Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-22

Competent teachers at the nigh
school in the " ausau Business college
The Universalist rummage sale las
week was very much of success ant
| goodly sum was realized by the ladies
| Halloween comes only once year
once Is enough-bnt Callies' high grad,
wall papers are arriving at all seasons
He's just received So bundles of paper.
never before shown in this city.
| Presiding Elder F. q. Wrede, of the
Appleton district of the German Metho
dists, arrived in the city the latter pari
OF the week and on Sunday conducted
services in the local church of that
denomination.
The Wisconsin river was very high
Sunday, owing to the feet that the dam
at Tomahawk was opened for the pur-
pose of giving log drivers flood. As
a consequence quite lot of logs were
brought down from below Merrill
A state civil service examination was
conducted Saturday in the court house
by the local board. There was but one
applicant, f. R. Pelishek, principal of
the school in Schofield. who took the
examination for the position of library
| clerk.
George Bird, son of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
b. Bird, had the misfortune to run a
nail into his foot while playing on the
Franklin school grounds. While
George is confined to his home, he is
getting about on crutches and will
soon be all right again.
The city has commenced the work of
| opening Canal street from Mcintosh
down to Sumner, distance of about
! four blocks. Instead of the city remoy-
ing the bridge crossing the gully on
Grand Ave. and re-erecting it across the
q. d N. w. tracks, so that teams passing
along Canal street can cross the track,
as was the original intention, plans
have been changed. The city will make
an effort to compel the railway COM
pany to build bridge across its tracks
where Canal street is to cross. The in
tention is to get the street graded this
fall and have it open to traffic in the
spring. This will provide another route
to the cemetery.
The Wisconsin Teachers association
will hold its fifty-fifth annual meeting
in Milwaukee, Nov. 10. A great many
of the Wausau teachers will be in at
tendance and at least three of those en-
gagged in educational work in this
county will be present. Miss
Emma Conley is chairman of the
domestic science section, meetings to
be held in the city hall. In the mathe-
mates conference, which will be held
in the city hall also, C. C. Parlin of
this city will make an address on
Would it rot be well to discard fixed
courses of study and to substitute a
system of majors and minors so that
each pupil can make his own course of
study" Under the head of language in
he grammer grades, Supt. s. B. Tobey
will speak upon the topic, "Unde-
veloped Language Treasure"
Two young Russian Polanders went
into a saloon on the west side last night
and attempted to conduct things to
suit themselves. The bar tender got
revolver and showed them the front
door and they did not need second in
vitation. AS reminder of what might
happen if they returned, he fired the
revolver twice, aiming at the floor.
Whether or not he hit it, the police did
not inform us. The two young fellows
from the land of anarchy and bomb
shells fell into the arms of a police
officer and were conveyed to the coop.
This morning, through the aid of an in
terpreter, they admitted that they had
been guilty of disorderly conduct and
we're assessed fines of So each.