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

Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets
The Third Reg't., to which Co. G OF
this city belongs, will go into camp
this year on July II.
DR.. Turbin, the eniInont German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, March IL.
A bill for new 100000 post office
building in the city of Appleton, has
been favorably reported in the Senate.
w. G. Witter, who has been confined
to his home for month with the grip
is now able to be up and is improving
WANTED-A neat girl to do second
work. Apply at N. Heinemann's, 6O4
Franklin street. f25-tf.
Gen. King, of Milwaukee, is expected
in the city before long, to make an in
spection of Co. G.. The company is
drilling twice week at present.
If you are in need of shingles call
and see our large assortment and get
prices before buying elsewhere.
If. BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
The south bound passenger train on
the St. Paul road Thursday morning
was delayed in reaching here, owing to
a wreck at Irma. Several box cars ran
int the ditch and turned turtle.
Mrs. ,HuIda Sauerhering, a former
resident of Wausau, died recently at
the home of her brother in Arizona.
The funeral was held Thursday in May
vile, Wis. She left this city several
years ago.
The Wisconsin State Press associa-
ton meets in Menomonie on Tuesday
and Wednesday, March 10 and 18th.
The citizens CT that place have offered
a prize of $4,000 to the paper that
writes the best article about the city.
How's that for enterprise.
Jos. Vawickroski, arrested two weeks
agorupon suspicion of being the party
who brutality assaulted Mrs. Mary
Fitzgerald of the town of Emmett on
the night of July A, 1906, was brought
into court Saturday. Mrs. Fitzgerald
not being able to identify him he was
discharged.
Chas Hoffman, resident of II IN
of Easton, died Wednesday. | s
sixty-one years of age, and had d
in tlis county for the past twenis e
years. He is survived by six childr /.
The funeral was held yesterday aft, :
noon, hey. F. Buerger. conducting Sc :
vices.
An Irish-American club has been or
ganized il Wausau with officers as fol-
lows: President, P. F. Curran; vice.
president, DR.. P. J. Taugher; treasurer,
Jas. Brown; secretary, w. c. Brawley.
A committee has been appointed to
secure some good speaker for st. Pat
rick's day.
A dispatch in the Milwaukee Free
Press on Thursday states: 1.-THE resig-
nation of the Rev. Paul j. Gehm as
pastor of the Evangelical Friedens
church has been formally accepted by
his congregation. Mr.. Gehm has ac-
cepted call to the Salem church of
Chillicothe, o." Mr.. Gehm is married
to daughter of Rev. and Mrs. F.
Schaer and was born and reared in this
city.
Mrs. Jos. Gusman, residing in the
town of Weston near Kelly, died last
Tuesday afternoon from COMPLICATIONS
following child birth. The funeral was
he}d from the Polish church in this city
Friday morning. She is survived by
her husband, two children and her par
ents. She was twenty-eight years of
age. The casket in which she was
buried was made by her father, accord
ing to Polish custom.
The Lenten season begins tomorrow,
March z and continues until Easter
Sunday, April 10. The season of Lent
is perhaps more generally observed by
people of all Nominations than any
other holiday or period of the Catholic
or Episcopal churches, the religious
rules of which, advise strict observance
of the season by meditation and fasting
There will be nothing doing in social
way in Wausau during the two months
of the Lenten period.
An examination viii be conducted BY
the local board of the civil service CON-
mission on Msrch IA in the court house.
1t will be for the benefit of those who
desire to accept an appointments as dep
uty oil inspector for this district, No. 81
vice the present incumbent. Geo. A.
Halder, who was appointed last Tues
day to succeed the late Aug. F. KroeI,
ing. Applicants must be twenty-one
years of age or over and must be a
resident of this district. The district
includes all of Marathon county except
the villages of Athens and Milan. The
duties of the oil inspector are to test
every shipment of oil received at the
ioca. warehouse.