleasant Prairie.
He is survived by his widow, four
sons, Oscar, Clifford, Edward and Ar
thur Pacey all Of the county an one
daughter Mrs. Earl J. Shales of An
tioch, Ill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
MUST CANDLE EGGS
SOLD in KENOSHA
Food Administrator Bullamore Gets
Drastic Order in Regard to Sales
of Eggs in the County.

County Food Administrator H, L.
Bullamore this morning issued drastic
order covering the sales of eggs in
Kenosha and in the future all eggs
sold in the city must be candled either
by the seller or the purchaser, The
order is issued by the federal and
state food commissioners and it is de
clared that the order will be Wig
orously enforced.
It applies not only to eggs sold in
the stores of the city, but to those sold
by huxsters on the streets. The purpose
of the order is to stop the traffic in
eggs which are unfit for human food,
to prevent their entering the channels
of trade and thereby preventing
an enormous wastage.
Many of the regular stores of the
city have been Gambling eggs for years
and the order will be no hardship to
these merchants.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

Mrs. Samuel Caro-, who resides ct
No. 676 Anton street protests against
the suggestion that a man sought for
slashing Patrick Madoloni with a knife
was DESTROYS Of forcing his attentions
on her daughter. She declares that
the little girl is but thirteen years of
age and that she never knew the man
in question and that the suggestion of
his coming to the house had never been
made. Mr.. and Mrs Caro- are widely
known among the people in that dis
triet of the city and their reputation
has been spotless one. The sugges-
ton that the man who did the cutting
wanted to go to the Caro- home was
made by MadoloHi.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
DEATH OF MRS. MILDRED JENSEN
Matron Of Kenosha Eastern Star Died
on Thursday Afternoon After
Seven Weeks Illness.

Mrs. Mildred Mason Jensen, aged
thirty three years, wife of G. ". Jen-
sen, auditor for the N. R. Allen IS Son s
Company died at the Kenosha Hospital
early Thursday afternoon following
seven week IS illness from complica-
tion of diseases.
Mrs. Jensen was one Of the best
known of the young matrons of Ken
oaha and her death has brought great
sorrow. She had been one of the most
active of the members Of the Keno
sha Chapter Of the Eastern Star and
was Matron of that organization when
called by death.
Mrs. Jensen was a daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Soren Mason and she was
born at Winthrop Harbor, H., May 6,
1885. She had made her home in Ke
nosha for many years. Her parents
now reside at Seabold, Wash, and Mrs.
Mason will reach Kenosha tonight
Mrs. Jensen was a young woman of
loyable disposition and great favor
tie with large circle of friends. She
is survived by her husband, three dau-
ghters, Doris Leone, Louise Bertha and
Mildred Caroline and one son Charles
Russell Jensen. ~
Funeral services will be held at the
Park Avenue NJ E. Church at three
0 clock Saturday afternoon and inter
ment will be at the family plot at
Green Ridge,
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MRS. HELENA DEKoK DEAD.

Mrs. Helena Dekok of Pleasant Prai-
RE township, died at her late residence
Thursday, aged ninety-four years, one
month and ten days.
Mrs. Dekok was born in Holland and
came to America some twenty-eight
years ago. She was the widow of
Jacob DeKok who preceded her to the
grave exactly nine years ago today.
She is survived by six children, Mrs.
Anna Kraak of Pleasant Prairie, at
whose home she died; and John DeKok
of Iowa; Hillid Dekok, Elizabeth Vogel
and Johanna Ostdyk of Holland, and
Martina DeBoy of South America.
The funeral will be conducte2 at the
Holland Reformed Church next Mon
day, June 3rd, interment in Green
Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

In the Municipal Court this morning
Judge Tully handed down decree Of
divorce in the suit of Louis Fl. Lahon,
q Milwaukee travelling salesman against
Clara B. Lahon his wife. The couple
were married in Sacramento, Cal, May
3, 1912 and Lahon charged desertion.
The wife did not appear to contest the
decree. 1t was declared that she had
gone into business in California and
that she preferred life as a business
woman to life as the wife Of Lahon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

