The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-15
WILMOT

Mrs. Dolores Browne1l left Tuesday
for a short stay with friends and rel
atives at Milwaukee.
{ Fred Sabin of WATERFOWL, was in
Wilmot for the day Monday calling
on relatives and friends.
Josephine Stoxen. of Harvard, is
spending few days with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. A. G.. Stoxen.
Mrs. w. Carey was i'll the first OF
the week and under DR.. Beebe's care.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Orvis, Round
Lake were guests Sunday of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Stencil.
Mrs. S. Jedele was hostess last
Thursday to the members of the
Lutheran Ladies Aid who met at her
home for quilting party.
Mr.. and Mrs r. G. Hallock, Mr.. and
Mrs Willard Darrell, Laverne Vince
lock and Myrtle Darrell from Wau-
conda were dinner guests Friday night
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Stoxen, after
wards attending the Wauconda-W Will
mot basketball game.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Holtdorf were
in Burlington Wednesday and Kenosha
Sunday.
Irving Carey and Don Herrick spent
Wednesday at Sycamore and Thursday
at Milwaukee.
Raymond Rudolph, Melvin, Charles,
Edna and Josephine Lake have all
been i'll with chickenpox the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Holtdorf and
family were entertained Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schenning
of Silver Lake.
Mr. and Mrs John Nett were guests
Sunday at the Frank Reynolds home.
Mrs A. Brinkman, Mrs. j. Schmal-
feldt, Edna Brinkman, Helen and
Llyod Stoxen were guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Austen Stoxen, Sunday.
Hiss Edith Metcalf was at her home
in Milwaukee over the weekend.
Ernest Peacock motored to Wauke-
gan Sunday for the day with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Neish and family.
Ethel Wright Fuson of New York
broadcasted several selections of He
brew music with a quartette of sing
ers over WEAF Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Fuson is former resident of
Wilmot and has sung over the radio
on many other occasions.
i Wilbur Lewis had his car badly
wrecked Monday when it skidded on
the ice into a ditch on the Trevor
road.
Funeral services for Mrs. Howard
Gross Gamma Borhn) of Chicago, were
held at the Holy Name church, Friday
morning. Burial was in the Holy
Name cemetery. Mrs. Gross was form
erly resident of this locality and
was very we'll known and liked here.
She was a patient at the Swedish hos
pitaI in Chicago for two months be-
fore her death. Mrs. Gross is sur
vived by her husband, her mother Mrs.
C. Borhn, five sisters, Mrs. Batting,
Mrs. C. Dixon, Mrs. J. Job, Jane and
Grace Borhn and two brothers, John
and Charles, all of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Cook of Wau-
conda spent Thursday at the A. G..
StOxen home.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Winn and children
of Richmond were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Hegeman.
Relatives at Wilmot have been in
formed of the illness of Virginia
Lester daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clayton Lester of Spring Prairie with
pneumonia.
tertained at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
+. Beck Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Schram have in
stalled a Radiodyne in their home.
John Beath returned to Chicago
Tuesday morning after few days in
Wilmot with Mrs. Beath and Andrew.
Mrs. +. Beck was in Burlington
Wednesday and Kenosha Tuesday.
Funeral services for George Win
chell one of the pioneer settlers of
this locality were held at the Winchell
home Monday afternoon at 1880
o'clock. Rev. Glenn James of Salem
oficiated and burial was in the family
plot at the Wilmot cemetery.
George Winchell was born in Gaze
b novia, Madison county, New York,
Oct. %, 1854, and died, January 9th,
after a short illness with pneumonia
at the family residence in Wilmot. He
was the only son of w. w. and Maria
Winchell and came to Bloomfield with
them in 1857 After three months the
family moved to the Winchell farm in
Randall. In 1885, Mr.. Winchell mar
ried Sarah f. Sibley of Wilmot and
assumed the management of the farm.
In 1907 the Winchell families moved
to Wilmot. He is survived by his
widow, his aged father now 96 years of
age, one sister, Mrs. Hiram Patrick of
Trevor, anw one niece, Mrs. VIM.
Kruckman of Burlington. His thought
fulness for others and his kindly dis
position won many friends who mourn
his loss.
Mr.. Winchell was member of the
M. w. A. Wilmot Camp 500. Members
of the lodge acted as bearers.
Many from out of town attended
the funeral services for George Win
chell Monday afternoon: Mrs. Henry
Benedict, Powers Lake; Mr.. and Mrs.
Gibbons, Fred and Andrew Gleason,
Genoa City; Fred Sabin, Watertown;
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Nutham and sons,
Paul and Arthur, Kenosha; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Sibley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Hawkins, Mrs. Jack Sibley, Ma
son Sibley, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Mat
hews, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Dibble, Percy
Dibble all of Antioch; Mr. and Mrs.
w. Kruckman and Mr.. and Mrs, Fred
Boulder, Burlington; Mrs. Mary
Wright of Lake Geneva, and Mrs.
Emma COUNSEL of Kenosha. The lat
ter remaining with Mrs. Winchell for
an extened visit.
Miss Meisner of Kenosha who was
the nurse in charge at the Winchell
home, returned to her home on Mon
day evening.