The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-07-29
NOTES FROM MTSHICOTT

MIR. Walter Stoker of Manitowoc
was in the village Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Behlow is off on visit
to relatives in Medford this week.
Mr.. Henry Vogt of Manitowoc spent
a few days in the village this week.
Mr.. John Staudt of Manitowoc E.ade
things pleasant for The boys" in this
village Sunday.
Judge Cratic and wife of Mantle
voc were in the village Sunday, to
attend the funeral of their relative
Hiram Fortier.
Mr.. Louis Le9enhagen now parades
on orr streets with fine new canopy
top buggy lately purchased from
Mueller and Halberg.
Mr.. Theodore Specht and family of
Milwaukee arrived here Tuesday.
This village will be their home for the
future, rs Theodore intends to go into
the wagon making business here.
-Our new photographer, Mr. Nick
VanderbIoemen is working up quite
little trade in his line here. Nick
says it's merit that does it. and judg
ing from the work he does, we believe
it is.
The JAS Brown Theatre Co. played
at the Opera House last Saturday and
Sunday evening The company is a
srrong one in many respects, and If
there had been letter advertising they
would have done better financially.
An interesting game of ball took
place here last Sunday between Two
Rivers nine and picked up nine of
tins village. Our regular nine was
crippled by the absence of it's battery
and one of its basemen. The score
stood II to Is in favor of Two Rivers
The visitors were assisted to this re-
suit by their umpire, but even that
gentlemen could not nave saved them
from defeat had they met our full
nine. 1t ia probable that the Branch
team will visit this village Sunday
and hot game may be expected.
After a prolonged illness Mr. Hiram
Fortier died at the home of his uncle
Judge Cratic at Manitowoc, last Sat
urday. Hiram was Mishicott boy
until recently when his illness com
PEELED him to place himself under
medical care at Manitowoc.
Upon his friends here. the tidings
| Of his death, produced feeling of in
expressiblP sadness. 1t seemed to us
but yesterday that Hiram had been
with us, bright and jolly always, full
of health and leader in ali amuse-
! nents. Today he lies peacefully sleep
ing his last sleep beneath tho sod
His schoolmates and boyhood friends
gathered at the side of his grave and
sadly offered their last loving tribute
of flowers and song. II is not for us
living ones to speak anything but
words of praise for our departed
friend He was always kind and
considerable to others. of a happy dis
position, and eager always to do a
friend favor.
The blow was hard one to the be-
reaved family and especially to his
widowed mother whose idol he was
Deceased WAS ~ years Of age. Until
the age of 10 he had worked on the
farm and his education was very lin
tied. But not being a very strong
man, physically, he determined to
improve his education and become a
teacher. After year of hard study
he successfully passed the examina
ton and two years of creditable edn
cational labor followed, ending IN his
breaking down in health and strength
and then came the end in the very
bloom o. his young existence. The
funeral was one Of IN" l"rgest that has
taken place here for years
Mrs. kahrs, mother of Mr.. George
kahrs, Of Sci col Section. committed
suicide III a horrible manner last
Thursday. When the family were
all gone ont of the honse to the field
work, the old lady got razor and cut
her throat with it. DR. Karnopp who
conducted the post morten examina
ton says that she seems to have made
several slashes across her throat be
fore she was helpless.
She left message written on a
state, In which she babe her fan iiv
farewell, admonished her grand child
ZEN to obey their parents always and
stating that she had no grievance
whatever against anybody. She ex
planned that the deed she was about
to commit was caused by dream, in
which it appeared that on Thursday
evening officers would come to the
house and carry her off to an ASYLUM.
Rather than permit this, she would
take her own life.
Mrs kahrs had long been suffering
from heart disease and for many years
had been unable to lie down being
forced to sleep in sitting position.
Neither of tho churches which had
accepted the hard earned money this
poor old woman and her husband had
bestowed npon them during their
whole life. would give her christina
burial
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED.