Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-28
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

A daughter was born Wednesday
evening to Mr.. and Mrs. John Schoene-
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Geesy have a
baby boy at their home which the stork
brought Wednesday.
The sale of "Blue Ribbon" flour ex-
ceeds that of any other brands at the
stores of Max E. Boehm. il6-tf
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, March 14th.
Wausau Lodge No. 251, F. o. E. will
give an old fashioned party at MERGERS
hall on the evening of March Sd.
The county board public property
committee met at the court house
Friday for the purpose of passing upon
bills and acting upon routine work.
Ask your dealer for a box of Idaho
apples. Choice fruit, carefully packed,
absolutely free from worms and guaran-
teed perfect. KIEFER COLI STORAGE
CO., Agents. j24
Geo. II. Drewry of Madison, assistant
state inspector of graded schools, spent
few days in the county last week,
making an official visit to the different
graded schools.
The health department is keeLi ing a
strict surveillance upon a number of
diphtheria cases that have been reported
by physicians with hope of stamping
out the disease.
Ask you dealer for a box of Idaho
apples. Choice fruit, carefully packed,
absolutely free from worms and guaran-
teed perfect. KIEFER COLD STORAGE
Co Agents. j24
Jos. Seymour, an employee of the
Jacob Mortenson Lumber Co, had one
of his feet badly crushed Thursday noon
while unloading logs from train. A
log rolled on his foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hoffman are
mourning the loss of their son, Hugo,
aged three years, who died Thursday
evening. The funeral was held Sunday
from st. Paul's church.
Do you intend to build The cheapest
and best material is good brick; for
sale in car load lots by the Ringle Brick
company and in smaller quantities by
all dealers. If.
The property owned by the late VIM
Bauch, situated across the street from
the city hall, has been purchased by
Jacob Forster, who will occupy it in
the manufacture of cigars.
Max Zank and Miss Matte Priebe,
both of Schofield, secured marriage
license Saturday, got special dispen-
sation from the court and were married
the same day by Justice Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Lucia entertained
friends at cinch on Wednesday even
ing. Prizes were won by Mrs Paul
Moeller, j. l.. Komers, Mrs. Louis
Leak and r. Kalbskopf, of Marshfeld.
Frank Hanneman has leased the
south half of Athens west side store
and will open for business, March 18th,
with line of general merchandise. He
has been acting as manager of that
store for some time
If you are going 10 build or make any
change in your residence, have your
heating plant put in right and your gas
work and plumbing done up in mod
ern way. We do all kinds of repairing
in these lines. A. B. Wheeler & Son.
616 Third Street. IT,
At the annual convention of the Wis
cousin Butter Makers association held |
at Fond du Lac Wednesday it was de- |
in this city. The date of holding said
convention is left optional with the ex-
ecutive committee.
Since the recent warm weather set in |
there have been more water pipes froz-
en- up than for the balance of the win
ter The Wausau Electric Co.'s pipe
"thawyers' have been at work with
their electrical thawing apparatus, and
have been rushed with work.
Geo. McFadden, an employe of the
Wausau Paper Mills atBrokaw had one
of his legs badly lacerated Thursday
afternoon and is confined in the River
side hospital in this city. He was as
sisting in loading logs onto the skidway
when some of the logs were loosened
and rolled down, one of them catching
and jamming him against the bunk of a
sleigh. His home is in Mosinee.
The fifty-ffth annual convention of
the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch
Masons was held in Milwaukee last week
and was a most interesting gathering.
Twenty six took the order of Grand
High Priest and each received bible
his certificate. Among the
officers elected, was our fellow towns
man, w. W. Albers, who was honored
by being selected as Grand Royal Arch
Captain.
The west bound Northwestern pas
senger train, due to leave here at noon,
was held several hours Friday, because
Of small wreck near the gravel pit.
The breaking of journal on a logging
EAR as the train was crossing Rib bridge
caused the delay. Several cars of logs
we're thrown off the track and the logs
we're scattered over the bridge. A
crew had the track cleared
before evening.