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Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
GIRLS THROAT CUT IN
 CRASH. LOCAL MAN HELD
MISS BEATRICE MAYNARD DANIELSON TAKEN TO HOS- PITAL-J0HA PETERS PUTNAM TAKEN TO
 JAIL IN DEFAULT OF BONDS OF S2ooo
Accident Happened Green L, Sunday As Automobiles
 Were Rounding Sharp Curve

Miss Beatrice Maynard. 26. of Dan iels0n was taken to the Rhode Island hospital in Providence and John Peters Cor Jean Piereb of 3l Grove street. Putnam, was taken to jail in default of bonds of $k.0O0. follow ing an automobile collision in Green, IR. L. last Sunday afternoon. Miss Maynard had lost quantities Cf blood from deep gash in her throat and was placed on the danger list upon her arrival at the hospital. Peters was arraigned in court. Monday morning. on charge of reckless driY- ing. and held for trial today. Cra.h Near Curve
 Miss Maynard and Idela Fournie-, also Of Danielson. started out for a ride in Miss Maynard's automobile, Sunday morning. They were driving toward pawtuzet Valley, R. l., when d car owned and driven by Peters came around a sharp curve at Green. Fifty l feet beyond the curve the ears came l together head on. The impact of ths IeollisIan shattered the windshield of the Daaielsoo ear and Mss Maynard was thrown against piece 9f Jagge ] glass and her iBgular vein nearly sey- ] cred
 4 passing automobilist took Miss NaeHafd ta a doctors office in Wash ingtog After giving first aid the doctor ordered the injured woman removed to tBe hospital and she was taken there iH an ambulance Nearly two hours elapsed between the time Miss Maynard was injured and the fime she reached the hospital and in the meantime she had lost a great deal of blood.
 No Others Injured
 Her companion, Fournier, was not al all injured. nor was Peters or any of the thre men in the car with him, to any extent Officers who came To the scene Of the accident said that Peters was en the wrong side of the road and he was placed under arrest. Monday morning he was arraiRned in court and plead not guilty to q charge of reckless driving. Bonds Of S2,000 were ordered which Peters was unable To furnish and was taken 10 jail to await trial today.
 F0urnier contends that he pulled the car he was driving far over to the right hand side of the road in his en- deavor to avoid the crash with Peters machine which he contends was on the left hand side of the road
 Miss Maynard, the injured woman
 s the daughter of Philip <. Maynard of Danielson and Is employed in the Brooklyn Savings Bank, Danlelsen-
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
DITcHED

No matter how new and shiny the automobile IS. and how proud Is it's owner of it, the ear IS just crowded right off the road by the new yearly model, into the ditch of depreciation On goes the new yearly model until another date on the calendar crowds it. too, into the past as last year ! car. no matter how good its running condition still may be Of course that's waste A better economic policy IS Go keep models up to date all the time SO the owner can drive them for the fuii mileage built into them with. out being embarrassed iB the presence ef his friends by being crowded int the last years class by another annua model
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
ISSUES WARNING ON
 STOLEN MONEY ORDERS

Post office departments have been advised to call attention to activity shown by money order thieves and forgers which have brought heavy losses on banks and merchants by the cashing of false orders and in some cases care is not used in accepting postal money orders. lt is stated that a postal money order should no more be cashed without identification than bank check The postmaster gen eral offers a reward of between $50 and s200 for the arrest and convie tion of person for breaking into a post office and stealing property of the United States and this includes money order forms. The government offers a reward in the matter of theft, bu
 not in that of forging money orders
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
ALEX NJ. PASNIk IS
 GRANTED THIRD PATENT

Alex N. Pasnik of Norwich, who is owner of The Pasnik store in Put nam. has just been notified from Washington. that he has been granted d patent on finger nail brush which Mir Pasnik claims will eliminate the use of anything sharp to dig the dirt from under the finger nail. IL separ- ates the skin of the finger from the nail as the row of bristles passes through. l. stays firmly in the hand and cannot slip The bristles can be replaced any time at small cost as the bristle is separate part winch connects to the ivory part by snaps. This is the third patent granted to Mir. Pasnik. A fourth on a sugar bowl l is now pending at Washington.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
ELks z5TH ANNIVERSARY
Putnam Lodge Will Observe Eveat
 With New Years Party

