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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Two Licenses. for
Some Institutions
Attorney General Rules Regarding
Licenses Needed for Some Child
Caring Institutions.

Madison, Wis Private insti-
buttons in Wisconsin serving in the
double capacity of a child caring
agency and home finding agency must
pay license fee of five dollars for
each activity, ]. E. Messrschmidt, as
sistant attorney general, held today in
an opinion to the board of control.
Each activity requires a license
under the statute and the two licenses
cannot be issued to one institution
when only one fee is paid, the
opinion said.
In an opinion given today to Phillip
F. La Toilette, district attorney of
Dane county, C. A. Erikson, deputy
attorney general, held that an adjoin-
ing land owner cannot obtain title to
any portion of highway even though
he has encroached upon it with his
fences for more than forty years.
The opinion was given in connec-
ton with Entertainments on Highway
13 in Dane county. The road was
originally four rods wide, but early
fences cut it down to about three rods.
The highway is now a federal aid
project and its original width must
be restored. The opinion cited former
rulings 70 the effect that title TO por-
lions Of streets or highways cannot
be obtained by adverse possession.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Charges Woman, 20,
with Assaulting Him
Frank Sandt Brings Old Woman Into
Court for Throwing Pail of Water
on Him in Backyard Fight.

Because she lost her temper and
became provoked, Mrs. Louise Mccoy,
aged 70 years, was brought into court
this morning charged with assault and
battery on the person of Frank Sandt,
1016 Elizabeth street, who made the
complaint Sandt charges that he was
working on property which adjoins
the Mccoy home at 463 Newell street,
when Mrs. Mccoy threw a pail of
water on him. The spectacular climax
came in the midst of an argument
the two have been having for a long
time over property lives.
Mrs. Mccoy told Judge Baker that
she had never been in court before,
and that ~ wouldn't be in court now
if this man was a gentleman" The
judge cautioned the two and urged
them to get together on a mutual I'M
Outstanding that would eliminate the
trouble between them.
The case was dismissed by the judge
on payment of the costs by the de-
PENDANT.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Three Secure
Divorces Today
Judge Belden Presides in Circuit
Court This Morning ard Grants
Three Petitions.

Three plaintiffs in divorce actions
were granted DEGREES by Judge Belden
in circuit court this morning. They
were Agnes Bray, granted divorce from
Glenn Bray; Viola Dugas from John
Dugas and Pauline Rogers from Avery
Rogers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers were married
in Chicago July %, 1914 and have two
children, Jack, 9, and William, 8.
Cruel and inhuman treatment by
physical violence and otherwise was
charged. Mrs. Rogers said her hus-
band had a bad temper, was very
quarrelsome and struck her.
Viola Dugas and John Dugas, a
couple now living in Milwaukee, were
married October %, 1918, at Mantle
voc. They have two children, Beulah
5, and Doris, 8. Mrs. Dugas said that
her husband never provided a proper
home, that they have always lived in
a furnished room and that for some
time he has been keeping company
with another women and that he boards
at the house where the other woman
lives.
Agnes Bray was granted a divorce
from Glenn Bray and the right to re-
sumo her maiden name of Agnes Weis-
ang. She charged that her husband
had been associating with other wo-
men.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Leslie A. MINIS
Dead at Salem
Death Summons Prominent Resident
of the Town of Salem Saturday
After Illness of Several Weeks.

