Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03

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Blvd, aged forty-nine years. She
had not been in good health for a
year. The remains were conveyed to
| her home for burial.
Aug. RaddatZ, pedestrian who has
been spending several weeks with a
relative in the town of Wausau, will
| give walking exhibition in Paul
Seymour's hall in that town next Sun
day evening. He will try to equal
the five mile record set by Geo.
Littlewood of England.
Robt. Wegner and Fred Marquardt,
who returned on the Friday evening
previous from Horsehead lake, gave a
fish supper Sunday evening, to which
a number of friends were invited.
The affair took place in the dining
room OF the Northern hotel, and the
fish and other edibles were greatly en-
joyed by everyone.
VIM. Anderson, a member of the
firm of Anderson Bros, at Granite
Heights, entertained party of Wau-
sau friends over Sunday Sunday
afternoon he took them up the Wis
consin river for launch ride, which
ended with picnic supper on the
banks of the Wisconsin river, near
the site of the new Trappe rapids
dam.
The Wisconsin Retail Granite and
Marble Dealers association will hold
its fifth annual meeting in this city
next Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
| day. AS amusement features it is
| planned to take the members on a
sight seeing trip up the river to the
| plants of the Marathon Granite Co.
and Anderson Bros. & Johnson.
There will be supper served at Roths-
childs Thursday night
That Scott street is the most popu-
lar thoroughfare in the city is due to
the fact that Piers paint store is
| located on it.
A delivery horse belonging to the
Singer Mfg. Co. broke loose from it's
fastening yesterday morning and ran
| down Washington street at rate of
speed considerably in excess of that
allowed by the city ordinances. At
one time the horse missed farmer
LADY, rig by hairs breadth and then
ran up onto the sidewalk and along
the walk for short distance. He
was stopped and caught before doing
much damage.
Fulton street, between Second and
Sixth streets, is being macadamized.
The old water mains from one and
one-half inches to three inches, are
being taken up and replaced with six
inch mains. All of the old pipes taken
up are about half or two-thirds
choked up with the growth that is
slowly but surely filling our water
| mains. 1t was also shown that much
of this was in a condition that could
easily be flushed out.
At the city council meeting tonight
anotice will be read of an appeal from
action taken by the council early in
July on bill for services rendered by
DIR. l.. M. Willard. He gave surgical
and medical attention to poor
charge and the council refused to
allow the bill. He will take an appeal
to the circuit court. A petition will
also be read asking that Frank Leman-
ski be allowed to transfer his saloon
license from 210 Washington street to
1903 N. Third street.
Edmond Grawein, a six year old boy,
whose parents reside between one and
two miles west of Hamburg post Office,
ran away from st. Mary's hospital
Saturday night, where he had minor
operation performed. The boy was
homesick, and slipping out of the
hospital unobserved, he wandered
down town and over to the west side
of the river. There he was found cry
ing by west side resident who cared
for him over night. The boy was re-
turned to his home next day.
In another column will be found
some poetry written by Henry Mckay
of this city, at Lake Louise Chalet,
Laggan, Can, where he is spending
his summer vacation. For the bene-
fit of those who are thick headed we
will say that the lady" referred to
in the poetry is a Canadian fir tree.
Accompanying the poem Henry sent
us sample of his 'lady's hair" 1t
is black, stiff moss which covers the
fir. Henry is undoubtedly greatly en-
joying himself in range of mountains
which he says are the rockies of Can
ada.
A. A. Book intends to leave next week
for Milwaukee, where he will attend
the first annual meeting of the Wis
consin Circuit Court Clerks associa-
ton. The society was organized JAN
uary 81 last. The convention will be
held in the Republican House, Aug.
l0-l1. In glancing over the official
program one may infer that consider
able humor will be injected into the
meeting, if he is TO judge from the
titles of papers which will be read.
One topic is why l made the sacri
fee to serve the public" Another is,
"How to secure an office and how to
spend your money in campaigns"
The Sharpshooters' society conduct
ed its annual picnic and prize shoot
ing events at the Shooting park Sun
day. There was fairly good attend
ance and it was an enjoyable affair
for those participating in the various
sports and amusements offered. In
the prize shooting tae following were
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