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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29

"On the morning of January Sth,
this year, a fire broke out in the Rot
terdam building in Dayton. Before
fhe fire department could reach the
scene. the flames had gained con-
siderable Roadway in the basement
and had swept through the walls to
the fifth floor Forty people were
in the building and more than
score, overcome by fumes, were car
rieh out unconscious by firAmen. So
intense was the heat in the basement
That the lead meter connections had
melted and the firemen were sighting
back the flames to enable sofne one
10 gaia access to the front of the eel
lar where the gas could be turned off
As the fire was well under way, they
were having little success. The vol
umc OF escaping gas was rapidly in
creasng and an explosion was eS
bected at any moment, when Fred
Wunsch ran fearlessly into the fume
banked cellar and turned off the gas
at the service line. The City Com
mission officially cited him and re-
commended him to the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission for consideration.
Frank Mosley, an employe of the
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company,
plunged five times into - feet of water
at the wasiout Of the gas line in the
river crossing between Oklahoma City
and FL Reno. Each time he remained
at the bottom long enough to remove
heavy rock from the lid of valve
box which made it possible to close
the valve and restore gas service to
Yukon and Bethany when gas service
was in urgent need
"In the floor at Pueblo, Col, in June,
1921, the first public service company
to resume its service after this disas-
trous flood was the gas company. The
employees Of this company stood their
ground when they saw the wall of wa
ter rushing down the Arkansas river.
They did not have time to protect
themselves against the water, but
stood at the machines and retorts UNI
til the water was up to their necks.
They were obliged at this time to swim
for safety and to procure boats which
they used inside the plant as best they
could. These men continued on duty
continuously for 81 hours and they
placed gas service in the town after
an interruption Of two days"
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
SHERIFF's SALE


By virtue of Writ of fieri facias,
to me directed out of the New Jersey
Supreme Court. l will sell at Public
Sale, on:
THURSDAY, JUNE 18th. 1925
between the hours of II and o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, Ito wit.
at o'clock at the Court House,
Mount Holly, Burlington County, New
Jersey.
CONVEYS all that certain lot of
land situate at Delanco, in the Town
ship OF Beverly, County of Burling-
ton and State of New Jersey, being
lot number forty-six (46) as marked
on the map or plan of lots entitled
walters Extension of Delanco," be-
ing on the southwest side of Vine
Street as shown on said plan, being
bounded ON the North by said Vine
Street, on the East by lot number
forty-five (45) and on the South by
lot number forty-three (43) and on
West by lot number forty-seven (47,l
containing within said bounds a piece
of land fifty feet in front or width,
and one hundred and twenty-seven
feet, six inches in length or depth.
Seized as the property of Rebecca
Fisher, Defendant and taken in exc
cution at the suit of Asa D. Sands,
trading as Camden Electric Company,
Plaintiff, and to be sold by:
JOSEPH B. FLEETWOOD,
Sheriff.
Thomas B. Kentworthy, Attorney,
Dated May 18th. A. D. 1925.
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NOTICE
In the Matter of Frederick H.

In the Matter of Frederick H.
Meencil, Bankrupt.
To the creditors of Frederick H.
Meench, of Burlington, in the County
of Burlington, and district aforesaid,
bankrupt
Notice is hereby given that on the
23rd day of December, A. D. 1924
the said Frederick H. Meench was
duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that
the fiIst meeting of his creditors
will be held at my office, 1877 East
State Street, Groom 8041 Trenton,
New Jersey, on the 10th day of June,
A. d. 1925 at IL o'clock in the fore7
noon, daylight saving time,) at
which time the said creditors may
attend, prove their claims, appoint a
trustee, examine the bankrupt, and
transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
1t is not necessary for the creditors
personally to attend court sat the
above time and place, unless they de-
sire to examine the bankrupt, or par
ticipate in the election of trustee.
Proofs of claim may be mailed to the
Referee, 1877 East State Street Tren-
ton, New Jersey.
S. d. CLTPHANT,
Referee.
Trenton, N. j., May 22nd, A. D. 1925.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29

