davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
FOX RIVER

Oscar Yanke had the misfortune
one day last week while hauling a
load of oats to town, when one of his
horses slipped on the icy road and had
a leg broken and had to be killed.
VIM. Kerkman shipped carload Of
stock to Chicago market on Monday.
Mrs. John Miller and Mrs. Henry
Vanderzee were Burlington visitors on
Last Friday.
Agnes Koehler and Florence Wolf of
Kenosha spent Sunday at the c. j..
Koehler home.
George Sandberg and family spent
Thursday evening at the Walter Bos-
sellman home near Twin Lakes.
Mrs. Sam Schools of Wilmot called
on friends here last Wednesday after
noon.
Henry Vanderzee and family and
Geo. Daisy motored to Waukegan last
Wednesday.
Herman Hoffman visited at the
Chas. Kaddatz home at SHADES Corners
for few days the past week.
C. J. Koehler and wife attended
Hans Bossellman's funeral at Bassetts
last Friday Afternoon.
Jshn Vanderzee and wife were Burl-
ington visitors last Monday.
Mrs. John Miller spent Monday in
Kenosha.
Mrs. Louis Sandberg visited rela-
tives at Wheeling, Ill, recently.
John Vanderzee and wife, Mrs. Fan
ME Vanderzee and daughter Mary
visited at the Pieba Vanderzee home
last Thursday.
Mrs. Ed. Lois was Kenosha visitor
last Thursday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
Alice M. Krogh
Dead in West
Word Reached Kenosha This Morning
of the Death of Miss Alice NJ.
Krogh in Paio Alto.

Messages reaching Kenosha this
morning told of the death at Palo
Alto, California, several days ago of
Miss Alice NJ Krogh, IL years of age,
formerly of Kenosha, but for the past
year a resident of California. She
died at the. home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. J. Krogh, in Palo Alto,
after a short illness.
Miss Krogh was native Of Keno
sha, being born here April 20, 1906,
and had lived here the greater part
of her life. She had many friends in
Kenosha to whom the news of her
death will come as a personal sorrow.
IN PaIo Alto she had been employed
by the Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph company as an operator. Sur
viving her are her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. j. Kregh; a sister, Katherine,
and two brothers, Ellsworth and
Willard.
Funeral services were held in Palo
Alto with the Reverend A. R. Kurtz,
pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran
church there, officiating, with interment
following in the Alta Mesa cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
May Eliminate
Pullman Surcharge

Washington D. C-Whether the
House will follow the majority rec
ommendation of its commerce commit
tee against the Senate bill to elimin-
ate the fifty per cent surcharge for
travel in pullman coaches will be de-
cided upon when it votes on the ques-
ton in taking up the pending confer
ence report on the independent of
fices appropriation bill The report
carries senate rider to accomplish
the same purpose.
All but three of the 81 members of
the House committee joined in an
adverse report yesterday on the bill,
approved by the Senate at the last ses-
sion, declaring it would initiate d.
rect rate-making by congress - a SER
ious and unwise departure from long
established policy A minority re-
port urging enactment Of the bill will
be submitted by two democratic mem
bers Barley Of Kentucky, and
Parks, Arkansas.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
BUYS SITE FOR
FACTORY HERE
Chicago Broker Buys Acre
and a Half on South Side
for Factory Site.
BUILDING SUPPLIES

