Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

i 14 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT KENOSHA MERCHANTS ARE READY TO SERVE YOU The Weather: For Kenosha and Vicinity Snow Flurries Tonight Thursday Partly Cloudy Sunrise 7:12 Sunset 4:17 Classified Ads For Twenty Years a Feature Twenty-five Words for 25 Cts Cash Must Accompany Order' They do the Work 'for You VOLUME XXI KENOSHA WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9 1914 NO 41 BARRED AT NAVAL STATION BUILDIUCmiSQCH COIICERT IS PLEASING ADOPT NEW SCHEDULE SHIRK PUBLIC DUTY FROST QUITS BOARD Attorney Hoyt Gives Deserved Criticism to Business Men of the Nation PERMIT POLITICIANS TO ROLE Milwaukee Attorney Speaking Before St Matthew's Men's Club Shows One of the Greatest Menaces to the Government Trained Men Axe Needed Zionites Get in Bad When They Refuse to Submit to Vaccination An order now in effect at the Great Lake Naval Training Station: and which was issued through the instance of the medical department of the institution establishes a bar against employment of all Zionites at the training school The order which was recently put into effect included the discharge of a group of employes at the station all of whom were Zionites Their suspension followed their refusal to submit to vaccination The who were suspended was composed of three men all of heads of families in Zion City They were given the alternative whether they should be vaccinated or discharged from the service Rather than violate the laws of their religion they chose the latter The period of suspension is stated to be indefinite One of the officers of the institution declared that the move was made in the interests of health and safety The presence of the workmen amongst the great community' of attaches and cadets of the station was considered as a menace All of the discharged employes are emphatic in their declarations that they will not submit to vaccination GLAZED POSTAL CARDS BANNED Officials Will Destroy Injurious Missives Not Sent in Envelopes There will be many waiting Tor the little Christmas greeting in the shape of a -post card and there will be hundreds who have been remembered by their friends but who will never receive these cards according to Postmaster -V Baker In spite of the activity of the postal officials the usual quantity of 1 fancy Christmas cards bearing particles Of tinsel are being received at the postoffice These cards are destroyed as fast as they arrive as they are classed as unmailable unless enclosed in a stout envelope and securely sealed The mailing of these cards while not only injurious to the hands of the clerks who sort and deliver the mail often causes damage to other mail matter with which they come into contact and for this reason the postoffice officials at Washington have issued orders to destroy them ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT Miss Miriam Frost to Become the Bride of Ralph Cooper Next Year At a pretty Tittle dinner lat which eovers were laid for twelve guCsts and at which' Miss Miriam Frost daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Frost of Durkee avenue was the hostess on Tuesday evening announcement was made of the engagement of Miss Frost and Ralph Cooper The announcement is one of great interest among the younger society of the city Miss Frost is one of the most charming young ladies of the younger social set in Kenosha Mr Cooper is a son of the late Charles Cooper and is now the superintendent of the Cooper Underwear Company No announcement has been made of the date of the wedding but it is expected to "take place during the coming year NAME NEW OFFICERS Catholic Knights of Wisconsin Hold Annual Meeting and Election The annual meeting of the Catholic Knights cf Kenosha was held on Tuesday "evening and the reports of the various officers showed that the organization was in excellent condition at the close of the year Peter Leuck was elected president of the branch for the coming year The full list of officers follows: President Peter Leuck Vice President Anthony Holder Cor Secy Flasch Fin Secy Math Kleist -Treasurer Herman Brockhaus Trustee (3 yrs) Jno Holzemer Marshall Tennesson Banner Carrier Arents Sentinel Francis Mayer ROAD WORK ALL COMPLETED County Highway Commissioner Paying Off Final Bills for Highway Work i Kenosha county highway work is now all completed for the year and the county highway commissioner has seen to it that all the" little odds and ends in connection with the work laid out for the year have been cleaned up Today he was busy making his final settlement with contractors and when the accounts are closed up on the last days of the month there will not be a single outstanding I bill against the department when the board of supervisors get the final report on the work at the January session Commissioner Herzog declared this morning that the work as completed was satisfactory in every way MODERN WOODMEN NOTICE Your attendance is earnestly requested at the 'annual election of' officers on Wednesday evening December 9th 1914 at 8 at Odd Fellows Hall d9adv GC Huff Clerk PURE WATER We deliver fresh from the spring every day Kenosha Pure Spring Water Co Phone 1168 advtf SHORT NEWS BULLETINS Special to the Kenosha Eriniog News Petrograd Dec is denied here that the Germans have eap- tured Lodr: and it is claimed that the German army been trapped Fresh troops are now being rushed into Lodz Special to the Kenosha Evening News Petrograd Dec 9 It is officially announced that -the Russians have outflanked the Germans southeast of Cracow putting them to flight and capturing many guns Special to the Kenosha Evening News Petrograd Dec The Turkish fleet has attacked