Trenton, N. j., May 22nd, A. D. 1925
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
NOTICE

is hereby given that writ of at
tachment at the suit of William c.
Keller against Christine A. Warthen
for the sum of $1400.00 was issued
out of the Burlington County Com
mon Pleas Court on March 31st, 1925
returned into Court April 9th, 1925.
G. DORE COGSWELL,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
526 Cooper Street, Camden, N. ].
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CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE
CURBS

Florence, N. j., May 25, 1925.
Sealed Proposals will be received
until 8 P. M. Daylight Saving Tiine)
Wednesday, June 10th, 1925, by the
Township Committee of Florence
Township, at the Fire House, Flor
ence, NJ j., for furnishing all mater
ials, machinery, plant and labor to
construct concrete curbs in the Sec
ton bounded by Delaware River, 7th,
Spruce Street and Foundry Street.
The work comprises approximately
the following:
435OO lineal feet of straight con-
crete curb.
276O lineal feet of annored radius
curb.
1888 lineal feet Of unarmored rad
Jus curb
Each bid must be accompanied by
certified check for 29o of the
amount bid payable to the order of
the Treasurer of Florence Township.
Plans and Specifications may be
seen at the office of Charles B.
Green, Township Clerk, Florence, N.
].
The Township reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive
any informality in any proposal if it
appears to the interest of the Town
ship so to do.
CHARLES B. GREEN,
Township Clerk.
SHERMAN & SLEEPER,
Consulting Engineers.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
SHORT SENTENCES TELL
OF SIX LITTLE TRAGEDIES


a man used lighted candle to
see # his gas meter was leaking.
1t was
a man patted strange bull dog
on the head to see if the animal
was affectionate. 1t wasn't.
A man speeded up to see if he
could beat the locomotive to the
crossing. He couldn't.
A man touched a trolley wire to
see if it was charged. It was.
A man struck a match to see If
his gasoline tank was empty II
wasn't.
a man cut out his advertising to
see II he could save money. He
didn't.-New Jersey Public Utility
Information Committee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Prominent Mason
Dies at His Home
Alexander Hall Active Among Several
Fraternal Organizations Here, Sue
cumbs After Prolonged Illness.

Death ended long illness for Alex
.anders Hall, SO, who died at his home
at Pei Hannan avenue on Monday aft
ernoon. The deceased had been in
failing health for some time and his
death did not come unexpectedly.
Alexander Hall was a member of
Garfield lodge, F. & A. M. No. 686, a
member of Kenosha chapter z. A. M.
No 8, Eastern Star, and a member of
the Kenosha lodge Of Elks.
In Kenosha during the past eight
years he was an employee 70 the Nash
Motors company. HeNwas a member
of the Ke-Nash-A club.
On June 26, 1918, he was married to
Miss Anna Gillian, who, with one son,
Chester, survives him. Also surviving
the deceased are his father, John A.
Hall of Kansas City, Mo-, and one
brother, William, also of Kansas City.
Funeral services will be held at the
Hansen funeral home at 10 o'clock on
Wednesday morning with services in
charge of the Kenosha lodge of Ma
sons. The remains will then be taken
to the Forest Home cemetery, Chicago.
where services will be held in the
chapel there, in charge of the Garfield
lodge of Masons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Brundage Optimistic
On st. Paul's Future

& Oshkosh, Wis. - NJ The prob
ability that the financial status of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road" will be rehabilitated soon, per-
hitting the road to be released from
its receivership into which it was re-
Gently thrown, was expressed by Ed
ward Brundage, Chicago, receiver for
that road, who spent the week end at
the home of E. C. Fahrney, here. Mr..
Brundage was formerly attorney gen.
eral of the state OF Illinois.
In expressing his optimistic view
of the railroads early financial re-
covery, Mr.. Brundage explained that
much depended upon expected govern
mental relief, but that improved eco
nomic cor ditions are also assisting in
the roads rehabilitation.
/ He said the receivership of the st.
Paul road has focused attention of
Congress upon the need of relief for
railroads in the northwest region and
expressed the belief that Congress
now appreciates and will meet this
need in the next session. Favorable
action of the interstate commerce
commission on the petition for an in
crease in freight rates would also
materially brighten the outlook, he
asserted.
He advocated that coast wide ship
ping rates-offering harmful competi-
tion to the railroads.&c. placed under
the control OF the interstate commerce
commission so that the rates can be
co-ordinated.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26

