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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Russell Says He's
In a Terrible Fix
Man Held in County Jail on Charge
of Suspicion is Bothered" With
Phantom Devils, Snakes, Etc.

Alfred Russell, who was picked up
on the corner of Milwaukee avenue
and Middle street Wednesday night
dead drunk" admits that he's in a
terrible predicament. He was lodged
in the city Jail pending his arraign-
ment and pending an investigation
into his past record. During the first
night he was in custody Russell called
the police down to his cell and COM
planned of a devil standing on one
side of him and the Lord standing on
the other side. "And both of 'em
won't take me-" he walled.
The man was seen to be suffering
from severe Authorizations and he was
ordered taken to the county jail where
better facilities for his care are
found. There the sheriff reported that
the Authorizations had changed. Rus
sell is now pretending that he is lift
ing heavy objects from the floor.
Drs. 0. w. McClusky and George
Adams we're called to examine the
man and they found that he was men
tally unbalanced as result of blow
on the head received two years ago,
and also that he is suffering from
chronic alcoholism. Russell is said
to have wife and three children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Attorney General
Hands Down Ruling
On Question of Detaching Rural Ter
ritory From a School District
In Wisconsin.


Madigon.-. In the detachment
Of rural territory from school dis
trict in which a city or village is To-
Gated ana which maintains a high
school, all of the property lying out
side the city or village must be de-
tached. This was the construction
given the new detachment law by At
torney General Herman L. Ekern in
an opinion to George w. Lippert, dis
trict attorney of Marathon county.
In another opinion, G. A. Eriksoni
deputy attorney general, left the ques-
ton of the detachment of territory
from a union free high school district
for the courts to decide.
A law enacted by the 1925 legisla-
ture provides for the detachment OF
territory outside of city or village
from common school district main.
tanning a high school, and which in
cludes territory within and without
the city or village. 1T is necessary
that petition to detach property un.
der this law include all of the pro-
perty outside the city or village, the
opinion to Mr.. Lippert held.
John Callahan, state superintendent
of public institution, asked whether
territory could be detached from a
union free high school district so as
to leave less than So square miles of
territory in the district, the size re-
quired by law. In view of the uncer
tainty as to the meaning Of the new
detachment laws and the decision OF
the circuit court of Fond du Lac coun-
ty that no territory can be detached
leaving less than 36 square miles, nc
opinion was expressed by the attorney
general on Mr.. Callahan's question.
The Fond du Lac decision, involving
the detachment Of territory from the
Rosendale union free high school dis
trict, probably will be appealed to the
state supreme court for final settle.
ment of the question, Mr.. Eriksor
said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
SCHOOL OPENS
SEPTEMBER 9Th
Buildings Are All Ready
for Openings of the
School Year.
EXPECT BIG INCREASE
School Census Indicates that
the Buildings Will Be
Fairly Well Filled.

School bells will again ring out on
the morning of September 9Th for the
1890 children of school age in the
city of Kenosha. Facilities will have
been provided for the $50 pupil in
crease over last years census, and
everything will be in first class
shape, according to Superintendent
of Schools G. F. LOOMS.
All of the school buildings have
been cleaned and renovated, and in
some cases, the entire interior has
been re-decorated.
Teachers to Meet.
Over three hundred teachers will
report for a general teachers meet
Ing on Monday, September 7th, at
the Washington school at ten o'clock
in the morning.
On Saturday, September 9Th, there
will be meeting Of the principals.
Preparations are already being made
to give each child thorough medical
examination before he enters school
and enrolls. Over ten thousand throat
examination sticks have been ordered
by the health department.
Buildings Are Ready.
All buildings have been completely
scrubbed and cleansed in preparation
for the opening. The Columbus school
has been entirely rewired. Both the
Lincoln and Balm schools have been
entirely re-decorated on the inside,
while additional work has been done
on the Frank and Durkee schools.
One portable building has been NOV
ed from the Durkee to the Mckinley
in order to provide more facilities
at the latter Institution Another new
portable has been erected at the Salem
Avenue school, while two entire rooms
of pupils will be transferred to the
Grant school, one from the Wash
ington school, and one from the JEFF
ferson school.
The High school will no doubt be
taxed to capacity as usual, but it is
hoped to have the new million dollar
high school opened by the beginning
of the next semester.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Work Alone Out
to Curb Court

