The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-07-29
MEME.
July goth. 1880.

Nearly all the school teachers of this
locality are attending the institute in
Manitowoe. This is as it should be.
Those occupying the high and holy posi-
ton of instructors of the rising genera
ton can not be overstocked with knowl-
edge nor too far advanced in their pro-
fession. Great things are expected from
the county superintendent and his worthy
coadiutor at the present institute. Time
viii tell whether these expectations will
be satisfactorily fulfilled.
James Sullivan jr.. had the index fin
ger of his right hand cut nearly in twain
by the sickle of mower, last week. The
wound, at first, was very painful but is
now getting on nicely. A mower is an
instrument that one can not be too care
full in handling ard the wonder is why
more accidents do not occur from the
bungling manner in which many of them
are used.
The exact population of Meme, as re-
turned by the enumeration, is 1854, fall
ing off since 70 of 20. This decrease in
population must be attributed to the fact
that several large families have sold their
homesteads to actual settlers and went
west to grow up with the country. Only
fourteen deaths are chronicled in the
whole township during the entire year.
Karl Kolp, our worthy assessor, is EMIT.
led TO the belt as champion progenitor,
he having family of fourteen children,
all living, though himself is but 43.
Paddy Driscoll follows close upon his
heels with score of twelve and fondly
believes that he Will, at least, collar his
formidable rival on the home stretch.
The census of 1890 will reveal the accura-
cy of Paddy's representations.
Nicholas Dittmar returned home on
Saturday last from Colorado. He went
there last spring to seek health and We
understand came back considerably i'm
proved in that inestimable article The
scenes and surroundings of the different
localities of the ''great west" that he Wis
tied are all well enough; but with no
spot was he so thoroughly charmed as
with his own lovely home in Wisconsin.
Here he will probably pass the remainder
of his days until he is peacefully gather
ed to his fathers to reap that eternal and
blessed reward which awaits him and
several other exemplary men of this
neighborhood.
The hay crop is nearly all cut and Sc
cure. The weather has been so very I'M
favorable that it was with the greatest
difficulty it was saved. Many drew it in
to the barns before it was thoroughly
dried and the result was that it heated
badly, Large quantities of ice had to be
then applied to it for the purpose of
keeping it cool until more propitious
weather would set in.
After prodigious effort the greater
part of.the wheat crop headed out, but
alas, it was only to fall into the hands or
mouths of its worst enemy, the chinch
bug; they are here in millions, yea, even
in quintillionsl Could the luckless far
mer receive the small price of ten cents
per bushel for them he might make his
fortune by shoveling them up with
scoop shovel and disposing of them at
the price named. They ego for" and
nearly annihilate every thing-wheat,
barley, oats, corn, potatoes and rutabagas
fall an easy prey to their well planned,
Napoleon-like attacks. Anton Walter
bach, who has the finest farm in the
county and who sowed nearly 100 bushels
of wheat last spring, publicly and good
naturally offered his entire wheat crop
for $40. And the strong men turned
away III derision as they knew perfectly
well that it was little game" of Antons
to receive 100 per cent. more than the
crop was worth. As a natural sequence
to all this the occupation of farming is
about played ont. All those who can
read without any regard to "stops,"
write without any attention to orthogra-
ply and tell that there is three times
more land than water upon the earths
surface (and that pretty well covered with
chinch bugs are looking for schools to
teach; while those that are little further
advanced and generally bit "sharper"
contemplate the study of the law and
propose settling in Manitowoc and "prac-
Using" their profession with the rest of
the legal fraternity in that fair but over
grown city. And the cussed little chinch
bug is to blame for all this.