Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
CITY NOTES.

| specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, February "a
VIM. Warehouses; condition is great
~ improved, and he expects TO be out
of the house in few days.
! Mrs J. p Werle entertained lady
friends at cinch on Thursday afternoon
in henoro of Mrs r Paul. of Hurley
A postal received from Mr.. aud Mrs.
d. L. Plmer, Florence, Italy, says they
faere both we!i 1t was written on Feb.
| LIST
WANTED-An experienced girl to
work in the millinery store of Miss Sui
livan on Third street Enquire at the
store
VIM. Wilson, we are pleased to say,
keeps on improving and if he has no
set back, will be able to be about in a
short time.
Hilmer Schmidt has arranged for a
skat tournament to be held at his
saloon tomorrow evening There will
be prizes offered.
Miss Lilly Meisner, a former resident
OF this city, died Sunday in Chicago at
the age of twenty years. Her body will
be inferred in the Wausau cemetery
Friday,
Our Dancy correspondent gives de-
tailed account of a party given by Mr.
and Mrs. Chas Gunther of Knowlton,
last Saturday in honor of their son,
Mark.
| Miss Clara Helke slipped and fell
upon an icy sidewalk last Wednesday
sustaining a badly sprained ankle
which has confined her to her home
ever since
The pipe leading to the water tank of
the Northwestern road at the passenger
depot in this city is frozen up so solid
that engineers are today drawing water
from the city's hydrants.
A score of Mrs N. Marson's lady
friends pleasantly surprised her last
evening all appearing in colonial
dress" Cneh was played Light
refreshments were served.
The department of philanthropy and
reform will meet with Mrs. w. c.
Dickens on Monday, Feb 22d, instead of
with Mrs. j. A. Jones as related in year
book, All members are urged to be
present as matters of importance will
come before the department.
A small party of young people com
/ posed of Mrs Floy Melang, Misses An
/ ma Steffens, of Milwaukee, Anna
Kuekuk and Mr.. Clifford Flock, en-
joyed sleighride out to Miss Elizabeth
Kuckuk's school in the town of Texas.
1t was given in Miss Stelfens honor,
and delightful time is reported.
A letter has been received from
Miss Grtzmacher, in Phoenix, and she
says thai her brother, Ed, is no worse
but that he was not improving, and
the weather was bad, aud they wanted
their father to come ont for advice, SO
wired. 1t win be good news to Ed S
friends to know that he is holding his
own
The Flanher-Steger Land and Lum-
Der Co. of Marathon county was in
corporated Saturday, the company be-
ing organized for the purpose of doing
general numbering business. The
capital stock is $4,000, divided into
1850 shares of 800 each The incoro-
rators named in the papers are Neal
Brown, Orlaf Anderson and E. J..
Boehm, but it is understood that g. g,
Flanner, of Chicago Heights, H., and
=. A. Steger, of Oshkosh, are the main
stockholders.
1t has been agreed that newspaper
subscriptions are an infallible test of a
mans honesty. They will sooner or
later discover the man. If he is dishon-
est he will cheat the printer some way
declare that he has paid when he has
not-sent money in the mail which was
lost.will take the paper and not pay
for it on the ground that he never SUBJ
Scribed for it, or move off and leave it
coming to the office he left. Thousands
of alleged Christians are dishonest in
this at least, and the printers books
will tell fearful tales on the Judgment
day.-Ex.
Fred Petrie appeared before Judge
Miller yesterday morning and was
sentenced to thirty days in jail on the
charge of intoxication "Buckshot"
can be thankful that he still lives to
enjoy thirty days in Jail, for his ar
rest saved him from being frozen to
death, he being found sleeping in an
empty wood shed at the time of his ar
rest. He vows he will ride on the
water wagon after he has served this
| sentence, but he has often made the
same pledge, only to break it little
| later.
1t has been found necessary to thaw
out nearly all the hydrants in the city.
A few were found nearly frozen up.
While the majority were not in bad
shape, it was thought best not to be
caught in the same predicament as the
City Va W mus ilotll iuy MuClC
all the hydrants are frozen up solid,
leaving the town without fire protec-
ton. The sbut-off in most of the
hydrants of the Wausau system are
down in the ground to depth of Six
feet, but the frost follows the iron pip
ing down to that depth in continued
cold weather, such as we have had
State Treasurer John B. Kempf and
b. J . Castle, chief clerk of the state
land office, with their assistants, will
be here Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week for the purpose of conduct
ing sale of the state lands located in
Marathon county. The sale will be
held at the court house, but it is not ex.
pected that many buyers viii be at