Indication that a business of no
small proportions would be started
soon on the south side of Kenosha
just beyond the city limits. was given
this morning in the announcement of
the sale of a tract of land to Chi
cago brokerage firm with the under
standing that it is to be used as the
site for builders supply Company.
The tract in question formerly be-
longed to Charles G. Hastings and is
located along the Northwestern rail-
way tracks and east of them; it lies
between Park avenue and the North
western line, being about at the place
where Garfield avenue would reach
if extended. There is at present no
street outlet to the site but they will
be opened up shortly.
The tract was purchased from Mr..
Hastings through the Lawrence Hast
ings real estate firm by H. M. Gar
dinier, Chicago broker, who said he
was acting for Chicago firm. The
tract comprises an acre and a half
and is $50 feet long, extending along
the railway tracks and giving ample
room for a freight switch to be es-
tablished there.
Looked Over Other Sites.
Mr.. GARDINER looked over several
other sites, two of them all ready
equipped with buildings. He insisted,
however, that the site should be along
the main line of the railway company
and for that reason preferred the
tract to the south of the city. He was
in a hurry to close the deal, stating
that his company was anxious to get
started as soon sas possible.
1t is believed that the company,
while not connected with the concern
which is developing the Mrs. McCor-
mick tract south of the city, which is
to be known as Shorthand, has been
attracted to Kenosha by reason of this
promised development. The news that
The building supply concern is to be
established upholds the rumors that
actual building operations will start in
Shorthand within very short time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
Norma Scherer of Milwau-
kee, Granted Divorce in
Court Here.
HE TRIED SUICIDE
Joseph Scherer, Well Known
Figure in Milwaukee, Named
in Gambling Case.

Norma Scherer, a pretty slim little
chorus girl from Milwaukee, was grant
ed a divorce in the municipal court
here Thursday afternoon, Judge Baker
presiding in the temporary absence
of Judge Slater.
Her husband, Joseph Scherer had
started the divorce action, claiming
that he could not live with his wife
because she was nagging and quarrel
some, but the divorce was granted on
the wife's counter claim. She was
also allowed to resume her maiden
name of Norma Bub. She said she
would not ask for alimony as she was
able to support herself.
Had Already Done So.
In giving her testimony in the case
she informed the court that she had
supported herself throughout her mar
rage to Scherer, and that one time
he. got into her trunk and took $15,
when that sum was all that stood be-
tween herself and want. On another
occasion he took from her trunk fur
cape which he had given her previ-
Gus to their marriage, and she never
saw the cape again, nor knew what he
had done with it.
She said that he gambled, did not
work, and was accustomed TO come
to her for money, until she informed
him that if he could not support
himself at least, she would have to
get divorce.
Scherer in Court.
The young woman's mother, testi-
fled that Scherer had lived at her
home for time, but never offered
her dollar in return for his keep.
"He did not seem to like work." she
said, che used to come in at midnight
or after, and lie in bed in high noon
the next day."
Scherer achieved some notoriety in
Milwaukee in january, 1924, when he
drank iodine after an affidavit con-
corning tip-off given ma gambling
raid signed by himself had been pre-
scented to the police and fire commits
sion. Scherer signed an affidavit say
ing he was in negro gambling house
when the proprietor told the bunch
that they should cash in, because the
house was going to be raided. Scherer
is alleged to have said that the "tip-
Off was given the gambling house
proprietor by two police detectives.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
Printer Helps
Indict FOrgers

Washington.-Ho How the government
printing Office turned detective and
materially assisted in the conviction
of seven men who participated in one
of the biggest whisky frauds ever
prosecuted under the prohibition law
has been disclosed in the annual re-
port of George H. Carter, the public
printer.
Three hundred suspected permits
for the withdrawal of whisky from
bonded warehouse had been seized by
the department of justice and the
bureau of, internal revenue, and con-
stituted the only material evidence in
the governments case against the dis
tillery of A. Guckenheimer Bros. Co.
and Is individual defendants, charg-
ed with the illegal withdrawal of
large quantities of bonded whisky
from Pittsburgh warehouses.
A number of these permits, how
ever, had been so cleverly initiated
by the photo-engraving process that
they completely deied all attempts
at detection by experts, and the de-
PENDANTS contention that they were
legal permits issued by government
officials seemed for a time to be ir-
REPUTABLE.
The public printer finally suggested
that test be made of the paper us
ed in both the genuine and the false
permits. 1t was learned that the true
permits were on so per cert rag
paper, with the governments water
mark running lengthwise on the sheet
The suspected permits on the other
hand, were printed on paper on which
the water-mark, although correctly
reading internal Revenue Prohibi-
tion," ran across instead of length
wise on the sheet. Furthermore, the
paper varied in composition from al
wood pulp to 95 per cent rag con-
tent.
The evidence submitted by the
printing Office appeared conclusive to
the courts, and aided the government
in obtaining the conviction in May
1924, of seven of the defendants.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
VOTES TO QUIT
STATE INSURANCE
Kenosha County Board to
Quit Insurance With
the State.
ELECT JAIL MATRON

