The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-18

Mrs. Archie Thsyer left Saturday
for Sterling, Ill.,, being called there by
the illness of her daughter, Pearl.
| Charles and Elmer Drumm and Miss.
es Ruth Under and Blanche Schuette
spent Sunday with friends at Green
Bay.
Mrs. Frank lucknow and children re-
turned Saturday to their home at
Grand Rapids, Wis, after visit with
relatives here.
Miss Frances Zentner returned &c
Chicago Saturday, after spending her
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. Zentner.
Mr.. Elmer Shanahan of Milwaukee
who is visiting with relatives in Liber'
ty, was in the city Friday and made a
call at the Pilot office.
Mrs. Lucy Jones and daughter OF
Memphis, Tenn, are visiting with Mrs.
Jones parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
Higgins, North 10th street.
Miss Clara Elk, who has been employ
ed in the office of w. M. V9illinger,
lefG Saturday for Sheboygan where
she has accepted a position in the city
hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Ryan and three
children motored from Escanaba Sat.
urday and are spending week at the
home of Mrs. Ryan's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Timothy Kelley.
Mrs. Bertha Knutzen and son Edwin
left Friday for Nuremberg. Wis, to
visit with Norman Knutzen, the son
and brother, respectively, before he
| left for the cantonment.
Misses Mabel Gunderson, Ethel Mil
Ter, Adeline Heinz, Clara Drumm,
Hortense Woelhoefer, Lorraine Ded-
rick. Lulu Jacobson and Clara Kraine
left Saturday for an outing at the Dells.
The home property of the late AS
sen blyman Carl Hanson has been pur-
chased by the Wernecke-Schmitz
Hardware Co. For the present it will
be leased as a dwelling to private
parties.
Monthly magazines to be sent to sol
diers and sailors should not be more
than two months old, according to the
Post Office Department, and weekly
publications should not be more than
three weeks old.
Miss Myrtle Brandt, has departed for
Washington, d. c., where she will be
employed MS stenographer in the COM
pensation department of the federal
government. She is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. f. Brandt of this city,
Petitions have been in circulation on
the west side asking the traction com
psny to extend the street railway from
the Northwestern depot westward to
the hospital section. The rapid growth
out that way seems to justify the re
quest.
Ed. Scherer, formerly of this city,
DOW located at Barlow, Fla is to enter
the railway mail service as clerk
Mr.. Scherer, according to letters re.
ceived by friends here, passed the CT
vii service examination with a high
standing.
AS recently as 1906 there were only
100, 600 motor vehicles in the United
States compared with nearly 5000, 900
of 1917, while in 1901 the total outlay
In money and labor on the public road
aggregated only SS0,00000O, compared
with some 100000, 900 for 1917 Thus
the public roads have been changed
with bewildering rapidity from the
status of the purely local uUilits to that
of utility of national Importance and
scope.
FRUIT CROP is LIGHT
THE worst small-fruit season for
many years." says r. II. Roberts of the
department of horticulture of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in describing the
chances for plentiful supply of fruit
this year.
prospects for good apple crop
have been only fair and are gradually
growing less" says Mr.. Roberts
"Blossoming was only normal this
year, and the cold wet spring was un
favorable to the blossoms that did de-
velop. The half-formed fruit has al
ready begun to drop.
1.-The late cherries promise at least a
fair crop, but the early cherries we're
light. Straw berries and the other
berry crops seem to be sharing the
general shortness of all small fruit