Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-16
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, Wednesday, Nov. II.
The Barker & Stewart Lumber COM
pany is looking for men to work in
the woods at Glandon in the town of
Hewitt. o5 If.
Prof. w. A. Garfield of Carroll
Pollege, occupied the pulpit of the
presbyterian church on Sunday, dur
imp Rev. Duer's absence.
Thousands of people die every win
ter as a result of colds contracted on
account of broken window panes.
Moral Have Pier do your glazing.
The Sunday school workers of the
Presbyterian church will hold social
on Friday evening in the church.
The ladies' missionary society will
serve the luncheon at l5c per plate.
Hi, there! Speaking of the very
best horse shoeing-we don't do any
other kind. We're the experts and
the price is always right. Come and
see us.--M. j. KAvANAUGH. ml5-tf
Alvin Brotherton of Colby, and
Henry III. Aschbrenner of Stratford,
both of this county, have registered
for the short course of fourteen weeks
in the College of Agriculture, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M.
E. church is arranging to hold a
bazaar in the church on Wednesday,
Dec. 18th. A feature of the event
will be dolls booth, where hand
somely dressed dolls will be for sale.
The annual sale and supper of the
Ladies' West Side Aid society of the
Presbyterian church, will be held in
the church on the east side, on this
Tuesday evening. Sale commences at
2 O'Clock and the supper will be served
after O'Clock.
The farm of Jos. Danek, in the
town of Harrison, was sold last week.
Mr.. Danek and family will return to
their old home in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mr.. Danek's health has been poor of
late and it is the reason for his dis
posing of his property. Mr.. Danek
has represented his town on the
county board for several years and
has become well known during the
time he has lived here.
DR.. j. n. Mccormick, resident of
the state of Kentucky, will be in the
city next Monday evening to address
our people, the address to be- given in
the court house DIR. Mccormick is
secretary of the state board of health
of Kentucky. He is at present travel
ing about the country speaking in the
interests of organizing city and coun-
ty boards Of health-real live ones
for the purpose of preventing the
spread of contagious diseases.
Chas. w. Hooper has been the
editor of the Minocqua Times for
seventeen years and celebrated the
anniversary of that event on Tuesday.
During all that time he has never
told an untruthful fish story and he
has ever been ready to HOoper-up for
his town to the fullest extent Min
ocqua should make it so pleasant in
the future that brother Hooper will
keep up his good work.
Seven boys of the village of Spencer
were tried in Justice Larner's court
Friday, charged with malicious de-
struction of property, l.. Klatt, also
resident of that village, being the
complainant. The complainant
claimed that on Halloween the boys
carried off one of his outbuildings and
deposited it on another residents
property The boys tried to prove
that they were not near klatt's place
that night, and therefore could not be
the guilty parties. The jury thought
their effort to furnish such proof was
failure and therefore found them
guilty. Each was fined 81, with S7.97
costs tackled on, making 4 costly
nights frolic The boys lawyer has
taken an appeal to the circuit court.
Union made shoes at Huffman &
Brach's, Sd Ave. and Clark ST. a4-tf
The state department of commerce
and labor, bureau of census, has just
issued a report on the mortality
statistics for the year 1908. Among
the important cities of the state
eleven are shown to have higher
rate of mortality than Wausau. Ac-
cording to the figures furnished, Mad
ison and Superior are the healthiest
cities i'm the state, their death rate
per | 200 of population being 90 each.
In 1905 there were POI deaths in Wau-
Sau, making the death rate l2.S per
cent. Stevens Point is shown TO be
the most unhealthy in the group, its
death rate being 1873 per cent, and
stilI that city has lived down the
name it once bore, when many of its
citizens were carried TO the bone yard,
who died with their boots on. Green
Bay is Il close second TO Stevens Point
in the matter of high death rate.