The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-15
Sailors from Great Lakes
Station Throng City and
Accept Hospitality of
Many Organizations.
JEWISH WOMEN ENTERTAIN
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Whyte Of The
"Cedars'' Entertain at Unit Party
While Country Club and Canteen
Have Record Breaking Crowds.

Over FIVE hundred jaclSies were en-
tertained in Kenosha during the week
end and about five hundred and fifty
were entertained by Kenosha women
IN Waukegan, Sunday, making total
of over thousand men in service re-
ceiving the hospitality of the men and
women of our municipality, This is
Kenosha's greatest record since she
started the great task of entertaining
her uniformed visitors and so far it is
no doubt the best record in the state.
The first entertainment to occur
over this last weekend was unit
party at the home of Mrs, George
Whyte, at the "Cedars. y Twelve
girls and twelve iackies were, through
the kindness of Mr.. and Mrs. Whyte,
whirled away in jolly truck to one
Of the most delightful spots in Keno
sha, where the merry crowd spent the
afternoon in games and dancing, fol
lowed by basket lunch, the girls fur
uishing the lunches.
To crown their many kindnesses dur
ing the afternoon, following the lunch
con the host and hostess served the
gathering with ice cream and cake,
and after a jolly hour at the beach a
tired hut happy party was whirled
back to the canteen, for the regular
Saturday night dance there.
Evidently the jackies are beginning
to look upon the Kenosha canteen as
a little bit of heaven as the crowds
that attend the dances from both the
Great Lakes and Camp Logan increase
every week. 1t is just possible that
the new entertainments that are be-
ing planned for Saturday night by
other organizations will help bear the
burden of the increase but so far their
entrance into this great wonderful
game has made little difference in the
attendance at the canteen.
Saturday night, more girls were in
vited than usual in expectation Of the
many promises made by the jackies
who were going to come again and
bring their friends, but as it was, an
overflow appeared early in the eve
ming AT the same time almost half
IS many attended the regular Satur-
day night dance at the Country Club.
The number that had supper at the
canteen ran up to 1853 while 211 jack
les and soldiers attended the dance.
of that number, So found sleeping
quarters at the canteen, 25 more oc-
cupied cots at the Baptist Church
while the rest found lodgings in pri-
Nate homes. Kenosha solved her first
perplexing problem in one week and it
is hoped that from now on the deplor-
able conditions that existed few
weeks ago will never again be heard
Of in Kenosha no matter if one thous-
and men in service look for sleeping
quarters here in a single night.
At Waukegan, Sunday afternoon, it
was Kenosha day for the Jewish Com
munity Welfare League which has
large canteen rooms at Waukegan. The
Kenosha branch of that benevolent or
ganization furnished the program for
the afternoon which consisted of piano.
vocal and dancing numbers by three or
Kenosha s most talented artists, name
ly the Misses Lillian Gottlieb, Edith
Rosenblum and Dora Heyman. After
delightful program which included a
community sing with over half a
thousand voices, supper was served
by the Kenosha women, for almost
six hundred men in uniform.
This league is without a doubt en-
tertaining greatest numbers Of sailors
and soldiers than any other organiza-
ton on the north shore, excluding Chi
cago. AS the canteen is SO near to the
Great Lakes, the boys can walk from
the station, and the committees in
charge are already confronting a new
problem in the excess attendance al
the weekly entertainments.
Mrs. Adolph Epstein of South street
was chairman of the committee that
entertained the soldiers yesterday af
ternoon and evening and was assisted
by many prominent women of Ken.
Osha.
At the Kenosha Country Club, both
Sunday afternoon and evening, the
grounds were speckled with blue and
white The boys appeared first and
gradually the girls came in and al
though there were easily three times
as many girls at the affair this time as
there was last time, still the middies
were in the majority and for while