Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-15
SHORT NEWS TEAS.

Neal Brown delivered an address
Thursday before the Bryan club of
Grand Rapids.
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House. Sept. q.
Chas Simpson, of Marinette, has sue
ceeded L. S. Dunbar as manager of the
A. E. Burlingame Tobacco Co.'s local
store.
The daily edition which has been is
sued by the Merrill Advocate for several
weeks has been suspended because of
lack of patronage.
If you are in need of shingles call
and see our large assortment and get
prices before buying elsewhere.
IT, BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
WANTED-Good responsible parties to
take logging jobs near ManitOwish and
Hurley. Inquire of Scott & Howe Lum-
Der company, Ironwood, Mich. s15-4w
Vincent Vitelli, charged with being
an accomplice in the recent robbery of
the Fenwood Creamery and Produce
Co.'S creamery in Fenwood, was dis
charged on Wednesday for lack of evil
dence.
Those who will attend the state nor
nal school in Stevens Point the coming
year from this city are the Misses Emily
Nutter, Mary S. Marson, Armilda Rifle
man, Josephine N. Collins and Anna
Ellingson.
A fire started under a cook stove in
the basement of Mrs. Orley Lamphier' s
boarding house, corner of Grant and
Seventh SITS, Friday. A large hole was
burned in the floor, but the occupants
of the house extinguished the fire before
the arrival of the firemen.
The cabbage crop all over the state is
reported to be failure this year and
cabbage buyers have formed a pool
which will control the market. Sauer-
kraut manufacturers have formed a
trust, so that the poor man this winter
will pay dearly for this fodder.
The foundation walls for the Wausau
Street Railroad Co.'S additional power
house are being laid. The super
structure will be built of concrete
blocks aud the Concrete Block and
Supply Co. will furnish the blocks.
The steel truss work will require near
ly 100 tons of steel, which will be sup
piled by the Wausau Iron Works.
Police Officers German and Peterson
found an automobile in the street in
front of the Bells House Thursday
night and not finding any owner for it
they ran it down to the dog pound and
locked it up. An owner was found for
it next morning in the person of Nj. c.
Ewing. MIR. Ewing went home the
night before, absent mindedly not
knowing that he owned a machine OF
that kind.
The police and fire commissioners
conducted a competitive examination
Thursday evening for the benefit of
those desiring positions on the police
and fire departments. Ed. Baerwaid
and Julius Raduechel took the exam.
ination for police officers, while Otto
Binzer, Chas Zielsdorf, E. Wendell aud
Henry Wegner desire positions on the
fire department.
John Hett, resident of the west side,
was arrested Wednesday upon com
plant of his sixteen-year-old daughter,
who charged that he had cruelty beaten
her. The testimony showed that Mr.
Hett had been provoked into whipping
his daughter because when asked to
perform some house work she answered
him in a manner unbecoming a young
Miss. He was discharged.
In view of the present danger of a
great fire breaking out at any time
while this dry weather continues, the
mayor, water commission and water
superintendent warn all citizens to
observe the city ordinances with ref
erence to sprinkling lawns and gar
dens between eight O'Clock in the morn
ing and five in the evening. Persons
discovered violating the ordinance will
have their water supply shut off and
will be prosecuted as WE'LL
Shingles! Shinglesl Shingles! DO you
need any? We have them and the
kind that will suit you. Call and get
prices before purchasing elsewhere.
If. BARKER Il STEWART LUMBER Co.
Two bells arrived Wednesday for the
new Trinity church on the west side
and were at once hung in one of the
steeples of that edifce. They rang
long and loud on Thursday evening.
To east side people it sounded strange
to hear church bells on the west side
not that the west side people are an I'M
religious lot, for they are'not, but there
have been no bells on that side of the
river heretofore. One of the aforemen-
toned bells is larger than the other.
One weighs about 1900 pounds, the other
about $50.
In suit tried in municipal court in
which A L. Hamilton sought to recover
SS4 from school district No. 8, town of
Holton, judgment has been rendered in
favor of the defendant. Hamilton built
school house in the district at con-
tract price of 81, zoo. He received
school orders to the extent of 81, 400,
when further payments ceased. In
addition to the $500 held back, he claims
to have performed s44 worth of work
outside of his contract. Judgment in
favor of the defendant was rendered
because it appeared that Hamilton, in
making his contract, did not get the