Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-13

fined to her home on account of
sickness the past few days.
The Fraternal Reserve association
gave picnic Sunday, the members
going to Rothschilds park in a special
car. Races, games, ETC.; helped en-
liven the afternoon.
Mrs. A. L. Kreutzer is hostess this
afternoon at bridge whist party, in
honor of Mrs. Theodore Starrett, of
New York City, and Mrs. VIM. G.
Norton, of Ritchey, Miss
The bridge crossing the river from
the Barker & Stewart island to the
east side caught fire Thursday, pre-
sumably from spark coming from
the smokestack Of locomotive. The
tiremen soon quenched the flames.
The Y. P. S. C. E. convention met
in st. Paul the past week and was
very successful convention. The Misses
Gertrude Boiler and Irene Clark repre-
sented the Christian Endeavor society
in this city.
The railway rate commission has
set July 20 as a time for rehearing
in the controversy between F. B. Full
mer and the Wausau Street Railroad
company. The hearing was originally
set for yesterday but Neal Brown,
president of the company, being sick,
postponement was made.
There promises to be bountiful
crop of berries this season. Raspberry
and blackberry bushes are loaded
with fruit and the rain of Sunday
came at an opportune time to help
the crop along. 1t is said that there
will be large crop of blueberries
also.
| People visiting the Gentry Bros
circus recognized in two performers
the fellows who did the knock-about
and horizontal bar work on the court
house grounds while the county fair
was in progress last fall They are
Leroy and Levanion and their work
is clever
The dwelling house east of the
First National bank building, better
known as the M. ID. Corey house, is
being remodeled An office is being
arranged for the V. A. Anderson In
vestment Co. The balance of the
house will soon be occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. John McConkey.
The nuptials of Miss Lita Heine-
mann to Mr. Edward S. Steinam of
| New York, will take place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin
Heinemann, on Franklin street, at
O'Clock Thursday evening, July
| 18th. Mr. Steinam and sister Miss
Steinam, arrived in Wausau on Satur-
Lday evening.
A new front will soon be put in the
store in the Paff block occupied by
the f. G. Smith Piano Co., and the one
formerly occupied by Mrs. Jacobs as
a millinery store. The Smith Piano
Co. will then locate one door north
| and the store it yacates will be opened
| by Weinkauf Bros. little later with
stock of clothing.
In this issue will be found a sup
| plement of twenty-eight pages con-
| tanning the laws passed at the last
session of the legislature. There
were $50 laws or amendments passed
altogether. The session laws will be
issued later by the state in book form
which you may secure from your as
| semblyman or senator.
The Central Wisconsin fair circuit
is this season offering total of $25, 800
| in purses for races as follows: Merrill,
$500; Wausau, $4,000; Stevens Point,
$500; Menomonie, "a, 500; Chippewa
Falls, $1,000; Lacrosse, $1,000. Each
society has filed bond with the pres
ident of the circuit guaranteeing that
| the purses will be paid in full. M. H.
Duncan of this city is president.
The canning company is operating
it's factory full blast. The pea crop
has so far advanced that it is found
| necessary to operate evenings as long
as the hands can see to do work, and
last Sunday crews were kept at WORK
all day, while the weather permitted,
harvesting and hauling peas to the
plant. The rain of last Sunday will
push the crop forward at a rapid
pace.
Two decisions were rendered by the
rate commission on Friday. One was
on the complaint of the Wisconsin
| Box company and of the Wausau
Box and Lumber company against
the Northwestern and Milwaukee
roads that the present rate for ship
| ping boxes was excessive. The plea
of the box companies was granted
and the rate in force prior to Nov. l,
1908, restored.
The rain storm of Sunday washed
out a considerable portion of McIndoe
| park. There will be more or less
similar trouble until the park is
sodded. The heavy rain and accom-
panying wind lodged hay and grain in
some sections of the country, doing
some damage. Several trees were
blown across the wires of the Mara
thon County Telephone Co. and w.
H. Smale had to go out early yester-
| day to locate the breaks and repair
the wires.
| Mrs. p. S. Hamrick died yesterday
morning after an illness covering
period of two years. She was forty
two years of age and had been resi-
dent of Wausau since her husband
took charge of the manual training
/ ..A.... tho hirh school few