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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
KENOsHA COUNTY
e
GETS ARMY TRUCK
Nash Quad Which Aided In
the Work of Beating Ger
many To Do Service On
Ken0sha Roads.
BOUGHT AT BARGAIN RATE

One of the big Nash Quad trucks
which did service with the United
States Army over in France and played
its full part in beating the German ar
my, is to 60 into the prosaic service of
fighting bad road conditions in KeEo
sha county. Kenosha county has been
formally awarded one # the big trucks
for highway work and it is now at the
State Fair grounds in Milwaukee ready
for delivery. County Highway Com
missioner Herzog and County Clerk
Holderness will go to Milwaukee tomor-
row to bring the truck to Kenosha and
put it into service on the roads. 1t
will probably be used as repair truck
for hauling large loads of road making
material. While the truck originally
cost the government $1,000 they are
being supplied to counties for use in
maintaining the roads at cost Of $500.
The Kenosha county truck is to be
equipped with complement of dump
wagons which have been purchased in
Milw aukee and this viii bring the cost
of the new equipment up to 800. 1t is
believed that the big truck will be of
great value in solving road maintenance
problems
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
REJECTED men
RECEIVE BONUS
Kenoshans Who Were Re
fused At Army Camps On
Disability May Secure
$50 Bonus.
CHECKS FOR TWO kENOSHANs
Congressman Randall Secures Checks
For Two Kenosha Men Who Were
Sent To Camp and Sends Word
That Others May Secure Checks.

Kenoshans, who answered the call to
the colors and were passed by the local
draft board but refused at the army
camps after several days stay there, on
the ground of physical disability. are
entitledw to receive the sixty dollar
bonus granted by Unele Sam to all the
men who served in the Great War.
This was the announcement received
from Congressman Randall this morning
in letter enclosing two sixty dollar
checks for two Kenosha soldiers of this
class, who were in doubt as to whether
or not the bonus would be granted
to them.
1t is believed that there are scores
of service men in Kenosha who will be
affected by the new announcement and
who are entitled TO the sixty dollar
bonus now waiting for them at Wash
ington Congressman Randall has
opened the way for these to make ap-
plications by fling their Certificates
of Discharge on Grounds of Physical
Disability at his Kenosha Office at
221 Main street, upstairs, where they
will be forwarded at once to Washing
ton and the checks returned by mail to
the Kenoshans. Attorney G. A. Nit
telstead who has offices with Congress
man Randall in Kenosha, has offered
his services rec to care for the work
of receiving the applications from the
soldiers and forwarding them to con
gresham at Washington.
With each contingent that was sent
from Kenosha to the army camps there
were several who were passed by the
local examining board but refused by
the camp medical officials, 1t is be-
lieved that the majority of these per-
sons have believed that they were not
entitled to the sixty dollar bonus Of
fered by the government and have not
made application for it. The govern
ment realizing that these men were
greatly Inconvenience, many of them
leaving positions which they could not
regain when they returned, and some
of them spending several weeks at the
camps before final papers were signed
UP, has decided to grant them the
extra pay allowed to ali who served
the colors.
In his letter today, Congressman
Randall explained that each case had to
be considered individually and that the
only way Kenoshan could find out
whether a check was waiting for him
was to file his request with his dis
charge papers and await results. The
checks received today were for men
who had been discharged almost imme-
diately upon arrival at camp and there
is every reason to believe that similar
checks will be ready for all who got so
far in the military machine of the
United States to be sent to one of the
camps.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Jim Hoffman Tries To Rob
Hotel and Store AT Camp
Lake and Is Captured
While At Work.
HELD IN HEAVY BONDS TODAY
Man Had Entered Hotel of Frank
Bewersdorf and Was Busy When Men
In Hotel Captured Him and Turned
Him Over To Deputy Sheriff.

