The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-12-21
IT is said that Mrs. Langtry believes

Mr.. OsTENFELDT was brought to
Oshkosh by friends last veek to receive
treatment for some difficulty with which
he lately became afflicted.
A COLLISION between freight and all
express train on the Chicago & n. W.
between Milwaukee and Chicago took
place on Monday evening last.
IT is quite generally believed that the
coming session of the state legislature
viii be very brief one. There is
nothing of importance to be done.
SHERIFF MURPHY has been flying
around the county pretty lively the last
week on business connected with the
coming term of the circuit court.
We offer bargains in overcoats as we
are closing out our winter stock. Call
and examine them.
FLEGLER, HAUPT & HANSON.
HOTEL keepers make more by the late
boom than any other business men of
the city. Wood and bark are the
principal commodities brought in by
farmers.
THE Milwaukee brewers Indignantly
deny that they are using any substitute
for hops. They say they cannot afford
to thus imperil the reputation they have
built up.
PARTIES living in Brown county are
doing well in securing bounties from
the state for killing wild cats lynxes and
other "varmint" whose ears bring a
good price.
a GREAT quantity of henlock bark is
being brought to this place. The shut
ting down of the Two Rivers tannery
makes this the best market for bark and
it finds its way here.
SHEEIEF MURPHY and Judge Kirwan
took business trip to Kiel on Friday
last. Since his return Kirwan labors
under the illusion that he is one of the
survivors of the Jeanette.
TOBACCO firms are i'll the condition
of the man in the ballad who "didn't
know what to do" They are q little
mixed up about the revenue tax and don't
want to make sales at present.
SIMON SOHURR opened his hotel, at
the corner of York and Ninth streets on
Saturday last with free lunch. This
is the latest farmers hotel opened in the
city and will receive liberal patronage.
'1T's beauty!''
"What is2"
THAT combination Toilet, Jewel and
Odor case at Oscar Alters drug store. I"
Call and see it.
< CARO- man was thrown from his
sleigh on Wednesday night of last week
while on his way home from the city and
quite seriously injured. He was brought
to doctors office where his hurts
received attention.
THE vacation of the Oshkosh Normal
School for the holidays begins on Satur-
day naxt. Miss Jenkins, one of the
students from this county, will not
return to the school the next term, she
having taken school.
COUNTRY roads running north and
south are quite badly drifted. The
billowy drifts even when beaten down,
make very disagreeable road as the
successive rising and falling jars worse
than corduroy bridge.
The Ripon Commonwealth says s'the
Hanley boys have killed $3.50 ducks this
season." That's no great feat. John
Arnold could kill that number in a day
if he had good club and tho ducks
didn't run around too much.
WHY wouldn't nice nickel plated
hard coal base burner heating stove make
a handsome Christmas or New Years
present. We are selling them at cost
now, to make place for other goods.
WAGNER & RAND HARDWARE Co.
THE New York Sunday laws are not
being as vigorously enforced as at first.
Saloons continue to run, newspapers are
sold, barber and butcher shops are open
and things are about as they were before
the new penal code went into practice.
The Swedish Lady Quartette is booked
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for an entertainment here on the goth
inst. The Quartette is well known to
our readers and will undoubtedly receive
very fiattering reception. Miss Eda
| Eliel, a humorous and dramatic reader.
accompanies the singers.
We have just invoiced from the East
| a large lot of skates, and as the season
for skating has turned out little 'soff'
we offer them to the public at prices
that will astonish anybody. Our variety
is so large that we cannot schedule any
prices. WAGNER & RAND HARDWARE Co.
A MINISTER tried to interfere with a
cooking main near Chicago lately. After
he had spoken of eternity" for few
minutes to the roughs present, he was
struck with dead chicken and took
himself away with far more moro zeal
than he entered upon his remonstrance.
A MAN was found in a room in James,
vile partially eaten up by rats. If the
man was a guest at one of the hotels, it
was simply case of the s'biter bitten. -
A man who had eaten GAINESVILLE hotel
fare for 3 days would be quite likely to
make an onslaught on the first drove of
rats that came within grabbing distance.
In order to be prepared for the holiday
trade, Mr.. Buerstatte, the south side
druggist, has laid in a splendid selected
stock of organs and pianos, from the
| best manufacturers. The public is cor
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