Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-06-19
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

D&ssler, both of Milwaukee, were mar
ried in this city Thursday. the ceremony
being performed by Squire j. A. Jones
at his residence.
The next week will be strenuous
one for the youngsters Thursday,
June 2lst, Chief Hale's Fire Fighters
are to be here and on Tuesday, June
26th, Hagenbeck's circus.
The Merrill News is again on deck
About two weeks ago it was entirely
destroyed by fire. Its last edition was
in complete new dress, rejecting
much credit upon its proprietor, AL.
lChristianson.
G. Z. Whelan, of Madison, national
4 lecturer for the Modern Woodmen, will
deliver an address at the NJ w. A.
picnic to be held here Aug 1-2 1t is
expected that Senator La Toilette will
also be present.
The marriage of Miss Mary Wilson to
DIR. Harry Vedder, of Edgar, will take
place in the Presbyterian church of this
city on Wednesday afternoon, June
27th. Miss Wilson is the eldest daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. S. N. Wilson.
The town boards of review will meet
in the different towns and villages of
of the county on June 25th, at which
time assessment irregularities will be
adjusted. The above date is set by law
and applies to all counties in the state.
Quite a number of small gatherings
of old friends of Mrs. H. H. Grace have
been held at various homes IN the city
the past week, in honor of that lady
who has been visiting here. Mrs. Grace
will depart for her home in Superior on
Wednesday.
Because of alleged violation of the
laws of the state of Wisconsin in plac-
ing set gun IN the woods, John Chand
| Ter, farmer living in the town of Berg
en-, was arrested and brought before
the court Thursday morning. His ex-
animation was set for today
Work will be resumed on the Stinch-
| field creek sewer as soon as a sufficient
force of laborers can be secured. The
sewer is about half completed, the
work last season was retarded on ac-
count of the frequent rains. 1t is hoped
to have the work all done by early fall.
Mrs. Julius Jesse, residing at 800
/ Hamilton street, was examined by Drs.
kosenberry and Quade on Friday morn
ing and committed to the state hospital
| for insane near Oshkosh. The woman
was labOring under the hallucinatiOn
that evil spirits had conspired to destroy
her life.
Arnold Hensel and Mike Jozik, two
boys arrested for theft, pleaded guilty
to the charge Wednesday and were
both fined, the former $50 and the lat
| ter $40. They admitted taking lead
| pipe from 2 building owned by DR.. L.
+. Spencer. The fines were remitted
in both cases.
Mrs. Robt. Kollath accompanied her
| daughter, Lulu, to Oshkosh last Tuesday,
where the latter had an operation per-
formed Thursday in st. Mary's hospital
| for the removal of throat tumor
Several weeks ago she underwent a
similar operation when several other
| tumors were removed.
The local lodge of Odd Fellows held
memorial services last Friday night in
memory of its dead. There was large
! attendance of members. Part of the
work was according to the special ritual
| service for such occasions. This was
followed by an address by DR.. w. H.
Searles, of Oshkosh.
Mrs. Johanna Dessert died Thursday
evening at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. VIM. Goedke, $40 Stark street,
aged eighty-siX years. She had been a
resident of Wausau for over thirty
years, and is survived by three daugh-
ters and two sons. The funeral was
held Saturday from Zion's Lutheran
church.
| One of number of small boys con-
gregated near the st. Paul Ry. Co.'S
freight depot Thursday night, fired
several shots from revolver, in rapid
succession. Police officer German hap
pened to be near and though he searched
each boys pockets ne could not find the
revolver. He sent them home and
later, while placing some timbers in
order they had knocked down, he found
the revolver hidden under one of the
timbers. There's tough gang of kids
which hangs out in that neighborhood
nightly.
Last Tuesday evening Dan Reid, a
teamster employed by Healy q Brown,
lost one of his horses and had a narrow
escape from death himself. He was
crossing the wagon bridge which leads
from the Barker & Stewart island to
the east bank of the river when the
weight of the horses and the heavily
laden wagon caused the bridge to give
way The teamster succeeded in get
| ting one of the horses down the river
to the bank where the old band hall
stands, and got the animal out of the
water. The other horse was drowned.
Two deaths from accident in one
| family, following one another within
| six days time, records the pitiable story
of the Schultz family, of Athens. On
| Thursday, week ago, little son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schultz wandered
from the house and fell into Black
creek, which is but a short distance
from the home. AS soon as his mother
missed him a search was instituted,
which resulted in finding the boys body
near where he is supposed to have fall
| len into the creek. He was about
eighteen months old. On Tuesday last,
the father went out into the woods in
the town of Holton to cut some timber.
He chopped a hemlock tree from the
! stump and as it fell it broke a large
/ limb off another tree and the limb struck
the man on the head and crashed his
skull. killing him almost instantly.
The Schultz household is therefore one
of deep mourning.
The local Woodmen lodges, together
with the SchOfleld lodge, observed the
orders Memorial day last Sunday. The
two local branches and the Schofield
society met at the east side lodges hall
and marched to the cemetery, where
the ritualistic work of the order was
gone through with and the graves of
dead Woodmen strewn with flowers.
The following members are buried in
the Wausau cemetery. w. II. Chellig,
A. w. Young, Gus. PageDkopf, Z. r.
Hull, NJ. B. Holman, n Marx, Herman
Manthie, Peter Sagstetter, A. Bartlett,
Chas. Schroer, Jacob Miller, Frank
Kell, John Klapperich. JAS Mcdonald,
M. Wirth. VIM. Luedke, Jos. Friedman
and Stephen Bessey. Two members
are buried elsewhere: Allen Cameron
in Manistique, Mich. and Chas. Even
son in Amherst, Wis The Schofield
society had its drill team of sixteen
| ar, horu in 1ipa