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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
OLDEST M. E. PREACHER.

Flint, Mich. - So far as is known,
Reverend Seth Reed of this city is the
oldest minister in the United States,
in years and point Of service in the
pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Recently he become 100 years of
age. And so of these years have been
devoted to preaching the gospel.
This fall he goes to Monroe, Mich
to oficiate at the dedication of St,
PauPs M. E. church, recently rebuilt,
the same pulpit he occupied more than
70 years ago, when he started proselyt-
ing among the then savage Indians.
Jubilee-ssilver, golden and diamond
are ordinary events in Reverend
Reeds life. =
First the golden anniversary of this
life in 1873. Then the golden ami
versary of his wedding in 1898, shortly
after which event his first wife died.
Now, he confdes, he will celebrate
the silver anniversary Of his marriage
to his second wife.
More than a thousand Indians have
been converted to Christianity by him.
And many more white men and wo-
men.
Reverend Reed likes to tell about one
of his former Sunday school pupils,
George A. Custer, the same Custer
later known as General, central fig
ure in the famous historic incident,
"Custer's Last Fight"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
noG LISTED AS PERSON.

Milwaukee, Wis. = In the Milwaukee
city directory appears this line:
Reinnoldt, King, 500 Twenty
severth-st.
king" Reinnoldt is dog, probably
the only dog in the world listed in a
regular city directory as regular per-
son.
And his owner, George Reinnoldt, in
sists that he is just That = a regular
fellow.
Kings" unusual distinction came
about quite by accident. A young wo-
man, canvassing the city for city di-
rectory names asked Reinnoldt names
Of all who lived in the house.
The thought of the dog came natur-
ally to his mind. He realized his mis-
take and he intended to correct it i'm
modiately, but someone interrupted
them and the census taker left before
he had chance to explain.
$50 Kings name went in with the
rest" Reinnoldt explained.
Everyone in the community knows
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
Unusual People
SHE'S EDITOR OF PAPER.
By NEA Service

GAINESVILLE, Tenn-The strain
ing task of publishing a newspaper
never has been considered the job for
woman. But Mrs. William Wallace
Barksdale skaters all traditions here
by successfully issuing daily paper
formerly operated by her husband.
Few women are equipped to publish
daily paper. Only those, and such
are few indeed, who have been privi-
legged to watch newspaper making from
the inside, can appreciate the gruelling
task it really is,
Very few women try it, So far as
is known only two survive. And Mrs.
Barksdale, publisher of the sClarks-
vile Leaf Chronicle, is one of the lat
ter.
W. w. Barksdale was a prominent
Tennessee newspaper publisher for
many years before his death. Even
before that sad event his wife took
an interest in his work, and gradual
ly became active in the work. So
that, when he died, she was ready to
step into his place without the loss
of motion of the wheel.
Since then she has gained in
prominence throughout her section
and state. In her home life, Mrs.
Barksdale is the typical southern wo-
man, gracious and hospitable, and de-
voted to her only child, w. w. Banks
dale, Jr., who already shows a decid-
ed aptitude for newspaper work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
a GREATER POLICE FORCE.

Speaking the other day before the hehosila
Rotary club Chief Logan OF the ponce depart
ment. voiced the demand for "a larger ponce
force in Kenosha. He spoke of basis OF one
notice officer for each five hundred men,
Kenosha wants police force large enough
to take care of the demands for proper police
protection for the people of the city, 1t wants
q force large enough to properly take care OF
traffic problems, some consideration to the
nroblems for protection of women and chill
dren. It wants a force which will be ade-
auate to meet emergencies which may arise,
force which is organized along the right lines
with a CLERICAL force large enough-but not TOO
large-to meet the demands for this proper or
ganization.
A police force must have overhead but
these men engaged in other than patrol duty
should be limited to immediate needs OF the
department The greatest energy should be
expended toward getting men for the force
whose ideals prompt them to be the right KIND
of police officers One man OF this kind Will
do more intelligent work than two OF another
kind Kenosha would be better pollced with
forty-fve intelligent well-paid men than with
a half hundred or more men who are not Wor-
thy of police star.
Kenosha needs something besides men on
the police force It needs equipment. Some
OF CnlS equipment Is HOW III Cou1o pc "
ton. The new signal alarm system should add
very materially to the ability of the men now
EMPLOYED to handle the police demands of the
city. A properly laid out system of arterial
highways also in course of working out, will
be further aid to the police. Then there
should be provision made for street signals
worked automatically. These signals may
cost some money to install and little money
to operate but when they are properly Install
ed they will release lot of police officers, now
doing duty on the traffic squad, for other
work of the force. There are types OF tratt1c
signals which may be properly and advantage
ously used in Kenosha. A little trip to some
of the surrounding cities would be worth
while for the city purchasing agent. He is
certain to find in such trip just the type of
street signal which could be used best in Ke-
nosha.
Milwaukee has a number of splendidly de-
signed signals of this kind and they could be
installed in Kenosha streets at small expend-
iture.
Men form the basis of every police force but
men with proper handling and proper equip
ment bring the nearer perfect protection for
the people Kenosha is spending lot of mon
ey to rebuild it's police alarm system and a lit
tie more can be proftably spent for the proper
installation of street traffic signals These
signals are not an experiment but recognized
by the heads of all big police departments as
the most pertinent demand in handling mod
ern traffic.
The police department is one of the most
important cogs in the government of the city
and it is entitled to lot of intelligent consid-
Grafton. Money enough should be appropriat-
ed to make the force efficient both as to men
and equipment and one is just about as import
ant as the other.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
UNAPPREUATED
BY BERTON BRALEY

