The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-06-04
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OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN.

| Road matters are being talked about. The
new company has been organized under
the law passed last winter; the right of
way secured from the old company and
an effort is now being made to have CAPT
talists take hold of the enterprise. We
hope it will succeed. The first num-
Der of the Nanitouoc Zietung, the new
German paper, will appear week from
to day.. ...Bressler the mason, has the
contract for building five brick houses
..-.....Large lots of lime are being ship
ped to the Lake Superior country.
The grass shoppers are marshaling their
| forces. From the best authority we can
obtain their ranks are now numbered by
millions. Farmers fear that they
will cause great damage to the erops......
"A good time was had at Turner Hall
last Monday evening. ....".. Every body in
tfe,neighborhood is praying for rain .....
Books can now be obtained from the
Jones Library every day from to 9
o clock D. Misery likes COM
pany For particulars see G. F. Schutts
| & Co.'S Bankrupt list. 1t contains only
about two thousand names, all publishers
of newspapers, in every State of the I'm
MISUNDERSTANDING from the amount of
| wool that is being brought into town,
sheep must be very plenty throughout
the country. of the finest bust
| ness blocks that is now being erected is
that of Mr.. Voelcherts on Eighth street,
south side........Greve & Co., have a
very handsome stock of parlor and other
furniture. Go and see There is
some talk of organizing militia com
pany Fall in there who feel inclined.
IAN Express Office has been estab-
lished at the Post Office. The State
Teachers Association will hold their an
nual meeting In Milwaukee. See adver-
tisement. 49,. Twenty nine thosand and
sixty five bushels of wheat were shipped
from this port during the month of May.
THE old settlers propose to have a
re-union.........The city of Berlin has or
ganized Library Association without
any Library. The Courant says "the
collection of a library will be slower
work requiring cash and consideration. y
Brother Terry you can bet on that safely,
| but your reading room is a long step in
the right direction. funny affair
took place in town few days since, A
| merchant ordered bill of goods and
allowing plenty of time for their receipt
| he wrote second time. Receiving a
reply that that they had been sent he sci
to work to hunt them up. OF course
they had been stolen, that was certain.
| A trip to the pier and chase for dray-
man revealed the fact that the goods had
been delivered at the store and receipted
| for, "And there is the box now saio
the drayman. 1t had remained on the
sidewalk in front Of the store two weeks
and wasn't stolen very much, nor dam
aged a particle. Several kegs of beel
have spoiled since, however........J. A.
Kahler has bought the store building, oc
cupied by Korten & Blesch, with a foul
years lease for 81 $50, and proposes in ;
| short time to move In, as Korten 4
Blesch are closing out. We are pleased
at this evidence of Mr. Kahler's success:
in business and we hope he will be sue
| cessful in his new stand. ...... The Wau
paca Criterion records the sale of a wife
for the splendid sum of ten cents. Perry
why didn't you defer your marriage a
| week or two; it must have cost you al
least five or ten dollars, and you see had
you only waited how much you might
have saved !........A man named Theo-
Lamy, who claims to have two uncles re-
siding. in Manitowoc, has been arrested
in Fond du Lac on suspicion of being a
burglar, but there must be mistake the
people of this section are all virtuous, and
so are their relatives..........f we hadn't
written the preceding article we would
write about those things that stil con
tinue to walk our streets, notwithstanding
they have been sent to jail and the poor
house several times. Is not the city gov
| eminent competent to remove these vi
GERS from the body polite; these scabs,
from which young children are being vac
cinated on the streets in broad daylight
!. with desires worse than the small pox?...
1--WE were down to the harbor, and il
was gay to see three large vessels sal
right up to eighth street bridge..........
There is man who owes us an honest
debt of $l2. He refused to pay us some
time ago when he had money, but now
we see him riding on the streets, such
cold days as last Monday and Tuesday,
with linen coat on. We guess he is poor
now; swindling evidently don't pay......
The Episcopal Mite Society viii be held
at Mrs. Hughes, on the townline read,
this evening. acob Halyerson has
been elected trustee for the Ah Ward
in. the place of G. Anderson resigned $500.
At the meeting of the Village Board last
Tuesday evening resolution was passed
appropriating one hundred dollars to-
wards celebrating the Attn of July...........
Mr.. Ignatz Grache is putting up a ve,y
large barn for the accommodation of farm
ers on Chicago Street near Eighth. The
frame was raised on Tuesday last and i.
30xlO0.........A new base ball club i:
being organized by the juniors. 1t ha,
plenty of good material and the Hittem