Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-15
CITY NOTES.
lamp Photos at COTS studio.


Crossen block opposite the Post Office.
Herman Gerndt has accepted the
position of night clerk at the Bells
House
j. A. Porter is making improvements
on his residence in the way of new
porches.
A large portion the of streets of the
Centralia side of Grand Rapids will be
macadamized.
DIR. Turbln, the eminent German Spe-
cialist and surgeon, will be at Bells
House, May %
The State Horticultural Society will
meet on the Krentzer farm about three
miles from the city on June 18th.
Mayor V. A. Anderson is adding a
porch to his residence which is an i'm
provement, and will prove great con-
venience.
Call on Thos. Delaney if you have
anything in the line of plumbing or gas
fitting. All work will be promptly at
tended to- If.
VIM. Merklein is now occupying his
home on Second street and John Merk-
lein is living above the meat market on
Third steet
Jacob Reuter- and family are now
occupying residence on north Fifth
street, having moved from rooms above
Anton Schuetz' store last Saturday.
Gardner Bros. mill, near Flanner,
which was burned few weeks ago,
will be rebuilt on smaller scale, and
will be ready for business again by
August 1st
The Quaw Lumber Company's mill
at Edgar closed down last Saturday,
after being in operation since early
last winter. About 1900 900 feet of
lumber was sawed out
Mrs. Clara Boetcher practical mid
wife, Fifth street, next to the German
Lutheran church. Confinements and
all other kinds of sickness taken at the
house. Telephone connection. o22-tf.
This Office has received aAandsomely
printed invitation to the eighth annual
reception and ball of the Wisconsin
Business University, given under the
direction of the University Club at La
Crosse on Friday evening next.
If sweet young widows want to
"ketch' some sweetheart in the sunny
tangles of their golden curls, they'd
better take Rocky Mountain Tea. Great
Medicine. 35c. Ask your druggist. w.
w. Albers.
Touch up your old chairs and tables
with Enameline Japalic, hard finish
on any color. You can make an old
pine table look like a new mahogany
piece of furniture. Sold at Montgom-
ery's. All colols on hand.
The Grand Rapids Tribune has been
sold to ex-senator Jas. w. Murphy, of
Milwaukee, and his son, A. w. Murphy,
will operate the same. E. B. Brundage,
the former proprietor, was compelled
to dispose of the plant on account of
poor health.
Farmers say that if we have very
dry May our county will be oyerrun
with grasshoppers. During the warm
weather of last week, in places, the
ground was perfectly alive with them.
Dry and warm weather, under existing
conditions, will breed the pests to an
alarming degree. Plenty of rain is the
farmers only salvation.
Aug. Latin, treasurer of the town of
Hewitt, and who is we'll known in the
city, was married today at noon to
Miss Mathilda Tesch, of the town of
Easton, Rev. Pastor Buerger officiating.
We hope that the new office which
August has assumed will rest lightly on
his shoulders and we wish himself and
his bride lifetime of joy.
The PILOT is anxious to get all of the
news of the city and to that end, invites
everybody to send in items over the
wire, telephone No. 100 or send same
to office. 1t will be appreciated Our
reporters cannot rake in everything of
interest, but they make tremendous
effort.
At New London they have three cases
of small poX and there is liable to be
many more. The first case was called
chicken poX," on April 10th; another
was taken sick and it was again called
chicken pox." The third case was
pronounced "small pox," and now it is
we'll established by all the physicians
there that the cases are all small pox.
There have been many exposures and
there is danger of an epidemic. 1t
would be well for Wausau people to be
very careful, for New London is not
very far away.
The cornerstone of the handsome Car
nival column has been laid, and on the
opening day of the Carnival the shaft
will be presented to the city with
fitting ceremonies. Rex, King of the
Carnival, win be met with an escort of
the local militia and, with the music of
many bands, and the gay streaming
banners, conducted to the court of hon
or on Grand avenue where he viii for
mally announce the opening of the gala
season. On the evening of that day
the streets will be illuminated for the
first time with the myriads of electric
lights. presenting a scene of marvellous
beauty.
Geo, Lemmer and Miss Nora Lehman,
of the village of Marathon, will be mar
ried at that place the first week in
June, by Rev. Father Hanses. The
young people have many friends in the
county who viii be interested in this
announcement, as they were both raised
within its limits, Mr.. Lemmer has