Sebastopol but has been driven off by Russian guns and aeroplanes Special to the Kenosha Evening News London Dec 9 A fierce fight is Taging from Nieport to Ostend The Allies have re-captured Dix-mude and the British fleet is bombarding the coast FIND DEFFRY LOOT Silver and Furs Taken From the Deffry Home Found in Durkee Ave Lot Renewed activity was shown by the members of the police department in an effort to solve the mystery connected with the robbery of the home of Charles Deffry as early this morning a considerable amount of the booty taken from the Deffry home was recovered The leather satchel taken from the house was found concealed under a pile of bushes in a vacant lot on Durkee avenue The lot is owned by Carpenter and a new house is being erected on it In the satchel was found a valuable fur coat and a number of pieces of silverware including spoons rTho bag containing the booty was notice! by boys early this morning and as soon as Officer Clausen reached the place he saw that it was a part of the loot taken from the Deffry home One of the savings banks taken from the house was found in the satchel aiid no effort had been made to tamper with it -With the finding of this loo tj4be police threw opt a firagi south section of the city and efforts are being made to get a list of the boys who have been seen in the neighborhood of the vacant lot It is very probable that' none of the boys in this neighborhood know anything of the robbery and it is probable that the grip containing the discarded articles was dropped theie by the burglars when they were making their getaway Chief and his men are con- vinced that the burglary was the work of some one in Kenosha who had kept pretty close tab on the members of the Deffry family and who knew thVt" the house was unoccupied at the time the burglary was committed The members of the Deffry family were overjoyed at the finding of the articles this morning as some of the things were keepsakes gTeatly valued by the owners on account of the associations BIT OFF THUMB Somers Beet Weeder Held at County Jail on a Serious Charge Charged with biting off a portion of a thumb and attacking the same man with a hammer Anton Miller a Somers beet weeder is held in the county jail pending a hearing in the municipal 1 court lie was arrested by Sheriff Achen on Tuesday The victim of the biting Austrian was Alex Sawacki also a beet weeder and the trouble took place in one of the shacks just north of Somers Station It is said that the quarrel started over a difference as to the ownership of a small sum of money Sawacki was first struck in the face with tho hammer and then bitten Miller years of age and has a wife and three children at Somers It is not known what charge will be brought against him and he will be taken into court for a hearing on Thursday morning BOAT LOAD OF POTATOES The Schooner Mary Ludwig just arrived with a cargo of choice medium white potatoes free from frost and rot which we are selling at 55a per bushel in lots of 5 bushel or more delivered at your house This is the last chance to put in your winter supply This price only while they last The Dunnebacke Co Market and Main Sts Phones 801 and 802 advtf EAGLES ATTENTION Big doings big feed Wednesdaj' night December 9th One of our good old fashioned stags Be there d9ad John Ward Secy CABBAGE Small heads $100 per 100 also beets carrots and potatoes R-' Rasmussen No 35 Phone 5013 3 short and one long Lunch ehch article Ic at Penny Social on Tuesday afternoon at Moose hall by the Vesta Circle ladies Frost Declines to Ac- i 'V T- cept Re-election as Member of Industrial Board LYNN HANNAHS SUCCESSOR A I Board of Education Adopts Flans and 1 Specifications for the New Oat-door School and Hears Interesting Reports of the Committees of the Board Walter Frost who has served as president of the Industrial Board of Education fsince its organization and under whose direction" the city of Kenosha -has- built up one of the most notable systems of continuation schools to be found anywhere in the country is to retire from the board He announced his -retirement at the meeting of the Board of Education on Tues day evening when he declined to accept a e-election as a member -of the board Mr Frost insisted to the board that while he was deeply interested in the work of- the industrial board his business interests would make it impossible for him to give the time which he believed should be given to this work by a member of the board Mr Frost was as a member of the board in the fall of 1912 when the new industrial school board law went into effect and' his administration of the affairs of the board has been eminently successful The public scarcely appreciates the debt that it owes to the members of this board for the men have all shown a great personal interest in the work of the board and it is this personal interest that has gone a long way to bring '-the success that these- schools have attained e-y ta tare of ihfi work "of tho continuation schools has been a "personal matter with Mr Frost in the two years that he has been at the head of the "board and he has given to 7 them the same careful consideration that he would give-to his private business The industrial board has been a hard working board often holding several meetings in a week Mueller the other retiring member of the board was elected for another term and Lynn Hannahs was named to succeed Mr Frost as a member of the board Mr Hannahs is prominent among the younger manufacturers of the city and he is certain to prove an active member of the board as he has shown a groat interest in the promotion of the continuation schools At the next meeting of the industrial board a