The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-09-19

|
Milwaukee to attend meeting of the
Committee of fifteen" appointed last
year to investigate country school con-
ditions.
Mr.. Pat Carberry, cashier of the
Maribel state bank, was in the city
last Thursday and made the PILOT
Office call.
Rev. c. v. Burton and wife were
guests Of DR.. Falge one day last week.
They were enroute to Chicago after q
few weeks outing at Three Lakes,
Wis.
A st. Louis man made S64 900 as q
rag piker. And yet there are croak-
ers who say man has no chance in
America nowadays unless he has a
capital or graft.
Rev. Mentzner left Friday for
| Wausau where he will have charge OF
the German M. E. church. Rev. Schel-
hauser of Burlington succeeds Rev.
Mentzner in the local church.
Sheriff PELLET, accompanied by John
Hoyer, court house janitor, took Frank
Lavally to Waupun Monday. Lavally
has been sentenced to one one year in
the penitentiary for wife desertion.
The inventor who is building an
aeroplane with eighteen wings to fly
across the Atlantic has evidently OBJ
served the fate of many airships and
believes the only safe one is that which
has as many pairs of wings as cat has
lives.
1t is predicted by the New York
Telegraph .hat motorcycle races will
be stopped as d result of the tragedies
they have caused. 1t will be strange
if public which regards the Brook
lyn Handicap as demoralizing ex-
hibition can complacently witness such
horrors as that which occurred at New
ark.
A. j. Clark clerk of circuit court
reminds the public that petitions for
naturalization must be filed by Octob-
err in order to have the petitions heard
at the January term of .,rcuit court.
Under the new law after January l..
1913 no one who is not full fedged
citizen of the United States will be
permitted to vote at elections. A
number Of applications are already on
file.
There will be meeting of the re-
publican county committee of the
county of Manitowoc at the court
house in the City of Manitowoc on
Friday afternoon, Sept. 20, at 2 p. M.
All committeeman from the several
voting precincts in the county are re-
quested to be present. In precincts
where committeeman were net elected
at the primaries old committeeman
will hold over.
J. r. CURRENS, Chairman.
Judge Kirwan in decision rendered
denies the application of Mrs. Minnie
Sprahn, Two Rivers woman, for d.
vorce from her husband, Joseph Sprahn,
and grants the decree to the husband
on counter claim. The. decision
awards the custody of the three chill
dren to Sprahn and directs Mrs. Sprahn
to Immediately surrender them. The
case was one of the sensational divorce
actions at the recent term of circuit
court. AT the time the case was called
Mrs. Sprahn was seriously i'll and the
hearing had to be postponed. Sprahn
and his wife have not lived together
for some time.
The College of Agriculture Of the
University of Wisconsin is urging
every corn grower in the state to pick
a surplus of seed corn for next year
and to select it at once. Corn inherits
its good ana bad points as animals do.
knowledge of the parents of an ear OF
corn is as necessary rs the pedigree of
herd bull. The only way to know
the pedigree of seed corn is to take
sack into the field now, and select ears
Of proper shape, not much over medium
size, on which the kernels are almost
too hard to peel with the finger nail.
The ears should promise large per-
centage of shelled corn, should be
growing on strong leafy stalks at good
reaching distance from the ground and
away from any barren stalks, whose
pollen might have fortified the silks
of the seed ear.
The size of an ear may be>due to the
special fertility Of the soil in that hill,
or to the absence of competitors which
would take away moisture and food
and sunlight; but not the proportion of
shelled grain, the early maturity or
the suitability of the stalks for your
purpose, all of which are Inherited
characteristics.
One man can pick five bushels OF
seed corn in a day, ordinarily, and
this done at the right time may mean
an increase of bushel per acre in
future crops A bushel per acre on
the thirty acres that would be planted
with seed from one days picking,
would make the days work worth at
least $500.
Late selection year after year means