Putnam Lodge of Elks will observe it's twenty-ffth anniversary with a New Years party, Thursday evening. December 3l 4 committee in charge or arrangements Is working on an elaborate scale Co make the obsery- anee noteworthy. IL will provide an entertainment for the members of the lodge until 1926 is ushered in. consist ing of supper and many novelty acts and vaudeville numbers.
 Putnam Lodge has had a healthy growth for the past quarter of a cen tury and IS one of the largest and most energetic organizations in Put nam. Its endeavor is not confined to the order alone but it IS ever ready 10 further any civic movement that will bring comfort and good cheer to others. One Of the tenets of the order is Charity" and charity is dis pensed at Christmas time with a lavish hand and throughout the year the Benevolent and Protective order is quietly working to make these at- tributes more than mere words. aI- though this Is done with 0stenta- ton.
 The success of the lodge since its organization twenty-five years ago is well deserved. It's membership body works tremendously together and the officers have the united support of the membership The lodge owns not only it's own lodge rooms and finely club rooms but the entire block iu which those rooms are situat- ed. This success has been brought : bout by the untiring efforts of officers and members and the medication of what the order stands for Charity, Justice. Brotherly Love and Fidelity.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11
D A. R. MEETING

The regular meeting of the Eliza beth Porter Putnam Chapter. -. ! f., wili be held Monday. Dee. Ii. at 2 D. n. in Odd Fellows Hall The address. Building a Finer America, will be given hy Br Henry K Denim ger Dr Denhnger is professor of history at Conn. Agricultural College he has also been for 4 number oi years on the Swarthmore Ghautauqua circuit and is speaker of great ability. Miss Thyra Walker Of North Grosyenordalc will sing.
 Board meeting at 2.3O.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

There are no storms or hurricanes on the Island of St. Helena. In the course of sixty years only two flashes of lightning were recorded. Ihefe are no motor cars, no lawyers there' and only five policemen.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

As an American family was about to leave Tokio for San Francisco. they found their twelve-year-old daugh ter missing. The father of the girl put his collie on her trail and in less than a minute before the train was to leave, the dog arrived with the missing girl
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

In an effort te make his insects pro duce to the maximum q British Go lambia apiarist has shipped 90 pound. of bees and ten queens Co Auckland New Zealand, where summer Is iusi beginning. in the hopes of harvesting a crop of honey this winter.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

Naturahsts connected with the Mac Milan expedition report finding blue grass in the Arctic regions. Purple sand pipers have also been obtained in their first plumage, which is un- known Co nest ornithologists.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

The original Royal hybrid walnut tree on Luther Burbank's farm has for fifteen years paid in nuts and gratis an annual interest of six per cent on SIG. .000.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-11

The largest grain elevator in the world is that of the Canadian Nation al Railways at Port Arthur and Fort William. holding $500 .000 bushels.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
CIRCULATE GARBLED
STORY OF TESTIMONY
Unauthorized Report of Legislative
Investigation Testimony Said to
Have Been Misleading.

- Madison, Wis. q Il Testimony
given to the legislative visiting COM
mittee in its investigation of the
colony for the Predetermined at Chip
pewa Falls was largely conflicting,
of the committee told the assembly
last night He appeared before the
lower house at it's request.
Senator Hunt briefly outlined the
scope of the inquiry. Declaring that
the evidence, portions of which were
made public recently, was given out
dishonesty" by committee employe,
he took up several allegations such
as the sale of stolen cattle at the in
stitution, worms in meat, starving of
patients and cruelty. The testimony
on these points, he said, was contra
dictory.
The chairman indicated that the
committee found the attendants had
not been properly instructed" as to
rules of the institution and the law
regarding corporal punishment.
The bill to bring banks under the
income tax system goes to the gov
ernor of the result of assembly con-
currence, 81 to 5. The assembly adj
vanced bill prohibiting feeble-mind-
ed and tubercular persons from mar
rying, but killed, 81 to IA, another
measure, sponsored by Senator Bar
Der, seeing to bring women under the
eugenics law.
The proposed repeal of the 125-foot
restriction on building heights failed
definitely when reconsideration of its
indefinite postponement was refused,
40 to So.
The MINER bill barring butter sub
stitutes containing milk products goes
back to the senate for concurrence in
an amendment restoring the word
"oleomargarine" to the BILL The word
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
ScOur Woods Yainly
for Lost Amigo Man

