Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
OCCURRENCES OF LONG AGO,
ITEMS. OF INTEREST WHICH WERE PUBL ISHED
IN WAUSAU OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO

from their town to Wausau.
They only got as far as
Lake Vieux Desert. An expeudi-
ture of $1,000 would make good winter
road all the way In no part of the
Union is the country more beautiful,
and the scenery more romantic than
around Like Vieux Desert. There is a
luxuriant growth of blue-joint grass
and enough hay can be cut from the
open places to supply New York City.
The lakes and streams are alive with
fish
Local news of August 5th, 1857:
Wheat, rye and oats promise an abund-
ant harvest; that brass band would
be organized at the Forest House on
Aug. 7th that a new hotel is being
built by Balsar Williams at the corner
of Fourth and Jackson streets; that the
basement and first and second stories
of the Barnes block are up; that the
Marathon County Agricultural So
ciety" was organized Aug. 1st, 1857, at
the Forest House. Thos. Hinton pre-
sided; "a names were enrolled as mem
bers; officers elected were
President-Thos. Hinton.
Vice Presidents-Burton Millard and
Henry Cole.
Rec. Sec.-Thos. Single.
Cor Sec.-F. A. Hoffman.
Treas.-M. Hobart.
Executive Conn, E. Armstrong,
O.. l.. Judson, w. III. Kennedy, Jos.
Barnard, p. d. Marshall. The execu-
tive comriittee was instructed to fix
date of The first county fair; member
ship fees were fixed at 81 90 per year,
which entitled like amount to be
drawn from the state.
A writer in this issue says that Henry
Cate, informed him that he had sold %
lots ia Mosinee the week previous, and
that Mosinee is certainly destined to
become one of the most important
places on the river, north of Stevens
Point, and it becomes the people of
Wausau to look well to the policy which
they pursue, or they will soon find it a
rival of overshadowing power.
Local news of Aug. II, 1857 That it
was time to arrange for Village
Charter" and have it granted at the
next legislature; that we need corpor
ate powers for abating nuisances, grad
ing and improving streets, levying
taxes, organizing fire and other COM
panies; that Benz. Single had brought
into the Office cluster of oats, about
rs stalks, nearly feet high, which is
the average height of the oats in his
large field.
Local news of Aug. %, 1857: That
Jos. Barnard had brought in some
samples of millet, the heads of which
are over 20 inches long that VIM,
Clemson and M. Hobart were elected
delegates to the democratic district
conventions; that Hirarn Calkins was
elected to the republican district con-
vention; that at a meeting held at the
Forest House on the 18th, over which
Eli r. Chase presided, the following
named were chosen to attend the re-
publican assembly district convention
to be held at Plover on the 10Th inst.
Asa Lawrence, Hiram CalHins, Alben
Clark, G.. L. Judson, VIM. Kennedy,
Burton Millard, Joseph Dessert and
Thomas Single. The latter could not
attend and Hugh McIndoe was substi-
tuted.
In the news items of Aug. %, 1857
John B. DuBay, half-breed Indian,
well known here, shot and killed man
named Reynolds, in Portage City, on
Aug. 10Th.
A column editorial urges the nomi-
nation of Walter d. McIndoe for gov
ernor of Wisconsin.