>NTOW the doors of education
IN Once again are opened wide
And the children of the nation
Tropo unwillingly inside;>
Are they not quite pleased and happy
Where there's knowledge to be got?
Well, to put it short and snappy,
They are not!
TO they not discover glamor
IL In the things their schoolbooks teach?
Do they not in learning grammar,
Sense the magic of our speech?
Do they not with eager yearning
Hurry to the destined spot
Where the lamp Of wisdom's burning?
They do not!
NOW vacations silly capers
" Have been finished put away,
Do~they not find books and papers
More enthralling every day?
Do they not begin perceiving
Just how lucky is their lot
To be studying achieving?
They do not!
WITH unwilling feet they're trudgiHe
w Back again to enter school,
Back again to enter school,
Which to most of them is durdging
Underneath a tyrant's rule.
It takes many years to tame them
And to show them what is what
Do / blame them?
do mott
Copyright, 1928. NEA SERVES, faS.;
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

The Labor Day celebration was a
great success. A big parade and pic
mic given under the auspices of the
Trades and Labor council was the
feature of the day, Many beautiful
floats were in line. Jacoby's Military
band and the Columbia band of Ra-
cine furnished music for the occasion.
The picnic was held at Bonds Grove.
The DANA society celebrated the day
at Washington Island. Races were in
order at Bain's Driving park. The
German Workingmen's society took po-
session of Park City Gardens and rev.
eled there for ,the day, Various dances
took place at the dance halls about
town in the evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
Septemher 4th.

HOW TO ESCAPE FROM EVIL
cause thou hast made the Lord, VIII
is my refuge, even the Most High,
habitation; there shall no evil be
thee, neither shall any plague &C
nigh thy dwelling. For He shall
His angels charge over thee, to k
thee in all thy ways.2Psalm 91;9-lt
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

In the first half of this year the railroads
carried 25,435, 6O800O net ton miles of
freight That is the greatest ever carried in
the history of the roads, exceeding by seven
per cent the record for 1920, which is the next
highest. In recent years there has been a
great increase also in the freight, carried by
motor trucks and the ship tonnage moving
through the Panama Canal has been mounting
rapidly All Of which proves that production
in this country is proceeding at rate never
before knownA Prosperity under Republican
policies has exceeded even the dreams of the
party's most ardent supporters
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

and loves King, School children stop
to play with him and men on their
way to work greet him as an old friend
He is only a mongrel, five years old,
but he is wonderful dog"
And according to Page 1869, line 90
of the Milwaukee city directory he GER
tainly is
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
HIS FIRST EFFORT.

Cleveland, o. - When an author of
wide repute, plus a large publishing
house, makes a sale of 100000 copies
of one book, the world considers lit
erary triumph has been scored
But this is about an humble 'buck
private" with only grammar school
education and no publishing firms pub
LEFTY men to aid him, who not only
wrote book but alone put over a sale
past the 100000 mark and is still go
ing strong.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