Milwaukee, Wis John M.
Work, socialist candidate for the
United States senate, in a statement
issued from his headquarters here,
points out that he is the only can
didate VINO proposes to curb the power
of the courts.
The late Senator La Toilette in his
1924 platform favored curb on the
supreme court, Mr.. Work declared.
Robert M. La Toilette, he says, does
not. The candidate asserted that
young Bob" ignors the 1924 plat
form of his father and goes back to
1922 for his planks.
"This leaves me holding the fort
alone on this question:" Nj. Work
said. 81 differ from young La Fol-
lette in that go forward instead
of backward"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
OLD COURTHOUSE
Is NOW A RELIC
County Officials Doffing
the Old and Entering
the New Today.
ALL READY BY MONDAY
New Courthouse Building Ex-
pected to Be Completely
Occupied Monday.

rs like a transition from the last
century to the next-moving into the
new courthouse. Going from the old
into the new, the county officials, the
courts, and the various clerks are
packing up and giving a last glance
here and there to his room and that
which has been the home of the couns
tvs business for all these years. The
patch of roof where the plaster has
long since disappeared in the office of
the clerk of the circuit court; the
dreary, gloomy municipal courtroom
with its spider webs about the water
pipes stretching across the ceilings,
the broken down steps leading to the
office of the sheriff in the old county
jail building all these are being
looked upon with sigh today. But
the sigh is short-lived. Perhaps it is
sigh of joy on the. part Of the coun-
ty officials, or perhaps it is the sigh
that attaches sentiment to a relic of
ages. But whatever it is the familiar
sights are now being left behind.
Today is moving day in the county
JAIL the county courthouse, the court
house annex, the municipal courthouse
and in the other offices that have been
without an official home up to this
time.
All in BY Monday.
The county board has ruled that
the county's business must go on un-
interrupted and all of the offices in the
new courthouse building are expected
to be occupied by Monday from which
time the county's affairs will continue
uninterrupted on into the next gener-
alton or so. The bulk of the moving
is to be carried on on Sunday. The
files and cabinets will be hauled over
in vans and trucks to be placed in
their respective offices ready for ar
rangement. Most of the officials will
be present Sunday to supervise the
work of the transfers.
The first sessions Of court are ex-
pected to be held in the municipal
courtroom in the new building on Mon
day morning when the weeks usual
number of week-enders, DRINKS, dis
orderlies, speeders, and other violator:
will parade before the new circassiaT
walnut bench and say "Good morning
Judged"
A petit jury which sat in the civi
case of Harris VS.. Rapstock had the
distinction of being the last jury tt
hear case in the old building, anc
Judge Slater presented the jury will
a short valedictory
Who the first man will be to re-
ceive a sentence in the new courtroom
is, of course, unknown, but whatever
offense it might cover there will b.
connected with the violator a certain
amount of sentiment in that he was
the first tooth in the gear to mark ou
the course of justice in Kenosha''
$1,250,000 temple of justice.
In the meantime the old buildings
are being taken down with dispepsis
and indigestion and what not as they
disgorge their contents into the new
| building today and tomorrow.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
KenOsha Leads State
In Civic Center Progress
Milwaukee Paper Carries Article Reviewing Work Done In he
nosha Carrying Out Definite Civic Center
Project Here.

