The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-03-03

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HENRY GREvE is manufacturing large
quantities OF oak lumber at his planning
mill.
The blank pages in the hotel registers
baye held their ground manfully this
week.
Snow sHovELERs were in demand by
the railroad company this week at good
wages.
The ''oldest inhabitant' declares he
never saw the equal OF Saturdays snow
storm.
THE dry patches of sidewalk are pre-
empted by juveniles for marble-playing
purposes.
The nomination of Mr. Hall as collec-
tor of the port of Milwaukee has been
confirmed.
SERVICES were held in the Episcopal
and Catholic churches yesterday, Ash
Wednesday.
ADAM FoREPAUGH has put Manitowoc
on the list of Wisconsin cities to be visit
ed next summer.
TIE deficiency in the Kewaunee coun-
ty treasurer's office has been ascertained
to be S7,S42.1O.
The north side store Of Wagner, Rand
& Co. IS being furnished with a new and
very handsome Office.
This is proving to be rather an I'M
healthy winter. Doctors are kept on
their taps pretty steadily.
APPLETON held an election on Tuesday
to declare for or against water works.
THE proposition was carried.
TO-DAY is the last in which taxes can
be paid as the treasurer returns his tax
roll to the county official tomorrow.
The street commissioner put in some
good work on Monday by cleaning the
crossings of the principal streets of snow.
BERNHARDT is advertised for an APP
pearnnce in Milwaukee next Saturday
afternoon and evening. Tickets, $1.0O
to $500.
FOND DU Lac man borrows wood
saws ostensibly for use in earning an
honest living and then sells them for
whiskey.
HE owners of livery stables watch the
daily reduction in the contents of the oat
bins and remark upon the condition of
the roads.
The masquerade on Tuesday night
last brought 1854 into the Golfers of the
societies under whose auspices the ball
was given.
THE man who makes remarks about
the weather is pretty numerous this seas
on and he has never failing subject of
discourse.
The people of ST. Nazians are very
progressive; they are now discussing the
ACCESSIBILITY of starting a newspaper at
that place.
COUNTRY SCHOOLS are run this year
without pupils. An excellent year for
self Improvement by the teachers of the
young idea.
WILLoTT's axe factory is turning out
an immense amount of axes, but the sup
ply is scarcely equal to the demand.
Merit wins.
THE PILOT office is supplied with ali
the latest styles of type and the job print
ing turned out is of superior quality.
Prices low.
Work at the ship yards has been great
ly delayed this week. Some one humid
red and twenty-five men are employed at
the various yards.
| VESSEL OWNERS will do well to see to
| the fastenings of their craft and perhaps
| put on an extra line Trouble is predict
ed when the snow goes off.
But two prisoners are now confined in
the county Jail. Sheriff Murphy thinks
the public does not appreciate his efforts
to keep a popular hostelrie
TRAVEL is carried on in the country by
means of snow shoes. The young men
are becoming quite expert in thi. ancient
and respectable mode of locomotion.
| NATIONAL BANK MEN are retiring their
circulation to an alarming extent. That's
where they differ from the newspaper
men, who are increasing it when possible.
THE iron steamer City of Milwaukee,
recently launched at Wyandotte for the
Goodrich Transportation Company is go
feet long and will make nineteen miles an
hour.
THE printing Office and book store of
Capt. Smith, of Warsaw, Mo-, the foun-
der of the Manitowoc Tribune, were
burned recently,-a total loss and no in
surance.
STRAWBERRIES have made their appear
ance in the New York market. Jay
Gould is undecided whether to buy one
or invest the price in the purchase of an
other railroad.
HORSE and cattle medicines, the very
best, at Robinson & Hinrichs. Il