Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-22
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.

Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.
VIM. Lohmar is about to open cigar
factory in the Paff building opposite
the Winkley house.
M. A Hurley will have new cement
sidewalk laid about his residence
premises this week.
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, June 5th.
Phillip Hollis, dentist, will make
metal and rubber plates and porcelain
clothing store. nov2l-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Morisette. of
Hatley, are the happy parents of little
daughter. The PILOT joins in hearty
congratulations
The PILOT is under obligations to
w. q. Witter, of Berkeley, California,
for papers containing extensive articles
on the great earthquake.
Mrs. Mary Bradford, of the Stevens
Point Normal. has been secured as an
instructor in the state training schools.
She is considered one of the best teach
ers OF our state.
w. w. Albers, the Wausau druggist,
was one of two lone men who accom-
panied some two dozen Wausau ladies
who were present at the Star meeting
last night.-Antigo Republican.
E. A. Edmonds, of Rhinelander, has
made an application for franchise to
operate street railway in that city.
Ii will probably be granted and Rhine
lander will soon have street railway
line.
Raymond Slowensky, infant son of
! MT. end Mrs. Frank Slowensky, 1858
Cherry street, died Thursday after three
weeks illness. The funeral was held
Saturday morning from the Polish
| church.
William, son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
| Broetzman, of Ala N. Second Ave, died
Thursday after a five days illness,
aged eighteen years. The funeral was
| held Sunday afternoon from ST. PauPs
church, the Rev. f. Schaer conducting
| services.
Geo. Yoltz, charged with taking in
decent liberties with thirteen year old
| girl in the Heiman hotel two weeks
ago, had his hearing Friday and was
| bound over for trial in municipal court.
He furnished bonds of $500 for his
| appearance.
j. G. Flanagan, who conducted real
estate and insurance business in this
| city for about year, and who moved
| back to his former home in Hurley
during the winter, has announced his
candidacy for the office of register of
| deeds of Iron county.
A caravan of gypsies landed in Wau-
| Sau Thursday afternoon, but before
they had time to do much begging or
| fortune telling they were hustled out
of town by the police. They camped on
| the western outskirts of the city and
next day moved toward Marathon City.
Paul Jaeger, who went from here to
| Amigo few years ago to open a candy
store, has sold his stock to the Peth
| Candy Co. of this city. The stock has
been moved here and Mr.. Jaeger and
wife arrived in the city last week and
will make Wausau their home in the
future.
Here is some information which may
be valuable to our farmer readers: A
bulletin sent out by the Wisconsin
agricultural experiment station states
that leaf blight and rot in potatoes may
be prevented by spraying the potatoes
with Bordeaux mixture. The cost of
the application is small.
An Illustrated lecture will be given
at the M. E. church next Friday even
ing by Sec'y Neil Campbell for the
benefit of the Junior department of
the Y. NJ. G. A. 1t will be illustrative
of the life of Ben Hur and great many
colored lantern slides will be used. A
small admission fee will be charged
The funeral of Miss Louise Werner
was held Wednesday from the under
taking rooms of Chas. Helke She
died the previous Monday at the
county insane asylum, where she
had been an inmate for a great many
years. She was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Werner, former residents of
the town of Marathon.
Miss Clara Hinrichs, second Oldest
daughter of ex-County Treasurer John
! Q. Hinrichs and wife, of the town of
| Hamburg, will be united in marriage
tomorrow 70 Herman Helmke, of
Gillette, Oconto county, the ceremony
to be performed by the Rev. John
| Freund, of the town of Hamburg. The
young couple will make their nome in
| Gillette.
| Last Thursday while band of gypsies
was camped near the city search of
the camp was made by the police in
hopes of finding a lost child stolen
from home in Indiana two years ago.
The parents of the child have searched
the United States over from coast to
coast and have spent their entire
fortune in the search. The police were
in possession of a description of the
child and though they found one in
camp which was evidently not born of
gypsy parents, still it did not answer
the description.
ChaS. Kiel caused the arrest of JOS
Stadler last Wednesday charging that
the latter had stolen mason's hammer
and trowel from him. Stadler had
been working for Kiel and was dis
charged. After his discharge the ham,
mer and trowel disappeared. 1t could
not be proved that Stadler stole the
trowel, though there was some doubt
about the manner in which the hammer
had disappeared Both complainant
and defendant were assessed the costs,
an equal division being made. The costs
amounted to about $50 and the value
of the property involved perhaps was
not more than So.
B. +. Steinel, the young man who,
while driving an automobile in Milwau-
kee last Tuesday evening, ran over
and killed Miss Florence White, is
quite well known in this city. For 8
number of years he travelled through
this section selling brooms, visiting
Wausau regularly. In his younger
days he was quite sprinter and one
| time ran foot race on our fair grounds
track on a wager with a well known
| Wausau young man. Later he began
playing base ball and visited here on
| numerous occasions with different
teams. He is at present engaged as
editor of the sporting columns of the
Milwaukee Free Press.
VIM. Block, who has charge of the