The porch, included in the floor plan, forms
an outdoor vestbule for the entrance to the
large living room which greets you with it's
cheerful fireplace. The opening into the din
ing room may be widened, if desired, to turn
almost the entire first floor into one room
The kitchen is very practical and COM
pactly arranged. The pantryette, with its
opening to the dining room sideboard, the
door to the basement stairs, and the passage
through the coat closet to the front door
give the kitchen strategic position in the
plan.
A Colonial stairway leads from the living
room to the second floor with it's bath and
four bedrooms, all with cross ventilation and
light.
The basement is provided with laundry,
heater, coal bins, vegetable cellar and storage
rooms. The ceiling heights are, first floor
feet 9 inches, second floor feet, and the
content is 23,1OO cubic feet
By extending the entry porch few feet,
a sleeping porch could be installed directly
off one Of the back bedrooms s
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Reveals Testimony
Withheld On Airship

Washington.--( 4 Arthur E. Carl
son, aviation chief rigger of the
wrecked Shenandoah, told the Shenan-
doah naval court today that one of tho
surviving officers of the airship, Lieut..
C. Bach, had told him not to give cer-
tain information to the court, unless
it was asked for specifically. This in
formation which Carlson withheld
when he first testified at Lakehurst,
was that 15 minutes before the Shen-
andoah broke up he had closed off at
amidships the internal gassing mani
fold connecting the 18 helium gas cells
and designed to permit equalization Of
the gas in the individual cells.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
SUGGESTS NEW
PAVING PROGRAM
State Highway Engineer
Tells County Board of
New Finance Plan.
TO BORROW MONEY

"A way for Keposha county to
finance a road building program next
year without bonding the county, was
presented by State Highway Engineer
Weymouth, when he appeared before
the county board of supervisors Mon
day afternoon. He outlined that in
his opinion Kenosha county should
pave two miles of the Geneva road, in
GLIDING the building Of a new bridge
over the Fox river, one and a half
miles of the Salem road and three
miles of the Burlington road.
This, it is estimated, will cost
$4,000 more than the amount which
the county will receive from state
and federal aid funds for the work.
Engineer Weymouth explained that
the county could borrow this amount
from the various county depository
banks and arrange to repay it as the
money was sent to the county from
state and federal funds in subsequent
years.
Means Smaller Program.
There had been talk of the county
engaging on a much larger road
building program for next year. That
would have included all of the re-
naming part of the Geneva road
from the Fox river bridge. to the
county line and other stretches on
other roads of the county. The total
cost of the bigger program would be
in the neighborhood of $500,000 and
could be carried on only by the is
suance of bond issue to be repaid
as the county receives the money from
state funds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
.KENOSHA Gas ii,
|. GIGANTIC MERGER
Election of A. X. Ellis of
Appleton as General Man.
ager is Announced.
HYDRO-ELECT. POWER

The electin of A. K. Ellis of Apple
ton as vice-president and general man
ager of Wisconsin Traction, Light,
Heat & Power Co., with main offices
at Appleton, and of the Peninsular
Power Co., with main offices at Iron
Mountain, Mich, is announced.
These companies and their subsidi-
aries are associated with the Milwau-
kee Electric Railway & Light Co., Wis
consin Gas & Electric Co., Milwaukee
Northern Railway Co., and Badger
Public Service. Co., to form North
American company's Wisconsin, ichi-
gan group of public utilities. Kenosha
is part of this system.
Rise is Rapid.
Mr.. Ellis entered the employ of the
Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat &
Power company as an assistant super
intendent in 1897. He became super
intendent of railway and power plants
in 1899, general superintendent in 1913
and general manager in 1928. He be-
came general manager of Peninsular
Power company when it was acquired
by the North American company last
year.
Growth of Wisconsin Traction, Light,
Heat & Power company since Mr.. Ellis
became its general superintendent and
acting manager in 1913, has been rapid.
The property account in 1913 was ST.
682, 1868; in 1925 $7,2O9, 441; the gross
revenue in 1913 was $319,915; in 1925
81, 484,004; number of customers sup
piled by gas and electric departments
increased from 5,712 in 1913 to 1886
in 1925. Subsidiaries operated by the
Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat &
Power company in it's surrounding ter
ritory serve over 1900 additional cleo
trio service customers in villages and
on farms.
Power for Mining.
Peninsular Power company sells cleo
| trio power at wholesale to Iron Noun
tain, Iron River, Crystal Falls and
other cities and villages on either side
of the Michigan Wisconsin border and
to the big mines of the Mesaba range
| All Of these utilities are to be inter.
connected with Milwaukee Electric
Railway & Light company and Wiscon-
sin Gas & Electric company for inter
change of hydro-electric and steam
| electric energy over transmission lines
now being erected. The main line is
completed from Milwaukee to Apple
ton; the section between Appleton and
Iron Mountain is expected to be ready
| for service on or before December 81
| 1925.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
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I'll in Joliet Prison
Convicted Viking Express Slayer
Loses Weight and is Weak,
is Report.

