Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20

An old fashioned harvest party will
be given at the club house on the even
ing of Nov. 80.
The art display in the Spencer build
ing last Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
by the Ladies' Literary club was a
great education in art and great sue
cess. All of the children of our public
schools visited the room. The proceeds
will be used in purchasing pictures for
the public schools.
A few weeks ago Eland Jet people
heralded the fact that the village board
had solved a serious problem, by max
ing loan of 81 90 at 6 per cent. interest,
to run three years, the money to be
used to complete a bridge. Now the
people are wrought up over another
thing. The teacher in the village school
has given the children orders to use a
fine tooth comb on their heads regular
for while, until they are rid of certain
little animals. The order of course had
the effect of offending every mother in
the village and we wouldn't be in that
teachers shoes if the Panama canal
was offered US as an inducement.
The local recruiting office which was
opened here late in the summer has
been closed. Private Baldwin who was
in charge failed to get any recruits
while here. He had several applicants
but the applicants failed to pass the
physical examination. The war depart
ment issued orders last week for all
recruiting officers in upper Wisconsin
and Michigan to report at the Phoenix,
Ariz., barracks Immediately. Private
Baldwin has three more months to
serve on his enlistment and stated be-
fore leaving that when he has been
mustered out of the service he will
return to Wausau to live.
The funeral of Mathew Sullivan was
held this morning, Rev. j. j. Brennan,
of st. James church conducting services.
Mr.. Sullivan died in Sumpter, Ala, on
Friday and the remains arrived here
from Birmingham yesterday morning
The cause of death was typhoid fever,
with which he had been afflicted for
several weeks. He was forty-six years
of age and resided in Wausau up to six
years ago, when he removed to Sump-
ter and engaged himself with the Alex
ander Lumber Co. and was in the en-
ploy of that company at the time of
death. He'is survived by his wife and
two daughters, the latter residing in
Duluth. He was brother of John Sulli-
van of this city and has another brother
residing near West Superior. The
funeral services were conducted from
the home of his brother John, 1902
Grand Ave.
This section was visited by the tail
end of disastrous storm on Friday
The storm appears to have worked the
greatest amount of harm in western
states, causing floods which destroyed
life and property 1t worked eastward
and by the time it reached here was
pretty well dissipated. 1t showed dur
ing the early part of the day and then
turned into a rain, which melted most
of the snow that had fallen, leaving
slush. Cold weather since has left
country roads in miserable condition
1t looks now as if cold weather had set
in for winter. Ice is forming which
gladdens the hearts of skaters, but the
danger period is coming and the PILOT
may be called upon to chronicle several
drownlngs, unless parents exercise care
in keeping their children away from the
river until the ice is sufficiently thick.
The Wausau Street Railway Co. has
suspended track construction work for
the season, The bridges on Grand Ave.
have been tracked and the curve put in
at the corner of the avenue and Forest
street, so that the line is complete from
the cemetery to Third street A few
rails have been laid on upper Third
street and track has been laid south
from the city as far as the Means hill,
while the road bed to Scbotield has been
graded to within short distance of the
village. The village board has raised
protest against laying the track to one
side of the street and petitions the rail
way company to set its rails in the GEN.
ter of the street, as is done here in the
city. 1t is thought the matter will be
amicably adjusted before building
operations are resumed in the SPRING
The company graded its road bed on
the east side of the wagon road after
leaving the city limits.