Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19


Mrs. B. I. Single and Mrs. j. Nj. LuIl,
have issued invitations for whist party
this Tuesday afternoon.
Last Thursday was Franklin Pardee's
birthday and one of the presents he
received on that day was a very fine
canoe.
MIR. and Mrs. G. F. Dunbar enter
tanned friends at whist. on Tuesday
evening. The highest score prizes were
won by Mr.. and Mrs j. W. Coates.
Miss Mathie Tiggs, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Tiggs, of the village of
Mosinee, died Wednesday evening of
pulmonary tuberculosis, aged twenty
three years.
The annual meeting of the Univer-
salist society will be held in the church
on Thursday evening, at 8o'clock. All
members of the society are requested
to be present.
Most farmers have finished their
seeding and will soon begin working
out their road tax There is consider
able road improvements to be made in
every town this spring.
A civil action was tried in municipal
court the fore part of last week, entitled
Bertha Ruhnke VS. Alex. Mcdonald. The
question at issue was the moving of
line fence. The case was dismissed.
Shinglesl Shingles Shinglesl Do you
need anys We have them and the
kind that will suit you. Call and get
prices before purchasing elsewhere
If. BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
The funeral of Peter Sicard of Most
nee, was held Thursday. He died the
Sunday previous after suffering para
lytic stroke, aged seventy -four years.
He was one of the pioneers of this
county.
The Wausau Paper Mills Co.'s drive
in Prairie river was hung up a week
ago, but recent rains, it is thought, will
bring it into the Wisconsin. 1t is with
in few miles of the mouth of Prairie.
The drivers worked twenty-four days.
Master David Winton celebrated his
18th birthday last Thursday, May 14th,
by inviting in number of his young
boy friends to supper. after which games
we're played. All enjoyed the event and
departed wishing David many happy
returns of the day.
while addressing jury in case in
an Iowa town recently a lawyer became
excited it is said. and shouted Gentle
men of the jury, there are just SO hogs
involved. Please remember that fact !;
just three times as many as there are in
the jury box. gentlemen He did not
win the case"
The agricultural association has de-
layed the work of building a woven
wire fence on the north side of the fair
grounds until something definite is
heard from the city regarding the
society's proposition to turn it over for
park purposes during the summer.
The height and kind of woven fence
will be determined later.
Reports from the surrounding
country state that the recent rains have
swelled all stream so that log driving
can be successfully carried on. The
rains also greatly helped the farmers,
for the ground had previously dried up
so as to retard the termination and
growth of seed. Some country roads
are reported to be in very bad con-
dition since.
A stranger who gave his name as
Emil Kaiser and who died the fore part
of the week in St. Mary's hospital, was
buried at county expense in the potter's
field, Wednesday. He had been working
with St. Paul R'y construction crew
when taken sick with pneumonia and
came here for medical treatment. He
claimed to have relatives living in Alta,
Mich, but a communication addressed
to them received no response.
Holzhay, better known as "Black
Bart" has been pardoned from prison
by the governor of Michigan. About
eighteen years ago Holzhay became
famous through single handed hold-ups
of stages and passenger trains in
Northern Wisconsin, finally shooting
two men near lake Gogebic and getting
life sentence. He was raised on a
farm in Shawano county and has re-
turned to that county a model citizen,
it is said.
Two cars of the interurban type, or
dered by the street car company some
time ago, arrived in the city last Tues
day evening. Properly speaking, the
material for the cars came. Contrary
to expectations, the cars did not arrive
assembled and ready to be put on the
track, but in parts. These parts must
be put together and this work will be
performed at the car barns. The cars
are provided with four forty horse
power motors and capable of seating
seventy-fiye persons. One section is
closed and the balance open. As soon
as the cars are built up they will be
placed in service for they are needed
now to carry people to Pine park. Cars
now running on the Schofeld line will
then be taken off and used for the traf
fic to the base ball park.