new president is to be elected The board at its meeting on Monday evening accepted the plans and specifications for the proposed outdoor school The plans have already been approved by the industrial commission as provided by the state law and the committee on buildings and grounds will at once advertise for bids for the construction of the building It is probable that the contract for the construction of the new building will be let at the January meeting of the board A report of decided interest was presented to the board by the committee on wider use of the school buildings This report was largely made up of a report of the work of the social center at the Bain school The total attendance at these social gatherings during the eleven days in the month of November was shown to have been 1519 -Interesting reports were made of the general school conditions in the city and plans were made to have the members of the board visit the night schools in a body on Thursday evening A lot of routine business was taken up by the board and the session was a prolonged one ASSOCIATED CHARITIES URGE HOUSEWIVES TO FIND ODD JOBS ABOUT THEIR HOMES Each morning a group of eager faced men line up at the office of the Associated Charities seeking Work Unless the public responds with odd jobs until such time as the factories return to full time -the wives and children of these men must suffer for food and fuel The men are not asking Charity and do not want it Work is the a chance to earn bread for the family Have not you a piece of work however small that will help one man earn his food for his family for one day? If so phone the Associated Charities 93 7 between 9 a and 12 or 1 to 5 advdl0 'We have a nice line of inexpensive Step in when shopping and inspeet them Pitts and Heather 252 Bark street -ivd24 Water Board at Annual Session Follows Suggestion of Rate Commission GRASSER IS NAMED PRESIDENT New Rates Adopted by the Board for the Governing of Meter Customers Will Not Make Any Great Change in Amounts to be Paid for Water Acting on the suggestion of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission the 'Board of Water Commissioners a- its annual meeting on Tuesday evening adopted a new scale of rates for meter customers The new scale is held to be one eminently fair to all consumers Frank Grasser was re-elected president of the board for another year by acclamation During the evening the commissioners spent considerable time discussing plans for the new intake and the plans and specifications are to be presented to the board at the next meeting It is expected that bids will be asked the latter part of January The new rate schedule is best explained in the letter sent by the railroad commission the members of the water board xt follows: 1 In accordance with our letter of November 28th we have had prepared a water rate schedule which we believe can be substituted for your present schedule without materially affecting either the utility or The consumers The following schedule eliminates the regressive and discriminatory features of present schedule: First'' 30000 at 12c Next 30000 at 11c Next 30000 at 84c Next 1710000 at 8e 4 Next 2700000 at 7c Next 4500000 5c Next '4500000 at 3c All above next at lc These rates are for a period of six months per one thousand gallons In order to show' more clearly the relation between the above schedule and your present schedule we are 'enclosing two graphs Upon Sheet No 2 is shown the complete schedule while Sheet No I shows upon a larger scale the first and smaller steps Your nresent rates are represented by the jagged black line and the green line represents the schedule suggested above Upon referring to the graphs it will be seen that the amount of revenue will not be seriously affected by the adoption of the proposed schedule although the bills of some consumers may be slightly different It will be noted that we have computed the bills upon the half year basis In that we understand your water rents are paid semi-annually We believe it more convenient to state schedule in terms of six months rather than in days It may be that" the first three steps of the proposed schedule should be combined so as to charge for the first 90000 gallons per six months at the Tate of 12 cents per 1 1000 gallons Owing to the fact that we are not in possession of sufficient consumer data to ascertain exactly the effect the pro posed schedule would have upon your revenues we leave to your judgment the question of whether or not the first three steps should be combined at the rate of 12 cents or remain as set forth in the suggested schedule Also if you have consumers who use in excess of 20000000 gallons per six months it may be that the excess rate of 1 cents per thousand gollans would bring the consumers bills somewhat lower than they would be under your present schedule We shall be pleased to receive your comments regarding these matters! Very truly yours Railroad Commission of Wisconsin by Lewis Gettle NOTICE I AND REBEKAHS On Friday evening December 11th at 8:00 the first annual home coming to be celebrated at Odd Fellows Hall on Chureh street will be opened by an instructive and ehter-tafning program with addresses on 0C0 by the Hon Judge Randall after which refreshments very refreshing and dancing good music Now Odd Fellows and Rebekahs let anything but sickness keep you away "from this treat of amusement Bring your husbands Bring your wives Lets get together on Friday evening the 11th and make it a home coming royal With no dead ones dlladv Committee PEA COAL 'T We have a little anthracite pea coal left which we are closing out at $500 per ton while it lasts Phone 6 Pettit Malting Co ulvdlO The