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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
BALL PLAYER
DIES SUNDAY.
August Freitag, Pioneer
Baseball Player Here,
Dies Sunday.
PITCHED NO-HIT. GAME

Death claimed one of the pioneer
baseball heroes of Kenosha on Sum
day morning when August Freitag,
aged 4S years, died at the st. Cath
crimes hospital after a short illness
from complication of diseases. He
was taken i'll only a few days ago at
the home Of Herman Scholey, 40
North Fremont avenue, with whom he
has lived for more than twenty-five
years.
Freitag was the star pitcher for the
Kenosha Ali Stars, team which made
baseball history in Kenosha nearly
twenty-five. years ago and which was
managed by Ed Alleman. Freitag had
hurled no-hit, no-run game for the
Milwaukee Sentinels shortly before he
came to Kenosha. He had hurled
wonderful ball for the Kenosha team
as well.
Later he had played under the man
agement of Peter Breen. He was
member of the Port Washington, Eau
Claire, Be1oit and Harvard, Illinois
teams at different times in his base
ball career. More recently he had
been employed in a Kenosha factory
but the older baseball fans of the city
had never. forgotten his exploits on
the diamond.
August Freitag was born in Ger
MANY September %, 1877, the. son OF
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Freitag.
He came to this country with his par
ents four years later and had lived
first in Milwaukee. For the past
twenty-seven years he has been q res
ident of Kenosha an an empioye OF
the Simmons company here.
He was a member of the Kenosha
aerie of Eagles and was active in the
work of this order. Surviving him are
two brother, Frank of Manchester, N.
H., and John of Milwaukee, and five
sisters, Mrs. Joseph Percente, Mrs.
Clara Pewter, Mrs. Ernst Melhorn
and Mrs. Ted Tetzlaff, all of Milwau-
kee, and Sister Eupheme of Lorraine,
Ohio.
He will be at the Hansen Funeral
home until time for the services to be
held Wednesday morning at the St.
Casimir's church with interment fol-
lowing in the family plot in the st.
James cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
How Pumpkin Pie
Brought Proclamation
Historian Tells Strange Story of the
First Thanksgiving Proclamation
for Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, WISE. An I'M
satiated appetite for pumpkin pie pos
sessed by two Wisconsin solons in the
Territorial legislature of 1888 resulted
in the adoption of resolution in the
legislature formally providing for an
nual observance of Thanksgiving day
in Wisconsin by gubernatorial procla-
nation.
DR.. Lucius L. Barber and Daniel
Well Jr., Milwaukee senators, lying
in bed in their room j.. a Madison ho-
tel one night, were discussing the sub
iect of Thanksgiving as it was OBJ
served in the East. Pumpkin pie sug-
gested- itself to Senator Barber who
remarked that there should be
Thanksgiving in Wisconsin. Senator
Wells declared the idea to be good
but the difficulty was there were no
pumpkins in Wisconsin. To this Bar
Der retorted that if legal provision
were made for the holiday, the pump
kin would be Forthcoming.
Barber agreed. to draw up a resolu-
tion providing for the holiday if Wells
would "see it through the territorial
council. They kept their pact and q
resolution directing the governor to
issue proclamation annually appoint
ing day of Thanksgiving to be OBJ
served throughout the territory was
adopted shortly afterward.
In the Wisconsin House of Repre-
sentatives, the lower branch of the
territorial legislature, the resolution
met with opposition from members re-
siding the southwestern part of the
state. They were natives of states
where institutions of Thanksgiving
never had been firmly established
This opposition, however, was over.
come and from that time Thanksgiv-
ing day has been an annual holiday
by executive proclamation in Wiscon.
sin as well as by presidential procla.
nation.
The account of the origin of tbs
first Thanksgiving day proclamation
is vouched for by John G. Gregory, 8
historian attached to the state histor.
zeal library, in Forthcoming article
in the State Historical Quarterly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
JURY AWARDS
$1,000 DAMAGES
Mrs. Mary ZieIsdorf Given
Verdict After Jury is
Out Five Hours.
GROTSKY NEGLIGENT
Signed Verdict Claims Defend
ant Was Negligent in In
stalling the Burner.