Amigo, Wis., I'm answer to a
proclamation issued last night by May
or T. j. Reinert asking for volunteers
to join in the search of Davis Edick,
200 men under the leadership of At
torney /. A. Whit left in automobiles
early this morning to comb the forests
northeast of here in which the aged
woodsman is thought to have been lost
since last Wednesday. With the party
was the bloodhound that for the sec
ond time would attempt to pick up the
missing mans trail. The dog was
brought here yesterday from Mauston.
Many Tracks Confusing.
Up to 10 o'clock this morning the
searching party reported no results
and Mr.. White said that because so
many men had secured the woods re-
Gently it was difficult for the canine
to pick up Edick's tracks. Meanwhile
rumors were heard that the man may
had been the victim of foul play. How
ever, authorities dismissed the rumors,
saying that questioning of relatives
and friends gave them no suspicious Of
that nature whatsoever.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
LOVE COUPLE
ARE SENTENCED
BOehm Draws Fine of 1925
Woman is Placed
On Parole.
WILL GO BACK HOME
Frank Schmeckel, the Husband
in the Case, Willing to Try
All Over Again.

Nick Joseph Boehm and Mrs. Eliza
beth Schmeckel were brought into the
municipal court for sentence Tuesday
afternoon but they did not meet, and
this morning their lives were as wide
lly separated as they had formerly
been intimate. They had pleaded
guilty last week to having had an il
licit love affair, but Judge Slater con-
tinued the case in order to make a
thorough investigation.
Frank Schmeckel, the husband of
the woman, came from the farm that
he works upon between Burlington and
Lake Geneva, to see what he could do
about the case. He brought with him
his three children, who are also the
children of Mrs. Elizabeth Schmeckel.
At first there seemed to be no posi-
bility of a reconciliation between the
couple.
Bring the Pair Together.
Judge Slater and Mrs. Mcneil talk
ed with both the husband and the
wife, and succeeded in bringing about
better understanding. Realizing that
his wife would be sent away and even
committed to state prison if there
were not way of perfecting her pa
role, Sciiemckel stated that he would
be willing to try once more with his
wife to see if they could not iron out
together the wrinkles of married life.
Mrs. Schmeckel gave her age as
thirty-one.
"Thirty is the limit" said Judge
Slater, "for committing you to a re-
formatory for women at Taycheedah.
The penalty under the law is not less
than one year in state prison, or more
than three or not more than one year
in the county Jail, or by fine not
less than $500 or more than $1,000.
You would not be able to pay a fine,
take it, and / would not want to
send you to the county Jail. The only
thing then left is state prison.
"Your husband is willing to take
you back home. Your oldest daughter
is old enough to understand the stu
alton and she is anxious to do all in
her power to keep the home together.
You will be placed on porole to the
state board of control for three years.
If during that time you violate this
parole, you will be brought back and
without papers of any kind, you will
be sent to the state prison at Waupun
for at least one year."
Mrs. Schmeckel, greatly .subdued and
with a face which showed signs of
weeping, left the courthouse with her
husband.
Boehm when brought before Judge
Slater earlier was given fine of $225
and costs. Relatives interested in
this case had come to his rescue and
offered to pay the fine.
"Your relatives blame this woman"
said Judge Slater to the defendant,
"but l blame both of you. l am tax
ing into consideration the fact that
you have never been arrested before,
and that you have never been in any
trouble of this kind before, in giving
you the sentence of fine instead O.
Imprisonment"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28

