The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-08-12
CITY AND COUNTY
ManitozU0c. Z h1irsd.zy, August II.

Hon HENRY BEE is in Madison
this week.
Hail, balrny rain, eternal wetness,
hail. snow, anything we're used to it by
this time.
SOME one has observed that ''the
more girls are pinned back, the more
forward they SEEM
THE days are growing shorter. One
can hardly realize that summer has come
and is rapidly fading away.
CONSIDERABLY rain has fallen during
the present week, and it is thought
that more Of it, for few weeks, will be
surperfiuous.
THE annaul meeting of the Grand
Lodge of the state of Wisconsin 1. o.
G. Z. will be held in Oshkosh on Sep
tember It'll.
THE coming annaul far of the County
Agricultural Society promises to be the
largest and most successful one yet held
since its organization.
Noquorum being present last Monday
evening, no business session of the City
Council was held, the meeting having
been postponed one week.
The large tug Clematis, bound north
with two barges, made this port last
Friday and went into dry dock to have
her wheel fastened.
ATTENTION is directed to the new adj
vertisement of the Oriental Mills, which
are turning out brand of fosr unsur-
passed in this market
Hon. Jos. Villas returned from a
short trip East on Monday. He left
for St Paul this morning, accompanied
by his wife and son.
THE Depere boys will play the Mani
towoc nine a return game of base ball
on Saturday. 1t is predicted that the
laurels lost last Friday will be recaptured.
ANOTHER lot of elegant job type is
now on the way for this Office from New
York. We are prepared to turn out
just as good work as the next man, and
at the lowest prices.
THE ladies of the Methodist Church
will hold a Festival in the Park, north
side, on Wednesday evening, 18th inst.
Music, ice cream, &C., will be provided.
A general invitation is extended.
THE turner's throughout the State now
number ], $3.50, and there are also 81
boys and 100 girls learning the practice.
Property to the amount of $141, 145 is
owned by the different societies in the
State
Mr.. J. T. CHENowErTI, the young gen
tleman who has for the past few months
so acceptably filled the position of editor
of the Pilot, has severed his connection
with that paper and will go East. Maj.
Olmsted will find it difficult to fill the
vacancy in his office.
THE returns of the last census show
that six counties in the state have lost
in the number cf inhabitants during the
past five years. They are: Adams, 90;
Dane, POT, Douglas, 543 Green, 1 ,55S;
Iowa, Al Lafayette. 466. Only six
counties show an increase larger than
Maritowoc.
THE mason work on Mr. Sixtas build
ing was finished last Saturday evening,
and in a few weeks it will be ready for
occupancy. The front presents a hand
some appearance, much of it owing to
the good taste exhibited by Paul Leub-
ner in the making of the really elegant
galvanized iron cornices which adorn it.
THE wheat acreage in this county is
about 35, 000 It is confidently predict
ed that the yield viii be at least five
bushels more to the acre than for the
past fifteen years-or an extra yield of
It's, 900 bushels, which at 1920 bushel
makes our farmers just $4,000 ahead,
to say nothing of the extra 20 cents ON
every bushel raised.
WE acknowledge the receipt of a "com-
plimentary'' to the Chicago Interstate
Industrial Exposition, which opens on
month. It promises to be one of the
most interesting and instructive displays
in the several departments of science,
industry and art ever presented to the
American public.
We direct the attention of our readers
to the new advertisement, in another
column, wherein Mr.. Jas. Cumberlidge
announces his readiness to manufacture
steam boilers, smoke stacks, etc., at
short notice. He is one of the best me-
chanics in the city, and we heartily
recommend him to the public as gen
tleman who will give satisfaction in
whatever he undertakes.
THE ssConcordia Maennerchor'' is a
Third Ward society, lately organized,
which is making rapid progress. Fol-
lowing are the names of the officers:
President-W. Vollendorff.
Vice Pres.-Carl Koch.
Secretary-Henry Wits.
Treasurer Bremen.
Director-John Newdert
NEXT Sunday the Sons of Hermann, of
this city, propose to have celebration
in Gerpheida's Park, and have invited
the several German Lodges and Societies
to paTtieipate. Their limitation has