Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

home on jackson street with diphtheria.
When in Wausau step in 70 the Mag
net and get fine free lunch Farmers
trade solicited IT,
A deputy of the Modern Woodmen of
the World is in the city for the purpose
of organizing a local lodge of that OF
der
The lumber firm of Silyerthorne &
Co, at Rhinelander, last week shipped
II car loads of white pine lumber 10
South Africa.
The berry crop is said to be very coed
this year and many red raspberries and
blueberries are being picked just now
and brought To the city For years
there has not been many blackberries
but this year there are plenty of them
In order to close out the stock we will
sell all Wellsbach and Block gas lights
at One-third the former price These
lights have no superior on the market
AID the reason we cut prices on them
is that we do not desire To carry this
class of goods in the future "A. b.
Wheeler q Son. IT,
Melvin N Weeks, who had the mis-
fortune TO catch the thumb and first
finger of his left hand in an electric
motor recently, and badly bruising
them, is ready to tackle another one of
the "varmints," but proposes to handle
it with care the next time.
Anton Koppa died Thursday evening
at his home, 7O2 Lincoln Ave-, aged
twenty-seven years. For a long time
he had been ill with consumption and
of late had failed rapidly. He is sur
vived by his wife and an infant son, his
parents, two brothers and four sisters.
The funeral was held yesterday morn
ing from st. MichaePs church.
Casey had remarked that he would
not want to be soldier, But" said
his friend, "you would not like to have
your friends point you out and say
there goes a coward" "Well, no."
said Casey, "but thot would be betther
than to hev them sthand be me coffin
and look down at me and say don't
he look MATERIAL"
Announcement is made of the coming
marriage of Miss Alice johnson, of this
city to Walter G. Hintze, of Stoughton.
The event will be celebrated the latter
part of the month and they will reside
at Butler, Mont. Nh Hintze is a
special agent of the General land office
at Washington, d. c., and looks after
the governments land interests in the
West. Miss johnson is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Johnson, who re-
side on Grand Ave
Judge Goodland has issued an order
transferring Jas. Weipenger from the
Langlade county Jail to the Oshkosh
asylum. Weipenger, it will be remem-
bered, is the man who shot and killed
Amigos chief of police a few weeks
ago, and who was charged with muir
der, although an escaped lunatic.
After his capture, until recently, he
acted perfectly sane, but of late had
more disturbance in his attic.
A stroll through town convinces one
that the advice given by Prof r. B.
Johns, through these columns, as to
method of protecting maple trees from
the cottony scale, is being pretty gener
ally followed. In over half the yards
in the residence section of the city can
be seen trees bandaged in kerosene
soaked burlap. 1t is said the bug is
wet weather bug and thrives in the
kind of weather we have been having
this season.
About 250 of the small pine trees in
the cemetery have been attacked by
bugs which eventually destroys the life
of the tree. Some insect lays its eggs
at the point of the tree and when the
eggs are Matched out the bug bores its
way down into the heart of the body
and the tree dies. r. N. Larner, of the
Wausau Cemetery association, has
taken steps to check further destruction
but cutting off the parts effected and
burning them and hopes to be able to
u.
Those who attended the Old White
School in Stevens Point in an early day
held their first reunion in that city last
Tuesday. Among those who attended
we notice in the Gazette two from
Wausau, Mrs. Maria Empey Haskin
and Mrs. Bertha Kingsbury Reed. 1t
was a very enjoyable occasion and
many met former friends whom they
had not seen in years. Those who
attended that school are now scattered
all over the union, and among those
present was lady from Salt Lake City,
Utah, who came that great distance to
meet former school mates.
Otto viii, boy of about fifteen years
of age, was brought to the city Thurs
day to have his fingers dressed by a
physician and it was found necessary
to amputate two digits of the right
hand. The boy is son of MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Will, who reside at 5O4
Chicago Ave, and since school has
been visiting at the home of his uncle,
Fred Ventzke, in the town of Wausau.
On the day mentioned he was assisting
his uncle to unload a load of hay, a
power hay fork being used The boy
got his hand caught in the fork, with
above results.
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