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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-09

The bonds were taken at par from
the county and were sold to get money
at less than 50 cents on the dollar The
bonds, Of course, were when due, fully
paid by the county. That means the
tax payers Of course. In 1856, when our
German friends first came here, they
found the road to Wausau and there il
virtually ended Farming only in a
limited way was in its infancy
A few of the Germans came at
first, then they came in ship loads,
and opened up the whole Of our
present agricultural lands, and to them
aud their enterprise is the honor due,
for the fine roads, nice churches and
school houses, that dot the county all
over. Their houses and barns are full
evidences Of their thrift and characteF;I
a more peaceful. hospitable, good, loyal
citizens are noskound within the bounds
Of the United States Of America
These beautiful grounds that we today
enjoy were purchased by our old pio
neers and dedicated to the purposes byI
them, that it is now used for; there is s0I
acres OF 1t, and today with its improve
ments. is worth over so coo. Our beau.
tiful Wausau with its many comfortable
homes, the homes of hard working pee
pie, who by their toll and industry have
earned them, built them. and now enjoy
them; the city. village and townships of
our county have as citizens, people of
all nationaiilies with every kind OF civil-
cation, our school system and our laws,
will educate them all aud the amalga
nation going on BY insermarriage in q
generation VIII make Of All foreign
speaking people Mere, good, loyal Amer.
leans. sho viii ENJOY all the blessings
Of this, oar glorious. grand country
May God Sless and preserve each and
every one Of Us, for another year.
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MARRIED.

Last Wednesday. September 8, 1902,
al o'clock i. NJ, a very pretty we'd
ding took place in this city. the contract.
ing parties being Mr. Frank Leslie Bart
lett Turner, of Stoneham, Mass. to Miss
Ida Mae Fraser, of this city. The cere-
mony took place at the home of the
brides father, Mr., John A. Fraser, on
Warren street, and the Rev. j. ), vii
SOU, pastor of the west side Presbyterian
church, of Merrill. ofliciated. Miss
Augusta Spaulding, of Merrill, attended
the bride and the groorh's oest man was
MIR. Leonard L. Fraser, brother of the
bride Only relatives ana few inti-
mate friends were present,
The home was worry handsomely dee
oraled in autumEal effects and Cones
orchestra furnished music during the
afternoon and ushered il, the nuptial
hour with the wedding march from
MendelSSohn. A wedding repast was
served after the reception, Mrs. Bedell
being the caterer on this occasion.
4 large number of very handsorse
presents were received by the newly
married couple which We're the center
of attraction.
The bride 5 the daughter Of Mr.. John
Fraser and has resided in Waasau for q
year pas, aud during that time has made
many warm friends who visa her un-
limited happiness in her new relations.
The groom Is Young msn Of pleasing
appearance and address and is gladly
welcomed as citizen of our city, for
Mr. aud Mrs. Turner will make their
future home here.
Those who attended the ceremony
from ont of the city were slesdames K.
j. Collie, J c. Liekel, j. f. Rice and
John PattinSon; Rev and Mrs. j. ).
Wilson and the Misses BefthA Buhler.
Augusta Spaulding, Helea Britt aud
Mr.. Ralph Collie. all ef Merrill.
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On Thursday the largest crowd per-
haps that ever assembled o. tie grounds
on any one occasion was present, tn
gate receipts being nearly 81 600. On
this day the school children were ad-
mitted free, and il is estimated that
there were between $4,000 and 1900
on the grourds. So great was the
crowd that special ticket sellers booths
had to be placed along the roadway
leading to the grou ids, to avoid a jam
at the gate. The grand stand was
filled early, aud the sale of tickets dis
continued, while the center of the ring
was crowded with people as was also
the outside fence.
Such mass of humanity was never
attracted to races on these grounds and
they were well satisfied with the ex-
cellent program offered. This day the
track record of 219t was lowered to
2l7f by Walter Wilkes, drawing a
driver weighing over POO pounds. This
was in the 2:lS space and it was the
most exciting race ever witnessed on
the grounds, in some of the heats
Waiter Wilkes and Little Judy making
neck to neck finish to the stretch.
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The H. B. Huntington Co.,
Law, Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Third ST.. Opp Court House. Wausau. Wis
Over 10000 Acres
Of Fins Farming and Hardwood Lands for Sale Marathon LheO
and Taylor Counties, Via
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2:45 PACE, 2;4O TRoT-PURsE $500
Time, 2:2eaai s:244; 2:25s; 2:a44 2;27
FARMERS RACE.