Rv vote of IL to this morning
the county board of supervisors OF
Kenosha County voted to abandon its
plansof insuring county buildings with
the state insurance department and to
call. for bids on insurance from local
insurance brokers. Several years ago
the county board here passed an or
dinance directing that all county build
ings be insured with the state insur-
ance department and in order to let
insurance to other firms, this ordin-
anee had to be repealed.
The question was raised when the
board began a consideration of the
proposals for insurance of the new
Kenosha County Courthouse now un-
der the course of construction. Sew
eral local insurance men appeared be-
fore the board and urged that the
policy of insuring county buildings
with the state be abrogated and the
other policy of giving other concerns
an opportunity to write the insurance
be adopted.
The state accepts either all or none
of the insurance on county buildings.
For this reason, since the board has
voted not to insure the new court
house building with the state, it means
that other policies as they expire Will
not be renewed with the state.
Several members of the county board
opposed the change. One of these
pointed out that the state insurance
was % per cent cheaper than that
which could he secured through priv
ate agencies. Friends of"the proposed
change declared advantages would off
set this loss.
The new building committee was
authorized to Investigate Immediately
the letting Of insurance for the new
court house and to report at the next
meeting OF the board.
Mrs. Isabelle Neu, of the town of
Paris, was elected by the board to be
the new matron of the Jail in an cleo
ton held at the Monday afternoon
meeting of the board. This office was
created recently and has become nee
essary because of the large women's
quarters in the new county Jail and
the plans for feeding prisoners there.
The board took up a suggestion from
it was difficult to get service from
the office of the county surveyor and
as result resolution was adopted
directing the county clerk to instruct
the present county surveyor, S. S. Gov
ell, to attend to the duties of that of
flee or they would ask for his resig-
nation"
A petition from Jack Newcomer
asking. that the county stand one
third of the expense of recovering the
bodies of his wife and of another
Chicago woman from the Fox River,
where they were drowned last sum-
mer, was received and acted upon fav-
orably.
A resolution of respect to the mem
ory of the late John J. Kerwin, form
er county superintendent of Kenosha
county, was adopted by the board.
A demand for gates at the st. Paul
railway crossing of the Geneva Road
was adopted by the board in resolu-
ton and a copy of this will be for
warded at once to the officials of that
company
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
ON TO OSHKOSH
Is PARTY CALL
KenOsha Republicans Get
Call to Oshkosh for
Party Rally.
SEEK REORGANIZATION

Kenosha's regular Republicans are
today laying plans for united front
and an enthusiastic group of dele
gates for the statewide Republican
conference to be held at Oshkosh on
Monday, March 2, following the re-
ceipt of the call from Oshkosh for
the greatest Republican rally in the
history of state politics"
Kenosha will have a large represen-
tation at the conference since MEM
bers of the regular Republican party
here have taken leading part in the
call which seeks to lay foundation
for a reorganization of the Republi-
can party in the state of Wisconsin.
All of the delegate Republicans OF
the state will be the guests of the
Sixth District Republican club.
Hear Former Governor.
Former Governor Edwin P. Morrow
of Kentucky, a noted public speaker
and keynoter, will deliver an address
at the meeting. Horace Ellis, director
of the speakers bureau of the Ma
tional Republican committee, also ex-
poets to be present at the conference,
having indicated that the national
committee is deeply interested in Wis
consin politics and the turns it is TAX
ing at the present time.
Reservations are already coming in
at Oshkosh hotels and the prospects
are for a record attendance Of regular
from all parts of the
state. Oshkosh is planning on giving
the visitors royal welcome and the
business houses will decorate the
streets and buildings with flags and
bunting.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
BACK BILLS ON
SALE OF BUTTER
Hear Testimony on Pro-
posed State Ban on
Oleomargarine.
FIVE BILLS PROPOSED

