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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Tells Farmers to
Test Seed Corn

Madison, Wis. = II Farmers
have been warned by the seed and
weed control division of the state de-
partment of agriculture that '.much
damage" was done to seed corn by
frost and they we're advised to test
their seed.
Late frost, after the corn ripened
well in the field. made many farmers
fail to realize how badly the seed was
injured, the department stated.
"The cutting of the corn was fol-
lowed by two weeks of cool weather
accompanied by rain and mists," it
was stated. This prevented the corn
from drying. In fact, corn that had
been picked and hung on windmills,
under porches, on the sides of build
ing or even in buildings without
enough heat and ventilation, contained
even more moisture at the end of that
two weeks of damp weather than it
had when it was harvested. So when
the sharp drop in temperature came
in October, much of the corn con-
tanned from 90 to 40 per cent of mois-
ture. This was too much and the kerr
mails burst as would bottle filled with
water and exposed to zero weather.
trials at the experiment station
show that an ear of corn taken from
the inside of the shocks and still pro-
tected by the husks, much of the seed
failed to grow. What then might be
expected with corn husked and hang
ing anywhere outside
wherever corn was picked before
the freeze and dried inside, it seems to
be in excellent condition. Much Of
that brought in and dried after the
freeze does not grow at all or produce
weak sprouts.
"Any farmer who wants to be sure
of a good stand of corn next summer
should either test his corn himself or
representative samples of it to the
state seed laboratory in Madison"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Mrs. Nick KOllmann
Dies at Age of SO
Mrs. Anna Remich HOLMAN Succumbs
After Illness of Several Months at
Home at 704 Milwaukee Avenue.

An illness of several months dura-
ton proved fatal to Mrs. Anna Remich
HOLMAN, 40, at her home on 704 Mil
waukee avenue this morning. The
deceased was born Oct. 1, 1866, in
Alsace-Loraine, coming to America with
her parents at the age of 5.
The family made their home at
Neenah-Menasha until June IA, 1886,
when the deceased was married to
Nicholas M. HOLMAN, coming to Ke-
nosha to make their home.
Surviving the deceased are the wild
over, one son, Nicholas A., and five
daughters: Mrs. j. A. Leicken, Mrs.
D. C. Byers, Mrs. William ]. Niesen,
Mrs. G. T. Will, all of Kenosha, and
Mrs. w. M. Domes, Benton Harbor,
Mich. One sister, Mrs. Simon Krebs,
of Kenosha, and one brother, Pierre J.
Remick, Menasha, and five grandchil-
dren also survive.
Funeral services will be held at the
st. George church at o'clock Tues
day morning with the remains to be
laid to rest in the family plot in ST.
George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
State to Give $4,000 Adj
ditional Aid for Big
Project in County.
CHANGE 1926 PROGRAM
Change Means County VIII
Abandon Plans to Pave High
ways 83 and 43 This Year.

Completion of the paving of the
Geneva road, Highway so, from its
present terminus, the Fox River
bridge, to the Kenosha- Walworth
county line during the paving season
of 1926, was assured Friday evening
when the county board of supervisors
accepted the offer of the state high
way commission, whereby state aid
is extended to carry out the big
paving project.
The acceptance of the offer made by
the state makes Necessary a complete
change in the paving programs for
the county for the year as this will
be practically all of the paving work
carried on on the state highways dur
ing the year. The plans for extend
ing the paving on Highway 43, known
as the Burlington road, and on High
way 49,, known as the Salem road, will
be abandoned for the present.
State Offers $4,000 Additional.
State Highway Engineer Weymouth
appeared before the county board of
supervisors and presented the offer
of the state whereby the project could
be completed this year. This will en-
tail the using of all state highway
funds for this county available at the
present time and the granting to
Kenosha county of $75,455 from the
state free fund.
When the supervisors mapped out
the paving program several weeks ago,
it was planned to build bridge over
the Fox River and extend the paving
on the Geneva road approximately
two miles. Other projects planned
were paving of strips on Highways
43 and 83.
This was to be financed by the
county borrowing from depository
banks 100000, which was to be re-
paid from state aid funds which would
be available to Kenosha county within
the next wo years. All of this was
dependent upon the agreement of the
state highway commission to promise
that such funds would be granted
Kenosha county for that purpose.
Offers Counter Proposal.
The state highway commission did
not sanction all of these projects, but
offered counter proposal which it is
believed is much better from the
standpoint of the county. The counter
proposal provided only for the paving
of the Geneva road to the county line
at an estimated cost of $1S5,000, funds
for which will be provided entirely
from state highway funds as. follows:
/. Kenosha county's share of the
1925-26 federal aid funds, S52,486,
now available.
2. Kenosha county's share of fed
eral aid funds for 1926-27-s57 ,069.
8. Aid from the state highway free
fund-$75,455.
The state highway commission also
indicated that if the cost of the pro-
ject exceeded this, additional funds
would be provided from the state free
fund.
Believing that the plan suggested
by the highway commission extended
aid to the county which should be
accepted, the board adopted resolu-
ton providing for the carrying out
of the project. 1t is held that the
county, under the conditions outlined,
can well afford to postpone the paw
ing Of the other highways in order
to secure the large amount offered
to it as state aid for the paving of
the Geneva road.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Another Sheridan Road
Roadhouse Faces u.
S. Paddock.
DROP 'PETE'S PLACE
No Federal Action to Be Taken
Against the Roadhouse
Which Burned Down.

