Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-14

The finest fancy cheviot mems over
coat, % inches long, with belt, for $40
at the Golden Eagle.
The best dressed young men in the
city buy their clothing of Seim Bros. A
fine new line of suits and oyercoats al
from Sc to SIG each.
Duncan Bros. shipped twenty head
of registered ShOrthorns to HillisbOro,
Vernon county, Thursday and the
animals were all sold at auction, bring
ing a good average price. Duncan
Bros. have purchased some more stock
and will winter about twenty five head.
The annual fair of the Ladies' Aid
society of St. Stephens church will be
held Tuesday, Nov 28th, at Fraternity
hall. The society has prepared many
very beautiful and useful articles of
fancy work for this sale. At five O'Clock
p. m. and thereafter a chicken supper
will be served.
"Nefer put off until tomorrow der
ofercoat you should hat worn today is
one of DinklespiePs epigrams. Speak
ing of overcoats, have you glanced over
Seim Bros stock lately? If you
haven't, you ought to. They've got
some "peacherinos," and their low in
price, too.
] The Elks have leased Ruder's new
hall for term of years and will take
possession as soon as the same is
completed. The hall will be sub-leased
| by the Elks to other societies, and as it
Will be one of the best appointed lodge
halls in town, it is quite likely that it
will be engaged nearly every evening.
John H. Chesak, of Athens, manager
of the Athens Mig. Co., and Emily K.
Penegore of the town of Richland,
Outonagon county, Mich, were granted
marriage license this morning, got a
special dispensation from the court to
avoid thetive days wait and were mar
ried in the Bells House parlors by the
Rev. FIR. Brennan. They departed for
Athens at noon.
The county board was convened this
afternoon, chairman A. Z. Beebee pre-
siding. The committee on equalization
submitted report which was adopted.
The agricultural school asked for an
appropriation for building tool house,
sheds, ETC., which petition was referred
to committee for report. After some
other business of routine nature, an
adjournment was taken until tomorrow
morning to allow committees time to
make their reports.
Eddie Hamilton, aged eleven years,
was drowned in Black creek, Athens,
Saturday afternoon. The boy was
skating on the ice, when he broke
through. He caught hold of the ice
and tried TO save himself from being
drawn under, but could not pull him
self out In a short time he was chilled
through and released his grip on the
ice and was drawn beneath the waters.
The only witness to the affair was
another small boy, who could render no
assistance. The body was later recov-
cred. The boy was a son of Mr.. and
Mrs c. Hamilton
Two railroad detectives were in the
city last Friday looking for suspects in
that have been worked on passengers
of trains in Wisconsin recently. They
did not find the parties they were look
ing for and left the same evening, in
tending to go to Merrill, Amigo and
other towns in this section. The
detectives stated that the gang has
been working quite successfully of late
and many person has been "fleeced"
The favorite method is to get up a
seven-up game, inviting strangers into
the sitting" and then working the
old game of betting on the poker hands
out. They have also cleaned up con-
siderable of the dust by the short
change racket, and, it is said, man
travelling for Milwaukee cigar firm
lost $50 by this method to the sharpers
on Wednesday while coming to Wau
sau from Eand Jet. He did not dis
cover his loss until he reached the
Bells hotel. The detectives believe the
gang is the same which operated in
the men were scared out of the state
and drifted west and later it was
learned fleeced many person going to
the Portland exposition The gang is
headed by a man who poses as a horse
trader and he sometimes does David
Harum turn.