Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Specialist anu surgeon, VIII Ue dO lHe
Bells House, Wednesday, July %.
The city engineer is preparing plans
and specifications for the bridge which
is to replace the one crossing the river
at the pumping station.
A daughter was born unto Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Lloyd of Minneapolis,
on the Sth day of July. Mrs. Loyd's
maiden name was Edna Reed.
The Eagles society held it's annual
picnic Sunday, in the Sharpshooters
park. There was a large attendance
of members and their friends.
If you are in need of shingles call
and see our large assortment and get
prices before buying elsewhere.
If. BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
The ladies of the f. K. u. V. will
give picnic Thursday afternoon at
the fair grounds. There will be races,
etc, for the entertainment of those
who attend.
Hi, there! Speaking of the very
best horse shoeing-we don't do any
other kind We're the experts and
the price is always right. Come and
see us. M. j. KAVANAUGH.
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Trainmaster III. Fl. Ober came up
from Wausau yesterday and is busy
packing up his household goods
preparatory to moving to Wausau
where he has his headquarters. In
company with Mrs. Ober he expects
to leave Minocqua Times.
Scarlet fever is spreading very fast
in Milwaukee and fears are entertained
that there will be an epidemic.
Wausau had serious time with the
disease during the spring months.
The utmost care should be taken that
we do not have it with us when cold
weather comes on.
San Hodes and Frank Gaetzman
have been elected by the local liquor
dealers to represent them at the state
convention which is to be held in
Sheboygan, July 1881. They are in
structed to work to urge the dele
gates to vote for Wausau as the CON
yention city in 1910.
John ManSer, +. A. Hecker and
Chas. Cleaveland, the Wausau people
who lately bought the plant Of the
Amigo Electric Co., contemplate
many improvements and will spend
about $4,000 A solid brick build
ing 55xl40 feet will be built, and an
entirely new outfit of electrical ma
chinery and boilers will be installed
The company also contemplates build
ing dam on the Eau Claire river on
a site owned by Mr.. Manser. This
viii develop power which will be car
ried over wires into Amigo and sold
to commercial institutions.
A young man from Wausau was in
the city last week interviewing our
business men and others in an effort
to get them interested in the eStab-
lishment here of an electric light
plant. We have not been able to
learn what success he met with. In
directly we have been informed that
it was his intention, if he could Sc
cure patrons enough, TO rejuvenate
the Joseph Dessert lightning plant
that has been used since the mill
was closed doEssI to light the public
library Also that it was his inten-
tion to operate in connection there
with grist mill. -Mosinee Times.
A railroad employee at North Fond
du Lac got onto friends motorcycle
and started it but found after, when
he wanted TO, that he could not stop
the thing. He touched various levers
and one sent the machine ahead at
the rate of 30 miles an hour. He just
kept in the road and guided the
machine the best he could. He passed
through Oshkosh and every police
man he passed, shook his club at him.
When the machine run out of gaso-
line and stopped the man found him
self nearly thirty miles from where
he started and was up this side of
Neenah.
The SharpShooters' society has set
Sunday, Aug. l, as the date for hold
ing the annual schuetzenfest of the
society. "A committee viii arrange
a program of events, prizes, etc. The
event will be in the nature of pic
nc. Each member attending will
take a lunch basket and his family
will spend the day in the park. An
invitation TO all friends of the society
is also extended to bring their families
and lunch baskets and enjoy the day.
A number OF races, etc, has been ar
ranged for the children. for which
prizes have been offered. The shoot
ing events viii continue from morn
ing until three O'Clock in the after
noon,