Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-19

at the 4 M. y. A. ana this week a
mems club will also be organized.
Henry Mckay, j. A. Bonnell and
Frank Norman will attend the Nation
al ski tournament at St. Paul, Feb.
9th and eth.
Thirteen thousand of the new series
of stamps have been ordered for the
local post Office. They will be on sale
about Feb l.
DIR. and Mrs. Russell Lyon will give a
skating party tomorrow evening, ia
honor of their niece, Miss Helen Baker,
of Ashland, who is visiting them.
The Wausau high school basket ball
team defeated the Marshfield high school
team on Friday evening by score of 81
to l6. Our high school report gives
full particulars.
Wausau and vicinity has enjoyed
several very spring like days. Sunday
and today, the sun came out, shedding
its balmiest rays, and there was con.
siderabiy of thaw
Miss Gertrude Sell. daughter of Sheriff
and Mrs John l.. Sell, who has been
confined to her bed with an attack of
appendicitis for several weeks, is getting
along nicely at present
Fay Shaddock, accused of burglariz-
ing the Stratford depot recently, pleaded
guilty yesterday in municipal court
and was sentenced to serve one year in
the state reformatory in Green Bay.
This evening, at the M f church,
Prof. Devereaux will deliver an Illus
trated lecture on aerial navigation.
The Prof. is chief of the weather bureau
of Wisconsin and his lecture is very en-
tertaining and instructive. Every
should attend
Mrs. Matilda Kulpinski, residing at
$50 Jefferson ST., died Friday aged sixty
six years. She had been i'll two weeks
with pneumonia. The funeral was held
Monday from St. Michaeps church.
Her aged husband is also very i'll with
the same disease.
The Fausau Merchants association
is taking active steps to make the an
nual meeting and banquet OF that
organization, to be held Monday, Feb.
l, the most successful event of the
society. The committees now have the
work of preparation well under way.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the
organization of the Liederkranz society
will be celebrated on April 25-26. AS
yet the program is in an embryo state
A meeting will Ge held this evening TO
further complete details The celebra-
ton observance will be held in the
opera house and Elks' hall. The PILOT
will give the program as soon as it has
been completed.
A number of Y NJ C. A. delegates
were taken over to the Barker & Stew
art mill Saturday and showed the work
ings of Northern Wisconsin saw mill,
unfamiliar to the people of Southern
Wisconsin. They were much interested
in what they saw and one of the gentle
men used the subject of the visit as an
in his remarks in an address
at one of the churches Sunday.
Soleproof has many uses aside from
being the best floor varnish on the
market. For furniture and interior
work it has no equal. 1t dries quickly
and has hard finish. 1t comes in all
colors, suitable for any wood The
store of G.. G Pier & Co, has been
given one coat of it. Anyone wishing
such an article should visit this store
and witness the effect of this varnish.
Sold in any quantity.
One of the visitors to the Y. NJ. C. A.
convention was D.. X. Fogwell of
Kenosha. Mr.. Fogwell is physical
director. of the association of that city
He is an old friend of w. IL. Norman
local physical director In comparing
notes the two found that their home,
Hamilton, Ont, has at present over
twenty men engaged in Y. M. &. A
work, mostly as physical directors.
An accident occurred yesterday morn
ing in the Quaw Lumber Co.'s mill in
Edgar, resulting in the death of one of
the employees, Richard Kroening. The
man was feeding one of the saws when
a small timber was thrown back, strik-
ing him in the abdomen. Injuries we're
produced which resulted in the mans
death few minutes later. He was
resident of the town of Vein and is sur
vived by his wife and five children
Deceased was past forty years of age.
Mrs. Mary Kennedy died Saturday at
her home, 133 jefferson street. after
siege of pneumonia. Mary Trantow, as
she was known before her marriage,
was born in this city March 10, 1869.
She was married to Daniel Kennedy in
1890, he dying in 1901. Since her hus-
bands death she conducted a boarding
house, first Oh Washington street and
later in the old Madden hotel on Jeffer-
son street. She is survived by two
daughters, Hazel and Isabelle The
funeral was held this afternoon from
the NJ f church, Rev. F. IL. Brigham
conducting the same.
AT the Y NJ. c. A physical directors
conference held Saturday afternoon, a
committee composed of C. s Mlnter of
Milwaukee, ID. r. Fogwell of kenosha,
and F. c Rogers of Fond du Lac, was
appointed to draw up articles of ALI
anee with the A l. n A, for the pur-
pose of organizing state association.
the committee is 10 report at the physi-
cal directors conference which will be
held in Milwaukee the latter part of
February. in conference with DR. Geo.
j Fisher. international secretary of the
physical department of the I Nj e. A.
of North America. At this conference
the physical directors held their annual
meeting and elected officers as follows;
rresident-D. r. Fogwell of Kenosha.