Madison, Wis. recommendations
by committees for action on some OF
the bills in the Wisconsin Legislature
directed against the manufacture and
sale of substitutes for butter was ex-
pected to be made this week.
Five measures either prohibiting the
sale of oleomargarine or the use OF
coloring matter made of vegetable oils
in connection with such products have
been introduced. Several of them
have been the subject of committee
hearings, but no action has been tax
en- thus far. The assembly agricul-
ture committee has the bills offered
in the lower house on its calendar for
Wednesday. Opposition is reported to
have developed in southern states
against the proposals to place ban
on oleomargarine on the ground that
such legislation would be inimical to
the cotton oil interests.
Two bills introduced by Senator j
C. Schuman of Watertown, are direct
ed against the sale or use of oleomar-
garine The first bars the sale or
manufacture or possession with intent
=
partly of fat, oil or oleogenious sub
stance other than unadulterated milk
and cream which would be construed
to mean product to take the place of
butter produced from milk or cream
with or without coloring matter. The
penalty provided for first offense is
a fine of $50 to $500. Second offenses
provide a Jail sentence not to exceed
go days or fine and impris onment
The bill expressly bars the manufac-
ture and sale of oleomargafine as such
within the state.
The other Schuman bill would bar
the use of any butter substitute In
state institutions. This bill, however
will be withdrawn by its sponsor since
it would bar the use of lard and SINH
lar products, Senator Schuman said.
Two of the oleomargarine bills were
introduced by Assemblyman E. B
Miner, New Richmond One of these
is similar to the Schuman bill in word
ing except that the prohibition of sale
and manufacture of butter substitutes
is restricted to that which contains
any vegetable fat.
Are Against COloring.
The other Miner bill modified the
present oleomargarine law, by adding
these words, "but no butter color OF
other substance for coloring oleo-
margarine to look like butter shall be
kept, sold or given away in any place
of business at which oleomargarine
is sold and any violation thereof shall
be punishable as other violations OF
the section"
The other substitute butter bill was
introduced by Assemblyman Anton
Molly. Kewaunee, and would definitely
bar the sale of oleomargarine in any
form in Wisconsin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
PRIVILEGE TAX
ON AUTOMOBILES
Privilege Tax is Measure
Suggested by Senator
from Milwaukee.
USED FOR HIGHWAYS

Madison, Wis.-Abolition of the per-
sonal property offset in the admins
tration tax bill pending in the Wis
consin legislature, has led to the
introduction of several bills to create
privilege tax on motor vehicles.
One such bill, introduced by SEN
ator Walter Polakowsh of Milwaukee,
provides that all vehicles registered
after December 81, 1925, must pay a
privilege highway tax at the average
tax rate on all property in the tax
ing community, arrived at by adding
the totals of all county, municipal and
school tax and dividing the net total
by the assessed valuation. The rate,
the bill provides, must be certified by
the town or city clerk to the county
clerk, not later than December l OF
each year, and shall apply to all We
hicles registered for the year succeed
ing the next December 81.
On Sliding Scale.
The rate of tax then is applied on a
valuation computed from the factory
retail price for the latest correspond
ing model Of the same make as stated
in a list of prices prepared by the
secretary of state. The valuation to
be as follows: IS per cent on cars
used the first year; 70 per cent of
price, second year; So per cent of
price, third year; 40 per cent of price,
fourth year; % per cent of price,
fifth year; 10 per cent of price, for
subsequent years of use.
For Highway Maintenance.
The privilege tax mentioned would
be in lieu of the persona. property tax
on such vehicles, the bill further pro
vides. A reduction is made on all
cars registered after July in any
year. On cars registered between July
/ and August 81 the reduction is placed
at 20 per cent and for registration be-
tween August 81 and the close of the
year, it is placed at 80 per cent.
Taxes raised by the privilege tax
would be used for the construction
and maintenance of highways and
streets in the towns, villages and
cities where collected in such manner
as their respective boards or councils
would by resolution determine, accord
ing to the provisions of the bill.
The Polakowski bill corresponds to
a similar bill introduced in the assem-
bly, by Edward F. Hilker, Racine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
Want Reduction of
u. S. Standing Army
Joint Resolution introduced in State
Legislature Urging Reduction
of General Army.

