Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.

Bells House, February 18th.
5. M. Quaw last week purchased a
Shorthorn COW and calf of Duncan
Bros, for which he paid $500.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wall welcomed
baby boy at their home last week.
They now have three daughters and
two sons.
Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by Otto Mueller, ieweler, corner
Third and Washington streets. All
work guaranteed. If
At the hemlock manufacturers meet
ing held in Milwaukee last week an
advance of ST. 90 per thousand was made
on hemlock lumber
G. Oppenheimer, buyer of hides
and ginseng, is confined at the North
ern hotel with broken leg, sustained
in falling on an icy sidewalk.
Ed. Gunderson, resident of the town
of Plover, died of consumption Tuesday
last, aged sixty-six years. The funeral
was held Saturday afternoon.
DR.. A. w. Berch, osteopath, a!former
resident of this city, who. moved from
here to Milwaukee two years ago, has
taken up his residence in Lacrosse.
There is a regular meeting of the city
council tonight. 1t is expected that the
city hall matter will be considered and
much other important business.
The students of the Wausau Business
college will on Feb. 22d celebrate the
birthday of the man of cherry tree
fame, for which event literary and
musical program has been prepared.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyer, living
on the west side, are mourning the loss
of their infant daughter, who died
Thursday evening. The funeral was
held Sunday, Rev. +. Werhahn officiat-
ing.
Gay Dorm, printer known in every
printing office in this section, died OF
heart failure last Tuesday in Merrill.
At the time of his death he was en-
ployed as a foreman in the Advocate
office in that city.
! Wanted :-Gentlema or lady with
good reference, to travel by rail or
with rig. Salary S1,O7200 per year
and expenses salary paid weekly and
expenses advanced. Address with
stamp, Jos. A. Alexander, Wausau,
Wis.
| Miss Nora A. Holden, who was super
visor of the Wausau kindergarten
schools about five years ago and John
Elliot Cannon were united in marriage
at Honolulu recently. Miss Holden
departed from Wausau to Honolulu
and has been teaching there ever
since
The Ladies' Literary club held very
interesting meeting yesterday after
noon at the Wausau club house. A
paper was read by Mrs. R. B. Johns
and Hon. Neal Brown delivered an adj
dress on state law, it's relation to
women. There was special music and
the afternoon was one of pleasure and
profit.
Tuesday of next week, Feb. 10Th, will
be the eighth anniversary of the great
est calamity that ever befell the United
States navy-the blowing up of the bat
tleship Maine, when 266 lives were sac
rificed to Spanish treachery. The &C;
had its effect. 1t practically started the
war of 1898, which ended in about four
months, disastrously to the Don.
| G. A. Gardner, of the town of Most
nee, had his skull fractured last week
He was operating what lumbermen
term rutter, an arrangement to cut a
rut in road so logging sleighs will not
slough" to one side. The ratchet
which held lever, became loosened,
allowing the lever to fly backward,
striking Mr.. Gardner on the head with
above results.
Albert Zuehlke, living at, 1899 Cleve-
land avenue, is confined to his home
with badly scalded feet and ankles
which will lay him up for long time.
He is employed at the tannery and on
Thursday morning intended drawing
the bark out of large tank, but made
a mistake and pulled the plug out of a
tank filled with boiling fannie acid.
The results might have been worse.
For long time we have been aware
of the fact that Atty. G. d. Jones can do
a great many other things besides Civ
| ing counsel on law points or driving a
land deal, but was surprised last Friday
to learn from local paper that he is a
| physician. The paper referred to, in
speaking of recent meeting of the
Marathon County Medical society, said
&c. d. Jones had paper on THE Mis-
takes of Myself and Others. The state
ment is probably due to the other fell
lows mistake.
A woman who was a great tale
bearer happened to hear one neighbor
speak slightingly of another and i'm
mediately carried the words from the
first to the second neighbor, claiming
that she thought as friend, she ought
to let the second neighbor know what
the first was saying. But, instead of
thanking the tale-bearer, the neighbor
said: 1T makes no difference to me
how many rotten eggs my neighbor has
on his premises, but the person who
carries the decayed hen fruit to my
house and breaks it under my nose is
my enemy" A sermon in an eggshell.
Exchange.
Chas Rylander, a young man living
on the west side, was hned S95 and
costs in court Friday, upon pleading
guilty to charge of theft. On Thurs
day evening two sleigh loads of young
people went out into the town of Maine,
| stopping at the Hoffman hall, where