Kenosha Choral Society Gives First Concert at the Coliseum Tuesday IRE MUSICIANS Will APPLAUSE Program With Varied Features is Of-v fered as the Fitst of the Season by The Society and Local Artists Win High Praise for Their Work The Kenosha Choral Society gave the first of a series of their concerts last evening and again proved the value of sincere work and able training It is remarkable what a chorus of fifty people can do and it is to be regretted that fifty or a hundred more men and women can not see the value of this organi zation and- avail themselves of the opportunity it offers for personal advancement Mr Knapp is striving in every way to make of the society a permanent fixture and has arranged three programs of varied interest so that every one musical taste may be appealed to Last night program was in every sense of the rord a "musical and would have given pleasure to every one in the Coliseum had it been filled to capacity There was variety in the choice of program the orchestral number and encore being well received Many people were interested in the fact that three of our own towns women appeared in the solo parts that professionals are usually engaged to sing Miss Cameron- supervisor of music in the schools rendered the contralto solo in of in a' charming maanT and the chorus lent a bouyaney- 'and 'swing that was very pleasing The last halfof the evening was devoted to the Erl-King Daughter in which Mrs Edna Cosgrove Starr and Miss Lillian Esther Gottlieb sang the women solos and Arthur Kraeckmann the role ofOluf'- Mrs Starr has been heard and- appreciated in church and musical clubs but few of her friends realized that she possessed a voice equal to such dramatic effect as the role of the Daughter demanded Her voice is clear and high and true and she handled her difficult part splendidly and received enthusiastic applause Miss Gottlieb has a beautiful contralto voice with that quality of that is seldom heard even among professionals of that range The part of the which Miss Gottlieb sang was interpreted with an intellectual maturity and poise beyond her years and experience Mr Kraeckmann is a young man of twenty with a baritone voice that gives promise of great possibilities He is a pupil of Mr and gave his time and service to the Choral Society singing the long und difficult part ofOluf and the "Evening from Tannhauser for which the society and those interested in its work are extremely grateful This concert was the' young debut in a professional role and if at twenty he can interprete such work as Sir Oluf in as generally satisfactory a manner we will be hearing more of him before long If there can be a criticism that is fair and just everything taken into consideration it would be that the orchestra overbalanced the voices somewhat This would not lave been true of the chorus if the proper number of men voices especially basses that the sopranos and altos justify were giving their services The Kenosha Choral Society is the only organization that is open to the community for advancement in art We therefore hope that the people will give to it their earnest support BULLETIN Special to the Kenosha Evening News Scranton Pa Dec 9 A miner dropped a stiek of dynamite down a shaft here this morning and nine Inen wera killed in the blast which followed CUT YOUR FUEL BILL Hiawatha nut coal $485 hard coal $750 Other coal in proportion All orders promptly delivered The Central Fuel and Ice Co main yards cor Wisconsin and First streets Telephone 228 adtvf FURNACE WORK AND TINNING Of all kinds done by Hansen 326 Main street Phone 714 If you are not satisfied with your butter ask your grocer for Tempta-tionJBjrajad dvd18 Lutherans of the Southwest Side of City Form a New Parish of Fifty Families BUG READY III SPRING Rapid Growth of the Lutheran People in the City Brings Demand for New Parish of Which Rev Edmund Reim is to be the First Pastor Work of the Lutheran church 1 Kenosha is being extended and just at present work is progressing on a new church to be known as St Luke Evangelical Lutheran chureh It is being erected at the corner of Bain and Selleck avenues where the has purchased five lots The building is to be a combination school and church with accommodations for three hundred people The building will be of frame one story in height with a large basement and the basement will be finished so that it may be used either as a school room or as a place for church services The Rev Edmund Reim assistant pastor of the German Lutheran church is in charge of the work of the new parish and he is expeeted to be the first pastor of new church Fifty families all formerly members of the German Lutheran church are to furnihs the nucleus for the -building up of a large Lutheran parish on the southwest side of the city There has been no split in" the ranks of the older church and the Rev Carl Buenger pastor of the older church is one of the most ardent supporters of the new movement we built the church on Ridge street -we felt that' it would provide a home for tiie 7 -M- ready we -are 'beginning to cramped a little owing to the i rapid growth of the congregation and these fanrilTes all living in the neighborhood of the church are going to form a parish of their own We wish them every success and will give the new church every possible said Mr Buenger It is expeeted that the new church and school will be completed and ready for occupancy early in the spring The corner stone was laid on last Sunday afternoon and the work is to be rushed as rapidly as possible It is said that money is in sight to complete the erection of the church and school" The growth of the Lutheran church in Kenosha in the past fifteen years has