Jim Hoffman, 33 years Of age, Chi
cage man who essayed the role of coun-
! try burglar, was out Of luck early today
and as a result of bad swing of the
balance of fate and the nerve Of some
men and women out at a Camp Lake
hotel, he is in the county jail under
bonds of $4,000 awaiting an adjourned
hearing on charges Of burglary. The
hearing is set for next Friday, and Hoff-
man pleaded mot guilty. regardless
Of the fact that it would appear pretty
certain that the evidence against him
is of a convincing nature.
Hoffman was captured after he had
entered the hotel and store of Frank
Brewersdorf at Camp Lake. He is al
legged to have made his way into the
place just after two clock this morn
ing by breaking open rear window
and short time afterWard he was
heard in the building by young women
in the hotel, They promptly called the
men folks and the men went after
Hoffman without showing the slightest
terror of burglars They found that he
| had wrapped up the contents of one of
| the show eases and was busy scurring
about the hotel for other things worth
carrying away. Two of the men made
/ jump for Hoffman at the same time
and their efforts were entirely success
full. The young women, whose beauty
sleep had been disturbed by the luck
less burglar, promptly called Deputy
Sheriff John Mutz on the telephone and
he went over and got Hoffman and
brought him to Kenosha. The deputy
reached the Jail with his prisoner just
after Ave o'clock this morning Hoff-
man appeared to be anxious for hear
+ ing and he was taken to the Municipal
Court as soon as it opened and Judge
Tully fixed his bail at $4,000. There
was no indication that he would fur
nish bail It offered little real ex-
element for the waning season at the
| lake resort.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
E. J. Hamilton and Nels
Nelson of Kenosha Have
Narrow Escape From
Death AT Waukegan.
FACES ARE DlsFIGURED

E. j. Hamilton and his brother-in-
law, Nels Nelson, both residing at PA
Wisconsin street, were nursing serious
injuries today, but at the same time
were congratulating themselves that
they were able to do the nursing. The
two men were caught in the explosion
Of a three-barrel tank of gasoline on
the docks at Waukegan on Saturday
afternoon just before four o clock and
both are very severely injured.
They had answered a call to Wauke-
gan to make repairs on the tank and
they were experts in this kind Of work.
The two men were busy with soldering
irons and solder when the gasoline let
go and they were blown many feet from
the tank. Just how they escaped being
killed or terribly burned, is consider
able Of miracle. Both of the men
were rushed to local hospital and it
was found that while they had been
badly Jared up and cut and bruised by
the explosion that they had got away
with the minimum of broken bones.
Hamilton s nose was broken and he
was terribly burned on the face and
arms by the flames from the exploding
gasoline. Nelson was burned on the
arms and legs and face, his burns being
of very painful nature. While badly
disfgured by the burns, both men were
able to discuss the accident at their
home in Kenosha this morning
~ can't say just what did happen,
said Hamilton. 1--WE were busy solder
ing the tank when the gasoline ex-
ploded and when we were picked up it
was too late to tell what had caused the
explosion, as the tank was completely
wrecked -
The two injured men were brought
to their homes in Kenosha on Saturday
evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
HALF THOUSAND PHONES
OUT OF COMMISSION

The farmers of Kenosha county may
have been delighted with the rain of
Tuesday night and this morning. but
not so the men connected with the ex-
change of the Wisconsin Telephone
Company. The company had as bad a
tangle of out of commission phone sta
tions this morning as it has ever had
after a big storm. Five hundred tele
phones in the down town portion Of the
city were out of commission On account
of the water filing the cable pits and
a half hundred phones in outlying
districts of the city were on the
trouble" list. At the offices of the
company it was declared that the en-
tire day would be required to clear
away the trouble and that possibly
service on all of the lines would not
be restored until tomorrow.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Old Clothes.

