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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

GLANDS BOOM.

Eland Junction is in the incipient
stages of whit may prove boom of
no mean Importance, if her citizens
wake up long enough to grasp the sit
Uation and make the fullest use of it.
During the past year the Chicago d
Northwestern Railway company has
spent at this point in making improVzf
ments to its yards, approximately
100000. Since early last spring it
has had crew of from 200 to 400 men
at work grading the yards and laying
steel for more than ten miles of side
tracks. 1t has also built at this point
an eight stall round house and larger
coaling she'd.
The size of the yard would indicate
that plans are on foot to make Eland
junction an important transfer point,
and this appears more feasible when it
is borne in mind that five distinct
branches of this road will before spring
center here Green Bay via Shawano
to Eland Junction, and which will open
up aterrltory rich in timber and other
resources, the Kaukaun line, the Ash
land line, the Marshfield line and the
line to Roseholt.
One of the unfortunate features in
connection with this threatened forced
growth of Eland junction, for many
new homes will be necessary to accom-
modate the railroad employees alone, is
that it is located in low and springy
section, upon which for many years it
will be impracticable to build. The one
section of high land upon which the
principal buildings have been erected
is now pretty well taken up. About
the only available land remaining has
been purchased and plated by two
Wausau gentlemen, w. H. Mylrea and
John Lull, who had the foresight to
appreciate what was being done at
Eland and who stand to reap a good re-
ward for their investment
The Green Bay division is now COM
ple.ed to Shawano and trails will be
running into Eland Junction before
April /. This line not only opens up a
heavily timbered section, but reduces
the distance from Wausau, Eland and
other points to the lakes, by more than
fifty miles. This opens a new field
from which to draw raw material and
will also lessen the cost of placing the
finished product of our mills and fac
tories in the eastern maSkets.-Antigo
Weekly News Item.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
WANTS ASSISTANCE.

John Foster, deputy game warden,
reports that as conditions now stand il
is very hard for a game warden to Sc.
cure convictions for infractions of the
law He says he recently secured evi-
dence against a Lincoln county man
and had him arrested When the case
was tried in Merrill jury was picked
from a class of men whom it could not
be expected would see things in their
right light, and the man was acquitted
About eighteen months ago an organ.
ization was formed in Wausau known
as the Marathon County Fish and Game
Protective association, which was.active
for a time and then died At present
Mr.. Foster is. endeavoring to arouse a
revival of interest in the association
that it may aid him in obtaining evi-
dence and securing convictions. Mr.
Foster hopes to get enough people IN
terested in the matter TO call meeting
soon and re-organize. He hopes not
only to get city people into the organ
ization, but to interest at least onefarm-
er in every town in the county. There
is hardly town but what can furnish
evidence of game law violations almost
every day in the year. Some other
counties have such organizations as
mentioned above and they prove OF
great assistance to the resident game
wardens.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
REV. WHARTON GOES EAST

Information has been received in this
city that Rev. F. L. Wharton has left
Seattle, Wash, to accept the pastOrate
of the First M E. church of Pittsburg
Pa. Rev Fletcher Wharton is very well
known in this city. He was pastor foI
the local M. f. congregation from 1884
to 'S6 and was the first minister to occu
py the pulpit of the old M. E. church.
now belonging to St. James congrega
ton, the church having been erected
the year he accepted the call here. a
few years ago he again visited Wausau
at the invitation of the board of educa-
ton, and preached the baccalaureate
sermon for the graduating class of the
high school.
The same characteristics which en-
deared him to the people of this city il
appears have remained with him, for
the people of Seattle gave him rousing
farewell reception. Addresses were
made by the mayor, preachers of other
denominations and Representatives OF
labor bodies. While in Seattle, Rev.
Wharton took upon himself a large
share of the work of having the bodies
rescued from the Valencia disaster
brought to Seattle for burial. His son,
Harry, who is not in the best OF health,
has entered Yale college, and it is
largely a desire to be near him which
causes the family to move east.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
RESERVOIR ITS ffaif0iR MtS Met.

