Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-21

Mrs. Taylor Alexander is still re-
ported to be very sick ut her home on
Warren street.
The Wausau Brick and Tile company's
plant which was recently destroyed by
fire, is to be rebuilt.
Cones orchestra furnished music for
dances the past week at Clintonville,
Camp Douglas and Necedah.
Skating is unusually good on the
Wisconsin river. Several of our skaters
were enabled to make the trip to Mer-
rill by ice the other day.
Henry Laatscn, wne was laid up all
fall and winter with an attack of
typhoid-pneumonia, is ,,ble to be out on
the street again. The disease left him
partly deaf in one ear.
Miss Cora B. Tressider, has ac-
cepted the position in our city schools,
caused by the resignation of Miss
Florence Wells, as teacher of the first
grade in the Washington school.
Henry Wibinski, Russian Pole, was
arrested Thursday evening and placed
in the city lookup because he mani
tested symptoms of insanity He was
examined next day and found to be
insane, and was taken to the Oshkosh
State Hospital for Insane at Winnebago
The man is stranger in this locality
and cannot speak English.
The Goth anniversary of the M. E.
church at Kaukauna takes place next
Sunday, and on that occasion Rev.
Brigham has been invited to deliver
the sefman which he will do on Sunday
morning. Rev. l., NJ Edmonds will
occupy the pulpit in the NJ E. church
in this city next Sunday morning fc:.
Rev. Brigham and S. B. Toby in the
evening.
Atty M. B. Rosenberg addressed the
Mems club of the Presbyterian church
last evening on "Humor of the Law"
1t is highly spoken of by all in at
tendance. There was large turnout.
The proposition made by the Carroll
College Glee club to come here for an
entertainment some time in March, was
turned over to the executive committee
for decision.
Tom Jones was the name given by
bum who blew into town Friday He
is the champion trapper of the country
according to his story and has trapped
from coast to coast ard every species of
animal has fallen victim to ms witness.
He lived in country once, he says,
where pelts were the medium of ex-
change. He bumped into police
officer and got arrested on charge of
vagrancy and next day was driven out
of town.
"Dr" John Till of Somerset, has
decided not to leave the state, but will
stay and fight the state board of health.
He has resumed operations and is
working overtime to treat" the vast
number Of patients calling on him. He
has been visited the past week by
several from Wausau Recently he
sent 500 to his native country to be
deposited in bank. He made this in
the past year, it is said.
Jay B. Tompkins has been attempt
ing to hire canthook men today for the
woods, offering S35 per month and
board, but has had lad luck in get
ting any. This somewhat disproves
the theory of some people that the bot
tom is knocked out of everything in The
country. Still it is a curious condition
lower wages than for years, and still
no idle men to take the jobs. Mr..
Tompkins stated that he can hire
swampers and the cheaper grades of
woods labor, but no canthook men.
The cold wave Gag was hoisted to
the top of the flag staff at the court
house on Wednesday, Jan. 18th. While
mercury did not drop below zero, still
it was pretty cold for a day and then
the spring-like weather which has been
with ussso long returned. Sunday end
Monday were ideal days, and on the
latter about all the snow there was on
the ground melted away; any way Sc
much of it that there was no sleighlng
left. Our loggers want snow and want
it bad.
A pension board, to have charge of
the fund which will be created for pen
sioning firemen in the city's service.
according to the provisions of the
law passed by the last legislature, has
been organized in Wausau. 1t is COM
posed Of the following: M. ii. Duncan,
mayor; Henry Juers, city treasur
er; II. E. Marquardt, comptroller,
and Frank Zielsdort, Ted Doonen and
r. ID. Sawyer, firemen. M. II. Duncan
was made president, Ted Doonen, Sec
rotary, and Henry Juers, treasurer.
John Foster. deputy game warden, is
collecting evidence against some trout
fishermen and expects to land them in a
day or two. He found evidences of
their work yesterday and arrived on the
scene just few minutes too late to nab
the bunch. At present he is handi-
capped for help. Deputies Hall of
Shawano county and Robrecht of
Langlade county have been discharged
by the state game warden. so that Mr..
Foster is compelled to work alone He
expects to have some assistance soon.
A La Crosse dispatch in the Milwa
kee Free Press of last Sunday says:
Manager Daddy Ferguson of the Lum-
berjacks, is on q trip into the east and
middle west after players. Wausau
already has number of crack players
signed up" He has already signed Cy
Dahlgren, pitcher, who lives in Indi-
ono and ErapE Warnar an snffaldar