One more South Sheridan road road
house is to fall befort the federal
onslaught on Monday, December 28
leaving but one roadhouse on Highway
10 free from court actions started by
Roy L. Morse, United States district
attorney at Milwaukee. The "Greer
Front has been hailed before Federal
Judge Geiger to show cause why 9
temporary injunction already issued
against it should not be made per.
manent. And the district attorney has
Indicated that it will be extremely
difficult to show cause of that nature
in the face of the evidence that federal
raiders secured at the Green Front.
At the same time that the action
was announced against the Green
Front, Robert Sterling, federal prohi-
bition enforcement agent for eastern
Wisconsin, gave out the information
that there would be no federal action
taken against the roadhouse known
as "Pete's Place" which was destroyed
by fire recently.
With federal paddock actions already
taken against ten other places in the
county, many of them known as the
most popular roadhouses near the city
the promise of drying up Kenoshs
county before, New Years eve is be-
coming a reality. All eleven places
vii know a week from next Monday
whether they may remain open an
other day or whether they shall be
closed for period one year under the
paddock clause in the Volstead act.
With only two roadhouses un.
touched on the Geneva road within five
miles of the city, that section of the
county will also take on real Vol
stead atmosphere if the federal pad
locks are ordered on the roadhouses
already served with temporary in
functions.
And with the threat made by federal
agent at Milwaukee that flying
squadron" would be employed in any
section of the state to which it may
be assigned to swoop down on un.
suspecting roadhouses where any un-
usual revelry was noticed, the rest
of the county is on its toes as far as
encouraging reservations for heavy
New Years eve parties is concerned
The effect Of these activities is ex.
pected to be reflected in the price Of
liquor available in the county, anc
already there is reported considerable
scurrying to other sections for supply
and for safe places to drink it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
WANT GUARDS AT
LINCOLN LAGOON
Petitions Ask Council for
Further Protection at
Lincoln Park.
RECALL TRAGEDIES
One Petition Asks for Employ
ment of a Full Time Police
man at the Park.

Two, petitions asking for safety
measures to protect the lives of chill
dren at the Lincoln Park lagoon, will
be filed with the city council this
evening. These petitions are signed
by hundreds of property owners who
live in the Lincoln Park neighborhood
and who have been aroused by the
two drownings which have occurred
there within the past year.
Both petitions agree that further
protection is needed, but each sets
forth a different remedy for the sit
uation. One suggests that the coun-
Gil hire a patrolman for full time
service at the park, while the other
suggests that the placing of life saw
ing apparatus at various places around
the park lagoon would do much to
remedy the hazard, which it is claimed
exists there now.
Called Source Of Danger.
The first petition reads as follows
Whereas, Lincoln Park and the la
COON therein are source of danger
to the children who attend Lincoln
school and who continually rush to
the said Lincoln, Park for their recre-
ton, and
''Whereas, Several children have
recently lost their lives in said Lin
coin Park,
"Now Therefore, We petition your
honorable body to have special park
policeman, who shall be assigned to
duty exclusively within the said park.
We feel that such step will tend to
prevent many accidents to children"
The second petition reads as follows:
"We, the undersigned citizens and
property owners Of Kenosha respect
fully petition that suitable life saw
ing apparatus be placed at various
points around the lagoon at Lincoln
Park to aid materially in reducing the
hazard that now exists there"
Recall Drownings There.
The drownings to which the petit
tions refer, are the triple tragedy
which occurred about two months ago
when three school boys broke through
the rubber ice" and were trapped
under it, and the drowning of a younger
child several months before.
At the time Of the triple drowning
it was informally suggested that the
lagoon might be made more shallow,
but the petitions make no allusion to
this possibility. 1t is claimed that it
will be impossible to secure proper
drainage of the lagoon so as to pre-
vent il from being menace to public
health in the warmer months of the
year unless it is as deep as it now is.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
THREE ELECTRIC
LINES in CLASH
Jangle Over New Lines
Into West KenOsha
County Territory.
MEET AND COMPROMISE

