The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-12-23
manitomol pilot.
CITY AND COUNTY.
THURSDAY. DEC. 23, 1880.

Ice boats are managed on the river
with considerable skill.
CHRIsTNAs trees are being brought to
town in large quantities.
LUMBER dealers are not doing a rush.
| ing business just at present.
TEE winter vacation of the south side
schools begins next Saturday.
Do NOT put off ordering your New
Years cards until it is too late.
TOILET articles of every description
cheap at Robinson & Hinrichs.
LEAP year is on its last leg. In four
years it will arise young from its ashes.
A TEACHERS meeting was held at the
north side school house on Saturday last.
LITTLE boys are now painting their
faces after the manner of the Ku Klu1
Khan.
| COLLEGE students are all at home en-
| i3ying the good times which vacation
brings.
| farmers are quite thick in town these
days, getting some little Injuries for
| Christmas.
ONE week from next Monday it viii
b, out with the old and in with the new,
| p litically. ~ 4
We call attention to the professional
C I'd of Messrs. Franz and Schmitz which
| appears in this issue.
A CHURCH sociable was held at the
residence of Henry Sandford, Esq, on
Thursday evening last.
THERE seems to be an abundance of
SLOW in the air but it is particularly OBJ
s.uate in refusing to come down.
THIS has been an excellent season for
sSat.ng and the prayers of the "young,
young children" have been heard.
A LOCOMOTIVE aud three cars ran off
the track on the west end of the road last
FRI lay. The track was not ballasted.
You've fletcher broke Jail last week
and made his escape rather thinly clad.
He was reeaptured the following day.
los men are at work filling their ice
houses. Tom Winiiate says it is not
near as good quality as that put up in
1877.
PIENISG is SO busy these days with
rolling up wealth that he lacks time to
distribute his cigars without money and
without price.
OYSTER dealers ere doing quite thriv-
ing business this year. Their sales are
much larger than heretofore although
profits are less.
THE report that The Pilot is to be re-
moved to Milwaukee is positively with
out foundation. There is not an atom of
truth in the rumor.
TIE proceedings OF the county board
necessarily restrict the amount of gener-
al reading matter. The publication of
these Will soon be concluded.
TIE cheapest oysters in the city-and
as good as any sold here-can always be
procured fresh of L. T. Mohrhusen,
either by the dish, can or case.
PLUMB & NELSON have something to
say to their customers on the oyster
question this week which it will pay
lovers of the mollusk to read.
THE eleven-foot snow storm seems to
have been on par with the predictions
of the end of the world which are made
with such unerring regularity.
THERE has been a regularly organized
system of thieving among the young
boys of the city during the last year
Some arrests will very likely soon be
made.
VIM. Cook, yonng man 81 years OF
age died at Burnamwood station lately
| and was inferred in the Meme cemetery
on Monday. Until lately he was resi-
dent of Eaton.
HE northern extension of the western
| road is now completed to Aniwa, eleven
miles north of Eland Junction. On Mon
day trains began to run to that point. 1t
is 1919 miles from Milwaukee.
Go To the Central Drug Store for Mrs.
Freeman's New Nationa, Dyes. For
brightness and durability of color, are
uneqnaled. Color from 2 to 5 pounds.
| Price, Is cents. 1ianS2
THE weather clerk is hardly treating
Manitowoc county con the square. -
Judging from the iinglng of sleigh bells
il some of our exchanges the right kind
OF weather is not distributed impartially
FOND pU LAC and Appleton will also
contest the equalization made by the
county boards of the counties in which
/ these cities are located. The new law
viii he productive of considerable litiga
/ ton.
L. h. RAND & Co., the firm being
composed of Rand & Roemer, Leubner
and Becker have very fine hardware
store on the south side. 1t is we'll stock
ed and few years ago would have
eciipsed anything in that line in Mani
towoc.
THE Clement Brothers Concert Com
pany had quite large house on Friday
evening last. As is usual on such occa-
slons. a number thought the entertain
ment very fine, while others insisted that
it was decidedly common. place. Finan-
cially, it was a success.
ALL his friends, and DO man has more
throughout the state, will be panied 70
| learn that Hon John Read is so Ill thu.