Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.


Dr. Harriet A. Whitehead, Oesto-
pathic physician. Spencer building. tt
The people of Grand Rapids are
planning for new and modern theater
building
Dr. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, March ~.
The fire department has gone back to
wheels Its various hose carts, ETC.,
have been on sleigh runners for several
weeks.
The schools which were closed since
Thursday on account of Washington's
birthday on Friday, opened again on
Monday morning.
Congressman-elec Elmer A. Morse,
of Amigo, will speak before the Mems
CLUB of the M E. church in March.
His subject has not as yet been an
nounced
Thirty of the members of Co. G last
week received medals awarded them
for expert rifle practice last summer.
The medals are issued to three classes
of marksmen.
W. P. Hewitt, president of the bank
of Menasha, and the Menasha Wooden
ware company, died at his home in
Menasha on Thursday He was well
known in Wausau.
Sheriff Bartelme, of Lincoln county,
passed through Wausau, Wednesday
evening, enroute to the state insane
hospital, Oshkosh. He was conveying
F. Klade, a former Wausau tailor, to
that institution.
A Grand Rapids, Mich, concern will
build an $4,000 gas plant in Merrill
next spring The plant will have
daily capacity of 100000 cubic feet of
gas and from eight to ten miles of
mains and connections will be laid
Michael Haase died at the home of
his daughter in the town of Wausau
Thursday. He was nearly seventysev
en- years of age The funeral was held
Saturday from his late residence. He
resided in Wausau for many years,
moving into the country about twelve
years ago.
The Marshfeld Times reports that a
robin was seen in that city during the
recent spell of soft weather That's
nothing. Any day this winter flocks of
Passer or NringilIa dOmestica were in evil
dence in the streets of Wausau If you
don't know what kind of bird this is,
look up the name in your natural his
tory.
The annual meeting of the Consum-
ers' League will be held in Milwaukee
on the Goth day of February. at the
hotel Pfister. Mrs W. G. Dickens is
president of the Wausau branch. 1t is
not thought, at present, that the local
league will be represented, though Mrs.
Frank Kelly is on the program for an
address.
The upholstering shop formerly
back of the Marathon Co. bank has
been moved to the store building on
Third street where Aug Kruger gro
Gerry store used to be. Mr.. Vogt, the
upholsterer, is now ready to receive
orders for all kinds of high grade up
holstery, mattress work, carpet making,
etc. IT,
Mrs. Lydia Nowak, former resident
of Edgar, but later of the town of Most
nee, was re-committed to the state hos
pital for insane on Friday. A few years
ago she was sent TO Oshkosh, upon COM
plant of her husband. Less than two
years ago she was sent home on parole,
and showed no signs of returning in
sanity until recently
Law firms in this city interested in
the controversy over the incorporation
of the village of Unity, received from
Madison, Wednesday, copies of q de-
cision made in the matter, in the SUI
preme court, by Chief Justice Cassidy.
The chief justice holds that the incor-
poration, as made, was legal. 1t is now
up to the chief contestant to dig up
some other technieality on which to
stay incorporation proceedings.
A special committee of the county
board met Wednesday forenoon and
formally accepted the plans for the
new county poor house, after they mad
been accepted by the state board of
control. The committee authorized the
architect to advertise for bids in local
newspapers and to place copies of the
plans and specifications on file in the
contractors and builders exchanges of
Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The provisions contained in the bid
may be found in another column.
JAS. Gray, local character who
works around livery stables, served
five days in Jail last week upon plead
ing guilty to charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons 1t is alleged that
Gray was ehamored of the charms of
young lady working rs waitress in
Washington street restaurant and that
when she spurned his offer of marriage
he went to hardware store and pur-
chased a revolver and made threats
that he would shoot her. Officer Green
was notified of Gray's actions and ar
rested him before he could carry out
his threats.