Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-12-25
AT TOMAHAWK.


Last Tuesday, Dec. 18th 1900, the
annual meeting of the stockholders Of
the Wisconsin Valley Advancement
Association was held at Tomahawk, in
the Hotel Mitchell. The train on
which were most of the visitors, reached
Tomahawk at ii A. NJ, and until the
dinner hour the time was spentin walk
ing about the furnishing little city.
1t has been several years since the
editor of this paper has had an oppor-
tunity to visit this growing city of the
north and therefore many changes
were noticed There has been steady
growth and everything indicates city
OF no small proportions. At present
there are quite number of fine build
ings in course of erection. Among
them the new city hall and the large
store building for the Standard Mer-
camille Company
The town received quite black eye,
the Sunday night previous, in the shape
of a fire. Mcbride Bros building was
entirely destroyed and Larsen's post
office building was nearly so. These
buildings stood on the Main street near
the Mitchell Hotel. Both were insured
and larger and handsomer business
places will arise, Phoenix-like, from
their ashes.
Tomahawk has its large saw mills;
the largest dam on the Wisconsin river;
the Hotel Michel, which ranks with the
best hostelries in Wisconsin, with the
exceptions of the Pfster and Planking-
ton houses, of Milwaukee; then there is
the Tomahawk printing house an insti-
tuition complete in all of its appoint
ments; supplied with the best cylinder
and job presses and lay out in the
line of plain and fancy faces, borders,
ETC., that are the delight of followers of
the art preservative. In short, the
Tomahawk is a modern up-to-date
print shop, and, best of all, it has a
man at its helm, well versed in every
detail of printing office and writer
of ability-E. I. Greyson He is very
original and is getting up paper that
is attracting much attention through
out the state, and has become potent
lever in the up building of the Wiscon-
consin River Valley. Besides the
above, Tomahawk has w. H. Bradley
and w. &. Collins, two of the best
known men in Wisconsin, and two of
the most energetic men in the Valley.
With all this, it is dead sure thing
that Tomahawk has brilliant future
before her. 1t is already assuming
metropolitan airs-has sewerage sys-
tenn, water works and electric lights.
W. III. Brady is by far the wealthiest
man in the city, perhaps in the Valley,
and he has it in his power to make a
city of Tomahawk. He needs but the
backing of every individual of his town
and given a carte blanche to 90 ahead,
and play the game to its full limit, and
We'll bet all we've got that Tomahawk
will soon be the county seat of a thriv-
ing county; have factories galore, and
a population that will take five figures
to tell it. But as to the
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING OF THE WIS
CoNsIN RIVER VALLEY ADVANCE
MENT ASSOCIATION.
At o'clock, sharp, w. HI. Bradley,
President of the Association, called the
meeting to order, and in the absence of
the acting Secretary, f. Oberbeck, of
Grand Rapids, F. &. Stark, of Toma-
hawk, was appointed Secretary pro tenn.
The roll call showed that all Of the
towns along the river, within the limits
taken in by the Association, were rep
resented, with the exception of Stevens
Point. Also, that there was member