The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-01
1919 IN KENOSHA
Being Account Of Happenings Kenosha During Year 1919
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ers take up consideration of housing
plan Word reaches Kenosha that Bat
terry % has sailed from Brest.-Mrs.
Emil Meissner dies after short illness.
20. Mayor Joachim names Otto
Windorf to succeed John p Bruins on
police and fire commission -Kenosha
Kommunity Korus scores triumph with
concert at Virginian theatre. Thomas
A. Yates, railroad agent at Pleasant
Prairie, dies.
30. Lawrence F. Miller, night clerk
at haywood, is arrested on charges of
larceny. = Manufacturers Association
starts work on housing plan. Miss
Pearl Schulz and Edward Schultz of
the "TuscaroraN are welded.
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l. Burglars and automobile thieves
stage high carnival entering homes of
Charles Carlson and Charles Abbott
and escape with two automobiles.
Chief 0 Hare goes to Chicago to look
over Brass Mill suspects.-Capt. Bren-
nan elected head Of American War
Veterans. -Nuptials Of Miss Helen
Ludwig and Fred Surerus. -Miss Lou
isa Badtke and Alcid German are
married.
O. Kenosha goes over the top in
Victory Loan with total Of more than
100000. ~ Mayor Joachim names
Conrad Shearer as member Of Park
Board.-Victory tank caterpillars down
Kenosha streets to celebrate Loan vic
tory.-FTances Wells returns from SER
vice in France.
3.-ChambeT Of Commerce considers
plan of extending Patriots Fund as a
civic fund.-Word reaches Kenosha
telling how Lieut.. George Sutherland
fell in action in France.
4. Julius Bogwilo shoots and kills
his wife, Mary Bogwilo, in cold blood
in sight of their two little girls.-Bat-
terry E. boys land at Boston.-Fou1
boys led by Captain" Albert Sharkey
admit two burglaries to police. -
Archbishop Messmer dedicates ST. JOS
eph Italian Mission. - Dave Fog
well returns to Kenosha after disting-
uished service over seas as "YD sec
rotary. Wedding Of Miss Clara Bettin
and Herbert Hamsing.
s. Bogwilo after surrendering him
HC1L ~ pAVAAII Ou SVCAlnS VI GIdG6QYs
ills district attorney Of his crime
Rev. Carl Buenger resigns as president
of Park Board--Chamber Of Com
merce asks city council for $4,000 for
city planning purposes t.0 Rich
ard Laneville of Green Bay, arrested at
Plaza hotel on charges Of impersonat-
ing army officer. Death Of Otto Block
err
6. Battery It. held at Camp Devens
Julius Bogwilo shows great remorse
at grave of his slain wife.-John Carr
arrested at Chicago as possible robber
or Brass vaults.
z. Boys in Battery E. fight for first
reading of Kenosha News at Camp
Devens.- John Carr alleged with safe
blowing and robbery at Brass CO., held
in bonds of $4,000 by Judge Cava-
nagh in Chicago Adolph Epstein sue
ceeds Rev. Buenger as president Of the
Park Commissioning Williams al
most scalded to death when he falls
into vat of boiling I've at Simmons
Company.
s. Mail pouch containing 100000
in checks dispatched from Kenosha is
lost and nationwide search is made
Total subscription of $2,356,500 for
Victory Loan, Kenosha vies with
Adams county for first place. Captain
Eastman is advanced to rank of Major
in u. s. Army.-Marriage of Miss
Esther Cable and Clyde Bundles and
Miss Ella Malstrom and Clarence
Thomas. O'Hare finds DR.. j. H.
Holms auto in Pleasant Prairie.-E. r.
Gottfredsen, prominent ieweler, dies
suddenlye-David Williams dies as re-
suit of burns.-Nuptials of Miss Clara
Boswell and Charles Walker.
8. Battery Il. is feted at Boston
City Clerk Harrington sends out notice
that old bonds of city will be paid on
July 1st.-O. B. d'Aust is named as
new secretary Of Simmons Company
Theodore Schend, pioneer resident dies.
Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Brinsley.
10. Simmons Company announces
immense plan for sharing profits with
its 5000 employees Miss Matte Han
sen and Peter Miller married at Racine.
IL. Norwegian Lutherans dedicate
new church at corner Of Salem and Ed
ward streets. -Kenosha churches OBJ
serve Mothers Day ~ Kenosha
Poles organize Polonia Society at Iii
berty hall-Rev G. Z. Mccoy breaches
baccalaureate sermon for graduate
nurses at st. Matthew s.
12. Carl Vendor, a Kenosha inven-
tor is killed by accident at Minot N.
D.-Injuries prove fatal to Henry
Strang Widows of Henry Strang and
George Smith, Waukegan men killed in
automobile accident here, file claims
against the city for $30,000- Battery
Il. leaves Camp Devens, homeward
bound.-Death of Miss Esther Petersen
--Kenosha hospital awarded federal
aid.
Is. Final reports put Kenosha in
first place in Wisconsin in Victory
Loan with total of $3,21o,0 00.-Peter
Grob is arrested as alleged fence for
motor thieves.
IA. Battery Z reaches Camp Grant.
Nash denies combine report. -Po-
lice take nineteenth car alleged to have
been sold by Peter Grob, who makes
complete confession to police.-W p,
Donley announces plans for establish
nent of new shoe factory here.=Cupid