The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-21
OLD SCRAP BOOK TELLS
OF CITY'S EARLY DAYS
Pages of Scrapbook of Mrs. Frances A. B. Dun
ming Tell Interesting Story of Early
DAYS in Kenosha.
DAYS OF VILLAGE OF SOUTHPORT
Interesting Account Goes Back to Days When South
port Was But Village But Gave Promise
of the Greater Kenosha.

teacher.
1846-Richard E. Ella, for tanning
mill, warranted to clean grain "first
rate, WELL"
/ 1845-Levi Blake.
1849-Wm. Smith.
185O-Philo Newman.
185O-Milton H. Petit.
185O-H. F. Schoff.
1847-Samuel w. Taber
1848-Mitchell G. Quarles.
1848-D w. cleveland.
184O-Hammon Marsh, 600 rails to
Eagle Lake.
1849-Michael Rock, signature in
German.
Receipt-John Bullen, by N. R. Al
len. $500, Mitchell & Quarles by E.
Balm for Balm & Towslee.
1851-Appointment as administrator,
by Isaac N Stoddard, county, judge.
1851-Order in settlement of an es-
tate, Isaac N. Stoddard, county judge.
185O-For advertising in Telegraph,
c. Latham Sholes.
1846-An appointment of guardian
ship, by Volney French, probate judge.
1849-Deed of sale, by 0. P. Hale
and Abigail Bailey.
I 1848-Bill of family doctor, 70 calls
with medicine, SLABS.
1849-To Mitchell & Quarles, one
clevis, 81 cents. Appointment of guard
ianship by w. E. Worden, judge Ra-
cine county.
1855-Deed of transfer of 90 acres of
land by James Dowst, Samuel Dowst
and Hiram Butrick, executors of last
will Of Nathaniel P. Dowst, SO acres
of this land being near the present site
of Somers village and acres adjoin-
ing Fosters mill in Pike woods, where
the blackberries grew. Witnesses: +.
M. Haines, E. C. Cleuver. Transferred
deed to Elisha Baker. Witnessed by
C. Latham Sholes and Savilleon Schoff
and made by latter.
1846-Deed of land from Wilson Ben
nett. Witnesses, Richard Cordwell,
Haines French.
1853-Rceipt from Strong & Fuller,
Racine. Tax receipts for many years
signed by scores of well-known and
prominent names would make in them
selves an autograph book of value.
/ These receipts, for state, county and
Ischool tax (the last always augmented
! by personal aid), are, for properties
already named, with SO acres and 20
acres of wood land added. Such facts
alone make me feel that | can claim
kind of stand-pat place somewhere in
this historic realm.
Attended Kenosha High School.
The decade following 1851 brought
to me an important experience in my
early entrance to the K. Fl. S. with
residence in Kenosha. Owing to the
| splendid tutorage of the country school
my place was in the higher classes of
! the former, some future. requirements
! having been already compassed, SO that
some omissions through absence were
more than made up. The overwhelm-
! ing sorrow in the removal from the
pages of life of name to which these
pages have been dedicated makes the
| year 1857 a memorable one. Return
to school with losses made up, another
| interruption came and so no evidence
of scholarship in the form of a di-
ploma came to me. l did not learn
until so years after how important
this omission might become. The year
1861 introduced far more important
decade in other ways than the gradu-
alton from even a high school.
Recalls Her Birthplace.
The little log house just on the out
skirts of the village where l first made
the acquaintance of father, mother anC
doctor Henry johnson is beyond my re-
membrance, except in later familiarity
with it. A vivid memory is with me
however, of the prairie home on the
Kilbourn trail, and from miscellan-
eous volume entitled, "My Roads-Phy-
steal, Mental and Spiritual" I make 6
little quotation from the first division
FIRST PATHS.
An Indian trail, with the grasses
Far, far above my head,
And the little narrow passes
Silent and soft, to the tread
The swishing of brown and yellow,
The sun just peeping through
The beautiful mixture, mellow,
With far away sky blue,-
And then, the swooping and sweeping
OF prairie fires that came,
Led by unknown terrors, creeping,
To herald the lurid flame.
All aids of invention ready,
To rescue from loss, or death,
Brave hearts and hands that were
steady
Though heated and choking the
breath; -
Thus earned was the pioneer "clear
ing"
And this is the mission of fire"
To clear the way on to the nearing
Of body, soul, life to the higher
And higher, but highest ?"-No
never,
Gods immutable order is-"grow!"
So, out of death, life has sprung, ever
And ever it shall be so.
Heard the Prairie Wolves.
One other early appeal to the cal
rather than the eye was the disma
howl of the prairie wolves during theil
frequent nocturnal visits. Such visits
often of the passing Indians were al
ways of friendly nature for they
knew they were in friendly quarters.
4 Within the limit of years which
have allowed myself for this chapter
! that between my entrance into the vii