Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-01

Whether the Panama canal Is dug or
not Callies viii keep on selling beauti-
iul designs IN wall paper at prices that
startle competitors.
Coon Bernhard has been confined
TO his room at the Northern for several
days, hut at present feels much better.
and expects to mp and around in short
time.
The Wisconsin Box Il Lumber com
pany's plant has been closed down for
few days, owing to the fact that the
railroads have been unable to furnish it
any cars.
The Columbia orchestra can be had
for dances, entertainments. receptions,
etc. Leave all orders with Otto Schoc-
how Telephone No. 26S, or at j. E.
Coles music store. IT,
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. +.
church will hold its Wednesday after
noon meeting with Mrs. George Max
son. Sehotield. Buses will be at Mrs.
A. T. Bailey's at O'Clock p. m, to con-
vey all who may desire to go.
The Russians and Japanese are ex-
pected to fight great battle tomorrow
| but that has nothing to do with the in
creased trade in the paint line now
| coming Callies' way. His store is GER
tainly bee hive of eager purchasers.
There will be a meeting of the com
mon council this evening, at which time
| 1t is expected 2 definite answer will be
received from the Northwestern rail
road company in regard to crossing
for the proposed bridge in the south
part of town.
POTATOES! PoTAToEsl A nice lot of
potatoes just received at Schoeneberg's.
Now is the time to buy
Since Jan 1st one undertaking firm
has directed total of fifty-one funerals,
twenty during January and thirty one
| for February. The month of February
| establishes a record in Wausau in this
respect that was never before equalled.
| The greater number of deaths were
among old people and the cause, pneu-
monla.
On account of scarcity of servant
| girls a number of prominent families of
| Marshfield have opened up a correspon-
| dence with the matron of domestic sci
ence school for colored girls of Virginia,
| with view to securing colored help to
do their homework. The matron has
agreed to send them, providing places
At Stephenson, a station on the North
western. locomotive was frozen to
| the track one cold day recently. The
engine stopped to take water at tank,
and large amount of water ran down
| from fine spout to the wheels and track
and Immediately froze When the
engineer attempted to start his engine
| it would not move, and switch engine
q IN hn Nd Too fs,,sf fIcf 1saf
| The Rev. Charles Elwood Nash ID D.,
| President of Lombard College and
| Field Secretary of the Universalist
church in America, will visit Wausau
as the guest of Rev. B. b. Gibbs and
preach to the Universalists and their
| friends next Sunday morning, March g.
An excellent musical program will be
| effectively rendered by the double
| quartette. Seats free and all cordially
! invited
John Farrell has received a postal
| card from ID. L. Plumer that is nov
city not often seen in this country 1t is
dated at Monte Carlo and the back of
| the card is an advertisement of that
| famous gambling resort. There is pic
| ture of roulette wheel, and an explana-
ton which to decipher one must under
| stand the language in which tits printed.
Mr. and Mrs. Plumer expected to be
and are probably in Paris by this time.
The ladies of the M. E. church will
| serve a % cent supper next Friday,
D. m, at the church. Following is
the menu:
Fresh Salmon, baked.
Hollandaise Sauce
Escalloped Potatoes.
Cabbage Salad
Rolls Coffee Cake
Ice cream 10 cents extra.
A letter received in this city by See'y
Neil Campbell, of the Y M C. A., states
that Sherman McConkey, a former
resident of Wausau, is now located in
Montreal, Can He has been gone
from Wausau for about eight years,
| during which time he has travelled over
much of the country He is now EN-
| ployed as head janitOr there are three
of them in the Montreal railroad mems
| Y. M. G. a. building, which is large
| institution. Sherman is living up to
the spiritual teachings of its conductors
and is doing well. a
Dr. Turbin, the eminent German
| specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, March %.
Rural mail route, No. A, was put in
operation this morning and hereafter
about 100 families will have the benefits
of better mail service. VIM. Bierbaum
who took the examination last Novem-
| Der is the carrier on this route. Since
| Frank Drake refused to accept the posi-
| ton it looked as though there would be
| no carrier for the route when the day
| came for its operation, but the appoint
ment finally came. He started out this
morning for the purpose of making a
| list of the families and familiarizing
| himself with the territory to be tray
| ersed.
| The supreme court this week reversed
| judgment in the case of Katherine
Strasser. vs.. l.. d. Goldberg. This was
| an action of replevin begun in municipal
court Jan. Goth, 1908, to secure posses
| sion of a team of horses, harness,
/ while trees, etc, valued at $3.50, which,
| the complainant claimed as her prop
erty but which had been mortgaged by
! her son, John, and taken possession of
| by l.. ID. Goldberg, horse dealer. The
| findings at the trials in municipal court
| and circuit court were for the plaintiff,
| she being given possession of the prop
| erty and awarded Judgment of ST 90
in Che latter court. Upon this decision
| defendants attorneys took an appeal
| to the supreme court. Both parties
are residents of Edgar.
Fine line of confirmation suits is being
| shown at Seim Bros.
From the following culled from an
| exchange, it appears that the GROW
| bill" presented to the Wisconsin legis-
| lature last winter by Assemblyman
| Herman Miller, which was defeated by
| the veto of the governor, had some
merits after all: The wholesale
slaughter of crows has begun in all see
( tons of Rock county, in response to the
/ offer of the county board of 10 cents
| bounty for every crow killed. This
bounty is offered in the hope that thou
sands of them will be killed by the farm