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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-12
LOSS OF FACTORY
HURRIES HOUSINS
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looking through telescope the wrong
way. There is a first class crew of
knockers in Kenosha who are experts
in throwing sand into the gear box.
They've started on this project and
we will have to forget them or we will
never get to first base
Roger N. Kimball brought word Of
encouragement when after expressing
faith in Kenosha ability to meet
with the proposition, announced that
the Black Cat Textiles Company was
considering the building of a plant
which would duplicate the output Of
the present factory and that their
plans are now being held up to find
whether "Kenosha would be a city
Of foaters or Of homes.
Get Started at Once
Harry Bruner came to the front with
the motion for immediate action. His
motion, practically the same as that
later suggested by Milton Dowse, urged
that the report be sent to the Board
of Directors and that they be asked
to put it into force Immediately. The
report will give the board room to
make any changes which may be neces-
sary to meet the conditions.
Various opinions were expressed by
business men in regard to the meet
ing Tuesday night. 1t seems to be the
general opinion, however, that the heat
ed discussion and its disclosures were
what was needed to arouse Kenosha
to the needs of the city and that the
housing project and the transporta
ton plan will now be pushed with
greater vigor as a result.
The meeting was preceded by the
regular luncheon which was attended
by more than one hundred members
Of the Chamber Of Commerce. Follow
Ting the regular business, O. T.. Trenary
presented the cause fthe Boy Scouts
IS explained elsewhere in this paper.
TIC report made by Chairman Whyte
for the housing committee, was as
! follows:
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Three Men Terribly Injuree
When Automobile Running
At High Rate Leaves
Road In S0mers.
TURNED OVER SEVERAL TINES
Men Rave Broken Ribs and Bruised
Bodies and One of Them May Be Per
manently Disabled AS Result Of Ac-
cident On Monday Evening.

Three men, all residents of Kenosha
were terribly injured just after five
0 clock Monday afternoon when a JEFF
ferry automobile running at high rats
of speed leaped into a ditch ON the
Milwaukee Road just south of the home
of Frank Christensen in the town Of
Somers. A fourth man who wss
in the car escaped with slight bruises
The injured are:
Frank Sasnovsky, JENNIE street;
appears to be suffering from
broken back or injured spine and
has no use of his body below the
waist. May die from his injuries.
Anton Ragdanske; two ribs
cracked and terribly cut and
bruised
Casimer Magzelezeskes: JENNIE
street, three ribs broken and
bruised and cut.
The fourth man was taken with the
other men to St. Catherine s hospital
after the accident, but he was not seri.
opsly injured and he left the hospital
early on Monday evening without Civ.
ing his name.
The automobile was coming from the
north along the Milwaukee Road just
after five 0 'elock Monday evening. The
men were singing and witnesses of the
accident declared that the automobile
came down the hill near the Christen-
sen farm at rate of fifty miles an
hour. At the foot of the hin the driver
loss control of the car and it jumped
into the ditch at the side of the road
Some of the witnesses of the accident
claimed that the car turned over FIVE
times and then was right side up. The
car was wrecked and it was towed into
Kenosha later in the evening.
The men are all foreigners and they
were so badly injured that they were
unable to give any connected story of
just what happened at the time the
automobile turned over. They admit
ted that they were running the car at
3 very high rate of speed. DR.. Curtis
Is attending to the I'M 'es of the men
and all of them will probably be in
the hospital for some time.
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practical plans Of houses to be
built
(c) To aid in selecting sites.
{d) 70 indicate street and lot
layonts.
(e) To estimate costs.
(f1 To plan with the directors
of the Kenoshha Housing Corpora
ton and with the executive com
mittee of the kenosha Chamber
Of Commerce regarding the selling
and renting Of houses.
(g) To help mobilize local in
terests and resources.
In other words, tell what to do,
how to do it, and how much it
will cost
10. That the houses to be built shall
cost Three Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($3 100000 and less-the idea
being that houses costing more than
the above price should be built by
those who can afford to do so and
without help from the Kenosha Hous-
ing corporation.
Your committee recommends that
Kenosha workmen, who own their lots
and desire to build a home thereon. be.
given Reasonable financial assistance,
and may select their own contractor,
provided said contractor can satisfy
the company as to his responsibility.
Further, that all such plans and
specifications shall be subject to the
approval Of the Corporations architect
| in order that the interests of the lot
owner and of the company may DE
|safegnarded.
The committee also remmends that
the directors of the Kenosha Chamber
Of Commerce, in conjunction with the
directors Of the Kenosha Housing
Corporation, appoint q, committee Of
appraisement. The duties Of this
committee shall be:
(a) To bring directly to the at
tention of lot owners within the
corporate limits of the City of
Kenosha, the civic obligation Of
selling their holdings at a price
considered fair and which will per-
nit the erection of buildings there
on at a price within the reach of
the low-wagcd as well as the high
er paid workman, according to
location.
(b) They shall present the facts
in each case to the directors of
the Kenosha Chamber Of Com
merce, that they in turn may bring
about an understanding with own
ers cf real estate as to their duty
to sell their holdings at fair and
equitable price and by demonstrate
ing the folly of profteering, per-
suade such persons to sell their
holdings at fair and equitable
price or to be known as "Keno-
sha Slackers'
(c) That the committee act in
harmony with the city assessor
in an effort to obtain satisfactory
results.
(dl That the committee shall
work in harmony with the Keno
sha Chamber of Commerce Commit
tee on transportation and with the
transportation company to bring
about adequate service and to
make possible the short ening Of
time and distance between now dis
tant points and various factories
(e) That the appraisement com
committee shall bring to bear
every legitimate pressure to hasten
the building program by present
ing to the City Council and the
public the fact that the proposed
development will almost be wholly
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KENO '7A CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE HOUSING PLAN.