Death summoned a prominent cltl-
zen of Salem when Leslie A. Minnis
succumbed Saturday afternoon follow
ing an illness Of many weeks Of a
malignant nature. The decreased
was we'll and favorably known in this
vicinity, having spent nearly all his
life in and around this village. For
the past twenty-five years he had
served as an r. F. D. carrier and I'M
tiringly and efficiently served large
number of patrons daily during in
clement weather and almost impass-
able roads as well as under favorable
conditions. In spite of i'll health he
continued in this service until only
a few weeks before his death. He
had been active in the public affairs
of the community and was trust
worthy and respected neighbor. For
many years he had been prominent in
the local work of the Modern Wood
men of America, of which organiza-
tion he was member.
The deceased was born in Mitchell
county, Iowa, September IL, 1871, q
son Of the late Joseph and Fidelia
Minis, and came to- Salem when about
nine years of age.
On June 5, 1895, he was united in
marriage with Miss Annie Clark, who
survives him. To this union were
born five daughters, Mrs. Leone Hun
toon and Enola, Lucia, Vesta, and
Jean, at home. He is also survived
by three sisters and two brothers
Mrs. Edna Knaus of Mortified, Mimi;
Mrs. Lucia Orvis, and Mrs. Grace
Durkin, of Chicago; Grant MINIS OF
Kenosha; and Lee MINIS of Salem
and fne-day-old grandson, George
Leslie Huntoon, of Salem.
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at 1880 o'clock at the
Salem M. E. church, Rev. Carl Reetz
of FIT. Atkinson, former pastor OF
this charge, officiating. Interment will
follow in the family plot at Salem
Mound cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
DISCUSS MORALS
AT CHURCH MEET
Morality of Nations Con-
Germs Heads of Ameri-
can Churches.
JEAN MATHEWS TALKS

Can a nation be moral? This is
the question Dean Shailre Mathews
of the Theological Seminary Of the
University of Chicago asked this
morning in opening the Conference
on international Relations from the
Christian Point of View.
The meeting, which will last a
week, is under the auspices of the
Commission on International Justice
and Goodwill of the Federal Council
of Churches. Dean Mathews was pres
ident Of the council for four years,
and is regarded as one of the out
standing churchmen of the United
States. Religious leaders from vari-
Gus parts of the country are expected
to take part in the discussions.
Nations Are Moral Units.
Nations hvae not hitherto regard
ed themselves as moral units" said
DR.. Mathews, pointing out that ma
tions must build up customs of grant
ing justice and organize their group
life in accordance with the principles
of mutual dependence.
Morality" he asserted, "has ex-
listed within nations, individuals have
recognized right and wrong, but ma
tions themselves have recognized no
ultimate authority except war. The
individuals Of one nation have had
rights within the confines of others
in accordance with treaties. Nations
have bargained with nations but
there have been no international NOR
ais in the sense that there have been
individual morals.
"The explanation of this fact is APP
parent. Morality is the outgrowth of
group life, and there has been no
group life for nations sufficient to de-
velop customs upon which morality
rests. The law of the nations has
been law of force mitigated by agree
ments dictated by pride, economic
policy, and fear. Just as there has
been no morality among individuals
until group life developed, there will
be no morality between nations until
group life of nations develops.
In Process of Evolution.
"Such morality is in the process of
evolution. It is possible to discover
parallels between the development of
individual morality and the processes
of international relations. Imperial
ism is an attempt to develop nation
al morals by the subsection of the
weaker to the stronger nations. But
imperialism has repeatedly shown it
self fatal. No empire that has rested
upon coercive methods has survived.
Only as nations have established mu-
tual regard for rights have they been
able TO cooperate. The development
of the British Commonwealth is an il
lustration of this fact.
advance toward international NOR
ality has been made by those nations
that have longest followed the princi-
pies of democracy. There have been
a number of cases of arbitration
which have served as precedents for
building up further extension of the
same principle. Only as reciprocal
relationship is established can there
be genuine morality between nations,
Until there is formed some society of
nations In some way comparable with
the society of individuals, we can not
hope to have an international moral
ity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
GUN TOTERS GET
MAXIMUM FINE
CosentinO and Greco Fin
ed $50 and Costs for
Carrying Guns.
EXCUSE DIDN'T STAND