the east end of the square. The build
ing proposed would be beautiful or
namental building with rest room facili-
ties. It would be one story and base
ment. It is proposed to build it of
granite and the estimated cost is some
where between twenty and twenty five
thousand dollars. The aldermen did
not seem to be greatly interested in
the plan holding that it was too much
of an expenditure. The matter was re-
ferred back to the park board.
The Board was instructed to pro-
ceed with the condemnation of the
Harmon property as an addition to
the Bond Woods Park.
Announcements was made by the
city attorney that the owners of the
property condemned for the extension
of the Lake Avenue Park had decided
to accept the awards of the jury and
the clerk was instructed to issue of
fers for the $10,150 necessary to pay
for this property on the delivery of
properly executed deeds to the city
attorney.
The plans and specifications for the
new break waters were approved by
the council and an ordinance setting off
break water districts was presented and
given it's first reading.
Buy High Grade Equipment.
But one bid was received for the
sale of a new patrol wagon to the city
and the new "paddy" wagon will be
decidedly high grade 1t will be a
Pierce-Arrow and the cost of it will
be slightly in excess of $4,000. Bids
from the Nash Motors Company and
the White Company were received af-
ter the time set by the committee for
the presentation of bids and the coun-
Gil did not order the opening of the
bids. Tt is said that the bid of the
Nash company for the equipment was
1886. The council voted to buy a
Whittier Fire Truck and Pump for
use in the north side engine house.
The Municipal Motors Company, sales
agent for the Whittier company was
the low bidder for the job, the bid
being 1926. 1t is planned to have
both Of the new vehicles in service
within the next sixty days. The or
dinance for the annexation Of the large
territory about the Pennoyer Sanitar-
ium was given its first reading and it
will be acted on at the first meeting
of the council in July.
The council ordered the formal open
ing of South street west of Fremont
avenue and an effort will be made to
have the street graded and side walks
put in at once.
The new water rates recently order
ed by the Wisconsin Railroad commits
sion were made effective by the formal
passage of an ordinance.
There was much routine business to
come before the council and it was
nearly midnight before the adjournment
was taken.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

These twelve young Kenoshans will
send their registration cards from
Great Lakes Naval Station to the To-
cal Board on Wednesday as today all
of them went down to the Station to
be formally received as "Jackies - for
Uncle Sam. The boys are well known
to Kenosha and they made up the larg-
est contingent of recruits sent to the
navy from Kenosha in many months
All save one of them have attained the
age of 81 since the last registration.
All are anxious to see early service
with the navy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
.SLEEPWALKER KILLED
ON RAILROAD TRACK
Dead Body of John Pistol is Found on
st. Paul Railway at Truesden
at 3:15 This Morning,

dbl Os1O Ills 4UIlAnSs
Horribly mangled, with both legs
severed from the torso, the dead body
of John Pistol, of Chicago, was found
lying ON the st. Paul Railway track at
Truesdell this morning. Besides hav
ing both legs cut off the head and
face were bruised and cut and present
ed a gruesome sight.
The body was discovered at 5;15 and
the coroner and Undertaken Thomas
Hansen Immediately summoned. The
undertaken went Immediately and
brought the body to his undertaking
parlors in this city and the coroner pro-
ceeded to make an investigation.
From the coroner s investigation it
was learned that the man s name was
John Pistol and that his home was in
Chicago. He has a brother somewhere
engaged in railroad work, but beyond
this nothing is known Of any rela-
tives, the whereabouts of his brother
being as yet unknown to the Ke-
nosha authorities.
Pistol was one of squad of men
that was brought to Truesdell by a
labor agent Monday morning and was
put to work with the construction gang
of the st. Paul railroad. While Mon
day was his first day there this time,
Pistol had been on that job before.
When found, the body had no cloth
ing except an undershirt and work
ing shirt over 1t, The lower limbs
were entirely naked. The man slept in
the boarding train of the railroad and
from the slight amount of clothing ne
had on it is supposed by all around
there that he had walked out in his
sleep and was struck by the train. But
at what time it is not known.
The agent at Trpesdell stated that
he had no idea what time the accident
occurred nor what train struck him. The
deceased had the appearance of being a
man about forty years of age.
Coroner Millager is trying to find out
something more about the relatives OF
the man before ordering his burial,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

Food Administrator Bullamore has
received the last call for reports of
manufacturers in Kenosha who use
sugar. If these reports are not filed
by June 10th no sugar will be sold to
delinquent manufacturers after the first
of July. No further notice will be
given to these people and the sentence
Of the State Food Administrator will be
automatically applied if they fail to
file the reports called for.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
FOUND in HEN COOP
HELD AS BURGLAR
Peter Hinrich Has Some Trouble Elk
planning How He Got Into the
Chicken Coop of John Laskowicz.


Peter Hinrich was arraigned in the
Municipal Court on Monday afternoon
on charge of burglary The complain
ing witness John Laskowicz declared
that he had found the defendant in his
chicken coop at an unseemly hour of
the night and that he had been unable
to give any satisfactory explanation of
his presence there. No chickens had
been taken from the coop. Hinrich
appeared to be just little hazy as to
how he happened to be in the chicken
coop. 1FT just wandered in" was his
statement to the court" The hearing
of the charges against Hinrich was
adjourned and as he was unable to
furnish bonds in the sum of three
hundred dollars he was sent to Jail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
LOCAL BOARD
GETS QUOTAS TODAY
Kenosha Must Find Thirteen for the
Educational Call and Twenty to
Go to Fort Riley

The Kenosha Local Exemption Board
this afternoon received the quotas Of
calls for the coming weeks. On June
18th the local board is expected to en-
tram thirteen men for education at
Beloit College or the University of
Wisconsin and on June oath it will en-
train twenty men drafted in regular or
der for service at TT. Riley in Kansas.
The men called for the June 18th en-
trainment are expected to be made
up of men of draft age who will ask for
voluntary induction into the service.
No notice of any other and larger
call for June has been received by
the local board.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