Workers engaged in rebuilding the
Plank road, lying along the line be-
tween the towns of Salem and Brigh-
ton, believe they have located real
"bottomless pit" on the road one-half
mile east of Cults Corners. For two
weeks they have worked increasingly
to fill up the hole and though they ap-
pear to make progress during the day,
the next morning reveals the hole to
be as deep as it ever was.
"Here is what we have put in that
hole" says John Gaggin, foreman OF
the construction crew at work on the
road. "Seven thousand yards of dirt,
two tons of slough hay, two loads OF
boulders, thirteen willow trees--great
big ones, branches and all. Now look
at it; all you can see is few branch
es of those trees peeping out OF the
edge of the hole"
Just Keep Ahead of 1t"
The sink hole stretches for 2l2 feet
along the roadway but the deepest
part of it is an area in the center
about 80 feet long. Most of the ma
terial that has been swallowed up IN
the hole has gone into that 90-foot
space Twelve men with six teams
have been at work on the sink hole
for the past two weeks and they seem
to be little nearer success now than
they were day after they started.
Leading from the center OF the SINK
hole are tracks several feet deep
which extend throughout the entire
length of the sunken area. Attempts
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
Bottomless Pit Battles
County Road Workers
Builders Work Vain for Two Weeks to Fill Up Big
Sink Hole the Plank Road Near Cults
Corners in Kenosha County.

to sound the depth of the sink hole
have shown that no bottom can be
reached at less than fifteen feet.
In the last two or three days the
ground at each side of the pit has
started to bulge up giving indication
that the materials which have been
poured into the hole are being carried
by some method to the sides of the
highway.
Has Been Treacherous Strip.
Miss Olive Hope, correspondent of
the Kenosha Evening News for this
territory, found when she visited the
scene that people in the community
had always known the place as a
treacherous strip of highway. In
rainy weather the roadway there has
always been submerged. One story in
the community declares that years
ago, Dennis Murphy, now deceased, got
off the beaten roadway while driving
over the road at a time that it was
submerged.
His horses foundered in the mire
and his wagon sank under him. He
was able to hang on a telephone pole
and thereby saved his life.
Other stories are current in the
community showing that the place in
question has always been dangerous.
The road workers have not yet de-
SPARED of solving the problem and
are continuing with their work in the
hopes IF filling up the hole. It may
be necessary to re-route the highway
around the sink hole.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28

School Board Votes All Teachers Kenosha Soho
BARRIERS May Force
O. Generation of
BuckLUOOdsnlen

To get a haircut or not, to shave
or not to shave-that will be the burn
ing question in short time if Keno
sha BARRIERS should follow the lead of
Waukegan and Racine BARRIERS and
raise the prices on sartorial service.
The BARRIERS in the two cities about
Kenosha have declared a raise in
prices for haircut from fifty to sixty
cents on weekdays, and seventy-five
cents on Saturdays. The raise In
prices becomes effective June 1. The
price of shave will remain the same
for the present at least.
The price raising is being reflected
in these cities following action that
is being taken in other large cities
along these lines. The barber seems
to be pretty nearly as hard up as the
farmer, if the discussions at barber
union meetings is any criterion.
But how far the new arrangements
will effect the city of Kenosha is not
yet determined. Officials of the mas
ter BARRIERS association declared that
no action was being contemplated here
to raise prices, but that there was
a possibility that this might be done
if the price changes become more gen.
eral throughout this district.
In the meantime word to the wise
may save the extra money. One dap
per young man on the street, who had
heard that there might be an increase
in the cost of haircut, dashed into
the nearest barber shop on the mo-
ment. "They won't make back
woodsman out of me-" he exclaimed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
CITY ON LAKE"
Is PROGRESSING
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Nc
Cormick's Model City is
Rising Rapidly.
SHORE IS FOR CITY

-
] Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCof1nfck's
dream of an ideal "City on the Lake
to be built along the shore of Lake
Michigan just south of Kenosha, is be-
coming a reality, according to the
statement given out this morning by
the engineers in charge of the pro-
ject Work has advanced rapidly on
the 1850 acre tract just south of Ke-
nosha, where the model city is being
developed by Krenn and Dato, under
the personal supervision of Mrs.
Mccormick.
Stretching three and one-half miles
along Lake Michigan, every foot of
the shore line is perpetually dedicated
to the use of the people who will
live in this city.
Retains Riparian Rights.
Riparian rights are retained for the
municipality, and approximately $50
acres of park will grace the lake
shore. Between the park and the
waters edge will be a broad boulevard.
Bathing beaches will alternate with
boat landings, harbors for large and
small craft, and an airport, to keep
pace with the aerial development of
Chicago and Milwaukee.
Twenty-Five acres have been set
aside in the central part of the. tract
for school purposes, thus affording
ample space for sports. Another sec
tion in the western part is set aside
for an eighteen hole golf course.
City IS to be ZOned.
Forty acres, centrally located, have
been zoned for commercial purposes,
and. yet another space has been pre-
empted for municipal buildings. Part
if not all of these buildings will prob
ably be designed by Edwin Krenn,
of Krenn and Dato, an architect of
(Cnntinnnd on na orh IL
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
CONSECRATED ABBOT
ST. NORBERT'S ABBEY
Rev. FIR. Pennings, President of St
Norbert's College, First Priest
Consecrated Abbot in Wisconsin.

