Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-24

The Monday Evening Study Club was
given banquet by Miss Bessie Swope
on Saturday evening.
If you want to give a nice Christmas
present of handsome wardrobe couch,
or an Amsterdam picture, call at M.
Lipski's, 312 Second street Telephone
5lS. (n24-5u
Quite heavy snow storm prevailed
on Sunday night and four or five inches
fell. Since that time, sleigbs and cut
tiers have taken the place of wheeled
vehicles
Aug. Treu and Miss Anna Besniker,
both Of the town of Stettin will be
married tomorrow afternoon at 200
O'Clock by the Rev F. Werhahn The
service will be at the home of the brides
parents.
The Masonic fraternity will give a
grand Masonic ball at the Temple on
the evening of Thursday, December
3lst, and arrangements. are under way
to make it the social event of the year.
A banquet will follow. The music for
the occasion will be something very
fine.
Window glass manufacturers have
granted raise in wages to their EN-
ployes for the coming year amounting
to q per cent. The manufacturers
will consequently add that much to the
sale price of glass so that it will pay you
to buy now of o. C. Callies who has
large stock which will later be subject
to raise.
The Katherine Willard Co., which
presented 1.-The Power Behind the
Throne at the opera house last even
ing, was exceptionally good in its en-
tirety, and the play, while presenting
some scenes that appear slightly over
drawn, is still meritorious one-a
relief from the trashy kind so common
of the present day. The house was
quite comfortably filled
For SALE-Machiner for creamery.
New. If interested, inquire of Bradley
Company, Tomahawk, Wis. Mo wa.
Word was received in this city yes
terday of the death of Wm. Yawkey,
of Detroit, MICH, uncle of q. q. Yaw
key, of this city. Deceased was very
heavily interested 10 numbering in this
section and was a member of the Yaw-
key Lumber Co. of Hazelhurst, and
well known in Wausau, having often
visited here Mr.. and Mrs. Yawkey
and daughter, Leah, departed last even
ing for Detroit to attend the funeral.
Free turkey lunch at the White Eagle
saloon on Wednesday evening Every
body invited.
Mrs. Jennie Harroun, VINO has been
on trial for murder at Stevens Point for
three weeks past was acquitted by a
jury Saturday last Mrs. Harroun was
charged with killing her husband, Wal
ter, by strychnine poisoning, March 25
last, the motive being, the prosecution
alleged, to get him out of the way SO
she could marry a physician with whom
she was in love. Many sensational
features developed during the prosecu
ton of the trial, which made the case of
interest. The cost to Portage county
of this trial is in the neighborhood of
10000
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, December 1st.
A man named Swanson informed the
police after midnight Saturday that
three well known young men had fol-
lowed him out of certain saloon on
Washington street, and knocking him
down had robbed him of S. bill. He
was bleeding from cut on the face
the blow which felled him. Although
the young men are known to have left
the saloon with him no charge has been
made against them, and it is believed
by the police that the Norwegian's
story is fake" He was carrying a
powerful load" at the time, and it is
thought that after spending the S., he
fell down and cut his face and then
concocted the story.
ARIZONA" which is announced as
the attraction at the Grand opera house
Wednesday, Nov. %, promises to be the
dramatic event of the season. 1t has
scored heavily in New York and else
where and is generally conceded to be
one of the strongest dramas written in
the past decade. 1t gives a picture of
life at a frontier army post in the terri
tory from which it takes its name. The
picture may be an, impressionistic one
rather than realistic, but the atmos-
phere is there, and the broad details
sketched in with a sure hand and large
brush The result is the more valuable
for the reason that the picture corrects
many of our preconceived notions of
what some of us are pleased to term the
wild and Woolly West" Prices %, 30,
rs and S1.0O
Beginning January 18th, and ending
March 23d, about 100000 acres of the
state lands will be disposed of through
out the state above an appraised value
which varies from 81 to $50 per acre.
While most of these lands are located
in the northern counties, there still
remain about 1900 acres in Marathon
county which will be sold at the court
house February 23d and oath, the sales
continuing from o'clock in the fore
noon to O'Clock in the afternoon.
These lands will be sold at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder, providing
the price offered equals the appraised
value, otherwise it will be passed up,
and continued on the list for private
sale. The disposal of all these lands
would add to the states funds about
% 000 000 inf as the greater norton Is