Mrs. Mary Zielsdorf was awarded
damagse of $4,000 by circuit court
jury here late Friday afternoon after
the jury had been celebrating on
questions involved in $4,000 dam
age suit from ten o'clock in the morn
ing until four o'clock in the after
noon.
The suit had been started by Mrs.
Zielsdorf following the death of her
husband, William A. Zielsdorf. MI
chael Grotsky was alleged to have
been the blame for the death when he
installed gas burner in the bath
room of the Zielsdorf apartment
which they rented from Grotsky. The
burner was defective and escaping
carbon monoxids gas caused his death
ON May 16, 1924.
Answered Eight Questions.
The jury was given their instruc-
tions by Judges E. B. Belden when
court convened on Friday. All of the
testimony for both plaintiff and de-
PENDANT had been completed on Thurs
day night. A list of eight questions
had been given to the jury for their
consideration in arriving at a verdict.
This verdict was as follows:
Odd the gas heater at the time
in question generate, discharge or re-
lease in the bath room carbon monox-
ide gas in a quantity sufficient to
cause the death of William A. Ziels-
dorff
Ayes
Off you answer question one
eyes" then answer this question::
Was such gas the proximate cause of
the death of William A. zielsdorf?
Ayes.
Q.--Was the fact that said gas
heater was not equipped with an es-
cape or vent pipe to carry off gases
from the gas heater a proximate
cause of the. de tn of William A.
Zielsdorf?
Ayes.
Off you answer question Eyes,,
then answer this questions; Did the
defendant, Grotsky, know or ought he
in the exercise of ordinary, care to
have known before and at the time
said gas heater was installed, that the
heater, when lighted, would discharge
poisonous gases?
Ayes.
Q.-Was the failure to have said
gas heater equipped with an escape
or vent pipe want of ordinary care
on the part of the defendant Grotsky?
Ayes.
@. If you answer question yes,
then answer this question: Was such
want of ordinary care a proximate
cause Of the death of William A.
zielsdorf?
Ayes.
Odd any want Of ordinary care
on the part of William A. Zielsdorf
proximately contribute to cause his
death?
A.-No.
Q.-At what sum do you fix plain
tiff's damages?
A.-Six thousand dollars.
Attorneys for the defendant today
declared that they would argue mo-
tions before Judge Belden on the YER
dict. In. case the court allows the
jury's verdict to stand as given Fri
day afternoon it is possible that the
case will be appealed to the supreme
court, it was said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Thirty-nine Indicted
in St. Louis Rum Plot

st. Louis, Mo- - u. S.sAttorney
Curry today made public the names Of
SO persons, including prominent Off
Gals and politicians in st. Louis, Indi-
anapolis and Cincinnati who we're in
dicted at indianapolis Saturday by
federal grand jury on a charge Of
conspiracy in the s1,3O0,0O0 Jack Dam
iel whisky withdrawal plot. Included
in the list was Imogene Remus, wife
of the former Cincinnati bootjeggeA
who has become estranged from him
since his release from the Atlanta
penitentiary. Remus, who testified BE.
fore the grand jury, was not indicted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
School Closed to
.Vaccinate Pupils

Development of mild epidemic Of
smallpox among pupils of the McKin-
ley school, caused DR.. G. Windesheim,
city health officer, to order the school
closed today for vaccination. Glasses
may be resumed for those who have
been vaccinated within the past five
years, or Tor those who have become
vaccinated since the giving out Of the
health department order.
At the Office of DR.. Windesheim this
afternoon it was stated that total Of
eight cases, all among children at
tending the Mckinley school, have
been reported within the past week.
The increase in the number of cases
caused the health department action
this morning.
Throughout the city today, Offices
Of Kenosha physicians and the office
of Health Officer Windesheim have
been visited by large numbers of pu-
pills seeking vaccination that their
school work may not be long inter-
rupted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Name WiscOnsin's
Earliest Advertiser