Those who are interested in controll-
ing a reservoir system on the Wisconsin
river and its tributaries, met here Thurs
day, to prepare work before the next
session of the legislature, when a bill
may be introduced providing for such
a system and requirements governing
the same. A company has been
formed to be known as the Wisconsin
Valley improvement Co., with capital
stock fixed at 100000. The papers
have been drawn up and were sent to
the secretary of state Wednesday.
The purposes of the company have
been given in this paper at other times,
since the first meeting was first called,
and does not require remembering,
only to say that the main feature will
be to regulate and control the flow of
water in the Wisconsin river and its
tributaries.
The meeting Thursday was attended
by the following gentlemen:
j. Everett, Geo. O'Connor and Thos.
Laughlin, Eagle River; L. M Alexan-
der, Port Edwards; Geo. A. Whiting,
Neenah; A. II. Eeid, Merrill; E. w.
Brown, A. W. Shelton and Mart
Hirzel, Rhinelander; John Nash, r. B.
GogginS and Thos. Nash, Grand
Rapids; Neal Brown, G. d. Jones, G. j.,
Winton and Walter Alexander, Wau-
sau; Philip Spooner, the latter engaged
in building a dam near Kilbourn City.
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fellow piped out in a voice He's on
the tree again" And looking out of
the window Mr. Fairfield saw Ferdi-
nand and another boy of about his own
age up to the very tops of two tall, slim
trees at the edge of the woods. They
were swaying to and fro on these trees
which stood about twenty feet apart,
and when their branches met each
boy let 90 of his own tree and grabbed
that of his neighbor, thus exchanging
trees every time they met. The teacher
watched them for while in this
hazardous sport, with open-eyed won
der and admiration, and then speaking
to the same little girl who reminded
him at recess that it was time for
school told her to take Ferdinand s and
the other boys biographies out of their
desks and lay them at the foot Of the
trees with the injunction that when
they got through playing they might
come down and study. Rosie, for such
was the little girls name, went out
with the books and laying them down
one at the foot of each tree, said to the
boys in the same sweet little voice:
Teacher said when you git tired of fun
you kin come down and study"
ITO be Continued
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
BASEBALL CHAFF.

The Wausau Baseball association ap-
pears to be doing little, if anything,
toward securing a manager and a team
for next season although it is announced
that Wausau will be represeL ted in the
Wisconsin league. 1t was the same
dilatory methods that cost the team so
many games for half of the season last
year-other clubs had been awake and
secured good players to start with while
Wausau had to take the leavings. 1t is
announced that "Pink" Hawley may
leave La Crosse. He has been offered
some flattering positions in other
leagues. Moriarity, of Freeport, has
been drafted by Topeka, Kas., of the
Western association and there is great
hustling for player managers among
teams. In the event a Northern Illinois
league being formed and Freeport
dropping out, it has been decided to
take in Winona, MINI. Madison and
Sheboygan have been admitted, max
ing an eight club league. The money
has been raised in nearly every town
to finance a club through the sea-
son. Four of six clubs last year lost
less money than they did the first year,
while two, Freeport and La Crosse
more than paid expenses. 1t is hoped
to have all on paying basis this year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
GRANDFATHER JAN,