Submitted by the Housing Committee.
Tuesday, June 10th, 1919.
To the Me'abers of the Kenosha Cham
Der of Commerce.:
Your committee deems it necessary
that at least five thousand (5OoO)
houses must be built in Kenosha with
in the next three years.
Your committee recommends that
the following program be adopted:
1919. 1000 houses
1920. 100 houses
1921. 5000 houses
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THE KENOSHA HOUSING
CORPORATION


(a1 That the manufacturers of
Kenosha be required to subscribe
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars
($s00,O00.00) of the capital stock.
(b) That the merchants, profes-
sional men and other residents Of
Kenosha be requested to subscribe
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
($200,000.00) Of the capital stock or
as much more as they may desire.
2. That the Kenosha Housing Cor
poration have for its object the i'm
provement of real estate, located in the
City Of Kenosha and adjacent territory
in such manner as may be considered
to be for the best interests Of the City
of Kenosha and for the following
specific purposes:
(a) To provide substantial and
attractive homes for the working
people, upon such terms as will
enable them to live comfortably
at moderate cost.
(b) TO aid the various manu-
featuring concerns in increasing
their forces, in that housing ac-
commodations will be provided for
such increase
(c) To Immediately encourage
and assist by the building of
houses on empty lots throughout
the entire city-Which will cause
rapid growth Of the city because
as rule sewer, water and gas
are installed.
8. The incorporators Of the Keno
sha House Corporation shall consist of
five men-to be appointed by the d.
rectors of the Kenosha Chamber Of
Commerce.
A Subscriptions to the capital
stock Of the Kenosha Housing Corpora
ton shall be payable in cash, or upon
such terms as the Kenosha Housing
Corporation and the subscriber shall
agree.
5. That the Kenosha Housing Cor
poration shall be organized without
hope to profit, having as its sole pur-
pose of existence the development Of
the City Of Kenosha. On account Of
the elimination of overhead costs, a
satisfactory return upon the invest
ment should be obtained.
6. That the directors of the Keno
sna Chamber Of Commerce appoint a
committee Of five to prepare and
recommend to the Chamber, at its next
meeting, constitution and set Of by
laws to govern the operations of the
Kenosha Housing Corporation.
Z. That the directors of the Kenosha
Chamber of Commerce appoint an
executive committee Of five, other than
the directors of the Kenosha Chamber
of Commerce.
1t shall be the duty of this commit
tee to keep in close touch with the
operations of the Kenosha Housing
Corporation and to submit reports to
the Kenosha Chamber of Commerce,
covering the operations of the Keno
sha Housing Corporation, at least
once month.
s. That the directors Of the Kenosha
Chamber of Commerce appoint com
mittee Of FIVE, to plan a campaign for
obtaining subscriptions to the capital
stock Of the Kenosha Housing Cor
poration.
9. That city planner be employed
for the following purposes:
(a) To provide an adequate
city plan looking toward future
developments.
(b) To prepare artistic and
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HIGHEST PRICES