The untimely death of President Harding
will not lose to the country the value of his in
spection trip to Alaska. With him on that
tour were Secretary of the Interior Work, Sec
rotary of Commerce Hoover, and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace. They became as famil-
lar with the needs of the territory as did Mr..
Harding and are in position to give President
Coolidge the benefit Of their observations.
Their departments are most closely associated
with the development and administration of
the territory, and the fact that all three men
are to remain in the cabinet assures the coun-
try that Alaska will receive the same SYM
pathetic treatment as Mr.. Harding had plan
ned for it,
Theodore Roosevelt: We should do every
thing that can be done, by law or otherwise,
to keep the avenues of occupation, of employ
ment, of work, of interest, so open that there
shall be, SO far as it is humanity possible to
achieve it, measurable equality of opportun-
ity; an equality of opportunity for each man
to show the stuff that is in him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Man is funny. When he scorns the teach
ings of religion, he inevitably reaches the
point where he whines that religion is fail
ure.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Racine's new suburb, Lakeside, is
becoming a thriving little place.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Phil Harmon has purchased new
equipment and will soon open a mod
ern, up-to-date restaurant,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Charles Binniger was overcome By
the heat yesterday
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
slaves shall be free.

She has lived through every Un
States war except the Revolution
Now, she still works, pulling W
to support herself and her grand
She likes to recall events that in 9th
lives are mere historic happeni
She remembers them we'll.
Four generations of her family |
come Forty-nine descendants
live.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

If wife thinks her husband a hairpin,
where does she get the notion that his stem
ographer thinks him worth flirting with?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Correct this sentence: Il want Ethel to
marry good honest man, declared the moth
er; land don't care if he's as poor as dirt .
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

The new Soviet trade commissioner in Lon
don is Rakovski. If this is the Russian branch
of the Rakeoff family, he should do we'll in
trade
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Wonder if the Italian who swan
English Channel developed his a
eating spaghetti?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Prairie chickens are very profuse
this year in the country.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Pennsylvania man has escaped from
Jail three times. If you think this is
easy try it once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

One of the books we would like
see written is "How to Be HI
Though Reformer."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
PROSPERITY

Arthur L. Lee, who manages two Of
the big New York hotels, talks with
hundreds of out-of-town merchants
who at this season of the year flock
to New York to buy stocks of goods.
Lee finds that the merchants are
buying heavily. Most of them expect
good business this fall and winter.
When it comes to this kind of pre-
dieting, we'd rather trust storekeep-
er than an army of economists and
business experts. Merchants de-
velop a sixth sense. They have to.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

With four nations beginning to banker for
It, there is some probability that Wrangel Is
land will yet justify its name
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

It will be impossible to abolish the twelve
hour day, however, before using it as club to
effect change in the immigration laws
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Mike Harkin is candidate for sher-
if on the Democratic ticket.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Some day submarines will be rendered in
nocuous, and then the nations will become
righteous enough to eliminate them, also
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Fat men hold a convention in Port
land, Me. The funny thing is all are
not landlords.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Nearly every successful man has debts. The
failures debts have him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

A gentle, loving Los Angeles crea
ture wants to drink iodine if they wonf
hang her husband.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

They didn't need so many rescue homes whel
hand-holding afforded a thrill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Baby fell into Wisconsin river and
was saved; real baby, not a bathing
beauty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
Happenings
25 Years Ago
September 4, 1898

"a True Kentuckian" was the play
at the Rhode on Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR
TODAY

Bible thoughts and Bible answers mem
orized will prove a priceless sheritaga
in after years. Encourage children
TO look them up and memorize them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Fourteen men were unable to land
fish off New Jersey, where booze is
thrown overheard.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

l.. C. (Buck Privatel MeCollum, a
member of the famous "Lost Battalion"
has done this, despite general belief
that the public has lost interest in the
war
"The urge to write used to come
over me after got to France" says
McCollum. al smothered it down to
doggerel parodies for army theatricals.
After we got back, though, there seem
ed to be so much misunderstanding re-
garding the war that the vets couldn't
put people right and I wrote my
rhymes with view of correcting the
home folks misconceptions,
"My History and Rhymes of the
Lost Battalion would never get by a
literary critic as gems, of poetry of
English composition - but the public
seems to like them, and the sale con-
tinues steadily"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
TOM SIMS


Even though an EIkton (Md) n
lister married 5000 couple he has {
a natural death.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
SHE SMOKES 100 YEARS.

