The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-05-30

Miss Charlotte Markham entertained
at a farewell party last Thursday
evening. She will spend the summer
in Europe with party Of students from
the Chicago Art Institute. She left
here on Saturday and sailed from New
York Wednesday.
Co. II had twenty-seven men on the
range Sunday. With the record of the
day the company has fourteen men
qualified as marksmen. Sergt. Maj.
Hanson was high man with a score of
1875, Private Daniels III, Kiland lbs,
Lieut.. Schade lib, Sergt. Kuecker 100,
Lieut.. Nemitz l0S, Private Cenefelt
l07, Cap. Abel lO6.
The printing committee met Friday
afternoon to receive bids for publishing
the proceedings Of the special session
of the county board. The Pilot was
the only bidder and was awarded the
contract at its bids cents folio for
publishing the proceedings and 6 cents
folio for printing 100 pamphlets.
MR.. FARMER
Would you buy a GULL BRED"
COW and pay say 800 without first get
ting the "PEDIGREE?" You say no,
but you buy a farm and pay $500 to
$500 without an Abstract of Title.
Think this over and then call on Man.
itowoc County Abstract Co.. Adolph
; Schulze, Mgr, for free information. 40
Judge Chloupek tells remarkable
story of rats stealing chickens. He
says that on Thursday of last week he
took from his incubator 81 chickens,
all OF which we're thriving and doing
we'll. He placed them in a brooder in
the woodshed and on Sunday morning
when he went to feed them not single
chicken was to be found. He saw signs
indicating where rats had carried away
his chickens and following up, had
gone only short distance when he
came to the place where he found the
81 chickens carefully stored away and
all dead but four.
| The eternal feminine crops out in the
current story of the nervous woman to
whom the throat specialist, while ad-
justing laryngoscope preparatory to
an examination, remarked:
MADAM, you'd be surprised to hear
how far down we can see with this
wonderful instrument"
A pause followed and then the patient
faltered.
doctor, before you begin, perhaps I
ought to tell you that | really hadn't
time to mend the holes in my stockings
before came here"
Her expression of concern over APP
pearances was as instructive as that of
the tidy New England mother who
rushed from the kitchen into the hall
after crash and inquired if any oil
had been spilled on the carpet when
her daughter fell down the front stairs
with kerosene lamp.-Ex.
An advance bulletin issued by the
I Federal Census Bureau contains some
interesting information as to the rela-
tive Importance of cereal crops in the
United States.
In the country as a whole little
more than half the acreage devoted to
cereals is in corn. A little less than
one-fourth is in wheat and less than
one-sixth is in oats. In the South corn
occupies over three-fourths of the to-
tai cereal acreage, but in the North
the proportion is less than one-half.
In both of these sections wheat is Sec
ond in Importance, with oats close
third. In the West, however, wheat
occupies one-half the cereal acreage,
and oats and barley each about one
fifth, while the acreage of corn is in
significant Three-tifths of the corn
acreage and more than three-fourths
of that Ut the other cereals mentioned
in the bulletin are in the North.
MILK CONDENSARY OPENS.
After long unexpected delay the
local milk condensing plant has begun
operations. Many reverses were en-
countered in preparing the plant for
operation and Supt. Stage with his as
sistant Thompkins deserve much credit
for the successful achievement. AL