A controversy has arisen over the
suggestion made by Mark Sullivan,
former editor of Golfers Weekly, that
the way to beat the cost Of clothes is
to turn suit inside out when it's gets
shabby.
Many tailors have risen up as one
man-which is as it should be, if it
lakes nine tailors to make nan-as
serting that an old suit cam vt be turn
ed. They give all sorts II technical
reasons to prove the imp ssibility Of
it, Against their arguments, however,
rests the testimony Of Mr. Sullivan
that he has actually had it done by a
New York tailor, and that two United
States senators have likewise had it
done, and been we'll satisfied with the
results.
Tt seems to be case of finding the
right tailor And surely If the scheme
works as we'll as Mr.. Sullivan says it
does, there ought to be more than one
tailor in America able and willing to
turn the trick and the suit.
Tn lieu Of this miracle, however,
there is the advice given by the form
err Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo,
to wear patched trousers-or skirts, as
the case may be-when clothing grows
over expensive. He himself is said
to have set the example of wearing
patches on the seat Of his pants, or on
the knees, or wherever it is that Mr..
McAdoo wears them out, though wheth-
err those patches were sewed on by Mrs.
McAdoo is not revealed.
Now comes his successor, Secretary
Glass, with similar message Hand
ling more money than anybody else in
the United States, he boasts of his old
clothes, and says that he expects to
wear his customary office suit five years
longer, if the suit will stand it.
Far be it from the writer to dis
courage the buying of new suit when
It is really needed Even knightly
suit of boiler-plate would wear out in
time. But there is a vast flexibility
in the life of clothing. 1t is amazing
how long on old suit may be kept SER
viceable and d looking, provided it
is kept cleanet~ and pressed. There is
suggestion that is possibly worth
more than Mr.. Sullivan's.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
BOSTON POLICE STRIKE
PatroInen Turn in Their Revol-
vers and Clubs.
Crowd Outside headquarters Cheer as
They Come out--Labor Union
Promises Aid.

Boston, Sept. 10.--At one o'clock In
the morning shouting mob went
through Summer street breaking win
dows and leoting stores. Efforts of
the volunteer police force to halt the
footing were unavailing. Similar out
breaks were reported in other quarters
Of the city. The fire department has
been kept busy most of the night re-
spending to alarms of fire,
Boston, Sept. 10.--The police strike
in this city began last night The pa
trolmen reported at the evening roll
call and turned in their revolvers
clubs and patrol box keys.
A crowd outside police headquarters
cheered the policemen as they began
coming out, some of them in civilian
clothing.
The policemen voted for the Strike
at meetings held after the suspension
of 10 officers by Commissioner Edwin
u. Curtis, who found them guilty OF
violating rules in joining the union,
Union officers announced that more
than 1,4OO Of the 1900 patrolmen were
members of the union.
Credentials giving the power of ar
rest have been issued to several hun
dred citizens and a volunteer force
also has been organized.
Volunteers include Prof. Edwin Fl
Hall of Harvard. Percy D. Haughton,
former Harvard football coach; stu.
dents, business men and former serv-
ice men.
Delegates to the Central Labor
union, representing $4,000 organized
workers, have pledged support to the
police TO the extent of a sympathetic
strike.
Under the law the state guard may
be called ont to protect the city, either
by the governor or the mayor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Man Employed By Emil OF
to Charged With Stealing
Automobile and Money
During the Night.
LEAVES IN EARLY MORNING
Police Get No Trace of Ford Touring
Car and Money and Jewelry Alleged
TO Have Been Taken By Thief--May
Have Reached Chicago.