The races for Friday were postponed
to Saturday on account of rain.
On Thursday the live stock was
brought out between races and driven
up and down the track for the inspec
ton of the people, and it proved an
interesting feature. The parade was
led by c. S. Curtis, Pat German, Master
Dan Wright in buggy followed by
Duncan Bros herd of Short Horns,
Rietbrock's Short Horns, SINNERS
Red Polls, Curtis Red Polls, Manser's
Red Polls, Alexanders Aberdeen An
gus, Rietbrock's Guernseys, Merklein's
Herefords, Kline Bros Jerseys and
Writer'S HelSteins Two stations, one
owned by C. s. Curtis, the other by the
Lincoln Co, Breeding association were
also in line and The whole made up
unique feature of the days program.
By this arrangement the stock was
shown up to advantage to the people In
the grand stand. That day also JAS
Montgomery created amusement in the
way of advertising the Gail pillow.
He offered one Oh the plows TO the
one who would come before the grand
stand and yell the loudest for Gail
plow. Quite number entered the
contest, yelling singly and in chorus,
and the judges decreed that viii An
drews had the strongest lungs of the
bunch aud was entitled to the plow.
One Of the curiosities seen on the
grounds was COW with triplet calves,
the property of John Bahr, of this city.
Ii is very unusual for a cow TO give
birth To more than one calf but the ones
exhibited are fully developed aud are
as large as the ordinary calf at the age.
In the cattle. sheep and swine depart
meRts there was a great deal of stock
changed hands. Farmers who saw
specimens of each that they desired for
breeding purposes, and which were for
sale, paid the price asked and took the
stock home with them. The more such
stock is scattered through the county
the more il improves that of the county
at large and induces others to improve
their herds.
Walter Alexander has chosen some
queer names for his Aberdeen Angus
calves that are suitable TO their color.
OF the four that have been born since
he bought the herd last winter he has
named them Alabama Coon. Black
PeAri, Darkness and Midnight.
J. f. Mcconnell, Jr., of the State
Agricultural school. who acted As judge
Of cattle gave entire satisfaction. This
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srErrIx CREAMERY co.
CENTRAL CREAMERY co.

There is a good deal Of responsibility
resting upon the shoulders Of those who
maintain isir organization for there
are great many classes Of people to
please and = great many elements 10
contend with You cannot have strictly
an agricultural show Or cattle exhibit,
nor can you make the main feature
horse racing. although the latter i
recognized as one Of, if not the leading.
features for attracting crowds, especial
IL drawing people from outside points
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fair cannot be held very early nor
yet late. By holding it early the variety
aud quality of exhibits cannot be
secured, and in holding it late, cold
rainy weather has to be contended
with. Marathon county is large
county. with farms more scattered than
in the older counties of the state and it
requires persistent work to get enough
farmers interested to make fair dis
play, for the most thickly settled por-
tions are so far from the county seat
that farmer looses several days time,
besides the expense, in getting his pro-
dnce and stock to town and home
again, that he does not think the cause
worthy of the effort. THIS county today
is one of the best in the: state SO far as
fertility of soil and natural advantages
are concerned, and il . collection could
be taken of farm stock and produce
from each section, 10 matter how
small, we could discount any county
in the state .with an agricul-
tural show for we have got the
goods" FarmerS'to some extent are
waking up to this fact, and the interest
is increasing gradually each year,
though, as we mentioned in the preface
of this article, conditions were not so
favorable this year for the holding of
fair as they might have been. If this
county had the advantage of an inter
urban railroad line, as some of the
southern counties have, it would work
wonders in the yearly display of farm
produce, as well as in attendance la
speaking of the latter it would also
help build up market in Wausau for
the farmers produce, and much of that
which is now exchanged for groceries
and goods at other points would of con
venience come to Wausau. 1t is hoped
that the fair management will meet
with better success next year, both in
the matter of exhibits and in the matter
of attendance, though there is little
complaint offered for the success of the
enterprise this year.
The receipts of the fair were very
good this year aS will be shown Ia the
following comparison of the past four
years from the gate, grand stand and
quarter stretch:
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MARATHON COUNTY'S FAIR.
A Live Stock Exhibit That Was a Surprise
to Visitors. Agricultural Display
Also Excellent.

largest in America of that breed; be
weighs 2,100 pounds.
The swine department contained
some excellent specimens of the hog
ia:nily. Duncan Bros. had quite a
showing of Poland China and John
Knoeck, of Marathon City. had some
fine specimens of the Jersey Reds, a
boar weighing 600 pounds and sow
with litter of young ones. These
were of much interest to the visitor for
the breed has but lately been intro
duced in the county.
W. s. Dixon, of Brandon, was the
largest exhibitor in the sheep depart
ment. He had 43 head comprising five
distinct breeds. 5. M Quaw and Aug.
Marquardt also exhibited some fine
sheep
RACES.
The excellent races promised were a
factor in drawing out large crowds and
Wednesday being the opening day for
these events there was large crowd
on the grounds. The results of that
day are herewith given:
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PATENT GATE.