1t is reported that at present abou
three -fifths of the work of constructing
a dam across Grandfather rapids has
been completed. John O'Day, the con
tractor in charge of the work, has
about 100 men engaged although he
could use more if he could get them
The work is fraught with much danger
and it is not pleasant to work in oI
around water in winter. The spray OF
the rapids causes ice to form on every.
thing it touches, and to eliminate the
danger of men slipping into the water
steam is turned onto the tramways and
places on which the men travel.
The dam is being constructed at a
point mo st dangerous in the rapids,
but where the best water power can be
obtained. 1t was a gigantic under
taking. 1t was necessary to first build
a Golfer dam on one side of the river tc
turn the flow of water to the other side.
This had to be constructed of almost as
durable strength as is put into the or
dinary dam. When one side had beer
built, another Golfer dam was con
structed on the other side of the river
and the water diverted to the opposite
bank. The dam is very massive and
looks as if it would stand the pressure OF
water for ages. 1t will be about 600
feet long and in some places forty feet
high, and will develop 6,000 horse
power Mr.. ODay also has crew at
work cutting out the right-of-way for
the transmission line. About 5000 OF
the horse power developed by this dam
viii he used to operate the plant of a
Merrill paper mill and the balance will
be sold to other concerns.
The work of building the dam was
commenced last August and it is
thought that by early spring the strue-
ture will be fully completed. lie
structural iron for the power house is
on the ground and the water wheels
are expected in a few weeks.
Ever since the Wisconsin valley was
first settled the value of Grandfather
falls as water power has been realized,
but it has lay dormant all these years
because of lack of the right kind of
men to take hold of it. The PROPOSE
ton of Harvesting it looked too large a
task for anyone to undertake, until the
men back of the present enterprise set
to work. Cyrus W. Field, after several
unsuccessful attempts in laying the
Atlantic cable, said, "pll find way or
make one," ard he did The Merrill
men no doubt took old Cyrus view,
when they determined to build this
d am
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TEACHERS MEETING.

At the meeting of the Wisconsin
Teachers association, held in Milwau
kee last week, r. B. Johns, Supt. ot
the Marathon County Training Schoo
for Teachers, gave an address on "Some
Things We are Teaching the Boys in
Agriculture" Supt. S. B. Toby ad
dressed the teachers on Difficulties
Encountered by the Grade Teacher, y
and G. c. Parlin, on High School Ath
letics."
Officers elected for the ensuing yeal
were as follows:
Presidential. II. Jackson, of Crane
Rapids.
First -president-Henry Leverenz
of Sheboygan.
Second vice-president-W. F. Lusk
of St. Croix Falls.
Third vice-president-M Rose Che
ney, of Manitowoc.
Treasurer-G. w. Gehrand, of Bara
boo.
Member of the executive committed
for three years-Dominic H. Schuler, O
Milwaukee.
Nearly all those in attendance from
Wausau returned home the latter par
of the week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
NOMnEMMATInA nnnnE EraIhcC
ttsilFH y : ~ ~ iSi5 Z fftGEt DiiT VI y,

A session Of circuit court was held
Thursday morning. The petition of
the G. q n. w. R'y Co. asking for q
board of appraisers to appraise certain
lands was heard and the petition was
granted. This is the outgrowtb If a
controversy which the company has
had in building its spur track to the
village of Rib Falls. The company
tried to bug a strip of land 100 feet in
width of certain farmer and offered
him what was thought a fair price.
The farmer could not be persuaded to
sell, so preliminaries to condemnation
proceedings were begun on Dec. 18th
last. Hermine and Fred Laumer and
VIM. and Anna Gorhold were named
as the defendants in the action. The
latter lwo did not appear in the action
taxen Dec. 49, The land involved is
situated in section q, town 80, range 5.
At the hearing in court Thursday,
Judge SilverthOrn appointed as board
of appraisers Messrs. Robt. Freeman of
the town Emmet; j H. Zimmerman,
of the town of Easton, and RObt
Larner, of this city. This board is in
strUcted to meet January 20, for the
purpose of qualifying and setting a
time when visit will be made to the
premises for the purpose of appraising
the property and will report later to
the court.
The railway company has its pro-
posed right-of-way staked out over the
land and grading of track of course
will be held up until after the land is
condemned and purchased. The COM
pany has crew of men at work on the
line at present and much of the grad
ing has been done.
The company's interests in the con-
demnatiOn proceedings are being
looked after by Atty. Edward NJ
Hyzer, of Milwaukee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.