Sheriff Meyer and his deputies are
making wide search to secure the
arrest of hired man who was employed
by Emil Otto at the village cf TrueS-
dell, west of Kenosha. The man who
was known under several names, failed
to appear in answer to the cali for
breakfast this morning and when an
investigation was made it was found
that 1916 Ford touring ear was miss
ing from the Otto garage and that
cash and jewelry was missing from the
rooms of two other men who had been
employed by Otto. 1t is believed that
the man got away in the early hours
of the morning and that he had several
hours start O. the sheriff and his depu.
ties. The man had been employed by
Otto for the past eight days and he had
been a quiet and unassun1ing fellow.
He had worked late on Thursday even
ing and he went to bed early.
Otto had driven the automobile on
Thursday night and had put it away
in the garage.
Nothing was heard of the missing
hired man during the night, but he
must have made the rounds of the
house before going to the garage. One
of the other hired men reported that he
had been robbed Of cash to the amount
of something over thirty four dollars
while another man reported the loss of
a silver watch. AS the road along
Truesdell is a paved road the officials
are not able to. get any trace as to
which way the stolen automobile was
driven. Tracks out of the garage would
indicate that the car was driven east
toward Kenosha. Police officers in
Chicago, Milwaukee and Racine have
been notified of the theft of the car,
but no word has been received to indi-
cate that they have found any trace
of the man.
It is believed that he formerly re-
sided in Chicago and it is expected
that sooner or later he will return to
that city. The sheriff has an excel
lent description Of the man and this
is being sent to the officials of the
surrounding cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
ONE MORE NAME
ON HONOR ROLL
Relatives of Private John
Lonika Are Advised He
Died Fighting Foe In Last
Battle of the War.

Another name has been added to Re,
nosha Is Roll Of Honor, = to the list of
Kenosha men who died gloriousIy on
the field of battle, facing the foe, as
the war department today sent messag-
es to Kenosha announcing that John.
Lonika of Kenosha was killed in ac-
ton. -Lonika formerly resided at 26
North Congress street and his next oG
kin is given as Stella Monias.
Some time ago the word came from
Washington that Private John Lonika
had died in the service, but at that time
no statement was made as to the man
ner in which he met his death. It has
now been definitely established that
Private Lonika was one Of the Ameri-
cans who died in the last days of the
fighting.
The deceased was "a years Of age
and he gave up his work in one of the
Kenosha factories in order to enlist in
the army He was sent overseas in the
summer of 1918 and he saw much serv-
ice in the front battle lines. He was
one of the men of the S5th Division
who were sent to the front lines shortly
after they arrived in France.
Kenosha people who have ben keep
ing the rolls of Kenosha 3 contribution
to the war expect that there viii be
many changes in the status Of deaths
of the men lost during the next few
weeks. The United States government
is now making its final corrections of
the war casualty lists and these correc-
tons show that there have been many
changes. It is expected that practical
" all Of the men who have been re.
ported as missing in action will be
accounted for in these last reports of
the war department.
The body of Private Lonika is buried
in one of the little cemeteries in France
near the last camping place of the regi-
ment with which he served.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
OLDEST MAN SAILS IN PLANE
Famous John Shell, f3f, Up in the Air
Fifteen Minutes.

Louisville, KY, Sept. 10.-"It sure
makes fellow feel like he is drunk,
but it's all right at that"
That was the cryptic, eloquent ex-
preston that fell from the lips of I'm
Gle John" Shell, 131 years old, the old,
est man in the world, as he stepped up
on the state fair grounds again follow
ing an airplane flight at the state fair
this afternoon. The flight lasted about
Is minutes, and Uncle John" Travelled
several miles at height of about 400
feet. He was delighted at the exper-
fence, and expressed himself as CRATE
full that he had lived long enough to
enjoy it.
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was having trouble in Kenosha this
morning keeping out of the lookup. He
had imbibed too freely and was taken
by the police to the station but releas-
ed when he promised to go home early
IN the morning. Two hours later n
was taken into custody again and this
time the police took him to the train
and started him on his way to the Fort.
Two saloon men from Chicago We're
helping to show him the town and were
arrested on charges of intozication.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
MEAT PRICES ARE TAKEN UP
Senate Agricultural Committee Probes
Profiteering Charges.

