Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

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Mrs. E. A. Gooding is entertaining a
number of lady friends at tea this after
noon.
The Mission Circle of the Universalist
church met this afternoon with Mrs. HI.
L. Crandall.
WANTED-A neat girl to do second
work. Apply at N. Heinemann's, 6O4
Franklin street. f25-tf
Special low prices on painting and
paper hanging for the next ten days.
Best of workmanship L. Mumm.
A letter received by relatives, in rela-
ton to James Jolly, of Tacoma, Wash,
states that he is very ill and that there
has been no improvement.
Leona, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Schmitz, residing at 31S Town
Line road, died yesterday, aged four
days. The little one was i'll only few
hours before death. The funeral will
be held Wednesday from st. Mary's
church.
The Mems club of the M E. church
will hold its usual monthly meeting in
the parlors of the church, on Wednes-
Gay evening, Feb. Goth. 7:30. A musical
program will be furnished and Mr.. c..
c. Parlin will give talk on the Louvre,
the great art gallery of Paris. This
address will be illustrated with lantern
slides
A local manufacturing concern
recently received car load of
plank shipped from the West
which excited the curiosity of old
time lumbermen who viewed it.
The timber was Washington fir. Zach
plank was Is feet long, inches thick
and SO inches wide, without knot.
The lumber, because of its great width,
was ordered for special purposes. 1t
was sawed in the mill of Emil Hack
barth, who moved from Wausau for the
West, several years ago.
Last Saturday noon, Mrs. H. l..
Crandall met with painful accident.
She went to the furnace and threw in
some grease, the damper in the pipe
being closed, sheet of flame pulled
out from the door and burned her right
arm quite badly. Her hair was singed
and it was a wonder she escaped with
out her clothing being set on fire. A
physician was called and dressed the
burn and it will be some time before
her arm is entirely we'll
Fred Zingler, boy turned over to
Chief Malone early last week, was sent
back to his fathers home later in the
week after an investigation had been
conducted. The boy, who is son OF
Ferdinand Zingler, residing at 1lS Will
liams street, was found on the streets
without sufficient clothing to keep him
warm, claiming that his father drove
him from home. By order of the court
the boy was sent back home and the
father was admonished to be more
careful of his treatment of the boy in
the future.
Group of the Wisconsin State Bank
ers' association has fixed upon May 30
as the date for holding the next meet
ing. The members will meet in the
city of Stevens Point. There are about
100 banks represented in this group
and it is expected that fully that many
people will be present at the meeting
The officers are: President, H. q
Flieth, Wausau; vice president, Guy l..
Babcock, Grand Rapids; secretary
treasurer, H. G. Hambright, Marsh
field. The last meeting was held in
Wausau nearly year ago.
Sheriff Frank OConnor entered into
the horse dealing business Saturday,
forced to do so through writ of re-
plevin placed in his hands. He at
tached five horses, the owners who are
Athens people, claiming that the pur-
chaser paid down $25 on the deal and
gave mortgage for the balance. They
got little anxious about the security
and attached the animals. Yesterday
all of the parties interested got their
heads together and patched up matters,
the horses going back to the purchaser.
Last week the supreme court affirmed
the decisions Of Judge Silverthorn in
three cases. One was entitled r. A.
GirhA1oc T,Y1;
newski, involving the turning over of
500 which had been placed in the
hands of the clerk of the court as a
bond for Nicholas Wisnewski. Another
was that wherein the James Music Co.
sued to recover a judgment against S. N.
Bridge, ct. al. This case grew out of
the sale of the S. N. Bridge music store
about two years ago. A third case was
entitled A. III. STANCE VS.. city of Merrill.
The Wausau Paper Mills Co. has a
crew at work building practically a
new dam. The piers are being
extended down the river, the aprons of
the fumes are being extended and when
the job is completed the dam will be
practically twice as wide as it is now.
The old gates will be left where they
are at present. The new work only
relates to the old portion OF the dam.
That part rebuilt last summer will be
left as it is at present. Rock for filling
the new piers is blasted out of The side
of the hill on the west side of the river,
rolled down onto the ice in chutes
loaded onto sleighs and is hauled to
where the new piers are being built.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Reynolds were
called to Aniwa Friday in response to a
telegram stating that theiv son, Lyman,
had been killed the day before. The
young man was engaged at work at a
place called Washbprp Siding, near
Aniwa and in some way his clothing
caught in the fly wheel of gasoline
engine, the result being that he was
thrown heavily to the floor and sus-