Prairie du Chen, WIS., Wis
consin's first newspaper advertiser is
believed to have been Joseph Rolette,
a manufacturer of -four here, in the
year 1918, according to John G. Greg
DRY of the state historical library,
Madison.
It is recorded that Mr.. Rolette, on
Dec. 1, 1918, inserted the following in
the st. Louis Inquirer:
"Three hundred barrels of fine bolt
ed -four, manufactured at the Prairie
du Chen by water mill, can be year
ly furnished on the most reasonable
terms by the subscriber, Jos. Rolette,
Prairie du CHEN, Dec. 1, 1873"
This was seven years before the be-
ginning of the rush of white miners
to the lead regions of southeastern
Wisconsin. It was the year of set
Element by Solomon Juneau at Milwau-
kee.
In 1918 the population of Prfairie
du Chen was estimated at a little
more than 500 persons, principally
Indians and half-breeds, Mr.. Gregory
states.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05

means of poles. They located and
brought to the surface the body of
the Dorf boy. Meanwhile both police
and coast guard officials had been sum-
moned; the third body was found by
Captain McGaw, William Pratton and
Richard Peters of the coast guard
station.
Police Sergeants Melbusch and
Schneeberger and Policeman John Nc
Givern answered the police call to the
scene and operated the pulmotor in
the vain efforts to recuscitate the
three lads.
The tragedy threw shadow over
the entire city. The three victims
were all popular students at the Lin
coin school and their deaths brought
mourning throughout the entire school.
Principal Identifies Bodies.
Miss Maude Shelton, principal Of the
Lincoln school, identified the bodies
Of the three lads. Her investigation
into the accident confirmed the story
as told by the children who first re-
ported Sthe drowning.
t'The children at the Lincoln school
have been warned time and time again
about the ice in the lagoon" declared
Miss Shelton. "This very morning one
of the teachers while coming to school,
took occasion to tell the children not
to venture onto the thin ice. The
warning has been given to them
repeatedly"
eaxees tee was less than half inch
thick and in some places was not
nearly that thick. 1t was what is
known by the youngsters as rubber
ice," giving with them when they
venture on to it."
Coroner Joseph Friend was notified
at once of the accident and came to the
scene. After every effort possible to
revive the lads had failed, he notified
the parents of the tragedy.
Near Scene of Other Drowning.
The triple drowning this morning
occurred in that part of the lagoon
which is directly west of the Lincoln
school, and is at the south end of
the island. It is near the place where
the one year old son of Mrs. Fred
Brookhouse was drowned on the morn
ing of September 22nd last.
Harry Kaplan, one of the victims
of the tragedy, was member of Boy
Scout Troop ID, and was the winner of
the city-wide marble tournament held
in Kenosha during the past summer.
Leo Dorff and Vernon Butcher, the
other victims, were also active in
boys work.
Word of the drowning spread rapid
ly through the city and attracted
scores of people there to assist in
the recovering of the bodies of the
threa victirns
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Governor Blaine
To Make Address

Milwaukee, Wis.,, Governor
Blaine has accepted an invitation to
deliver the address of dedication of
the new 5000 seat concert hall of the
Milwaukee auditorium here Nov. 8,
the governing board announced. Mayor
Daniel Hoan and member of the
city council, with the governor, will
be guests of honor.
The occasion will mark the first ail-
thentic test of the scientific acous-
tical treatment, recently completed at
a cost of about $175,000. Prof. F. R.
Watson of the University Of Illinois,
acousticaI expert, will be present at
the opening concert given by IA
nous bandmasterz~t same night.
Musical experts from Chicago and
New York have been invited to attend.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
MORE COUPLES
ARE DIVORCED
Slater Again Scores AttOr-
neys Who Come Here
from Milwaukee.
WIFE IS NO COOK

az will not tolerate this Milwaukee
divorce Industry, and that's what i
isl" cried Judge Slater in the munlc-
ipaI court, as his eyes snapped frel
and he brought down his hand upon
the desk in front of him in further
emphasis of his remarks.
Two Milwaukee attorneys with their
brief cases under their arms, listened
in silence, but they did not leave the
courtroom. They hung about and
waited until an opportune moment
arrived, and then they presented the
court with the complaint in their sew
eral cases. Judge Slater listened re-
luctantly, to the testimony given in
two divorce suits and granted divorce
to the plaintiff in each ease. But ne
made it clear to the attorneys from
Milwaukee that he considered it an
imposition to have this court used
constantly as as a matter of course
by Milwaukee attorneys who bring
nothing more interesting to the courts
attention than the plants of dis
0runtled husbands or wives who want
q permanent separation.
Says Wife Is No Cook.
Jacob Meier was granted divorce
from Myrtle Meier. They were mar
ried at Fond du Lac, June 10, 1922
and have one child, Edwin Otto, three
years old. But matrimony soon ceased
TO- be comfortable companion, accord
ing to Meier, because his wife refused
to cook. She also neglected the child
he said. Finally, one year, she left
Aug. 81, with another man and re-
turned to her home Sept. 8. Meier
said that that settled everything. He
secured the divorce and the custody
of the child.
Annabelle De Mar was granted a di-
yorce from William De Mar. They
were married Sept. IL, 1917, at Wash
burn and have one child. William
seven years old. William was morosc
and sullen, his wife declares, and lift
with him was soon impossible because
Of his churlish disposition. She saiC
that New Years eve of 1924, he ant
she were at dance with six other
couple, all friends, and her husband
knocked her down because she danced
with one of the gentlemen of theil
own group.
The case of Della Hunt VS.. Virgil
Hunt has been filed in the municipal
court but has not yet been heard
They were married at La Junta, Colo.
May 10, 1919, and have one child, Vir.
GINA, five years old. They separated
Aug. Z, 1919, and have since remained
apart, the plaintiff wife declared.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05

