Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-16
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

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crew of men at work setting new poles
on its line to Nutterville
DR.. Turbin. the eminent German
! specialist and surgeon. will be at the
Bells House, September 9th
Rev. A. f. Patch, pastor of the Bap-
fist church, conducted services at
Merrill Sunday morning and evening.
WANTED-Dining room girl at the
Tomahawk House. Good wages. For
particulars address q O. Kiger, Toma-
hawk, Wis. al6-3t
At the grand lodge meeting of |. q.
G. t. held at Camp Cleghorn, Waupaca,
last week, Roy Boyles, of this city, was
elected Grand Messenger.
The dance given Wednesday evening
at Castle hall by number of our young
men, was well patronized and was a
pleasant event in every particular.
Rev. A. g. Work, of Rensselaer,, Ind.
who conducted services at the Presby-
terrain church, Sunday, willalso preach
both morning and evening next Sun
day
A number of men have been engaged
of late in grading driveway around
the county agricultural school building
and transplanIing the strawberry plants
to another bed.
A Milwaukee real estate dealer is
exploiting the Polish settlements of
Marathon county by distributing 10000
pamphlets containing reading matter
relative thereto.
By a vote of 80 TO "a at a special
election held last Tuesday in the village
of Edgar it is proposed to erect and
equip gasoline gas lighting system in
that village at cost of S. 500.
Since the strike has been inaugurated
in the packing houses of the large cities
the plant of the United States Leather
Co. in this city has been closed down
owing to the inability to get hides.
The board of review completed its
labors last Wednesday and the city
clerk is at present engaged in prepar-
ing the tax roll which will soon be
placed in the hands of the treasurer for
collection.
Frank Mener has sold his residence
property on Forest street to r. Bauman
and he and family will in the future
make their residence at the home of his
mother-in- law, Mrs. Fred Kickbusch, on
| Second street.
If you are going to build OF make any
| change in your residence, have your
| heating plant put in right and your gas
work and plumbing done up in a mod
ern way. We do all kinds of repairing
in these lines A. B. Wheeler Il Son.
Gle Third Street. If.
| The work oflaying sewers on the west
side was commenced Wednesday. F.
| l.. Krause has the contract for laying
the Fifth Ave. and Central Ave. sewers
and Carl Lott the contract for Second
Ave. and Elm street sewers.
Atty M. B. Rosenberg went over to
Marshfeld Wednesday evening and adj
dressed ameeting of republicans, in the
interests of Cook. The address was
given under the auspices of the Roose-
veit-C Cook club of that city.
Otto Brkholz paid fine of $500 and
costs Thursday morning in court for
| being too handy with his fists. The
complainant was Anton Click Both
| are young men who have not attained
their majority and are employed at the
veneer factory.
At a meeting held last Tuesday even
ing by the students of the Wausau Bus
mess college foot bali team was or
| gained There is some good material
on the team and its members expect to
make it interesting for any opposing
team this fall.
The heavy frost of week ago will
cause severe losses to the cranberry
growers of Wood county 1t is said
| that fully one-half the crop has been
| destroyed and on some marshes as
high as eighty per cent. of the berries
| have been frost bitten.
The Oneida County Fair association
has offered s25 to any young couple who
will get married before the people in
the grand stand during the fair to be
held ia Rhinelander in September, and
the merchants offer 500 worth of pro-
visions and furnishings.
w. ID. Common, of Marshfeld, has
commenced an action against the city
of Marshfield to annul the purchase
made last spring of a private water and
electric light system. The reason given
is that the city has exceeded its bonded
Indebtedness and that the system
is really only worth $40,0OO
We wish to buy hemlock and hard
wood timber lands: any farmer wishing
to sell timber and keep the land should
come and see us. We want, more espe-
cially, hemlock timber, and logs that
will come to Wausau by rail or water
BARKER s STEWART LBR. Co.
ml7 me Wausau, Wis
Fred Sense and Miss Alma Ohrmund,
both of the town of Maine, were joined
in marriage Saturday morning at ten
O'Clock at St Johns church in that town
by the Rev. f. Werhahn of this city.
The PILoT was a little premature last
week in stating that the couple were
married. Both are of highly respected
and prosperous families.
Paul DUNDEE, one of the progressive