Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-09
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

l.. L. Spencer NJ d.. Office in the
Mckinley block, corner of Third and
Mcclellan streets. If
The people Of Marathon City have
voted to raise So 500 TO buy school
house site and to erect graded school
on the same.
DR.. ID. I. Jones has purchased an
auto of the runabont style. His horse
less carriage, purchased last summer
was not as much of success mechani-
caily as he expected aud he traded it in
as part payment for new machine.
P. o. Means OF the city, Ferdinand
Sellin OF the towa OF Hamburg and Ed
Protze OF the village of Fenwood, com
posing the county board special com
mittee appointed to sort out aud de-
stroy an accumulation of old county
papers, commenced their wcrk last
week. Only papers which have been
copied into the records will be burned
w b Baker of Stevens Point isin the
city getting large crew of men to-
gether to begin the work of remodeling
the old Merrill Lumber Co.'S plant He
is superintendent of the D. j. Murray
CO., of Wansau and will have the work
of installing all the machinery of the
new plant. 1t is expected that the work
will be completed in time for the new
firm to begin manufacturing lumber
this fall Merrill Advocate.
Architect Dean of Wansau was here
last week and met the committee that
had been appointed to consider and rec
ommend improvements to the First
Congregational church The commit
tee reported 10 meeting of the church
held on Thursday evening, and the
church by vote directed Mr.. Dean to
draw plans and make specifications for
the contemplated Improvements.
-Rhinelander Vindcator.
Doc" Bentley and daughter, Miss
Kate, of Wausau, spent couple of days
in the city, the last of the weea, thc lat
ter being guest of Mrs. Martha Grant
Baker, on Wisconsin street, and while
here a number of other White school
friends had the pleasure of meeting her
the first time in a number of years
Both promise to come again next year,
and the father, who is in his 77th year,
is hale and hearty, and says he is as
k,oo p.1., ~
Last Sunday new time schedule
went into effect on the Marshfeld
branch of the e. & n w. Ry The
9.34 a. m. train now arrives from Eland
Jet. at 905 and goes clear through 10
Marshfeld, instead of stopping here as
it has done heretofore. This will be
great accommodation to the travelling
public and one which the business men
of Wausau have sought for long time
At Marshfield it makes connections
with the Omaha train for Eau Claire
and the Twin cities. On the return
trip this train will arrive in Wausau at
p. m. ftfeaves Marshfieid Immediate
Iy after the Omaha train arrives from
the West, making practically through
train each way. The train departing
for the east in the morning now leaves
at 7:15 instead of 7:20
JAS Brown, of the firm of Healy &
Brown, was summoned to Portage last
Tuesday in response to a telegram an
bouncing the death of his mother, Mrs.
Mary Brown. She had been in i'll
health for some time and Mr.. Brown
who had been visiting her left her on
Monday feeling fairly well. While he
was on the way home she had sinking
spell from which she did not recover.
Mr.. Brown, as soon as he got home, was
notified of her death and had to return
on the next train. She was seventy five
years of age She came to this country
from Ireland when ten years of age and
resided in Rockford, ILL.,, for fourteen
years and then moved to Portage, which
had since been her home. She is sur
vived by six children, three of whom
reside IN this state, the balance in
Seattle, Wash