The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-07-13
COOPERsTOWN.

Your correspondent took trip out to
his old retreat this week to recuperate,
and has gathered few items which he
will state as much after the moderns as
he can without study.
Patrick Hewitt has given his house q
thorough overhauling and added many
improvements that will render it COM
Portable, and pleasing to the taste.
James Ready is making arrangements
preparatory to the building of new
house.
Raying has already begun; the crop
is unusually good, and the labor of saw
ing it thus far has been unusually great,
owing to the unpropitious weather.
John F. Englebrecht is making extern
sive preparations for the erection of a
new store. The building will be eighty
feet in length and fifty in width; it will
contain glass front and will occupy the
present site of the town house, while
that venerable structure will be removed
to some place as well adapted for politi-
cal gatherings. but less favorable to bus
mess pursuits.
The barn and stable of Adolph Taicher
were burned in the open day one day
last week, 1t is suspected that the ruin
brought about is the work of an incendi-
airy; for few days previous to the fire a
kerosene can containing quantity of
that infammable fluid was found hidden
in the barn. The malicious deed was
performed while the owner was away
from home. Adolph knows no enemies;
he is not to be abashed by reverses, and
has already begun to frame new and
greater building.
We are pleased to learn that James
Burke has recovered his wonted vigor,
and that he is again able to resume pro-
fessional labors in that noble occupation
in which be is so well skilled. He has
secured his old position in the Click
district where he taught for two or three
terms before.
Many of the schools in this locality
have secured teachers. John Pospisel
will experiment in Dist. No. 4. Griffith
Pritcbard will be probationer in Dist.
No. l, and Thos. Hogan will officiate in
Dist. No. 2. Some good selections are
being made by some school boards; but
yet although ten years of excellent super
vision have created enthusiastic and pro-
gressive teachers, the majority of school
officers give no signs of advancement. If
they make good selection, it is nearly
always fortuitous one; they are supine
in the discharge of sacred duty which
they treat as perfunctory one; they are
still lingering in the evening shadows of
past age, while around them is spring
ing up race ever ready to ascend to the
hill top to meet the dawn of advance
ment.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
here by ball of surprising grandeur at
Green Street and picnic characterized
by abundance of pleasure and feats of
pugilism at Cooperstown. Everything
passed off quietly at the former place,
but at the latter there were three pitched
battles which reminded some of the glo-
rious victories, some of the dastardly re-
treats and others of the drawn battles of
real war. The parties to the first two
trays will probably forget the past and
come to an informal agreement to live in
peace and harmony in the future; but
the vanquished hero in the last battle be.
ing of litigious nature will endeavor to
see whether the one potent arm of the
law will not shield him from the four
brawny arms of men not possessed of
nice humane feelings.
Thomas Shusta, an old citizen of this
place, died last Thursday, and was bur-
ried on Saturday at Kellnersville. He
was the peer of an honest man, and was
respected by all except misfortunate
few whose minds were probably clouded
by that mist of weakness which the fer.
vent heat Of reason can alone dispel. But
let those who have been justly or unjust
ly accused of traducing the man. and
those maligners who have maliciously
carcatured him bury the invidious past in
oblivion and learn in the light of the pres.
ent age, that no man can pluck from the
chain of nature one single link or reverse
for one moment one of natures laws.
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