Col. L. D. Wildman, of the Signal
Corps of the United States Army, has
sent notice to Kenosha sportsmen that
the shooting of pigeons of any kind is
prohibited under the army regulations
on account of the need of pigeons for
the army. This will put an end not
only to trap shooting with pigeons as
the marks but also of the pigeon pot
pies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

The mayor has received a formal
permit from United States Marshal
Samuel Randolph permitting alien enc
mics who make their home in Milwau-
kee to be engaged for sewer work in
Kenosha provided they return to their
homes in Milwaukee at least once q
month.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06
KENOSHA BOYS RUSH
TO JOIN THE NAVY

egistration Cards of Twelve More Ike
nosha Boys VIII Be Made Out at
at Great Lakes Station.
THE ROLL OF HONOR:
Gordon Morehouse.
Eli johnson.
Matthew ReindelI.
William Willems.
Ernest Miller.
Anton Kolar.
Robert Gershi.
Clarence Christman.
Louis Micheln.
Dominick Cantu.
Carl Benson.
Floyd j. Mccormack.
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A LARGE NUMBER TURN OUT
Patriotic Address by Professor Otis l..
Trenary Is One of the Features
Of the Days Exer-
cises.

"Cover the thousands who Sleep
far away
Sleep where their friends cannot
find them today;
They who in mountain and hillside
and dell,
Rest where they wearied, and lie
where they fell.
Softly the grass-blade creeps round
their repose;
sweetly above them the wild
foweret blows;
zephyrs of freedom fly greatly
o'erhead,
Whispering names for the patriot
dead.
"Cover them over yes, cover
them over
Parent and husband and brother
and lover:
Kiss in your hearts these dead
heroes of ours,
And cover them over with beau
tiful f1owers.''
While half million brave soldier
boys on the West front in France were
making bulWark of their breasts
against the onrushing hordes of auto
cracy and laying down their lives that
freedom and democracy should not be
swept from the earth, twenty-three
white-haired veterans of the grandest
army that ever trod the face of the
earth, were marching with measured
tread along the streets of Kenosha on
Thursday bearing garlands Of beauti-
full flowers to Green Ridge cemetery
to decorate the graves of their fallen
comrades who had fought for the same
purpose that those on the West front
are now fighting, that liberty should not
perish from this old world of ours.
But joining with these veterans and
participating in the Memorial Day
ceremonies were thousands of their
friends and neighbors, and all the mill
tary organizations of the city. Those
participating in the Decoration Day
exercises in addition to the Fred S.
Lowell Grand Army Post, were a pla,
toon of police; the Since Band; the
Kenosha Provisional Battalion; Won
an IS Relief Corps; Ladies of the G.. A.
r.; Daughtera of the G.. A. r.; Sons
of Veterans; Soldiers from Camp Her.
ring; Company B 8th Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard; the several Boy Scout
troops of Kenosha and citizens.
Comrades of the Post went to St
Georges cemetery at eight O'Clock on
Thursday morning and decorated the
graves of their comrades who are buried
there. At eight-thirty the members OF
the Post, the W. R. G., G. A. r., S, OF
", and D. G. A. R., assembled at Grand
Army Hall, on Main street, At nine
'cloek they formed into line with the
police force and the military organi
cations of Kenosha and escorted BY
hundreds of citizens marched to Greer
Ridge cemetery.
The order of march was as follows:
Platoon Of Police.
Since Band.
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Kenosha Provisional Battalion.
Woman IS Relief Corps.
Ladies of the G.. A. R.
Daughters of the G. A. R.
Sons of Veterans.
Soldiers from Camp Herring.
Co. B. Sth Wisconsin National Guard
Boy Scouts.
Citizens.
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Formal Resolution Prohibit
ing Sale or Use Of Fire
works Passed by Coun-
Gil Monday Night.
KENOSHA TO HAVE A COPETTE

Milk Ordinance Protecting Milk Supply
Of City is Given It's First Reading
HigH Grade Motor Vehicles for Po-
Ice and Fire Dep'ts Purchased.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

At the Soldiers and Sailors monu-
ment in Library Park, hundreds Of
school children, led by City Superinten-
dent Mary Bradfor dand other teach
ers, had assembled before the parade
arrived. Each youth was bearing
an American flag. Here the process
sion halted long enough for wreaths
of flowers to be placed on the Soldiers
and Sailors monument and on the
statue of Lincoln by the W. R. G. and
the L. G. A. R. respectively.
Proceeding on its way the procession
arrived at Green Ridge cemetery
where a short address was made by the
commander of the Post, Theodore D..
Boyington, The band then played
tThe Star Spangled Banner" after
which the first Memorial Day order
ever issued, was read by Past Comman-
der G. f. Stemm, marshal of the day.
This was the order issued by General
John A. Logan, May 5, 1868, while he
was commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Prayer was then offered by the chap
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-06

Expert West, of the Kenosha Board
Of Park Commission showed the coun-
ell wonderful plan for the improve
ment Of Market Square including the
erection Of public comfort station on