beeu suth as to attract attention among religious workers Fifteen years ago there were but two Lutheran churches in Kenosha these being limited to the German and Danish Lutherans Since that time four other churches have been built and all of the parishes are rated as strong among the religious denominations of the city It is certain that there is a large field for labor in the neighborhood where the new chureh is being erected The question of the language to be used in the church has not been decided and it will be decided in keeping with the wishes of the majority of the members but it is probable that a part of the services will be in German and a part in English GO TO LOOK UP SITES County Board Members Spend Storm Afternoon Looking Over Sites Braving the wintry storm a number of the members of the county board went out fm a junkqt this afternoon to look over sites proposed for the tuberculosis hospital At the head of the bunch was the veteran chairman John Yule and he declared that the weather would not effect him in any way in making the trip Chairman Grosvenor of the special committee in charge of recommending the site had more than a dozen suggested sites Many of them are within a few miles of the city limits and all of these sites will be visited this afternoon Several of the property owners have shown a willingness to offer property to the city at a very fair price but a few of them have evidently decided to ask a large price for lands With- a wide selection there will be no necessity for the committee to over-pay any one in securing the site ELECT OF OFFICERS The German Ladies Society Kau-eradschaft at their annual meeting last evening elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President Mrs- Philomina Weier Vice President Mrs Lena Wade Cor Mrs Ida Rohr Fin Secy Mrs" Bertha Hartig Treasurer Mrs Barbara Meyer Floor Lady Mrs Gertrude Fack Trustee (3 Mrs Lucille Hahn That American institutions are threatened on account of the lack of interest shown by men' of affairs was the burden of a most excellent address before the Men's Club of St Matthews church on Tuesday evening by the Hon Frank Hoyt leading attorney of Milwaukee Mr Hoyt spoke to more than a hundred Kenosha men' and women and in addition a good sized delegation came down from Racine He spoke on the subject George Do and declared that this very spirit was the most harmful element in the political life of the nation the state and the municipality Mr Hoyt declared that he was speaking from a bitter experience on account of the fact that he had served as the head of one of the big political committees He declared that the really representative men of the nation and state had failed miserably in doing the duties that they owe to the state and the nation He declared that his own political experience had shown clearly that good men could be named to office if they would seek offices He asserted that mediocre men who go into the public office were not necessari- ly dishonest and that he believed ninety-nine per cent of these men were honest but their lack of experience in the big affairsjof life made them hopeless failures In the work of the government The majority of the politicians the men' who constantly seek office and who are usually elected are unfitted for the public service and for this reason they fail of results Mr Hoyt spoke also of the methods of the modern legislators of wasteful expenditures of the various departments of the government with lack of results Tie compared results attained in this country witli those attained with even less expenditure in Germany have repeatedly called our government the best government on earth but it has a lot of bad said Mr Hoyt He spoke of the loss of the maritime prestige which the United States had gained just before the civil war" and showed that there had beeli no effort to build up this great promoter of foreign trade He showed how Germany had taken advantage of the failure of our own country and had' built up this great business He made- a strong plea for the army and navy and declared tint -the days of warf-e between nations were not over and that there was little reason to think that war would ever cease He declared that the three menaces to the 1 nation today were for Monroe and the Attitude of Mr Hoyt made a strong presentation of the 'charge against Wisconsin He declared that Wisconsin had so many fool laws that no attorney regardless of his standing in his profession could give a truly intelligent opinion on any matter ofreat import best they can do is to give you a good was the way he put it -w He spoke of "fool the bait- ing of corporations and' the -hampering 'of great industries by laws which gained nothing for the' state but rec-ords for wTiich it would soon be neces- sary to build a great warehouse at the i state capital Ho spoke of the- fact tht Wisconsin made more laws in a yea? then the parliament of the British Empire for the government of all the dependencies of Great Britain In discussing municipal government he declared that weak or dishonest municipal governments must be blamed to the Let George Do It spirit- "You will get efficient government only when you take an interest in getting it and when men of affairs show a sufficient interest in the affairs of the city state and nation to themselves take up the burden of holding publie office and giving to the people the best Jesuits of inteligent NOTICE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Stated Conclave of Kenosha Command- rv 3 1 Knights Templar will be" held at Masonic Temple Wednesday evening Dec 9th at By order of the Eminent Commander advd9 Hawley Recorder Books for every one at Gler-wk 4idvdll I.