Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

Otto Muenchow is putting in a stock
of merchandise in his building on
Grand Ave and will open store short
| ly,
The government thermometer regis
tered the lowest this morning of any
day this winter 1t showed ~ below
zero.
During the month of January "a per-
sons were locked up in the city Jail.
Of these were tramps and so free
dodgers.
The anniversary of Lincoln's birthday
comes on Feb. IL, ST. Valentines day
on Feb. IA and Washington's birthday
on Feb. 90
The Wausau Furniture and Fixture
Co. desires to have a street opened up
near its plant, connecting Porter street
with Seventh Ave. A petition will be
presented to the council this evening
A number of free holders of the Third
and Fourth wards will petition the coun-
Gil this evening to cause an arc light to
be placed at the corner of Sixth and
Scott streets, because of a fire alarm
box being located there.
A crew OF electricians is at work
stringing wire throughout the county
asylum for electric lights. Over $50
.incandesdent lamps will be placed in
the different rooms. The outbuildings
have also been supplied with electric
lights and the laundry work, churning
and wood saving is now done with
electric motor driven machinery The
new lights are installed mostly for
economical reasons.
The public property committee of the
county board met Saturday for the pur-
pose of looking over the plans for a
new poor house. The plans were ac-
cepted and an order issued to the archi-
tect for 500 which is q per cent of the
appropriation made by the board for
the building. AS soon as the state
board of control accepts the plans, bids
will be advertised for. The committee
also accepted the work of w. j. Kregel
who copied the field notes for the
county into three large books.
At tonight's meeting of the city coun-
Gil Henry Miller, chief of the fire de-
partment, will submit report cover
ing the year. 1t will show that in 1906
the department answered rs calls, Al of
which were actual fires, SO chimney
fires and false alarms. The total
destruction of property amounted to
SIS, 1902 covered by 81 ,45077 insurance.
The salaries of the department
amounted to s9,O15 3S, the running ex-
penses S2,367 SO and the receipts,
S265.50, leaving the expense of the de-
partment 81, 117.43
The card party given Wednesday
evening by Arbutus Lodge, Daughters
of Rebekah, was very enjoyable affair.
Over seyenty-five people were present
and seventeen tables were occupied by
players Mrs. Henry RIDER and Henry
Oswald were awarded first prizes.
Miss Gertrude COLI and Henry Ruder
made the second highest scores and
were given souvenirs in remembrance
of the occasion. Mrs. Max Cohan and
VIM. Neuling proved themselves the
poorest players in attendance and
zoo y.r.iad hn,0lo orfin1oS TO
of that fact.
Judge Chester A. Fowler, of Portage,
is presiding in circuit court at the new
trial of the Dancy drainage case. 1t is
expected that the case will consume the
balance of the week, as much testi-
mony is to be offered by both sides.
The law firm of Kreutzer, Bird and
Rosenberg and Brown, Pradt & Gen
rich of this city; Park & Carpenter, OF
Stevens Point, and Goggins Il Brazeau,
of Grand Rapids, are interested in the
case. 1t is very likely that no matter
how the case is decided in the circuit
court it will again go to the supreme
court.
Rev. p Vanderkam, of the town OF
Plover, was in the city Thursday and
swore out warrants for the arrest OF
Jan Braamkolk and Garrit Vessnik,
two Hollanders to whom he hsd sold
land. He charged them with assault.
He sold them forty acres of land some
time ago. They paid down $50 and
were bound by certain restrictions re.
garding cutting off the timber. He as.
certained that they were cutting more
timber than allowed under the stipula.
tons of their land contract and went
to Hatley, where they were selling it.
and stopped payment on an amount
which they had delivered. On Thurs
day morning they met him on the road
and severely assaulted him. When the
deputy sheriff went out to serve war.
rants on them he found that they had
skipped out of the country and perhaps
will not come back again. Rev. Van
Iderkam located in the town of Plover 8
few years ago as a minister for the
colony of HoIlanders which has taker
up lands in that section, and is also
dealing in real estate.