This being the time when the average
person decides to turn over a new leaf
and begin clean page. the PnoT can
offer no better advice than that sug-
gested by the Marshiield News ia its
last issue. Here is what John White
says:
"* And now a word about
the new year 1t viii be here next
Tuesday-1907; you can't stop it from
coming any more then you can stop
the old year from going But there are
a whole lot of things you can do better
than you did do in the departing year
No one knows what they are better
than you do yourself. Be your own
blacksmith and ask God to help you
straighten out the kinks. Don't make
lot of new resolutions. Be a manly
man or a womanly woman. If you
can't be good all the time be careful
Don't go to church twice on Sunday
and be hypocrite the rest of the days
of the week. Keep yourself busy mind
ing your own business and you will be
eating short cake while the other fellow
is eating pretzels. Remember always
that it is just as easy to say something
good of a person as it is to say some
thing bad. And another thing, just
apply the same thing to the town you
live in. In other words put the ham,
mer on the shelf, you may need a boost
struck vein of poetry and
didn't know it, Live for your loved
ones and hereafter. If you haven't any
loved ones, get some. Don't go around
imagining yourself the fellow you see
printed in books, with the world on his
back; you are too light for such heavy
work. Just help to keep things moving,
but do it cheerfully. If you want this
world to be better be better yourself"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
The Grip.

Before we can sympathize with others,
we must have suffered ourselves" No
one can realize the Suffering attendant
upon an attack o. grip, unless he has
had the actual experience. There is
probably no disease that causes so much
physical and mental agony. or which SO
successfully defies medical aid. All
danger from the grip, however, may be
avoided by the prompt use of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, Among the tens
of thousands who have used this rem
edy, not one case has ever been reported
that has resulted in pneumonia or that
has not recovered. For sale by w. w
Albers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

Considerable difficulty has been ex-
perienced the past week with the drive
well system. Some time after the water
from the drive wells had been turned
into the city mains, it was discovered
that there was a leak somewhere and
connections had to be made with the
old well again. The greatest difficulty
was experienced in finding the leak. 1t
was finally located in pipe leading
to the main connection with the pump
ing station. The dirt was removed and
it was found that there had been flaw
in the pipe before it was laid. A patch
was put on of concrete and cement and
the patch allowed to dry. On Thurs
day connection was again made with
the drive wells with the result that
everything has been working satisfac-
tOrily since.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National bank, OF
Nausau, Wis, will be held in the hall
of the First National bank building, on
Tuesday evening, Jan. Sth, 1907, at Z
O'Clock for the election of directors and
such other business as may come before
the meeting. All stockholders are
requested to be present.
Dated Dec. 4th, 1906.
a. II. CROFT. Cashier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
SHORT NEWS TEAS.