Announcement is made of the be-
ginning of construction of electric
lines into western Kenosha county to
supply residents of Wilmot, SHADES
Corners and other villages, also farm
current for power and lights, by the
Southern Electric company OF Lake
Geneva, the Wisconsin Gas and Elec-
trio company, and the Carey Electric
company of Wilmot.
Coming together of the three pro-
jects resulted in clash and a court
jangle which resulted in compromise
after a public meeting Of those con-
cerned at SHADES Corners this week.
Agreement was not reached until
workmen FLASHED and injunctions had
been issued.
1t seems all three electric power
concerns were eager to get into the
territory. The Carey Electric COM
pany started first to build two-mile
line out of Wilmot toward SHADES
Corners. Then the Southern Electric
company started work early on Sunday
morning, December 6, with q crew of
fifty men on the job digging holes and
setting poles. A carload of poles were
delivered by auto trucks.
A line was built from the John
Grenzel farm to Genoa City, a dis
lance of seven miles, and the follow
ing Tuesday the Carey company
started building line two miles
north on the west Burlington road.
Next the Wisconsin Gas and Electric
company took a hand.
Injunctions were served and the
three companies were launched on a
we'll developed scrap. It all came to a
head this week when the disputants
held meeting at SHADES Corners, and
after lengthy discussion they eff
fected compromise and entered into
an agreement.
AS a result the Southern Electric
company will build from Lake Geneva
to SHADES Corners, the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric company will build a
high tension and transmission line
from Burlington to SHADES Corners
and will erect a sub-station there
where all thre lines will meet. The
Wisconsin Gas and Electric company
is already furnishing current for both
companies over other lines, and when
the new lines are completed will be
able to furnish current from SHADES
Corners in case of emergency.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
GET THIEVES
WHO ROB CARS
Cops Get Two Youths on
Larceny Charge Fol-
lowing Reports.
MISCREANTS ABROAD

Just after the police were beginning
to get reports of petty thefts from
automobiles parked in the space at the
corner of Park and Exchange streets
Sunday evening Police officers Delos
Reyonlds and Arthur Larsen appeared
at the police station with two culprits
whom they charged had been rifing
parts and articles from automobiles.
| The two were John Condrat, II, and
Frank Bluha, 10, both of Balm station.
| The pair stoutly denied that they
had stolen anything. In the pockets
of one were found number of auto
mobile headlight bulbs, but the youth
declared that these had been purchased
at the Larsen garage.
"Why these bulbs have been used"
said Police Officer Henry Fenske, as
he examined the bulbs, "funny that a
garage man would sell you used bulbs"
Maintain Solid Front.
In the meantime Sergeant Kirsch
and Police officer Larsen were ques-
tioning the second lad, in another
room, and there searched him again
thoroughly, finding in a trouser leg a
collection of bulbs. The youth would
| give no explanation for his singular
method of carrying bulbs, insisting at
first that they had been purchased
"for our Chevrolet at home"
| Both lads insisted that they had no
car with them, and that when the
police officers found them, they were
about to walk back to their home at
Balm station. Sergeant Kirsch sent
the two officers who made the arrest
back to the place where they had
found the boys, directing them to
search the neighborhood for car
which might be-the property of one
| of the boys. Sure enough, at the
corner of Market and Exchange streets
dilapidated Ford car was found.
Full of Stolen Loot.
Inside the car was a motor meter,
several automobile robes, tool kit
and other items. Confronted with the
car. the lads clicked i'm as the police
allege,l and admitted that they had
made the rounds of automobiles and
stolen what they could find loose or
pry loose.
Frank Bluha admitted that the old
4 a
youths then said that their original
story of "hoofing it back" was just
a lie.
In the meantime reports kept COM
ing in the rifled cars. Richard Till
man, 304 Western avenue, informed
the police that someone had stolen
the headlight bulbs from his Over
land car and had attempted to steal
the windshield wiper. Stanely Nelson
of Racine, reported that someone had
stolen an Indian automobile robe from
! his car, and John Johnson, COS JEFF
ferson street, reported that someone
had stolen a headlight lens and head
light bulb from his automobile. All
the cars whose owners reported theft,
had been parked in the space at the
corner of Park and Exchange streets.
] The robes found in Bluha's Ford
were found to answer the description
of those reported stolen, but still
other robes were found whose owners
doubtless had not yet missed them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
DOCTORS FAVOR
CHANGE in NAMES
Kenosha Medical Society
to Urge Street Nam
ing Change.
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
DIR. w. S. Stewart Reelected
President; Other Officers
of Society Are Named.

