Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-18

Dec. 9th.
Walter Luedtke, aged thirteen, was
shot in the right thigh Sunday morning
by the accidental discharge of % cal.
rifle. In company with an older broth
er he was leaving the home of his par
euts, Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. Luedtke, who
reside on Wausau Ave. and was going
hunting. BY some piece of carelessness
the rifle was discharged With above re-
suits
Howard c. DeVoe, son of the late
DIR. |. w. DeVoe. and nephew of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w Seyoe, of this
city, will be united in marriage to Miss
Florence Caroline Proal, on the Goth of
October, at Louisville, Kentucky.
Howard spent his boyhood days in
Wausau, and was graduated from the
Wausau high school with the class of
1890. He now holds a good position
with the Louisville Street Railway Co.
r. A. Martin, of Green Bay, spoke at
Yonker's hall last Friday evening for
the democrats. Mr.. Martin is a very
able and well known speaker of our
state, and he well sustained his reputa-
ton on this occasion The hall was
comfortably filled by enthusiastic lis
teners. The speaker dwelt some time
upon the state issues and then took up
national questions. He certainly
helped the cause very much in this city
Thos. |. Holt, private in the u. s.
army, arrived in Wausau Wednesday
and opened recruiting station at the
Northern hotel He is only receiving
applications for the coast and field artil-
lery branches of the service, the
infantry and cavalry branches being
recruited up to full strength at present
Aside from fighting force he is also
accepting applications for the hospital,
signal and engineering corps. The
Wausau station is under the supervision
of Lieutenant G. s. farlton, First
infantry, who is located at present at
Marinette.
VIM. Gehm died yesterday at his
home, 10 Elm street, after a short i'll
ness, old age being the cause of his
demise. Deceased had been resident
of Wausau for the past twenty years
and well known to many of our older
residents. Besides his wife he is sur
vived by three sons and two daughters:
William of this city Paul, who is pastor
of a church in Fl Atkinson Albert, of
San Franisco Mrs c. Hinrichs, of the
town of Berlin; Mrs. F. p Nohl, of the
town of Maine The funeral will be
held tomorrow afternoon, the Rev. +.
Schaer, pastor of St. PauI's church,
officiating. He was n years of age
Aug. Raasch, who distributes and
posts bills for the local democracy, was
fined 90 in municipal court Saturday
morning for having posted bills on
telephone poles contrary to the provi-
sions of the ordinances. There have
been number of violations of the ordi-
nance reported of late, and the above
item ought to be a warning to others.
Last week soldier Of the regular army
opened a recruiting station in town and
posted bills on poles along all of the
main streets, advertising for men.
Thursday he was stopped in his work
and became very indignant, threaten
ing to invoke the power of Uncle Sam,
but was firmly informed that the city's
ordinances must beobseryed.
Wisconsin schools have received high
honors at the hands of the committee
on awards at the Worlds fair and
among the different schools to receive
recognition is the Marathon County
School of Agriculture and Domestic
Economy, r. b. Johns, collaboration,
located in this city. Mr.. Johns has
been notified that his school has been
awarded silver medal, but it will
probably be several months before the
same has been struck off and forwarded
to the school. Seven county teachers
training schools, which includes the
one here, have been given gold medal,
collectively. The grand prize went to
the Stout Manual Training school of
Menomonie. The Wisconsin Home for
Feeble Minded at Chippewa Falls will
receive the grand prize diploma
Mrs Bertha Kolasinski, of the town
of Maine, appeared in court Thursday
,,,orn;nnr ha V-;ner IN cha rro har Won nUar
brother and sister, Joe and Anna Henke
aged respectively IA and II years. Her
mission was to make an effort TO have
some action taken to have them receive
Anton Henke. of the town of Cassel.
The chiIdren's story, if true, stamps
their parent as very cruel and harsh
man--one who should not have the
care of children Their mother is an
invalid, unable to attend To her house
hold affairs, and on account of alleged
i'll treatment at the hands of the father
the children ran away from home and
went to their sister. An effort will be
made to correct Henke in the manage
ment of his offspring.
The Wausau high school football
team defeated the Grand Rapids high
school team on the home campus Sat
urday afternoon by a score of to 0.
1t was the first game of the season for
our boys; there were many spectators
present and the game was fast from
start to finish. In the t0SS-up Grand
Rapids won and chose the west goal.
Capt. Burek, for Wausau, kicked of
and then the play began. Eight min
utes later he carried the ball over the
line and scored the first and only touch
down. During the remainder Of the
game the ball was in Grand Rapids
territory most of the time, and at
several times il looked AS if Wausaa
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