The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-01
SHE 0RtBuNE.
Official City and County Paper.
ED. BORCHERDT, Editor.
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The schooner Luna has been stripped
and laid up for the winter.
The Evening Wisconsin comes to US
with new dress and a much improved
appearance.
Lilac bushes are budding out in the
gardens in this City. Who'd thunk
it?
Mr.. Richards new building is en-
closed and the roof nearly completed.
Quick work.
-iIere i5 is the 1st of December and
not a fake Of snow, and the weather as
mild and pleasant as in October.
Christmas Festivals by the several
churches in the City are on the tapis.
We have heard of two being in progress
already,
The Presbyterian Social will be held
at the residence of J. D. Markham,
ESQ, tomorrow friday evening. An
invitation is extended to all.
Thanksgiving day passed of very
quietly in our City, with good atten-
dance at the various churches in the
morning.
Don forget, farmers, teamsters and
any one wanting pair Of bobs, that
Smaley Bros. have something nice, new
and strong, of sizes to suit all wants. 1t
Commercial printing of every de-
scription executed in the highest style
of the art, at the TRIBUNE Office, at reas-
enable prices.
A team belonging to Mr.. Fred Horn
ran away yesterday morning, and was
cot brought up until the wagon was de-
inolished by collision with corner post.
Nobody injured.
On Monday night the little schooner
Ben Moe had her headge carried away,
by the lines of the dredae breaking, al
lowing that craft to drift back against
the schooner.
Prom many of the farmers of this
county we learn that the fall work on
farms was never as nearly completed as
at the present fall. Nearly every farm
er has finished his piowirg. and are
nearly all ready for winter.
We hear that gentleman from
Milwaukee has made arrangements to
give our citizens dance at Turner Hall
on the 10th. Williams & Severance $
splendid band furnishes the music, and
our dancists all know what that is.
George Reeds party of surveyors
arrived IN the City on Tuesday evening
and left again tho next morning. How
many more times is the line Of road be-
tween here and Menasha and Appleton
to be surveyed, and what is to come Of it
ALP
About six hundred persons have
asked us when We were going south.
For the benefit of all we will make the
statement that we do not intend going
at all-at any rate not until next
Spring
Many of our merchants have bought
their second stock of goods this fall, and
it is probable some will be obliged to
purchase third. The fall and winter
trade has seldom opened SO briskly as it
has this year.
The building formerly known as the
American House has been torn down.
Thus one after another of the old land
marks are being removed, to give place
to the new, substantial buildings which
are so rapidly filing up our thriving
City.
The Minister in one of our Churches
who run down our local press from his
pulpit last Sunday morning has our
thanksl We won't trouble him with
oar sheet any more, and have given our
carrier instructions accordingly.
The new Norwegian Methodist
church is to be dedicated on Sunday
next. Service in Norwegian in the morn
ing and in English in the afternoon. Rev.
Mr.. Johnston, of Chicago, will oficiate.
The church building is one of the neatest
in the City.
Last Sunday vas one of the most
delightful days We have ever experienced
n our Northern cline. Warm as any
June day, with clear sky and bright
sun, it seemed impossible that we were
at the close of November.
A gentleman whose name we have
forgotten has left couple of papers on
our desk, one issued in the year 1901 and
the other 1902, at Hudson, New York.
They are a curiosity worth preserving.
The gentleman who gave them to us has
our thanks for the same.
"A prominent merchant from Mil
waukce said in our hearing, recently,
that from what he knew Of the matter.
there was more wheat shipped from
Manitowoc than from any other City in
Northeastern Wisconsin. He is in a
position to know exactly whereof he is
speaking.
Mr.. Jed Minsky, well known 10 our