Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-15
SHORT NEWS TEAS.

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto ReinecKe last Wednesday
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon. will be at the
Bells House, Monday, Jan. 18th.
Prof. w. A. Garfield of Carroll college
Waukesha, will conduct services in the
Presbyterian church next Sunday, Dec.
20.
There is nothing that will suit him
better for Xmas present than a Gil
lette Safety Razor. We have large as
sortment from s. 90 to $40 90 Philbrick
drug store. dl5-w2
Christmas trees are beginning to
make their appearance in the city, and
most of the merchants who handle them
have supply on hand. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that large portion of the
territory adjacent to the city was burned
over during the fall, the trees are sold
at about the usual prices
From the opening of the hunting sea-
son for small game Sept. /, up to the
close of the deer hunting season Nov.
30, the county clerk disposed of a total
of 1920 hunting licenses, and he has
turned that many dollars in to the state
game warden. Those desiring licenses
for hunting rabbits from now till the
first of March can secure them of the
clerk
Potato buyers report that buying of
tubers is not very brisk in and around
Hatley at present. Prices range around
62c per bushel, and even at this alluring
figure farmers are hanging onto their
crop. There are three warehouses at
Hatley in which potatoes are stored
temporarily, two of them controlled by
outside parties. John Petarski, chair.
man of the town of Norrie, is one of
the buyers.
The different town and village clerks
of the county are forwarding to the
county clerk statements of their pro
rata amount of the total tax which will
be collected in the county this year.
This includes a statement OF the tax
which will be collected for local pur-
poses. The first to make report was
the clerk OF the village of Unity, who
forwarded his statement within twenty
four hours after receiving blank from
the county clerk
Do you want shinglesg If you do
call and looA over our large assert
ment and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
IT, BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
Herman Falkowski, charged with
horse stealing, was tried in municipal
court last week and discharged. The
complainant was Geo. Senoracki.
Both reside in the town of Pike Lake
On the morning of Aug. 16 last Mr.
Sen0racki went to his stable to feed
his horse and found that it and har-
ness had disappeared. The horse was
afterward found dead in lake with
bullet hole in its head. Falkowski was
suspected of the crime and was ar
rested.
During the past three months numer-
Gus repairs aud alterations have been
made in the Brooks & Ross mill in
Schofield. These have all been COM
pleted and the mill is now in readiness
to begin saving at any time. 1t is eX-
peeted that shipping of logs will begin
soon and when sufficient supply
is on hand to warrant starting the mill
it will be put in operation. When this
mill is operated to its fullest capacity it
eats up about 1 200, 600 feet of logs every
ten days. The company has large
stock of logs cut, principally pine.
Next Tuesday will be the shortest
day of the year, the winter solstice, or
beginning of winter. according to the
almanac. II we believe our own OBJ
servations, winter began last Septem-
Der when we had blighting frost in
this latitude. Solstice is Latin word
and as it is used in connection
with the seasons, it signifies tina
time when the sun stands still before
retracing It's course. The day will be
nine hours aud fifteen minutes in
length end after that date the time be-
tween sunrise and sunset will gradually
lengthen out
ACCORDING 10 new ruling OF tue
postal authorities, postmasters all for
villages of the fourth class must here
after take civil service examination
before they can be appointed. Those
now holding Office viii ,at be affected
by this ruling. This measure is taken
for the good of the service. Thirty
four post offices in Mae&thon county
are affected by the ruling Ashley,
Bevent, Brokaw, Corinth, Dancy, Eli
deron, Fenwood, Galloway, Granite
Heights, Halder, Hamburg. Hatley,
Hogarty, Holt, Knowlton, Mcmillan,
Marathon, March, Milan, Moon, Most
nee, Naugart, Norrie, Pike Lake. Rib
Falls, Ringle, Rozellville. Schofield,
Shantytown, Smell, Spencer, Staadt,
Stratford aud Unity. twill be several
years before all of these towns get
postmasters who have taken the ex-
animation.