recovered the body Of the Dorff lac
and members of the coast guard sta
tion found the other body.
The police had pulmotor at the
scene and used it in vain efforts tt
resuscitate each of the lads. DR.. A
L. Christofferson, who was called t.
the scene, declared that it was use
less to work longer on them as his
examination proved that they were
dead. The bodies were taken to the
Mischler mortuary on Park street.
Children Tell of Tragedy.
The story of the tragedy was
learned from a few school children
who saw it and hurried to tell school
officials in order to summon help
The accident occurred in the last few
minutes of the morning recess period
most of the children having returned
to the school rooms.
Ae few of the youngsters had wan
dered into the park and according to
their statements the Dorff and Kaplan
boys were venturing on the thin ice
daring each to see how far they could
go. The children maintain that they
had called to the lads to come back
when the ice suddenly broke beneath
them. The two youngsters fell into
the icy water, which is about six
feet at that point and as, they
struggled to catch on to the ice, it
merely broke in their grasp.
Oaher Lad to Rescue.
Il. II II
policeman there, realized the situation
and at the risk of his own life
started across the ice to reach the
two lads who had fallen through the
ice. He reached them but was
dragged under the ice with them, all
three sinking at once.
William Arndt, an employee of the
city park department, was working in
another part of the park Hearing the
cries of the children on the bank, he
looked up just in time to see the
bodies disappear under the ice. He
hurried to the scene. At the same
A. G. Parftt, who lives nearby, also
reached the bank and both men tried
TO rescue the bodies at once. Parfitt
waded into the water and using a rake
located the body of the Butcher lad
and brought it to shore. Henry Gull
branson, one of. the nitors at the
Lincoln school, was told of the tragedy
by one of the children and rushed
to the scene, wading into the icy
water up to his neck in an effort to
find the other two bodies.
Find One from Boat.
One of the boats from the lagoon
was rushed to the scene and Willis
Alexander and Walter Irving used il
~ al L. ].
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Vernon Butcher, Leo Dorff and Harry Kaplan,
All Schoolboys, Are Victims of Drown
ing Tragedy This Morning.
School Children Who Saw Accident Tell How Butcher
Lad Risked His Life in Vain Attempt to
Save His Two SchooImates.

Caught under the thin e onto which two of them had
taking and which the other had gone
effort to his companions from death three Keno
sha schoobos drowned in the Lincoln park lagoon just
after ten-thirty o'clock this morning.
The victims Of the triple drowning tragedy were:
Leo Dor, aged H. 512 Symmonds street; Harry Kapan,
49, 54 Lombard Vernon Butcher IL 808 Fremont
avenue, all of them pupils of the Lincoln school.
The body of the Butcher lad recovered first being
pulled of the ice water by A. Pra $50 Collins street.
who waded into the lagoon search for the bodies The other
two bodies recovered than half hour later Wal
ter Irving and Willis Alexander, two employees of the city,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
BORN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Larsen of 1850
S. Garfield street, son, October 80,
at the Kenosha hospital.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Donnell of
lib Elizabeth street, daughter, at
the Kenosha hospital, November 2.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Koehler,
300 Jenne street, son, at their home
October 80.
To Mr.. and Mrs. j. Farmer, $50 Prai-
RE avenue, a daughter, November l, at
their home.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lenz, 10 N.
Huron street, son, November 2.
To Mr.. and Mrs. r. Lemecchia, so S.
Rowland avenue, son, at their home
Saturday morning. October 81.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
White Way Started
Thirty Years Ago
Broadway's First Electric Sign Cost
$20O-MiIIions Are Now Invested
In This Means of Advertising.

