The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-09-26

| Mrs. Spencer Burke of Washington
D. c. is visiting at the home of hel
mother, Mrs. Catharine Auton, North
Fifth street.
Mrs. N. Onstead, of Stoughton ant
DR.. and Mrs. Langum of Newark, Ill.
were guests, at the home of Thos
Torrison last week.
Mrs. Alex Kroner was at Maplewoot
the first of the week to attend the
funeral OF George Denor who died fol
loving an operation.
Miss Cecilia Msany who spent hei
vacation with relatives here, has re-
turned to Elkhart Ind, to resume her
duties as trained nurse.
Mrs. G. Healy Of Unity and Mrs. Percy
Thayer, mother and sister, respectively,
of Mrs. Fred Groelle are guests at the
Grolle home on North 9th street.
Otto PITT who recently passed the
| Examination for second lieutenant In
the army left for Des Moisne, Iowa, or
Monday, after visit at his home here
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to the article which you have found
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the loser. If the loser does not adj
vertise, the finder should do so.
Clarence Summons, a former Mishi
cot boy, is in the city organizing 9
branch of the Brotherhood of American
Yeomen, fraternal society. He came
here from Neenah where he succeeded
in organizing branch with large
membership.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Westphal, Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard kitzerow. Herman
Kitzerow, ST. and Mrs. Herman
Kitzerow, Jr. went to Milwaukee
Friday to attend the funeral of Mrs,
Edward Ormsby who died Wednesday
following an operation.
Miss Alma Jirikowic, a member OF
the Pilot force, returned home Tues
day from Aberdeen, South Dakota,
where she spent her vacation with her
sister, Mrs. Charles Schumacher. In
the meantime she visited her brother,
DR.. Jos. Jirikowic, at Souris, North
Dakota.
A COW received the popular decision
over an aeroplane in a collision which
occurred near Michigan City. Ind. last
week between the two.
Donald Gregory, an aviator, was
trying out his tractor biplane when the
machine, before taking the air, struck
the COW. The propeller of the machine
was wrecked, but the aviator escaped
without a scratch and the engine was
not injured.
The COW was rolled over three times
and badly bruised, but for the next
half mile the COW received the decision
in speed contest, getting to the near
est gate faster than Vedrines himself
ever flew.
"Whos the greatest woman in his
tory?" was the query debated by Kan
sas school teachers. They considered
Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth and
Semiramis and Cleopatra, Cornelia,
Catherine of Russia, Maria Thresa,
Grace Darling, Susan B. Anthony and
half hundred others. When they
came down to cases all the names
known to fame were ruled out. And to
whom do you suppose the judges
awarded the palm? Here is the answer.
"The wife of the farmer of moderate
means who does her own cooking,
washing, ironing, sewing, brings up a
family of boys and girls to be useful
members of society and finds time for
intellectual improvement"
There are a good many heroines who
don't get into the Hal of Fame.
In order to continue the Wisconsin
reputation of taking prizes on corn and
small grains at the National Corn
Exposition which is to be held this
year at Columbia, S. c., in the week
beginning January 81, the annual
meeting and exhibit of the Wisconsin
Experiment Association will be held
early in January at the College of
Agriculture of the University of Wis
consin. Members of the association
cooperate in growing pure bred grains
and they exhibit them at the meeting.
The prize winning grains at the as
ISOLATION meeting will be sent to the
national show as in former years. This
is the first time the National Corn
Show has been held in the south, and
Prof r. A. Moore says it will be the
greatest ever held in America. Among
one of many of the special events will
be the meeting of the American
breeders Association.
State Fair exhibits of September
butter made tine showing for the men
who have sent exhibits to the monthly
scoring exhibitions of the Dairy De-
partmentof the College of Agriculture
of the University of Wisconsin. Four.
teen of the sixteen exhibits scoring %
and higher, were made by men who
have taken advantage of the criticisms