John Baker, youngest sou OF Mrs.
Harriet c. Baker, has gotten up a pat
eat gate opener, which beats anything
Vet known. it is arranged so that a
person can drive mp TO a gate pull a
string and the gate will swing back
withvnt the least effort. When the
person has driven through, by pulling
another string the gate closes. 1t is u
wonderful but very simple Invention,
and one that will probably make John
a rich man. One tiue point about the
gate, when il closes il is locked in such
a way that cattle cannot crowd in or
ont
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-09

Ed. Westerield a clerk at HeIne-
inana's store and a wilterding, late of
the drug firm ofWilterding x Stephany,
have purchased general store at Hat,
lev aud took possession yesterday.
They will also conduct the post office IN
connection with the store.
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MEN WANTED.

One wood turner. three. carpeatsFs.
two cabinet makers Good afages and
steady employment TO competent men.
ts2 swl CUETIs 81 YALR Co.
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Picking
Season Here.

The season has arrived when the good
housewife is making pickles for family
use To perform this household duty
right. il is absolutely essential that she
have nothing but the purest and best
ingredients.
We have just received a lSrge invoice
of the best. purest aud freshest seeds
for that purpose, which we are selling
at the very lowest possible prices, in
Guiding:
Curry Powder. Gloves. Turmer1c
Powder. AlIspice. Mace, Pep
per. Celery Seed. Card
anon Seed.
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Time, 2:294; 2.3l4; 2:33.

