Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-21
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs L. A. Pradt will soon be
coming to Wausau for the summer.
A musical play, "The Time, the Place
and the Girl" will be at the grand
opera house on Thursday evening,
April 23d The company is large one
with a cast of 60 people. II carries
two Car loads of scenery.
Word is received that Miss Lita Heine-
mann, who is sick in Boston is fast re-
covering. B. Heinemann who went
east ten days ago is expected home to-
| morrow. Mrs. Heinemann will make
longer stay. Miss Dorothy Heine-
mann, who is in Chicago may go to
Boston in few days. The patient will
not be able to return home for month
| yet.
The Wausau Paper Mills Co. at
| present bas an enormous amount of
hemlock and spruce bolts piled up in
| its yards, besides a great many Is TT.
logs. Logs are being received by rail
every day, and in addition, the company
| has millions of feet coming down stream
| by water, so that there need be no shut
down of the mill this season because of
| lack Of material.
Seim Bros and another Third street
merchant were made the victims of a
forger on Saturday evening last. The
forger appeared at both stores and
after buying small bill of goods gave
check on the ID. j. Murray Mfg. Co.
in payment. The check had the name
of the company printed on it and was
| payable at the First National bank.
| Each check was for 1924 and payable to
John Lenney. He passed both checks
within the supper hour and, it is pre-
sumed, got out of town on one of the
| st. Paul trains. As the forgeries were
not discovered until yesterday morning,
| the fellow had ample opportunity to
| get long ways from Wausau, and it is
not likely that he will be apprehended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schalow, resi-
dents of the town of Berlin, attended
| the Lutheran church at Iaegeville, Sun
day forenoon and after the services met
with mishap. They got into their
vehicle and -arted for home southwest
| from the village. The horses became
] frightened at something and overturned
| the rig and the occupants were thrown
out. Mrs. Schalow sustained broken
arm and her husband was more or less
bruised. The horses then ran into a
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| cut up. A local physician was called to
set Mrs. Schalow's broken arm and a
veterinarian was summoned to take
care of the horse.
Mrs. Mary Mohr, Wisco1siris Cassie
| Chadwick, has Just completed a SEN
tence of one year in the Rock county
| iail and has returned to her old haunts
in Chippewa county and has laid claim
\ to boy of whom she says she is the
| foster mother About four years ago
Mary was doing an extensive business
in this locality and succeeded in
mortgaging her farm near Stanley for
about twenty times what it was worth.
| She was tried in the Marathon county
circuit court for alleged fiimflamming
methods employed in extracting money
| from our county surveyor, h. III.
these same methods which landed her
in the Rock county Jail.
A suit was started in court yesterday
entitled Peter Wehrley VS.. Fred Nj.
Genrich. Wehrley, who conducts q
real estate Office in this city, alleged in
his complaint that on May /, 1907, he
made an option contract with Genrich
for the sale of 100 acres of land and
farm utensils, situated in the town of
Texas. The terms of the contract were
that should Webrley sell the land for
IS 500 he was to receive specined per
cent of that amount for making the
sale. He could find no buyer and so
notified Genrich. The later then offered
to give him everything he could get
above $780, A little later he sold the
property for s.. 200 and after the sale
was made Genrich. he alleged, refused
to pay him the 500 he wss entitled to.
The latter is resident of the town OF
Texas and was formerly clerk of that
town. The case was non-suited.