Giving as their reason for carrying
concealed weapons the fact that they
were both protecting $185 in cash in
the pockets of one of them, Joseph
Cosentino, 656 Fleet street, and Joseph
Greco, 920 Pearl street, pleaded guilty
to the charge before Judge r. V.
Baker in municipal court this morning
and were fined $50 and costs each,
or an alternative of thirty days in
the county Jail.
In the defense of their act Cosen-
tino declared that he had just re-
ceived $185 from his brother-in-law
which he was taking home in order
that he could pay that amount down
on his home the next morning. Greco
offered to go with HON to his home
and both carried loaded 32's 60 pro-
tect themselves, they said. The two
were arrested by Special Officer Fox
at 1920 o'clock in the morning when
they could not give satisfactory ac-
count of their whereabouts. At
the police Office the weapons were
found On them.
Powell Hits Practice.
District Attorney Lewis Powell
pleaded for the maximum fine. There
is altogether too much gun-toting in
Kenosha and we've got to put stop
to it. These men say they were car
rying guns to protect $185. That
means that they were ready to kill
some one if that money was threat
ened," he said.
Judge Baker declared that if there
had been given him some just cause
for having carried the guns in self
protection, the maximum fine would
not have been invoked, but merely to
protect the money, he said, and with
two men to do it, sounded "unrea-
sonable."
"We're going to sound death
knell to every man carrying danger
Gus weapons in Kenosha county if we
have to give the maximum fine every
time we get man charged with that
offense."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Outstanding Amount

The funeral of Harry Bernard
Bevins was held this afternoon from
the Bristol Methodist church. Inter-
ment was made at the Hosmer ceme-
terry.
Attorney Clifford E. Randall was
in East Troy today to attend the
funeral services of his cousin, Albert
A. Schwartz, leader in the life Of
that community.
Members of the Waukegan City
Commission were in Kenosha Thurs
day afternoon to inspect the Elgih
pumper which was recently installed
here. Waukegan is in the market for
such a machine.
oliver Craft and Harold Blundert
were arrested by officers Lawrence
Melbusch and Paul Rohde for fighting
at the corner of Elizabeth street and
Fremont avenue on Thursday night.
Both were fined $500 and costs on
charges of intoxication.
F. B. Hempel, mail clerk of Bur-
bank, California, has made arrange
ments to exchange places with John
Kgerrumgaard, clerk employed at
the Kenosha postofice.a The latter will
go to Burbank within short time.
The funeral of Phyllis Sylvia
Dworak, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward DworS[ of T33 Racine avenue,
will be hello on Saturday morning at
eight O'Clock from ST. Cassimer's
church. Interment will be at st.
George cemetery.
James Mexis, $50 Erie street, charg-
ed with assault and battery, pleaded
not guilty to the charge before Judge
Baker this morning and his case was
continued for preliminary hearing on
July 81 at nine o'clock with bonds
at twenty-five dollars.
j. M. Gordon was bound over for
trial in the October term of court
this morning after preliminary hear
ing before Judge Baker. Gordon is
charged with possession Of intoxicat-
ing liquor at the soft drink parlor
connected with the Fox River gardens.
Bonds were set at $500.
Anton Kemen, 815 Grand avenue,
was arrested for speeding by officer
Delos Reynolds at the corner of How
land and Grand avenue on Thursday
afternoon. Reynolds said he was going
80 miles an hour. Kemen pleaded
guilty to the charge and was fined
$1,000 and costs in municipal court
this morning.
John ]. O'Connor, proprietor Of
Barney Island, portion of Grass
Lake, has offered proof to show that
I -rE
dying as was previously stated. He
claims that the roots are alive and
that while the lotus beds will not
bloom this year, they will be bloom
ing again in two years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23

nels provided by the constitution was
responsible. This far-sightedness
prevailed upon conservation to provide
for years ahead when Wisconsin will
be called upon by public sentiment
and rapidly diminishing of the nat
ural beauty and utility of the forests
of the state to furnish enormous sums
of money for maintenance and re-
storation.
Highway Far Ahead.
That it is the age of transportation
Is established by charts showing tnss
OF the IL major purposes of states i'm
debtedness the highway is far ahead
of all the rest with S4.2 per cent
ratio
When it is rem rendered that devel-
opment of state highway systems is
comparatively recent, the total of
$626,S32, $50 for this purpose becomes
significant The figure includes also
the building and maintenance Of
bridges. New York leads the country
in value of outstanding bonds for
highway purposes, having a debt Of
$98,S00000 incurred for road con-
struction. California holds second
place with a highway debt amounting
to $66,S25,000,
Soldiers's bonus comes second in the
list of purposes with total of $751;
697600, or 1874 per cent of the aggre-
gate. Only II of the as states have
issued bonds for this purpose. The
following table give all the major
purposes of which of course, there are
subdivisions,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
JOSEPH CONLEY
CASE IS HEARD
Charged with Fourth De-
gree Manslaughter
of Art Baltis.
ENDS THIS AFTERNOON

