Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29

The Wausau Clubs annual dancing
party win take place this evening at the
club house.
There will be meeting of the county
board of supervisors held next week,
beginning Tuesday.
NJ Weeks superintendent of the
Electric Co.'s plant, who has been laid
up with rheumatism for three weeks
past, has SO far recovered that he is
able to get down town again.
A man who carries on his business
without advertising IS like the man sit
ting in a street car winking at pretty
girl thru pair of green goggles. He
may know what he is doing but no one
else does.
Gotthilf Bauman, a resident of the
town of Easton, died Saturday at the
age of eighty-six He had been i'll for
two weeks and old age and pneumonia
are attributed as the cause of death
He was buried this afternoon from his
home, the Rev. Berger, officiating
There was a very enjoyable family
reunion at the home of Nj and Mrs.
John d. Coleman on Christmas day,
there being three generations of the
Coleman family represented: j. d.
Coleman, and his son, j B. Coleman,
and his son, Almond Douglas Coleman
All the children of the family were at
home and it was day long to be re-
membered
Wilhelmina Jacks. aged seventy
one, died at her home in the town of
Easton, Thursday, of pneumonia after
an illness of eight days. Deceased was
born in Germany and came to this |
country in 1876, settling in the town of |
Easton, where she has since resided. |
Besides her husband she leaves one |
daughter, Mrs Theodore Sternberg, of
same town. Funeral was held Monday |
afternoon, the Rev Berger conducting
service
Ayoung fellow giving his name before
the municipal judge this morning as
Chas Kiefer, and his home as Miffiin, o.,
was arrested by a police officer last
night for begging on the streets 1t
was learned later that he had been sell /
ing razors, and other articles in the vi
entity of Sunset P. o., and his examina
ton was postponed for several days to
give the officers time to find out where
he got those articles.
Chas G Barrett, king of Edgar, pro
moter of that villages interests, and
grand mogul of all he surveys lin
Edgar is about to fool his friends, who
have predicted that he would die a
bachelor and will, within a short time,
take unto himself wife The woman
of his choice is Miss Clara B. Minshall
a resident of the village, and charm
ing young lady. The date of the event
has not as yet been announced.
This, the great holiday week of the
year will be very busy one, in social
way in Wausau. Tonight viii take
place the annual dancing party of the
Wausau club. The different commit
tees having the party in charge are
making strenuous efforts to make it a
brilliant affair On Thursday evening
the Masons have arranged for large
party. Tonight at Castle hall, the
young ladies are giving a party for the
young people. Besides the above, there
are numerous functions scheduled to
take place.
At the officers meeting of Wisconsin
guardsmen to be held in Milwaukee
January 18th proposition will be sub
mitted for their consideration which
may mean that members of the Wis
consin regiments may have an oppor-
tunity of visiting the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis next year. The Wisconsin
board of managers has invited the
gardsmeu to attend on Wisconsin day,
June Goth, and has secured a rate of one
cent mile. 1t is highly probable that
the proposition will be accepted
Special committees of the county
board are at work this week checking /
up the accounts of the county officers
before the meeting of the county
board. The one appointed to settle with
the county clerk is composed of A. E.
Beebee, of the village of Mcmillan
Geo. Harrington, of the village of
Spencer, and H. Schwantes of the town
of Brighton That to settle with the
county treasurer and clerk of the
court, of Messrs p o. Means, j. n
Manson and John Ringle, of the city
The Marathon County bank has sent
out a handsome, leather bound, vest
pocket diary for 1904 to its friends. 1t
contains "A calendar; page for indenti-
fcation; one for noting little things to
be mbered-though very important
sometimes; notes on what to do in case
of accidents; antidotes for poison; ex
postage; price of postal money orders;
registration; free delivery; foreign post
age; postal distances from n Y City;
p Qualities by popular vote and electoral
vote; largest cities in the U s.; popu-
lation of the IT, s. by states; tables of
weights and measures, and many other
things too numerous to mention 1t is
certainly very valuable little book
There are numbers of our citizens
who are looking about trying to find
the man who predicted an open winter.
1t was predicted early in the season
that the muskrats We're building houses
in which were cracks large enough to
throw in good sized dog; that the
goose bone Indicated very sultry win /
Ter. in fact this great weather pronhet