New York's gay White Way. ex-
tending as it does. along Broadway
for more than two miles, has not al
ways been. In fact, it started to be
just 80 years ago. Then a sign using
200 electric lamp bulbs and costing
only 5000 was put up where the ia
nous Flatiron building now stands.
Today signs along the White Way
section of Broadway contain more
than million electric lamp bulbs and
the money invested in these signs and
sites, as we'll as those erected on side
streets, runs into millions of dollars.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Col. r. I'll. Aiken
Called by Death
Well Known Winthrop Harbor Man
Died Sunday After Two
Weeks Illness.

Colonel R. H. Aiken, IS years old,
died at his home in Winthrop Harbor
Sunday night after two weeks ILL
ness. Death was due to acute heart
trouble. The deceased was widely
known in this district as he has been
a resident of Winthrop Harbor since
1892. He is survived by his wife and
four children. Funeral services will
be conducted at $3.50 o'clock at the
home Wednesday afternoon with burial
IN the Lake Mound cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Long Beach to Have
Airplane Ordinance

Long Beach. Draft of an
ordinance to regulate operation Of
aircraft within municipal boundaries
is to be presented to the city council
by City Attorney Bruce Mason.
The ordinance, said to be one of che
first of its kind, provides regulations
for the operation of aircraft while
flying, landing and taking off. Planes
in the act Of landing are given the
right of way over machines taking the
air. A plane in the air must bear to
the right when meeting another ma
chine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
WANTS STATION.

A campaign is being conducted in
Portugal to get broadcasting station.
Although there are several thousands
of radio fans in the country, they
are dependent On foreign broadcasting
for entertainment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
ALL TOLD.

Ruth confded the secret Of our
engagement to three of ~ dearest
friends.
Irene-Three all told?
Ruth-Yess all told.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05

Doesn't cost cent more to laugh
at your own expense.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-02-18

nine of the original number, twenty
five. being present; remarks, Boyden
Rearse: three-minute talks from each
past master, Arno Hooper, b. w,
BUrriI n. B. Colby, G. w. Brewster,
G. A. Gray, Gerald Thompson, Cliff
ford Burrill, Everett Black and the
present master, Ida Houston; letter
from Ella BurriIl, charter member.
now in Providence, r. l.; solos, Alta
Emery and Clifford Burrill short
play, "a Lady TO Call; piano solos.
Ethel Stone; music, mandolin and
piano, Violet Blood and Ethel Pink
ham: original poem, Lenora Miller;
singing, AUD Lang Syne," by
grange; stories by Asa Lyford and re-
marks by visitors. The hall was
handsomely decorated with red and
white festoons, silver garlands, Ions
lines of hearts, flying cupids ano
other symbols of valentine festivi
ties. and a valentine favor was placed
at each plate in the dining room.
All in all, it was one of the most
ENJOYABLE days in the history of this
grange.
Feb. 10. b.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-02-18
A UNIQUE ADVENTURE.

Last Wednesday evening, the
Bluehill academy basketball team
sailed forth with high expectations,
spirited horse and a pretentious
pung, to squelch the Brooklin high
school team, if possible. Passing
through North Brooklin, the pung
showed evident signs of weakness,
but they continued their journey,
played their game, won victory, and
started for home. Passing again
through North Brooklin, near the
home of Leroy Flye their pung
collapsed completely, and spread out
over a large area.
The crash and the attendant noise
and confusion awakened people, and
brought them to their doors and
windows.
The boys apparently accepted their
predicament philosophically. This
isn't too bad, is it?''one of them was
heard to say, while another said
how much worse it would have been
if a Ford had flattened out under
them
The last to be seen of them, in the
wee hours of the morning, some were
leading the horse, and the horse was
leading others, a line nearly a
quarter of a mile in length They
disappeared from sight, happy in the
thought that they were carrying
home 1.-THE bacon, in d score of As
to 10. It is hoped they reached the
academy in time for the morning
exercises. The pung remains here.
Feb. IS. "Xenophon.