Changing the names of the streets
of the city of Kenoosha was one Of
the topics discussed Friday evening at
the regular meeting of the Kenosha
County Medical Society at the Elks
Club. The physicians went on record
as favoring a change IN street names
in order to facilitate the work of the
profession in finding addresses OF
patients.
While no record vote was taken, the
physicians were very favorably i'm
pressed with the new plan for chang
ing the street names, which has been
brought forward within the past few
days end which suggests that both
the ssreets and avenues be numbered.
DR.. T. w. Ashley, DR.. Il. B. Robinson
and DR.. G. w. Mccarthy were named
members of committee to appear be-
fore the city council on Monday even
ing to discuss the plans for remaining
the streets of Kenosha.
DIR. Stewart Reelected.
DR.. w. C. Stewart, who has been
president of the Kenosha County Med
ical Society for the past year, was
reelected to that office. Other Of
ficers of the society were named as
follows: Vice-president, DR.. A. Van
Westrinen; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, DR..
Helen Binne; censor, DR.. J. Il.
Cleary.
DR.. G. F. Adams and DR.. F. B. Lans-
downe were elected delegates to the
annual meeting of the Wisconsin State
Medical society to be held in Milwa i
kee next September.
Several subjects of interest to the
medical profession were discussed at
the meeting and plans were made for
the meetings of the society through
out the coming year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Announces Changes
In Health Staff

Madison, Wis., ~. Mrs. Georgi.
ana Lonsdorf has returned to the
Manitowoc health department after
completing course with the Wiscon-
sin Anti-Tuberculosis association, the
state bureau of child welfare and
public health nursing announced to-
day.
Mrs. Barbara Fletcher has resigneS
as school nurse of Two Rivers to oes
come county nurse of Waukesha coun-
ty. Miss Marie Peterson was appoint
ed Dunn county nurse to succeed Miss
Marie Buckley, resigned. Miss Mary
Saxton resigned from the Visiting
Nurse association staff in Madison.
Miss Agnes Bill resigned as county
nurse of Trempealeau county to be
married, and Miss Lillian lie Fabyre,
school nurse at Lake Geneva, was mar
ried recently but will continue III her
position until January.
Miss Nina Brown, Neillsville, nurse
for county health centers in Clark,
jackson, Marathon and Wood coun-
ties, has resigned after two years
service.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
WOULD TAKE TAX
OFF AUTOMOBILES
Motor Club Receives Let
ter Written by A. A. A.
to Congress.
RELIEF is ASKED FOR