from Main street, in the center of the
downtown business district, two
blocks west to Chicago street. From
this plaza west Market street is only
40 IL feet wide.
Market Square is to be extended
west from Chicago street four blocks
to the North Western road tracks and
made 1872 feet wide the entire dis
lance. Along this wide street public
buildings are to be placed. The North
Western road has agreed that when
it's tracks are elevated through the
center of Kenosha, which will be with
in a few years, it's station will be
placed at the west end of Market
Square, making it the western en-
trance to the civic center.
Two Buildings Erected.
The courthouse and high school are
the first buildings erected in the civic
center. The courthouse is on the
north side Of widened Market street
between Sheridan road and Congress
street, Sheridan road being the north
and south street one block west of
Chicago street. The high school is on
the second block south of the court
house. The block between the two
buildings is to be made plaza or
small park, providing a proper setting
for the buildings, which are handsome
modern structures Of cut stone. The
block for this plaza has been acquired
by the city except one tract and tear
ing down the buildings now on it has
been started.
The former high school on the
block west of the new school, will be
used for vocational school and will
also be part Of the civic center. The
Federal building now stands on the
block south of Market street and est
/ of Chicago street. A new building is
| needed and it will be built on the
same block, being farther south to
| permit the widening of Market street.
Several business men organized a
holding company and bought a part
/ of this block to protect the civic cen
ter and will turn it over to the city
when needed for the Federal building.
| South of the Federal building, in the
next block Is the Elks' clubhouse,
which will become virtually a part of
the civic center.
Three-fifths Completed.
The city hall now stands on the
south side of Market Square, east of
! Chicago street. The block east of the
courthouse will be used as the site for
a new city hall some time in the fu-
ture. With the completion Of the high
school next winter three-ffths of Ke-
nosha's civic center will be accom-
plished. The wrecking of the build
ings in the plaza between the court
house and school will be completed
next year.
In this work there has been the
best possible cooperation between
Kenosha city and county. The land
on which the courthouse stands was
/ bought by the city and traded with
the county for the block on which
the high school stands, which had
been bought by the county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Protests Change In
Cabbage Freight Rate
Badger Farm Bureau Protests Against
Proposed Charge for Transpor-
tatiOn of Frames.

Madison. Wis The Wiscon-
sin Farm Bureau federation has pro-
tested against a proposed charge by
railroads for the transportation OF
"A" frames, used to ventilate cars OF
cabbage. The frames have been shipped
without cost in the past, and the pro-
posed charge for their transportation
would increase the cost of shipping
cabbage from Wisconsin, I. NJ. Wrights
secretary of the federation, said.
Supplement No. Is of the railroad
tariffs, which becomes effective Sept.
10, provides for the cancellation OF
Paragraph C, Rule so of Perishable
Protective Tariff No. 2 which relates
to the free transportation of "A
frames" said Mr.. Wright. "Since these
frames are used to give ventilation in
shipping cars of cabbage from Wiscon-
sin this will in effect increase the
transportation charges on shipment of
cabbage for if this supplement is al
lowed to become effective the Wiscon-
sin cabbage growers and shippers will
be obliged to pay freight on the "A
frames which have been transported
free in the past.
"The farm bureau is taking this
matter up with the interstate COM
merce commission and requesting that
re-hearing be had on this rule and
that the date Of it's going into effect
be suspended for the present. The
railroad records show the following
shipment of cabbage from Wisconsin
points in the past FIVE years:
1920, 4,0s6 cars; 1921, S,430 cars;
1922, 5,52 cars; 1923, s,21S cars; 1924,
1885 cars.
"The farm burea is calling the rail
ways attention to the fact that the
income from producing cabbage is not
sufficient to warrant an increase both
to the shipper and the railroads, by re-
ducing losses and freight claims"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
DANCE ORDINANCE
RULING IS MADE
County Dance Hall Ordi-
nances Do Not Affect
Cities in County.
OF INTEREST HERE