Paid for barley, rye and oats, deliy
cred at your nearest station; also cab
bsge, onions and potatoes Get oul
prices before selling elsewhere. The
Dunnebacke Co., Market and West
Main street. Kenosha Phone SOL
SOC advtf
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The new exemplification OF ''all go
ing out and nothing coming I'M is to
have a carnival footing away just out
side the limits Of the city. Ny how
rural we are.
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Difference to be applied
on second mortgage. IS $50
At the end Of the first year, provid-
ing no additional payments have
been made, the second mortgage sit
uation will be as follows:
First Mortgage .........$1, $4,000
Second Mortgage ...... 830.28
Yearly Reduction.
Should the purchaser continue to pay
upon the basis outlined above, the in
creased reduction in the second mort
gage will ensue at the end of each
succeeding year
The illustration submitted as to pay
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First Publication June r. 1910.
KEN0SHA COUNTY COURT-IN PR
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

BATE.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Matter Of the Estate of Sylvester
J, HILL deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims
and demands of all persons against Svl-
vester ]. Hill, deceased. late of the town
Of Bristol, in said County of Kenosha will
be examined and adjusted by the County
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
terms of said Court to be holden Mt the
County Court room. In the City Of Keno
sha. in and for said County, on the first
Tuesday of September. A. d. 1915 and
on the first Tuesday of December, A. D.
1919, at ten O'Clock A. NJ. of those DAYS :
also that the time until and including the
first Tuesday Of November, A. D. 1919. is
the time allowed and limited for creditors
OF said Sylvester J. Hill, deceased, to pre-
sent their claims for examination and al
lowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 9Th day OF June,
A. p. 1919.
BY the Court,
GEO. w. TAYLOR,
WIZ County Judge
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paid by those who will purchase
homes--fo the retailers and pro-
fessional men the fact that the
greater population will compensate
Them in trade and in business for
their interest and cooperation.
(f) That this committee shall
interest the various organizations
and obtain their cooperation in an
intensive campaign to prove the
necessity for immediate and full
cooperation toward carrying out
the house building program.
(g) That the committee shall
endeavor to obtain the cooperation
of attorneys to the end that they
advise their clients to sell at the
appraised value set by the appraise
ment committee. The appraisement
committee will view desirable sites
within the corporate limits of the
City of Kenosha, set a price per-
hitting a reasonable profit and
based on the assessment-th the
owner then be interviewed and be
given the privilege of investing his
property or if he will not do this,
be paid therefore. If the owner
will not agree to reasonable
price, the appraisement committee
shall place the facts before the
assessor and endeavor to have the
property assessed at the valuation
place on the same by the owner
The committee. recommends the act
ual erection of sample houses SO thai
purchasers may actually Sc,
what they are to have.
Your committee recommends that al
building contracts be let on a competi
tive basis, but that local builders shall
have the preference at even prices, pro
viding they will furnish satisfactory
bond guaranteeing their ability tt
carry out the contract.
Tentative Sales Plan.
Your committee has made no inves
tigation, whatever, with reference Il
the cost of building or the cost of lots
The following plan must therefore bt
regarded simply as an Illustration
Cost of house. .$2,5OO.O0
Add 1879 safety margin. 250.00
Cost of lot improved. ~. 100000
Total cost. $4,000
Deposit on purchase, 1905 $500
First mortgage, GOO. 10000
Second mortgage, 30ao.., 945.o0
Total sales transaction SO, $4,000
Interest on first mortgage
at go .........$ 113.40
Interest on second mort
gage at SO ..... $3.50
Taxes, water, rent, in
surance .......... 1000
Depreciation and repairs
at 10 ........... 31.50
Total yearly COST. SO 241.6o
Monthly cost .....$ 20.44
Monthly charge ....... 5000
Difference to be applied
on second mortgage. S 9.56
At the end Of the first year, provid
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-01
TRY TO ENTER
FRANCE AS SWITZERS

