The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-06-07
STORIES CURRENT
IN MANITOWOC.

In MANI IOWOC.
Col Gray, the veteran soldier, who
spoke on Memorial day at the exercises
commemorative of the slain in the civil
war, is a living exemplification of the
young old man. The colonel, by his
own statement, is a great believer in
continuing young. He is all the time
lodging time and getting the upper
hand. Though he has passed the allotted
span Of life by more than five years, yet
he is as clipper as lark and as agile as
young roe on it's mountain home.
Col. Gray by long observation, has dis
covered the secret of warding off senility.
He has always been noted as a fighter,
and when he undertook the task of de-
feating time in its subtle ravages, he had
big task on his hands. But all who
saw him ON Memorial day were con-
WINGED that, notwithstanding his three
score years and fifteen, he was the most
youthful of the crowd. When asked
how he kept within the circle of the
boys he said, with knowing wink,
'Tll tell you, always think young, act
young and keep up with the times.
What's the use of growing old when
there is no necessity. Be young, and re-
main young is my motto" 1t was no
ticeable that he dressed in the latest
fashion. There was nothing of the
quaker attire about him. He wore
fancy vest, which was right up to the
fashionable hilt 1t would have done
credit to Fifth avenue, New York, on
an Easter morning. He also wore the
latest style soft felt hat, and of no SOM
Der hue. His clothes had lately been
pressed and besides being in style were
in the pink of nattiness. The colonel is
energetic, too his speech was a sufficient
guarantee of that fact, 1t is said that
he is voracious reader, his particular
hobby being the literature of classic
Greece.
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In the barroom of Silver Lake hotel
are pair of antlers. To the old Mani
towoc man they recall bit of local his
tory. The antlers were once the proper
ty of Banker Kuehne, and they were
priced by him because he shot the ami
NAL from which they were taken in the
mountains of Montana Mr.. Kuehne
had been for many years an old settler
here, and had thrived slowly, just as
the town had grown. He was always q
great believer in this city's future, and
when the time came he entered the
banking business 1t was said he was
most conservative financier, and was as
straight as man could be- Some TWEEN
ty-fve years age, during period of fl
nancial depression Mr.. Kuehnes bank
was heavily drawn upon, and he imag
ined he was in financial straights from
which he could not extricate himself
The thought prayed upon his mind and
one day suffering with acute forebod-
ings. he went to the woods and killed
himself with the gun that had slain the
deer which gave him the antlers. The
suicide was a great sensation at the
time, but after the excitement was over
and the bankers affairs were straighten- |
ed out, it was found he was long way
from being III financial difficulties
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A half dozen men were gathered in |
the county clerks room at the Court |
house one day this week. They had
called to say how do" to the popular
clerk, Arthur lander While they were
there two timid women-one who was
particularly shy, who wore tell tale
expression that some momentous eli |
max in her life was imminent put their
noses within the room. No sooner had |
they realized the presence of gang of |
horrid men than they shrank away,
chagrined that they had been nearly en-
trapped The men caught the spirit of
the women's errand, and as the mascu-
line gender does things, they remained,
chatting with the clerk provokingly |
long time. The women betimes held on
about the Court house and when they |
noticed an exodus from the clerks room
they made sudden dart for Mr.. Fan
der, and calling him aside, the lady who
is going to do it, whispered in his ear
that she would be obliged for one of
those slips of paper which would enable
her to become wife. Il suppose you
can give Inc the license, she said My !,
prospective husband is out of town and
/ wish to astonish him when he returns.
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