HOUSE TO RENT-Apply at the PnOT
Office.
DIR Harriet a Whitehead, O'stO-
pathic physician. Spencer building. II
The new house Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. G.
Stewart on Grant street was occupied
Thursday. It is one of the finest homes
in the city.
Phillip Hollis, dentist, will make
metal and rubber plates and porcelain
Xnlays Office over the Continental
Clothing store. noV3l-t
Nos Charter died Christmas day at
his home in Merrill, aged eighty-four
years. He was the father of Dennis
Charter, of this city.
w. w. Walker, of Wautoma, has
opened an office over ROhde's book
store, where he is showing up the good
points of Mound City Kitchen cafe, or
Cabinet, which is invaluable to every
housewife.
Painters and decorators have been at
work the past week in Frightening up
the appearance of the Bells hotels
dining room. The grill room has been
uSrd as a dining room while the work
sias been going on.
The employees of the local post office
report that the mail to and from foreign
countries was larger this year than ever
before. The amount of registered mail
was also larger. The latter class of
mail makes more work and kills more
dime than any other class.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. A. Pritchard, Mara
thon county people, who live on farm
il the town of Mcmillan, have no cause
for complaint this holiday season.
Santa Claus called at their home and
left three little girls of total weight of
fifteen pounds, and they are all Pritch-
ards.
Mrs Daniel Leahy died last week at
her home in Two Rivers, Wis. She was
former resident of Wausau and moved
away from here twelve years ago. She
was thirty-two years of age and is sur
vived by three children and her hus-
band. The cause of death was blood
poisoning.
Arthur Koch, arrested few days ago
charged with embeZzlement, was in
court Thursday, but another postpone
ment of two weeks was taken. His
bondsmen delivered him to the sheriff
that day and refused to longer serve
on his bond. The complainant is Ed
ward Ranels, who was in partnership
with Koch in the cigar manufacturing
business.
The Wisconsin River Pulp and Paper
Co.'S plant in Stevens Point was badly
damaged by fire last Monday night.
The fire originated from a hot box in
the wheel house. The latter was en-
tirely destroyed and nearly every por-
tion of the mill was damaged About
$50 hands were at work in the plant
and nearly aH will be employed in
cleaning up and repairing tie mill.
Up to the present, City Treasurer
Henry Juers has collected over $50, 900
ofthls years tax. The tax payers are not
conh9g as rapidly now as they did Just
before Christmas, still Mr.. Juers and
his assiStant, Miss Madden, are kept
busy all Me time. He has two colIec-
ton windows arranged with a sign over
each designating which wards each
are for. He collects for the first five
wards himself and Miss Madden for the
other four. lie this way they do not
conflict with one another's work, in
looking over the roll book for each
ward.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
A Sure Cure For 81. Yfus Dance

"Clark's Nerve Tonic" has been in use
so years and it has not failed to cure a
case where the directions were faithfully
followed. 1t is equally effective in re-
lieving nervous prostration and extreme
nervousness, etc. For sale by Frost
Philbrick Drug Co., also by q. w.
Clark. Send all communications and
mail orders direct to g. w. Clark, 204
Jackson St., WaGsau, Wis. m22-tt
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A Jamaican Lady Speaks Highly o

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Mrs Michael Hart, wife of the super
intendent of Cart Service at Kingston
Jamaica. West Indies Islands, says thai
she has for some years used Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy for coughs, Group
and whooping cough and has found il
very beneficial. She has implicit conf
dence in it and would not be without g
bottle of it in her home. Sold by w
W. Albers.
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ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the Marathon
County Agricultural society will be
held in the court house, in the city of
Wausau on Wednesday evening, Jan.
9th, 1907, at 7:30 p. m.
d25-3w l.. X. WRIGHT, Sec.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

WANTED-A good strong boy, is years
old, wants place to work for his board
and lodging and 60 to school Apply at
PILOT office
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

The Marathon County Granite Co.
expects to resume operations next
Thursday. During the temporary shut
down new machinery has been installed
in the plant.
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MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.

of
section 81 and neg section town So and S section
Ian
nw and nW and sw14 section 2 80 seq section
s.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-29
EIGHT HOUR DAY BATTLE.
Girls Eemployed.

New York-The United Rogers &
Co., one of the New York Typothc-
tae of America reports that Typothe-
tae firms whose press feeders have
struck for an eight-hour work day,
have filled the places of the strik-
ers with girls and will employ girls
to do this work in the future.
No new strikes have occurred, as
both sides are awaiting the decision
in the federal and local courts on the
contempt proceedings. John MacIn-
tyre, secretary of the United Typo
thetae, in speaking of the situation,
said:
"The decisions of the courts will
determine whether we can run our
own shops. If we have to concedc
the eight-hour day demand it will
mean the reorganization of our shops
on an eight-hour basis. am not
given to making prophesies, but [
can safely predict that in such a case
there will be more suspensions of
printing concerns in the next six
months than have taken place within
the last six years"