Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-18

Business Training Business
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l.. E. Spencer. Nj. D., Office in the
Mckinley block, corner of Third and
Mcclellan streets. If
DR.. Turbin. the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, August "a.
The date of the regular meeting of
the Mems league of the Presbyterian
church was last evening. but the meet
ing was given up for the farewell recep-
ton of DR.. and Mrs. s. N. Wilson.
On Thursday evening next the teach
ers attending the institute now in ses-
sion will be entertained at dance to
be given in the Rothschilds pavilion by
the teachers training school alumni.
Frank Kroening and Miss Emma
Kruger will be married tomorrow
afternoon at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Kruger,
51l Chicago Ave. Rev. F. Werhahn
will officiate.
The M. E. church congregation Joined
with the Presbyterians Sunday morn
ing, that they might be present to hear
Rev. s. N. Wilson's farewell sermon.
+. H. Brigham was unable to be present
on account of illness.
For SALE-Store, dance hall and
saloon for sale at bargain. Doing a
good business and located in good
farming community. For further par
ticulars, address box "a, r +. d No. 2,
Merrill, Wis. itf.
During the past week large rocks
have been hurled distance of several
blocks from the Plumer mill pond,
where the street car company is blast
ing out fume. These rocks have
crashed through roofs and windows
and persons living in the immediate
vicinity have cause to fear damage to
their property each morning when the
blasts are set off,
Louis Hermanson. who spent several
weeks in the state of Washington, and
who recently returned from that
country, says that industrial conditions
in the West are better than they are
here. There are few idle men and in
many of the large cities advertisements
for help are placed on bulletin boards.
He is much impressed with the country
and intends to locate his family in that
section.
A. ii. Woodwork, postmaster of
Tomahawk and an attorney well known
in the valley, died last Wednesday of
liver trouble, an operation having re-
Gently been performed without relief.
He was at one time county clerk of
Winnebago county; he lived for while
at Merrill and then went to Tomahawk.
He was sixty years of age. His re-,
mains were taken to Oshkosh for burial
on Thursday.
Announcements have been received
in Wausau of the marriage of Miss
Elizabeth Gumaer to j. III. Delano. The
ceremony took place at the home of
the brides mother, Mrs. George
Gumaer, Gladstone, Ore, on the 9Th
day of August. Mr.. and Mrs. Delano
will reside in Portland, Ore. Mrs.
Gumaer and daughter were former
residents of Wausau and are well known
to all old settlers. ~
Tohn S;apooon ard Ionic na bnar xuora
recently executed in the San Quentin,
(Cal } prison for committing a series OF
murders and robberies One of their
victims was VIM. Friede, brother of
Isaac Friede of this city, and former
resident of Wausau. On the night of
Sept. IA, 1906, the two men entered his
store. They asked to be shown some
goods on shelf and when he turned
to take down the goods they struck him
over the head with an iron window
weight, crushing his skull They then
robbed the cash drawer. Friede was
found next morning and was still alive.
He lived for several days afterward.
A business education secured at the
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The west side hose cart was sum-
moned to The agricultural school Thurs
day, through some one getting unneces-
sarily frightened. The janitor was at
work that day in the basement and
was warming up a small quantity of
coal tar with which he intended paint
ing some of the schools property. The
tar boiled over and caught fire. A
volume of smoke soon filled the base
ment and worked upward to the rooms
above. The teachers institute was in
session in the building, and the teach
ers, thinking the building was on fire,
ran out. Someone summoned the fire
department, though there was not the
least danger.
DR.. w. T. Lawrence, dentist. Over
Dunbar's jewelrv store. Telephone
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