Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

The Wisconsin Telephone Co will
expend $50 nne IN improving It's lin,
this year.
John Stark's candy store will be
moved into one of DR. l. Spencer's
new stores in a few days
DR.. Turbin. the eminent German
specialist and surgeon will be at the
Bells House, September 9th.
Ten men of the Columbia band have
been engaged to play for picnic 10 be
held at Rib Falls next Sunday.
The city schools will open on the 18th
of September. 1t was so decided at
the last meeting of the Board of
Education.
WANTED-Dining room girl at the
Tomahawk House Good wages. For
particulars address o Kiger, Toma-
hawk, Wis. als-3t
Candidates for Offices on both tickets
have been doing a great amount of
hustling through the country districts
the past week
Democratic caucuses to elect dele
gates to the county convention will be
held tomorrow evening. For place of
holding same see call in another co.
umn.
DR.. w. c. Dickens was called Friday
evening to attend Lonis Schmieden of
the town of Maine, who was thrown
from bicycle and suffered dislocated
shoulder.
Nelson Blackburn and Miss Josephine
Meuret were united in marriage
Wednesday morning in the office of
Justice j G. Clarke. Both are resi-
dents of the town of Weston.
Chas. Rienow, who resides in the
town of Spencer, and is chairman of
the county board, is lying very i'll at his
home, his condition being serious. He
was operated on Sunday
What will without doubt be the most
substantial dam on the Wisconsin river
is being constructed at Rhinelander 1t
is being built of rock. concrete and ce-
ment and will endure for an age.
Miss Dalmatia Dickens, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Manley Dickens. of this
city, and T. H. Moore, of Menominee,
will be married at the home of the
brides parents next Thursday, Aug. 25
Another pleasing concert was given
Friday evening at the court house square
by the Columbia band. Notwithsfand
ing the fact that a circus was in town
that evening there was a large crowd
out to listen to the music.
The John Manser planning mill al
Kelly came near being destroyed by
fire Friday night. Flames started in
the boiler room and worked up through
the roof, destroying portion of the
latter before being extinguished.
If you are going to build or 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.
616 Third Street. If.
Mrs. Pauline Klingbeil, widow of the
late VIM. Klingbeil, was married in this
city Thursday afternoon at five o'clock
to VIM. Wolf, of the town of Wausau,
the ceremony being held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Bruss, on Seventh
street. Rev. F. Werhahn officiated
The sound of the threshing machine
is heard at present in many sections of
the country and crops are turning out
as anticipated "a very large yield to
the acreage. The farmers have had very
good weather for harvesting, scarcely
any rain to interfere with the work
The town of Mcmillan is experience
ing mad dog scare. Early in the
week dog belonging to farmer
started out on a rampage and bit every
dog, COW, horse, hog or person that
crossed its path. After the dog re-
turned home and attempted to bite his
owner he was shot dead.
Atty j. b. Andrews has moved his
office from the Lawrence block to the
upper floor of the Marathon County
bank building. Atty. F. f. Bump, who
has occupied the rooms above the bank
since his return to Wausau, will share
offices with Mr.. Andrews, though the
two will continue to practice law as
before, each independent of the other.
One of the horses being used in haul
ing out the dirt from the excavation
for Bernhard RIebe's barber shop came
near going to the bowels of the earth
Friday morning. There was an old
well sixty feet deep on the premises
hidden by plank, and the horse stepped
on the decayed plank and sank. His
rear quarters hung in the well but he
was particularly good climber and in
a few minutes scrambled ont onto solid
ground.
A Merrill man, who prides himself as
being an authority on chickens, their
raising, diseases, etc, recently found
a fine, fat fowl on his door step, upon
his return home. He supposed it the
gift of an admiring friend and so had
his wife cook it for dinner Next day
| he was Inundated when he received
the following letter Dear Sir -
Yesterday | sent sou chicken in
order TO settle dispute which has
arisen here. Can you tell us what the
chicken died of -
Acting upon protests from great
many property holders, Chief Malone
has posted notices in different parts of
city warning bicycle riders to keep off
sidewalks or paths used by the public.
The infractions of the bicycle ordinance
are noticeable for the most part in the
outskirts of town, where there are no
sidewalks This is the first summer in