Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.


The trains on both roads have been
very late every day during the cold
weather
The Wausau students of Lawrence
college will return home for the holt
days 10 morrow.
Mrs. James Single has been confined
to her home by illness for several days.
She is improving at this writing.
The students of Carroll college, as
stated in the last Pilot, have all re-
turned to the city for the holidays.
The, Misses Orpha and Phoebe Jones
have issued invitations to their young
friends for dancing party at the
Wausau club house on Monday even
ing.
Just a few more days i'm which to
buy that tie, silk handkerchief,
muller or silk suspenders Remem-
Der that Seim Bros. have the assert
ment e choose from.
Ed. Lemke, who has been connected
with the Wausau fire department for
over twenty years, has applied for the
privilege of retiring and being placed
on the tiremen's pension list.
The annual church fair of st. James
church was held in the hall of the
church on Wednesday afternoon and
evening. 1t was a very successful
event, the ladies taking in $4,000.
There will be civil service exam
ination tonight for the position of
chief of the fire department. Several
parties from outside the city, we I'M
derstand, will take the examination.
Some people prefer sweets for
Christmas presents Stark has pre-
pared a very fine line of bon-bons. nut
up in fancy boxes, for the Christmas
trade. Store 604 Third st. dl4-2t
VIM Buchholz, a young married
man, aged tnirty-one years, died yester-
day in Sc. Mary's hospital after three
weeks illness with typhoid fever.
His remains will be taken to Prince
| ton. his former home for burial.
You can't make mistake when you
buy some article of wearing apparel
| of Seim Bros. for Christmas present.
The assortment is there, the goods
are there, the styles in season and
| prices are right.
The peculiar properties of Cham
| berlain's Cough Remedy have been
thoroughly tested during epidemics
| of influenza, and when it was taken
in time we have not heard of single
case of pneumonia. Sold by all deal
ers.
| The Marathon county members of
the American Society of Equity have
| meeting scheduled for Jan. s, in this
| city. 1t is expected that c.. o. Dray-
| ton of indianapolis, national president
OF the society, will be present for an
address.
| Mayor John f. Lamont has vetoed
the resolution adopted by the council
a week ago, authorizing a change of
site for the Sixth ward engine house.
| The veto will be taken up at the next
meeting of the council.
The stock of neckties, muffiers and
handkerchiefs went SO fast last week
at Seim Bros store that they ordered
another large lot. They await your
| inspection. You will find many other
things in their stock which will make
Jack or George happy.
Henry Juers, city treasurer, began
/
ing. The Marathon County bank re-
| reports that Notwithstanding the
| when most people are "broke," the
money is coming in fast.
| If you are suffering from bilious
ness, constipation, Indigestion, chron-
ic headache, invest one cent in a
| postal card, send to Chamberlain
| Medicine Co., Des Moines, Iowa, with
| your name and address plainly on the
back, and they will forward you free
| sample of Chamberlain'S Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Sold by all dealers.
The body of Mrs. Jos. Woodara,
who died at the county asylum, was
shipped to the College of Medicine of
| the University of Wisconsin last
| Thursday for dissection. A law passed
at the last session of the legislature
| provides that if deceased persons are
not claimed by relatives within forty
| eight hours their remains shall be
sent to the College of Medicine, UNI
| der penalty of fine of $50, to be paid
| by the undertaken.
| A case entitled Norbert Sero VS..
| Eunice Sero, is being tried in circuit
court. The plaintiff is applying for a
divorce and the defendant has filed a
| bill of exceptions to the complaint.
| There are number of women present
| from Ashland as witnesses. Charges
of adulterous practices are made on
both sides, and the testimony is of a
character not suited TO the needs of a
Sunday school. Sero was formerly a
policeman on am Indian reservation
near Ashland, and has supplied many
an item of news for the Ashland
| newspapers.
There will be a family reunion at
| VIM. Warehouses; home Friday at
| which there will be four generations
| present. Mr.. and Mrs. David @.
Thompson and daughter Kathleen of
| Winneconne, and Mrs. Celia Braun of
Athens are expected to arrive in the
| city Thursday evening. and also
| Emmett Waterhouse who is attending
the Winnebago county agricultural
school, of which Mr.. Thompson is
principal. Grandpa Jos. Heinemann,
who has made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. VIM. Waterhous6,
since his wife's death, will occupy the
place of honor at the Christmas board,
he being eighty-four years of age.
Little Miss Kathleen Thompson, his
great grand daughter, who was born
last May, of course will be very inn
portant parsonage at that dinner
Queer how Hortonville booze effects
ones vision. 1t is the duty of the
night policeman of that village to
| turn out all the street lights at eleven
O'Clock. One night last week he saw
the seven O'Clock passenger train go
through, thought it was the eleven
O'Clock train, and turned out the
| lights. The mistake caused his
| superiors in office to remove the pep
per box lid from its fastenings above
his led pencil pocket. Years ago a
| WauSau policeman, now dead, saw a
COW king in one of our streets. The
! night vas dark and being full of the
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