The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-04

Violet Beck was transferred from q
Racine hospital Tuesday to the home
of her sister, Mrs. P. Meyers, of ke-
nosha.
James Owen spent the last of the
week with Mr.. and Mrs. belong at
Racine.
An amateur cast sponsored by the
Gray's Lake Legion and the Fred
Semrau post at Wilmot will appear in
"a Pair of Skies" at the Wilmot gym
nasium Friday evening, October 5.
Mrs. F. Kruckman spent Tuesday at
Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. P Meyers and sons, of
Kenosha, Mr. and Mrs. Richards and
family, of Chicago, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walsh, of Kenosha, we're guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. F. Beck.
A car belonging to Kenosha people
ran off the road between the bridges
Saturday night. None of the occu-
pants were injured but the car was
badly damaged.
Funeral services for Joseph Anthony
Kan1in, of Camp Lake, were held at the
| Holy Name church with interment at
| the Holy Name cemetery Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Kamin has lcng been an
| invalid, but the immediate cause of
his death on Friday was dropsy. He
was born in Detroit, Mich, September
18th, 1877, and on February 8, 1903,
he was married to Attolonia Kreznia
of Detroit. The widow with nine
children survive the deceased: Leon
ard, Francis, John, Alexander, Edna,
George, Charles, Ethel and Anna.
( A sister, Mrs. A. Kreznia of Detroit,
and brother, John Kamin, of Silver
Lake, also survive the deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Milwaukee,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. P. Brenk-
man last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Beck were in Racine
Sunday to visit their daughter, Violet
Miss Metcalfe was in Milwaukee at
the home of her parents over Sunday.
| Guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. Swenson over Sunday were NADIA
line Swenson from the West Suburban
hospital, Oak Park; Herbert Swenson,
Kenosha; Anne Clark, Chicago, and
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Shostedt, Kenosha.
After spending a vacation of three
weeks with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
o. Swenson, Mary Swenson left on
Tuesday for Los Angeles, California.
Guests Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. H
Seidsclag were Mr. and Mrs. G. Jor-
gensen and children and Mrs. c.
Kroncke, of Kenosha.
Howard Christensen and Mr.. Rogers
of English Prairie, were hosts at a
dance and supper~at the M w. A. hall
on Saturday evening. Music for dane
ing was furnished by the Ehlert or
chestra@
Rev. and Mrs. S. Jedele and family
were in Burlington Wednesday eve
ming. Z
Burial services for William John
Duffy, a Chicago police officer, who
died suddenly last Friday, were held
Monday afternoon at the Wilmot Gem
etery with interment in the Duffy
plot. The funeral cortege drove from
Chicago, following services held there
Monday morning. Officer Duffy was
the eldest son of John (deceased) and
Sarah Duffy, and spent the greater
part of his youth at Wilmot. He was
on the Chicago police force for almost
| twenty years and was member of the
famous Beauty squad at one time
Surviving the deceased are his wife,
May Duffy, a son, William Jr., his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Hunter, of An
tioch, sister, Beatrice, of Indianapo-
lis, and three brothers, Joseph, of Will
mot, Fred of Cadiz, Ohio, and James
of Antioch. The deceased was mem
Der of William Mckinley lodge No.
876, A. F. & A. NJ, Moose lodge and
Up. B. "A.
| Relatives who came to Wilmot for
the burial services were Fred Duffy,
Cadiz, Ohio; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Will
ford, Beloit; Will Willford, Mrs. w.
Carr, Beloit; E. P. Shotliff, of Rock
ton, and his son and daughter, and
Mrs. Rockwell, of Rockton.
Six uniformed police officers from
Chicago members of the Masonic lodge
acted as bearers.
| Donald Tyler and Grace Carey were
in, Racine Thursday the guests of At
torney and Mrs. Wilbershide and Dor
Irothy Tyler.
Mrs. E. Murphy spent several days
| in Kenosha during the past week at
the home of her mother, Mrs. J.
Duffy.
John Karl Schmalfeldt was born
July Is, 1888, in the province Of Bran
denburg, Germany. In 1866 he en-
tered the holy state of matrimony
with Wilhelmina, nee Triep. Four
children, three sons and daughter,
were born to this union. In 1858 the
family came to America and lived first
on farm near Wheatland and later at
Bloomfield. The first wife died in
1879, and his only daughter, Emma, on
February 8, 1885, On August 20, 1880
the deceased was married to Fred
ericke, nee Schultz. In 1882 he bought
the farm known as the Charles 10th
farm near Silver Lake. After he gave
up farming the family lived at Silver
Lake for seven years until 1903 when
they purchased their present home in
Wilmot.
The deceased has suffered much
from illness for many years and on
Friday was taken much worse and died
about eight o'clock Saturday morning
He is survived by his wife, Fred
ericke; four sons, Charles, of Kan
sasville; George, of Silver Lake; Au-
gust, of Silver Lake; Fred, of Pad
dock's Lake. seventeen grandchildren