A question which has been under
discussion in Kenosha county since the
passage of the county dance hall ordi-
nance was answered in a ruling hand
ed down by the attorney generals de-
partment at Madison today when it
declared that county ordinances on the
regulation of dance halls do not apply
to cities in the county which have
adopted ordinances regulating dance
halls. When the Kenosha county dance
hall ordinance went into effect, there
was much misunderstanding here over
the fact that it did not affect the city
of Kenosha.
The supervisors of Kenosha county
had read the law carefully and had
been correct in not attempting to make
the ordinance affect the city of Keno
sha, as has been demonstr ated by the
ruling handed down today. There is a
city dance hall ordinance, which diff
fers only in minor details from the
county ordinance, which regulates the
dance halls in the city.
Hands Down Other Rulings.
Another ruling declared that an or
der of the town board altering high
way, where alteration involves the con-
struction of two bridges costing more
than three hundred dollars each, must
be submitted to and approved by the
electors before the county is under
any legal obligation to appropriate
money to pay portion of the cost Of
such bridges.
An opinion to John Callahan, state
superintendent of public instruction,
ruled that in view of the uncertainty
as to the meaning of chapter 251, laws
of 1925, and the decision of circuit
court that no territory can be detach-
ed leaving less than 36 square miles
within a union free high school dis
trict, no opinion is expressed on this
question.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
LEVITAN FOR
TAX PARLEYS
Treasurer Pushes Move
for Conferences on Cas-
Oline Tax.
WITH OTHER STATES

Madison, Wis. -. - Officials
who collect gasoline taxes in 81 states
favor a national conference for the
exchange of ideas, Solomon Levitan
state treasurer, announced today.
ut is probable that a gasoline tax
conference may be held at Miami
Florida, either Immediately before or
after the national convention of state
treasurers in November" Mr.. Levitan
said. "An alternative might be to ar
range for a special section at the
state treasurers' convention for the
discussion of the gas tax"
Mr.. Levitan said he had taken this
matter up with the committee on ar
rangements for the treasurers' con-
vention.
May Be in Madison.
Thirty-fve Of the ID states having
gasoline taxes replied to Mr.. Levitan's
invitation to hold conference in
Madison. Many of the state treasur-
ers, tax commissioners and auditors
said they felt that it might be we'll to
combine the conference with the state
treasurers' convention in Miami.
The proposed conference was fav-
ored, Mr.. Levitan said, by officials of
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Califor-
MIA, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland
Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ore
gon, South Carolina, South Dakota
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, vir.
ginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Is Still an Innovation.
The gasoline tax is as yet an inno-
walton in most states and an exchange
of opinions on the ways and means
of collecting this tax might result in
great saving to many states through
the elimination of red tape and the
working out OF more efficient plans,
said Mr.. Levitan.
Here in Wisconsin the administra.
tion of this tax is working out very
smoothly and is bringing the state 6
half million dollars every month for
the construction and maintenance of
its highways, but we still feel that
there are perhaps many things we
have yet to learn and many improve
ments that might be made"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Six Hurt i'm Car
Clash With Train

Green Bay, Wis.-->+A- Mrs. AL
Knipple and Marjorie Burch, II, both
of Green Bay, are in the hospital this
morning suffering from severe bruises
received yesterday when the car in
which they were riding with four other
young girls, was struck by a switch
engine and completely wrecked. Miss
Burch's leg is broken in three places
and her arm fractured, while Mrs.
Knipple has a broken shoulder. The
other girls escaped with but minor
bruises. The party was driving to
the local beach to go in bathing when
the engine hit the car, carrying it
about twenty feet. Mrs. Knipple's
Is year old daughter wss driving the
machine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
USED CEMETERY
FOR CAROUSAL
Arrest Man and Woman
Amid TOmbst0nes Hold
ing Drinking Bout.
BOTH HELD IN JAIL

