The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-05-15

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Joseph Kapitan who has been visit
ing his son, Jos. Williams, left las,
week for Friendship, Adams county
to visit his sister, Mrs. Paulson whom
he has not seen in forty years.
j Mr.. VIM. Habermann of Eaton was
a caller at the PILOT Office Friday.
| Before paying money for real estate,
demand an Abstract Of Title made by
Manitowoc County Abstract Company,
A. e. Schulze, Mgr, opposite Court
House. Adv.
Chas. B. Johnson returned home
Saturday from the southern part of the
state. He is selling the Universal
Collection System" a letter collection
system of which he is the author
and publisher. Mr.. johnson has had
good success thus far.
Miss Ida Winter, who has been visit
ing at Milwaukee, Manitowoc, Mari
nette and Menominee and Stephenson
Mich, for the past several weeks, has
returned home. She was accompanied
here by her cousin, Miss Ella Winter
of MISUNDERSTANDING Journal.
Mr.. Louis Bergelin of Gibson made
a call at the PILOT office Friday.
Norman Torrison left for Nome
Alaska, on Monday where he has gone
to look after mining interests which
he holds. Mr.. Torrison spent several
months in Alaska last year and return.
ed here for the winter. He will prob
ably be absent five or six months on
this trip.
| Charles Schumacher, formerly of
this city, who is now located at Aber-
deem, South Dakota, is taking promi-
nent part in the Spanish American
War Veterans organization in that
state and las been named as delegate
to the national encampment of the
order to be held in Montana. Mr..
Schumacher was one of the acti,e
members of Camp Lawton in this city
! Assemblyman Carl Hanson created
some excitement in the Legislature
during the session last Friday hy
crlticising its actions in the passage of
what he termed "freak legislation"
and then announcing that he would
take his departure and would not re-
turn to the assembly during the
present session. Mr.. Hanson's actions
followed Immediately upon the refusal
of the assembly to grant him leave of
absence.
He evidently reco 7ered from the ex-
element under which he was laboring
at the time of his announcement as he
returned to the assembly and occupied
his usual seat in the body at its session
the following day.
The Crop Reporting Board of the
Bureau of Statistics of the United
States Department of Agriculture es-
Inmates, from the reports of correspon-
dents and agents of the Bureau, as
| follows:
On May | the area of winter wheat
10 be harvested was about 30,93S, 900
acres, or AS per cent (1,49,OO0 acres
less than the area planted last autumn,
but 1874 per cent 4.367 GOO acres more
than the area harvested last year, viz
26,57l 900 acres.
The average condition of winter
wheat on May ] was 9l9, compared
with GIG on April /, 1911 on May /,
1912, and $3.50, the average for the past
ten years on May l.
A condition of 91.9 per cent on May
is indicative of a,yield per acre of APP.
proximately 1876 bushels, assuming
average variations to prevail there
after. On the estimated area to be
harvested, 1876 bushels per acre would
produce 5l3,57l 900 bushels, or 2S.4 per
cent more than in 1872 1913 per cent
in 1911, and Is 3 per cent more than in
1910. The out-turn of the crop will
probably be above or below the figures
given above according as the change
in conditions from May to harvest is
above or below the average change.
The average condition of Rye on May
l was 9l.0, compared with 1913 on
April l, S7.5 on May l, 1912, and 1915,
the average for the past ten years on
May |.