PARIS, Aug. IA warning voice on
the dangers OF German arbitration by
devious ways comes from Luxembourg.
According to the Journal Of Esch. OF ~
petitions now before the Luxembourg
chamber for naturalization, 88 come
from Prussian' subjects, several Of
whom have been identified as having
been connected, more or less, with acts
OF f~rightfulness during the war. None
OF them, the Esch paper affirms, would
have dreamt exchanging his nationality
had the Germans won.
Reports from Switzerland indicate
that Germans will try to pacifically re-
enter France under the gulse Of Swiss
citizenship, According to a message
from the Associated Press correspond
ent In switzerland the other day, fully
100 900 Germans and Austrians are
waiting on the border line between
Basic and Constance for admittance
Into Switzerland; but the federal
authorities are keeping a strict watch
on these would-b immigrants.
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Lot of Cheap Jewehy.

The boys Topped down on the grass
Jake and I stirred up g fire \ pus
with curiosity. wanted to know what
we Sse-, sad ou got while. Jake y ta,s e O snd
talked, He didn't say one WORD apons
times on tie Red Fork, about his Kid
| DAYS. about every fool thing but the
| hoidip, was bitten with eagerness.
Nobody else seemed worried anout
the profits. They gulped down coffee
| and stripped off meat a. though eating
v ere the one business OF life, ! began
TO fear that the reckoning. would be
| Dostponed until the next day: Andy
| stretched himself, yawned and leisurely
pointed to the horses. -
"RIl, 60 over 10 my saddle bag ne
said, at last. I'VE might as wen spit
I started IN, knocking over the coffee
bucket, had an idea II would take
two men to carry the boodle. Andy
rrinned and rubbed his chin on his
shoulder, No hid opening a Christmas
package ever felt q happier shiver OF
excitement than l when that n was
We were lying around tho fire. it'
flicker in the gray darkness caugnt tnt
faces Of the men In n rudy glow. There
v ere two packages. Both were stnall
Andy took one, opened y emptle'
n iof Of cheap jewelry into his hat
!" Little blue and red stones flashed
void necklaces s,intod; ponderou'
Watches licked almost as loud ~
alarms, I lay there fascinated q
Though the Jewels OF an enchante'
treasure chest were sparkling In tn
freight,
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20. Henry and Al Jennings"
Thrilling Story Of Two Men who Had Most Spectacular Careers OF
Crime Served Time and Came Back to Distinguished
and Useful Careers,
downright by AL Jennings. 1917
Copyright by Al Jennings. 1919

ones who knew him as an ex-con. The
three of us we're pals in the pen. Raid
Ter was d~espondent--a typical jailbird
pessimist. In every letter Porter wrote
he urged me to stick by Billy, to re-
mind him that two people in the world
believed in him,
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Details Given o. Henry.

Andy Jumped them into five piles
opened the other package n counted
out IS, 900 in currency, | felt a chill OF
disappointment; $500, 900 would have
been closer to my expectations.
TO a copper, the pile was divideu;
Each mar got 81, 200 and a handful OF
trinkets. jsmmed those spells into
my pocket with a rapture no Attorney z
fee had ever given me. l Mad earned
as much In half an hour OF gripping
excitement as a years labor as county
attorney had given me!
Years later, when was in the Ohio
penitentiary and O. Henry had been
released and was struggling for success
in New York, ] wrote him the details
Of this holdup and added a lot OF incl
dents from other Jobs. l wanted 10
write a short story about II.
o, Henry was Biii Porter ~ th"se
Ne slammed the loor on his past. He
| went to New York burning with the
| shame Of his imprisonment snd deter-
| ,nincd 10 hide his Identity behind the
| name OF o. Henry, Billy Raider, q fell
! low convict. and ! were about the cnis
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-01
TEACHERS ELECTED,

