Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-17
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.

The next meeting of the county
board of supervisors will be held be-
ginning Tuesday, Nov. II.
Mrs. j. w. Coates entertained the
members of the Tuesday Musical club
on Tuesday evening in honor of its new
members.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E.
church will hold Christmas sale of
useful and fancy articles, in the base
ment of the church, on Tuesday, Dec.
18th. If
Miss Anna Oddly, of the town of Vein
and Albert Matthias, of this city were
married Thursday at the parsonage of
st. Stephens church. this city, the Rev.
F. Werhahn officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Kickbusch, ST.,
have decided to move from their Grand
Ave. home to the rooms over the c. H.
Wegner store and will make that place
their home at least during the winter.
The Gillian & Rick Meat and Grocery
w.
the REGISTER of deeds Thursday.
Capital stock. $4,000; inccrporators
VIM. Gillian, Geo. F. Rick, Harry Yost.
Geo. Halder, under sheriff, was bitten
in the ankle by Pike Lake farmers
dog, Thursday, while making trip to
the village of Bevent. The dogs teeth
drew blood, making two wounds which
have since given George some pain.
Mrs. William Ranka died Wednesday
evening at her home in Norrie after a
long illness with consumption. She
was but twenty three years of age and
her husband and one child are left to
mourn her death. The funeral was held
Saturday.
VIM. Klokow and Miss Minnie
Brehmer were married Thursday even
ing at the home of the groom's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Klokow, Sr. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Paul Gehm, of Fl Atkinson, who is
here on visit.
st. James church congregation has
| placed an order with Janke & Weise
for an altar and pulpit, which will be
completed and installed about Dec 1st
The former will cost about 5000 and the
latter 800. They will be made of quar-
ter sawed oak.
A crew of laborers started work Fri
day on cutting out right-of way and
| grading for the new branch line to be
built by the St. Paul Ry. Co. east from
KnowltOn to the mill of Johnson's Creek
Lumber Co. The firm of Langley &
Anderson, of Merrill, has the contract
for building the branch.
Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by Otto Mueller, jeweler, corner
Third and Washington streets. All
work guaranteed. If
1t is said that one of the post office
robbers captured week ago near
Wild Rose is known as "Slim Jim," the
fellow who was once confined in the
Wausau Jail and who twice escaped.
He was at that time locked up awaiting
trial on charge of highway robbery
committed in Shawano county.
Tuesday evening, Oct. 81, is desig-
mated as Halloween. The Pilot men
tons this merely to give its readers
time to pack away all their movable
property and load their garden hose
with cold water. 1t would be bless
ing appreciated if our merchants would
stop the sale of peas and pea shooters
that day.
A special train passed through Wau-
sau on the St. Paul road, Wednesday,
carrying officers of the road to north
ern points. In the party were A. j.
Earring, president of the st. Paul com
pany; w. j. Underwood, Gen'l Supt;
H. B. EarliDg, Dist. Supt There were
also three stenographers and a few
friends of the officers.
There will be a session of circuit
court commencing tomorrow. At this
session the criminal cases adjourned
from the September term will be tried
Unless another adjournment is taken
the term is liable to be a long one, for
the criminal calendar is unusually
large this term. What case will be
tried first has not been decided upon
A special meeting of the local Elks
lodge was held Thursday evening at
which a committee was appointed to
make arrangements for holding a
Lodge of Sorrow. 1t is one of
the established features of this society
to hold memorial services for the
dead members of the order on desig-
mated date each year. The date this
year will be Sunday, Dec. 3. The COM
mittee appointed consists of c. B. Bird,
John F. Lamont and Fred Genrich.
In fulfilling the terms of law passed
last winter, state Superintendent G. z.
Gary has named the dates on which
school boards of the various counties
shall meet and confer with the county
superintendent for the good of the
schools of the county. The date set for
tiiC III ILLS County Is Tues
day, Oct. Gath. The meeting will proba-
bly, be held in the court house and at
that time the school officers of the var
iouS towns will gather in body in
this city.
The Liederkranz society, which for
many years has occupied rooms on the
second floor of the Paff block, will
change locations at some time in the
near future, probably within month
w. A Paff, who has charge of the Paff
block, desires to use rooms now occu-
pied by the society for office rooms and
has so notified the Liederkranz The
society has therefore rented the old
Neu building on Second street and will
have possession of the upper story,
which will give the members plenty of