Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14


of the post office building have arrived
and the work will again be pushed
Choice from 10000 extra quality en-
bossed and gold papers for parlors,
halls and dining rooms. Made to sell
at straight 15c the roll, special SIC, dur
Ing. sales days, May % %. Must be cash
puichases.-O. G. Callies.
Cutler Post, g. A. r. has not COM
plated its plans for Memorial day SER
vit;es, but will do SO at its next meeting
Monday evening. The observance will
be marred this year by the late season.
There will be few, if any. flowers for dec
Grafton, unless they are purchased at
green houses.
Adjt. Gen. Boardman has assigned
dates for the encampment OF the three
Wisconsin regiments of militia and
and Tenth separate battalion for this
summer. The T.ird regiment. of
which Co. e, of Nausau is part, will
be in camp from July 20-26. Wednes-
day, July "A, will be Governors Day"
One feature of the program this year
will be a lecture to officers on military
subject. Co. q. is short of men and
enlistments will be accepted up to
| June s.
Chas. Damon was examined yester-
day by physicians and pronounced in
sane and was committed to the North
ern State Hospital for Insane at Winnie
bago. Damon has been an inmate of
the county Jail for several days, an
account of his doings being given else.
where in this paper. In the examina-
ton the fact was developed that he uses
on an average of six grains of morphine
daily, an amount sufficient to kill
several men not addicted to the habit.
Last Saturday Glen Walker, son of
Ed. Walker, proprietor of the Washing
ton street livery stable, drove an aroutus
party down to the vicinity of Gardeners
mill. He had two teams hitched to
bus and when Gardeners was reached
the fore horses became unhitched from
dropped down on their heels, frighlen-
ing them. They started to run along
the river bank and after going short
distance they fell into the river Assist
ance was summoned and one horse
was rescued, but the other drowned
The animal was valued at $500
The local lodge of X p acted as host
for visiting members from Amigo,
Rhinelander and Crandon last night
Several new members were initiated
and class was put through the mys-
teries of the third degree. This was
followed by supper at which j. p.
Coates presided as POSTMASTER and
short addresses were made by num-
Der present. The program was some
what hurried because the visitors de-
sired to return on the 1l:l5 train.
Those from Amigo were DR.. II. ID.
Single, A. c. Conway, Fred Berner,
+. w. Banter, w. b. Macarthur, Louis
Cohn. AL. Duchac, DIR. Jones and Robt
Brown. Rhinelander and Crandon each
had a few representatives present.
The county board will meet in spec
ial session tomorrow afternoon. A
chairman to succeed A. +. Beebe, who
does not care to serve any longer, will
be elected and then an adjournment
will be taken until the following day to
give the new chairman an opportunity
to appoint his committees. Perhaps
the most important thing to be debated
and acted upon at this session will be
the matter of either increasing the APP
preparation for the new county poor
house or making some other provision
whereby it can be built. AT this session
of the board there will be seventeen
new members out of fifty-nine. For
the first time in the history of the coun-
ty there will be three physicians on the
board. These are Drs. EdmOnds, of
BrOkaw; Kautzky, Of Colby. and Dan
ieIs of Mosinee-
Lizzie Hillsberg, girl who was taken
to Milwaukee several weeks ago to be
treated for blindness, has returned
home. When Lizzie left Wausau she
was unable to distinguish anything near
her. Her blindness had been growing
for seven years, but when she returned
to Wausau last Saturday her eyesight
had been partially restored and after
another operation has been performed
later it is expected that she will fully
recover her sight. Her eyes are still
bandaged and will remain so for sew
eral weeks. Her blindness, it is said, is
due to an attack by rooster one day
several years ago. The rooster flew at
her and pecked one of her eyes, caus-
ing the sight to be destroyed. Later
the other eye became affected and for
several years she has suffered one of
the worst misfortunes which can come