Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-02
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.


Tuesday, at which time several i'm
portrait matters viii be settled.
A twelve inch water main will be
laid on Canal street from the intersec-
tion of South street to the railroad
track.
Some ladies buy wall paper now,
others wait until'spring and pay twice
as much. Buy now and save 80 per
cent.-O. G Callies.
| Yesterday was the first day for the
payment of water tax and about 100
consumers turned their tax into the
city treasurer's office.
Instead of the preaching service at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
evening there will be an illustrated
address on the life work of Paul the
apostle.
| The suit or overcoat that bears the
stamp of Seim Bros is one which can
not be penetrated by the cold blasts
of winter, which wears and looks well,
and which gives the best of satisfac-
| tion.
Paul A. GrisWold of Milwaukee, and
| Miss Hattie Ringle of this city, are to
be married tomorrow in the Presby-
| terrain church, by the Rev. las. Duer
| A number of out'of town people are
present for the ceremony.
You ought to see the bargain
| counter of remnant wallpapers at
Piers. All the women in town are
talking about it and wondering how
he can sell SO cheap. Some say he
ctnla if IF tXarr auap ha ~ xroo n cri Fl
to him.
The young ladies of the high school
gave supper last Saturday evening
| in the Y. Nj. G. A. building in honor
of the Amigo foot ball team which
| played here that day. There was a
large attendance and the proceeds
were applied to the athletic fund of
| the school.
The fourteen inch water main laid
| through the eastern part of the city
| the past summer has been carried to
point between the fill on Grand
| Ave-, and the railroad bridge. Next
season the work will be resumed and
the pipe will be carried across the
river to Third avenue,
The PILOT in its last issue, pub
lished the fact that r. Il. Powers had
purchased paper in Durant, Okla
| homa. Since then Mr.. Powers has
returned to Wausau and is now busily
engaged in packing his household
| furniture and getting ready to depart
with his family for their new home
They will get started some time next
week.
The Tuesday Musical club is hold
| ing its regular monthly meeting to-
| day at the Wausau club house The
program was an unusually fine one
| Those who took part are Mesdames
Geo. Hart, Ed. Boehm, L. A. Pradt,
| A. L. Kreutzer, +. Barden, S. S.
Davis, Ingraham, the Misses Strouse,
Imogene Harger, Jackson, Hopp, Roach
and Moore.
Miss Florence Wilson gave Mother
| Goose party on Halloween evening"
II girls came out in costume and were
entertained at dinner. There was
Little Boy Blue" "Mother Goose"
''Bo-Peep," "Queen of Hearts with
| her plate of tarts" and the witches,
all were there. They roasted marsh
mallows and ducked for apples and
had good time generally.
Louis Garske, clerk in Callies' store
is confined to his home by reason of a
dislocated shoulder. While riding
down the old Lake Shore hill Satur-
day on wheel and carrying large
| pane of glass, the coaster brake on the
wheel failed to work. He saw his
| danger, dropped the glass and at
| tempted to jump off the wheel, but
| was thrown heavily to the ground,
| with results as stated.
A bur worked itself off one side of
the rear axil of the Standard Oil Co. s
wagon this morning allowing the
| wheel to run off and the aXil to drop
This happened on Third street be-
tween Scott and Mcclellan. The
| tank was filled with oil at the time
| and it was necessary to get jack
| screws to lift. the wagon up so as to
| get the wheel back on. The tank
| dropped so near the street car track
that cars could not get by and trans
| ferS had to be made another instance
of John ID. holding up the public.
Tomorrow evening at ll:15 special
car will leave the city over the @. 81
n. w. line for Milwaukee, which will
carry the Wausau and Marathon
|
vention of teachers. There will be
| going, besides the county superintend-
| ent, o. E. Wells and Miss Rosalia
Bohrer of the training school, Supt.
| S. b. Tobey, Prin. G. G. Parlin and
many of the teachers of the city
schools. The convention will continue
from Thursday to the end of the
week.
A woman arrived here Friday from
st. Paul, who claimed to be the wife
| of Jos. Kennedy, one of the fellows
arrested for blowing tile safe in
the Athens bank. She wanted to go
inside the cell and visit with the pris-
oner and got indignant because she
was not allowed to do SO. She went
so far as to offer her clothing to be
searched for saws or tools of any kind
with which the prisoner might effect
| his escape. She was allowed to talk
| to him in the presence of the sheriff,
and any design she may have had was
| frustrated.
The change of time on the st. Paul
| will do away with the complaints
made by the citizens of Mosinee, made
| happy over the return to the old run
ming time of passenger trains or near
IN the same time. The people were
| greatly Inconvenience while the
passenger went up the line early in
the morning, and few days ago they
made a protest TO the state railway
| commission and asked that the COM
| pany be forced to either put a night
man in the depot or have the depot
open and fire built, so that people
would not be obliged to stand out