The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-05-04
MEME.

again take my pen in hand to write
you few lines hoping they will find you
all in good health.
A very pleasant and instructive meet
ing was held in temperance hall last
evening.
A great many new buildings are now
in process of construction here.
Clover has been pretty generally killed
by the winters frost.
The cheese factories have all COM
menced operations and fairly settled down
to business.
Bill Alderman. who recently left for
parts unknown, has not yet been heard
from. His many creditors, however, are
"whooping up" the little personal prop
erty that he left behind.
Seeding has fairly begun and although
the weather is somewhat raw and disa-
greeable, farmers are rushing in their
crops at lively rate.
The School Hill post Office is now firm
ly established and its postmaster, Henry
Able, transacts the business pertaining
thereto with as much ease and grace as
the Oldest veteran.
The farmers occupation is indeed a
healthy and pleasant one. Working like
the devil from four o'clock in the morn
ing until ten at night is productive of
much unalloyed happiness and bliss.
Oh, the man that isn't farmer misses
much of the genuine, fascinating labor
of life. And then think of the wages that
he gets. He averages few cents per
day in this merry world of ours and the
promise of crown of glory in the world
to come. Mostly any one of sense would
be farmer or farmers wife. And yet
in the face of all this you Gao find farm
ers willing to run for Office if the city
chaps would let them.
District No. carried off the laurels at
the late examination of teachers held
here by the Superintendent. Nearly all
the scholars attending this Justly famous
school obtained certificates. The Nor
NAL School at Oshkosh is in danger of
losing it's occupation.
Last week the prudent farmer, while
blowing, carried handspike for the pur-
pose of occasionally prying his team out
of the mud, and this week the ground is
so hard that it is impossible to get pillow
into it without first digging hole with
a pick and shovel. Truly sudden and
remarkable change, owing, we suppose,
to the peculiar spots on the sun and the
melancholy death of Garfield.
Luke Burns claims to have the most
perfect short-horn COW in Wisconsin.
She wasn't always a short-horn, though.
But one day she took it into her head to
turn a somersault and in performing the
act broke both her horns off an inch and
half from the head. That finished it
and she is now fully entitled to the belt
as the champion short horn of the state.
Luke has already christened her "The
Short horn Daisy of Liberty
1t is rumored hereabouts that some of
the neigh boring towns still charge but
s25 for retail liquor license. Of course
we don't believe it, as no town board has
such power. If they would attempt it
they would leave themselves liable, as a
twenty fve-doliar license is no license at
all under the law passed last winter by
the republicans. The ''license" would
be just as forcible and legal if twenty
five cents only were charged.
There is man in New York called
Gen. Spinola that is famed for the i'm
mense size of his standing shirt collar.
But we doubt if that famed ornament
for the neck could hold candle to COL
lars worn here on the Sabbath by some
of the young bloods of the rising gener--
alton. A complete history of the Irish
Rebellion could be easily written on one
side of it with room enough left for a
very extensive appendix. Where the
deuce they stow them away during week
days is mystery, as house room is rath-
err scarce and they would be liable to
'soil' in the large frame barns. Were
they made of linen they would have to
be washed by installments in tubs made
to order for their reception. Oh, you
can bet your boots they'r re whoppers and
their wearers must be men of splendid
physique to be able to ''tote" such heavy
burdens even ON one day of the week.
All the saloon keepers of Meme took
out retail liquor license on Saturday in
accordance with the new republican law
in such case made and provided. The
minimum price or S75 was the amount
charged for such license. There was
much weeping, wailing and crashing of
teeth at this cruel and uni Just measure,
but the town authorities are not to blame
for the law, but in one sense the people
themselves are. So long as the people
persist in sending stalwart, half breed
and prohibition republicans to the legis-
lature just so long will they be burdened
by such cruel and oppressive laws as the
one referred to and enacted nearly wholly
by republican votes at the last Legislative
session. True, the "dear people" are
loud in their denunciation of the party
that passed the obnoxious measure, but
won't they forget their antipathy before
another election, We shall see. bnt just
now we are inclined to the belief that
they will place their votes where they
will do the most good.
CHEESE FACTORY SUPPLIES.