IImt, S:ZJ4i z 'oIt zoo.
2:22 PACE; 2:20 TRoT-PURsE $780,
This race proved very interesting and
witnessed some fine bursts of speed
down the home stretch.
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Time, 2:l94; 2:2l4; 2:294.
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must be fairly we'll matured before
they are able to take up the service,
and so must be physically competent
to perform the duties to which they are
assigned. The body of youngsters is
one of which the people who believe in
the navy and hope to see the day when
the American ships are manned by men
of the nation, may we'll be proud. There
are some slouchy and unclean men in
the lot, there always will be in a bunch
of 200 young men, recruited from all
conditions, but taking them on an av-
erage there are many more clean, up
right and respectable lads. than one
would expect to find in such a COM
pany.
There is no State in evidence as the
birthplace of sailors, judging from the
roster of the Mohican. The men come
from every part of the country, being
secured in the interior and sent to the
seaboard whenever there is a training
ship ready to take out a detail of the
students. There are more ships in the
service in the Atlantic than in this
ocean, for the Mohican alone is up to
this class OF service here. There are
apprentice ships. such as the Adams
and Alert, but the one now in the har-
Dor is the only one devoted to the fin
ishing of the education of the lands
man. The experience of the Mohican,
when in San Francisco for refitting for
this cruise, is the same as that of near-
just what is behind the request of Sec
rotary Long for six ships for the train
ing service. Where the complement of
the Mohican is $50 officers and men,
son that they are not to be had, and
the result is that when the ship is out
at sea she is never forced along under
all her canvas owing to the fact that
the officers realize the danger which
might arise from the fact that the men
are not thoroughly schooIed in thevari-
Gus branches OF seamanship. True,
they learn quickly. but when IL comes
to an emergency. as the arising OF a
storm, there is not in the men the
knowledge of the ships rig which
makes it possible for the officers to feel
that the care of the vessel and the lives
in it, is in the best hands. The hand
ling of the many pieces OF gear and
the knowledge as to the course to pur-
sue in the emergencies which arise on
green water. is a matter which comes
only after long experience with the
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These embrace in their multitudinous
knowledge which must be acquired by
the seaman before he may hope to get
out of the ordinary class. He works in
classes or watches, and of these there
deck force, so-called because it is COM
posed of the men who are to be trained
for, their work aloft and with the lines.
But with so many men these watches
must be subdivided into sections, of
which there are four again, and in each
of these there should be, with a full
complement, a warrant officer, and
there are always some old seamen, who
are there for the purpose of holding
down the youngsters.
The principal work of the executive
officer of the ship is in keeping around
him the men who must oversee the var
ious drills, and it is no small part Of
the mental strain to vary the work so
much that he raw recruits will not
grow stale and lose interest in the
work. For there is a sameness about
the exercise which will make even the
most steady youth wriggle out of it
when he can do SO. There are many
things to be learned. First, there must
be gathered enough knowledge of mar
linspike seamanship to enable the lad
tc handle a line, to make a splice, to
turn a loop, an eye and to make any old
kind of a knot which may be required
by the occasion. But there is also in
this category something of the gather
ing of knowledge of the boats. how to
handle them, and what to do under
various circumstances.
Then comes the several drills which
are the making of the sailorman. There
must be infantry drills, the single
stick, or sword, the pistol and the gun
merry drills. Exercises must be had,
such as the packing Of kits and the
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W DUNG men who never before saw
blue water, enlisted in the inter-
- Tor cities OF the country and the
farming districts as well, began
their training for the duties of sea-
man. when the Mohican, now in port,
left San Francisco two months ago.
There are go of them and the progress
they have made so far has been most
satisfactory to the men who have been
placed over the youngsters.
The incipient seamen now at work in
the training ship are not apprentices
but Iandsmen, enlisted under a separ-
ate act OF Congress. men who hope to
become able seamen within a years
time, and all over eighteen years of
age. In this respect at least they diff
fer from the apprentices, in that they
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favorable circumstances. have had g
room. OR at least the half of one
for themselves, have not had tc
think OF their clothes, perhaps, ex-
cept to put them on, and the care OF
! their apartments has never entered
into their minds. The result is that
when it comes to the looking after
themselves and their quarters and ac-
coutrements as well, there is an abso-
lutte loss on their part as to the course
to pursue.
They have to be trained as to the
keeping the decks and quarters clean,
and it is not the least part of the worl
of the officers in the ship who have
charge of his portion Of the instruction
of the men to see that they keep clean
personally. There is nothing which
proves more disappointing than to find
that the recruit does not care at all
clothes in the very best array, and
thus it is that the wedding out process,
which begins as soon as party of men
are assembled on board the ship goes
on. Not that the officers have to do
any wedding, for the man who is
slouchy and careless of his personal
appearance is usually the one who will
take advantage Of the very first OPP
portunity to get away from the vessel,
and thus the undesirable weed out
themselves.
Not a few of the recruits balk at the
washing and ironing of their clothes,
but they come to it sooner or later, and
the most reluctant often prove the best
in the end. Once they have found that
there is comfort and peace only in do
ing just as they are told. the raw men
are ready for the promotion which
comes very soon, for it is such long
business that the men in charge want
to make every minute count, and so
force the men ahead as rapidly as pos
sible. And, too, it has been found that
the lads who take most kindly to the
restraint OF life in the forecastle, amid
the many men of the same watch, are
those whose lives have been spent in
work amid other conditions, but who
have learned the lesson OF self-restraint
quite we'll ashore.
Once, then, that the embryotic sailor
man has learned that he must be re-
sponsible for himself and his surround
ings, he IS ready to find out why he is
aboard the ship. What he has to learn
may be put under three heads: Boats,
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work, and the men who take a cruise
fresh from the field or bench cannot b,
expected to be able to handle the con
fusing mass of lines and spars withoui
long practice.
there exists great amount of ques-
ton on the availability of the course o;
work on a sailing ship, for the future
usefulness of men whose lives must be
J masts, or at best military stubs. These
are of use only for small guns and the
result is that the major portion of the
training of the men in the sailing ship
is found to be of little value in later
days. The advocates of the sailing
ship training, however, say that there
is a something in the work done by
man who has become a thorough sail
or, which is away above that perform
ed by a man who has had no chance
to secure the complete training of the
A. B.
Officers who have to co with this
kind of service say that they can give
to man who will go through the period
of training on sailing vessel more of
speed, resource, self-reliance and self
possession than the same amount of
work on a steam vessel can furnish to
the same man or any other. 1t gives
the sailor complete knowledge of
what to do in any circumstance where
battle with the waves is the question,
and as in the case in the late war,
when it was necessary to send a prize
into port, the sailors from the regular
men-of-war knew just how to handle
ship. and they did so in more than one
instance. This theory is carried out in
the training of officers, for the cadets at
Annapolis have to spend about one
fourth of their time in a sailing vessel
when on cruise, and thus they become,
from force of circumstances, familiar
with the gear and the handling of a
windjammer, thus making ready for
the serious business of their lives
where lney may De called upon, either
to land a prize, or by their seamanship
save the lives perhaps of themselves
and men, by their knowledge of the
methods of sailing various kinds of
craft.
The work of preparing a crew of
youths for their life on a naval vessel
is by no means a light one. There are
so many things to be discovered and
appreciated. the lads know absolutely
nothing as to the handling of them
selves on board ship, that after the
beginning the work is one so full OF
perhaps that the officers often feel 1,
like giving it all up in despair. There
is one thing which is the first requisite, !
and this is taught as much as possible
when the men have first come aboard
the ship. before the cruise is begun
This is the way to take care of oneself /.
while in the restricted quarters allow !
ed in the forecastle of a ship. The ma !,
jority of the men having come to the
ships direct from their homes feel no
need OF any preparation for the future.
They have been living under the most
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Builders-Ofice, rooms "a, Arlington
Annex, Honolulu, III. l.; sketcnes ahe
correct estimates furnished at short
notice: Tel. 229: P. o. box 77s.
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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
CO. OF NEW YORK.
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