Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-16

c G. Parlin delivered his lecture on
Rome in Tomahawk Saturday evening.
Children's headwear and baby bon
nets at the Misses Delaney, 6l0 Third
st.
S. w. Welland, one of the young men
of our city, will soon go to Portland,
Oregon, to reside.
Rev. II. c. Postlewaite of Marshfield,
preached in the Presbyterian church
Sunday, both morning and evening.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, Wednesday, April 7th
Prof. John E. HiIlberg addressed the
four o'clock, mems meeting at the Y. M !.
q. A. Sunday afternoon. Subject, 1.-THE
Question of an Autocratic Employer"
There is time TO paint, which. taken
at the flood, leads on to money saving.
The time is now and the place to buy
paints is at c. q Piers 204 Scott St,
| phone l426
Chas. zimmerman and Ida Pophal were
! married Saturday at the home of the
| BRIDES parents, Mr. and Mrs Ferdinand
Pophal, in the town of Wausau. They
will reside in the city
Chas. A. Cowee's little girl fell and
sustained severe cut in her forehead
last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cowee
is in the Wausau Business College and
resides at 6l3 s. Fifth Ave-
FoUNp-Near my home on Tuesday,
March 2, an overcoat. The owner may
have the same by proving property and
paying for this notice.
w. w. THAYER, Hogarty, Wis.
A civil service examination was con-
| Quoted in the city last week for posi-
| tons as school teachers in the Philip
pine islands Two young men from
Lynn, Wis, were the only ones to APP
pear
A number of members of the local
Rebekah lodge are contemplating going
to Merrill tomorrow to attend the dis
trict meeting of the order. 2. A. BadOur
of Oconto, grand master of the Odd
Fellows lodge, will make an address at
the meeting.
Eta May and VIM +. Thurn. recent
arrivals in the city, were divorced in
circuit court Saturday. the woman be-
ing the petitioner, alleging that she had
been cruelty treated. The parties came
here from Minnesota ia January. They
have one child, which will be in the
custody of the mother.
The police picked up stranger on
one of our streets, well dressed, but
much the worse for liquor. When be-
ing docketed at the city hall he was
asked, what is your name?" He
answered, "Smith" "Your full name"
queried the officer. "That's the name
l always give when I'm FULL he
answered.
Rev. Father Dunne's fame has pre-
coded him, as there is much interest
evinced in his lecture to be given st.
Patrick's day. There is being sold a
very large number of tickets for the
event. Father Dunno is perhaps one OF
the ablest platform speakers in the
Northwest, and his subject, "The Irish
American" will give him an opportun-
ity to heap new honors upon himself.
The fifth and concluding number of
the Y. NJ G.. A course will be given in
the opera house Wednesday evening,
March 81. On that evening Geo. r.
Vending of Washington, d. O., will
give one of his popular lectures. Mr..
Vending has ten lectures in his roper
toire, six on modern doubt and four
on historical subjects. 1t is not known
at present which one he will choose to
give in Wausau.
Prof. Pyre of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin delivered the last
of a series of lectures before the Ladies'
Literary club of this city on the even
ing of Friday last He spoke in the M.
E. church, and his topic was Amer
lean Writers and American Culture"
He devoted most of the evening to a
discussion of Walt Whitman, bis writ
ings and his characteristics. Whitman,
he claimed, was not polished writer,
but he appealed to the common people.
One of the old conductors on the
Wausau Street Railroad Co.'s line, Who
is somewhat of a poet has composed the
following lines:
Oh woman you are charming,
And poets long have sung
Their sweetheart verses to you
In every written tongue,
But none of them has ever
Told why it is that you
Will always leave street car
.ot dne gnorW
Supt. S. b. Tobey of the city schools
| spent the latter part OF the week in
Madison, appearing before committee
of the legislature, in furthering the in
terests of bill presented which, if
passed will be of benefit to teachers
who devote the first part of their lives
to the profession. The bill provides a
| pension of $500 annually to those spend
ing 20 years in teaching. The pension
fund is to be made up by taking l0c
from the general school fund for each
child of school age and per cent. OF
the salaries of teachers. There is a
probability that the bill will meet with
| the approval of the legislature.