Madison, Wis Reduction of the
standing army of the United States to
the strength represented by its ma
tional guard is the subject of joint
resolution to be considered next
Thursday for recommendation to the
Wisconsin legislature by the senate
committee on state and local affairs.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator Walter Hunt, River Falls,
and is in the nature of a memorial
ization to congress. The resolution
provides:
whereas, the idea of standing
army is repugnant to the ideals of
the American people and the spirit
which animated the founders of the
republic,
Whereas, the maintenance of a
large standing army and of a navy on
a par with other nations is an I'M
necessary tax burden, and,
Whereas, large military and nav
al establishment is direct incentive
to war with all its horrors,
Nov, therefore, be it,
Resolved by the senate, the assem-
bly, concurring, that the congress of
the United States is hereby earnestly
petitioned and urged by this legisla-
ture to enact such legislation as will
gradually reduce the standing army
until the defense of the nation is in
the national guard and be it further
resolved that this legislature Is OPP
posed to any increase in the navy
which is based on the idea of equal
ling the navies of other countries"
Provisions made in the resolution
for forwardingScopies to congress, the
president and to members of the Wis
consin delegation In congress, in event
of adoption.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
SAYS CHEMISTRY
OF GREAT VALUE
Value of Chemistry to
State Shown in Book
Published.
IS AID TO INDUSTRY

Madison, Wis. - Chemistry enters
into all phases of modern industry and
life, and chemists in their research for
new compounds and in their effort to
develop ways of producing more ec-
onomically things which now are deem
ed essential to modern civilization, they
are of great service to the state, ac-
cording to officials of the chemistry
department of the University of Wis
consin.
"The value of the necessity of chem
istry, in the modern world of activity
and thought could be clearly placed
before the public" E. A. Birge, presi-
dent of the university, said in explain
ing the publication by the institution
of review of chemistry in the serv-
ice of the state. "Certain of the more
striking results of chemistry are
known to the public, but it can only
learn by special information how radi-
cal transformation that science is
effecting."
Aids Many Individuals.
Hardly an industry exists that is
not largely indebted to chemistry for
its present status, according to the
university authorities. Cement, steel,
oil, fuel, brick, paint, wire, medicine
and explosives are all the products of
chemical research, and men engaged in
this line of work are constantly seek
ing to improve the present product,
they said. The review sets forth the
following achievements and problems
of chemists:
Waste in industry has been prevent
ed largely through chemistry; gases
from charcoal manufacture, the coal
tar products, wastes in pulp wood
manufacture, and others which were
formerly considered as useless, have
been developed, by the chemists into
products of value.
In the agriculture field the chemist
has developed cheap methods of pro-
ducing soil fertilizing agents, and has
discovered the type of food That will
give the best results to those engaged
in stock raising. Doctors are indebt-
ed to the science for the development
of antiseptics and for anaesthetics
which are not harmful to the human
system. We're it not for the chemist,
INSCRIPTIONS manufacturers could sell
undetected harmful products for med
icine.
Perhaps the greatest problem which
the chemist of the future will be call
ed upon to solve is that of producing
energy for heat and power. Great
amounts of the suns energy are going
to waste daily, while untold energy
so far unliberated, lies in the atoms
of which the universe is formed, and
it is these things which are being
studied by scientists.
The vast field which the science of
chemistry covers and its. vesy gen
eral application is regarded as evil
dence by figures compiled at the uni
versity of Wisconsin which show that
of the nearly 1,400 students enrolled
in the four basic chemistry courses in
one semester, approximately SO per
cent were students specializing in 9TH
er subjects.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
Sailors to Visit
Active Volcano

Hilo, Island of Hawaii. Every sailor
of the United States fleet, which is to
visit the territory next spring for ma
neuvers, will be given an opportunity
to visk the volcano of Kllauea, 80
miles up the slopes from Hilo, the
greatest continually active crater in
the world.
Ayalanches and earthquakes now
compose Kilauea's activities almC
solely, az earth shocks having been re-
corded at the volcano observatory in
the week ended Dec. II.
Since the volcanoes latest violent
eruption, in May. 1924, when the crater
claimed its first human victim in mod
ern times, there has been slight activ-
ity at the fire pit of Halemaumau The
dimensions of the crater, increased
greatly by last Mays activity, are ap-
proximately $500 by 5000 feet, with
depth of about 1900 feet.