Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-21

recently duueu repairing, upIlOlSUerlng
and re-finishing of furniture. If
There is no better time in the year
to paint your house than in the fall.
White lead and oil paints, such as
Callies sells, are the best.
A fire started in the shayings spout
of the Goodwillie box factory yester-
day noon. The fire department had
little trouble in quenching the fire.
VIM. j. Dessert, who has reputation
for taking large contracts in cement
work and always giving satisfaction,
is just now putting in some fine barn
floors near Marathon City.
Mrs. j.. p. Briggs entertained for
Mrs. Chas Livingston last evening. 1t
was in the nature of a farewell" as
Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston will go to
Texas to reside in October.
The Marathon county training
school for teachers is crowded to its
utmost. 1t has seating and desk
capacity for SO, and has 81 pupils.
About 20 had to be refused admission.
Ever wear crayenette? They
not only turn rain, but are warm
and are just the thing for chilly days
in fall when you don't want to wear
an oyercoat. Let Seim Bros. show
you their new line. 1t won't do you
any harm.
j. G. Elliott, building Inspector
in the employ of the government,
spent Saturday in the city. He came
here for the purpose of looking over
the local post office building, to de-
termine whether or not it is in need
of any repairs. He found that it is
not.
1926, 900 worth of lumber was de-
stroyed by fire at Ashland yesterday
afternoon and the yards of the Lake
Superior Box Company were entirely
destroyed. The j. Stearns Lumber
Co. lost about $4,000, 200 feet. The
loss TO the former is about $4,000
and to the latter S225, 900.
A log falling off a car as train was
passing through Pine River Saturday
afternoon, demolished a switch stand,
opened the switch and caused the de-
railment of ten cars, all loaded. The
cars and their contents were SO piled
up that nothing could get by, even on
a parallel track, and for about twelve
hours all traffic was tied up.
j. Reynolds and Jos. Houlihan of
Rosholt, were in'the city today look
ing for men to dig potatoes. They
were offering $500 per day for men
and $3.50 per day for kids. The latter
were wanted to pick up Murphies.
They failed TO secure any help here.
The gentlemen report that there will
be very large crop of tubers in their
section of the country and buyers are
at present offering 30c and 32c per
buShel.
1t is reported that John Schneider
is very sick at his home in Neillsville.
Mr. Schneider was formerly resident
of Wausau and for a number of years
peddled fish about town. He is a
member of Cutler Post, No. So, G. A.
r. His son Henry, foreman in the
moulding department of the ID. }.
" 50 hQpn
with him part of the time since he
was taken i'll. He is suffering from a
stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Amanda Jacobus, a former
resident of this city, spent part of last
week in Wausau, returning to her
home in Gwinn, Mich, on Friday.
While here she was q guest of the
families of o. c. Callies and Theo.
Kohl. Gwinn is new mining town
and Mrs. Jacobus states that there is
not frame building it in and none
are allowed 10 be built. Though the
town is small, some handsome 500, 900
and $4,000 buildings are going up.
John Werner of the town of Mara
thon, farmer and ex-sheriff, claims
that he killed rattleSnake on his
farm few days ago. He says it was
about thirty inches long and had four
rattlers grown to its tail. John claims
he knows RATHER when he sees one,
having been on intimate terms with
them in Washington county before he
came here. He has lived here forty
years and this is the first time he has
seen or heard of RATHER being killed
in the county