Bernhardt Mylin, who in company
with Edwsrd Smith, was sentenced to
the Joliet state prison for % years
for the Staying of Russell Sage Dickey,
express messenger on tn Viking, DUR
ing an attempted robbery on the
North Western railway, after convic-
tion in the circuit court at Wauke-
gan, is reported to be III a serious
state of health at the prison. This
is the word brought back from Joliet
by members of Sheriff Ahlstrom's Of
fee at Waukegan.
Mylin is said to have lost much
weight and 20 be in very weakened
condition at present. AT the time
Mylin was sentenced he said it was
the same as life sentence to him,
as he could not live more than
two years behind prison bars.
The prisoner apparently has be-
haved well as a prisoner, as he has
been moved from the old to the new
prison. He has been working in the
hospital for the past few months
An echo of the Viking robbery case
in which Mylin and Smith were con-
victed, will be heard at the December
term of Lake county circuit court
when Ralph Mckee and Ben Smith will
stand trial once more, this time on q
charge of conspiracy to rob.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Cork Mayors Mother
Visiting in Chicago
Mrs. Ella French, Gray Haired, Kept
Her Presence a Secret
From Public.

Chicago.-Tasgg Few If the cosmo-
politan residents of a certain brick
block on the west side knew that the
edignifed, staid, grayhaired lady from
the old country who was visiting in
the old-fashioned two-family house
with the high front stoop was the
mother of the Lord Mayor of Cork.
For Mrs. Ella French held that
gentility is marked by unobstrusive-
ness, and did not believe in heralding
oneself with trumpet.
81 have always lived quietly" she
said today, s'not mingling much with
the world. / had not supposed my
presence in this city was known to
anyone but these of my own family.
/ have daughters in this country, but
they might not wish me to name
them without their permission. We
are very quiet folk
Mrs. French has been visiting a
daughter in Coffeyville, Kan.,s, Mrs.
John Ridgeway.
And while Mrs. French was keeping
her presence a secret from the city
she was cherishing another secret
from her own household. None but
the daughter in Coffeyville knew that
she was beginning to write her
memoirs. She hesitated to tell the
others, lest they "fancy their mother
is going crazy in her latter years"
Perhaps too, they might think it in
consistent with the family tradition
of quietness.
1t was not until recently, while pay
ing late in life her first visit to the
adopted land of her daughters, that
she formed her resolve to set down
some of the recollections of full and
varied life, in which epoch-making
events had transpired. X
Impressed by the new things she
saw here, and not least by the high
prices and the relatively lavish scale
of living, Mrs. French began first to
write of them, for the perusal of her
friends at home. It then occurred to
her to tell some of the things she had
seen earlier in life which many had
forgotten. A desire to do something
on her own account to expand an
Irish income to meet American de-
mands provided an incentive. But be-
fore she goes further, she waits the
approval or disapproval of her daugh-
tiers, who know American ways bet
ter than she.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
North Shore to Keep
Offices at HighwOod
Extensive Building by Line in Wauke-
gan is for Expansion, it is
Stated by officials.