The preliminary hearing of Joseph
Conley charged with fourth degree
manslaughter, was commenced in the
municipal court this morning before
Acting Municipal Judge R. V. Baker
and was continued this afternoon. The
state was represented by District At
torney Lewis w. Powell and his as
sistant, John Kennedy, while the de-
Tense was represented by Attorney
Roy S. Stephenson.
Conley is charged with manslaugh-
ter in the fourth degree as the result
of the death of Arthur Baltis after an
accident on the Birch road June 10
1926, when the car driven by Baltis
and the car driven by Conley collided
Defense to Give its Side.
The state witnesses called this
morning were John Baltis, a cousin
of Arthur, who was a passenger in
the car at the time of the accident
an6 Coroner Joseph Friend. John
Baltis admitted that he had been doz-
ing in the car just before the COLI
sion and did not see the Conley car
coming towards him. He knew moth
luk uIiIAA hS hCaLQ VIC CAaSAs Az oAN
the coroner testified to the wheel
tracks found in the road the morning
following the midnight Of the COLI
sion.
Arthur Baltis was driving Ford Sc
dan with Riverside cord tires; the
two witnesses said that they found
tracks of Riverside cord tires for
about seventy feet on the highway
two feet off the concrete until at q
point where the wheel track turned at
an angle upon the concrete where the
print ended, indicating the stop OF
the car The other car, the tracks
showed, had gone to a distance OF
about 100 feet, the witnesses said. Elk
act measurements will be shown that
the ConIey car travelled lao feet, il
is said.
The hearing will be finished this
afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Police Have
Offenders in Court
Nineteen Are Arrested by the Police
Over the Weekend; Charges
Are Various.

Nineteen persons were arrested by
the police over the weekend. Among
those who were brought into court this
ed elsewhere, were the following:
Frank Landers, 500 North Ridge
street, arrested by Police Officers
Ambelang and Callahan for disorderly
conduct. He was very abusive to the
officer at the German-American hall
on Grand avenue, and using foul
language. Landers struck the officer,
knocking him down, and this morning
exhibited bleeding shirt and band
aged head. He told Judge Baker that
the officer had struck him with his
sap; Caltain Clausen explained that
this was after the man had struck
the officer. He was required to pay $40
and costs for the doctors bill and in
addition was fined $40 and costs.
Arthur Nordling, 1910 Market street,
was fined SIS and costs when he plead
ed guilty to the charge of intoxica-
ton. Although not included in the
charge the police report said that
Nordling was guilty of indecent ex-
posure also.
Charles Sukas, LOT North Pleasant
street, another bleeding defendant
who showed that the weekend had
been one of warfare for him, was fined
$40 and costs for causing trouble at
Pete Norbutt's f1use. This time, the
police said, Pete was sober. The other
fellow came over to see Pete's wife,
and Pete hit him over the head with
a bottle. Sukas came to the police
Office to make complaint but after
the police had investigated the case,
they arrested the complainant.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Subdivision Has
Private Beach
Development of lakewood Terrace by
Midwest Development Company
to Begin Next Week.

Announcement was made today by
j. A. Foster, Jr., that the Midwest
Development company has taken over
the Robertshaw and Hawkes. subdivi-
sion on the Lake Shore road, mile
and half north of Kenosha, for de-
velopment into restricted residence
section. The subdivision is divided
into twenty lots running from the
highway to the beach and has 255
foot private beach declared to be as
good as any beach section between
Kenosha and Racine.
The company plans to begin next
week with actual construction and
development projects on the subdivi-
sion and work on four homes will
be started at that time.
The subdivision is located directly
across <the road from the DR.. Ross
home /on the Lake Shore road.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Chester Block Dies
Friday Afternoon
The Funeral of Chester Block Was
Held Monday Afternoon at
Marion, WISCONSIN.

