Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.


This is August 1st and there is still
every indication of few days more of
summer.
DIR. w. o. Carrier, of Waukesha, will
preach in the Presbyterian church
Sunday, Aug. 18th.
Ashland has gained 1900 in popula-
ton during the past five years. The
city now numbers IA 800
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, August 1st.
The annual picnic of the Presbyterian
| church will take place at the fair
grounds on Friday, August 4th.
F. A. Copeland, department COM
mander of the e. A r., has appointed
j. A. Jones, of this city, as one of his
J aides
The Kiefer and the Gensman build
ings are progressing finely and in a few
months they will be ready for occu-
pancy.
A portion of the paper mill at Bro
kaw was shut down part of last week,
owing to lack of power as a result of
low water.
Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by Otto Mueller, jeweler, corner
Third and Washington streets. All
work guaranteed. If
The firm of Preuss IL Hochtritt, gen.
eral merchandise dealers of the west
side, has been dissolved. The former
retires from the business.
The members of Lady Wastell Hive
of Maccabees were entertained Wednes-
day afternoon by Mrs. Fred Hotchkiss,
also q member of that hive.
Frank O'ConnOr, who for a number
of years has served as chairman of the
town of Emmett has resigned. He has
been succeeded by Frank Krieg
ST. Mary's Court of Catholic Foresters
will hold picnic at Warren park on
August 18th, at which time game of
paoO pStil VIII OO PldJCu Will q NtdL ou-
field team.
The village of Mellen Ashland county,
it appears, will soon experience large
increase of population as a result of the
discovery of copper in paying quaint
ties near that place.
The county board road and bridge
committee met Saturday at the court
house. Besides the routine work
passed upon, it was decided to build q
bridge in the town Flieth.
George A. Whitney, who has been
chief engineer of the Rhinelander Paper
company, has received an appointment
from the Panama canal commission at
large salary. He will leave for
Panama in a few days.
The Columbia band gave another of
its popular concerts on the court house
square Friday evening. The band first
met the boys of Co. G at the St. Paul
depot upon their return from Camp
Douglas and escorted them up town.
The bread that mother used to bake
was not one bit better than the bread
you can bake if you use Blue Ribbon
Flour. 1t makes light, white bread and
fluffy pies and cakes. All good grocery
stores sell it. Order a sack and give it
fair trial. Made by +. W. Kickbusch
IL Son. If.
Co. G returned home Friday evening
from Camp Douglas after week spent
in camp life and performing military
evolutions. The Third Reg't this year
sustained its reputation of being the
shooting regiment, and made far larger
scores on the rifle range than those
made by the First and Second.
The cedar block paving at the Wash
ingtOn street crossing of the &. 4 N. w.
Ry. Co.'S tracks was removed last week
and has been replaced with macadam.
The paving had almost worn out in
places and besides being dangerous to
limb of man or beast, looked worse
than.an 1S49 poke bonnet.
The remains of Miss Eliza Kava-
naugh, who died last Tuesday after
noon at the Riverside hospital, were
taken to Freedom, her old home, for
burial Miss Kavanaugh was formerly
engaged with her sister in conducting
dress making establishment in this
city. She was % years of age and is
survived by her parents, four brothers
and four sisters.
The city of Stevens Point is having
the same experience Wausau had some
years ago. An injunction has been
served restraining it from proceeding
with the matchmaking of certain
street. The Stevens Point people are
not quarreling over the width of the
macadamizing, as was the instance in
in the Wausau case, but it is question
of how deep the water mains should be
to prevent freezing.
A dispatch from Cumberland says:
Mrs. Mary Mohr, held for alleged
Cassie Chadwick methods of finance,
has Just been released from the Barron
county Jail upon $500 bond furnished by
DR.. W. H. Ellis Mrs. Mohr was arrest
ed last May charged with obtaining
property under false preteuses, but was
released on $500 bail Her bondsman
later asked to be released and Mrs. Mohr
was placed in the tolls She will be
tried in the September term of the cir