De Pere, Wis.-( AN ecclesias-
tic event-the first of its kind in the
history af Wiseonsin-tocs place III
the st. Joseph's church at West De
Pere today when at 1915 a. m. the
Rev. Bernard H. Pennings, president
of st. Norbert's college and prior of
the Premonstratensian order, was con-
secrated the only abbot of that order
in America by Bishop Paul P. Rhode
of the Green Bay diocese.
The bishop celebrated pontifcal
high mass, after which Father Pen
nings took the oath and became duly
consecrated abbot Of the Premon-
stratesian order or ST, Norbertin orr
der as it is more commonly known.
Having received the Insignia of his
rank and having been clothed in spec
ial vestments on his new Office, the
college founder, heading a second
procession, that passed through the
aisles of the church, blessed the con-
gregation. Returning again to the
sanctuary the prelates took their
places and the newly consecrated
abbot was seated on the beautiful
abbot's throne, to receive the fifty
three white fathers" who passed and
kissed the abbot's ring.
The mass sung during the services
was composition by the Rev. L. A.
Dobbelsteen, formerly of the college
faculty. 1t was mass in honor of
Joan of Arc.
At completion of the ceremonies the
right Rev. Francis E. Kelly, bishop of
Oklahoma, delivered an address Gu
logizing Father Pennings, in his great
achievements as head of st. Norbert's
college, since the time the new abbot
founded the institution in 1898, be-
ginning with one pupil.
Following the sermon, the congre-
CATION was dismissed and the prelates
assembled in st. Joseph's hall on the
college campus for a banquet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
FELL DEAD AT
SUPPER TABLE
George Henry Ward, so,
Died Suddenly at Camp
at Silverlake.
WIDELY KNOWN HERE

Death came suddenly to George
Henry Ward aged 80 years, of 26S
West street, who on Tuesday evening
fell dead while he was at the supper
table at his camp at Silverlake. He
was stricken with an attack of heart
trouble, dying within very few
moments before medical attention
could be summoned.
Mr. Ward with a number of friends
had gone Tuesday afternoon to their
camp at Silverlake to spend few
days there. They had prepared sup
per and had all taken, their places
at the table when he collapsed. His
friends rushed to his side, but could
not revive him.
The deceased had been in failing
health for several months but his
condition had not been considered
critical. He had been forced, how
ever, to quit his regular employment
because of his weakness.
George Henry Ward was born IN
GAINESVILLE, December 7, 1874, the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Ward and lived
his early life in that city. He had
been a resident of Kenosha for more
than thirty years, having been an en-
ployee Of the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad here. He was member
of the Kenosha Aerie of Eagles and
of the Northwestern Brotherhood. He
was widely known in Kenosha and
news of his death will come as a
personal sorrow to large circle of
friends and relatives.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Helen Ward; one daughter, Mrs.
Florence Iverson; two sons, George
Jr., and John Ward, and one grand
son, all of Kenosha. He is also
survived by his mother, Mrs Mary
Ward, of Kenosha; two sisters, Mrs.
William Regain, of Milwaukee, and
Mrs. John Doerfer, of Kenosha, and
one brother, John Ward, of Kenosha.
The deceased was also brother of
the late Mrs Ella Louise O'Hare, who
died only few days ago.
Coroner Joseph Friend was called
to the camp and an informal inves-
tigation carried on, resulting in the
announcement that no inquest was
necessary. Death came from cere-
bral hemorrhage.
The remains were taken to the
Mischler mortuary and from there
were taken today to the home at 263
West street. Funeral services will be
held at the st. James church on Fri
day morning at nine o'clock with in
torment following in the family plot
in the st. James cemetery.