RIPLEY, Miss, Aug. I. tSpL)-At
q recent meeting OF the board Of trus-
tees OF the Ripley high school, the fol-
lowing teachers were elected to teach
the lS19-is20 session:
pal; Miss Ellen McKinstry, of Blue
Mountain; Miss Grace Wells, OF Ecru.
domestic science; Miss ona Dell POL
lard, OF Koesuth, sixth and seventh
grades; Miss Mary Richey, OF Ripley.
fourth and nth grades; Miss Elizabeth
Cunningham, OF Starkville, second and
third grades, Miss Clara Bell Ezell, OF
Blue Mountain, primary; Mrs. Lister
Mathis. music
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-01
LAKE TO
Be FAMOUS RESORT

UNION CITY, Tenn, Aug. !. (spl.)-
The state of Tennessee has begun the
improvement, development and beauti-
f~ication Of Reelfcot Lake.
The state Is now constructing a lake
shore road around the south end of the
lake, reaching from Whites Landing to
Samburg, and when finished will become
a part OF the Bristol-te-the-LAke high
way. The last county court voted bonds
to pay obion oounty's part for the CON
struction Of that road through Obion
county. This road will make Reelfoot
Lake easily accessible at all seasons OF
The last Tennessee legislature made
appropriations for the planting Of duck
feeds on tho lake and our state game
warden, in company with government
experts on this subject. has recently
gone over the lake and selected the
places and made arrangements for the
putting out of a big acreage of duck
feeds on the states property.
Fish Hatcheries Built.
Plans are being made also for the
establishment of fish hatcheries on the
lake on a large scale, and to this end
the Mississippi river was leveed out Of
the lake at the Washout and Blue Bank
bayou. The waters from the Mississippi
have been a disturbing factor at the
lake IN tnat these hlgh waters TEAR ny
and destroy the spawn. This trouble is
eliminated. The lake is now protected
against the Mississippi river. 1t Is
claimed by the fishermen II those who
know, that game fish go against the
current, and that the lake has lost vast
quantities of fish on every occasion
that the Mississippi river flows into
the lake, and for this reason also the
states improvements have been of vast
benefit to the people,
Tho state has also, at considerable
expense, contracted for the construction
Of a spill-way at the south end OF the
lake so as to regulate and hold the
waters OF the lake at a steady level
throughout all seasons of the year
This IL decidedly n of the best I'm
Work on this spill way will begin In a
few days.
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message received by the postmaster
from Congressman Ed B. Allen. The
prospects are said to be very good for
class during the fiscal year and this
is expected to be followed by all the
improvements that the rapidly growing
volume Of business demands.
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The Strong Withstand the Heat OF
Summer Better Than the Weak.
Old people who are feeble and young
er people who are weak Will be
strengthened and enabled to go through
the depressing heat OF summer by tax
ing GROVES TASTELESS chill
TONIC. 1t purifies and enriches the
blood and builds up the whole system.
You can soon feel Its Strengthening.
Invigorating Effect. Coo. adv,
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Eat More Beef-It's Good for You

Indiana Cattle Feeders Association
West Virginia Live Stock Association
Wyoming Stock Growers Association
Montana Stock Growers Association
California Cattlemen's Association
Colorado Live Stock Association
Idaho Cattle Growers Association
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
CattAe naisers' Association Of OregoR
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APPOINTED POSTMASTER.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Aug. /. (Spl.)-
The appointment of r. L. o'Neal for
a second term Of four years as post
master at Huntsville has been con-
firmed by the senate, according to a
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RESIGNS o'Yn LOB.

HUNTSVILLE. Ala, Aug. l. (spl)-
A. at Dallas, has resigned that post
ton TO so to Birmingham. where he
viii engage in the same line Of work.
The directors OF the Dallas Y are con-
sidering applications to I'LL the posi-
ton.