Nashville, Tenn, - At the age of IA
Aunt" Fanny Baker, q negress living
here, started to smoke and chew tobac-
CO. She kept it up for 100 years. Then,
two years ago, at the age of Id her
doctor told her that smoking and chew
ing were injurious to her health.
"Aunt" Fanny Immediately "cut it
out"
"The doctor sure am right" the aged
woman contendsN
If Fanny isn't the oldest living per-
son in the south, she at least is in
Nashville. She we'll can remember
Presidents Lincoln, Andrew Jackson
and Andrew Johnson.
Fanny was born in the same years
as General Robert E. Lee, on the banks
of the Appomatox River, Va, near
Lees home. But she never was slave.
Her master" died before her birth,
and left the stipulation that all his
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

\ Antiques are things made long,
ago. We are just about out of ant.
prices.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Just as boys are rushing off to col
lege an Oregon professor quits to be-
come plasterer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Cops think a San Pedro (CalifO
tank fire incendiary. May have. 70
oil-soaked waste.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

The California report that movie
star and her husband are close friends
is probably untrue.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Chinese typhoons are almost as {
gerous as American bootleg.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

The eclipse due September 10 is not
the Firpo-D Dempsey fight,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Furs and fur coats will be al
three arguments and one crying
higher this fall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

A Brooklyn baby who swallowed a
toy auto will recover, Please tie your
flivver outside.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

History fades into fable; fact be-
comes clouded with doubt and contro-
versy; the inscription moulders from
the tablet; the statue falls from the
pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids,
what are they but heaps of sand, and
their epitaphs but characters written
in the Observation-Disclosures Irving.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

A senator is being sued for tn
cents, expecting to make him feel
that amount.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

Place few auto tags end to end.
Read left to right. 1t is how many
marks for q dollar.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06
TODAY's THOUGHT.

For the wind passeth over it, and
it is gone; and the place thereof shall
know it no more.-Ps. 103:16.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-06

A Brooklyn baby who swallowed Even though
toy auto will Please tie your lister married
iivver outside. a natural deaf
49,
The eclipse due September 10 is not Cops think
the Firpo-Dempsey fight. tank fire incel
oil-soaked was
Baby fell into Wisconsin river and
was saved; real baby not bathing Chinese typf
beauty. gerous Am
Fourteen men were unable to land Furs and fl
a fish off New Jersey, where booze is three argumen
thrown overheard. higher this fa
just as boys are rushing off to coll senator il
lege an Oregon professor quits to CENTS expeetn
pasterer that amount
A gentle, loving Los Angeles crea- Antiques are
ture wants to drink iodine if they won't ago. We
hang her husband. prices.
Pennsylvania man has escaped from Wonder if Il
jail three times If you think this is English Cham
easy try it eating spaghet
Fat men hold a convention in Port One of the
land Me- The funny thing is all are see written is
NOT landlords Though Ref
New Britain herald., 1923-06-27
357,S03 immigrants
ARE TO BE- Admitted
Of This Number, England
Germany and Italy Have
Largest Quotas

Washington, June 27--Only slight
changes from the allotments of the
past year are shown in regulations
promulgated today by the labor de-
partment fixing the number of immi-
grants of the various nationalities
who will be admitted to the United
States under the quota law during the
fiscal year beginning July 1.
The quotas for the foreign countries
which ordinarily send the largest
number of immigrants show no
change Out of the total of 357, ,so3
who will be admitted-the same as
for 1922-1923--the allotment for the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland remains at 77,342, that of
Germany again is 67,6o7, and that for
Italy is unchanged at 42,7o7
The changes made for the smaller
countries resulted mainly for terri
torial readiustments.
The French quota remains un-
changed at 55,729.
Egypt for the first time reported as
a separate country is given a quota of
IS, thereby reducing the African
quota from 122 to 1o4
Fiume is the baby with a quota of
II, Iceland has IS, Luxembourg %
and Palestine 81.
New Britain herald., 1923-06-27
SCREEN BEAUTY DIVORCED
Mrs. Emma Miller Powell Given De-
cree in Bridgeport Court Against
Movie Director Husband.

Bridgeport, June 27.-Emma Miller
Powell, stage and screen beauty and
daughter of a prominent merchant of
Mississippi, won a divorce yesterday
afternoon in superior court from her
movie director husband Frank
Powell. Powell served on the staff of
Mack Sennett and his speciality was
directing comedies. but his wife, told
the court Yesterday that when the
comedy directing was applied to her
she rebelled,
The rebellion did not take place,
however, according to Mrs Powell's
testimony, until after she had been
twice "banished" to her home in
Mississippi for scoding her tempera-
mental husband about poker playing.
Each time she was compelled to write
an apology to her husband before he
would take her back. When he quit
his $3.50 a week berth with Mack
Sennett and a former wife residing
in New York demanded her alimony
Mrs Powell went to her
financial aid by selling her
jewelry. Then she accepted stage and
screen engagements to keep the wolf
from the door and the entire effort
cost her 40 pounds In weight, she told
the court
The Powells moved to Westport in
1917 and Mrs. Powell resides there
now.