Washington, Sept. 10.-Jrices and
profiteering in meat products we're
taken up by the senate agriculture
committee considering federal regula.
ton of the packing industry as pro-
posed in the Kenyon and Kendrick
bills. 81 wish this committee uld
tell me what profiteering is" said O.
Kessweig, an independent packer. of
Madison, Wis, after making a protest
against the regulation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
BoRAH WILL TALK IN IOWA
Senator From Idaho to Speak in oppo
sitien to Treaty.

Fort Dodge, Ia. Sept. 10.-Senator
Borah of Idaho will speak at Fort
Dodge Saturday evening. opposing
ratification of the League of Nations
covenant as it stands and answering
President Wilson's arguments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
JOHN MITCHELL PASSES AWAY
Former Head Of Mine Workers Dies in
New York Hospital.

New York. Sept. io.-John Mitchell
former president of the United Mine
Workers of America and one of the
most widely known labor leaders fr
the United States. died at the Post
Graduate HOSPITAL
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11

The suit of Chris Jensen vs. Ben
Moulden, both of the town of Paris,
was scheduled to come up in the NUM-
cipal Court today. Jensen claims small
damages as a result of an automobile
collision some time ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11

Gentlemen, if we are ever going to
grow, we must get transportation
Let 5 do something and try to put Ke-
nosha where it belongs on the map
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11

we got to have adequate transp0r-
tation and we're going to have it and
the only way to get it is to pay who
ever furnishes it reasonable return
on the investment. =
''The disposition of the people of
Kenosha in the past towards street
railway companies has been to get all
they could out of the company and
hope to get transportation thrown in.
We've paid hundred times over for
the twenty foot strip o. paving and
the sprinkIing and oilirg we made the
company do in lost grf with. =
eve must abandon our selfish indi-
vidual interests if we are to make any
progress in the solution Of this or any
municipal problem.
~ would like to see contract
drawn whereby the interests of the
city would be protected and the COM
pany would be guaranteed an adequate
return on its capital Then if this
fails--as i do not think it will-we
could still buy the company, lease it
to someone else who believes he can
run it or throw it in the lake. ~
CT don t want to be knoeker and
on the other hand | don It want to
ignore what is going on
Someone said that we are now
$4,000. That surely must stagger the
mossbacks who said we would never
reach 10000 when we were 5000, and
then said we would never make the
10000 mark.
"Fifteen miles of paving this year
in Kenosha and Chicago is Dragging
with her two million and half pop
ulation over nineteen miles. We don t
stack up SO bad there after all. -
4 want to see a couple of NUM-
cipal halls and Fairgrounds started. !
can remember the time when / used to
play red-line where the American Brass
Company is now and at the present
time the boys have to 60 miles to find
a breathing place to play baseball
I'D like to see the north side hook
ed up with the south side with cause
way that will realyy unite them and
forever wipe out the political differ
ences which have stood in the way of
every progressive move of the city.
eyes, eliminate our cigar box. post
office too. AS / understand it, that is
the only thing that Kenosha ever got
from Henry Allen Cooper in his
twenty-s six years Of life in Congress
and as far as I am concerned I'd like
to see that monument moved to his
family plot. \"
"Let's abandon our rough and
rugged way called Main street and let
the people who are sitting on the real
estate there, continue to sit while we
move out westward,
81 think that these things can be
brought about and will be brought
about if Keposhans forget their selfish
interests and individual desires.D
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
James Bailey Says:

Every electric car line gives to
the city one hundred times more than
the company gets ITSELF
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
am not a champion of the Y

am not a champion of the Wis
eonsin Gas and Electric Company, nor
here to support it, but | believe that
if any one win give them fair YER
dict, they will agree that they arc
now giving all they can for the fare
they charge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Martin WHITTIER SAYS:

This transportation problem is not
north side problem--every part Of
Kenosha is as vitality interested in it
as the north side Of the city,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11

81 am in favor of asking the COM
pany to run the interurban cars down
Milwaukee avenue and Main street and
then fight it afterwards.