Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-03
SHORT NEWS TEAS.


The Monday Evening Staay club met
last evening with the Misses Hoefinger
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon. will be at the
Bells House. March 12
w. Ii. Wones, of Milwaukee, spoke
before the mems club, of the Y. M. G.
A. on Sunday afternoon.
The Stevens Point Normal basket ball
team will play with the Y. M. C. A.
team on Friday evening.
Two chimney fires on Saturday
brought the fire department out No
damage resulted in either case.
Ex-Mayor Joseph Reiser had birth
day on Sunday and some of his friends
called in that evening to help him cele-
brate.
MIR. and Mrs. Herman Ruder have
announced the marriage of their daugh
ter, Miss Helen, to Mr.. f. C. Langen-
hahn.
Rev. f. M. Thompson, of Stevens
Point, was in the city, Wednesday, to
ofliciate at the funeral of George
Guenther.
John Gates, Jr, and Miss Eva Mayo
were married last week at the home of
Louis Marchetti They will 90 to Mon
tana to reside.
The party given by Wausau company
uniform rank K p in Castle hall last
Thursday evening, was q very pleasant
and enjoyable affair, and largely at
tended.
Peter Melchoir died Saturday in st.
Mary's hospital, aged about eighty
years. Deceased had been an inmate
of the county poor house for number
of years.
VIM. Hussong has resigned as men,
Der of the fire department For the
past five years he has looked after the
fire alarm system and acted as hose
man at fires.
Do you want shingles? If you do
call and look over our large assert
inOut anu ScI pHlCcS beAOIe purchasing
elsewhere.
If. BARKER q STEWART LUMBER Co.
DR.. Spencer and Lou Wright, of Wau-
sau, accompanied by two woodsmen,
passed through the city Monday on
their way to Ashland county, where
they will look over timber lands
Marshfeld Times
1t is well to have your carriage all
newly painted when it comes time to
use it. We carry a large line of every
conceivable color of carriage paints,
which have stood every test applied to
them.-O. &. Calhes.
AS an evidence of the approach of
spring, several flocks of crows have
been seen flying over the city the past
few days. These inky birds generally
appear about the first of March and
never turn back, until fall
Mrs. q. w. Wilson had the misfortune
to fail and strike her face against the
corner of stove at her home the other
day. She came within very little of
losing the sight of one of her eyes, but
luckily escaped with only cash being
cut very close to the same
Mrs. Aug. Winter, residing at SIS
Lincoln Ave, died Saturday in st.
Mary's hospital, where she had been
confined for some time. Deceased was
nearly fifty-seven years and had been a
resident of this city for twenty-one
years. She is survived by her husband
and five children. The funeral was
held this afternoon from lions
Lutheran church.
The annual meeting of the Central
Wisconsin Fair circuit association will
be held in Stevens Point next week
AT that time dates will be set for hold
ing fairs for 1908 in the cities of Merrill
Wausau, Stevens Point, Chippewa Falls
and Lacrosse. A meeting of the Mara
thon County Agricultural association
will be held Saturday night for the pur
pose of determining who to send as
delegates to the meeting.
AT this springs election one cannot
vote ticket by merely putting al
the head of the ticket he wishes to vote
He must mark X after the name OF
each man he desires to vote for. It i:
thought this method Of voting will dc
away with some of the hardships exper
fenced by inexperienced voters who
desire to split their ticket and dom
know how, and who rather than tax,
chances Of making mistake, vot,
straight
Wausau hay scales are all guarantee,
and some of them have to go through
very severe tests. The other day, tw,
of the we'll known citizens of on
county, Aug. Rick, of the town o
Easton, who believed he was heavie
than John Bahr. who resides on tn
west side were weighed to get 8
the facts. Mr.. Rick backed up hi
belief with substantial bet. He los
for both weighed the same, 275 pound
apiece, or $50 together.