The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-01
CITY AND COUNTY,
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heavily yelled. This is a sure sign of a
severe winter. 49,
THE propeller Jos. L. Hurd and the
st. Adams, each loaded with flour at
this port this week.
/ GEORGE GUYLEs, in fit of gratitude,
| has offered us lath for the notice we
| gave him last week. ana
THE town of Meme can boast of hay
ing a woman 104 years old. Hardly any
body dies in that town.
| THERE are giants in and around the
Branch they stop runaway teams by
pulling back on the traces.
THE steamer Sheboygan has gone into
winter quarters at this port. The stea-
mer Alpens takes her place.
THE schooner Levi Ransom took on
one hundred tons of baled bay this week
and cleared for Ford River. -rr
THE propeller Menominee took cargo
| of live stock and provisions at this place
for the Lake Superior region.
Tickets straight and tickets split are
what the job presses in this city are en-
ployed in manufacturing at present.
The Ellen Stevenson discharged a
load of coal at this place this week and
| took on cargo of wheat for Milwaukee.
A LITTLE son of Chauncey Kurdish,
! while playing in a room with his broth
er, fell SO as to break his right fore arm.
WE haye given more attention to the
''taking off, of squirrels this week than
the dealing out of copy to the TRIBUNE
| typos.
JACK FROST has begun to assert his
| sway in.this region. Ice quarter of an
inch thick formed on still water Monday
night.
On Tuesday night the sky to the south
was Illuminated by fires. Report has it
that two barns were destroyed that
night.
THE Williams House changes propri.
etors to day, Mr.. Hemschemeyer retir-
ing and Mr.. Reuss assuming the man.
agement.
THE roads are so bad as to seriously
impede electioneering. Candidates are
forced to go out in the country with
stone-boats.
THR weekly runaway occurred on
Tuesday. After running short distance
the team was captured without having
done any damage. --s..
We have more than half notion to
make TIE TRIBUNE a sporting paper
this week, "a we are chock full of sport
ing and forest news
SUPT. WALKERS supplementary ex-
animation begins next Wednesday. Elk
aminations for First and Second Grades
commences on Friday.
Mr.. JENKINS, of Milwaukee, will show
the bright side of Democracy to night at
Turner Hall. Mr.. Jenkins is reputed
to be very able and eloquent.
ANOTHER sociable at the Presbyterian
Church Tuesday night. Those who. at
tended say they had nice, social time
and had to sit close to keep warm.
WHEN everybody minds his own af-
! fairs it interferes with the printers bus
mess, and that's what's the matter this
week. Nobody has made any news.
In the First District public school the
rooms are filed as the capacity of each
will allow. No. of desks in the build
ing, 700; No. of pupils in attendance,
$50.
A NUMBER of the young men of this
city have received invitations to attend
a grand ball at Appleton on the occasion
of the opening of the Fox River Pulp &
Paper Mills.
| LOUIS SEEGER has put new story to
his barber-shop.-Mit. Sentinel.
Sol We always thought Louie was a
''man of few words" Louie is as silent
as sphinx when we're around.
RYANT's beautiful ''Song of the Sow
er" does not, as some have fancied, APP
| ply to the sewer on the Domestic Sewing
Machine, but to the chap who clIucks
wheat broadcast. X
CONDUCTOR HALLoCK is the "mighty
hunter" of this part of the world. He
returned from New London Monday
morning after having slaughtered all the
cartridges in that locality.
| Now that the weather is growing cold,
Jimmy Patterson instead of singing his
usual
| Come buy my silver herring
That just came from the sea -
simply says ''fresh fish,"
| Concert given by the German Philhar-
monic and Musical Societies of this
city," in the language of the posters
announcing the affair, is declared grand
success.
The Mary Lyon, of Rochester, loaded
with wheat and bound for Eastern wa
tiers, broke her boom Sunday night
while off our harbor and came in Mon
day for repairs.
SEVEN o'clock A. NJ. is pretty early
these days. A person must get up s'pret-
ty d previous" as Ryder says, to
| reach the depot in time for the Appleton
| o'clock train.
A NUMBER of petty thefts have been