The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-17
wILMOT ITEMS.

cago were guests last week of Mr..
and Mrs. John Moran.
Earle Swanson was in Woodstock,
on business Tuesday.
John Nett was in Chicago Tuesday
buying his spring stock of merchan-
disc.
Gertrude Lantz of Bassetts, spent
the past week with Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Nett.
Ambrose Moran was out from Ke-
nosha for several days last week.
John Madden is visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Madden at English Prairie.
There will be lenten devotions at
the Holy Name Friday night
Myrtle Westlake and Marjorie Bailey
of Kenosha, were out for the week
end at Mrs. C. Phillips.
Fannie Bruel was home from Chi
cago over Sunday.
Dolly Bowman was guest of Edna
Lois several days last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Gauger announce
the birth of daughter, Sunday,
March 10.
Lynne Sherman and Walter Carey
were in Kenosha on jury duty this
week.
The confirmation services that were
to have been held on Palm Sunday at
the Evangelical Lutheran church have
been postponed until the second Sun
day after Easter owing to illness of
two members of the class.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Nett were Chicago
shoppers Wednesday.
Esther Kasper was home for the
weekend at Racine.
Blanche Carey visited Chicago
friends for several days last week.
Dora Shostedt of Kenosha, was a
guest of Madeline Swenson the last of
the week.
Gertrude Gauger was i'll the past
week,
Vera Hegeman was home from Mil
waukee Downer college over Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Hatch and daughter
Laura returned recently from a visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. P. Allen at Green
Valley, i'll.
Edith Dean spent Saturday in
Kenosha.
Ferdinand Beck was in Milwaukee
on business, Mondaq.
Miss Brasky, returned to hers home
at Watertown, Monday.
Mrs. o. Swenson was called to Ke-
nosha Sunday by the death of her
father Frederick Shostedt. The fun
eral services were held in Kenosha on
Wednesday at three o'clock with burial
at Green Ridge. Mr.. and Mrs. o. Sven
SON, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Swenson, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. sSwensOn, Earle, Herbert and
Madeline sSwensone went into Kenosha
for the funeral.
+. Beck, Hazel and Harry Beck
motOred to Racine. "Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F., Luke, of Wheatland
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Dean.
Mrs A. Turner was in Kenosha, sew
eral days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Reynolds were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R. Button.
Martin Mcclure, of Wilmot, died in
Chicago on Saturday, March II. He
is survived by the widow. Honora E.
Mcclure, nee Lyons, three sons, David
Seattle, Washington; and William of
Chicago, and four daughters, Mrs.
Josephine Stockwell, of Cotton, Cali
fornia; Mrs, Jas. P. Cayanagh of Ell
wood, Illinois; Honora and Catherine
of Chicago, Martin Mcclure was born
in Monmouth county, New Jersey, on
May 81, 1889. In 1857 the family NOV
ed to Antioch, Illinois. In 1861 he
enlisted in the list Wisconsin Cavalry.
lie served three years in Company X.
He re-enlisted and served in Han
cocks Veteran Corps until the end of
the war. In 1870 he married Honora
Lyons of Wilmot and eleven children
were born to them. For many years
the family lived in Emporia, Kansas,
but of late Chicago has been his home
and for sixteen years he has spent his
summers in Wilmot. The Requiem
High Mass was celebrated at st. Column
banus church in Chicago at 10000 a.
m. on Monday and the body was
brought to Wilmot for interment
short services were held at the Holy
Name, in Wilmot, at four o'clock on
Monday afternoon
Mrs. L. Holtdorf, Vivian Holtdorf,
Mrs. +. Rudolph and Raymond Rudolph
motored to .Kenosha, Saturday.
Most apprecistive audiences greeted
the cast of Deacon Dubbs at the NJ
w. A. hall Thursday and Friday
nights of last week. The cast were
very much at home and the audience
seemed delighted with their efforts.
Elmer Schmalfelt, as the deacon, was
big favorite and several impromptu
acts on his part added much to the
merriment, while Lyle Kerkoff as Deu-
teronomy, had but to speak to set the
audience in an uproar. Lyle had a
most trying part and carried it off
splendidly. Vivian Holtdorf, though
constantly subjected to Treat EN-
.ough" tactics as the unsuccessful vii
lain put lot of pep into difficult
part. Nobody loves the villain and
Vivian put her lines over so the audi
ence could run true to form, for he
was most villainous. Yennie Yensen,
Iris Wicks, with her long flaxen braids,
was a scream from start to finish and
her sallies at bashful Deuteronomy
captured many a laugh Mary Kerwin
AZ heroine was remarkable for her
beauty and innocence and fitted beau
tifully into the part of the wronged
sd Georgia Bruel took very hard