An attempt to "liven up" things In
St. Georges cemetery proved disas-
trous for a man and woman a hai1
hour after midnight this morning
Mrs. Albertini Nelson, who gave her
address as 615 S. Utica street,% Wau-
kegan, and John Berg, who said he
lived at the Fischer hotel here, were
arrested by Police officer Delos Rey-
nolds at 1895 a. m. today and charg-
ed with intoxication. Both gave
their ages as So.
According to the officer the TIVE
were thoroughly intoxicated" and
evidently attempting to defy the
ghosts by parading up and down
among the rows of tombstones in the
cemetery. When the officer made the
arrest it was evident that the pair
had been there for some time, and
probably had spent the solemn
hour of midnight singing out the
strokes of twelve.
The two were placed in Jail for thu
night and this morning they faced
Municipal Judge John Slater with the
plea Of mot guilty" The judge re-
piled, after hearing the charges
against the two, that in his long
career on the bench he had heard
great many unique charges but that
that Of holding drunken carousal in
a cemetery was sad climax.
The case was adjourned until Sep
TENDER with bail set at $25. In de-
fault of bonds the two were remanded
to Jail. Berg was assigned a cell in
the county Jail while Mrs. Nelson was
taken to the detention home until the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Lee Hobbs Fails To
Recover from Injury
Lee Not Recovering from Effects of
His Collapse at Sheboygan-At
Home in Hamilton, Ohio.

Racine, visa letter received by
Third Paseman Swetonic from Lee
Hobbs, shortstop, who was forced to
give up his berth here for the sea-
son because of illness, indicates that
Lee is not recovering from the effects
of his collapse at Sheboygan few
weeks ago as rapidly as could be
hoped Lee stated he is not regain
ing strength very rapidly and is still
feeling decidedly "under the weather"
Hobbs, who is now at his home in
Hamilton, Ohio, has lots of friends
around the league, who hope his i'll
ness is only temporary, and that pro-
longed rest will make him fit for ac-
ton next season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03

Kenosha leads the cities Of the state
Of Wisconsin in the progress which
has been made towards the develop
ment Of civic center project, accord
ing to an article appearing In the
Milwaukee Journal" on Sunday, show
ing the progress made here alorg
city planning lines. The article is
the first of a series of articles being
prepared by J. E. Harris, representa-
tive Of the Milwaukee Journal regard
ing Kenosha These articles were in
troduced by the following statement:
"Kenosha is now in it's third year UNI
der city manager form of government.
What has been accomplished by that
city is worth studying in other Wis
consin cities, which are seeking to bet
ter municipal government"
Not New News Here.
The news items which are related in
the article are not strictly news to
Kenosha in that all of them have been
chroniced in the columns of this pa
per heretofore. Inasmuch, however, as
it is interesting for Kenoshans to see
Kenosha as others see it, the article is
reprinted here for that purpose. 1t
reads as follows: +
Progress made by Kenosha in the
creation Of a civic center is an ex-
ample worthy Of the attention of
other Wisconsin cities and particular
ly Of Milwaukee.
Kenosba adopted it's civic center
plan July ~, 1922. Since that time
a 100000 county courthouse has
been built and will be occupied this
week. A $1,5o0,OOO city high school
has been so far completed that it will
be ready for occupancy in February
One block for plaza between these
two buildings has been acquired by
the city with the exception Of one lot
and start made in removing the old
buildings. Two other blocks have
either been acquired or their future
acquisition made certain.
No Buildings Erected Here.
Milwaukee adopted a civic center
plan in April, 1920. Since then the
county has bought two blocks for 6
courthouse site The city has ac-
quired one block for a police station
site and the greater part Of two 9th.
er blocks. No buildings have been
erected, but few of the old build
ings on the site have been torn down
In April last referendum repealed
the ordinance establishing the civic
center. This leaves the city without
actual progress in its creation except
the purchase of large part of the
site.
Kenosha's progress since 1922 to.
ward building a civic center in com.
parison with Milwaukee's progress
since 1920 is very much in Kenosha's
favor.
Kenosha Stands First.
Apparently Kenosha will be the
first Wisconsin city to accomplish tht
grouping of its public buildings upor
an adequate and attractive site, con
venient of access to the public. II
selecting a site advantage was taken
of Market Square, plaza 1872 fee
wide and two blocks long, extending
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-03
Antonio AmiOne Died
Early This Morning

Antonio Amione, aged 42 years, died
at his home, Gil South street, at five
thirty this morning after an illness
of about six months.
He was born in italy and came
to this country more than twenty
years ago.
He is survived by his wife and
one son, Batiste.
The announcement for the funeral
viii be made later.