District Manager Frank N. Palmer,
of the Kenosha Motor club, today re-
ceived a communication from Thomas
P. Henry, president of the American
Automobile association, inclosing a
copy Of a letter to the Hon. William
R. Green, chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house at
Washington, D. c., in which the re
moval of all war excise taxes on mo-
tor cars is urged. In the letter, Mr.
Henry said among other things:
"The American Automobile assocfa-
ton is receiving inquiries from its
members due to an impression
throughout the country that com.
promise has been effected with the
ways and means committee, where
by the owners of 18,000,000 motor
vehicles in The United States will b
deprived Of the total relief from wal
excise taxes, to which they feel they
sre clearly entitled.
eve are responding that we, whC
still continue to pay the war take:
on tires, parts, accessories and new
automobiles are not a party to any
compromise, and that we shall con
tinue to press for complete elimina
tion of the unjust federal war ex
else taxes on motorists, which hav,
produced since 1917 more than 5000.
100000.
"There are no other federal take
that effect a greater number of Npeo
pie than the levies on tires, parts, &C
cessories, trucks and passenger auto
mobiles. Your present bill provide
for the elimination of the first fou
and only a two per cent reduction i
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Army Major Quits
Over Col. Mitchell


San Francisco, Cal. ~, = Major
Robert r. Morgan, reserve officer in
the army quartermaster corps, has
telegraphed resignation of his COM
mission to Washington, because OF
dissatisfaction over the findings OF
the court martial that tried Colonel
William Mitchell of the army air serv-
ice.
In his telegram Major Morgan &C
cused the general staff of incom-
potency and said that II have lost all
respect for my superiors that should
be held by all soldiers"
Major Morgan said in the message
that his attitude was caused by 1.-THE
fabian policy displayed by the war de-
partment toward national defense. He
termed the conduct of the Mitchell
court martial as Jasmine"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
BORN.


To Mr.. and Mrs. F. Mericle, 3o12
Enoch, Ill, a son, at st. GATHERINGS
hospital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. j. Pikna, 800
Ounce street, a son, at st. GATHERINGS
hospital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. W. Bewar, Route
2, Geneva road, son at st. Gather
ines hospital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. C. Hicks, no Pearl
street, a son, at st. GATHERINGS hos
pital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. A. Johnson, STA
Pomeroy street, son, at st. Gather
ines hospital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. N. Leipzig, $50
Adams street, a son, at st. GATHERINGS
hospital.
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Leland D. Birchard,
II Norman> avenue, daughter, Betty
Mae, Sunday, December 20, at their
home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Paying Fines for
Illegal Labelling

Madison, Wis. - a ) - violators
of state labelling and grading regula-
tions in the marketing of products
are paying the penalties, the Wiscon-
sin department of markets reports.
Potato dealers at Wild Rose, Anti
go and Rhirtelander have paid fnes
ranging from $25 to $50. A honey
dealer at Monroe, and an egg dealer at
Mondovi, also were punished, the lat
ter being fined for failing to comply
with the egg Gambling regulations, the
department also announced.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
III. S. Orders Prisoner
Taken to LeavenWOrth

Milwaukee, Wis. --,4k- - Attorney
General John S. Sargent has ordered
United States Marshal R. j. White to
remove Edward Grieb, a federal
prisoner and former city real estate
agent, from the Milwaukee house of
correction to the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kans.
The action on the part of the gov
eminent follows a controversy in
which it was asserted that placing
prisoners in the house of correction
for a longer period than IS months
was illegal. Attorney General Herman
L. Ekern of Wisconsin, upheld the
legality of house of correction con-
fnement for longer periods than Is
months.
Grieb is serving a five year sentence
for conspiracy to defraud in connec-
ton with the sale OF stock in the
defunct Union Food Stores company
He negotiated the state permit to sell
stock in Wisconsin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Bulgaria and Greece
Again Near Break

Sofia, Bulgaria -, The pros
poets of improved relations between
GAeece and Bulgaria are considered
to have been lessened by the execu-
ton Of 2 Bulgarians near Monastir.
The men were condemned by Greek
court martial on charges of participat-
ing in tae activities Of the Comitadji
s'bands Of irregulars." The news Of
the execution reached the Bulgarian
government through diplomatic cham
nels. The government is withholding
the news from the Bulgarian news
papers fearing that it will arouse
fresh agitation against Greece.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-24
Mayors Invite Coal
Men to Scranton, Pa.

Scranton, Pa .l-sg kilograms
were sent the miners and operators
this afternoon by Mayor Durham,
Scranton, chairman of the committee
of mayors and burgesses, asking them
to meet here tomorrow afternoon to
resume wage negotiations with the
understanding that the meeting will
not deal with Governor Pinchot's
peace plan alone nor preclude its
consideration.