Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
oHroAaoANp NoRrHwEsrErN RAILWAY.

Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.
VIM. Hoppe of this city, was married
Sunday to Mrs. Tena Dreager OF the
town of Wausau.
The annual harvest home festival OF
the Presbyterian church will be held on
Sunday, October 20.
A number of people went over from
this city to Amigo last week TO attend
the Langlade county fair.
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon. will be at the
Bells House, October %.
Edward Bertsch and Miss Lena Som
merfeld will be married tomorrow
evening The ceremony will be per-
formed by the Rev. G.. A. Bretscher.
Phillip Hollis, dentist, will make
metal and rubber plates and porcelain
inlays. Office over the Continental
clothing store. nov21-tf
This week we are pleased to publish
poem, October Days" by Alice
Croker Waite Mrs. John Morgan)
taken from her book of poems, Bird
Echoes" Her books are now on sale
at Rhodes and Wilson's book stores.
Louis Kieffer and Miss Hattie Boerke
were married Wednesday afternoon at
the parsonage of st. James church, By
Rev. FIR. j. j. Brennan. A reception,
supper and dance was held in the
evening in Elks hall, in honor OF the
event.
The dance given in Elks' hall last
Tuesday evening for the benefit of the
base ball team, was attended by very
large crowd The result was that the
players each realized a neat little sum
as a reward of appreciation of their SER
vices the past season.
The Brooks & Ross mill in Schoiield
will run days only hereafter, beginning
with yesterday. On Saturday thirty
car loads of logs were unloaded in the
pond, which came from Mercer. II
they come in more plentiful it is quite
likely that the mill will be put in opera
ton again nights.
They see queer things down in
Stevens Point. A resident of that city
swears by all that's holy that he saw a
white robin last week in flock of about
thirty birds of that species. Whiskey
which will make man see such things
must be poor indeed. If he said it was
white blackbird we might believe him.
FoR SALE.-Mrs. James Single, desir-
ing to give up housekeeping, will the
coming week sell her household fur
niture. Call at 4l5, S. 9th St.
The city has crew of men macadam-
izing a street running east and west
past the S. M. Quaw farm. Mr.. Quaw
some time ago made proposition to
furnish the,rock, providing the city done
the work, and * was accepted. A strip
of about ten rods will be improved, the
horse road roller being employed to
roll down the rock.
The consolidation of the Columbia
and Cones bands, effected last winter,
has been dissolved. The former must
cal organization takes its old form and
name, with b. +. Schultz as leader and
director The Columbia band was al
WAYS popular and no doubt will be
favored with the same prestige as OF
yore. Competition is the life of trade"
runs the old adage and the dissolution
may mean higher class of music for
both organizations.
The work of improving n. Third
street has begun, in carrying out a
proposition submitted by the Marathon
Granite Co. to the city council some
time ago. The city has graded the
street and the granite company is now
hauling granite chips from its works
and dumping them on the street. After
sufficient quantity of chips have been
put on and leveled off, the road roller
win complete the work, that part OF
Third street will then be the most sub
stantial piece of roadway in the city,
for the granite win have a harder wear.
ing surface than the rock which is being
used on other streets.
The Citizens State bank has pur
chased the IL. Radiant property at the
northwest corner of Clarke street and
Second Ave, paying for the same
$500 The directors are anxious tC
have plans drawn and get the building
under roof before snow flies so that il
can be occupied IS soon as possible. II
is hoped to open the bank for business
in the Albers' drug store in week OF
so and remain there until the building
is completed. MIR RADIANT occupies s
brick house on the property purchased
and will remain in it until preparation:
are made TO build. The location j:
considered an excellent one.