Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-05
CITY NOTES.

The next annual picnic of the North
Wisconsin Picnic Association of the NJ
w. A., will be held al Amigo. 1t was
so voted at the annual meeting held at
Ashland last Thursday West Superior
was second in the race.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pfeiffer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Seim, of Wausan, and the
Misses Schmidt, Wittig and Oelnafen.
of Milwaukee, are here on a two weeks
outing at the 0elhafen cottage ON Clear
Lake.-Tomahawk Leader.
Nearly every one of the county Off
cers report that business in their Offices
Is very dull AT present This is no
doubt due to the farmers with whom
much of their business is carried on)
now being engaged in the harvesting
of their crops.
Bob Larner, appointed TO visit lumber
yards throughout the county and get
figures as the values thereof for the
benefit of the county board, will COM
plete his labors after the first of Septem-
ber when the town boards of review
have adjourned.
The lecture delivered at the assembly
room of the high school on Tuesday
evening by Miss Belle Kearney, of Ken
lucky, before the teachers institute
was on the subject of temperance and
is spoken of as a very interesting lee
ture on that subject.
Boating parties from the Wausau
club house to points up the river have
not been so numerous this summer as
formerly. This has been oceasioned by
the extremely low water for it has
occasioned much work in getting
boat in and out from the boat house
landing.
The building committee of the Agri-
cultural and Training School was in
session on Thursday and transacted the
general routine of business, and looked
over the new school building noting the
progress being made, etc. The com
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Lamont, Chris Franzen, Joseph Burger
and Chas. Nieman.
During the early part of the week j.
5. Westlake, of La Crosse, was engaged
in checking up the business of the
United States Express company in this
city after which the new agent, j A ..
Jaeger, of Merrill, took charge. The
former agent, j. E. Odoms, departed
Thursday evening for Chicago to
accept the new position offered him by
the company.
Elmer Miller, route agent on the
Northwestern, between Eland Jet. ard
Marshteld was laid up at his home in
this city several days last week by being
injured in handling heavy piece of ex-
press matter. 1t affected the sciatic
nerve of the leg He went up to Sugar
Camp lake on Saturday for few days
outing, and when he returns all hope
that he will be in complete health.
A number of pickpockets operated
along the line of Wisconsin Central R'y
last week and relieved lumber of the
Marshtield people of their money.
Octave Goulet, and Andrew Aithin, pro-
prietors of the Thomas House were both
robbed, the former of $500 and three
checks and the latter of several valuable
papers. 1t is thought the gang was the
same one that operated at Merrill dur
ing the Saengerfest.
Shaker and all new outing hannels
arrived yesterday at low figures at
Athens.
Ralph McCrossen is now in the
vicinity of Winnipeg, Man. He has
accepted a position with the G.. p. Il r.
as draughtsman with the engineer con-
struction department. Ralph is fitting
himself for a civil engineer, and has
already spent two years at the state
university pursuing the conrse. He
expects to be out with surveying
party until the school re-opens.
The Heinemann Lumber Co., at
Heinemann, eight miles north of Merrill
will in the near future greatly enlarge
their mill They manufacture hemlock
and hardwood, and report a splendid
business. = w. II. Bradley, the
brainy Tomahawk lumberman and rail
road builder, says that there is timber
enough in Northern Wisconsin to keep
the mills going for twenty-five years.
The Lumberman.
The Great International Railroad
Shows, as the one horse circus
was styled that appeared here last
Tuesday, was about as 'punky' an
excuse for a circus that ever beal.its
way into town. The manager put
up about three posters in the city and
of course the attendance was not large
and therefore the public is not much
out The show as a whole was not as
good as the ordinary side show of a
large circus.
Work on the new Mathie Brewing
Co.'S bottling works is nearing compile
ton and as soon as the plant is ready
for business the company intends to in
vite the public to the opening. There
will be music and guides viii show
people over the entire brewery plant
and sample OF beer will be given to
each visitor The new building is
40x100 feet in size, of solid brick, with
Marathon county granite trimmings
and the front viii be surmounted by
two golden eagles, a globe and flag
pole. There will be two driveways
leading to the works, one in front and
one on the side.
VIM. Peck died early Thursday morn
ing at his home at Mosinee by suicid-
ing. He was millwright by trade.
but Of late had been in the employ Of
the Dessert Lumber company as watch