The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-08
New and Greater Interest
Is Brought To Victory
Loan BY Display Of Rel
les Of Battlefelds.
Marine BAND HEADS PARADE
School Children Go BY Thousands TO
See Relics and Hear Stories OF War
Prom Men who Fought Big
Meeting At Wilnot Tonight.


Putting a final pep into the last week
Of the Victory Loan drive the War Ex-
hibit Train Of the United States Gov
crnment came into Kenosha this after
noon bringing with it many priced
relies Of the American fighters in the
great over seas battle to make the
world a decent place to live in. The
train came in from Racine where thou
sands Of people visited it this morn
ing and it is expected that other thou
sands will throng it before it pulls
away from Chicago at half past six
o'clock this afternoon
The men in charge Of the exhibit
train included Manager g, g. Lampman
and Business Manager Oscar a. Lewis;
the speaker is Captain f. x. Swietik,
formerly Of the 330th Infantry of the
Eighty-ffth Division. George r. Eckert
Of Milwaukee accompanied the party to
have charge of the community singing.
Featured in Kenosha was the fact
that the band played at the High
School this afternoon after which all
of the students marched to the train
to view the exhibits.
IT carried not only relics of the great
war but it brought score or more
Of men who had helped to fight that
war. The train brought fifty men who
had fought with the army III France
and thore were lot of wound tsripe
heroes among the number who had part
in the informal parade headed by the
Marine Band Of twenty pieces which
led the way from the train to the Ho-
tel Haywood where the ssGold Strip
crs'' were entertained at dinner In
the parade was the famous Whippet
Tank in charge of Captain Benia-
min +. Condor who had driven it over
the rough battle fields Of Northern
France
This afternoon the train was being
visited by hundreds Of school children
and citizens Teachers from the public
schools took their entire rooms down
10 get chance to see the relies brought
from The fields Of carnage -Four Min
ute Speakers were aboard the train to
give the visitors every possible infor-
nation in regard to the interesting re-
lies and these men were kept busy an
swering the questions of the boys and
girls all during the afternoon. The
Marine Band which is carried aboard
the train was kept busy giving con
certs to attract the people to the fa-
nous exhibition.
1t was expected that the train would
be crowded every minute Of its stay
in Kenosha. Members of the party de-
clared that only six hours could be
allotted ia Kenosha and the train is
scheduled to leave for Chicago at half
past six O'Clock this evening.
Every man aboard the train had
something to say in regard to the great
struggle over seas and every one of
them made an appeal to the people of
Kenosha to keep the faith with the
boys who had fought and carry on I'M
til the Victory Loan had been over-sub-
seribed by million dollars in Keno
sha county.
The County Campaign committee Is
planning to continue the battle for the
sale Of The loan with big meeting at
the village of Wilmot this evening and
it is expected that several hundred
people viii be in attendance The
Flying Squadron will 90 out from Ke-
nosha and it will take the Elks Quar-,
tette along to furnish the music. The
principal speaker for the evening viii
be Charles G. Brown, President of the
First National Bank and Chairman of
the General Committee. There will be
a full battery of other speakers and lit
is planned to make the meeting one
of the most interesting held in the
county during the campaign.
The Kenosha committee win keep
up the fight for applications right up
to the last minute on Saturday. Many
of the committees have not made ahv
reports of their work and it is be-
lieved that these belated reports are
going to put Kenosha in the class Of
cities which not only over-spbscr;bed
the loan but which over-subsoribed
it by at least fifty percent.
The subscriptions to the loan in Ke-
nosha cont:s'e-e to pile up and the grand
total at noon today was 1920. 100 or
more than Two hundred thousand more
than the quota which had been assigned
to Kenosha. In order to reach the full
goal picked by the committee more
than $4,000 worth of the bonds must
be sold in Kenosha before Saturday
night. The committee believe that this
will be done