The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13

Mr.. James Cook, formerly resident
! of Eaton, Dat now of Chicago, WAS in
the city Frida, I'D mad, the PILOT
Office n call M c, ok was euruute o
ChicsRo af'trr visit with relatives and
frIr, ds 0u his aud Kroaunee county.
Judg. Ba.nec' of thi- CITY was ou. of
= 49, h. h. qn-r H. Milvap-
Hee week III no ar of Count Beru.
soft, E amha, sad from Germany.
" Ba u ch il Au ,hIe ,p-ak-r and hi-
"Iir'.~ trr- h4uqu.t WAS credltable
Judge Chloupek has fixed the date at
Nay Is for y hearing on the petition of
Richard Drews of Cooperstowu for the
appointment of a commission to appraise
land for new road on the county line
between Brown and Manitowoc coun.
ties The town board of Cooperstown
has declined to open the road
DON'T BUY CEMENT-Until you get
our prices. We carry the largest stock
in the city and guarantee better cement
and better service than you can get
elsewhere.
MAN1TowoC LAND e. FUEL Co.
Telephone-37 Quay st. East of Sth.
n no ~, he 70 I'll al
the weather bureau in 1887 has the total
precipitation for the month of April
reached any such amount ~ il did last
month. The total precipitation, snow
and rain, amounted to 400 inches In
I 1897 he precipitation WAS % and in
1896 II ran mp IN. nigh mark f 5:4S
precipitation occurred. There were but
four clear days during the month with
only five partly cloudy, and 81 cloudy
days. The mean temperature for the
month was 30 degrees. one of the lowest
records in years.
We have received a full line of sam
Piles of Linoleum, Carpets, Mating, etc,
which are sold almost at Wholesale
price. w. |. VOLTA, Reedsville, Wis
One of the most successful seasons of
its existence was closed by the Monday
Music Club with meeting at the home
Of Mrs r Rahr Jr., Monday afternoon.
The club discontinues its meetings dur
ing the summer months but will resume
early in the fall Officers of the year
were elected, Mrs. w. w. Nelson again
being named as president and Miss
Bertha klingholz was re elected vice.
president; Miss Bessie Barnes, treasurer
and Mrs. M. H Murphy, secretary. The
club has accepted a few new members
during the season and has n membership
of fourteen at present.
1t is expected that more than 5000
card players will gather at Milwaukee
from June 10 to p for the purpose of
playing game of cards-skat.
Ten years ago skat was practically
unknown except among the Germans
and those of German parentage. Today
skat is one of the most popular card
games played in this country and counts
among its devotees those who have been
more or less prominent in whist during
the past decade.
Skat originated in Germany, some.
where about 1910. although it did not be.
come prominent, until after the trouble
of 1S49. The tradition with reference
to the game is that those old German
agrarians, who subsequently became in
volved in revolution, had been devotees
of schafskopf, in which the queens were
the most important factors, and that
being displeased at anything resembling
royalty they proposed to exalt the bau
ers-in the German meaning farmer
over the queens. A lawyer by the name
of Hempel conceived the game of skat
and made the bauern the principal
cards. The game was played quietly
among the farmers for long time, but
after the revolutionary trouble in Ger
many had subsidized, it was taken up by
all classes, until it became the national
game of that country.
The North American Skat league was
organized about twelve years ago, but it
was not until 1905, when national
tournament in Milwaukee brought out
about 2, 600 players, that the real boom
In skat began. Since then the national
congresses have attracted large crowds
and it is confidently expected that over
5000 will attend the congress to be held
this year in Milwaukee.