Chester Edward Block, age Fl years,
died at the Kenosha hospital Friday
afternoon after short illness. He
was born January 80, 1904, and is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Block.
The greater part of his life was spent
in the northern part of Wisconsin.
About one year ago he came to Ke-
nosha and he had been working IN this
city since that time. He was mem
Der of the Modern Woodmen of
America in this city.
He is survived by his mother and
father at Marion, Wisconsin; three
brothers, Herbert, Benjamin and Eu-
gene, all of Marion, and four sisters,
Meta, of Clintonvill,, Lillian of Keno
sha, and Anna and Evelyn of Marion.
The remains were taken to Marion,
Wisconsin, where the funeral was held
this afternoon. Interment was made
in the family plot in the Marion
cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
BABY DEATHS
DECREASE HERE
Infant Death Rate in Ke-
nOsha So Per Thousand
Births in 1924.
WAS 90 IN 1923
Infant Mortality Rate in State
Also Shows Decrease for
the Year 1924.

That Kenosha is becoming a better
city in which to be born was demon
strated today when figures made pub
lie by the state board of health re-
vealed that the infant mortality rate
here decreased in 1924 to So deaths
per one thousand births as against 90
deaths per thousand births in 1923.
This big decrease in baby deaths for
Kenosha had been forecast by previ-
Gus announcements made by the local
health department and now confirmed
by a report on urban infant NOR
tally, compiled by the American
Child Hygiene society, and published
by the state board of health.
The big decrease in infant mortality
here brings Kenosha among the leaders
of cities in Wisconsin in low infant
death rates. In 1923 Kenosha had
some conditions to meet which made
the rate exceptionally high; in 1922
it was 10 and now it has been de-
creased to the low average of 30
deaths per thousand births.
Wisconsin Eleventh in States.
Wisconsin ranked eleventh in 1924
among the states having birth regis
tration laws. It's infant death rate
in that year was SO per 1000 births,
as compared with n per 1000 births
in 1928, when the state ranked twelfth.
Twenty-one cities in Wisconsin were
covered in the associations report.
Of them, Madison exhibited the low
est infant mortality with rate of 40,
a decrease of 22 over it's 1923 rate.
Marinette was the honor city of 1923
with a rate of At.
The infant death rate for the cities
in the birth registration area, COM
prising the greater portion of 80
states, was 1872 as compared with 70
for 1923. Cities are classified by
groups according to population. The
lowest urban rate is for oregon, 514
with Washington close second with
Sic and Minnesota third, Sc.
Demand Registration.
"In analyzing the figures, stats
ticians consider the adequacy of birth
reporting, upon which much depends
for a fair ranking with other units,
and the possibility that cities with
baby boarding homes, will show in
creased fatalities among children I'M
der one year of age" the report said.
"The quickest and easiest way to
reduce high infant mortality rate
recorded against q city is to demand
registration of every birth, as re-
CURED by law. Infant mortality
figures should awaken a desire in
every city to know local conditions
better.
at should be known whether all
births ere registered, all mothers get
prenatal care, mid-wives are licensed
and inspected, child health centers
are provided, the milk supply is pure,
school children are taught health
habits, and medical school inspection
is maintained in the interest of
100000 babies born in the United
States each year"
Record of Badger Cities.
Morfa1it1y rates for WISCONSIN cities
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
Orders Casket with
Radio Set Attached

Los Angeles, CAL ~ Sam R.
Kimball, aged San Fernando Valley
rancher, has placed an order with a
Los Angeles undertaken for a $1,000
steel coffin equipped with an up to
date radio receiving set, it was re-
vealed today.
In directing that the radio equipped
coffin be prepared to receive his body,
Kimball explained that he is convinced
that the soul fingers near the body
until the day of judgment and that
he will be able to "hear what is go
ing on in the world" after he dies
if properly laid away in the super
heterodyne casket.