Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-21
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

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DIR. Harriet A. Whitehead, Orsto-
pathic physician. Spencer building. If
Burning grass on East hill caused the
fire department to be called out Thurs
day morning.
Mrs. c. S. Curtis gave porch party
on Thursday morning to number of
her lady friends.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, August 2Sth.
The Geo. l.. Smith cement block fac
tory is to have its capacity increased
by additional machinery costing 81 800
The Young Peoples societies of st.
Stephens church of this city, and OF
the Schofield church, held a. joint pic
mic at Rothchilds, Thursday.
John Curtis has purchased the E. x.
Farrell residence on Mcclellan street;
consideration, 1850. He is to take
possession the middle of September.
The county clerk has received from
Madison number of books containing
3,1OO hunting licenses, or nearly 1000
more than were disposed of last year.
WANTED-A girl about fourteen years
or fifteen years of age to take care of
two small children address. j. b. T.,
Wausau PILOT, or j. b. Titus, Ringle,
Wis.
Albert Bourcier, of this city, and Miss
Martha Schmidt, of Schofield, were
married Saturday morning in St.
Mary's church, Rev. FIR. Casper officiat-
ing.
The Winninger Bros troupe will play
in this city during fair week. Bob Nc
Conkey, who recently spent his vaca-
ton in the city, will be with the CON-
pany.
A total of 125 tickets were sold at the
Northwestern depot the past week to
excursionists going to attend the Ma
tional q. A. r. encampment in Mime
apolis.
The announcement has been made
that the summer meeting of the Wis
consin State Horticultural society will
be held at Baraboo, Wis, on the Goth of
August, 1906.
Tin work of all kinds done by A. B.
Wheeler q Son, give the firm a call if
you want anything in that line or in
plumbing. Furnaces put in on short
notice, COG Third street. j24-tf.
The Yawkey- Bissell Lumber Co. of
Hazelhurst has opened offices in this
city in the Livingston block. Jos.
Schneider, until recently in the employ
of the Curtis & Yale Co., is in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Johnson, on
Wednesday evening entertained at
whist, few of the old friends of the
latter's sister, Mrs. Win. Wylie, of
Phoenix, Ariz, who was visiting them.
LosT-A small package of money,
either in the city or in the berry patch
northeast of the city. The finder will
please return the same to Mrs. II. Tress,
no Jefferson street.
August Baseman, of the town Vein.
Marathon county, has associated him
self with Seth DANES, of Colby, in the
building of a telephone line from Colby
to Athens and Edgar.-Marshfield
Times.
Now is the time to put in a furnace
to heat your residence or place of bust
ness, A. B. Wheeler d Son has one of
the very best furnaces made and will
install it at the very lowest possible
price. Do not put it off. 606 Third
street. j24-tf.
Some party or parties visited the pub
lie library building one night recently
and scratched up the door columns
with some sharp instrument. The
only clew they left was two empty beer
bottles and a paper sack.
Walter Jones, one of the men arrested
charged with forging checks on A. j..
Plowmap, of the town of Elderon, has
been bound over trial. His partner,
Nose Walch, pleaded guilty to the
charge and is now in prison.
The new bridge across the Eau Claire
river in Schofield has been completed
and thrown open for traffic. 1t has
been accepted by the county board S
special committee appointed to super
wise the work. The bridge cost 81, 100.
The police and fire commission has
filed with the chief of police and fire
chief list of eligibles for service of
those who were recently examined by
the board AS vacancies may occur in
either department, appointments are to
be made from the list in alphabetical
rotation.
The special committee appointed by
the county board at its last session to
get plans and specifications for dor
mitory for the agricultural school, met
last week and accepted ones drawn by
Philip Dean. The matter will again be
taken up at the November meeting of
the board.
The striking laboring men at the
Goodwillie box factory have all gone
back to work and ali is serenity once
more. The men received an advance
of 15c per day in their wages and were
granted two pay days each month, in
stead of having one as was heretofore
the custom.
The foreign news items of recent
issue of the Chicago Record Herald
stated that Miss Myrtle Hart, of Chica-
go, was one of the late arrivals to join
the American colony in Paris. Miss
Hart is niece of Geo. Hart of this city.
She is quit well known here, having
visited Wausau frequently.
Mrs. Fred Kruger died last Tuesday
evening at her home, 745 jackson street,
aged seventy-two years. She was a
very old resident of Wausau. Her hus-
band died some years ago and she is
survived by seven children, all but one