Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-28
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
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Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets.
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DIR. B. II. Conlin was laid up with
sickness several days of the past week
Mrs. w. II. Mylrea was confined to
her home by an attack of the grip the
past week.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, May z.
DIR. Russell Lyon will have his dental
rooms in the Wisconsin Valley Trust
Co.'s building, corner Fourth and
Scott streets.
The funeral of Thos. Wilcox, held IN
Knowlton Thursday, was attended by
Sheriff Frank O'Conner and Chief Thos.
Malone of this city.
S. M. Quaw's electric automobile
rived in the city on Wednesday aid 1t
has been seen on our streets more or
less since its arrival.
Mrs. w. o. Carrier, of Waukosha,
was elected president of the Women's
Missionary society of the Milwaukee
Presbytery, on "Wednesday.
IT. is expected that work will soon be
started on the plant of the Edgar Staye
and Veneer Co. at Edgar. The COM
pany is capitalized at $751;
w. E. Hudtloff, cashier of the Citizens
State bank, is preparing to move MS
family here from Shawano. de will
store his goods until he finds q suitable
house.
Grace Staege died at the home OF her
narents. MIR. and Mrs. Otto Staege, Sl4
Park Ave, Thursday She was fourteen
wears of age. The funeral was held
yesterday afternoon.
Edward Richter, charged with aban-.
doning his wife and child, was arrested
in Shawano the fore part of last week
and brought back and placed in jail.
He deserted his family last November.
John Zimmerman, of Merrill,
accused of the murder OF George fynn,
who died from the effects of being hit
over the head with beer bottle, six
teen months ago, was acquitted on
Thursday.
Paul Pophal and Miss Mary Taylor
were married last Tuesday afternoon at
the home of the brides parents, Mr.: and
Mrs. Jas. Taylor, on the Sturgeon Eddy
road Rev. F. III. Brigham performed
the ceremony.
The Mosinee Land, Log and Lumber
Co. started its mill in operation last
week. The mill is situated on -Four
Mile creek. The company has supply
of logs on hand which will stock the
mill we'll into the summer.
For sALE-Store, dance hall and
saloon for sale cheap if taken before
July 1st, 1908. Doing good business
and located in a good farming commun
itv. For further particulars, address
box "a, r. f. ID. No 2, Merrill, Wis.
Six hundred pounds of dynamite
stored in warehouse in Eagle River
exploded Friday morning, causing
more or less damage to six business
blocks; loss about S15, 900. No one was
injured The warehouse was on lire at
the time of the explosion.
E.. M. Griffith, of Madison, state
forester spent a portion of last week IN
this city, and while here concluded
negotiations for the taking over by the
state of the cut-over lands OF the I aw-
key Bissell Lumber Co. These lands
will be made part of the states al
ready large forest reserve.
DChas. Hensel, a former resident of
this city, was drowned last Wednesday
near Kalispele, Mont. A word to that
effect reached his father. Fred Hensel,
$50 Bridge street, on Friday morning.
The young man was twenty-five years
of age, and left Wausau three years ago
for the west and has silce been work
ing for lumber firm of that section.
The telegram gave no further informa-
ton other than to say that the body
had not been recovered at that time.
1t is expected that the Mosinee tele-
phone sytem, now being built, will be
ready for business by May TO- All of
the poles have been set and the wiring
is being completed. At recent meet
ing of the company it was voted to ex-
tend the line into Vanishville, which is
three and one-half miles northwest of
the village The company has also ar
ranged to lease the line operating be-
tween the village and Moon and work
will soon begin on another line into
kronenwetter.
At the last drill meeting of Company
G, the new Springfield rifles were dis
tributed to the members of the COM
pany. The new rifles are much shorter
than the old krag- Jorgensen, which the
company has been using for several
years. The sew Springfield rifles are
equipped W. sword bayonet about
four inches longer than the old ones
and wooden seabbard covered with
russell leather. New belts will be given
out soon to which the caateen and
haversack are attached, doing away
with the shoulder straps which were
formerly used for these things.
A number of farmers living in the
vicinity of Edgar have banded their in
terests and organized the Edgar Farm
ers' Store CO., the capital stock being
fixed at $4,000. The intention is to
operate a store in Edgar, under the CO.
operative system, the stockholders get
ting their goods at cost prize AID the
profits from the other patronage to be
divided pro rata among the stockhold-
ers. A similar store has been in opera
ton in Athens for several years aud
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