The Highwood Offices Of the North
Shore electric line and the works in
that village will not be moved to Wau-
kegan and be located on the company's
property on the south side, it was
learned yesterday after a conferen :e
between North Shore officials, Mayor
burst and Commissioner L. ]. wager
at Waukegan.
Jesse Hyatt, chief engineer of the
road, stated, however, that the big
project for their so acres or more of
property in Waukegan would be car
ried out, with the company building
paint shops, barns, repair shops, etc.,
as business warranted. A garage cost
ing more than 100000 for the motor
coaches is being constructed there now.
Nothing will be moved from High
wood, according to Mr.. Hyatt, but he
declares there is no room for expan-
sion there, and that the Waukegan site
will have to be the grounds for the
roads future shops. He declares that
in time this district will all be built up.
The conference yesterday was over
the matter of putting streets through
the company property. There is about
a four block stretch at this point and
no streets are carried all the way
&hrounh-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Racine May Take New
Belder Salary Action

A movement is said to be on foot
among members of the Racine county
board to have action started anew be-
fore the board to secure a new ep-
preparation by that county for addi-
tional salary to be paid to Circuit
Judge E. B. Belden, beginning January
list. 1t is talked that resolution to
that effect be introduced at an ad-
journed meeting of the board next
Friday. Some definite action along
this line is being urged because Racine
does not wish to be behind Kenosha
and Walworth counties which have de-
cided to stand by their appropriations.
Racine county last week rescinded its
action, appropriating $4,000 year ad-
ditional salary to the judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
North Shore Train
Crushes Automobile

Leaping from his auto just in time,
Louis Della Vale, of North Chicago,
miraculously escaped death when a
North Shore limited train struck and
demolished >the car. Della Vale was
at times special Investigator for
the states attorneys Office in Wauke-
gan. Owing to obstruction, Della
Vale says, it was impossible for him
to see the train approaching from the
south and he drove onto the tracks
directly in front of it. The auto was
reduced to hopeless wreck, while its
driver landed safely and escaped injury.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
No Compromise, Says
LenrOOt to Coolidge

Washington, ii President Cool
idge has been advised by Senator Len
root of Wisconsin not to compromise
With enemies of the world court in the
senate. There is no necessity, he said,
for accepting reservations or amend
ments that will be distasteful to the
administration. He predicted that a
form of ratification patterned after the
Harding Hughes proposal would mus
ter rs votes, or about a dozen more
than needed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26

and by the associations themselves,
in order to provide such data for exc
cutive Judgment, is in itself evidence
of their usefulness" At the close of
the fiscal year 103 trade and indus
trial associations were supplying the
bureau with regular statistical reports
for publication in the Survey of Cur
rent Business. The data in these re-
ports were collected by the associa-
tions directly from the separate es-
Establishments and were sent to the bu-
reau of publication. In every case
the publication is general, the infor-
nation being made available to all
persons irrespective of their interests
or industrial affiliations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Auto Death Toll
In Chicago Now FOG

Chicago. - \-.S.' - An automobile
death toll in Chicago and vicinity for
1925 stood at 706 today, higher than
for any previous year. Eighteen
deaths were recorded her last week,
including two on Sunday. Deaths in
automobile mishaps in ten middle
states for the week numbered So as
compared with 115 for the previous
week. Ohio headed the list with 20,
while Illinois reported 20 and Indiana
IL. Others were Missouri and Okla
h ma each, Texas and Minnesota 4
each, South Dakota and Kansas q
North Dakota L.
The over-Sunday toll of auto mis-
haps was small but nearly a score
met death in airplane and fire acct
dents by drowning, poison, and from
variety of other causes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
Capt. Evans Quits
Great Lakes Post

Chicago, Ill. - >A?) = Captain
Waldo Evans, commandant of the
ninth naval district and naval training
station at Great Lakes, ILL.,, retires to-
day after having completed S8 years
of service.
He saw the navy pass from sailing
ships to dreadnaughts. He prides him.
self in having served the navy when
men were experts in seamanship just
as they now are masters in mechan-
les. He will be succeeded by Captain
John 7. Hines, Of the naval war coll
lege, Newport, r. l.
Captain Evans expects to spend the
winter at least in Florida. His plans
fsx civil LIE am as yet uncompleted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
u. S. Court UphOlds
Oil Lease Inquiry

Washington.-N.E "A move by the
Standard Oil company of California to
stop the interior departments investi-
cation into the mineral character of
certain of its Elk Hills, CAL, land hold
ings, was overruled today in the SUI
preme court of the District of Column
bia. Chief Justice Mccoy in denying
q prelim nary injunction sought by the
company, declared the secretary of the
interior was authorized by law to press
the inquiry and that no court had a
right to stop him.