The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-15
Ten hours Of daylight.

L IN loutS VI ty-l1SHt.
PAY cash for your purchases.
CHARTER ELECTION on Tuesday April 3.
COUNTRY schools are closing for the
winter term.
THE period of probation for delinquent
subscribers is about ended.
GOOD remedy for hard times is for
every one to pay his debts.
PREPARE your hot-beds and cover
them with one-eighth blue glass.
Is st. Patrick's Day to be observed in
this city? 1t occurs on Saturday.
THIS is an "opeE winter''-open IN the
middle anu frozen solid at both ends.
NOTICE the call for Republican Coun-
ty and City Convention. on the second
page.
THE delusion that spring was coming
at an earlier period than usual is COM
pletely dispelled.
GEO. COOPER has sold his stock of
lumber to Geo. Pankratz & Co., and
will retire from that business
HUSBANDS and fathers will be pleased
to learn that ''small checks" are to be
fashionable for silks next summer.
Our streets, docks and bridges are in
excellent shape and it will require but
little effort to keep taxes down this year.
THE old green three cent postage
stamp will disappear from use about the
first OF May and a bright red one will
take its place.
PRESIDENT STEELE, of the Lawrence
University, Appleton, viii preach in the
Methodist church next Sunday morning
and evening.
AS we cannot tell good peanut until
we bite into it, SO it is in life. You can
never know mans good qualities until
you strike him for dollar.
The many doors, windows, glass, nails,
paints and oils, purchased daily at E.
Wagner's store, shows that olIr county
is improving more rapidly each year.
The regular annual examination of
candidates for State Teachers Certlf-
Gates will be held at Madison, commenc-
ing Tuesday August 7, 1877, at $50 AN.
PUBLIC singing matches have sup
planted spelling matches in the East.
Singing bees are popular in Germany
and England, and are vastly more enter
tanning than spelling matches.
WE have received the first number of
the Depere Facts, issued under the
management of Mr.. ID. E. Hickey It
is neat paper, we'll edited, and deserves
success.
WHILE driving from this city to the
Four Corners, on Monday forenoon, the
gentleman who gave us this item met
an even one hundred teams, all drawing
cord wood.
THE Legislature adjourned on Thurs
day last and our members were all at
home on Saturday. The ''copy laws
enacted during the session Will be pub
lished in supplement form.
BECAUSE you have neglected to call
and settle your account at this Office, do
not for q moment suppose that We have
forgotten you. Whenever our creditors
dun US, we remember you-prayerfully.
We are just prepared to do lively
business printing tickets for town cleo
tions. Any number printed from 100 to
500 at so cts. per 100, lots of 1000 or
more at 30 cts. per 100. Send in your
orders with the cash.
LAST Saturday the small building used
as an Office in Cooper's lumber ward was
placed upon four set of bob-sleighs and
drawn by six horses across Main street
bridge TO the lot in the rear of Rand's
hardware store.
The wife of one of our prominent
German business men has recently re
ceived O bonanza in the shape of an ex
press package containing nearly $1,000
money willed to her by the decease of {
relative in the old country.
WASHINGTON never told a lie, bat if hs
had lived till this spring he would have
gone out into Valley Forge to swear a
the weather, if he never had biography
MARCH SHOWS are said to be good fol
the crops. Look out for rich farmer:
next fall, then.