Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24

year.
| The famous Mrs. Jane Hopkins make
OF boys all wool knee pants, double
seated and double kneed, at Seim Bros.
for soc per pair.
| WANTED-Lady and gentlemen So
llcitors To solicit for the Wausau Red
Cross Medical Association. Enquire at
7O5 franklin street
Word has been received from Three
Lakes that DR.. Kanonse has been in
| very poor health, and quite seriously
sick, but is now slightly improved
The Y P s. c. f. district convention
will be held at West Merrill next week
| Wednesday and Thursday A large
delegation will attend from this city
| Pants for school boys-the kind with
the double seats and double knees-for
sale at SOC at Seim Bros. They are all
wool and guaranteed to give satisfac-
ton.
Remember the Easter sale of dolls
aud dolls furniture at the NJ. E church
on the afternoon and evening of March
9th. Supper will be served from $50
O'Clock on. All are invited
The county board public property
committee will meet on April 4th and
open bids for improvements to be made
in the circuit court room of the court
house. The ceiling will be lowered and
other changes made so that people in
| speaking can be more plainly heard.
The regular meeting of the w. C. T.
u. will be held in the Presbyterian
church next Friday at O'Clock p m
The following program will be rem
dered:
| Devotionals.. ........M Mrs j. E. Young
Business. Roll call. Neal Dow Day
Solo Mrs. Hart
At the regular meeting of Marathon
Lodge, No. i45. X. p, held last evening
a committee composed of W. G. John
Oscar Ringle and Fred Hoene was APP
pointed to arrange for dancing party
| to be given at Castle hall on the even
| ing of April 18th. 1t is proposed to
make this an after Lenten social event
of more than ordinary Importance.
Physical Director Stafford of the Y.
Nj. &. A. is arranging for an athletic ex-
hibition to be given some time in April.
! 1t will consist of twist wand drill, hori-
zontal bar work, dumb bell drill,
athletic posing, horse work, tumbling,
| bag punching, parallel bar work, En-
glsh extension drill illuminated club
swinging, fencing contest and single
| stick contest.
The senate has reconsidered the bill
of Senator Riordan. of Villas county. to
detach the counties of Villas and Oneida
from the Sixte enth judicial circuit and
add them to the Tenth, and engross-
ment to the bill was refused. The SEN
Of IN
make the change January 1st, 1904. but
engrossment of this was killed by a
vote of Is to IA
Yesterday, Monday, March 23d, was
the seventy fifth birthday of Peter
| Smith and number of his friends
went to his home and helped him cele-
| brate the event 1t was in the nature
of surprise party and was a pleas
| ant and enjoyable event to all who par
| ticipated Mr.. Smith has been in poor
health for some time but he is now i'm
proving and it is hoped that he will
soon be about again.
John Tyrell, an old man who has
resided in the town of Weston for
upwards of thirty years, was brought to
| the city Saturday and examined by Drs
| Dickens and Brown and pronounced
| insane The doctors gave it as their
| opinion that he is suffering with soften
| ing of the brain and it is doubtful
| if he will ever recover He was taken
to Oshkosh yesterday
Congressman Davidson will make a
| requisition upon the Mexican authori-
| ties to have the murderers of John
Week of Stevens Point who was killed
two weeks ago near Zamora, Mex,
brought to justice and the murder
avenged. 1t appears that Mexicans, as
a rule, make but little effort to appre-
bend murderers of foreigners, but this
matter will be probed to the bottom.
The ice broke up in the Wisconsin
river this year on Wednesday the 18th.
Except for the record of last year which
was practically the same date as this,
this is the earliest breakup in ten years.
! The latest during that period was in
| 1899, when the ice went out on the 18th
of April Years ago lumbermen
used to haul logs way into April
but conditions appear now to be
changed. The mildness of the winters
of late and the early breakups in the
spring have caused old timers to wonder
| thereat
Gustavus c. Eggers, Sr., died at his
home in St. Louis on Thursday, March
| 18th, 1908, after a sickness of nearly q
year Deceased was brother of F. w.
Eggers of this city, and he made Wau-
sau his home for many years before
moving to ST. Louis He had host of
friends here who deeply mourn his
death He was 81 years of age. Be
sides his relatives in Wausau he leaves
a wife and fonr sons: Henry j. Gus.
c., Jr. John E., Edward L., and Walter
II. Eggers.
Every family wants dinner set, and
here is chance to get one free. By
trading with Max + Boehm at either
of his stores on Grand avenue, you are
given ticket with each cash purchase
| for the amount you have paid for.
| When you have secured 81 90 or more
| of these tickets you are entitled to
piece of china ware. the value of which
will be in ratio TO the amount of tickets
you hold In this way you can in time
secure a full dinner set A guarantee
| is given that the decorations will be
matched for years TO come. Every
| house wife must purchase groceries
and why not take advantage of this
offer You pay little less for your
| groceries here than you do in other
| stores, and at the same time you get
useful and ornamental presents 1t
will pay you TO trade with Boehm.
| Phones 3lS and 35l.
| The stockholders of the Marathon
| County Building and Investment
| association held meeting last night
| and elected four new directors. The
! bylaws provide for eleven directors,
| seven of whom hold over The new
ones elected last night who viii mold
/ Office for three years are: A. H. Hud-
son. Harry Yost, C F Beck and w. j
Butler The board of directors will
meet Friday evening and elect new
officers for the ensuing year, the pre-
| sent officers being:
| PreSident-Anton Mehl.
| Vice-Pres F p Stone.
| Secreiary-A. A. Book.
Treasurer-H G Flieth
/ Attornev-Neal Brown