The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-04-26


THE martins put in an appearance on
Monday.
STRAW HATS to the front. listers can
take back seat.
THE season is fully two weeks in adj
vance of last year.
The Temple of Honor in Cato has
over fifty members.
THE tug Kitty Smoke is in the dry
dock to be -caulked.
GET out your dusters-72 in the shade
after the shower on MonGay.
Chiffon saloon-keepers pay S45 for
the privilege of selling liquor.
JOSH think of it, farmers (! wheat,
to-day, was worth an even $500.
The Straits are open and the grain
fleets have left Chicago and Milwaukee.
A GENERAL meeting of the vesselown-
ers of the lakes is to be called for Detroit
in May.
Docs are making sad havoc 3among
the sheep in the southern part of the
county.
We hear nothing of the proposed dis
banding of the fire department. Per-
haps It's well.
THE trees seem not to stand on the
order of their leaving, but are going
about it at once.
OVER 1000 pounds of butter were
shipped from Cato to the Lake Superior
country last week.
FLOUR has gone up to $3.50 per bar
rel in this place, with prospect of
going still higher.
SAILORS at Milwaukee and Chicago
are demanding and IN some cases re-
ceiying- per day.
Poor Lo-one of him-was in the
city on Monday begging for cast off
garments and fire-water.
LARGE quantities of baled hay have
been shipped from this port recently,
much of it going to Manistee
GARDEN SEEDs-a large stock of diff
ferent varieties from the best seedsmen.
t. & J. RoBINsoN.
FARMERS are busy getting in their
spring crops, consequently but few of
them are to be seen upon our streets.
THE steamer Sheboygan left her win
ter quarters on Monday and is now MAX
ing regular trips on the west shore route.
The value of school houses in Wis
consin is given at 81, 125, O03, sites $607,-
1913; apparatus, sl42, 292 total, 81
$685. 18
Now is the time to plant eroquet sets
and to search for the new adjectives to
express your opinion of the girl who
cheats.
Mr. WOODEN, in a supplement to our
paper of to-day, announces the fact that
war has been declared in Turkey. ''Hold
the fort! !"
break-neck sidewalks to remain unre-
paired are to be waited upon by the
Marshal.
PAINTS, Oils, Brushes, Glass-the
largest, best and cheapest assortment at
the drug store CT
T. & J. ROBINSON.
THE fashionable young man of the
period will lay aside his ulster overcoat
as soon as he can find tailor to trust
him for pair of pants.
AS soon as business and the times will
warrant, the II. L. S. & ". r. R. will
be extended from New London through
the Embarrass to the Upper Wolf.
A CONTRACT has been made with Fl.
Moeskens whereby he agrees to keep the
city dredge and dump scows in repair for
the princely sum of $50 per annum
BASE ball exhibitions ere among the
attractions to be offered at the fairs this
year. The Wisconsin State Fair folks
are arranging already for next Septem-
Der.
Mr.. VANDUZER, OF. Hebron, Walworth
county, has made over 1900 pounds of
maple sugar this spring. The season
closed last week after an unusually favor
able run.
THERE'S no disputing about tastes.
Dealers in havoring extracts state that
Two Rivers girls buy wintergreen ex-
tract and use it as a perfume for the
handkerchief
LAST Friday, while being towed up
the South Branch of the Chicago river
the schooner Felicitous had one of her
topmasts and mizzen rigging carried
away by collision.
ACCORDING to the law passed last win
ter, the sheriff receives for selling real
estate, under decree of court, where the
amount does not exceed 81 ZOO, SO, ex-
ceeling $1,000, SO.
THEATRE. theatre performance viii
be given in the Slovanska Lipa Hall next
Saturday evening which, to those who
understand the Bohemian language, will
afford an evening of rare enjoyment.
SEVERAL of our merchants are still
selling calico at five cents per yard. The
fact brings the suggestion that now
would be q good time to get up "calico
| party" at the Windiate House. or else
where.
THE painful perplexity and indecision
of the Young lady who has the ankle OF